Halloween dinner

Here comes my cooking for Halloween. Happy Halloween everyone!

Grilled cali flower, carrot, sweet pepper and purple onion

Autumn in Canada (taken after sunset by normal Samsung camera :D)

Two years already. I always went out to enjoy colorful leaves after sunset and of course the shots are not very good at that time either. Anyway, it's all for now. Hope that I will have more pictures with red leaves before all of them have gone. 

How to receive and send free Yahoo emails by email clients

Firstly, we know that free Yahoo email won’t support POP3 at present.  

Here are some descriptions for POP, POP3, STMP and IMAP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Office_Protocol, http://ask-leo.com/what_is_pop_or_pop3_or_a_pop_account_and_what_about_smtp.html).
You actually don’t need to learn about those protocols if you just want to setup an email account.
Here is the informal and non-technical explanation for them:

POP3 is the protocol, or "language", that's used to download your email from your ISP to your mail program/client. SMTP is the protocol used to send mail. With POP3, you can save and send emails on your machine. With SMTP, you can send email directly from your email client software (Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook…) IMAP is a protocol allowing you to view emails via browsers when you’re online only.

How to protect your personal info

What is personal info:

the info identifies you, makes you different from others and can make you lose your money/assets: ID number, SIN, phone number, name, mail address, email address, driver license, car license plate, motorbike license plate, academic certificates, visa, passport, signature, bank cards, etc.

Why do you need to protect your personal info:

You can show off your personal info 100 times and nothing happens? You may not know that just one time suddenly in those 100 times can cost you a fortune. Be secure 100% is much harder than showing off your personal life. Let’s be securing practitioners. Whatever you do, you just need to make sure no one can use your personal info to turn your life darker later.

 Here are some basic steps I’m doing in my daily life:

Book review: A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking with Leonard Mlodinow

Hmm, where to start now? I don’t really love cosmos at the beginning. I just enjoy looking into the sky to find stars even though I can’t tell their names, positions or characteristics at all. I just look at them to know sometimes they cover the sky, sometimes they don’t, some of them are bright, others are not.

Windows7: Using Library to optimize operation on folder

I've been using Windows 7 Library some months even though Windows 7 was installed as default on my laptop for some years. Here is the reason I came up with Libraries. Recently, I open many folder to work at a time and yeah, my file system is complicated by time too. I always need to save many documents on these scattering folders. Let's say, I need to save new recipes into my Cooking folder, save skill-set knowledge into PM and its sub folders (Scripts, Leadership, Small Project, A+, Agile, IPv6 ...) and maybe some other folders for Health concern. It's tedious to browse into sub folders all the time when saving files into different topics.
Here is the solution: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/libraries

Taco - Mexican dish

Today, I treat Worm family my first Mexican Taco dish for dinner. I knew the dish the first time when eating out with some former co-workers. Since I don’t have much time today, I bought Taco shells from store. I don’t really like those shells since they’re too hard and crispy. I love the soft shells better. I’ll make my own shells next time or at least buy the soft ones.

A heavy rainfall in Toronto on Aug 21st, 2011

A heavy rainfall in Toronto on Sunday Aug 21st, 2011. The rainfall actually stopped me going out to visit family awhile. Ah, and my portable camera lenses got wet when I was trying to record more clearly on the ground. Pretty scary though!
Here is the info from 680News: http://www.680news.com/news/local/article/269240--rainfall-during-10-minutes-sunday-in-toronto-exceeded-july-s

Inspirational and peaceful moments

Sudden and inspirational moments are slightly captured. They're not splendid like poems or masterpieces but they still carry their own value of time.

Bánh mì quế - Amish cinnemon bread

Đang ngồi đọc email và làm một số việc riêng mà mùi bánh bốc ra thơm quá chịu không nổi, đành viết một entry cho bánh mì quế (lưu ý là tên do WM tự dịch nhe, hehehehehe). Đây có lẽ là mẻ bánh thứ 5 của WM rồi. Những lần trước cũng lười mà không viết dòng nào, chỉ làm xong chụp hình rồi xơi :P. Bánh này khá đặc biệt đối với gia đình WM vì men là từ ông chú cho. Nếu cứ tiếp tục nuôi men thì cứ khoảng 10 ngày thì làm 1 mẻ. Còn nếu dừng nuôi men thì WM cũng chưa tìm cách tạo men nữa, chắc ngoài tiệm có bánh men làm bánh. Đây là công thức của ông chú: