Category Archives: News Clips

Some news are still worth to remember even when it goes old.

Barack Obama and the Nobel peace prize

If they could not find an agreeable winner, maybe they should simply cancel Nobel peace prize. Save the prize money for a new Nobel maths prize. At least Obama is humble enough to say he does not deserve the prize.

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Take Smart Risks

Taking some smart risk is what makes life fun and worth to live/. Taking smart risk is like my motto: “thou shalt always one step outside of your comfort zone.” I guess traveling to India, learning shooting and skiing double black diamond are smart risks.

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How to Beat Information Overload

Before we have all those fancy new email technology, can we simply tell the companies get rid of the aging MS Outlook and exchange server, move to a cooperate gmail server. Having powerful filter, tags and search function can help us organize our email a long way.

My solution to the problem of email overload is have two computers at work. Run your email client in your windows machine and work on your UNIX machine. When you really concentrate coding in UNIX, you will simply ignore the emails coming to your Laptop. If the email is urgent enough, you will get a phone call or someone will show up at your queue.

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Gut worms protect against allergy

Should I swallow some hookworms to cure my allergies and asthma?

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Canada’s deadlocked politics

Maybe we should go back to the old fashion 3 party system. Outlaw the separatist Bloc Quebecois, merge the Green Party with NDP. Then we can have a more meaningful election. Too bad that the Conservative is unlikely to win a majority government anytime soon.

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