Allan

Had a little chat with a good friend in a Korean pub last night, in the end the conversation turned into a continuation of the talk between my Dad and myself in the afternoon: how one could run his/her life without falling through the crack of an enjoyable life into an undesirable misery. He had a couple of good points that reminded me of something important, a good perception of ourselves that gives us the best estimation of who we are and what we can do, a pair of insightful eyes to spot the best slot in the society that we can place ourselves into at a specific point in time and the positive attitude we need to do whatever we love to do in that given slot.

These are all basic, simple and yet powerful points. The reason that it created some earthquake at the bottom of my heart is how much cynicism I've developed to reject those ideas: Mapping these ideas to reality ain't always a smooth process. The perception of ourselves could be wrong, the slot of the society might not be desirable, we probably don't know what to do with our lives and even if we know we may not be able to do that, etc.

Folks who live with a tight budget, a lost job, a devalued apartment still needs to pay the mortgages, a pair of parents with no stable sources of income and health insurance coverage probably know where those cynicism come from. Folks who have to struggle with the hefty property price which is so prohibitive that even a modest dream seems out of reach might understand these frustrations. Folks who had experienced the kind of insecurity associated with the lack of money, the family problem or discrimination of any sorts may as well agree with it. Very few have all these problems but many of us share some of them.

Therefore we should feel fortunate if we are doing something we like to do at the moment. It takes some people shorter time to get there as opposed to the others due to their own diligence, talent and certainly the environment in which they grew up. It is a privilege that we should all try to get and just because it is a privilege, it is somewhere higher up in the Maslow's Pyramid compared to the butter and bread. As for myself, I would carefully store that into a well decorated box somewhere secretive, step back, take a deep breath and try to get my share of food first.

Thanks my friend for the insightful conversation.

今天是一个特别得日子。此时此刻，我的西西正在哥德堡的机场等待登机。十多个小时后，她便会踏上祖国的土地，开始人生一段新的旅程。对于她，同样对于我来说，这是一个时代的终结。挥一挥衣袖，我们向旅居多年的瑞典依依不舍地道一声，再见。

这几年来，我们有机会走过接近20个国家和地区，见识过各种各样地繁华幽静古老前卫。但是瑞典仍是那么独一无二。这个干净漂亮的国家里面有世界上最美丽朴实的人。空气清新得吣人心肺。简单大方的理念不仅贯穿于城市的布局，建筑的风格，室内的设计，也反映在做事情所需要的流程和人与人之间的关系上。正是这种简洁让人由衷的感觉到瑞典的优雅。步入一家宜家商店或许能帮你体会到这种感觉，打动你的或许是干净利落的橱子上一只通体紫红的小碗，或着奶色地毯上翠绿可爱的小桌子，而不是豪华宾馆大厅里贴满玻璃片的俗气的吊灯。瑞典是滑雪场，不是夜总会。

在瑞典，我们学习工作生活，相遇相知相爱。我们付出了我们人生中最美好的年华，我们也收获了许多不曾想过的东西。西西的老板曾经对她说过，没有预料到初进公司的西西会如此青涩。两年后，老板和同事在给她的惊喜晚会上告诉她，难以想象组里没有她会是什么情景。我也至今难忘第一次跟外国同学说话时的紧张拘促，到现在在工作生活中对英语自信地运用。从第一次步入瑞典公司心里地忐忑不安，到目前在爱尔兰公司地相对融入。我们都成长了很多，不管是待人做事还是对这个世界地认识。最重要的，是我们遇到了对方。并且都感受到一种发自内心深处的放松，自我，清新和由此而来的身心愉悦。这种愉悦加上个性中许多匹配的元素，让我们克服地理上的距离，一路携手走来，互相许下一个美好的心愿并为之努力。

