I'm ready to give these stuffs away, but I don't know how to. I knew that Microsoft gave me the MVP award for being an good influencer, so that I can utilize the resources this award gives me and increase my influence. Because of that, I want to get to know some other Microsoft influencers who haven't been an MVP yet, and give them these resources to increase their influence.

If you have any influencer to recommend, or if you are a influencer and want to get these stuffs, leave me a comment please.

On a plane crossing the Pacific, you will need to choose between chicken and beef for once or twice. That's what you will have as the "main dish" for your dinner, and all other "dishes" will be the same for every passenger.

If you do want such a life as sleeping after eating and eating after sleeping, long distant flight might be your #1 choice. A flight crossing the Pacific might cost you 8 to 10 hours. In return, food will be served every other hour. That might be breakfast, dinner, of some kind of snack. It depends on the local time of departure city and arrival city.

During my two trips between Tokyo and Seattle, I got 6 meals in total: 3 dinners, 2 snacks, and 1 breakfast. Dinners in such trips are much better than those in domestic flights. I had salmon sashimi on my way to Seattle, and fresh shrimps on my way back. Seafood is served with a piece of lemon, for people who like lemon juice on sashimi, and salad is served with salad cream.

If you decided to "enjoy" such a lengthy flight, remember to choose your seat wisely. Window seats might provide you with wonderful view. However, aisle seats might give you more convenience. Thus, window seats are good for short flights during the daytime, and aisle seats should be taken early for long trips.

I unlocked my iPhone two months ago. You can read my post here. That wasted one of my New Year's night. Now I've pwned it, so it would be easier to modify my iPhone in the future.

But wait... What does the word "pwn" mean? As wikipedia says:

The word "pwn" may have arisen and spread as a common typo of the word "own," since the 'p' and 'o' keys are adjacent on a standard English keyboard. Alternatively, the word pwnage may have been created as a portmanteau of the words "pure" and "ownage," "perfect" and "ownage," or "powerful" and "ownage." Similarly, "pwn" may have derived from "powerfully owned," such as "you just got powerfully owned!" (shortened to "you just got pwned!").

After I pwned my iPhone, it's totally under my control. I can change my bootloaded, baseband, and firmware without any digital signature check. For example, before I pwn it, I have to use the official firmware package to restore my firmware and then crack it by software running on it. Now I can build my own firmware package on my Mac, and then use iTunes to restore it to my iPhone. As the digital signature check has been disabled, my iPhone will accept this modified firmware package, and restore the firmware with all the cracked features built-in.

After doing this, I started to think about one question: When shall we get our Internet pwned. You know, we don't own it now, and it's not under our total control. It's just a technical problem, if it can be overcomed by pure technical approach.

On the New Year's Eve, I went to KFC with my roommate, who is also a born Cantonese. We were walking on the sidewalk, when a bunch of firecrackers started to explode before us. We just jumped off the sidewalk and walked into the traffic. Although that was an exit of some sort of express way, which doesn't has a tollbooth slowing down the traffic, we did consider a fast lane is even safer than a sidewalk with explosives. Firecrackers were designed to scare devils away, and now I'm convinced that it's effective, if devils' world also has such a restriction to explosives like Guangzhou.

First, when I see those conductors on the bus, who don't sell tickets but just ask you to drop a coin, and those elevator drivers, or maybe captains or pilots or whatever you want to call them, I just think that for the first time I have seen a live and workable city in... Okay. This is not going to work. Let me rephrase it a little bit. The sphere of this city has greatly improved my confidence as being a Party member.

Second, service industry here seems to be undeveloped, and the service itself is not as good as in Southern China. Toilets in restaurants are not as clean as expected. There are no waiters handing towels to you after you washed your hand. Nobody cares about how long have you been waiting for your food. The worst situation - You walk in a store or a restaurant right after the service time is over, but there are still people working in it, they would just tell you, "We are closed". Maybe you would try to convince them that this wouldn't bring them any inconvenience, like "I just need...", and you would finally get convinced that you're really out of luck today.

Third, the whole city is really a huge parking lot during the rush hour. If you really got to travel during that time, you have two choices. One is that join the jam and get jammed; The other is that wait till the jam is over. No matter which you have chosen, your arrival time difference will be slight.

Although this city really has something that you can't find elsewhere, if you just want to have a modern life in China, there are still several choices out there, like Hong Kong or Canton.

