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First McDonald's TV ad

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:38:31 GMT

Green card approved in 92 days!! (After PERM)

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:08:02 GMT

Updated at 6:45pm

Application Type: I485 , APPLICATION TO REGISTER PERMANENT RESIDENCE OR TO ADJUST STATUS

Current Status: Card production ordered.

On October 2, 2009, we ordered production of your new card. Please allow 30 days for your card to be mailed to you. If we need something from you we will contact you. If you move before you receive the card, call customer service...

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Received this email today:

Application Type: I485 , APPLICATION TO REGISTER PERMANENT RESIDENCE OR TO ADJUST STATUS

Current Status: Notice mailed welcoming the new permanent resident.

On October 2, 2009, we mailed you a notice that we had registered this customer's new permanent resident status. Please follow any instructions on the notice. Your new permanent resident card should be mailed within 60 days following this registration or after you complete any ADIT processing referred to in the welcome notice, whichever is later. If you move before receiving your card, please call our customer service center at 1-800-375-5283

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Sincerely,

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

Colbert made fun of MJ on 7/13/09 -- Death of the coverage of the death of MJ...

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:30:45 GMT

Challenges in Distributed Systems

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:20:20 GMT

My team develops distributed systems. I own several components. One is Quorum. Quorum is the config of the system deciding if the system should be up or down. More explanation below:

In a distributed system, there are several nodes. We often need to tell when a system is up or down. In a node majority quorum, we need more than half of the node to be up to declare the system to be up. (There are more quorum types such as node + disk majority).

I did a kernel debug last week and saw this issue:

Consider a system S with 4 nodes {N1,N2,N3,N4} using node majority quorum. N1 crashed, then N2 crashed. After less than 1 microsecond of the crash of N2, N3 also crash; however, at this time, the system only know N1 is down. As a result, S is declared as up; however, this is a bug. Timing is really a issue in DS.

This type of bug is hard to debug and must need log files to see what happened...

So one of my major daily job is to look at logs to see what happened.

Michael Jackson Memorial - "We Are The World/Heal The World"

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:15:30 GMT

深圳珍珠奶查無茶亦無奶

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:24:06 GMT

內地報章報道，深圳出售的珍珠奶茶既沒有茶，亦無奶，多喝無益。

深圳《晶報》報道，市場上大部分珍珠奶茶其實「無奶也無茶」，而是加有大量對人體有害的奶精，還有部分甚至在奶茶中添加了大量色素、香精、糖精、木薯粉、自來水，專家指出，經常飲用這種飲品易患心血管疾病，並建議市民減少飲用。

http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/090701/4/cz2s.html

Like playing water in the pool

Thu, 28 May 2009 03:59:27 GMT

Every full time Microsoft Employee has access to a very nice gym called ProClub (unless in rare cases where the employee chooses to take cash -- $9/mo. -- instead of the gym membership).

I didn't go to the gym often (approx 8 miles away from my apt).

During the Memorial Day Weekend, I had nothing to do. So I visited the gym. Now I'm going there everyday. At least I swim 2 times since last Sunday. It seems I'm getting healthier and I no longer get stomach pain. Now I decided to at least swim twice a week. Let's see if my belly will go away or not.

PowerShell is cool!

Tue, 19 May 2009 05:45:55 GMT

Powershell basically let you do scripting in which you are dealing with objects, not text (e.g UNIX shell scripting or PERL). You can call C# methods on those objects.

Moving to New Team

Sun, 17 May 2009 08:03:25 GMT

Friday was my last day with the Windows Storage Server team.

I'm moving to Clustering Server on Monday.

FYI: if you need a job, please let me know. My previous team has several positions open, and we are expanding despite of the layoff.

Got PERM approval for EB2

Sun, 17 May 2009 08:00:49 GMT

Got an update about my green card application.

PERM was submitted on Nov 21, 2008. Approved on May 6, 2009. Can file I-140 and I-485 concurrently.