tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87479332024-03-13T19:35:58.488-04:00The Collected MemoryA journey of self-discovery while exploring the worldZuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-13704384083998110702008-10-10T20:00:00.001-04:002008-10-10T20:00:38.932-04:00Ottawa 18.flickr-photo { }.flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Ottawa 18, originally uploaded by zwzhang. Zuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-43859005373946591052007-06-18T22:25:00.000-04:002007-11-17T22:27:50.364-05:00I am moving my blog againHi, Everybody,I have switched to WordPress.com to continue my blogging.Here is my currently active blogZuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-74184865997971544782007-04-25T08:38:00.000-04:002007-04-25T08:41:37.602-04:00New planet could support lifeThis artists rendering released by European Southern Observatory, shows the planetary system around the red dwarf Gliese 581 For the first time astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is potentially as habitable as Earth, at left, with similar temperatures, researchers announced Tuesday, April 24, 2007. (AP Photo/ESO)Zuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-89815356455606165302007-04-18T10:50:00.000-04:002007-04-18T11:00:26.183-04:00Virginia Tech ShootingTragic sequence of events: In five minutes, 30 people were shot dead - Report From National PostZuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-15880929774606409752007-02-13T17:46:00.001-05:002007-02-13T17:47:23.228-05:00My experience to upgrade graphic cardSince Windows Vista told me I can get a system performance boost if I upgrade my video card(see my previous post), I decided to give it a try even the Aero glass interface is working, and I am not a big gamer.Calling HP first for information about how I should do it, I was told the mother board supports PCI-Express card that is what I should look for. They also told me to upgrade the power supplyZuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-14484840602947339272007-02-09T14:37:00.000-05:002007-02-07T20:15:40.673-05:00The funiest review on VistaWayne's Old Computer Gets Vista by Wayne RashZuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-67164755812533210602007-02-07T20:09:00.000-05:002007-02-07T20:15:41.537-05:00WEI score of my computerAfter upgraded to Windows Vista, here is the WEI result of my cumputer. Looks like a video card upgrade is required, but the Areo glass UI works fine.Zuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-25082340325556866642007-02-01T20:48:00.001-05:002007-02-01T20:48:31.331-05:00Global warming: opportunity, not disaster, for CanadaJacqueline Thorpe, Financial Post New Arctic shipping routes, a boom in trade with Russia, corn instead of wheat on the Prairies, golf instead of skiing in Ontario, Chardonnay instead of ice wine in Niagara, lower heating bills and fewer deaths due to pneumonia. As the world braces for an onslaught of doom and gloom from a United Nations report on climate change next Friday, perhaps it is time toZuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-89240881858710738962007-01-25T19:38:00.000-05:002007-01-25T19:43:54.871-05:00Microsoft's new look The Good: Easier and faster to install, with greater flexibility; a vastly improved user interface; a built-in desktop search, calendar and sidebar; greatly improved securityThe Bad: The price — hey, it's supposed to be just an operating system after all; it's a memory hog; Vista Home basic will disappoint anyone looking for an improvement over XP; it could require hardware upgradesThe Verdict: Zuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-45194600937941274802007-01-25T19:32:00.001-05:002007-01-25T19:38:17.797-05:00Microsoft's 2Q profit falls 28%Microsoft Corp. said Thursday its fiscal second-quarter profit fell 28 per cent, as delays from the launch of its new version of Windows cut into holiday-quarter revenue. For the three months ended Dec. 31, earnings fell to $2.63 billion, or 26 cents per share, from $3.65 billion, or 34 cents per share during the same period last year. Analysts polled by Thomson Financial expected the Redmond, Zuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-72244643925231949622007-01-23T18:50:00.001-05:002007-01-23T18:50:05.704-05:00Space, the final frontierNational Post It now appears evident -- judging from the frantic activity of diplomats -- that rumors of a major event in Earth's orbit earlier this week were true. China, it seems, has become the first country to destroy a satellite using a ground-launched vehicle. According to a forthcoming report in Aviation Week and Space Technology, an obsolete Chinese weather satellite began to display Zuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-40382070656982020922007-01-18T19:59:00.001-05:002007-01-18T20:05:20.318-05:00Time cover storyZuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-80115545371943120352007-01-17T19:11:00.001-05:002007-01-17T19:16:30.225-05:00Apple reports record 1Q profitSAN JOSE, Calif. - Apple Inc. on Wednesday posted a record profit in its fiscal first quarter, beating Wall Street estimates as earnings rose 78 percent amid strong holiday sales of its iPod music players and Macintosh computers. During the final three months of 2006, the Cupertino-based company Apple said it earned $1 billion, or $1.14 per share, compared to $565 million, or 65 cents a share, inZuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-9758456970849445822007-01-17T19:05:00.001-05:002007-01-17T19:16:54.716-05:00Schwarzenegger backs 2007 deadline for U.S. in IraqReuters - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, suggested on Wednesday that the United States should withdraw its military forces from Iraq by the end of this year.Zuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-16479405805899685422007-01-17T18:58:00.001-05:002007-01-17T19:00:22.136-05:00Ottawa aims to rebuild frayed ties with ChinaGEOFFREY