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On a nice Saturaday morning, the groomer runs through the slope and left the trail for skiers and snowboarders to enjoy the snow.

I have been chasing after this so called perfect ride. I don't know what that really mean at the beginning. But after this season, I have a better idea.

I am really a ride (kind of) guy, I don't like to do tricks and jumps too much and certainly do not have enough guts for it. On the other hand, I don't like speed too much, until I can ride that speed with ease. I need to be in full control, I'm a control freak.

What I enjoy is coming down the hill smoothly, that "feel good" ride; No sliding, no breakneck speed, no counter rotation, edge working to the maximum; turn swiftly and effectively; Hands touching snow over the turn; Just flow around the hill. And it got to looks good and in style. I got to be confident. I can be either lay back or aggressive.

I also like consistency; no matter it is green, blue or black run, no matter it is sliding turn or craving turn; no matter I do big wide turn or going short radius/rail to rail; no matter I'm on powder, packed, or ice.

I still far from that perfect ride.

It's a total silent. Sun beaming down on me. No one on the hill. No wind. I'm flowing in the air.

I haven't master this yet, but it tastes alright.....

Ingredents:
- Huge chunk of beef
- Potato
- Onion
- Carrot

Procedure:
- Rub salt on the beef surface, wait for a while. Cut up the beef if it's too bad, which allow it to cook more easily
- Cut up potato, onion, carrot
- Oil the pot's inner
- Put beef in the pot, along with potato/onion/carrot and a little bit water
- Pre-heat oven to 350, put in the pot with lid closed
- Broil for 1.5 hours, or until ready.

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For good Friday, a bunch of us went to Ste. Marie for a day trip. It is my first time this season there, also the last one since the season is ending....

The snow was really hard packed with some ice patches, and the line up was long. The good thing about this hill is the longer and more challenging trails (a lot of black runs). But with the poor condition, I was not enjoying the best of it.

Once again, I found how much improvement I made from 4 days a week up Camp Fortune. My speed definitly increased compared to last year, even I still slip a lot. However, I still need to improve on icy condition. My carving still not effective enough on black run when it is hard parked.

Yes, I have a gmiil account. Did you? Send me a note if you want one, I have a lot of invites.

Yet another dish I made. It's nothing too tasty, in fact.

Ingredients:
- pork, cut in pieces
- miso, I use one from Japan. But I guess any type would work.

Procedures:
- mix miso with pork
- heat up a pot with oil
- put in pork
- cook until done

It's a month since this and this. Time for another review. Overall, I feel more confident and in control. Adapted to more bumpy (but not too icy) terrain. Speed has increased and hopefully in style/form and looking good.

- ride switch over green and hopefully blue terrain (still need more work on green)
- sliding turns definitely improved further after I changed to a wider stance that help biting on ice.
- Toe turn improved as well after I bend knee more by lean out the knee and keep back straight
- Ezio pointed out my over/uncomfortable extended hands riding form, so I switch to more gun-drawing hands, which help my heel side turn.
- motor boat back hand hand fix the counter rotation on toe turn.
- short radius turn on blue and black terrain definitely improved. I'm also able to use speiss-like turn (steered by back hand) on double black
- able to comfortably come down black diamond run
- improve short radius turn on blue terrain
- improve carving on blue terrain

To work on:
- more switch
- down un-weight turn
- more carving
- half cap
- small jump (maybe a table)

Another simple (aka lazy) dish I cook.

Ingredients:
- chicken, deskined
- oyster sauce

Procedures:
1. heat up little bit of water in a pot
2. add oyster sauce, stir and desolve in water
3. put in chicken
4. cook until done

Just returned from the annual Tremblant trip organized by Mui. I have a very good time snowboarding yesterday, the snow are soft despite some mogul. It snow most of the day while we are at the hill, but it wasn't cold (-6). The runs are much longer and fun to ride on, I was glad to see my riding improve a lot this year. I came down blue runs smoothly, survived zig-zaging double black diamond, and bounce around in the half-pipe (ok, still not that good on pipe...).

