Hard drive just died? Lost your Flash disk? Laptop got stolen?
We need online banks to secure our virtual possession -- data!
Here are some ways to avoid the natural disaster in the virtual world:
1. Online hard disk (online storage).
After you finish your work, upload the files to an online hard disk, same like you put your money in the bank for the safety. When the 10 Gigabit Ethernet is popular, the online hard disk will play the similar role of bank in virtual world.
Recommend some good online storage service:
name
Price / service
pro
con
Summary
Rate
Skydirve.live.com
5 GB of free online storage, with a max file size of 50MB.
Use personal, group sharing or publishing.
Supporting secure Socket Layers (SSL).
Cooperating with live.com.
Works well with Firefox 1.5 or higher, or Internet Explorer 6 or higher.
Reliable and fast.
9
Box.net
Free for up to 1GB storage,
drag-and-drop uploading;
subfolders are preserved when downloaded in zip form;
good sharing capabilities with blog integration
Rendering Errors in Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox;
Sharing files requires recipient to register.
Affordable online storage service with a easy interface and powerful sharing features.
8
dropboks.com
Free 1GB storage, with a max file size of 50MB.
simple
No subfolders; no drag and drop
Simple and clean.
7
omnidrive.com
Free for 1GB of storage
Unlimited file size.
online editing tools from Zoho Office
a few bugs
7
2. Google doc – online office
For those who experienced the hard disk crash/stolen will appreciate this online office tool as a replacement of hard disk. It cannot replace the office’s advanced functions, but it’s powerful for text editing and spreadsheets, in both collaborative group work as well as personal use.
Here is the official help document: http://docs.google.com/support/?hl=en
For the visual and auditory learner, the video tutorial maybe more helpful:
3. Email yourself after finish the work (yahoo mail and Gmail have a good feature with organizing and searching emails).
Since I print at the library, I use my email as the transferring station. (Flash disk can transfer files, as well as virus.)
Here is a snapshot of a well-used Gmail account. If you are using gmail, please try the “label” and “filter”.
It helps with organizing and searching your email.
4. Buy an extra hard drive and flash disk.
But the whole point is – security. We never know when the disk will be crashed or stolen, maybe tomorrow, or next minute. That’s the reason I recommend the online service. The service company will help back up our data every day and minimize the loss in case of the disaster.
The video is extremely sanguinary. Don't watch it alone if you are : lachrymose, vegetarian or tries to be vegetarian, love natures. Do not watch it at all if you are under 18. http://www.youtube.com/v/_uN5fC-kdUQ&hl
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change, we all are crying for. strong, I pretend to be. pray, if we can do nothing but. peace, God put this word in my dream. ---------------------------------
Often, What I heard: ----poison in Chinese doll, dangerous food, population and poverty, politics controlling, human rights, eating everything, blah blah blah...
Always, What I felt: ----Oops for the polititians...The system is not made by the present government leaders, but left from generations before. everyone knows there are something wrong, someone decided the revolution and the new policies, no one is patient for this gradually developing and thanks for the international pressure, the studious characteristics in Chinese people and the humble heart in Chinese culture. ----The Chinese people are the same people like you.
Now, what I want to state: 1. If you love the animals, stop consuming the leather products. If you love the animals very much, stop eating them. If you love the animals than human, pls feel free to contact me, I would like to help you walk through this. 2. Chinese are not equal to sanguinary people. There are more vegetarians in China, since the Buddhism morality and Daoism theory. If unfortunately you went to a Dog Meat Restaurant in Beijing and still feel vomitous, I am sorry. I have a list of the best vegetarian restaurants if you are interested in. 3. Do not buy any product from slavery labeled places! There are child-free products out there to choose and groups of people and organizations in the frontier aiming for the slavery-free world. Join the abolitionist instead of anti-Chinese. It will be more fun to anti slaver and slave traders. 4. I still have two questions for the reliability of the brutal clip in the video: why the butcher is out of the scene all the time? I want to find him and convert him. who made the video clip? I am not able to sit by and watch the video by myself. I have to close my eyes,frown badly and drag the control bar and I am frighten by the film maker. 5. PEACE... I suggest not reading the stuffs bellow for saving time. Those are emotional and unconditioned reflex right after watching that video.
Finally, I chose to pray. (thannks for Jeannie's warning last night.)
