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		<title>Rachie&#8217;s Quote of the Day</title>
		<description>Last night before Rachie went to bed, she said, "Daddy, you didn't turn on the air pollution machine the night before.  hahaha!"  She meant...  the humidifier, which "smoke" comes out from. </description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=265</link>
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		<title>A &#8220;fair deal&#8221; with Rachie&#8230;</title>
		<description>We were eating at a restaurant last night, and as usual, Rachie was eating slow and not liking her own pasta., comparing with her brother's fries...

When she kept eating from her brother's plate, Brandy said, "I will let you eat 1 frie for every 5 pasta you have eaten."  (Brandy ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=263</link>
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		<title>LoadRunner VuGen Crashes during Replay</title>
		<description>I have been experiencing crashes after crashes during recent script development with LoadRunner VuGen (version 9.10)...  I only have a work-around (sort of...) but I don't have a solution to it.  At least you know you are not alone...

The problem that I am running into, seems to be a memory ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=259</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Pin&#8221; Day Funny Story</title>
		<description>These days I need to get some acupuncture therapy to fix up my arm, and the kids want to go and watch me getting "pinned".  They know that I am scared of it and they want to find a chance to laugh at their evil Daddy...  So they asked me, ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=257</link>
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		<title>Brandy&#8217;s Homework RUSH :)</title>
		<description>One morning when I was walking downstairs after waking Winnie up (yes, I am her alarm clock), Winnie yelled in our room, "I think Brandy needs to hand in his homework today...  and I think he hasn't finished them yet!"  (OH NOOOO)

HAHAHA...  so about the same time, Brandy was walking ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=256</link>
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		<title>UNO with Rachie :)</title>
		<description>So besides playing UNO with Brandy, I played with Rachie too.  So when we started, Rachie said, let me shuffle the cards.  So I let her and at the same time I went to get a drink.  Actually I peaked at how she did it and of course, she was ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=255</link>
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		<title>UNO with Brandy&#8230;</title>
		<description>These days both Brandy and Rachie love to play UNO.  So today I was playing with Brandy, heads-up table :)

He was trying quite hard (and of course serious) to win, and when he got to his last card and said, "UNO"...

I then played a Wild card, and said, "Change color ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=254</link>
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		<title>Oct 19, 2008 &#8211; The Babies Moved Out&#8230;  of my room</title>
		<description>Finally the babies moved out of my room ...  finally. </description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=250</link>
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		<title>Choosing an Optimal Size TV for your Room</title>
		<description>For HDTV, the optimal size is set by dividing the distance you're going to sit from the TV by 2.5.  For example, if you are sitting 10 feet away from the TV, you will need a 48-inch TV.

Here is where I read it from. </description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=249</link>
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		<title>Cron Job on Windows?  AT Command</title>
		<description>You can use the AT command-line command to schedule task execution in Windows environment, similar to cron job in the Unix / Linux environment.

You can also do it through a more user-friendly way, by going to Start &#62; Accessories &#62; System Tools &#62; Scheduled Tasks.

Here is a link to Microsoft ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=247</link>
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		<title>Ringbearer and Flower Girl the &#8230; time</title>
		<description>Yesterday is the big day of one of my best friends!  Congradulations Jay and Cow!  :)

And of course, they invited my kids to be part of the wedding, The Ringbearer (without the rings...) and the Flower Girl!
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		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=245</link>
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		<title>Brandy&#8217;s 6th Birthday Party!</title>
		<description>We held a birthday party for Brandy's 6th birthday!  He invited a bunch of his school friends and I am sure they were having a very fun afternoon.

At night we were doing a family cake cutting (yeah, we already did that with his friends already but Winnie complained that she ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=244</link>
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		<title>Brandy&#8217;s First Day of Grade 1!</title>
		<description>This is Brandy's first day of grade school.  He is now in Grade 1!!!  I was outside his school taking pictures of him...

Here it is:

I was asking him why he used his jacket covering his face.  Winnie didn't wait for Brandy to answer, she said, "If your Daddy is taking ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=243</link>
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		<title>Brandy lost his First Tooth!</title>
		<description>Brandy lost his first tooth last week!  One day after school, when he was in the car, he told his Grandma that his tooth tilted...  so his Grandma was checking it out...  and she looked and looked...

