李朝旭、祝咏兰到哪里去了？

我目前很关心这二位的下落。

一、李朝旭

李朝旭系“三鹿集团奶粉事业部技术保障部部长、研发总监”，主管三鹿的产品质量，应该直接对三鹿奶粉的质量事故负责。三鹿奶粉内含如此大剂量的三聚氰胺，必然是人为添加所致。不管是谁想下毒，都得过李朝旭这关。就算是董事长田文华授意添加或默许放行，都得由李朝旭具体执行，他能不知道这毒是怎么放进去的？？就算是奶农、奶站想添非法牟利，身为“中国食品工业标准化委员会特殊膳食分委员会企业技术委员，从事乳品新技术、新产品的科研开发、乳品生产工厂设计、乳制品安全检测及乳制品技术标准的研究、技术质量管理工作”多年的李朝旭怎能不知道食品市场上有不法分子喜爱的“蛋白精”和如何“加精”的套路？？

李朝旭，你是何等了得的“国家级”专家和“新世纪”人才，是你亲自主持研制了成为“三鹿集团支柱产品”的系列毒奶粉，也因此获奖、著述甚丰，还到处显摆以所谓“四个不能、四个为主、四个不放过”为原则的三鹿质量管理体系，还有那“震撼”国人的“1100道工序”。

李朝旭，你敢说你此前不知道奶粉有毒？你现在跑到哪里去了？你不会还逍遥法外吧？！

二、祝咏兰

祝咏兰是“借光”三鹿事件而在几日内就红遍大江南北的“紫人”（红得发紫却没有“户口”的人），据传是“国务院机关老干部活动中心、国务院中央国家机关有机食品特供中心主任”兼“北京国佑万悦有机食品有限公司总经理”。祝咏兰女士实乃不可多得的人才，一篇通俗易懂、言之凿凿的《在中央国家机关特供产品授牌仪式上的讲话》不仅揭示了国内百姓食品的有毒供应链，阐述了有机食品的安全性和营养性，展现了营造健康食品产业的伟大理想，宣传了“质优价优”的特供产品，感染了身在庄严授权现场的诸位领导、专家、老干部和“特供”企业家们，也震撼了中国网民在毒奶粉曝光后极其脆弱和敏感的神经，更吓坏了国务院机关老干部活动中心的某负责人及其所代表的整个被特供集团。

祝咏兰，您的“真知灼见”给中国的食品行业指明了“安全”、“营养”和“功效”的康庄大道，您的“亲身实践”更是证明了只要遵循定点生产、定向供应、定牌认证、定性评价、定头监管和定期抽查等一系列措施，中国人一样可以生产出“返朴归真”、“优质放心”的健康食品。这也是包括本人在内的众多小百姓们强烈推荐您出任国家质检总局局长的“根本原因”。

祝咏兰女士，您现在在哪里？该是您显身的时候了吧？您不会让全国人民失望吧？

Ups in Google Chrome

Google Chrome has released for three weeks, and I have been using it irregularly in the meantime. I like the ideas and concepts behind this Google product. In this post, I would like to talk about some pretty cool features I found in Chrome.

I don’t hereby mention the stuff that other browsers have done or I ever expected. I only list the cool features that I didn’t see before but just loved in my first ride. Please be aware that so far I haven’t read any help of Google Chrome or any instruction document about it. I just operate it as naturally what I thought it should be.

What I like:

1. Newly designed user interface: simple, neat, and convenient


• Drag-and-drop tab allows the user to easily organise existing web pages. An existing tab even can be converted into a new or existing window, which is very handy for comparing something on a wide screen, or re-organise relevant tabs into an individual window.



• The traditional File/Edit/View… menus have been completely gone, replaced by a one-click drop-list just next to the Go button, and a simple right-click for the most relevant operations.


• The New Tab button is always next to the last tab, at where the mouse pointer staying in most situations after the user just opened a new tab.



• A new tab is, instead of the old-fashion empty page, a very informative starting dashboard for any new surfing task, which includes most visited pages with logo and thumbnail preview, full browsing history for review or search, and recent/other bookmarks.



• Downloading status, as well as the Downloads link, appears nicely just as you need. All downloading status prompts you in a very proper way (using a lovely animated icon and without interrupting your current operation). The Downloads link directs you to a page to view and even search what you have downloaded.




• Find in Page feature, a common functionality which every browser does, has been upgraded a little: it now shows total number of matches and location number of the currently highlighted one. It even has a preview on the vertical scroll area, so you always know where to see your keywords in the page. Just simply move the scroll bar to the colour marks at the scroll area, that's it. A simple but very useful feature, why didn’t others ever implement that?



