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This is the last day of the Spring Festival. I caught the last chance to have tea or coffee with my friends. It is among the best things to do during holidays. I got to know more good places to meet and to have afternoon tea/evening tea. It is important part of knowledge for a city. I didn’t touch this area too much before, and I guess I will start to recommend restaurants, café, tea houses and bars soon.
I also better understood how lucky I am to have a bunch great friends around me. I know who to go to on specific topics. For example, for ideas on Confusions or the great thinkers, I will go to Steven. On the current society, I will see Hua. For great places to eat, I will pick up my phone and give Grace a call. For new ideas, I go to Isaac, and for travel and art, Claire and Edward are the best persons I can find around me.
The best part of life is to talk with friends. It gives new ideas or helps me to review my ideas to get a more systematic view. My mentor at middle school Zhu Hai Jun said to me for more than 10 times, that "people always ignore great people around them". It is a good echo of Pascal's "The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room" (my second time quoting this sentence in one week).
Some Observations
There are some very interesting observations in the Internet world that I haven't put onto the blog yet.
Google loves XinhuaNews and China Daily
When you visit U.S. version of Google News, you will find a very interesting phenomena: About 1/3 of the pictures or one of the two biggest news pictures are often from Xinhua News or China Daily. According to Google's rule, it implies these two sites are most frequently quoted sites, which is very true.
Forget about Google. Use Baidu
I found the frequency I use Google in the last month dramatically decreased. I almost pulled my hair off when I use Google to search some common terms and get DNS error. It seems more and more content are not suitable for me to read. The easy solution is, switch to Baidu. It is a cleaner environment and they provide good service to censor the content so I won't click an "appropriate" link before I am aware of.
Google Maps
Google released beta version of Google Map. Google chanllenged people's imagination of client scripts after it did with Gmail. It is a fantastic application. I love the drag and drop in IE and the navigation with keys. Google is a real Internet company!
203 Mining Workers Died
Liao Ning mine blaster killed 203 workers there. It is terrible news.
Posted by Jian Shuo Wang at February 15, 2005 11:18 PM
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Understand there were 6,000 miners perished last year during mining accidents. Is the authority treating it as the casualty of future prosperity or intends to install an abatement to reduce this mishaps.
FYI The Liao Ning mining accident has became the headline news in North America.
Stephen
Posted by: Stephen on February 16, 2005 4:25 AMThere will be a political debate in Shanghai! Isn't this amazing? See thei link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/4264969.stm
Posted by: Lee on February 16, 2005 11:31 AMVery good, Lee.
Now we can't open the link here, because they have already banned it....
Well, 6.000 miners dies, and 110.000 dies in the traffic every year.
180 construction workers die every year in Shanghai.
This is just statistical facts in China.
Some dies in the rat race for money, life is hard.
It probably would make some serious headlines in western countries, if it happened there.
Posted by: carsten on February 16, 2005 8:08 PMChina last year produced 35% of the world's coal but reported 80% of global deaths in colliery accidents.
yes, it is a rat race for money; yes, life is hard; no, people should not think because it is a statistical fact that it is OK. Unfortunately, until businesses are forced to keep a secure workplace, this will not stop.
Posted by: Moncada on February 18, 2005 3:04 AMAbout quietness,
从静中观物动，向闲处看人忙，才得超尘脱俗的趣味；遇忙处会偷闲，处闹中能取静，
便是安身立命的工.［明］ 洪应明
The death of 1 person is a tragedy. The death of 1 million people is only a number. The pain we feel when we hear about 203 perons (now 210) died is not strong enough to get to know that one work, with a name, with a family, with some specific hobbies, died in the accident.
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