如果人生是一部实物集，想起它们就会永远提醒我们这一幕幕难忘的画面。Chalmers毕业晚会上的礼服。迎接胡总队伍里面的红伞。一张张来往于斯德哥尔摩和哥德堡之间的火车票和汽车票。雪橇和雪杖。威尼斯玻璃岛上的玻璃红心。塔林的手工罐子。穿着绿色衣服的塞尔提克小熊。爽口的比利时巧克力和啤酒。里加游轮上的门卡。无数张往返爱尔兰和瑞典的机票。。。。当然，最重要的，是我们的戒指。这一切的一切，是我们人生中真正的财富。

今天，我们将翻过这一页，把瑞典塑封，放在我们的心里。来日方长，希望明天会更好。


斯德哥尔摩


哥德堡

取比利时，荷兰，卢森堡三国英文拼写的前两个字母，便组成了新词Benelux。这个大约70000余平方公里的地区位于欧洲的西北部，法国和德国之间。三个国家经济政治相通，语言文化相似，坐落其中的城市又各具特色，历来是旅游的热门去处。

上个周末在Galway所见的矗立在大西洋畔的Moher悬崖，展示了大自然难以置信的刚猛力道。行走在悬崖边被那些爱冒险的游人踩踏出的泥泞的小道上，遥望着蔚蓝色的大西洋和她与苍茫的天空交汇出的天际线，感觉生死不过是一念之间。伟大的自然面前，人类最终与蝼蚁无异。然而，Benelux区域中别致的城市群试图通过另一种语言告诉我们，与自然和谐的相处，学会尊重她的伟大，也会非常美妙。（Moher悬崖和周边Burren地区的照片）

阿姆斯特丹是一座以放纵闻名的城市。著名的红灯区和贩卖大麻的商店吸引着世界各地好奇的人们。西西和我选择了一条特别的方式和她亲密接触：双人自行车。我们所用的双人自行车是那家商店里面唯一的一辆。骑在起伏的石子路上，让我们也变成了别人眼中的一道风景。阿姆斯特丹的老城由一道道的环形水路绕成。水道之间是一排排风格各异的16至19世纪建筑。水道上几十米处便有一座桥梁。或大或小，或拱或平。长长短短，纵横交错。水道中泛舟的人们懒洋洋的开动着马达，喝酒，聊天，晒着太阳。骑车在这样的环境里面，实在是一件快乐的事。阿姆斯特丹像一个画卷，在我们的自行车轮下慢慢的展现着自己。不时就会给我们一个惊喜。有时是一座恢宏的宫殿，有时是一座壮观的教堂。更多时候，是一条条细长神秘的街道。我们在博物馆区停了下来，一起参观了著名的梵高博物馆。大师的魅力足可以让一个门外汉静下心来，把自己微薄的几个小时奉献给他的艺术。作为凡夫俗子，我们也努力地体会梵高画笔下试图表达的丰富的情感。认真品味他追随艺术的快乐又并不快乐的一生。西西跳着走出博物馆，笑着声称自己学会了梵高的作画方法。从她明亮的眼睛里面我看到了快乐。我于是更加的快乐。

晚上我们一起去看了唐人街边的红灯区，果然游人如织，名不虚传。来自各个地方的漂亮女孩儿在红色的玻璃窗里搔首弄姿，招揽着客人。边上夹杂着琳琅满目的夜总会和以性为主题的商店。西西和我看的目瞪口呆，惊叹于阿姆斯特丹的多面。（阿姆斯特丹的照片）

海牙和鹿特丹位于从阿姆斯特丹到安特卫普的路上。相比较于阿姆斯特丹，他们显得略于沉闷。停在海牙，是因为想见赫赫有名的海牙军事法庭。至于鹿特丹，是因为始于她脚下的铁路线能够一直延伸到我的故乡：连云港。（鹿特丹的照片，海牙的照片）