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This morning we pack up and spent sometimes walking around in the village, experiencing the European feel and atmosphere.

Even with 802.11n is still at work and not ready by next year. Vendors already putting out new stuff that promise higher datarate and longer distance..... just don't know if it is a good idea as they are all incompatible to each other....

It is always cool to check out the technology behind it.

PC Magazine Feature: MIMO: The Next New Wireless?

A MSN chat.....

Some chat about X10 home automation kit with my brother
...
Edmond says:
I will talked to you later when I'm ready. One project I have in mind is a DSL link recovering system. My DSL modem/router hangs from time to time..... I'm thinking to setup my Linux box to detect and reset the boxes as needed.
Kalman *3941* says:
brb
Edmond says:
geeky solution for a geeky problem by a geek
...

It's been a lot of debate over whether cellphone hurts us. This is a good reading on the issue from the point of science and research.

March 2005 Columns Magazine Feature: Wake Up Call

I know there was something special there when I first got my Gmail account; A list of matching email addresses popup as I'm typing the email address in the to: box; A little name is showing up on the lower right as I browse the mail; and many many more.... Something seem to be running in the background on my browser. I was thinking it's some kind of javascript running there. But there are more.

Now I know. It's Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax). It's actually many web technologies work together as a whole. It's cool! It makes the web application more lively and just like running a program on my Linux box, as compare to a "web application" that send and response mechanically.

Jacky's BLOG: Ajax 新浪潮
Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications

現在才寫關於這兩劇似乎有點 out(dated), 但是楓葉國的中文有線電視現在才播嗎.... 況且, 我現在已經很少租帶, 因此現在才看. (Anyway, Ottawa 最後的租帶店也關閉了).

我不想在這裡寫太多, 且我對香港電視劇的期望不是太高. 但我有一些 random thoughts:

*** 衝上雲霄 ***
- 誤曾, 明白, 坦白, 認錯; 不斷重覆
- 靚人+靚景+浪漫 == 無敵
- 玩公平, 玩大方; 真的可以?
- 原來這個世界沒有壞人的... 天真? (Yes, I know it just a show)

*** 花樣中年 ***
- 花樣 == 做廣告, 做商人, 做藝術, 有格調?
- 中年 == 中產?
- 中年 == over (and past) the top?
- 中年危機 == 不再成功, become just a small potato?

方中信相當好, 吳鎮宇有些 over.

p.s. This is my first post written in Chinese..... I'm still learning how to type Chinese, and use Babel Fish to translate a lot of words. It takes forever to write, man!

We just got a big dump of snow yesterday, hopefully that helps keep snow on the ground until end of the month.

I spent 20 minutes after work to clear the snow on the driveway, it's a small price to pay for so good snow.



With all the snow, I decided to go up the hill and joined by Hue, Yong, and Anne. The snow is with puffy, but quite bumpy. It's good for working on terrain adaption, but the snow is so sticky that I lost a lot of speed.

Google's has stired things up on the net recently with a new feature on its search toolbar called autolink.

Many think it's evil since it has the capability to add and modify the content that present to the users in the way of adding link to things like address, book ISBN and alike. This feature can be misused to direct user to sites Google wants you to go to. All sort of people likely not too happy about this, of course.

However, things are not as black and white.

I think indeed Google's has made a feature in its search toolbar that has a huge potential of being misused in so many ways. But I think Google has not cross the line right now. Whether they will (do evil) in the future remain to be seen. On the other hand, it set a bad precedenrt for other not-so-good people to follow. I'm sure some evil-doer out there will soon come up with similar feature. ie a adware that intrecept the content and rewrite it before your browser displays it....

In short, it can be a can of worms.

Techdirt:Which Direction Is The Slippery Slope With Google's Autolink?