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Well, my company is finally catching some break in the stock market. But two sad things about this very positive news:

1. We still have to wait for FDA approval next year
2. I won’t become rich even if our prostate cancer drug’s approved – I’m just a scientist, what’d you expect?

But hey, still making a little money on paper feels way better than nothing!

Apparently, China’s ancient military prowess is still inciting such fascination that some modern western man tried to join the Qing dynasty army. I have to say that this German art student planned his enrollment very well since he even made his own cool and authentic-looking uniform!

According to this article, after two years of trying, the European Space Agency finally succeeded in generating a series of high resolution images of the famous “Face on Mars” (for more photos, check out the ESA site):

Online safety is always a concern for most of the Americans. But it turns out that even if you never go online, you could easily become a victim of online hacking. Recently it was discovered that it takes only 15 minutes to find the detailed manual with default password for thousands of ATM machines through googling.

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I have a $300 Palm Tungsten T3 with a gorgeous slide-out 320 x 480 pixel screen, a powerful 400 MHz Intel XScale processor, and loads of software that turns my T3 into an organizer, a game console, an entertainment player (plays mp3, avi, mpg). It’s literally a computer in your hand. Whenever playing bejeweled, sudoku, chess, or listening to mp3 songs or watching my son’s piano videos, I prefer the handy little technological marvel over iPod or other players for its great versatility.

But like all good things, one day my wonderful PDA died! – Uh, at least I thought so, for an agonizing while.

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If you are a foreigner like me, or even if you’re a native English speaker, you’d sometimes feel lost reading acronym-ridden internet forum messages. Familiar ones like ASAP, RSVP, or IMO are easier to understand, but what about many more increasingly popular acronyms like AFAIK, YMMV, ROTFL, BRB, etc?

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Here’s an article I wrote once critiquing a famous Chinese novel. It is kinda funny, but sorry no translation for non-Chinese-speaking folks ’cause it’d be very hard to do it the right way. That’s partly why no Chinese had won Nobel literature prize until very recently (not that my writing would win anything soon either in Chinese or English ).

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