But she still couldn't find the tooth!  She asked Brandy when did he lose ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=242</link>
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		<title>Legal SeaFood (Framingham) &#8211; Cajun Seared Tuna</title>
		<description>Rating:  5 out of 5

Once Winnie knew that I am going to Boston for my business trip, she started to tell me that there is a very famous seafood restaurant in Boston that I should try, especially their Lobster.  So I went there to try it out...

Now, I don't know ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=241</link>
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		<title>Brandy is scared about himself!?</title>
		<description>During our New York trip, we got a new tee shirt for Brandy.  It is a glow-in-the-dark skeleton pattern tee shirt.  He really wanted it since probably he found it is cool.

So Brandy wore it the next day.  He was showing it off to everyone.  He even bring his auntie ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=239</link>
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		<title>Brandy vs Rachel:  Rock, Paper and Scissors</title>
		<description>One night when we were at the hotel, there were 2 beds in our room.  So of course Brandy wanted to sleep with Mommy, and of course as usual I will give him a hard time, with the help from my little Princess, Rachel...  (hahaha I am pretty ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=238</link>
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		<title>Brandy the Tricky Kid&#8230;</title>
		<description>Yesterday I saw Brandy downstairs watching TV with my Uncle 3 (my real uncle) in the evening (around 6pm).  I was kind of surprise that they were watching cartoon (yeah my uncle is like 50+ years old)...

I asked my Uncle 3, "Why are you watching cartoon with Brandy?"

Uncle 3 ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=237</link>
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		<title>Printable TTC Map (Subway)</title>
		<description>We have been looking for a printable TTC Subway map, and finally I've found it...  (after a while of googling, and you know how bad I am with google)  Of course, it is NOT on our TTC website...



It is actually on Wiki! and here is the link.  You ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=236</link>
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		<title>Happy Father&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description>Here is what Brandy said in his Father's Day Card:

My Dad helps me learn how to play Wii.
My Dad is 35 years old.
My Dad favourite food is chicken wings.
My Dad is really good at badminton.
My Dad's favourite place to shop is Best Buy.
At work he is a programmer, writes programs.
At ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=235</link>
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		<title>My Mini-Scientists&#8230;  !?</title>
		<description>I was talking to Brandy and Rachel during dinner a couple of days ago.  We were talking about water and I asked the kids, "What is H2O?"

Brandy answered, "Water."

Then I told him that yes he is right.  And then I started to explain to him that it means water is ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=233</link>
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		<title>SilkPerformer Wait Time During Try Script?</title>
		<description>I was working on a SilkPerformer script that requires me to wait for a couple of seconds before I execute the next step.  So the first method that came to mind is of course:  ThinkTime().  But this doesn't work because...

During try script (i.e. testing the script) the method ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=232</link>
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		<title>Brandy Wants to Watch TV, How hard can it be?</title>
		<description>Brandy wanted to watch TV and he asked me if he can.  I said no.  After a while, he asked again (he really hasn't really watched that much so I should let him), so I said, "Yes."   He was happy and headed towards the remote.

But then I said, "You only ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=231</link>
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		<title>Brandy&#8217;s Way to Test Running Shoes</title>
		<description>A few weekends back, we went to shopping.  At a shoe store, we were talking about getting a new pair of running shoes for Brandy.  Winnie picked up one, and I told her that it is too heavy for the kid to run with.

Then Brandy came along, picked it up, ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=230</link>
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		<title>LoadRunner log_message messages Missing During Load</title>
		<description>One time I want my LoadRunner script to output some log messages to the virtual user logs during a load test.  So I used the log_message function and when I tested it out on VuGen, the messages appeared in the run log.  However, when I ran the script in the ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=229</link>
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		<title>My Car and Brandy</title>
		<description>One day I was talking to Brandy about when he grow up, I will give my car to him.  We always talked about how much better Daddy's car is comparing with Mommy's car, and he seemed to agreeing with me all the time.  So I was expecting an ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=228</link>
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		<title>LoadRunner Pages Downloaded Per Second Monitor / Graph</title>
		<description>Yesterday when I was testing with LoadRunner and monitoring the controller, I noticed that one of the monitors:  Pages Downloaded Per Second Monitor was blacked-out.  It seemed that they data is not being collected...  Finally I figured out why from the help...

