I have asked myself more than once: Why do you write a blog?
But each time, I couldn’t find a clear answer. Recently, this blog has been updated very infrequently, to be precise, since late August until now, for about 50 days. With fewer updates, naturally, the traffic has also decreased, with only about 10 IPs per day, a stark contrast to the 300-400 IPs per day at the end of last year.
With the judicial exam now over, I thought I would finally be free, regardless of the outcome, as I wouldn’t be spending a significant amount of time preparing for it anymore.
However, the crux of the matter lies here. I expected to feel liberated, but the pressures and worries about my future continue to besiege me. At this critical juncture, I find myself at a crossroads, needing to make a decision between a clear path and many uncertain ones.
I never paid much attention to DNS resolution settings (mainly in terms of resolution speed). Initially, I used the NS servers provided by the domain registrar, but I felt there were too many restrictions. So, for a long time, I used Namecheap’s free NS resolution service. Even after registering domains with GoDaddy, I maintained the same practice: the first thing I did after registering a domain was to change the NS to something like freedns.namecheap.com.
Finally, the judicial exam is over, and now I feel somewhat unaccustomed to it, unaccustomed to the days of pressure, goals, and motivation. Although the results always leave one with regrets, at least this year’s judicial exam has been quite beneficial for me personally.
This year, the number of applicants for the judicial exam is estimated to surpass last year’s record high, as it is said that the pass rate will continue to increase, making the judicial exam a mere ordinary entry-level test. With 600 points in total, scoring 360 points is equivalent to obtaining a pass into the public security, procuratorial, and legal professions. Compared to the pass rates of 5% or even lower in other countries, China’s judicial exam is practically a direct giveaway. Unfortunately, I was not among those who passed…
I have been following the annual Fortune Global 500 list since 2003. Back then, I would look at each name on the list every day during class, feeling both excited and curious.
As time passes, some companies disappear from the list each year, while new ones emerge. Of course, there are also those that remain firmly entrenched, dominating the global market for years.
Looking at the 2010 list, it seems that the number of Chinese companies has significantly increased. In fact, according to the Financial Times’ market capitalization-based Global 500 list, Sinopec, a company with a questionable reputation, topped the list. I remember back in 2003, there were only about 10 Chinese companies on the list, and even with the inclusion of companies from Hong Kong and Taiwan, the total didn’t reach 20. At that time, the U.S. accounted for 40% of the list, Japan had around 70-80 companies, and Germany, the UK, and France each had about 40 companies. These five countries alone made up 80% of the Global 500. What was particularly frustrating was that China was even behind smaller countries like the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, and South Korea.
I’ve collected many quotes about law, purely for some entertainment during the judicial exam preparation. It turns out that the field of “law” is actually quite fun and not as dry as some people think, although the differences between teachers can be quite significant.
Whether it’s a chicken or a duck, it’s all prostitution~
No one ever sleeps in my class~ If you sleep in my class, it just means you really need to sleep~
For the past two years, my WordPress site has been in a constant state of migration. Recently, a fellow blogger initiated a group effort to co-rent a VPS provided by Virpus, costing $7 per month with 25GB of space, 100M bandwidth, and 1600GB of traffic. Divided into 10 shares, and thanks to a promotional period, each person pays approximately $7.5 per year.
The previous host was located in the Netherlands/Portugal, using the DA panel, and I still have one WordPress site hosted there. The new host uses the Kloxo panel, and both databases are MySQL 5.x (though 4.x would work just as well).
The system of suspended execution of death penalty is an original penalty execution system created by New China. It has played an important role in restricting the actual execution of death penalty in the history of our country. There are many flaws in the death reprieve system, which lacks scientificity, rationality and fairness. The article lists and expounds seven defects of the death reprieve system, and believes that these defects must be improved for the continued existence of the death reprieve system in our country.
Seeing an article by Moonlight about learning methods tonight sparked an impulse in me to update my blog, even though the campus network has already been cut off.
The learning methods Moonlight mentioned are not the traditional “reading methods” but focus more on information or knowledge acquisition in the internet era.
Reflecting on my experiences over the years, I find that my methods are quite similar to Moonlight’s. Since he specializes in the internet field, his methods are naturally more “sophisticated.”
My aunt’s younger brother passed away today due to cancer, only in his early 30s, at the prime of his life, which is even more unfortunate than my father’s situation.
I thought my father’s illness was already unfortunate enough, but I didn’t expect… At the end of last year, my father was critically ill and almost passed away. Although the hospital did everything to save his life, it’s almost impossible for him to recover to his former state. After accompanying my father for surgery at Xiangya Hospital, it only served to alleviate his condition. Now, every day is uncertain, and for more than half a year, I’ve been living in constant fear, dreading the phone calls from my mother.