http://www.michaelyung.com/blog Learn Something New, Every Day Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:24:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Had a good chat with some friends the other day about types of boss in our work life. There was a theory that there are two types of boss - one is a control freak who keep yelling to their staff, and one is with mentor style that helps the ... http://www.michaelyung.com/blog/friends/2008/07/19/i-saw-the-angel/ All a sudden the story of one million people is no longer trendy in our city, instead people keep arguing whether they shall get their cut from the recent 11 billion dollar plan to combat inflation. Seriously, can this plan really help those in need ? [caption id="attachment_509" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="SSP ... http://www.michaelyung.com/blog/off-topics/2008/07/19/11-billion-dollars-hope/ Just couple of hours ago Wordpress released the latest version 2.6, and what you seeing now is the upgraded version !! Yes, I cannot stand the previous two versions because of the slow load time. And I am pleased to tell you all that this version is FAST, with a ... http://www.michaelyung.com/blog/services-and-products/2008/07/15/wordpress-26/ Other than the Apple iPhone 3G, the launch of Google Lively is indeed one of the hottest news this week. So just three days after the launch of the beta version, how is it doing ? Here are some good and bad things I found so far. I managed to download ... http://www.michaelyung.com/blog/services-and-products/2008/07/11/google-lively/ I think it will be called the greatest final ever in history of Wimbledon, in fact it may be one of the greatest final of any sports. Imagine you're still in the Centre Court after 4 hours of fighting, I think in your mind there would be only a few ... http://www.michaelyung.com/blog/off-topics/2008/07/08/hold-on/ Zheng Jie is a real fighter and we all enjoyed very much her playing in Wimbledon 2008. Only 25 years old, she is brave, kind, working hard, and humble. I hope all Chinese youngsters can learn all these characters from the new idol. Best wishes to Zheng Jie. http://www.michaelyung.com/blog/off-topics/2008/07/04/next-idol/ The first copy of the photo book is good looking and beautifully printed, so I think it is time to make it public and available for sale online in Blurb.com. One can pick up a copy of the book with soft cover, hardcover with or without dust jacket. Frankly, I don't ... http://www.michaelyung.com/blog/book/2008/06/25/it-is-now-for-sale/ I think most of us, Twitter users, are fed up with Twitter's performance and reliability ... but at least they show a good graphic with the error message. Is that the ROR performance issue again, or the Database, or just the architecture ? http://www.michaelyung.com/blog/services-and-products/2008/06/24/twitter-is-over-capacity/ Even after 5 weeks and countless hours of video footages, the photos of the tragedy are still very shocking. A photo exhibition that not to be missed ... but only last to 22nd June in APM shopping mall. [youtube]http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=tWQ51Ux1LVI[/youtube] http://www.michaelyung.com/blog/photography/2008/06/21/photos-behind-the-news/ This beauty finally arrived from the mail and it looks absolutely gorgeous. It took altogether 4 weeks to finish and here are the details: Day 01 - download the free software BookSmart from Blurb.com Day 02 - starts the "design" of the book ... and it lasts 15 days, as I needed ... http://www.michaelyung.com/blog/book/2008/06/17/first-photo-book/