Picture of the Day: Cute Turtles
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Place your Hand Here
Place your Hand Here ... Remove hands when no longer strangers!
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Sunday, September 26, 2010
Of God Yet Why Not
The glory of God is not honored.
The holiness of God is not reverenced.
The greatness of God is not admired.
The power of God is not praised.
The truth of God is not sought.
The wisdom of God is not esteemed.
The beauty of God is not treasured.
The goodness of God is not savored.
The faithfulness of God is not trusted.
The promises of God are not relied upon.
The commandments of God are not obeyed.
The justice of God is not respected.
The wrath of God is not feared.
The grace of God is not cherished.
The presence of God is not prized.
The person of God is not loved.
The holiness of God is not reverenced.
The greatness of God is not admired.
The power of God is not praised.
The truth of God is not sought.
The wisdom of God is not esteemed.
The beauty of God is not treasured.
The goodness of God is not savored.
The faithfulness of God is not trusted.
The promises of God are not relied upon.
The commandments of God are not obeyed.
The justice of God is not respected.
The wrath of God is not feared.
The grace of God is not cherished.
The presence of God is not prized.
The person of God is not loved.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Facebook Engineer Explains “Worst Outage in Over Four Years”
Facebook Engineer Explains “Worst Outage in Over Four Years”
In a brief blog post, Johnson discussed today’s downtime, which began around 11:30 a.m. PST. The site wasn’t functioning again for most users until around 3 p.m. PST.
Johnson said the downtime today was caused by “an unfortunate handling of an error condition” involving an automated system designed to verify configuration values in the cache and replace invalid values with updated values from the persistent store.
Today we made a change to the persistent copy of a configuration value that was interpreted as invalid. This meant that every single client saw the invalid value and attempted to fix it. Because the fix involves making a query to a cluster of databases, that cluster was quickly overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of queries a second.
To make matters worse, every time a client got an error attempting to query one of the databases it interpreted it as an invalid value, and deleted the corresponding cache key. This meant that even after the original problem had been fixed, the stream of queries continued.
The automated system for correcting configuration values has been turned off for now, and Facebook is reportedly exploring more, ahem, “graceful” methods of handling this in the future.
We don’t envy Facebook the at-scale disaster the site has just survived; 500 million users and a feedback loop adds up to some nasty business however you slice it. And Facebook’s downtime problems aren’t nearly as persistent and severe as those of other social media staples out there.
Source: http://mashable.com/2010/09/23/facebook-downtime-explained/
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The Legend of Chen Zhen Cantonese
The Legend of Chen Zhen Cantonese movie 2010
Watch The Legend of Chen Zhen Online Free Movie Trailer and The Legend of Chen Zhen trailer watch online Free Movie wallpaper Watch full Movie Online Cantonese movie online Hong Kong movie online Romance movie Romantic movie online movie movie movie review movie story free The Legend of Chen Zhen Cantonese Hong Kong Film The film Directed by Wai-keung Lau.
The Story:
Set in 1920s Shanghai, the film features Donnie Yen as a local resistance fighter who had been taken for dead after a bloody skirmish. After an absence of seven years he returns in disguise to uncover a plot linking the triads and the Japanese. Chen Zhen is the same character that Bruce Lee played in Fists of Fury (1971) and that Jet Li played in Fist of Legend (1994). Now Donnie Yen can be added to that short, but amazing list of leading martial arts actors who have played the role of Chen Zhen.
After seeking vengeance on his mentor’s death, it was reported that Chen Zhen was shot to death by the Japanese. Seven years later, Chen Zhen returns to Shanghai in disguise as a wealthy businessman who becomes allies with an infamous mafia boss. Chen Zhen soon discovers that the mafia is in cahoots with the Japanese. Dressed as a superhero that looks similar to Kato from The Green Hornet at night, Chen Zhen sets out to stop evil once and for all while targeting an assassination list that was put together by the Japanese.
The Legend of Chen Zhen stars Donnie Yen, Shu Qi, and Anthony Wong with Donnie Yen providing the martial arts choreography. The action film will be written and produced by Gordon Chan with Andrew Lau in the director’s chair. The film will also be a sequel of sorts rather than a re-telling or a remake.
The Legend of Chen Zhen will be released theatrically on October 1st, 2010 in Hong Kong.
Twitchfilm debuted the first official teaser for The Legend of Chen Zhen earlier this week.
The Legend of Chen Zhen Movie Review
The Return of Chen Zhen is an upcoming 2010 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Andrew Lau. The film is a continuation of the 1995 television series Fist of Fury, with Donnie Yen reprising his role as Chen Zhen, a role made famous by Bruce Lee in the 1972 film Fist of Fury. Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen is set during Japanese-occupied Shanghai, seven years after the events of the series. Principal photography for the film began in November 2009 and ended in early February 2010; filming took place in Shanghai. The film will be released theatrically in Hong Kong on 23 September 2010.
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen will be set seven years after the apparent death of Chen Zhen, who was shot after discovering who was responsible for his teacher’s death (Huo Yuanjia) in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. A mysterious stranger arrives from overseas and befriends a local mafia boss. That man is a disguised Chen Zhen, who intends to infiltrate the mob when they form an alliance with the Japanese. Disguising himself as a caped fighter by night, Chen intends to take out everyone involved as well as get his hands on an assassination list prepared by the Japanese.
