(From The Archive, e-mail in 2005 Feb. Re-formatted for re-post.)

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This is perhaps the longest software project that you could possibly have heard of - 15 years of development since inception. Microkernel was hype in those days, but now on every Windows OS already (Microkernel since NT 3.51).  Anyway, glad that they have finally completed the first console application on HURD, just 10 years off schedule... BTW, Linux (except the L4Linux as mentioned in the Slashdot news) is still the older monolithic kernel design.  No matter how much you hate Microsoft, they have their technical edges that shouldn't be misunderstood to be just marketing tactics. Don't degrade yourself to think like a marketing executive - Microsoft succeeds because they know how to treasure their technical asset, and not just marketing strategies.

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With such colleagues, I want to be in the hotel business as well...

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Oops, what an option for earlier retirement... Just read an article on HK Economic Journal that happiness is not necessary proportional to income. It's comparative deprivation that counts. So, if you are with the jobless, and somehow you still have some job to do, you are happy. Why it took

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If this can be called slander, then all news agencies should cease to exist. What kind of teacher is this? More than eager to see the final verdict.

(From The Archive, originally posted 2005 May, somewhere else on Earth.)

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I was on a leisure trip to Taiwan last week. It was fun, and most importantly, I seemed to feel life again. Well, it wasn't due to Taiwan, but perhaps after my 2 years ordeal of midlife crisis, my hormone levels were finally back to normal (or finally my brain had accepted my degraded body). Hope that I can write regularly from this point onwards. It took me a while to figure out that I have either to write programs, or anything except corporate memos, in order to keep my brain functioning.