 Here is what I've got ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=227</link>
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		<title>Grandpa and Me Round 2</title>
		<description>As I have mentioned in my last post, I was very sick over last weekend.  I wasn't able to eat much and that night at around 1am, I felt very hungry and therefore I went to the kitchen to get some bread to eat.   Grandpa came out slowly from his ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=226</link>
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		<title>Our 6th Anniversary</title>
		<description>On our 6th Anniversary day, EVERYBODY IN THE FAMILY IS SICK!!!!!  It is crazy!

Happy Anniversary to us! </description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=225</link>
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		<title>Brandy&#8217;s Memory Challenge</title>
		<description>Yesterday we went to Ontario Science Center.  We decided to get a locker and put our jackets in there.  Of course, we need to remember the locker number and we left this important task to:  BRANDY!

After walking for about 15 minutes, I asked Brandy, "What is our locker number?"

He answered, ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=224</link>
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		<title>How Does Super Smash Bros Change Brandy?</title>
		<description>These days we have been playing this game Super Smash Bros on Wii a lot.  As usual Brandy enjoys this game a lot, and surprisingly even Rachel seems to like the game (Rachel is not a gamer).   But definitely the game has changed Brandy's life...



One night after dinner, we saw ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=223</link>
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		<title>Brandy&#8217;s Cantonese&#8230;</title>
		<description>I was talking with Brandy this morning.  We were discussing where should we go for dinner tonight.  Then Winnie suggested Korean BBQ (韓燒).  Brandy asked us what is Korean BBQ and of course we asked him to try to interpret...

He guessed, "Oh it must be...  hm... ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=222</link>
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		<title>The Kids Starting to Forget Cantonese&#8230;</title>
		<description>When I was having lunch with the kids yesterday, Winnie has ordered a lemon coke (檸樂).  The kids don't know what it is and asked.  They managed to guess the lemon part and they are not able to figure out the second word.

So I asked them, what is coke in ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=221</link>
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		<title>WordPress reCAPTCHA Plugin on ahk2chan</title>
		<description>Over the past 3 months, I keep getting spam comments.  Of course no one sees them since I have comment moderation on.  But it is still tedious to delete all the spam comments.  So I decided to see if I can get a WordPress plugin that allows CAPTCHA protection, and ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=220</link>
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		<title>More about CAPTCHA &#8211; It is Broken</title>
		<description>Remember a while back I was writing about the CAPTCHA string?  (the "eye-test" when you submit online forms)  Spammers finally hack through some of the most common site's CAPTCHA protection!



I have read a news article from techmeme where it says CAPTCHA protection from Google, Hotmail and Yahoo are all broken!  ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=219</link>
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		<title>Brandy&#8217;s First Sushi Experience :)</title>
		<description>We never let Brandy to have sushi.  We do not want him to take raw fish yet since there are more bacteria.  Even those sushi / roll with only cooked ingredient, we do not allow him to take because it may be in contact with raw food (i.e. the knife)...


We ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=218</link>
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		<title>My GrandPa gave Me Vicks!</title>
		<description>I was working late tonight (midnight already) and I was sitting in my living room.  I was still a bit sick and I was coughing.  All of a sudden, my Grandpa came out from his room slowly, handed me over a can of Vicks and said, "Put some on your ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=215</link>
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		<title>Rachel finds Halloween Decoration Spooky&#8230;</title>
		<description>A few days before Halloween, we were eating at a restaurant.  Rachel was kind of strange since she didn't want to take off her clothes, and for some reason she didn't want to sit on her seat.  After a while, I asked her why did she act so weird...

She didn't ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=214</link>
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		<title>Such a Special Weekend!  Skate and Photo Session</title>
		<description>The last weekend is a very special weekend for me...  I have done 2 things that I haven't been doing for the past 15 years!