The high-profile cast and crew of the new action blockbuster “Legend of Chen Zhen” appeared at the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) on Tuesday, March 23, during the film’s screening, the website M1905 reports.
Director Andrew Lau, supervisor Gordon Chan, choreographer and actor Donnie Yen, actress Funny Shu and actor Anthony Wong all attended the film festival, making their first appearance after completing the film.
The film cost 120 million yuan (US$17.6 million) to make largely because of its stunning martial arts and grand battle scene. It has already garnered attention from overseas film companies.
Yen said he designed action scenes that were completely different from those of his previous movies, hoping to give the audience a brand new audio-visual feast.The Legend Of Chen Zhen is due for release on the 1st October 2010 and although the trailer isn’t very long, i am looking forward to seeing the movie.
The movie is also produced and directed by Andrew Lau who wants to bring the Chen Zhen story (Made famous by Bruce Lee in Fist Of Fury), to the big screen with other movies such as Ip Man and the upcoming Yuen Biao/Sammo Hung film Legend Is Born, bringing back the old period kung fu movies which has taken off big time. But the story actually is set seven years after the death of Chen Zhen and the film shows a mysterious stranger arriving from overseas and befriends a local mafia boss. The actual person is disguised as Chen Zhen, who intends to idestroy the gang when they join forces with the Japanese.Donnie Yen Shows His Piano Skills
Also starring Donnie Yen who is choreographing the fight scenes, has mentioned he’d be fighting throughout the film. Donnie Yen says that he’s going to show a unique style of martial arts for Chen Zhen,
“I’m coming up with many new forms of martial arts, there are some very lethal moves, very exciting. But I would spend more time on acting, hoping to have breakthrough in this area, I have confidence in becoming a true-blue actor.”
Cast and CrewVenue: Venice International Film Festival (Out of Competition)
Production: Media Asia Films, Enlight Pictures, Shanghai Film Media Asia
Cast: Donnie Yen, Shu Qi, Anthony Wong, Huang Bo, Kohata Ryuichi, Huo Si Yan, Zhou Yang
Director: Andrew Lau
Screenwriters: Cheung Chi Sing, Gordon Chan, Lui Koon Nam, Frankie Tam
Producers: Chan, Lau
Directors of photography: Lau, Ng Man Ching
Production designer: Eric Lam
Music: Chan Kwong Wing
Costume designer: Dora Ng
Editor: Azrael Chung
No rating, 105 minutes
Sales: Media Asia Distribution
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Friday, September 24, 2010
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What is mifi
A MiFi is a line of compact wireless routers made by Novatel Wireless, meaning MiFi is an actual product. Their function is to act as a Wi-Fi hotspots for mobile use. What makes it mobile is the ability to do what’s called “backconnecting” to a cellular data network. MiFi devices reportedly have a wireless range of up to about 30 feet.
What’s the point of MiFi?
Three big points:
- The devices are tiny, as in credit card-sized, meaning they can go anywhere you go.
- Since it is a router, it is its own portable mobile Wi-Fi hotspot, shareable with up to 5 other people.
- Connects up anything that can connect wirelessly, be it laptop or smartphone.
- Grabs its signal from anywhere that your cell phone can.
Friday, September 17, 2010
What and who am I
With each passing day, i find it gets harder to define who I am and what I do: Currently... I am a Christian who work includes free lancing web design & development, business consultation and information engineering.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Google says Google Instant is faster.
Google says Google Instant is faster. what do you say?
Google reports that Google Instant can save 2-5 seconds per search. what do you think?
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Best time to buy an airline ticket
Economist Makoto Watanabe worked out a formula designed to calculate the best time to buy an airline ticket if you're looking for the lowest prices. The answer, according to his forumla: eight weeks before your flight.
Monday, September 6, 2010
LAN Party & the iPhone 4 keynote
As far as i know, ...that happened because of MiFi's as Steve said, "Ladies and gentleman, put down your MiFis, and step away from your laptops, or there's going to be trouble."
... i doubt we would have more than 4 actual Mobile Hotspots at our mutual friend's house, for you see, during the WWDC, there was an audience of 5,000, but approx. 500 distinct networks. (see pictures on my blog)
Most people agree that the problem was the IP4, since we notice that thousands of MIFI's stations can at present in and around the buildings of our various Colleges, Universities and Corporations. What do you think?
So ... nothing like the
iPhone 4 keynote
would happen if everyone is tethering using their iphone and droids or ... one of the following: Bell:
Novatel Wireless U950
Novatel Wireless U998.
Fibe Internet
Rogers:
Rocket™ Hub
Rocket™ Sticks and Access Cards
the ZTE MF636 Rocket™ Stick
Embedded Laptops with Rocket™ Built-In
Telus:
3G+ Wi-Fi Router
Huawei E182E Mobile Internet Key
Sierra Wireless 306 Mobile Internet Key
or (even) dial-up internet
Does anyone know how if (not) having fibe would affect the quality of this LAN party?
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
the dangers of working from home?
Could there be dangers of working from home? here is an example, so... what do you think?
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Predestination Reflections
What seems wrong about predestination is actually what is right
What some people dislike about predestination is exactly this
That it encroaches upon the will The free will As free as it is or can currently be
What some people dislike about predestination is exactly this
That it encroaches upon the will The free will As free as it is or can currently be
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