Saskatchewan and Skytrain

My geography is very bad, and I never heard the province of Saskatchewan. When someone said he came from Saskatchewan.


I began to think, oh, he came here by skytrain.

Funny translation in Beijing Olympic Park

I took those pictures in the bathroom of Beijing Olympic Park....

My version of Sticky Situation

Only 124MB free space left after installing windows 7 + msn messenger + google talk + google pinyin IME on my netbook...

The saddest little function

Got this one from a co-worker's email, I thought it is a joke at the first sight, but it turned out to be real...

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SPUtility.HideTaiwan Method (Microsoft.SharePoint.Utilities)

Checks whether the Taiwan calendar is hidden based on the specified Web site and locale ID.

true if the Taiwan calendar is hidden; otherwise, false. By default, this method returns true and the Taiwan calendar cannot be displayed for the following SPLangId values: PeoplesRepublicofChina, HongKongSAR, and MacaoSAR.

See MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms441219.aspx

I love mean bunny!

12 Grain

In the first week I landed Canada, I kept on watching the commercial of Tim Hortons, it was about 12 Grain. It seemed so tempting that I finally encouraged myself to walk into a Tim Hortons store:

Me: "I want to get a 12 Grain"
Cashier:“Do you want a bagel?”
Me: "No, I want 12 Grain"
Cashier: "12 Grain Bagel?"
Me: "I just want 12 Grain"
...

Finally I got my 12 Grain and learned the new word BAGEL...

Brian Make(s) your browsing faster...

I'm shocked this morning when reading my email previews, how can my friend Brian make browsing faster????

So I open that email immediately: Oh, the "Make your browsing faster" part is a commercial added by his emailbox provider.

Google Email Preview + Yahoo Email Commercial = LOL

LOL New feature in VS2010: position of the X button!

I remember I once worked on an .aspx file, and later I wanted to close it. I clicked several times on the x in 'aspx' but the tab is not closed... It's not my fault, the X button of the tabs is in the right top corner of VS2005, totally different from the IE tab style...


VS2008: the X button is still in the right top corner.
But it got a new feature for the tabs, the tab is highlighted when the mouse moves to it....


Finally, the VS2010 moved the X button to the place it should be, LOL. I noticed this feature in yesterday's event, it is really exciting! Here is the screenshot I found from internet, I didn't install the VS2010 on my machine.

Why computer workers always have a lot of spare time...

I get time to find this comic and post it to my blog in the working hours because my code is building...

Google definitely changed the way of thinking

I started to use google since 2003, and became more and more addictive to it. Yes, I love Google, I guess I could not finish ~90% of my research type of tasks without it. But the funny joke I made today let me think maybe I used it too much.

The story is: I need to found what happened in DB when I do certain operations in an application I have never seen before. So I start to trace sql using the profiler. I have used a few basic functionalities of profiler for couple of years, but never touched any 'advanced' functionalities. But this time, I saw too much other sql commands which I don't care, so I decide to use some 'advanced' function of column filter to exclude them. I decide to exclude commands like 'exec sp_reset_connection ' and 'exec sp_VerifyUserSession ', then I found the column filter easily and input the first '%sp_reset_connection%' under the Not Like item. But the funny thing is I don't know how to input the 2nd Not Like item. See the following dialog, it is a pretty simple UI and I cannot find any buttons/hints from it.



So I try to use '%sp_reset_connection% OR %sp_VerifyUserSession%', '%sp_reset_connection% AND %sp_VerifyUserSession%', but they are not working. Then I begin to think maybe I should use some special symbols like && or to replace the AND/OR. So I think I'd better google it. I searched 6 groups of keywords, and read about 10 different articles but still didn't find a solution.




I began to feel frustrated, and decided to go to ask our DBA. Well, I know it sounds funny, but asking co-workers for general technical issues is the last thing I prefer to do. I saw the DBA was on a phone, so I tried it by myself for the last shoot. I pressed the Enter key at the end of the ''%sp_reset_connection%', and to my surprise, the magic happened and the 2nd item appeared. I cannot help laughing at myself for 1 whole minute.



Besides blaming my addiction to Google, I have to blame MS for this dialog. It is really a weird UI design of activating the next item only by pressing the Enter key.

VOcation plan change

I applied to take vacation day off on Monday. Later I changed my mind and decided to take Tuesday off instead. I wrote an email with the subject of "Vocation plan change" to my manager.

He replied very fast: It is totally ok to switch Monday with Tuesday. But if you are really planning to change your vOcation, we need a serious talk.

You got a package

The economic crisis has changed some words' basic meaning, e.g. "package".

A co-worker C saw a parcel was on the frontdesk for another co-worker D. Then C walked out the office building and accidently saw D was walking in.

C said to D: Hi, you got a package.
D: ??!!!
C: I'm so sorry, I didnot mean that...you know. The package is from amazon...