You know, what we can do at this age, and what we can afford, here in China mainland, are just the same as teenagers in the States. We have almost the same freedom from our parents, and in the society (except something like GFW and I'll talk about that later), as a kid in the States, like freedom of going out, having sex and not doing things right. Why? Because we've just got economic independence as an American kid. Those kids earn money on their own, and can afford an XBOX 360 in a year, right? If you have your own XBOX 360 fund, how much would you put in it each month? I'll take $50 from my salary and put it into that fund, so that I can get an XBOX 360 in 6 months. Not much better than an American kid, right?

The ridiculous part is that, we are just like a kid who doesn't have full liabilities. Government is acting as parents , and take those liabilities from us. So it has to do what parental liabilities demand for, for example, turning on "parental control" of the Internet. What helps then? What makes us liable? Assets! If you have assets, you're liable for sure. You can mortgage your property for freedom. In fact, currency is the only valid vote on the world. More products means more votes. That's why we got to increase our productivity. As long as we individually are not richer than a American grown up, nobody can grant you permission to vote or any other kind of rights. (In other words, only universal richness may bring universal suffrage.)

So, the path is clear. Rushing to the States doesn't help you improve your situation. Only properties in your brain and your pocket can use to trade for a better future. But, hold on, and think about whether you really want a better future indeed. Think about it carefully.

When I got there, I saw many people in suits. Seems like filming men in black, without sun glasses. I don't know why people should wear suits even if they're applying for tech positions. When corps keep telling people that they don't have to wear suits when they're in the office, people keep wearing suits when they are still interviewees. What is this all about? I just don't get it.

HR said nothing after I explained why I was late. So I just filled out some forms, and started waiting for my turn. I didn't remember how long the interview lasted, but we just didn't talk too much about technical stuff. I didn't know whether I have applied the right position for me, because at the last minute the interviewer told me that I should be recommended to the web development department. Then what department he belongs to? I took an interview even if I didn't know what I have applied. Amazing!

When I got back home, I quite enjoyed my feed reading time, before I got a phone call with 010 prefix. When I just picked up the phone, the battery died out, so I only knew that it was land line number from Beijing. I knew it's important, because only interviewer would use land line number to call me. So I called back after I replaced the battery, and a voice from machine told me that it's Baidu and asked me for an extension number. I hanged it and called my friend in Baidu, asked him whether he could reach the interviewer for me. A moment later, I got the call from the interviewer again, and started the second round of interview from Baidu.

That was story about how I took two unprepared interview in one day, and here's the question: what kind of strategy you would apply, if you got offer from one corp/univ, while you're still waiting for another. (I'm not only in hiring processes of two corps. Help!)

Anyway, I started writing blog posts after woke up. I logged my Tencent paper test yesterday, and wrote an argument on Linq to Sql, then marked down my thoughts on solid feed subscribers, and finally expressed my hatred of filling out online job application forms a little. I have never experienced writing so many blog posts in one day. Maybe that would be the my life style if I become a professional technology author. In fact, I really think that the position of a pro tech author somehow attracts me. The advantage of being a free lancer is freedom, with plenty of flexibility in scheduling. The disadvantage is that you have to arrange everything for yourself, because there's no boss issuing tasks to you.

I have no idea whether I'll be a pro tech author. I don't even know what kind of job or study I will have next year. There are too many possibilities.

So far, most of our audience are from mainland China, and speaking Chinese as their everyday language, according to Google Analytics' data. This is one audience group we might pick, then we have to figure out what's point of writing English blog posts for Chinese readers. Here are some possible answers:

• Typing English is a whole lot faster than typing Chinese, and that can save our time.
• Just for practicing English.
• For getting to know Chinese who might have the same higher value(at least have the same higher English skill).

What is the other possible audience group? They might be people who know little about but are interested in Chinese language and culture. And what are the benefits for targeting these audience? They might be:

• Getting to know foreigners, which means people who have different culture background with us.
• Let people who are interested in Chinese culture get to know Chinese easier and better.

So, tell me why do you think that this blog is worth writing or worth reading? Which audience group do you think that we should target first?

Hello everybody, am I the youngest amongst the team? Anyway, I'm Cat Chen, or you can call me just Cat. Cat is for agility and flexibility, not for femininity. I'm from Guangzhou (Canton), and currently a student of Sun Yet-San University, with my major in Computer Science.

Here are some details on my technical background. I'm a Microsoft MVP. I mainly focus on web development technology and web2.0 trends. I'm an experienced ASP/ASP.NET developer, with knowledge about Web Standards. Currently, I'm studying front-end development with XHTML + CSS + JavaScript. And I'm also a translator of the book Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action.