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proxy to bypass GFW

If your site is blocked by GFW in China, try installing a web proxy on machine outside China. I recommend this light weight proxy - ccproxy . Once ccproxy is up, configure it to allow only specific IP address, and certain services such as HTTP/HTTPS, default port is 808. Setup your machine inside GFW with this proxy, and you can now access wikipedia and blogspot !

Mycosis Fungoides stage by National Cancer Institute

Stage I The cancer only affects parts of the skin, which has red, dry, scaly patches, but no tumors. The lymph nodes are not larger than normal. Stage II Either of the following may be true: 1. The skin has red, dry, scaly patches, but no tumors. Lymph nodes are larger than normal, but do not contain cancer cells. 2. There are tumors on the skin. The lymph nodes are either normal or are larger than normal, but do not contain cancer cells. Stage III Nearly all of the skin is red, dry, and scaly. The lymph nodes are either normal or are larger than normal, but do not contain cancer cells. Stage IV The skin is involved, in addition to either of the following: 1. Cancer cells are found in the lymph nodes. 2. Cancer has spread to other organs, such as the liver or lung. Recurrent Recurrent disease means that the cancer has come back after it has been treated. It may come back where it started or in another part of the body.

Staged Mycosis Fungoides treatment by National Cancer Institute

Stage I Mycosis Fungoides/Sézary Syndrome 1. Phototherapy (PUVA therapy) with or without biological therapy. 2. Total skin electron beam radiation therapy (TSEB radiation therapy). 3. Topical chemotherapy. 4. Local electron beam or x-ray therapy to reduce the size of the tumor or to relieve symptoms. 5. Interferon alfa (biological therapy) alone or in combination with topical therapy. 6. Retinoids. Stage II Mycosis Fungoides/Sézary Syndrome 1. Phototherapy (PUVA therapy) with or without biological therapy. 2. Total skin electron beam radiation therapy (TSEB radiation therapy). 3. Topical chemotherapy. 4. Local electron beam or x-ray therapy. 5. Interferon alfa (biological therapy) alone or in combination with topical therapy. 6. Retinoids. Stage III Mycosis Fungoides/Sézary Syndrome 1. Phototherapy (PUVA therapy) with or without biological therapy. 2. Total skin electron beam radiation therapy (TSEB radiation therapy

Season of fire?

I am not talking about the wild forest fire in California, but there accidents happened recently in Shanghai, to be more specific, in PuDong. First one, the gas station explosion, killed 4, one is killed by concret debris 1km away! Second one, the fire in Will's Gym on Superbrand Mall last Sunday 10PM. No one gets hurts. This is the biggest mall in PuDong. Last one, I saw dark smoke last Sunday morning on Longhui Road. It seems one restaurant caught fire. Hopfully, we will have some rain this week.

老虎和嫦娥

老百姓也没啥好讨论的。房子贵,车牌贵,说了也没用。所以老虎和嫦娥现在就成了焦点话题。老虎是真是假,好像已经讨论出真相了。当初这个可是上了新闻联播的。 嫦娥登月有点意思。当初也是敲锣打鼓的宣传了一通,突然有一天就没官方消息了。老百姓素来有从没有新闻读出新闻的能力,大家都猜可能卫星通讯出了问题。可笑的新闻联播突然在节目的最后放了一段卫星传回来的视频。好像一切都很正常。结果过了几天,关于卫星通讯中断的官方消息来了。昨天说卫星开始定位,准备开始采集声音信号,然后采集视频信号,月底传回来。 前几天的视频信号是咋来的?

55K for a shanghai car plate

It is almost there. To bid a shanghai car plate, the price is about 55K. It is crazy. The original idea is to control the car increase rate on the road. It works, but not that good as expected because as a workaround, a car with adjacent cities' plate can also be driven fine. The cost is just around a couple of thousands instead. The bar here is just making middle income family life tougher. For poor guys, the public transportation is good enough. For rich guys who can spend millions on a car, who give a damn about the car plate price. If I buy a car, I will put a non-shanghai plate for sure. What's the 55K paid for?

Shanghai Kiss

Wow, put aside Kongfu, this is the first ever Hollywood movie I've ever watched with a leading Chinese male role. The movie's plot is so unreal but the performance is definitely solid and touching for Asian American, especially the second generation of Chinese immigrants. The feeling of alienation. The movie make bitter joke about it. The movie seems to be independent take, no big studio back, and I bet it won't be imported legally in China. The similar movies watched - Lost In Translation, The Longest Night in Shanghai.

