true (?) story :

A woman went boating one Sunday taking with her some cans of coke which she put into the refrigerator of the boat. On Monday she was taken to the hospital and placed in the Intensive Care Unit. She died on Wednesday.

The autopsy concluded she died of Leptospirosis This was traced to the can of coke she drank from, not using a glass. Tests showed that the can was infected by DRIED RAT URINE.

Rat urine contains toxic and deathly substances.

The cans are typically stocked in warehouses and transported straight to the shops without being cleaned.

A study at NYCU showed that the tops of all soda cans are more contaminated than public toilets.

and how come your english so good?

lol.

this sounds so eerily like econs. freaking opportunity cost. get it out of your system!

It then made a request for a picture in my gallery.

Almost two minutes later, it made the same two requests followed by a random picture.

It did the entire procedure I mentioned above three more times.

This is a bit odd indeed.

I’m not entirely sure about how language support is handled, but I’ve always thought that the Chinese Language Pack for Windows was already built-in or could be downloaded for free at Windows Update. Then it would only be a matter of changing the encoding in the view options of your web browser if it doesn’t already automagically detect and select Chinese encoding when viewing Chinese websites.

It’s these input things that confuse the hell out of everyone.

I say you should follow up on these dreams you have, and I hope you really do get that chance in the near future. Exploring this world of a multitude of cultures is just too amazing to let up on, before the inevitable homogenizing of our cultural stock.

I detest some kinds of tourists, namely those who treat going to different country like going to a zoo - things to be gawked at, rather than cultures to be interconnected with.

Halloween. I couldn’t care less. Maybe we should switch locations for a while. A lot of people here go crazy over Halloween decorations… People just /love/ to hang dead people outside their houses two weeks before hand so they can scare themselves daily when they go to and come back from work.

As you know Akismet is a server-side spam filtering solution for Wordpress (WP) blogs. It works probably by wrapping a REST interface around an open source product like spam-assassin, which does bayesian classification of comments to try and figure ou…

To the victims and heroes of 911: R.I.P.

Oh, and if we ever brought a digital camera to school and started taking pictures, the teachers would probably confiscate them for the day. Horrible, eh?

I agree with the wildlife thing. It’s so annoying when you see people (ahem, usually the government) destroy wild trees and the habitats of animals to put their own crappy landscaping in.

There was one Korean drama serial my mom sorta followed, though. It was the most boring thing ever. Half the time was spent with characters staring into space or doing some really passive activity like pouring tea. Frustrating.

Thing is, these movies are soo boring. Not to offend Korean movies - I’ve only seen like three, and they were chosen by the TV station, not me - but it just wasn’t exciting. Or funny. At all. It looked like a ten-minute skit stretched into a two-hour movie.

But anyways, to wrap it up: I now have a fear of Korean movies.