Event 1:  We went to ice skating with the kids!  Well, as far as I can remember, the last time that I skate ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=212</link>
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		<title>How Brandy Learns his Cantonese&#8230;</title>
		<description>Last night when we were driving back home from dinner, Rachel and Brandy was having their arguments on something (which I forgot already).  I really don't know what they were arguing about, but I thought Rachel was losing the fight.  However all of a sudden, Brandy was getting ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=211</link>
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		<title>Rachel&#8217;s Mathematical Challenge!</title>
		<description>A few days back, Rachel was doing her counting practise.  I think she learned to count to 29 from school.  So she counted and counted...  23, (she missed 24), 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, ...  then now here come 20-10 (she said, "twenty-ten") HAHAHA...

Then after "twenty-ten", she went on 23, ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=210</link>
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		<title>Ringbearer and Flower Girl :)</title>
		<description>Well I guess the title speaks it all...  Ladies and Gentlemen, here are the ringbearer and the flower girl :)




Now take a look at the second photo, the key is bow...  It is made by their Grandma (of course, not my Mom...  Winnie's Mom hahaha)!!!  Isn't it lovely?  I was ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=209</link>
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		<title>Now Everyone, Surprise!</title>
		<description>Well well well...  everyone gets ready for Rachel's new hair style...




First question...  who do you think did the hair cut for Rachel?  ...  not me!!  Actually Winnie did that...  Unbelievable.  Winnie kept asking me to let her cut my hair before, and I ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=208</link>
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		<title>Brandy&#8217;s Birthday Party at Glow-In-The-Dark Mini-Golf</title>
		<description>Brandy has chosen his 5-year-old Birthday party to be at a mini-golf place.  We have invited a few of his friends.  They were all having fun.  :)  One interesting thing about kids play mini-golf is:  they usually golf like they play hockey.   Here ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=206</link>
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		<title>Lantern Festival 2007 &#8211; Some more Photos</title>
		<description>Here are some photos that I have taken in Lantern Festival...

What's so special about this is the whole dragon is made of CDs

And for some reason Brandy loves this, so I took a picture for him (he said he is going to draw it...)
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		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=207</link>
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		<title>Brandy&#8217;s and Rachel&#8217;s First Class of Ice-Skating (Part 2)</title>
		<description>Besides talking about the equipments, of course we want to talk about how they actually did during their first ice-skating class!  Well before the class started, I have asked Rachel, "How many times do you expect yourself to fall before you learn how to skate?"  Rachel answered with ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=205</link>
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		<title>Brandy&#8217;s and Rachel&#8217;s First Class of Ice-Skating</title>
		<description>This is the first time that Brandy and Rachel skates...  First of all, got to say that it is an expensive sport.  The course itself is like $60 total for 12 lessons.  No big deal?  However, to get the whole set of equipments (well, I didn't ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=204</link>
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		<title>SilkPerformer Unique Row Per Virtual User (Finale)</title>
		<description>The previous 2 parts both describe how you can retrieve unique row per virtual user on both single or multiple SilkePerformer agent environment.  From SilkPerformer 7.3 or above, there will be a lot less work in order to achieve this task.

In SilkPerformer 7.3, the function FileCSVLoadGlobal actually has a ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=203</link>
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		<title>WebSphere Commerce Enable / Disable Login Timeout in Instance XML</title>
		<description>WebSphere Commerce allows you to enable or disable login timeout for a register user.  If the feature is enabled, then once a user is logged on but idle for a certain amount of time, the session will expire and the user has to re-log on again if the user ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=202</link>
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		<title>Interpretation of Google Analytics Bounce Rate</title>
		<description>I just started using Google Analytics for Winnie's web site (Weddings From Above), and one of the metrics is called Bounce Rate.  It is the percentage of single-page visits.  In general (from Google) a high bounce rate indicates that the site entrance pages aren't relevant to your visitors.

I ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=201</link>
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		<title>CAPTCHA String &#8211; Finally I found the Proper Term</title>
		<description>I was looking at a forum about testing, and someone post a question about how to determine the CAPTCHA string using SilkPerformer script.  I was wondering what it is so I googled it.  I ended up finding something that I have been looking for a while...  Remember ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=200</link>
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		<title>Brandy&#8217;s Logic Advancement</title>
		<description>Before we went to Markham Fair on Sunday, Winnie promised Brandy and Rachel to let them have a bubble bath.  Winnie said, "You can have the bubble bath, and then we can go to Markham Fair after."