去安特卫普是为了完成一件大事。这里是世界钻石之都。全球70%的钻石都在这里设计，加工，分销。国际标准的钻石切割工艺就叫做安特卫普切（Antwerp Cut）。从光学的角度，这种切割工艺能够使钻石将各个方向射来的光线全部反射回去，这是钻石之所以晶莹璀璨的重要的原因之一。也是决定钻石价值的四个要素之一（4Cs: Carat, Color, Clarity, Cut）。经过一番比较和权衡，在一个叫做DiamondLand的商店里，我们一起选购了一款漂亮的钻戒。当我把它戴上西西的手指时，我们笑的很幸福，我也长长的舒了一口气。（安特卫普的照片）

惊喜发生在一座叫做布鲁日的中世纪古城。我们在钻石店阿姨声色并茂的鼓动中，出了店门就买票而去。下了车站并没有走多远，我们就意识到这是多么值得庆幸的一件事。这是一座几乎完整保留下来的数世纪之前的小城。哥特式建筑风格融入了整个城市之中。漫步于这座城市的街道中，所见的每转每瓦，都几乎有着几个世纪的历史。城市里处处见着精致。角落里也不含糊。一条运河经过老城区，给沧桑醇厚的古建筑增添了无穷的活力。街道边散发着巧克力作坊特有的香味。比利时巧克力闻名天下，绝对不是浪得虚名。西西和我不停的用脚步丈量着小城的每寸土地，像一对遇到一座金山却只带了只小口袋的人一样顾此失彼。最后，我们索性不干了，任凭自己沉浸在美丽的景色之中，不愿醒来。（布鲁日的照片）

布鲁塞尔给我门的感觉是：盛名之下，难付其实。布鲁塞尔是欧盟议会和北约总部所在地。半个世纪前的世博会也使她名声大振。小时候就读过撒尿小英雄的拯救城市的故事，因此布鲁塞尔很早便给我留下了很深的印象。可能是期望太高的缘故，布鲁塞尔给我们的感觉，不过是另一个大城市罢了。街道有些灰旧。70年代的摩天大楼也不再宁人惊叹。说白了，有点过气明星的味道。（布鲁塞尔的照片）

如果说现代和古典的完美结合，自然与人类和谐的交融，卢森堡是为数不多做到极致的城市之一。卢森堡是全世界第二富裕的国家，仅次于富得“流油”的卡塔尔。人均GDP高达82,306美元/年。发达的旅游业和金融业功不可没。整个城市被一条巨大的峡谷分为两个部分。峡谷的一边是被UNESCO认定为世界文化遗产的古城区。古城区的城墙和峡谷的一面峭壁完美的结合在一起，构筑出一座几个世纪前固若金汤的军事重镇。站在旧城墙上远眺，是经典的卢森堡景致：幽深翠绿的峡谷上布满了别致的城堡和教堂。几座大桥彩虹一般横跨峡谷两侧。拾着台阶走进峡谷，细碎的阳光透过茂密的树林印在脚下。两边的城墙高耸让我想起鸡鸣寺外的明城墙。峡谷底下回望，古城区里的主要建筑尽入眼中，好不壮观。

除了旧城区，卢森堡有另有一片现代化的新城区，主要聚集着大量的金融机构和联合国审计署等国际机构。在旧城区的一遍远眺峡谷的另一边，新城区的几栋标志性摩天大楼闪闪发光。与峡谷中千年以前的建筑遗迹形成了鲜明的对比。（卢森堡的照片）

Benelux地区是欧洲的行政中心，人类与自然和谐交融的范本。仅仅走马观花，已然美不胜收。

Plan to learn a bit of FOREX Trader, seems to be interesting. Nice GUI.

One of the Harvard Business Review articles talking about how to To Lead More Effectively, Increase Your Self-Confidence

"When it comes to leadership in the workplace, the primal spring of self confidence is an understanding of what you have accomplished and what you feel you can do next."

