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I have had my macbook pro 13-inch for about 2 years now. It’s been running very well until recently, it randomly freezes. The keyboard and mouse would not respond and I would be forced to do a hard restart. After a few incidences, I noticed that this often happens when I am watching a youtube video or any long videos on VLC. At first I thought it was some corrupt libraries in the kernel and so I re-installed osx, but the problem remains. Then I clicked around, trying to investigate… to my horror, it was actually that my cpu fan stopped spinning! ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUXEiwJiKj4&w=640&h=390] Good evening. Tonight, I’d like to update the American people on the international effort that we have led in Libya – what we have done, what we plan to do, and why this matters to us. I want to begin by paying tribute to our men and women in uniform who, once again, have acted with courage, professionalism and patriotism. They have moved with incredible speed and strength. Because of them and our dedicated diplomats, a coalition has been forged and countless lives have been saved. Meanwhile, as we speak, our troops are supporting our ally Japan, leaving Iraq to its people, stopping the Taliban’s momentum in Afghanistan, and going after al Qaeda around the globe. As Commander-in-Chief, I am grateful to our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, and their families, as are all Americans. ...

Coming from the python background, this arrays of arrays in perl has given me so much pain. I decided to put down this cheat sheet here for future reference. Basic perl knowledge is assumed. # assign to our array, an array of array references @AoA = ( [ "fred", "barney" ], [ "george", "jane", "elroy" ], [ "homer", "marge", "bart" ], ); print $AoA[2][2]; # assign a reference to array of array references $ref_to_AoA = [ [ "fred", "barney", "pebbles", "bambam", "dino", ], [ "homer", "bart", "marge", "maggie", ], [ "george", "jane", "elroy", "judy", ], ]; print $ref_to_AoA->[2][2]; For @array, use parentheses, i.e. the top example. For a reference, use square brackets, i.e. the bottom example. ...

“相当巴适, 很给力” ??? 甚麼意思??? 巴适, 西南方方言, 就是舒服的意思. 此方言主要流传于四川, 重庆, 贵州等地. bā shì (重庆读音: ba 二声 si 四声) 很好 舒服, 正宗,地道 给力, (brilliant/awesome). 读音为, gěi lì, 中国北方的土话, 表示给劲, 带劲的意思. 在地方方言中就是"带劲儿", “牛”, “酷"的意思. 用作动词, 指"给以力量”, “加油”. “给力"一般理解为有帮助, 有作用, 给面子.

Very additive game. I am gonna stop at $999. This game is endless… http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/coin-dozer/id372836496?mt=8

I was doing some research on earthquake. While at it, I checked out the San Andreas Fault which is below the bay area. Um… it’s really right below it. Scary. You can play with the actual gmap at http://geology.com/san-andreas-fault/. Below is just an image.

I am really captured by this quote: “Emotions are the foundations of reason, because they tell us what to value.” - David Brooks Simply put, your gut feeling drives your reasoning. When we are trying to have an open mind to reason, it’s actually very difficult until we can change our feeling/perspective toward the subject. That means in an open minded discussion, conveying the underlying feeling is the primary goal. Brooks also talks about many other things. Don’t miss out on this video! ...

That is self-defense. I support you Casey Heynes! [youtube &w=480&h=390] A message for Casey Heynes (Haynes?)…Bully Destroyer [youtube &w=480&h=390]

I think all these info mentioned in the video should become more transparent to the public. Nowadays the buyers are more cautious and hesitant to make an offer, it would really help if they can get to know more hidden info about the properties they are interested in. If you are interested to know the pro’s and con’s of short sales, check out these videos! One useful link: Short Sales Are No Bargain for Buyers ...

I often need to choose between MyISAM and InnoDB. Here is a little list for me for future reference. MyISAM supports fulltext searching, but does not support transactional processing. Fulltext searching: Match(), Against(), WITH QUERY EXPANSION, IN BOOLEAN MODE InnoDB is a transaction-safe engine It does not support full-text searching. In addition, MEMORY is functionally equivalent to MyISAM. The data is stored in memory (instead of on disk), thus is extremely fast (and ideally suited for temporary tables). ...