Ellen Ning Zhao’s musing between sense and sensibility
Posted in groovy, programming on Jul 16th, 2008
I started to learn and use Groovy last month. I feel like Groovy is like a programming language “Eintopf“, it aggregates some best characteristics of a variety of programming languages. No matter which programming style you prefer – procedural, functional, object-oriented, meta-programming, static typed, dynamic typed… – Groovy has much to offer. The most beautiful [...]
Posted in Germany, finance, investment on Jul 13th, 2008
Disclaimer: this entry is only my personal opinion, it should not be taken as investing guide. Please do your own research for your investing choice. This entry tries to study the possibilities of protecting personal income in a period of high inflation. This topic actually can be discussed in a thick book if we really [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 13th, 2008
Last month I finished watching all three seasons of the Japanese animation Aria. (Picture Source) Love it endlessly. Wikipedia says it’s a science fiction series. This description is very, very misleading. The complete series, totally 52 episodes and an OVA, largely consist of slices of life which everyone can feel sympathetic to in one way [...]
Posted in music on Jul 13th, 2008
Aria the Animation opening song: Undine Translated to English by Stain The gentle wind brushing against my cheeks while rocking to the sound of the waves, I can feel my body relaxing. I close my eyes, and can see the direction the wind is taking. Now let’s row, towards the shining waves. A smile is [...]
Posted in Germany, entertainment, life on Jul 12th, 2008
This afternoon Dirk dragged me to the Univ. of Hildesheim to attend the Steinerei 2008 brick film festival. It was a contest of films made with Lego-built elements. This year’s theme is “remake”. Today the host presented totally 13 short Lego films in the final. The first film “Imitation” tells a story of a man [...]
On June 8th Dirk And I went to the local aeroplane fair. We were both not really aeroplane freaks, but the weather was nice and we wanted some walk. Many people went to the fair, but the planes exhibited there were not that many, and most of them are tiny planes, which suited the size [...]
Posted in humour, programming, software engineering on Jul 1st, 2008
Today I arrived at this page when I was checking out information about the MySql Falcon engine: http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Falcon Below is the part I found amusing: Falcon is NOT … Jim (Starkey) ‘s been at this for a long time, there have been some changes since he wrote his first database at DEC: Uni-processors to multi-core [...]
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Ellen Ning Zhao’s musing between sense and sensibility
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