Three questions we may wanna ask ourselves:
(quote)

1. What do you do well?
2. Why should people follow you?
   
3. What have you done to earn the trust of others?

(unquote)

Any bloody violence toward any ordinary people should not be tolerated, regardless of the reasons. 140 dead, 800 wounded. Communist Party's ass will be kicked badly if there is no death sentence.being executed. Let the fucking stupid ethnic minorities policies alone.

link of the article

Rwanda genocide was one of the most brutal and deadly tragedies in human history. It happened merely 15 years ago, at a time when most of us believe that the unprecedented prosperity would leave the remote memory of genocide behind us. And yet it happened relentlessly and it will be one of our ugliest scars that will never disappear. The hatred between different ethnic groups (Hutu and Tutsi) was the immediate cause of that slaughter, but the UN and some of the western countries' indifference during the course of the incident assisted them.

The story of Rwanda Hotel is similar to that of the Schindler's list. What strikes me the most is the incapability or reluctance of some of us to put our feet into the shoes of the people whose basic human rights (like survival) are being deprived of and provide our help if possible. I still remember CCTV reporting the massacre in Rwandan in 1994 when I was 12 years old. It sounded so far away that it seemed to be some kind of sad stories that you read in the novel,  which made your heart go into spasm out of the basic sympathy for a short while before it was safely ignored. There is a Chinese proverb goes like: Only take care of the snow in your own doorway, even the frost on other people's roof tile is not your business. According to what happened in Rwanda 1.5 decades ago, it seems to be one of the universal natures of the human beings. However, at least the application of our selfishness to the area of basic human rights like the right to survive is something that we should be ashamed of and fight against.

One of the theories in the idea of Communism that I agree with is that the history of our development is the history of the class struggle. There are always some people trampling on other people's right in pursuit of their own interest. It was, is and will be like this for a long time. There is probably no better way of organizing the human society because it matches the human nature. We are just more civilized kind of animals and we are flawed. But as our society are evolving, we shouldn't allow those things like genocide from happening again, even if we can get or at least not lose any of our interest from it. What happened in Darfur is one example. I understand the complication of the problem since we are getting 1/10 of our oil supply from there, but the cost of losing the moral ground is too dear to be sustainable.

I also remember when 911 happened, I was in the dorm together with my 3 roommates. Our feeling at that time was a mixture. We were sorry about the tragedy because so many people died. I even dreamed of me being one of the passengers in the plane that was used to attacked the World Trade Center and the feeling of that was so scary and desperate. But we also feel a sense of happiness since there were finally some people who stood up and fought against the American Imperialists. I feel ashamed of it just as Sharon Stone should be ashamed of calling the Sichuan earthquake last year a Karma. The ideology or the attitude to a specific incident or the impression toward a country, should never surpass the importance of the basic human rights. They are lives, just like you and me and our family. We are human beings, we are not that different after all.

Rwanda hotel is a good movie.

One of the best techniques of governing and manipulating almost everything is to set up a lofty standard when the average level is well below it. By maintaining a gap between the ideals and the realities, there would be room for double standards and space for fulfilling one thing in the name of another. Followings are some applications in China:

1. Google is accused of providing vulgar and lewd contents to children in China. (....yes, baidu is always pure and innocent)
   
2. The recent import prohibition of Renault for quality reasons. (good move, but how about the quality of our own cars....)
   
3. The fact that many cases of embezzlement is the outcome of the struggle for political power (who doesn't?)
   

The article was written by Christina Roman, who is the chairwoman of Obama's council of economic adviser. The original article is here:

The point she wanted to make is the fact that the beacon of light in the smothering darkness of the economic crisis that we are seeing right now doesn't justify the cut for the financial stimulus and other means to restore the normal financial policy, as some of the U.S. senators suggested.

What happened around 1937 are basically as following:

• Prior to 1937 since Roosevelt's inauguration, America had enjoyed a rapid economic growth and made a significant progress in terms of soaring up the real GDP growth rate and lowing down the unemployment rate after the Great Depression, thanks to the big stimulus package and the loose monetary policy.
• In 1936 and 1937, a series of policies were made which trapped the America into the second severe recession since the Great Depression. These policies include the cancellation of the financial stimulus package and the tight monetary policy, among others. The Fed enforced the tight monetary policy by doubling the legitimate reserve requirements for the banks from the perspectives that they should have more controls if the inflation would develop and the banks simply have too much excess money. The banks, on the other hands,  could hardly forget the scars the Great Depression left on them and chose to make a reasonable cushion on top of the already doubled reserve requirement by lending out much less. Capital therefore become more expensive.

