Category Archives: Reference

Filing cabinet for a digitized world.

The return of the mainframe

My first co-op job was writing software for IBM AS/400 mainframe. I wonder if mainframe gets back into fashion, is my mainframe programming skill still marketable.

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Ecownomics

Listen environmentalist and animal right activities. Factory farming is more environmental friendly for milk cows. It uses less water, releases less green house gas and produces more milk.

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Google Warns of China Exit Over Hacking

Bravo to Google. They really live up to their corporate motto: “Don’t do evil”. They have the guts say no to the Chinese government. No one know where history will lead, but Google may very well trigger the fall of the communist party.

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Verifiable

Verifiable is an online visualization tool. You can upload statistic or data and use the flash web client to plot charts interactively. Its function is similar to plotting charts in Excel, but it’s free and it has a pretty sleek user interface.
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Y2K Bug Ten Years (Plus Six) Late

It would be interesting to find out what is the bug that causes the six years difference. Maybe it is just a stupid typo. The character 6 and 0 looks quite similar if you use a very small font.

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