Jiwei Wang’s Notepad

I live in Ontario where gas price flucturates like  the ocean  tide in an unexpected fashion.   The price starts at the high, sliding down day by day, and hiking to the peak with no warning. When a long weekend  is coming, you can be sure that the gas price is sky high on Friday [...]

Tags: Bitter Winter, Brand Image, Busy Street, Button Presses, Consumers, Convenience, Crude Oil Price, Disparity, Economics, Free Car Wash, Lowest Gas Price, Mileage, Ocean Tide, Preference, Price Hike, Receipt, Speedpass, Sunoco, Sunoco Gas Stations, Sync, Unexpected Fashion

While visiting Seoul this August, I saw this hilarious hotel  around the COEX conference center.   The hotel is in a 4~5 story building, typically called town house in North America, with a frontage of some 10~12 yard wide.   And yet, the hotel is named “Hotel Giant”.   The name certainly sounds attractive in [...]

Tags: Best Places, Budgets, Frontage, Funny, Hotel Deals, Hotel Giant, Hotel Keeper, Hotel Rooms, Internet Age, Luxurious Hotels, North America, Occupancy Rate, Presence, Relativity, Seoul, Stone Lions, Town House, Vicinity, Word Of Mouth

Considering Google’s revenue sources and their track record in selling a product, there’s very little in a Google phone.  
Why? Google’s main business is in advertising.  Advertising creates value in mass markets.  Let’s assume that Google could sell the gPhone as fast as Apple, i.e. 1 million devices in 3 months.   After a year, [...]

Tags: Ads Revenue, Advertising Advertising, Drop In The Bucket, Fundation, Google, Gphone, Mass Markets, Mobile Ads, Mobile Software, Party Developer, Phone, Revenue Sources, Search Devices, Smart Phone Users, Sms News, Stanford Group, Steve Jobs, Stifel Nicolaus, Target Price, Thick Clients, True Objective

I’m one of those paranoid who look into recovery even before starting. Apparently there are equally paranoid people in the blogosphere. Austin Matzko  wrote an excellent WordPress plug-in called WP-DB-Backup  (version 2.1.3). And it works like a charm, creating a SQL script that can recreate and restore my WordPress database.
However, after restoration, my posts are [...]

Tags: Annoying Character, Backup Software, Backup Version, Blogosphere, C2, Data Backup, Data Recovery, Database Name, Db Sql, Files And Folders, Hard Drive, Hex Code, Latest Versions, Lt, Reliance, Running, Software Packages, Sql Script, wordpress, Wp, Xxd