Byebye, firefox

Firefox never works well with popular websites in China. We can't blame Firefox for this because all those ActiveX plugins are targeted for IE only. To make it sort of compatible, there is a IE plugin for Firefox, which makes Firefox acts like a IE. Hmm... What's the point for this? Is IE that bad? IE was notorious but I think IE7 is not that bad. Now the big problem, after several updates, I dunno it is caused by Firefox updates or Windows hotfixes, Firefox is now a memory leak monster. Open several tabs, Firefox eats up all the memory and hang the machine. It has to be removed. One thing I am missing about Firefox is its bookmark toolbar, can't find similar in IE. About bookmark toolbar, it is called Links toolbar in IE.

American Gangster

The movie is on the top box office and get full house of Oscar winning cast. It gets all the thumb up from critics. Washington acts as a 70's gangster Frank Lucas. Russell Crowe as a good cop Roberts. Both of them stand out in their own group. Lacus looks like a professional businessman but a heroin kingpin. Roberts turns in millions of unmarked dollars in while many others policemen are only interested in dog-eats-dog game. Washington is a good fit for Lucas. Nothing changed since Training Day. If the movie needs a role that bad guy looks like a gentleman, he is the one. He is the guy shaking head gentelly, and saying "my man, my man" with a smile.

上海家庭亲子运动会

女儿的幼儿园被选中参加上海市的家庭亲子运动会,项目是和谐同心圆和欢乐运输队。训练了一个月,每周两次,星期天终于可以去参加比赛了。周日早上10点出门,坐地铁到静安寺,走几步,就到了中福会少年宫。去的时候不知道路,还打车,2分钟就开到了。到了那, 发现还比较早。少年宫里有一个超大的攀爬游戏场,很多小孩在爬上爬下的,像猴子一样。女儿也跑去爬。周围一大堆家长。可以看出的确是上海市的运动会,各行各业的家长都有。比赛时间到了,和谐同心圆项目倒是很快,我们得了小组第二,37秒。

家乐福发生踩踏惨剧3人死31人受伤

原因是家乐福搞店庆,卖优惠的食用油。这样的新闻我是绝对相信的。中国人向来是对油啊肉啊之类的价格特别敏感,可偏偏最近这些东西的价格和房价一样芝麻开花节节高。而且中国人对便宜优惠的东西向来充满了热情。在上海这样的大城市,我就见识了N次。简直就是疯抢。群众的力量不是吹得。什么把门挤爆,电梯挤烂,都是实实在在发生的。

今年的上海小流行

秋天来了,但是不太冷。看到不少美女穿西装短裤,黑色紧裤袜,短靴。看起来很精神,而且有韵味。但是偏偏有些女人不顾自己的客观实际,也这样打扮,反而适得其反。粗粗的腿被这样视觉上切割成三段,好恶。

bindeez beads toy == date rape drug?

Australia banned the popular Bindeez beads toy made in China. When the beads are swallowed by kids, it can be fatal with same effects as date rape drugs. The problem is traced down to that dangerous chemical 1,4-butanediol replaced the safe chemical 1,5-pentanediol in the manufacturing process. Why? I bet the reason is one is much cheaper than another. What a shame. Made in China.

map of longyang road

blogger is not blocked

just by chance, I found out blogger.com is not blocked in china anymore, at least for now. I happily posted two entries with photos. before when this site is blocked in china, it is painful to post entries, not to say uploading the image. thanks for the successful 17th national congress of cpc;-) recall the thanks. it is blocked again.

金茂大厦

金茂大厦曾经是浦东最高的大楼。现在已经被旁边的超过了。大厦总共88层。88层设有观光厅。另外一个路径是从金茂君悦酒店上去,坐电梯到54层酒店大堂,在转电梯去56层。可以从中间的餐厅一直看上去。和LV的一家赌场的内部很象。

ORITRON (东强) DVD Player W5601P

I bought one DVD player W5601P for CNY299 at Carrefour. The designers of this box is strange. They put quite a few very bright lights behind the buttons on front control panel. The light is so bright that you can't even focus on the TV screen. I open the case and get all those lights disabled. Now another problem, the remote control itself is a battery drainer. The new batteries drain out overnight. It sucks? Take this, when I try to call the customer service phone number printed on the box and on the user manual, it is even not a valid phone number!