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The part of the video about the fur-process was actually one of the reasons I chose to be a vegetarian way back. The fur-process video was really popular in 2005 and most of my friends were panic & commiserative for the animals. A number of my friends promised not consuming anything made from fur. Personally, I chose to be a vegetarian radically for a year, not only from the video, but also the compassion for the animals and the great Buddhist people around me in China. The impact in personal level is huge and immediate. Now, since the video brought out the issue 3 years later, I searched google and it's amazing that the system wide changes were followed after the video published as listed at the end of the article (if you can read Chinese). I agree there are tons of problems right now in Chna, but I believe that peoples' soul are longing for good, though fleshes are weak. Change!!!
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Honestly, I haven't been labeled as a vegetarian for a while, and the difficulty is at the nutrition side as well as at turndowning the kind friends while dining out. Now, I submit the desire of meat to the love of the creature. I fast on meat so that there will be a change. I really appreciate the video. --- It strengthened my soul to have a full control over the flesh. --------------------------
One thing I have to say : is the video above speaking in a fair and square tone? I am not able to be absolutely neutral in any issue about China, but I will try my best to evaluate the video without prejudgement. ---------------------------------------
The way this video carrying the message, combines with the hatred specifically towards the Chinese people. Chinese People are demonized and generalized as a group of uncivilized and sanguinary people in the video. People in China are also people, there are good and bad, like every other places in the world. If we make our decision of consuming-behavior from this one Chinese butcher's mental aberration, we are illogical. If there are something wrong or bad about all the Chinese people, which make us to hate the products by them, we are looking down upon Chinese. If we feel Chinese products are bad and Chinese people are evil, we are in the danger zone of racialism. We learned what the racialism will bring, the same thing as the butcher was doing in the video...(eyes wet.) Otherness and fear of difference are the root of hatret. History taught human to be peaceful and we, people who are called, have to realize the proper way of presenting the message of justice and respect, instead of anger. If the world media keeps spreading this kind of demagogical message with anger and putting the similar content in educational materials, the hatred and worry the video carries will cause the prejudgment and racialism psychologically and bring the disaster at the end. We didn’t know how divine and friendly the Hawaiian people are until recently, but the history textbook misrepresented for years. We didn’t realized the slavery was wrong until civil war. We didn't know and we thought we knew and then we screwed things up. we don't know! Please, be awared of the power & responsibility we are carring when we spreading the message. -------------------------------------
Then, look at the purpose of the video: not killing the animal, or not buying things from China? They are mixed, and this mixing is illogical and hilarious. If we love the animals, we would naturally choose to practice the things as I mentioned above: not consuming any leather products, or radically chose to be a vegetarian. The hilarious choice the reporter suggests in the video is to find a better way to kill someone for my own comfort. To make it clearer: Now, I really want to drink a cup of hot tea. If I choose Long Jing Dragon Well, I need to kill a person by gun; if I choose English breakfast tea, I have to kill a person by high-tension chair. Thank God I have a choice of making this person die in a better way! (tears -> hollow laugh and sorrow) The whole point is to stop consuming the leather products because they are adorable animals and invaluable lives!
Secondly, if it’s about not buying products from China, I am really happy to hear that. I don’t care about the number of the GNP; I care about the reality of people’s life. The workers were probably slaved in the factory, working sixteen hours a day for the shoes we were wearing in the luxury party; the sister chose to give up school because the family could only support her brother’s tuition and she gave in because she believed the value of the; the young girls went to the city to make a better life in a way of selling their body to the wealthy men, supporting the family and school facilities back home… It’s heartbrokenly sad. I have no strength to explain how wet my keyboard is right now and I have no appetite to point out the behind scene purpose of the perfect mixing in the video for demonizing a peoples group, but I stand up and vote against any slavery products.
Yes, yes, yes, I urge you to stop buying products from China, so that young people from rural China will go back to the farm and have a content villatic life; don’t buy any products from China, so that Chinese people can work less and spent more time with family, with lovers, with people who are really valued in their life; don’t buy anything or bring anything to China, so that Chinese people can keep Chinese culture as a beauty of this diversity world; don’t buy anything from China, so that Chinese people may slow down the pace and think about the meaning of life, the truth of the world and the reality of the Creator God.
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Wake up, you chosen ones. Join in the global social justice, to change our media, change our educational mateirals, change our mind sets, bring the freedom to the nations and people.
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Links: The news in Xin Hua Net: http://news.xinhuanet.com/st/2005-04/05/content_2788199.htm The news at QQ (similar to AOL or MSN or Yahoo): http://news.xinhuanet.com/st/2005-04/05/content_2788199.htm The comment in Xin Hua Net; http://news.xinhuanet.com/comments/2005-04/06/content_2788576.htm The video at Sina: http://you.video.vnet.cn/b/284782-1220422263.html The report from Wild Animal Organization in China: http://www.cnwildlife.com/Article/Class1/Class2/200504/20050407215524.html
the conference time and venue is affirmative, but we still need to wait for the speakers' confirmation. I wish I could be more creative ... Sign...the laptop seems overloaded for the size A1 poster. en...next time, vector graphics only...