What she thinks the policy makers should pay some attentions to are:

• The urge for restoring the normal financial policy is strong for different reasons, but they should be resisted because without a special treatment, businesses wouldn't ignore the pains and scars left over from the last crisis and recover the confidence automatically.
• The loose monetary policy and the provision of the strong stimulus package need to be carried out before full employment rate is reached. Any premature withdrawal will have the potential of causing a recession within a recession.
• When it comes to the long run fiscal situation, some fundamental changes are needed. One example would be the health care reform which are about to happen in America right now.
  

http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2009-06-19/160518054771.shtml

Nowadays, getting laid with a prostitute in China is much easier than getting results of the pornographic pictures from Google. We are so better off, yahoooo!!

Almost all the people who I admire are bookholics. The fact that they are bookholics is not the reason that I admire them but is precisely the root cause of so many characteristics that make them the kind of people I admire. There aren't any skills that are more important than being able to selectively read, comprehand and absorb the valuable, relevant and updated information in the era of information explosion. Mark Cuban, an American billionare, said that he usually spent 4~5 hours to read everyday in the course of 20 years since he stepped into the IT & Sport industry. Without that, he wouldn't be able to understand the lastest trend and ideas that would help him to steer his enterprise to a promising direction. It is a pity that I didn't develop the habbit of reading when I was young. Well, I hope it is not too late.

I wrote a python program a little bit more than 2 years ago when I was applying a job in Fast Search in Norway (now a subsidiary of Microsoft), though the outcome of the application is a bit disappointing because they cut off that position in the last stage, I was pretty impressed by the elegance of Python as a language.

Today I did a little bit recap of Python in the hopes that I can use it to write a little domain specific language to encode auto completion logic for shells (like bash, because it is kind of awkward to write anything relatively complicated in bash script). The more I read about it the more I like this little cute language. Among all the features it offers, I especially appreciate its tolerance of different kind of programming paradigms, including that of the functional programming.

I am pretty tired of this clumsy trick played by our comrades this time. As one of the ancient proverbs goes, shutting up people's mouths is much more difficult than controlling the flood. I don't know who made this decision in the first place but from every single aspect that I can think of, I can not justify this god damn move at all. It is either they are stupid or I am bloody retarded.

Just made my way back to Dublin from Goteborg. It was the fourth flight I took in the past 5 days and to be honest my heart was dangling in the middle of the air in every single journey until the aircraft successfully landed on the runway in the Dublin airport couple of hours ago. The Air France tragedy obviously casted too much a shadow to my heart and I felt really sad for those who got killed in this calamity.

Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac all guarantee the timely payment of scheduled interest and principal payments from their mortgage-backed securities, They are able to do this because they only purchase or underwrite loads that conform to certain standards regarding borrower credit ratings, load size, and the ratio of each load to value of the property securing it.

这不是一首写给悲伤的人的歌，
当信念远去时安静的祈祷又有什么用！
我不要做芸芸众生中的普通一员，
当我用力时你便会清楚的听见我的声音！

这便是我的人生，
做或不做，没有折中。
我不会永生，
只想在活着的时候活出自己！

我的心像是宽广的大道，
希望能如Frankie临终前语：我走我路，此生无憾！
我只想在活着的时候活出自己，
因为这是我的人生！

这是写给那些执着坚守内心信念的人们的歌，
写给如Tommy和Gina那样永不屈服的人们的歌。
不要心存侥幸，未来之路将愈加艰辛。
幸运抑或不在，但仍要寻求突破自己！

这就是我的人生，
做或不做，没有折中。
我不会永生，
只想在活着的时候活出自己！

我的心像是宽广的大道，
希望能如Frankie临终前语：我走我路，此生无憾！
我只想在活着的时候活出自己，
因为这是我的生活！

面对嘲讽于不屑，
让我们挺直腰板。
不要屈服，不要垮掉，
宝贝儿，千万千万不能放弃！


歌曲请见：
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g50vzZzAja0

As a non believer, I always find it difficult to seriously commit myself to any religious believes, though in some circumstances, I do resort to the super natures of some sort when I feel absolutely helpless. I do feel guilty for that because I asked for their help without even believing in them. Yet at the same time, I strongly feel that being completely convinced before any commitment to them must be one of the most fundamental respects to them if they truly exist.

