It’s been a while since my last post. Life has been pretty busy and it was hard to find free time to do blogging. However, I think squeezing 20 minutes per day to write some thoughts shouldn’t be that big a deal. So, here I am, I am planning to write my thoughts online more frequently. Partly for the people who care about me and partly for tracking my steps during the years to come. For the past a few days, I have been busy learning Microsoft Dynamics CRM system. Watching the design of a complete software system is a...

My mom is 71 years old and she wants to have a computer. Because—according to her – “I will have a dictionary (she is trying to learn some English), a phone (I showed her how convenient to make oversea long distance calls with Skype), and a movie player all integrated into one device”. So, I let my mom play with my laptop while I was at work. The result was a disaster. Even though Windows 7 (I have Chinese version installed) is the most user-friendly OS in Microsoft’s history. It is still way beyond what my mom’s reach with minimum...