Is English your second language?

We were having a code review meeting last Friday. There were totally 5 people in the meeting room, include 2 Chinese, 1 Indian, 1 Austrian and 1 American. When we were reviewing the code written by the American, the Austrian found a spelling mistake in the name of a variable.

The American said "Well, English is my second language........ I don't have first language"

Have you been to Visual Studio?

I was talking with a friend about my trip to L.A.
"Where did you visit?" She asked.
"Disneyland and Visual Studio" I answered without hesitation.

Lost in translation

There is some MSN robots, I got one for translation.
I gave it an email in English, then it tanslated into Chinese. Then I let it translate the Chinese paragraph back to English, then back to Chinese. After a few round, the meaning is totally changed.
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1) I worked on TD 40496 and I just wanted to thank you for the notes you had left in TD. That was very helpful and if that wasn’t in the TD, it would have taken me a lot of time to figure out the problem.
2)我的TD 40496和我只是想感谢你注意到你已离开在TD 。这是非常有益的，如果不是在TD ，它会对我采取了大量的时间找出问题。
3)My TD 40496 and I just want to thank you notes you have left at TD. This is very beneficial, if not in the TD, it would have taken me a great deal of time to identify the problems.
4)我国的TD 40496和我只是想感谢你注意到你已经离开运输署。这是非常有益的，如果不是在TD ，它会对我采取了大量的时间来确定的问题。
5)China's TD 40496 and I just want to thank you notes you have left the department. This is very beneficial, if not in the TD, it would have taken me a great deal of time to determine the problem.
6)中国的TD 40496和我只是想感谢你注意到你已经离开了新闻部。这是非常有益的，如果不是在TD ，它会对我采取了大量的时间来确定这个问题。
7)Chinese TD 40496 and I just want to thank you notes you have left the Department of Public Information. This is very beneficial, if not in the TD, it would have taken me a great deal of time to determine the problem.

【爆笑】 才气纵横的英文翻译，你绝对想不到

“TO THROW TO THROW”= 抛扔 ── 中华文化博大精深，抛和扔是不一样滴......


进站口 = JIN MOUTH？开开开开开开什么玩笑.......






中国海事，拼音大王！


“芬达”是　“THE FRAGRANCE REACHES”…… 吓人啊！ “小可乐”是“SMALL MAY BE HAPPY”，那“可口可乐”是不是“MAY BE MOUTH MAY BE HAPPY？” 搞不懂“小雪碧”是这样译的？看来你对中国文化了解的还不够深，原来“20TH SOLAR TERM”是二十四节气中的“小雪”，加上“BLUE”，就是小雪碧了……


这个 369 翻译的......你成心让外宾看不明白的吧！

类的造物主 和 化妆语言

某资深Java程序员在经济危机中被裁, 在家修身养性，潜心研究炒股，不再关心编程。
某日，他突然想谈论一个技术话题，说这个Class的Creator....老大，那个叫Constructor好不好
又有一次，我跟他说起最近新出了个XAML，是一种新的Markup语言，由于我一贯发音不准，他马上试图纠正我说“那是Makeup Language吧？”

沃尔玛开票员眼中的微软

记得当年在微软做Vender/Contractor的时候，对微软的一切那可是崇拜备至，并且理所应当的认为别人也应该像我一样这么崇拜微软。

我当时在西格玛大厦上班，马路对过就是新开的沃尔玛。有一次我们这个小组组织大家郊游，需要去沃尔玛买一些食品。买好食品之后我去开报销用的发票时，开票员让我震撼了一把。我跟她说发票的单位写"微软"，于是她问我"是不是微小的微，软弱的软"，我超郁闷的点头说是。。。

The most funny joke ever: Records Retention Policy - Clock is ticking

Time is running out to delete emails older than 180 days/6 months – due March 2nd

**** has adopted a new Records Retention Policy. This policy involves the specifics surrounding the retention of various electronic and paper records including but not limited to emails, instant messaging and voicemails.

March 2nd 2009 is the effective date of the policy and is the date that all emails older than 180 days must be permanently destroyed. This means all applicable emails should be moved to your email’s “Deleted Items” folder and the folder emptied before March 2nd 2009.

You may
Save important emails in SharePoint sites and CRM products
Save attachments on your network drive space or local hard drive (less desirable)

You may not
Save emails to .pst files online or offline
Save emails in their native format online or offline
Print and save emails

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The most funny part is: It is not a joke, it is a serious email from the management. Let's wait and see what will happen on March 2nd.

Deactivate Windows

A co-worker once asked me "Do you know how to deactivate Windows?" I was confused by his question, so I asked why he wanted to deactivate Windows.

He said "I have installed the windows and activated it in my old laptop before. I bought a new laptop yesterday. If I could deactivate the windows in my old laptop, I should be able to install and activate it in my new laptop..."