On the flight from Gothenburg to Dublin today, I got the chance to read the Faith chapter in Obama's The Audacity of Hope. I was always curious about the reason why a wise man with very complicated culture background and profound understanding of the diversification of human beings like Barack Obama, who is extremely good at reasoning, discovering and making compromises between the ideals and reality, could sincerely believe in a super nature without any doubts about its actual existence. The chapter did give me some ideas about his own journey to where he is right now in terms of faith.

Obama built a good understanding of most of the religious systems in the world thanks to his mother. His mother, who is an anthropologist, is not a believer herself, yet she believes that an understanding of different kinds of religious systems is essential to a well rounded education. Therefore, by the time when Obama became a community organizer after his graduation, though he has a good knowledge about the Christianity, he fell short of being a Christian. He was able to get baptized only after he realized that without committing himself to it, there would always be an invisible wall between him and those people with whom he sang the same song, shared some of the views and traditions and did a lot of similar things together. After devoting himself to it, he could have a place to ground his faith upon and a community to dispel his loneliness, among others reasons. However, in his book he also talked about his struggles when the ideas of some of the hardcore Christians conflict with his own liberal thoughts. He even questioned whether he was a true Christian after running for the U.S senator couple of years ago. At last, he concluded that the commitment to Christian doesn't mean that he couldn't have doubts on it.

It all sounds natural, it is the Obama we know about, intelligent and frank, no real surprise.

Going back to my own life, it is really difficult for men and women with backgrounds similar to me (which are a lot in PRC, I would say) to share the same view over religions as Mr. Obama and other Christians. We were taught the ideas of communism when we were in middle school. In retrospect, though practically impossible, the essence of the idea is good. As other believe systems, the final goal of communism is to create a heaven like society where everybody is equal, everybody contributes to the whole society and gets when needed. For me, the biggest difference is instead of doing everything we can to get to the heaven or a better "next life" at the mercy of the super natures who may or may not exist, they wanna create the heaven by themselves. Probably it is improbable due to the nature of the human selfishness, but that is the exact reason why I feel difficult to believe in God. If we are trading our loyalty to God to some sort of a better life in the future, it doesn't seem to be spiritually pure any more, it is just another expression of our selfishness. If that is the case, the ideal communism seems to be more appealing to purify the human nature than most of the religions, despite the damage it has caused.

Maybe, just because human beings are selfish, the "selfish" religion is the only way out.

Haven't played basket for ages now, since I don't have the "time". As soon as I saw this picture, I was reminded that the notion of "don't have time to do sth" is a joke per se and better not to be used to describe something one really wanna do.


Barack playing b-ball in his transition office in Chicago.

The public transportation in Dublin is at best unsatisfactory and a disaster at worst. After weighing the cons/pros as well as the money in my pocket, I decide to buy a bike and cycle everyday to my office, the distance of which is 10 km from my apartment. Sounds a little bit tough, but I found it quite refreshing, adventurous and enjoyable to think of my little plan, the 3 euros saved per day, sharing the road with the cars and singing "xing xing dian deng" loudly back & forth from the office & home.

These 1 some months in Dublin went pretty grand in terms of work. Got the chance to learn something really interesting and useful without feeling like an illiterate in many occasions. Co-workers are pretty nice and there is a strong atmosphere of learning-by-doing in the whole team. However, with all the confidence I built for my English as a Chinese, I strongly feel it still fall short of satisfactory in some aspects. Hope that in the months to come, everything is gonna be better.

One downsides, among others, is that my gf xixi and myself both feel it is painful to stay away from each other for a long time. For ppl without any religious believes, probably the lovers can play that role to some extente and stabilize our emotions when they fluctuate, support our feet when they are unsteady. Anyways, I think we both get it and I hope I can have a nice and constructive talk with THE important guy waiting to meet me on 26th, Dec.

作为生活在当下的中国人，我很羡慕美国人即将拥有一位像奥巴马一样的领袖。整整一年，从初选到大选，演讲、辩论场场不落的看下来。他身上那种区别与其他政客的独特气质让我相信，如果还可能会有一丝清风飘过纷繁复杂的政客的世界，那便是巴拉克.奥巴马。

冰冻三尺，非一日之寒。5天后的那一刻远远不仅是一个幸运的巧合。历史会在它需要改变的时候选择一个人，我们称之为伟人。而人却永远都不能凭借一己之力去改变历史。当下的中国不会产生奥巴马，或许也不需要如此这般的一个奥巴马。可是我们仍然有理由乐观。当1968年马丁路德金被刺杀的时候，谁能想到40年后的今天，一位黑人即将出任美利坚合众国的总统呢？

在无休止的战争和触目惊心的经济危机面前，在美国的国家品牌岌岌可危的时刻。奥巴马当选本身，就是对美国品牌的一种救赎。

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昨天打电话给一个非常要好的朋友。谈到今后打算，他庆幸而自豪地说，当今全世界的经济都危了，就看剩咱中国坚挺了，何不回来折腾折腾。 我非常愿意相信这一点，可惜我一点都不同意这位兄弟的观点。

我们的祖国已经高速增长了二三十年，人民的生活相对于80年代也发生了翻天地覆的变化。但是当我们回顾过去的五年，八年，看看小城市和农村，大部分人民的生活水平真的有有百分之八的年增长率吗？如果她/他是个普通工人，农民，或是其他社会比较底层的小人物。8年里口袋真的会比以前宽裕1.85倍吗？

全球经济危机对中国这种出口外向型的国家，打击会尤其之大。大家都说，中国的出路在于把出口驱动的经济转为内需驱动的经济。因为中国的内需只占整个GDP的38%，比印度还少三分之一。这个比率在发展中国家也属于很低的。其他62%全部靠投资和净出口。并且那些投资也大多用于面向出口的基础设施。这样的经济如果不转变就会很脆弱。

可问题是，如果经济增长如此之快，难道中国人就爱把钱存银行里不花吗？ 其实不然，根据调查，中国人的存款占收入的大约25%。这个数字跟其他亚洲国家相比并无特殊之处。那么我们GDP高速增长的成果都去哪里了？答案是都去了大型机构或者企业里了。造成的结果是穷者越穷，富者越富，更多的钱用于建设面向出口的基础设施。老百姓的钱没增加多少，物价却长了不少。于是内需在整个GDP中所占的比率就会越来越少。

中国在过去几年里面，从全球繁荣的外部环境中获益良多。现在全球经济变差。对中国这种面向出口的国家提出的挑战，非常，非常巨大。经济危机不会导致美国经济崩溃，更不是资本主义灭亡的预示。相反，美国就像一个不断在泳池中翻新的人，有时被水呛，但是这也促使它不断的改革。中国从来不下水，当然不会被呛，但是如果有朝一日落水了，就可能被呛死。金融方面，中国落后的太多太多，资本流通不畅也是中国创新经济不能向美国那么快速发展的原因之一。

或许我们现在就应该想陈志武同志说的，把财富通过减税，增加免费服务等手段分均给普通老百姓。刺激国内的消费。才能让国家继续高速的发展下去。

美国救市，我们当救人民。

上帝是个天才的程序员，他用一种疑似Lisp但显然更为强大的语言在他的Macbook上编写了我们的世界：一个可以新陈代谢，自我支撑，不断演化，但也不乏bug的庞大系统。

