Ellen Ning Zhao's musing between sense and sensibility
Posted in finance, Germany, investment on Jul 29th, 2008
I watch ARD’s Börse report (equity market report) at around 19:55 almost everyday. Today a gentleman in the program said, in countries like Sweden and the Netherlands, 30+% citizens hold stocks. In Germany, only around 5% citizens are shareholders. The gentleman said this is not a good sign, the Abgeltungssteuer (capital gain tax) for long-term [...]
In the National Geographic German version issue July 2008, there is a story about China. I bought this issue and read the complete story. Very well written. The authors had lived in China for many years, what they described is quite fact-oriented. The critiques are quite to the point. The story was written with sympathy [...]
Posted in finance, Germany, 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 entertainment, Germany, 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 China, economics, finance, Germany, investment, politics on May 22nd, 2008
The Wise: Helmut Schmidt, ex. Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. The talk below was on 2008.05.20. When I get time I’ll try to translate it into English. The complete interview can be found here. If only Angela Merkel were as half as wise as Helmut Schmidt is, Germany would have much less [...]
Just watched ARD’s report about why German people are so reluctant to donate to victims of the recent natural disasters in China or Myanmar. First of all, let me make clear that I know donation should be voluntary. People in today’s program talked about donation scandals, they worried that the donation would not get to [...]
Recently the Tibet and Olympic Game has been headlines in all kinds of German medias. Last Friday my boss asked me “Whether the Olympic Game should be boycotted or not”. My answer was, of course not. Reasons: The career life of sportsmen, no matter what nationality they have, is normally very short. The sportsmen have [...]
Posted in culture, gallery, Germany, life, the Netherlands, travel on Feb 25th, 2008
This weekend I added 250+ pictures to my online gallery. The newly added albums are: Holiday in Tübingen 2007 summer: Dirk’s hometown Tübingen is a very beautiful small city in South Germany. The Necker river flows through the city and there are many interesting small lanes among the old houses built on hills in the [...]
Posted in computer science, event, Germany, software engineering on Oct 5th, 2007
Last week Dirk attended the 15th ACM Multimedia Conference in Augsburg. I went with him and was in some sessions too. The complete program can be found here. I’m going to blog what I’ve seen and experienced in the open programs. This blog entry might be updated in the future. Some pictures I took during [...]
Yesterday evening there was a big party in my college, the motto was “Rock the Amadeus”. My colleague Mr. Torsten Kockler couldn’t go there for some reason so I got his ticket. The weather was pretty warm yesterday, I knew even if I stayed at home, I couldn’t sleep at all because of the crazy [...]
Today I saw the advertisement of Nivea cream in its blue can on TV. Some good old memories came to me and I felt warm. My father had his first visit to Germany when I was 14. His souvenir for me was a Nivea blue can. At that time, there wasn’t any Nivea product in [...]
Just watched today’s Galileo. Liewen Xiao, a girl from Shanghai, had an accident at 14. Hot steel water fell on her face and she looked like from hell since then. People from both China and Germany helped her out in various ways. Now she’s 18 and can live like a normal people again. Not only [...]
Tonight I went to the local music hall for the New Year’s concert 2006. Here is the programm: Johann Strauss: “Künstlerleben” op. 316 Franz Léhar: aus “Giuditta”- “Freunde, das Leben ist lebenswert” (Tenor) Johann Strauss: “Unter Donner und Blitz” op. 324 Johann Strauss: aus “Die Fledermaus” – Ouvertüre Johann Strauss: aus “Die Fledermaus” – Csárdás [...]
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What makes something a service is the way it’s constructed and the way it interacts and is used within a system. - SOA Patterns, p218
....just for the heck of it. SOA has a lot of advantages, but it’s not the solution for every problem. - from the book "SOA Patterns"
If it’s a good fit for your project, don’t feel the need to call it SOA or to overload it with SOA-related technologies....- to be continued
There are many successful deployments of three-tiered solutions.....- to be continued.
It’s important to note that the three-tiered architecture mentioned earlier is a viable architecture. - to be continued.
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