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I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I made over 400 posts from October 2004. Some posts are very hot. A lot of people found them by Search Engine. Specially from Google.

I put a link on one post, Philips Universal Remote Control. This article is the hotest one. I give the universal way to programming your devices.

The link I put is for the people who want to give me some thanks. They can buy me a cup of Starbucks.

Today I got the first cup from Mary Barnes.

Now from today I will put this Buy me a cup of Starbucks on each post of David Yin's Blog.
Let everyone has a chance to say thank you to me. :)

In the new year of 2008, I am trying to redesign the blog.

The default template from Six Apart is looks boring.

Now I have not finish my design yet. If you have some idea, just leave your comment below.
Or, if you want to see something on my Blog, do not hesitate to comment it.

I have some big plan in 2008.

David Yin's blog has following stats last month, December 2007.
9,665 UV and 14,358 PV.
I hope it can reach 90,000 UV per month in the end of 2008.

Is it too crazy? I don't think so.

More and more traffic will be attracted from Search Engine and other related sites.

This is the first photo transfered from the Chinese lunar satellite.

The CLEP official site.
Here is the news link. And Xinhua news.

There are some risks when you post something online. The following public ads are show you what it is.

When put something online, it will transfer so fast and so wide.

As a hungry Book reader, I download a lot of e-book from internet. Some times we call it digital copy of book.

Do you think it is illegal? No. It is 100% free legally.

Let me show you the site first.
Project Gutenberg

There are over 20,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog.

A grand total of over 100,000 titles is available at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources.

If you don't live in the United States, please check the copyright laws of your country before downloading or redistributing a book.

You can download it into your palm or smartphone to read it anywhere.
Most of them are located in Public Domain. So free to copy.

There are some languages with more than 50 books: Chinese Dutch English Finnish French German Italian Portuguese Spanish Tagalog
On this site, you will find some audio book which are human read.

Ok, There is another site provide audio book to listen.
Librivox

Go there to download some and have fun when reading and listening.

I read this post, I Struggle and Emerge: 10th Anniversary, today. Of course, I am shocked. They married in a appliance store.

An amazing thing in this era, keep a marriage for 10 years. It is a great excuse to celebrate it.
If it is only one year or two years, I may say it shamefacedly.

I would like to say, Congratulation to Kari and H.

What about us, V and me. We will also get close to the 10th Anniversary.

I think it is a good idea to see the restaurant where we had the wedding party in Shanghai. We will go to Shanghai with our two beautiful daughters, Grace and Gloria.

For marriage, where or when to get married is not important. The important thing is how long you can live together.

I am noticed that a guy left a comment on my blog. He asked to exchange the links with me to his blog, and gave me his site information.

I checked his blog. There is no link to me.

It looks so funny.
A person ask another one to swap links, but have not set the link in advance. How does he think?

Let me list the requirement of link exchange rule of my blog.

You want to exchange the link to me. So you should prepare your link to my Blog in your site before send your request. If I review your site and feel comfortable to link back to you, I will inform you. If I don't, I will also let you know.

In the recent days, a piece of news is going across the Chinese blogs.
China is developing "Real Name System" for blogs

I think nothing can be more ugly than it. The gov. said over 50% people support this system. Nobody tells you how they calculate this figure. Maybe just in their mind. Normally I call them hit the head to get the figure.

This is a big news for blogs. Keso has his own point to argue against it.
Even in the WebmasterWorld, it has been a featured post.

We went to Oakridge Mall last week. I still remember the feelling when we stepped on this land about five years ago.

We resided in my aunt's house for three monthes. It is close to the Oakridge Mall. We always walked there to buy foods.

Last week, I took a photo on the back entrance of the mall. Nothing is changed.

The first place we lived in Canada.

When you prepare your business travel, you may need your laptop. There are some tips for you.

If you travel without your Laptops:

Set up guest PCs in your branch offices for on-the-go employee. Transport data on thumb-drive storage devices. Make enterprie apps accessible by Web browser. Use SSL VPN connections for temporary PCs to ensure security. SSL performs a disconnection cleanup so work history is automatically scrubbed from borrowed PCs. Carry a cell phone and PDA. Even if they're relegated to checked baggage, they have a better chance of going undamaged.

What about you travel with Laptops

Have you seen this before?

A donkey with a mask is working so hard. It never say NO.

This photo was taken in someplace in China.

The current Chinese government also want the people work like a donkey.
Great FireWall is a big mask for Internet users of China.

If you can not see, you will focus on the Job. If you can not think, you will trust everything the CP said.