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Hi, Everybody,I have switched to WordPress.com to continue my blogging.Here is my currently active blog

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This 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)

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Tragic sequence of events: In five minutes, 30 people were shot dead - Report From National Post

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Since 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 supply

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Wayne's Old Computer Gets Vista by Wayne Rash

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After 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.

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Jacqueline 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 to

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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:

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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,

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National 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

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SAN 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, in

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Reuters - 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.

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GEOFFREY 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

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Canadians 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

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MSNBC 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

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NBC 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

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Democrats 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.

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Without 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.

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The 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

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U.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,

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A 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

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Shannon 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

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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

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Condensed from the Article by Conrad Black in National Post The geopolitical ambiance as this year is unpromising. The United States has almost become, in Richard Nixon's famous phrase, a "pitiful helpless giant," with its entire conventional ground-forces capability mired in an apparently unchanging morass in Iraq, and US$800-billion current-account deficit. The administration has almost no

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Last March, astronomers(working with data from a NASA satellite circling the Earth since 2001) concluded that time began 13.7 billion years ago, a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang. At that instant the universe expanded from submicroscopic to astronomical size in the blink of an eye. Why would it want to do that?Thomas Nagel, the philosopher, recently pointed out that if we are to believe

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By Barbara Mose, The Globe and MailWorkers today can be excused if they're feeling a little cocky. Their sense of job security is at a high and, with media reports about employers bemoaning a talent shortage, skilled employees ought to know they are in the driver's seat. This may lead some to believe they can simply coast through 2007 with little care about their careers. But that would be a

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The British police inquiry report examines all the allegations of wrongdoing in the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed. Allegation: Mohammed al-Fayed said his son and Diana were involved in a serious relationship and intended to get engaged.Conclusion: The inquiry found no evidence that Diana was to be engaged or has selected a ring. Allegation: Mr. al-Fayed alleged Diana was

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Lief Erickson, a third-generation Northern Alberta cattle farmer, has survived it all: low grain prices, droughts and most recently the financial drain spurred by the mad-cow crisis. But what happened to him two weeks ago has rallied people in farming communities from across North America with offers of cows, cash, hey bales and even free labor.More than half of Mr. Erickson's cattle herd plunged

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Hydro costs soar 50% since shakeup After almost 14 years, six of them spent in a maximum-security prison, Randy Druken finally received $2.1 million and an apology from the government of Newfoundland and Labrador for his wrongful murder conviction in 1993. 24 Peel Regional Police officers accused of boozing, beating. Senator's illness puts Democrats on edge. Crisis could give Republicans control.

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From The Globe and Mail Dec. 15, 2006The possibility of a spring election surfaced yesterday as Liberal Leader Stephane Dion said he expects to oppose the next Conservative budget.This would mean he would join with Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe, his old political foe, who has already declared he too is willing to topple Stephen Harper's minority government.However, a few hours after Mr. Dion made

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In fits and starts, NASA began retracting via remote control a 115-foot solar panel on the international space station Wednesday, likening the tricky task to folding a road map back up and stuffing it in the glove compartment. The electricity-generating solar array served as a temporary power source aboard the orbiting outpost. NASA needed to move it out of the way so that a new, permanent pair

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By Ronald A. Rensink: A large fraction of traffic accidents are of the type "driver looked but failed to see". Here, drivers collide with pedestrians in plain view, with cars directly in front of them, and even run into trains. That's right - run into trains, not the other way around. In such cases, information from the world is entering the driver's eyes. But at some point along the way this

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What 2000 Years of History Tells Us About China's Economic Future

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MOSCOW, December 5 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will join the U.S Moon exploration program if Washington provides the necessary funding, a Russian space representative said Tuesday. After U.S. President George W. Bush announced his Vision for Space Exploration in 2004, a plan for new manned lunar missions, the country's National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) elaborated a program that

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Citizens of the Microsoft gaming world can now experience television and movies like never before. On its first year anniversary, Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 is set to redefine entertainment as we know it.Microsoft's efforts at convergence have certainly come a long way with the announcement that the Xbox Live Marketplace will now provide loyalists with the option to own full length TV shows and

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Friday the formation of a national agency to co-ordinate the fight against cancer, a long-awaited strategy that many involved in the battle say will help iron out inequities in prevention and care that currently face patients in different parts of country. Ottawa has dedicated $260 million over five years to the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer,

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The world's oil supply won't begin to run out for at least another 24 years, contrary to some theories that suggest production has already peaked and supply is now in a terminal decline, a prominent U.S. energy consulting group says. Cambridge Energy Research Associates estimates remaining global supply at 3.74 trillion barrels, compared with 1.2 trillion estimated by "peak oil" theorists. Peter

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When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion. - Voltaire

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From The Globe and Mail In a renewed effort to woo Chinese mining money. Canada is handling out stacks of detailed geological maps and data sheets to anyone who wanders past its booth at the annual China mining conference in Beijing. The maps - giving the precise locations of everything from copper and gold finds to uranium and zinc deposits - were quickly snapped up by the scores of Chinese

