Only 1 of These 8 “Girls” is Really a Girl

Long time no blog, and I really feel embarrassed to paste a picture full of girls.This is actually from a Japanese magazine showing autumn schoolwear for girls in the year 2007. Surprisingly, only 1 of these 8 “girls” is really a girl…

Locating the Guilty Java Threads

A summary of my recent experience with resolving an 100% CPU utilization issue. We know well that in Java 5 and above we have the mighty java.lang.management.ThreadMXBean which is able to give us almost all ordinary diagnostics information of a given thread, except...

Bravo, Kaiyuan Wang

It was quite a piece of shocking news produced by Kaiyuan Wang, a fully dedicated Open Source, um, should I say, evangelist. There’s no need for me to repeat what has happened. All I have to say is that, I AM ON HIS SIDE. I’ve never ever imagined that...

Paraskavedekatriaphobia

I suppose you all have adverted. It’s another Friday at a 13th date. The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia or paraskevidekatriaphobia, a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a phobia (fear) of the number thirteen. — From...