Faves: ChrisWei

Technology Review: Hints of How Google's OS Will Work

ChrisWei — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:01:04 GMT

Quoted: Google isn't saying how its new operating system will function, but the clues lie in its browser.

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Korean Students Go Online to Cram for Critical Exams - NYTimes.com

ChrisWei — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:36:19 GMT

OMG:

Quoted: Last year, South Korea spent 55 trillion won, 6 percent of its gross domestic product, on public education.

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Eventually Consistent - Revisited - All Things Distributed

ChrisWei — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:38:33 GMT

Eventual Consistency by Werner Vogels

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Dear A.I.G., I Quit! - NYTimes.com

ChrisWei — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:23:54 GMT

Great letter...

Quoted: Jake DeSantis, an executive vice president of the American International Group’s financial products unit, sent this letter on Tuesday to Edward M. Liddy, the chief executive of A.I.G.

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Tim Sneath : The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets

ChrisWei — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:49:47 GMT

Quoted: It’s great to see Windows 7 Beta finally released to the world! We're very proud of what has been accomplished over the last months; in many ways, it sets a new quality bar for a beta operating system release. Building on top of the Windows Vista foundation,

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Anti-Kidnap Consultant Kidnapped in Mexico - NYTimes.com

ChrisWei — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:28:27 GMT

what can you say...

Quoted: An American security consultant who has helped negotiate the release of scores of kidnap victims in Latin America was himself kidnapped last week in northern Mexico.

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Damn Interesting » The Pit of Life and Death

ChrisWei — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:01:11 GMT

The Pit of Life and Death

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Cloud Computing. Available at Amazon.com Today

ChrisWei — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:11:23 GMT

Quoted: Outsource your infrastructure to Amazon. Click the magic button on Amazon's front door (Amazon Web Services) and enter the land of cloud computing.

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Prius leads 38 percent rise in hybrid sales - Going Green- msnbc.com

ChrisWei — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:19:26 GMT

Quoted: Kim Fenske drives a bus in Colorado by day, but when he’s not working, he zooms around the mountains in a 2007 Toyota Prius.

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Making Hospitals Pay for Their Mistakes - Well - Tara Parker-Pope - Health - New York Times Blog

ChrisWei — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:19:13 GMT

Quoted: That means the hospital would earn 63 percent more by providing inferior care.

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