Then Brandy said, "No no, Mommy, we should take the bath after Markham Fair.  ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=198</link>
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		<title>SilkPerformer &#8211; Unique Row per Virtual User Part 2</title>
		<description>Instead of splitting the CSV data file into multiple files (equals to the number of agents), there is also another method to get unique row per virtual users across multiple agent machines.  It involves some calculating the starting row and the ending row for each agent.

To determine the starting ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=199</link>
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		<title>SilkPerformer 6.5.1 Unique Row Per Virtual User (Single or Multiple Agents)</title>
		<description>During load test, a common operation is to get a unique row from a CSV file for each virtual user for each transaction.  In SilkPerformer version 6.5.1 or before, according to the help menu, the function FileCSVLoadGlobal maintains the current row pointer for all virtual users on the SAME ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=197</link>
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		<title>Brandy&#8217;s 5-year-old Birthday Wish</title>
		<description>It is sooooo funny...  Before Brandy blew out the candles on his birthday cake, we asked him to make a wish.  So he closed his eyes, made a wish and laughed.  He blew out the candles and then since I am standing right behind him, he whispered to me, "Daddy, ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=196</link>
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		<title>Canadian&#8217;s Salary vs American&#8217;s Salary Statistics</title>
		<description>I came by this news a few days ago.  It is a study about Canadian salary conducted by Statistics Canada.  Here are some highlights:

	"An annual income of $89,000 was enough to put an individual among the 1.2 million Canadians who made up the top 5% of the country's ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=195</link>
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		<title>The taxman are Watching Your Ebay (Canada) Sales</title>
		<description>I just read an article from Globe and Mail about CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) won a Federal Court order requiring eBay Canada Ltd. to turn over the names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of all high-volume sellers on the popular website.

The investigation is targeting sellers who are in the ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=194</link>
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		<title>MySQL Function Does Not Exist Error</title>
		<description>I tried to execute a query for MySQL database and kept getting this error:
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '* ) from table1' at line 1

And the query ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=193</link>
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		<title>Even Rachel Knows How &#8220;Good&#8221; my Sense of Direction is&#8230;</title>
		<description>Last week, I was driving downtown with my GPS to my friend's wedding banquet.  (yes, Downtown Toronto, I still need a GPS).  I was at at an intersection and the GPS said, "Keep left"  It is confusing...  Usually it will say "turn left" instead of "keep ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=190</link>
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		<title>A Word A Day 每日一字:  Farther and Further</title>
		<description>I was looking up the spelling of "farther" when I wrote my previous post, so of course, I googled.  The first result is quite interesting.  It actually tells you the different between further and farther. From the link:

FARTHER denotes physical advancement in distance.
FURTHER denotes advancement to greater degree, ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=192</link>
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		<title>Rachel Knows All our Tricks&#8230;</title>
		<description>We were walking around in Ontario Place last night (Lantern Festival).  Towards the end of the trip, the kids were all tired.  Of course Rachel is the first to ask me to hold her, so she asked, "Daddy can you hold me?" ...

Then Winnie told her, "Rachel, we ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=191</link>
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		<title>Mattel Recalled Toys Research Report Posted on University of Western Ontario (Canada)</title>
		<description>I was reading some comments from digg.com about the Mattel Apology news.  It is along the line where Mattel is "forced" to apologize otherwise they will put their coming Christmas season in jeopardy...  I really don't know on what does the writer base his accusation?  Anyways, this ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=188</link>
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		<title>Finally Mattel Admits the Truth Behind the Recalls&#8230;</title>
		<description>From my previous entry, I have been saying "Mattel shouldn't use others' mistakes to cover up its own.".  Here is what I have read from NewsFactor.com.

	""And Mattel takes full responsibility for these recalls and apologizes personally to you, the Chinese people, and all of our customers who received the ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=187</link>
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		<title>Questioning Technique Learned From Radio</title>
		<description>I was listening to a radio show yesterday and the host was questioning one of the Ontario Election Candidates Michael Chan of Ontario Liberal Party.  I don't really have a good impression from this particular host but he did give me a surprise.  Here is part of the ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=186</link>
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		<title>Some News about Ontario Election 2007</title>
		<description>I have been reading some news about election...  and here is what I've read from CTV.ca:

	"...McGunity's 2003 campaign promise to not increase taxes."
	"The Liberal government introduced the health-care premium in 2004, which has effectively cost each working Ontarian $900."



