Joey's Diary

OK, I know I haven't written blog for a really long time. To tell you the truth I feel guilty about that, and that's why I made up my mind to finish this post while in the office, which I also haven't done for long time -- you know I rare don't write blog while at work, not any more

Many things happened since my last post. First of all, the first volume of Westernizer magazine released! This is very huge for me. Editing a entire magazine was a brand new challenge for me, not even mention I'd never done that before. At the end of day the four-week's hard work pays back, I managed to release the first volume just in time, and it earns hundreds of downloads. Honestly speaking I'm very proud of what I've done, anyway editing a entire magazine is anything but a easy job. Now I work on the second volumes of Westernizer magazine which expected to release by the date Nov. 26.

And here goes the second stuff. I have tons of business trips through these days. And last weekend I'd just finished the longest business trip Ihve ever had so far, guess what, this business trip made me stay in a city for 12 days! That was nearly two weeks, and I'd pretty much ran out of clean clothes I brought when took off

The third one is something technical. If you're able to recall two big software update announcement then you might know what I'm saying. Yes, they were webbrowsers! Microsoft released the biggest update for its webbrowser in the latest five years a couple of days, and in pretty much the same time Mozilla released a major update for its Firefox too. That means, IE now labels as 7.0 and Firefox goes to 2.0. The sign of another webbrowser war? Probably. Wonder about my response? I updated Firefox to 2.0 and stood by on IE -- Microsoft is expected to release the official Chinese version of IE 7.0 in one month or two, just no rush, anyway anything happen to IE may effect the stability of the whole WindowsXP system, don't wanna risk it.

Did I mention the things I hate about the update precess of Firefox. Oh I guess not. Now let me tell me, everytime Firefox got major update, certain number of add-ons (that's what Firefox call them nowadays, in the old days they were known as extension) would sure to experience what I call 'varied period of incompatibility'. That was, for some reason some add-ons turned out to be incompatible with the new version of Firefox, and things won't change until developers update these add-ons to support this newly released platform. Firefox 2.0 didn't disappoint me, nearly ten add-ons that I installed on Firefox became useless after the update process, and it took nearly a whole month for those different developers realize the incompatibility problems and fix them. Anyway I'm feel lucky and happy that all add-on I installed previous function at the time I type these characters, you know last time I update Firefox, there were broken add-ons never recovered ... I guess they probably abandoned by the authors.

So, I guess this is it. There are so many things happened during the days and there's no way I typed every detail in this post. Gotta keep on blogging from this post on

It's the first time I've ever found a serious competition. God they're coming very fast! Fortunately they're just stepping up as well. Gosh, never thought this game (that's right, I treat it as a game, but it's a game that requires you to dedicate all your energy to it) is getting such breath-taking. Anyway, I've gotta move fast, as fast as I can.

Now I'm quite sure that I'll ignore my current job in the next whole month. I'm not speaking of quiting or something, but I think I definitely need some time to let me focus on the plan and make things done. I know that's not quite fair to my current project since they've been experiencing lacking of workforce these days, but there's nothing I can do.

I've stepped into this competition, there's no way to turn around. I don't wanna have such vision that five or six years later, I feel regret that I didn't move fast that some people else steal my originality and got themselves rich. No way! That's my originality, I'll try my best to protect myself and my benefit, I'll make this business work no matter how tough it's gonna be. I'm born to win, and I know it.

Time means everything now, there's no much time to waste, time killing is unacceptable. Move move move!

Some said, everything looks different when it comes to detail.

At least for me, this's unassailable. When the task comes to detail, I was a bit shocked. You can say I was a bit scared by the difficulty of this task. It's gonna be a very tough task for me, it really is, actually it's much tougher than I thought it was going to be.

But, I've made up my mind, this is the once in a lifetime opportunity for me by now, and probably for the rest of my life, if carrying on this task means I would have to risk my youth and much money, bring it on, I take it. I'm ready for the challenge. I consider it as both difficult and interesting, and fun! And there's no doubt that I'll have a lot of fun while I'm doing this task, and I'll gain many precious experience.

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Now, however, Asia is the scene of a broad flowering of startup activity—as evidenced by our special report on Asia's young class of entrepreneurs. This new generation is globally aware, extremely Internet savvy, and willing to pounce on a smart idea even if it means grueling hours and considerable financial risk early on in life. Their stories may surprise you.

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Gotta say it's such a touching and yet exciting article. The new generation of Asia is absolutely 'globally aware, extremely Internet savvy' and pretty smart, they know how to develop their own business in such a traditional environment and use every resource they have to help they succeed. Their story will sure to guide me through my hardest days of start-uping.

To check out the full version of this article, please visit:
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/aug2006/sb20060818_886243.htm?chan=smallbiz_spr_asiau25