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Happy Chinese Lunar New Year. Happy Spring Festival.

Get up early in the morning, check mail & Google Reader, clearning my room, had a simple lunch with my mother. Went to the supermarket, shopping with crowded people.

Afternoon, we put some uncooked food on the desk as sacrifice to ancestors. Shortly, 1 hour or 2 hours, then we can cook it as dinner. The sacrifice ceremony used to be very complicated and become very simple now. This is traditional Chinese culture, traditional Chinese way to momerise the ancestors and looking forward to good life in the new year.

Tomorrow will be the Chinese New Year & St. Valentine’s Day. May everyone be blessed with peace, prosperity and good health now and in the year ahead.

many websites are blocked in China, so proxy or VPN become absolute necessary to get information from the internet. I am using SSH Proxy supply by cosbeta for only USD 6$ whole year, it is fast and stable, satisfying me normally. But VPN is also necessary in some occasions when SSH Proxy don’t works well, though not frequently. For example, some software don’t support proxy.

VPN pay by month or years is to expensive to me for occasional use. It would cost me more than USD 50$ for a year. So the traffic volume based VPN would be a good choice. Pay as we use, and does not expire until all traffic volume is used. So I chose IVACY. It is cheap, 0.5€ or 0.7$ for 1 gidabyte traffic volume, 10€ or 14$ for 20 gidabyte is enough for one-year usage.

IVACY also accept payment  monthly, unlimited volume. 10€ or 14$ for 1 month.

Try it.

• Unnecessary to pursuit beautiful clothes. Buy clothes at end-of-season sale. Don’t throw the old clothes away and give them to poor people sufferring from hunger and cold after clean them, it may help the poor people a lot.
• Unnecessary to pursuit luxurious house. Small apartment with simple decoration and independent bedroom for every families is enough current time for me. We call it home because of a warm family not because of luxurious house and decoration.

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Introduction of Yuhuan

Yuhuan was a small island in history, and there was Chumen Peninsula to north of Yuhuan Island over the narrow Xuanmen Channel. Therefore people should go out of Yuhuan island to Chumen Peninsula by little boat, very inconveniencely.

In 1960′s People wanted to change the traffic situation. Maybe people were not rich and Yuhuan was a small and economically backward place, so there was no money to build a bridge, and the goverment did’t think it was a good idea to spend a lot money to build a bridge in such an island. As a result, people build a dam which was cheaper to build connecting Yuhuan Island to Chumen Peninsula.

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• BlueHost / HostMonster
• DreamHost
• Host1Plus
• Homezz

If you register domain in BlueHost, it is not allowed to change DNS setting in Cpanel. So we can do it by submitting a ticket in Helpdesk.

Here is an example, and you can submit a ticket like this. And find more detail here.

Subject: Change DNS Setting for domain.comc

Last four characters of hosting password: WXYZ or Last four of my credit card are as follows 8753.

A record: domain.com –> 60.60.60.60
A record: www.domain.com –> 60.60.60.60
MX Entries: domain.com –> 1 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
MX Entries: domain.com –> 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
MX Entries: domain.com –> 10 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.

Thanks.



Many years ago, I didn’t know the PayPal and didn’t have Credit Card, so I had to register domains at some Chinese Registrars, as Hi CHina & 35.com via Alipay, the easy and popalar payment in China. Then I found registrars in China are too BAD, so I moved to Godaddy and Name.com.

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• Add to Search Bar. Add what you want to FireFox search bar, then you can search conveniently.
• I bypass the great firewall of China with SSH Tunnel proxy and AutoProxy as a proxy management add-on. AutoProxy is really wonderful tool, making the free internet in China.With SSH Tunnel proxy and AutoProxy, I can ignore the great firewall and explorer freely.
• Diigo Bookmarks and Web Annotations is not only social bookmarking but also online annotations, I think Diigo is better and more powerful than delicious.

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I Love Freeware, I love Portable Application.

• image view and edit
  • Picasa. Cool photo viewing & editing software from Google.
  • Neo Imaging, image editing tool, Chinese edition only.
  • GIMP / GIMPShop, replacement of Photoshop.
• MindMapping
  • MindManager Pro is cool & powerful mindmapping software, but too expensive.
  • So I use FreeMind which is open source and free.
  • XMind Portable is also a good choice.

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