	"Tory labeled the tax as the 'ultimate broken promise' and said ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=184</link>
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		<title>Quote From a Wedding Ceremony</title>
		<description>"Getting Married is not about finding a person who can live with you; getting married is about finding a person who you can't live without."  Very true...  For example, without Winnie:

	I lose track of my own schedule so everytime I have to ask Winnie about it.
	I used to know how ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=183</link>
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		<title>This Time Brandy Surprised Me&#8230;</title>
		<description>I was listening my Luther Vandross CD when I was driving with the kids.  It was playing the song Dance with my Father, it talks about the singer misses his Dad.  Towards the middle of the song, Brandy said (probably to himself because he just said it quietly)...

"But ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=174</link>
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		<title>Maximum Number of Cookies Per Domain Imposed by IE</title>
		<description>Internet Explorer allows a maximum of 20 cookies per domain.  In the Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (937143), the maximum is increased from 20 to 50.  I believe Firefox has set the limit as 50.  (never tested it and couldn't find document about it)

Here is the ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=182</link>
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		<title>More Statistics about Mattel&#8217;s Recall That You May Miss&#8230;</title>
		<description>I was watching Hong Kong news before I went back to work today.  According to Hong Kong TVB News (Sept 10, 2007 Afternoon News), here are some more statistics that you may not heard of in North America's media.  "A report done by a Canadian Institute indicates that ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=179</link>
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		<title>Rachel Drinks Chinese Herbal Tea 苦茶 (Very Bitter) &#8211; Super Funny!</title>
		<description>Rachel was coughing a bit last week and we decided to bring her to see the doctor.  Of course then she need to drink those Chinese Herbal Tea (very bitter).  When I drink those, I usually drink them as fast as I can (what the Chinese says, 長痛不如短痛. ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=177</link>
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		<title>Apple Cuts $200 for its 8GB iPhone, and Calms Irate Early Buyers</title>
		<description>I have read an article on Yahoo about Apple slashes $200 from the 8GB iPhone, and how it tries to calm down the early buyers.  Here is the summary:

	"...on Thursday, ...offered a $100 store credit to  early buyers of the iPhone, seeking to calm customers angry  over ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=176</link>
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		<title>More Information about Mattel&#8217;s Recall</title>
		<description>What I have heard from the TV news (Hong Kong TVB Afternoon News) is that 65% of Mattel's products are manufactured in China.  However, among the products that are manufactured in China, 50% of those are manufactured in Mattel-owned factories.   I don't recall reading this data anywhere ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=175</link>
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		<title>Where Have Brandy been to during Summer?</title>
		<description>Brandy's teacher asked him, "Where have you been to during the Summer holiday?"  Brandy thought really hard for a while (for a moment I was worried that he didn't understand what the teacher said, then that's a problem...)

Finally he answered, "Groooooove City."   HAHAHA...  The teacher actually ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=173</link>
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		<title>Another Funny Story With Rachel&#8217;s First Day of School&#8230;</title>
		<description>During the orientation, the teacher asked Rachel to read an Alphabet book.  (The teacher read it with her).  So the book is basically in this format:

'A' 'a' Apple (drawing)

Of course, Rachel didn't recognize any letters, but with the help from the teacher, she was able to read, "A ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=172</link>
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		<title>How ahk2chan Fill in Rachel&#8217;s School Registration Form?</title>
		<description>Yesterday during Rachel's first day of school, her teacher asked me to fill in a registration form.  (well, it is usually Winnie's job to fill in forms, but she was not there yet...)  The form is just some basic information about the kid, and one of the interesting field is

"What ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=171</link>
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		<title>Rachel&#8217;s First Day of School &#8211; Fun&#8230;</title>
		<description>Today is Rachel's first day of school!  Actually school doesn't really start until next Monday.  Today is just a school orientation, explaining regular daily activities to the parents.  (well we know them all because we were there last year with Brandy)

Anyways, the teacher asked, "Rachel can you draw me a ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=170</link>
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		<title>Driving a Mustang Convertible&#8230;</title>
		<description>My rental car for this week is...  A Mustang Convertible!  which reminds me a funny story happened a few years back when I was shopping for a new car...

