Pre-installed Virus

Electronic gadgets with pre-installed virus have been reported like digital picture frame and portable hard drive.

Hard to believe but it's not impossible. Imagine a QA engineer or test engineer plugs in his MP3 player which is infected, anything plugged in the computer for testing will be ingected.

Mosquito, the Termite's Dream

Why is mosquito the termite's Dream?

The deHavilland MOSQUITO was a British combat aircraft during WWII. It was a plane made of plywood, thus made it "popular among termites".

The mosquito was light and fast, when used as a bomber, it does not need any armour because no other enemy airplanes could catch up with it.

Even the Nationalist China had some Mossies.

美國人

馬英九的兩個女兒，選前一天晚上從美國飛台灣，投完總統票後又馬上飛回美國。

兩個人拿美國護照專程來台灣選中華民國總統。

這兩票是有價的：兩張美國到台灣的來回機票。

好吧....親情是無價的。

Galaxy Wars

Two huge galaxies, M81 and M82, locked in a gravitational combat for the past billion years. When the galaxies pass, the gravity from each galaxy affects the other for hundred million years.

Following the laws of gravity, these two galaxies will become one in a few billion years. In that scale of time, our existence is nothing.

事實證明我講的沒錯

晚上看到TxBx的招牌節目，有位Call in的先生說謝長廷只會在綠卡問題上鬧，可見有些人不在乎綠卡，反正就是不要投給民進黨。

Giant Starfish

Scientists found 2-foot starfish in New Zealand's Antarctic waters. Imagine Spongebob's best friend of that size. How will they go jellyfishing on those with 12-foot tentacles?

尊重人民的選擇

感謝Teddy君簡潔有力的意見，民主就是服從選舉結果，可是2000與2004年總統大選後有些人似乎不太習慣這個規矩，當然他們自有理由，不過這次另一方就找不出理由了，只能乖乖的滿地找眼鏡碎片。

其實，這次的結果從一開始就已經確定了，過程中所發生的所有事件都不造成影響，就連綠卡議題都不成氣候，沒辦法，馬長得太帥了。

上週四，3月20日下午收到這篇台灣數位多媒體報對馬英九的評論，不知道他們從哪得到我的電郵，通常這種消息我是不會到處發送的，因為信者恆信，不信者恆不信，不過馬英九的最大優勢在於媒體會主動幫他淡化處理。

註：上面對馬英九的評論的連結在24日下午還看得到，到晚上就不見了，真是令人好奇啊。

Regime Shift

After 8 years, KMT won back control of the government and it began to rain. Is it a sign?

It proves that people in Taiwan care only about their wallets and their stomachs.

Regime, Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary defines: "a method or system of government, especially one that has not been elected in a fair way"... I didn't know that.

變天

過了8年政權再度轉移，晚上也開始下雨... 有代表什麼嗎？

民眾在乎的還是自己的荷包，西藏？不認識！一黨專政、一黨獨大？不在乎！

Avalanche on Mars

An avalanche on Earth can be disastrous. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted an avananche in February 2008. No human casualties reported...   : )

True Black

Black means no light reflection. Since nothing in the world is perfect, there is no "real" black thing. Scientists at Rice University in Houston and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. developed a material that is near perfect, rerlecting only 0.045% of incident light.

The rule is simple, the less light you reflect, the darker you are.

With carbon nanotubes of random length and arrangement standing on the surface, light reflection is minimized.

The use? Light-detecting sensors. How? I don't know.

Au Pair 接待家庭孩童照顧

想去美國當保姆嗎？Au pair  是一種新的文化交流形態，以勞務交換住宿的方式藉由接待家庭提供食宿及津貼，讓外國人可以住在美國並照顧接待家庭的孩童，讓彼此接觸對方的文化，是一種互惠且直接的文化交流。

AuPairCare 是一個安排外國人士到美國接待家庭照顧孩童的單位，有興趣的人可以去看一看。

RH 54%

AccuWeather says it's 13° C and feels like 10° C.

I believe that because my hydrometer shows 54% relative humidity and it's windy.

It was 15° C when I walked Kuro at 8:00PM and it was really chilly.

Sunfish

The Travel & Living Channel is introducing an aquarium. There's a baby sunfish, a strange looking fish. Because the sunfish is not seen often, scientists don't know it much.  They only know sunfish fry looks just like ordinary fish. But as it grows up, it begins to transform to look like cut in half, and it can grow up to 4 meters long and weighs 2 tons. This is huge. What if the baby sunfish in aquarium grows to that size?

新聞

對於台灣的新聞報導，我想大家都有相同的認知，那就是“丁丁“，而且毫不掩飾的反應在報導的內容裡。
昨天，四年才有一次的2月29日，看到年X新聞報導高雄的水質，因為這是長久以來高雄人的痛。記者找了檢驗單位看報告，發覺所有數據都有進步且符合規定，記者還是不死心的找來民眾說不敢喝高雄的自來水。這報導的目的到底在哪裡？結論到底是什麼？