YORK AND STEVEN CHASE, The Globe and Mail BEIJING, OTTAWA -- After nearly a year of friction and neglect in Canada-China relations, the Harper government is launching a big push to rebuild ties with Beijing, including plans to target China as one of 10 markets that will be the focus of Canada's trade efforts. It's an apparent sharp reversal from just two months ago when Prime Minister Zuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-18788409775488385422007-01-12T22:40:00.001-05:002007-01-12T22:41:10.284-05:00Canadian entrepreneurs too confidentCanadians suffer from an overconfidence in their entrepreneurial skills that leads to a high failure rate in their business ventures, a new international study suggests. A team of economists from Germany, the Netherlands and the United States has discovered that among aspiring and established entrepreneurs in 18 countries, Canadians are among the most confident they have the necessary skills to Zuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-40106995978585575302007-01-12T17:01:00.001-05:002007-01-12T17:03:22.779-05:00Rocket slams into U.S. Embassy in AthensMSNBC News Services - ATHENS, Greece - The U.S. Embassy in Athens came under fire early Friday from a rocket that exploded inside the modern glass-front building but caused no casualties in an attack police suspect was the work of Greek leftists. Narrowly missing the embassy emblem, the anti-tank shell pierced the building near the front entrance shortly before 6 a.m., damaging a bathroom on the Zuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-64075757605203098802007-01-10T23:16:00.001-05:002007-01-10T23:17:11.451-05:00Admitting strategy error, Bush adds Iraq troopsNBC News and news services - Defying public opinion polls and newly empowered Democratic lawmakers, President Bush told Americans Wednesday that he is dispatching 21,500 additional U.S. troops to Iraq. And in a rare admission, he said he made a mistake by not deploying more forces sooner. “The situation in Iraq is unacceptable to the American people, and it is unacceptable to me,” Bush said in a Zuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-55663998007019166062007-01-10T23:09:00.001-05:002007-01-10T23:11:34.250-05:00House votes to increase minimum wageDemocrats push through increase in hourly pay from $5.15 to $7.25. The Democratic-controlled House voted Wednesday to increase the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, bringing America's lowest-paid workers a crucial step closer to their first raise in a decade. The vote was 315-116, with more than 80 Republicans joining Democrats to pass it. Zuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-9996244406128012292007-01-10T23:07:00.001-05:002007-01-10T23:07:05.589-05:00Ski town sinking in warm weatherWithout snow to groom, chairlifts to load and hotel guests to manage, hundreds of seasonal employees in the resort town of Collingwood have been laid off. All eight area ski resorts have closed - one had yet to open - until the cold arrives. If it arrives.Zuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-27853330986887398452007-01-07T11:37:00.001-05:002007-01-07T11:37:53.462-05:00Bush puts final touches on new Iraq policyThe Washington Post - President Bush is putting the final touches on his new Iraq policy amid growing skepticism inside and outside the administration that the emerging package of extra troops, economic assistance and political benchmarks for the Baghdad government will make any more than a marginal difference in stabilizing the country. Washington's debate over Iraq will intensify this week as Zuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-1678985784193293882007-01-07T11:27:00.001-05:002007-01-07T11:29:35.340-05:00Possible Israel nuclear attack on IranU.K. newspaper reports Israel intends to strike up to three targets in IranLondon, Associated Press - A British newspaper reported Sunday that Israel has drafted plans to strike as many as three targets in Iran with low-yield nuclear weapons, aiming to halt Tehran’s uranium enrichment program. The Israeli Foreign Ministry denied the report.Citing multiple unidentified Israeli military sources, Zuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-14208717250243941002007-01-07T11:20:00.001-05:002007-01-07T11:20:09.053-05:00Tibet & China linked with luxury trainA five-star tourist train is to be launched on the railway line linking Tibet and China. The luxury train will carry passengers in hotel-style comfort along the world's highest railway line, which links China's northwest province of Qinghai to the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. Since opening six months ago, five regular three-class trains - specially designed to withstand the altitude - have ferried Zuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-61700930724766253132007-01-01T13:54:00.001-05:002007-01-01T13:54:27.441-05:00For most of us, it's been a good yearShannon Proudfoot, CanWest News Service Most Canadians feel 2006 was a good year and are looking ahead optimistically to 2007, a new poll shows. The Ipsos Reid survey, conducted for CanWest News Service and Global National, shows 76% of Canadians think 2006 was a "good year overall" in comparison to years past, with 18% calling it a "very good year." One in five (21%) felt this was a "bad year Zuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747933.post-32862910287049540202006-12-31T13:56:00.000-05:002007-01-01T13:59:19.150-05:00'He who confront'By Peter Goodspeed, National PostIn a region familiar with despotism, Saddam Hussein, whose name in Arabic means "he who confronts," was one of the most ruthless and violent dictators in the Middle East's bloodstained history.He subjected Iraq to his will for more than 30 years of informal and formal rule. He attacked his neighbours, raised the world's fourth-largest army and relentlessly sought Zuowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00677747376695436353noreply@blogger.com0