I was shopping for a car at that time, and one of my choices was a Mustang!  So I ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=168</link>
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		<title>WebSphere Commerce Translated JSP Java Files Location</title>
		<description>If you are looking for the java source codes that are translated by WebSphere from JSPs, here is the location you can find the java files:

WAS_root_dir/temp/server_name/instance_name/instance/your_jsp_path/xxx.java

If the JSP is throwing exception, you should be able to see the exception in SystemOut.log.  There you can find the translated java file ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=167</link>
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		<title>No More Missing Aeroplan Miles for AC780 &#8211; Lesson Learned</title>
		<description>Finally after calling Aeroplan last week complaining how Air Canada keep missing my miles for the flight from San Diego to Toronto (AC780), I checked today and found that last week is the FIRST TIME EVER that they automatically credited my miles!  (without me calling in!)

Actually I was kind of ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=166</link>
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		<title>Part 2 &#8211; Brandy Looks Like Me?  Rachel Looks Like &#8230;?</title>
		<description>Since A LOT of people are asking me to post more kids' pictures, and A LOT of people said they rather see more pictures than my boring writing (you can't stop me writing, just like you can't stop me talking hahaha..., too bad)  FINE, here are the proofs that ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=165</link>
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		<title>Claim The Missing Aeroplan Miles &#8211; Aeroplan Joke</title>
		<description>Here is the number that you can call to claim back your missing Aeroplan miles (800-361-5373).  I really don't understand where the problem is, but Air Canada keeps missing the aeroplan miles for my flight from San Diego to Toronto (AC 780).  I have taken this flight at ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=164</link>
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		<title>ahk2chan Recommend Airline Limousine (Toronto)</title>
		<description>I have used a few different taxi and limousine companies, and I can tell you a few horror stories...  Once I have ordered a taxi for 6:15 am, and I waited for about 5 minutes, I called the company.  They told me that there was no such order, even after I gave ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=163</link>
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		<title>Upgrade Air Canada Ticket using Certificate (Air Canada Reservation)</title>
		<description>Here is the number you can Air Canada Reservation call to upgrade your air ticket, if you have an upgrade certificate:  1-888-247-2262

(Actually once I complained to Kwong how come I can never be able to used those upgrade certificates when I am at the gate.  He then suggested me to upgrade ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=162</link>
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		<title>IBM HTTP Server Memory Cache Configuration Parameters &#8211; CacheMaxExpire and CacheDefaultExpire</title>
		<description>IBM HTTP Server (IHS) 2.0.47 is the same as Apache HTTP Server 2.0.47.  You can cache static objects such as images and static HTML pages on the web server layer.  There are a number of parameters that you can use to configure web server caching, and here are ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=161</link>
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		<title>Configure Logging &#8211; WebSphere Commerce Trace Components</title>
		<description>Here is a list of WebSphere Commerce Trace components that you can specify at WAS admin console.  To enable them, from WAS admin console, go to Troubleshooting -&#62; Logs and Trace -&#62; Your Server -&#62; Diagnostic Trace -&#62; Configuration -&#62; Enable trace.

Here is the format you want to put in ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=160</link>
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		<title>Snap on ahk2chan &#8211; Without WordPress Plugin</title>
		<description>Snap is quite an interesting technology...  What it does is it creates a mini bubble that shows a preview of the content that you are linking to.  I don't know how they did it though.   I tried to look around and see how I can incorporate ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=159</link>
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		<title>Configure WebSphere Plugin for Fail Over In Cluster Environment</title>
		<description>I have been doing some more researches about how to configure WebSphere Plugin for fail over.  Basically the configuration manages how WAS requests will be dispatched to different application servers in a cluster environment.  There are 3 parameters in particular that I looked at (for fail over):  ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=158</link>
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		<title>How Strong can a Hurricane Be?</title>
		<description>I was reading Yahoo News about this recent Hurricane Dean...  I wasn't paying much attention to those numbers before (e.g. how strong the wind is), but here is what I've read:

	"Dean was a Category 5 hurricane - the strongest possible..."
	"It then lost some of its power over land..."
	"...the hurricane's ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=157</link>
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		<title>My AquaBells + Power90 = All Set for Exercise During Travel!</title>
		<description>I always try to do some exercises even when I am on business trip.  However, usually the gym facilities at the hotel are pretty nasty (it stinks) or they are just worn out by probably years and years of usage.  So here is what I've got...