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China and India declared today that there was room in Asia for the two emerging economic giants to coexist in a cooperative rather than competitive relationship. At the start of a visit that was heavier on symbolism than on substantive new agreements, President Hu Jintao of China and his Indian host, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, unveiled a 10-point plan that aims to double bilateral trade to

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China's easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia appears to have been short-lived. Users reported Friday that the site was unavailable in several parts of China, barely a week after it suddenly became accessible.It wasn't immediately clear if user-contributed encyclopedia was unreachable due to technical glitches or because government censors had blocked the site again. The

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The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that bloggers and participants in Internet bulletin board groups cannot be sued for posting defamatory statements made by others. In deciding a case closely watched by free speech groups, the court said a federal law gives immunity from libel suits not only to Internet service providers, like AOL, but also to bloggers and other users of their services.

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The Haper government will announce today its intention to rewrite the CRTC's key ruling on Internet-based telephone services, a highly unusual move that could mark a big step toward a more open and consumer-friendly sector. Industry Minister Maxime Bernier will say in a speech in Toronto that the Conservative government will again block the CRTC's repeated efforts to regulate phone services that

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A prudent investor's best safeguard against risk is not retreat, but diversification- David Harding, Windo Capital

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The Hubble Space Telescope has shown that a mysterious form of energy first conceived by Albert Einstein, then rejected by the famous physicist as his "greatest blunder," appears to have been fueling the expansion of the universe for most of its history. This so-called "dark energy" has been pushing the universe outward for at least 9 billion years, astronomers said Thursday. The idea of dark

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By ANNE GEARAN, The Associated Press, Friday, November 17, 2006 HANOI, Vietnam -- The United States has some concerns about a rising China, including a military expansion that may be excessive, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday. Beijing has spent heavily in recent years on adding submarines, missiles, fighter planes and other high-tech weapons to its arsenal and extending the reach

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The goateed visage of Colonel Harland Sanders has long been one of North America's best-known corporate icons. Yesterday(Nov. 14, 2006), however, he became the most visible logo on Earth.In a publicity stunt to kick off a global marketing campaign, KFC Corp. has painstakingly constructed a one-hectare likeness of the Colonel in Rachel, Nev., making him the first brand that can be seen from outer

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A meeting between PM Mr. Harper and Chinese President Hu Jingtao during APEC was canceled by China, who originally requested the meeting. China's Decision comes amid a cooling in the bilateral relationship as Canada takes an increasingly harder line on China's human rights record. Recently, some of Canadian businesses have expressed concern to the PM' Office about the lack of engagement with

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womanofficer,originally uploaded by zwzhang. Can you believe it? She is a colonel.

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Form Investor Insights by TD Waterhouse Performance Are my targets realistic? Are returns adequate? Even if they hit your targets, you need to make sure returns are sufficient to fund your future plans. If your portfolio isn't growing quickly enough to meet goals such as retirement, it may be time to make changes. Pay attention to longer-term performance, rather than short-term. Short-term

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From Investor Insight by TD Waterhouse:Financial markets change, and so do you. That's why it's always a good idea to review your investment portfolio regularly... Your investment objectives Are my goals reasonable? You can't meet impossible financial goals. How quickly must my money grow? Look at how far you've come, and how far you have to go. Adjust your performance objectives if necessary.

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From Fighter Wing: A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing by Tom ClancyIn August 1914, a British aviator patrolling the skies above Mons, in Belgium, spotted the advance of von Kluck's German army toward the British Expeditionary Force. Interviewed for TV five decades later, the pilot recalled the reaction of senior officers when he reported the news...they didn't believe him. Pilots soon

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Ok, that is true, I cannot write. But I can copy and paste. As developers, we spend much more time before a computer than any other people. Undoubtly, we will find some thing that we would like to save for later and share with friends.That is what I will do with this blog: Find good, useful stuffs, and paste them here.Now here comes the first:A used-to-be US soldier in Tikrit Iraq wrote about

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Today I spent the whole morning to complete the template of this blog, since I just like a simple, clean look. At first those new tags are little scary, but after looked at them last night carefully through the XML file, I know I can do it!Now, sitting in my home office, looking at the home page, I started to wondering what topics should I write and how should I do it. What to talk about (Or more

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I just downloaded the Windows Live Writer, and want to give it a test. In fact my first try failed due to a problem between WLW and Blogger Beta. Somehow, I found a workaround, and now I am trying it. If you see this post, that means it worked. Well, at least for a simple post.

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Last year is a very busy one for both my wife and I. Moving from St. Louis to Toronto, settling down here, and finding jobs. It was so busy for me that I totally stopped any blogging at all.Now after having been working for HSA as a Leader Software Engineer for almost a year, every thing looks just fine for us. And I think I could find some spare time to work on my blog again. My friends are

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Just play around for a little while at my test blog at Wordpress.com. The great, well-known blog platform application: Wordpress, is one of the best blog application out there today. Howerver, I believe the service provided by Wordpress.com is not stable. At least currently, I will stay with Blogspot.

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