Day: July 11, 2006

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UTF-8 and GB2312

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Last Updated on May 28, 2009 by stlplace

To me this is really a nusance: some Chinese web pages are in UTF-8 (unicode), some are in GB2312. Internet Explorer can not determine the Chinese code format from a web page header and makes a wrong guess. Basically the user has to go to View => Encoding and try those two formats to see if it will work. 

This is not an isolated problem for Chinese language, or for web browsers. Similar problems do occur to other non-western languages, and software. Before we have a better solution in the software, I wonder if we could all agree on UTF-8, which seems to me is a newer (and better) standard.  

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Charlie Rose show features Warren Buffett

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Last Updated on July 11, 2006 by stlplace

Charlie Rose, the famous TV talk show host at PBS, has this 3-part series show features Warren Buffett. The show is played in PBS station in late night. Here is the link of Google Video for Part 1 (it’s free as of now).

I watched it last night. Here is an interesting comment I heard from Buffett: how old a person starts your own business will largely determine if he/she will be successful in  his/her own business (when grow up). Buffett started at age of 6.

Since we can not roll back the time machine, why not we take his other advices, such as love what we do (passion), and focus.