"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - E. W. Dijkstra

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My brother in law says that no one would visit Malaysia. KL has bad shopping, no good restaurant food outside of Chinese and there's nothing fun to do there. "KL will continue to be a backwater of South East Asia... You also have to contend with the horrible taxis outside KL. Never use meter one. Even in China, people use meter. China, Vietnam - people all use meter."

"I think it's the Apple ethos where everything is done for you and all your actions are predicted. For anyone who actually wants to know what's going on (read Windows users..) it's a mystery."

James Dobson had a column on recognising mental illness in your teen. Unfortunately he didn't talk about demonic possession.

I'm told that Traditional Chinese has been compared to Simplified Chinese in the same way English is to SMS speak.

Apparently when the KMT was defeated, not everyone fled to Taiwan. Some went West, and ended up in Thailand where they became mercenaries for the Thai government, fighting 5 battles in 22 days at one point. They can still be found in a village near the Burmese border.