• Chrome keeps using most well-known hot-keys defined in Firefox and IE, such as Ctrl+H for History, Ctrl+J for Downloads, and Ctrl+T for New Tab. It is quite handy, and actually necessary as Chrome’s simple interface has no place to put individual buttons for these functions.




2. Intelligent search assistant: interactive, fast, and efficient


• Chrome’s URL auto-completion works pretty well by presenting the most closed search items as you type, according to not only the keywords you ever used in your previous searches, but also the literally related items from instant queries to Google Suggest.



• Chrome can even predict the URLs based on where you are. This looks trivial but practically benefits every user. So far, this kind of implementation hasn’t been done on other competitors such as Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8 (Beta).



• Chrome also supports Quick Find search, an awesome feature introduced by Opera then Firefox, but in a more convenient way. A right-click on the address bar allows you to edit the search engines directly, without dealing with bookmarks as other browsers do. Moreover, by replacing the Quick Find prefix with the search engine’s name, Chrome shows the keywords plainly; it also lists the options using the prefix word as one of the keywords, just in case.




3. Built-in toolkit for IT professionals: amazing, powerful, and decent


• Task Manager, hence its name, is intended to manage the whole Chrome world on your computer (OS). Like Windows Task Manager, Chrome Task Manager shows the information of dynamic memory, CPU, and network activity in a window. All threads belonging to the same process are associated, grouped by lines, and shown in the same colour when selected. As Chrome is based on multiprocessing architecture, Task Manager is an essential tool for the user to monitor Chrome’s activity. Every time you hit Shift-Esc in any Chrome window, the Task Manager will pop up at once.



• Additionally, an option in the Task Manager window called Stats for Nerds may give you more technical information about memory by measuring memory usage in a multi-process browser, including all Chrome processes and the associated threads. Every time you browse "about:memory" link, you get the same page. The page may also tell you how other browsers use system memory.



• Element Inspector is another powerful tool which can’t be overlooked. The tool can visually display all elements of a web page in a well-organised nested structure with coloured tags and the associated style information of CSS. All object properties of a page can be explored hierarchically, if you just want. Object metrics can be even visually illustrated, including margin, border, and padding. It’s almost as much as comprehensive as Web Developer, the well-recognised professional add-on for Firefox. This tool is a must for web developers, as well as those security nerds who are always curious about everything behind a web page. It is recommended to use a large screen when doing this kind of inspection in turn to view both the web page and the inspection results at the same time, as the web page or the inspector window interacts with each other by updating the HTML code, styles, and properties etc in inspector window, or highlighting the corresponding element in the web page.

Sanlu's website hacked again

提示：因网络封锁，请中国大陆网友点击此　网页　查看屏幕截图，谢谢！
NOTE：Due to Internet filtering, Mainland China visitors please click this post to view the screenshots.

Sanlu Group, the manufacturer which produced most tainted dairy products in recent China milk scandal, suffered the second wave of attack to its website early morning today. As the result, Sanlu this morning shut down its ASP.NET web application with leaving a static plain-text homepage only showing two official letters from Sanlu management to the public.

In the first wave of attack, Sanlu's website was totally shut down for several days after the homepage's title "Sanlu Group" (三鹿集团) was changed to "The Melamine Group" (三聚氰胺集团) by a Chinese hacker. It was reported that the homepage was even became a chat room of the hackers. According to Netcraft, its last shutdown was on 12 Sept 2008.

The hacked website was running IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003, with a vulnerable ASP.NET search module talking to a Microsoft SQL Server at the backend. It's why the hackers could inject a comment at Sanlu News (三鹿新闻) showing in the homepage, and add one more product name "Melamine" (三聚氰胺) at their Products page.


The hacked Sanlu Group homepage retrieved at 05:14 on 19 Sept 2008 (Beijing Time)
The highlighted message reads in English:
"Hoho, came here just for fun, missed good time, will go after walking around here."


The hacked Sanlu News page retrieved at 05:12 on 19 Sept 2008 (Beijing Time)
The highlighted message reads in English:
"Hoho, came here just for fun, missed good time, will go after walking around here. The website is injection vulnerable, and should be fixed."


The hacked Products Show page retrieved at 05:17 on 19 Sept 2008 (Beijing Time)
The highlighted message reads in English:
"Products Show: Melamine"


The hacked Products Show page retrieved at 05:17 on 19 Sept 2008 (Beijing Time)
The highlighted message reads in English:
"Products Show: Melamine Bowl, Product Class: Congee, Product Series: Bowl"


The Official Letters homepage retrieved at 14:15 on 19 Sept 2008 (Beijing Time)
The highlighted message reads in English:
"Website closed due to large amount of visit. Please accept our apology."