From the final presentation, a number of students chose homosexuality as their report topic. Some are passionate, with tears; some are logic, with Bible quotes; some are "none of my bussiness", with some post-modern attitude.
I didn't say anything radical or prorevolutionary, though I really wanted to. --- it's nothing about change, but love and healng.
Remember the time when someone told me I was a lesbian, for I checked out more girls than he did at the club and never danced with guys. Remember the time in Shanghai hanging out with my best friend Snew and imagined about our own "orientation". Remember the time I had the chance to sneak on that community and participate in the "academic" research with friend, and figured out it's not cool to be a gay, it's all about brokeness.
I wish I wasn't ignorant, so I could speak the truth and healing.
Broken hearts, in different ways, Different inperfection, in the same tone. As an outsider, it's easy to demonize the otherness, As an insider, it's easy to be blind or panic. All are broken, All need Grace and Love.
"where is the problem? I am the problem." It's from the autor of Blue like Jazz and now I can totally understand why he gave up the social justice work.
Our passion to serve the justice starts from a documentary named Not for Sale. We are heart-struck while noticing the slaved population and injustice around the world. All what the other people have done really encouraged us to put into some action for the justice. It begins with passion and we believe it will end with fruit. But social justice is such a huge topic. I have no idea how to begin: it's like there is a problem right there, disordered, dark, but no way to clear it out. So, I couldn’t stop asking myself some basic questions: Where is the problem? 1. I started looking for the problems among communities and people groups and I figured out that every society has problems of injustice and they exist from the beginning of the civilization. Not only societies, but also single person, we all can be the source of the problem and I am the hugest problem because I know myself the best! And China is the hugest problems since I know China the best, and Christians are the hugest problem since I know Christians the best. ...take my home for example: the minorities H.R., welfare for the people from rural China, floating population, Hukou policy, family violence, people with disabilities, … it's too heavy to think about and I felt from my own point of view, the place I called hometown was such a messy in social justice, how can I serve the social justice internationally? Then I reached the point that if I am not free from anxiety, how can I be able to bring some justice hope for the weak and mistreated people? It's hard. And it's heavy. Can I be that strong, be free from things so that I can state myself as free being? Easy to say than practice...=)
2. So I decide to think lighter and do something fast & good: website & poster. It's the easiest way to contribute directly to the awareness of the social justice and it's the most efficient way for my personal preference. I can tell people: look, there is a problem we ignore and there is a hope to ensure; I can care about this and you can do the same. I believe that awareness is the beginning of the change. Still, really admire and appreciate those who are serving in the frontier of injustice. 3. Justice and charity. Before, I thought charity can change the world and I still believed so. But justice seems in a higher position. Even they are similar -- both are for good changes, but they are very different. As Jordan Seng quote from his friend that social justice is system wide fixing while charity is single personal supporting. Justice is carrying power. It's easy for women to put effort on charity because women are emotional and personal (which is the beauty of the soul). But Mother Teresa of Calcutta's journal told us that charity is challenging. There is a good example to show that charity is individual: a lady travelled to Africa and found out a kid was sold for slavery by the parents. So she bought the kid back and returned him to his parents and she started an organization to buy back the children from the traffickers, return them home and educate the parents. I would have done the same thing as the lady did if I was in that situation, but would also feel awful since what I had done also engaged into that slavery trading chain.
so, charity is individul while Social justice worker may bring the system wider solutions … but sometimes: it will turn to be : ----
4. Communism! It jumps into my mind and I don’t like that system really. I was told it's good and I knew it's good because it's a system promising abundent life for everyone, but after I read some stuffs from ourside world, it sounded like violently forcing people to be justice even if they don’t want to. Yes, communism is aiming for building the heaven on earth and the theory is beautifully inspired by the Eden, but the result turns to be painful and violent. To be honest, only two of my friends are faithful communists, my parents may doubt the communism & never told me about communism, but they are content with what they have from confucius philosophy, and my grandpa lead all his life like a saint. So mentally, if people believed in communism, it's a kinda heaven on earth. But the fight between Tibet and Communist in history looked actually like a war between religeous group! So, social justice is powerful and misuse of this power may cause disarster.
------------------------------------------------- Didn’t know it’s that hard… I should wear a shirt with “where is the problem?” in front and "I am the problem" in the back...=)
