Mom and I went back to my grandparents’ home when I gotta get into the third grade in primary school, while dad was sent to Burundi by his company. (I didn’t realize the reason why we must move there until recently.)

At that time, I was totally absent to the “odd” names and directions of the towns in the surroundings. Now it’s clear. In fact, their topological positions never change. The only thing that has changed is my perceivings - I could view them from outside for now.

Experiences of life in villages is always worthwhile for a child.

Most programmers might have experienced the vexation after losting hundreds of lines of code, without saving to files. The causes can vary from unexpected OS crash to hardware failure, or even a naughty cat.

This morning I just found Wikipedia, likewise, also placed such a placard on its website:

Power corrupts. Power failure corrupts absolutely.

We’re currently recovering servers from a power failure in our colocation facility. This means backing up 170gb of database on several servers and running recovery. Back soon…

Wikipedia uses InnoDB. A sudden power failure often corrupts some data files and sets the database state into unrecoverable. Sure they have backup and redo log files. But it still takes time.

With an eye to the accidents with LiveJournal and Blogsome a few days ago. My suggestion for you guys is definitely DO MORE BACKUPS. And take care.

CCTV.com provides 1 link entry for domestic users and 3 for abroad. Having inspected each one patiently, I found out that the only one I could both hear and see it through was Abroad Entry 2.

The sound effect is rather nice. But the mosaic in the Media Player window can easily prevent me from clearly seeing the subtitles and faces of the hosts and hostesses.

Gotta know which is my next plaything? Skype! Skype through GPRS! Count on the coming story.