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Ăn Tết thanglong HN

VT — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:31:13 +0000

This is something i wrote a long time back (May 2003), just found it after seeing my nephew in ‘VN got talent’ a few days back.

Ăn Tết thanglong HN 2003.05.01

Đáng lẽ bài này em viết ngay sau Tết nhưng mà bận quá, giờ mới rảnh rang ngồi lại. Trí nhớ lỗ chỗ thế nào cũng thiếu, các [...]

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Measuring SMB market development with Business ICT Adoption (BIA) index

VT — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:26:21 +0000

For the first time, AMI-Partners releases its Business ICT Adoption (BIA) index to measure the ICT adoption level of small and medium businesses (SMBs, companies with less than 1000 employees) around the world. While the top range of BIA index is dominated by European countries, 12 markets with highest SMB ICT spending are spread across [...]

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Rainy day women #12 and 35

VT — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:19:55 +0000

This song was playing in my mind yesterday while I was listening to my friend’s stories about recent racist attacks on her and her friends in Melbourne. Some were thrown eggs and broken glasses at. Some were stabbed on the way home. My friend was chased and kicked in front of her door. It is [...]

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Google Platforms rant by Steve Yegge

VT — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:33:48 +0000

A rare inside look at Google and Amazon’s cultures and products written by Steve Yegge yesterday (2011-10-12). Long but very interesting. He accidentally published it, deleted, but the full article is still available here at Rip Rowan’s Google+ page. This is a must read if you’re interested in computing and company culture.

If you’re interested in platform, [...]

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‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says

VT — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:48:34 +0000

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. [...]

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Some reasons to move to Google+

VT — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:03:59 +0000

I haven’t been always skeptical about Google’s ability to create a good social network. It’s not because they don’t have engineering ability to do that. It’s just that their engineer, geek culture normally favors independent and sometimes anti-social tendencies, so it may not be suitable with the current social network moods and their associated herd-syndromes. Google [...]

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One art (Elizabeth Bishop)

VT — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:12:59 +0000

One art Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it [...]

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Biển Đông Việt Nam trong phương chí Trung Hoa

VT — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:25:50 +0000

Khảo luận này bước đầu đặt vấn đề nghiên cứu có hệ thống các sách Phương chí, một loại hình trứ tác quan trọng trong thư tịch cổ Trung Hoa, bao gồm Nhất thống chí, Tỉnh chí và Địa phương chí. Phương chí nói chung là loại sách lịch sử địa lý tự nhiên và [...]

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Funeral blues

VT — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 03:00:53 +0000

Funeral blues W.H. Auden

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead. Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic [...]

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3D atlas of the universe

VT — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:06:08 +0000

So I’d like to just say that what the world needs now is a sense of being able to look at ourselves in this much larger condition now and a much larger sense of what home is. Because our home is the universe, and we are the universe, essentially. We carry that in us. [...]

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Văn minh vật chất của người Việt

VT — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:35:45 +0000

Buổi tối chúng ta đi ngủ, buổi sáng chúng ta thức dậy và đi làm, một trăm năm sống trên trần gian nếu cứ thế cuộc đời con người thật nhàm chán không có gì đáng nói. Nếu so với tuổi của trời đất, thì trăm năm của đời người chỉ là cái chớp mắt. [...]

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Digital wallet and 4 dollars per SMS

VT — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:46:38 +0000

I’m reading the article about Visa, Google digital wallet on ZDNet and insulin pump hacking by Jay Radcliffe and recall this incident. Some time ago, our cousins and niece were shocked to find that their mobile bills went over the roof due to some mysterious value-added 4-dollars SMSs tagged with Ericsson Telecommunications name. A small search lead [...]

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Readability for web pages

VT — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:56:31 +0000

Readability.com from Arc90 lab is probably the current best tool to remove distractions on web pages so that you can read comfortably or print out nicely (with links as footnotes). However, their default bookmarklet is not really good. Web2pdfconvert (web2pdfconvert.com/readable) provides a better tool to customize it.

Talk about print, WP-Print plugin developed by Lester Chan is probably the best plugin [...]

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Some useful Google Chrome parameters

VT — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:54:47 +0000

To enable incognito (privacy) mode in Google Chrome: –incognito To disable print preview (a new feature in Google Chrome 13 which automatically converts web pages to PDF file to preview. It’s good as you like the default version, as you can right click & save the PDF file immediately. It’s pretty annoying if you want to customize [...]

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Canon URF II vs PCL

VT — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:26:48 +0000

The problem: Windows 7 laptop couldn’t connect to our Canon network printer (iR C2880). Default driver installed by Windows 7 and Canon’s latest driver (PCL6_v6.85_WinXP-Win7_x64_INF.exe) didn’t work. The only visible setting difference between Windows 7 driver and Windows XP driver is that “Enable bi-directional support” in Ports setting is grey, which led to a number [...]

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Access Facebook in Vietnam

VT — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:17:31 +0000

2011-06-19 update: I tried the previous trick in Hanoi this week but it no longer works. However, Tor Brower Bundle (torproject.org) works perfectly fine. Tor also works for Android and jailbreak iPhone (http://sid77.slackware.it/iphone). Another reason to jailbreak iPhone or move to Android phones :)

I heard that they’re banning Facebook in Vietnam, probably to save time [...]

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How to extend wireless LAN’s coverage with 2 routers

VT — Mon, 02 May 2011 07:34:03 +0000

The objective is pretty simple: extending our wireless LAN’s coverage with a spared wireless router, so our devices can always connect to the same LAN with the same SSID. With that, our phones and laptops can be moved around the house and automatically connected to the router with strongest signal without any network interruption. Besides, [...]

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APAC SMBs to spend US$16 billion on portable PCs, netbooks, and tablets in 2011

VT — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:46:04 +0000

Small and medium businesses across Asia-Pacific region outside of Japan will spend 16 billion US dollars on non-desktop PCs (including portable PCs, netbooks, and tablets) in 2011, much higher than what they are going to spend on desktop PCs. While tablets have attracted a lot of media attention, especially after the International Consumer Electronics Show [...]

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To bear or not to bear

VT — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:06:06 +0000

I’ve been thinking about death for the last 2 years. It’s not that i want to end my life. It’s just that i’ve started pondering on having a child.

It’s typical in our country that within a few months after marriage, people start asking you about kids: some things (very intrusive in Western culture but pretty [...]

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Island blues (Koop & Ane Brun)

VT — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:40:05 +0000

Hello my love It’s getting cold on this island I’m sad alone I’m so sad on my own The truth is that we were much too young And now I’m looking for you or anyone like you

We said goodbye with a smile on our faces Now you’re alone you’re so sad on your own The truth is that we run out of time And now you’re looking for [...]

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