Aquabells!  I ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=156</link>
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		<title>Brandy&#8217;s Favorite Part of Surf&#8217;s Up</title>
		<description>I have watched Surf's Up with Brandy and Rachel on the past weekend.  As usual Brandy was non-stop asking about what's happening in the movie.  Anyways, after the movie, Brandy told me that his favorite part of the movie is how Joe described that he never saw his Daddy...  (his ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=151</link>
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		<title>These People have no Manner</title>
		<description>I was having our birthday lunch with my Grandpa yesterday.  When my Grandpa finished, he wanted to leave, probably because he was tired.  So Mom and my Auntie help him and drove him home.  At the time that my Mom stood up and walked out of the ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=155</link>
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		<title>Brandy&#8217;s Perception of Differences between him and his Daddy</title>
		<description>Yesterday when we went to a friend's home gathering, an auntie made a comment about how Brandy looks like me, and Rachel looks like Winnie.  Usually what people said is the other way around, especially when they are younger.

Anyways, once Brandy's heard about that, he tried to defend that ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=154</link>
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		<title>Brandy Love Chicken Style Hair Cut</title>
		<description>I don't really know where did Brandy get this idea from...  It is very probable that he got it from his classmate.  He just loves this "chicken" hair style!  He loves it so much that he even asked people from Melon-head (Kids Salon) to make it right ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=126</link>
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		<title>Rachel&#8217;s Language Dictionary Is Way Above My Awareness</title>
		<description>Rachel was showing me her latest Lego construction.  I realized that there are 2 missing pieces.  So I said, "Rachel, there are a few missing pieces, can you try to find them out and complete it?"

Then she looked at it and was kind of surprised that she missed a few ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=152</link>
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		<title>Finally Find Someone Also Play Sony PSP / Nintendo DS in on a Plane (Business Class)</title>
		<description>I usually play my Sony PSP or my Nintendo DS when I was on a plane, except the first and last 10 minutes.  Most of the time people passed by and gave me a strange look...  I guess most of them are business travelers and whenever they have ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=150</link>
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		<title>Another Joke from Brandy and Rachel</title>
		<description>We sometimes played the Juicy Lemon (Leo Koo and Joey Yung) Concert CD while driving in Winnie's car...  So the kids are very familar with it...  Brandy can even recite the opening speech that they made:  "I am Juicy" (Joey), "I am Lemon" (Leo), "We are Juicy Lemon!"(together)  ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=149</link>
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		<title>ahk2chan Attempt to fix WordBook Plugin &#8211; Double Mini-Feed Per Blog Entry</title>
		<description>The WordPress WordBook plugin is working pretty well, except it create 2 mini-feed for every blog entry I created.  Here is my attempt to fix it...  Basically I commented out a line...  If it doesn't fix it, I will have to leave it to the author...

I have ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=148</link>
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		<title>WordPress Plugin Wordbook on ahk2chan (For Facebook)</title>
		<description>I have installed yet another WordPress plugin for my blog:  Wordbook...  It's original name is called "FacePress"  (it can't use that name anymore because as a Facebook application, the rule is that the name can't have "face" in it).  What it does is whenever you write a new blog entry, ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=147</link>
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		<title>EJB AccessBean commitCopyHelper Method Not Writing To Database &#8211; Use WebSphere Commerce BaseJDBCHelper flush method</title>
		<description>Within a WebSphere Commerce command execution, when the commitCopyHelper method is called on a particular AccessBean, the data will NOT be updated immediately.  The data will actually be stored in EJB Cache, until the performExecute method exits successfully without any exception, that is the transaction is commited.  So if you use ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=146</link>
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		<title>Rachel&#8217;s Ultimate Swimming Challenge &#8211; Head / Face Under Water</title>
		<description>Remember one time we were laughing at Rachel where she can't put her head / face under water?  (here is the link to the previous post)  And as I have mentioned there, she kept thinking about how to do it, and she kept trying.  Here is the ...</description>
		<link>http://www.ahk2chan.com/?p=145</link>
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