The reloaded Sanlu News page retrieved at 18:03 on 19 Sept 2008 (Beijing Time)
The highlighted message reads in English:
"Page not displayed. You have attempted to run a CGI, ISAPI, or other executable program from a directory that does not allow executables to run."
It's HTTP Error 403.1 - Forbidden, which means Sanlu's web master has denied anonymous access to any object under the virtual directories of their website. Only two files are now accessible: index.html and bg.jpg (the background file).

AppleCare package delivered

My AppleCare Protection Plan delivered this morning. I ordered it online yesterday afternoon, so the delivery was very quick, less than 24 hours, just as Apple claimed.

This protection plan is for iMac/eMac. The same plan costs only US$169 on American market (incl. Canada), but Apple charges you AU$268 (US$215) if you buy it from Australia. Apple makes extra money on the same product from Australian customers

It seems that you could buy the same product online at Apple.com for US market, but not in reality, as Apple doesn't offer international delivery across different markets. If you buy something at Apple Store (U.S.), you cannot input an overseas address for billing and delivery, only U.S. or Canadian address is allowed. The same thing for Apple Store (Australia).

Apple actually does international delivery for products ordered online, as most manufacturers of Apple products are located in Asia, such as China. For example, my iMac was made in Shanghai, China, and delivered to Sydney, Australia; and my iPod Nano was made in Shenzhen, China, and delivered to Vancouver, Canada.

Yang Peiyi sings Ode to the Motherland

Yang Peiyi (杨沛宜), the little singer behind the opening ceremony of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, singed her version of Ode to the Motherland again at an event at her primary school on 1 Sept 2008. The Youku video below reveals the lovely girl to the public.

Chrome started hitting my blog

It is really amazing that Google Chrome could be so hot just after hours of its birth.

StatCounter reported that according to its statistics, "Google’s new browser, Chrome, has taken 1% of the global browser market within a day of launch." Another post at Slashdot claimed that "according to Clicky Chrome has hit 3% browser share" on day 2.

Chrome also started hitting my blog. As per my blog statistics from Google Analytics, 3.43% visits were from Chrome users after the new browser released, even higher than the average share reported above.

Chrome's Wikipedia article is also hot. According to its history statistics, the article has been revised for 855 times in the past 6 days, 3/4 revisions were major changes, 337 fans contributed. The first edition was created on 1 September 2008, just one day before its release date, with only an one-sentence description: "Chrome is the opensource browser developed by Google." Now the article is very informative and well wikipedized.

I have tasted Chrome, but not on production machines, only on a Hyper-V virtual machine running Windows Server 2003.

About recuperating senior chiefs

Source: 中国人民解放军庐山疗养院
The above is a poster located at the PLA Lushan Sanatorium, Mount Lu, Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, China. This sanatorium is a well-known military hospital dedicated for senior top officials of PLA and the government. Former Chinese dictator Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek, as well as their top officials, all had individual villa in that prominent national park.

The poster reads as follows in English:

PLA Lushan Sanatorium

Everything is for recuperating the senior chiefs
For everyone of the recuperating senior chiefs
For recuperating everything of the senior chiefs

The relevant comments from emails:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: B
Date: 2 Sep 2008 00:37
Subject: Re: Pictures from North Korea
To: W

LOL!!

On 01/09/2008, W wrote:
> 屁精的升级版是领导
> 领导的升级版是首长
> 首长的升级版是领袖
>
> 兄弟们要抓紧修炼阿
>
> 2008/9/1 B wrote:
> > 首长总是手长的，不仅多拿，还要多摸……:-)))))
> >
> > On 01/09/2008, Y wrote:
> > > 首长那么重要吗？有意思。
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: B
> > > Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 8:06 AM
> > > Subject: Fwd: Pictures from North Korea
> > >
> > > > LOL
> > > >
> > > > "首长一切"？？意思有点怪怪的啊，呵呵……
> > > >
> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > > From: L
> > > > Date: 1 Sep 2008 02:58
> > > > Subject: Re: Pictures from North Korea
> > > > To: B
> > > >
> > > > 互相学习，共同进步
> > > >
> > > > 2008/8/31 B wrote:
> > > > > http://q.sohu.com/forum/20/topic/3486630

You and Me

You and Me (我和你)
Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Official Theme Song
by Sarah Brightman and LIU Huan (刘欢)
(Live Recording (MP3))

我和你
心连心
同住地球村
为梦想
千里行
相会在北京

来吧
朋友
伸出你的手
我和你
心连心
永远一家人

You and me
From one world
We are family
Travel dream
A thousand miles
Meeting in Beijing

Come together
Put your hand in mine
You and me
From one world
We are family

来吧
朋友
伸出你的手

You and me
From one world
We are family