I’ll
Pay You 10 Yuans to Attend a Lecture,
But Male Only
“因工作需要，不能上课，寻代上课者，每节课10元，当场结账，仅限男士。每周四周五，电话...”
A university student in
China put up a job advertisement saying:
"Looking for someone willing to
attend lectures, 10 yuans for a session,
male only."
Why male only? Because the
boss is male. Why does it matter? Because
the employee is hired to be the impostor
of the employer to answer teacher’s
roll call, so the boss himself can travel
to other city to work for someone else.
Pretty smart, hie?
Meet in
Historical Nanjing
Late yesterday afternoon,
the 2006 World Historical City Expo
opened with a grand ceremony in Nanjing
in front of the 600-year old city gate
built in the Ming Dynasty. In the sound
of inverted bells and drum ruffles coming
from the watch towers, a pair of fire
arrows shot to the ancient city wall, and
in the air the cold flame shaped two
Chinese characters that read:
"Welcome" (欢迎).
After the ritual, a fleet
of boats decorated in a traditional
manner were rowed ashore by girls in the
costume of classic Boat Lady the Qinhui
River (秦淮船娘),
picking up PIVs that included the 53 city
mayors from home and overseas. On the
bank by an ancient bridge, young men
began playing erhu (二胡)
Spring in Jiangnan (江南春),
and children started dancing to the tune
of Song of Flowering Landerns (花灯谣). By the time
the boats arrived before the Confucius
Temple, 60 lads approached the VIP at
measured pace of the antiquated fashion
to present an embroidered brocade.
Nanjing city has about
2,500 years of history and was a capital
for six dynasties, namely East Wu, East
Jin, Song, Qi, Liang, Chen and Ming.
Hacker
Is Here! Catch Me If You Can.
September 21 is the day
when the IT giants met in China for the
Internet Forum on, among many other
issues, anti-hacking. Ironically, it is
also the day when 20 percent of
China-based Websites disappeared from the
scene of the virtual world, the result of
an unprecedented large-scale attack on a
major Chinese root domain name service
server. It is estimated that about
100,000 websites were unable to visit for
as long as up to 18 hours.
Sometime earlier, the
biggest local search engine Baidu was
also under attack.
The hacker’s guts seem
well matched with his skills. In a public
statement he declared that these are just
couple of test runs for a big action. You
guys want to stop hackers? Well,
"HACKER IS RIGHT HERE!" he
announced solemnly.
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