人类的大脑是他的核心技术之一。释迦摩尼和安拉就是因为这个方面的缺陷，虽然野心勃勃，却至今仍然徘徊在产业链的下游。

蝴蝶效应不是上帝的初衷，是上帝在程序快写完的时候才发现的。这么大一个多线程分布式系统，百密一疏，上帝也是神。不过上帝决定不去改它了，因为彼时他的肚子有点饿，于是决定赶紧出货，然后去吃汉堡王的炸鸡翅。

人类花了几万年，终于发现了上帝的这个疏忽，并为它起了这么个好听的名字。但认识它的后果是，每当我们要去做一个决定或者想一个问题的时候，总会平白无故的多一份犹豫，甚至变得有些神经质。比如前两天男篮加时输给西班牙，我到现在仍然固执的相信，如果7000多公里以外的我当时知道qqqtv这个东西，并因此得以看到现场直播，那么中国男篮就会因为多一份薄弱的小宇宙从而拼下比赛。

这真的不能怪我们。因为当我们回头去看我们走过的人生时，总会不自觉地把它断成若干个if else，然后长吁短叹的沉浸于假如之中。一个小小的决定，一个不知姓名的人，一个千里之外的idea，或许就能改变我们的一生。

庸人如我，当然不例外。不过我倒不是很抵触改变status quo。所以我决定先不考虑蝴蝶的事儿，接着往前走。Nästa, IBM software lab, Dublin。

三天前是我来瑞典整整三周年。本想写点什么，后来想想算了，煽情我根本就不行。这三年跌宕起伏，各种感觉都有过。希望今后能平顺点儿。瑞典是个伟大的国家，记载着我三年的烂木头年代，并且有我牵挂的人。北欧其他国家都拿金牌了，希望瑞典也能拿个奥运金牌。

比赛还没开打，但是中国队肯定会赢的，我话扔这先。
看球！



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从cctv，ppstream，pplive，新浪全他妈的不让国外IP看。今天sopcast也挂了。奶奶的，不就为了几个破钱破版权么，什么都不要了。外国人谁看中国人解说的中国比赛啊！堵的全他妈是中国人，还都是关心自己国家队比赛的中国人。海外那么多华人。这些混蛋是不是以为全都是死人？

我理解外国的电视台会要求cctv的东西不能流到国外，否则侵害他们的转播独享权。但是一个富的流油的国家电视台，造那么牛逼的一个扭来扭去的狗屁大楼，面对几千万海外国人，难道不能放点血谈个判让咱也看一眼自己国家队的几场重要比赛？

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补：万分感谢青姐详细的攻略，放在这里跟大家分享，多谢青姐！

Zheng Qing 2008/8/12 13:00:29 (http://summercool98.spaces.live.com/) 1. 首先下载一款国内的代理服务软件，该软件是提供给万网络游戏的玩家的，可以提高速度和改换IP，通过代理服务器来上网。通过使用这个代理服务器软件，就可以将国外的IP地址改换成为国内的IP。 下载地址是： http://www.tyjsq.com/ 2. 下载软件后安装 3. 安装完后到下面这个网站注册：http://www.tyjsq.com/personalWeb/index.php?mod=Users&;webid=2&action=register 4. 这个软件提供10天试用期，注册以后可以免费使用10天，如果要继续使用，可以购买它的月计划，才10RMB一个月。当然也可以多注册几个试用帐号，奥运会结束应该就会解除IP封锁。 5. 软件运行界面： 6. 在连接成功后确认你的IP已经成国内IP，查询IP可以到http://ip-lookup.net/ 7. 再打开PPStream之前，记住一定要钩选“服务器中转模式”，否则不通过代理服务器。（建议用QQ直播） 8. 选择CCTV奥运频道，连接成功啦！恭喜你，让我们一起为中国奥运健儿欢呼吧！

Faster, Higher, Stronger. Olympics is coming soon, let's be more Olympical and revitalize our lives by getting more trainings!

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