Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Don’t travel if you don’t want to adapt yourself to the new environment

Not only do I like to travel to visit different places, I also like to live in different countries for a while, and experience a different life style, get a deeper understanding of a different culture, get a broader view of the world, etc. Whatever the reason is, the ultimate goal is to experience changes. [...]

Baidu is really dirty

Baidu, the giant company with a firm monopolistic grip on the search engine market in China, is playing dirty with us. Our new cloud storage startup was registered in 2011, along with the trademarks Yunio and 云诺. We released our first version in November last year, and although we have received rave reviews, we felt [...]

Yunio 2.0 is finally released

After many many (too many!!!) months of hard work, the cloud storage Yunio 2.0 is finally released this week. A big applause for the whole team, and many thanks for sticking together during all this time. We had our lows and highs, but we finally achieved the major milestone. The only regrets are that there [...]

Certificate of gratitude for book donation

Last week, we received a certificate of gratitude for donating our books to the Shanghai Foreign Language Institute, along with a small framed painting from the students. We are glad those books found a good home, and hope they will be useful to the students. That’s great. If you are running of space at your [...]

About books donation

I had hundreds of books, the dead tree version, that is. When we moved from Silicon Valley to Shanghai, we gave out two third of the books we had, and brought with us the other third, those that I still use myself, especially those classics in computer science. And a bunch of sci-fi novels that [...]

Love at the Frederiksborg Castle

This is what love is all about.

Tomorrow, we’ll see that nothing’s changed

So Bin Laden is dead. What will change? Nothing. Business as usual. We will still get body cavity search and photographed naked, we will still hold ours pants and shoes and belt, while being rushed over to make place for the next person, and while the contents of our luggage and bag are spread all [...]

A chrysanthemum tea recipe for summer

As summer is approaching, I’d like to propose a chrysanthemum tea recipe for all computer geeks. The ingredients are readily available, and not expensive. Preparation is easy too. Here you go: 10g of dried chrysanthemum flower; 10g of dried Chinese wolfberry; 15g of roasted Chinese senna seeds; Put them all in a large glass; Pour [...]


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