First Vietnamese-American Navy Officer command U.S. battleship

(Picture: U.S. Navy)

Excerpt from "USS Lassen Highlights Asian Pacific American Heritage Month"

YOKOSUKA, Japan (NNS) -- A Vietnamese-American officer assumed command of the forward deployed Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen (DDG 82) April 23 in a ceremony that served as lead-in for the upcoming celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.

In 1975, as a young boy, Cmdr. H.B. Le and his family fled South Vietnam during the fall of Saigon, following the end of the Vietnam War. Almost three-and-one-half decades later; he assumed command of the destroyer and her crew forward-deployed to Yokosuka, Japan.

Le, a Vietnamese-American, took command of Lassen April 23, a week before the start of Asian/Pacific Heritage Month, which celebrates diversity within the United States. As part of that celebration, the Navy honors its many service members of Asian and Pacific Island descent.

(Picture: U.S. Navy)

Related info:
http://www.lassen.navy.mil/site%20pages/Command%20Biographies.aspx
Calitoday: Trung Tá Lê Bá Hùng Nhậm Chức Hạm Trưởng USS Lassen
Belinew.com: Hải Quân Trung Tá Lê Bá Hùng

When we are grown up?

Are we grown up because age? Maybe. Maybe not.  At 18 years old, we have the right to vote. But at that age, we also have duty to defense our country. The document When You Become 18 prepared by State Bar of California is worth to read. At 21, we are allow to drink the beer. At 25, we are qualify to run for congress, ready to practice law if you complete law education and pass the bar exam. Near the 30, you are ready to become a Medical Doctor or a priest.

On the other end, some over thirty years old person still think, act, speak as a children. They did not clean up their mess in the company lunch room. Someone thought public assistance is their parent's money. On my previous entries, I mentioned a smart young boy and a young lady.

So, when we are grown up?

How a thief stole an ATM card

My boss sent me this PDF. It showed us how a thief stole an ATM card.

Methods of assigning jobs to new employees

Got this story from internet. It's funny.  

Methods of assigning jobs to new employees:  

1. Put 400 bricks in a closed room. 

2. Put your newly hired employees in the room and close the door. 

3. Leave them alone and come back after six hours. 

4. Then analyze the situation.  

a. If they are counting the bricks, put them in the Accounting Department. 

b. If they are recounting them, put them in Auditing. 

c. If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in Engineering. 

d. If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order, put them in Planning. 

e. If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in Operations. 

f. If they are sleeping, put them in Security.  

g. If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in Information Technology. 

h. If they are sitting idle, put them in Human Resources.  

i. If they say they have tried different combinations and they are looking for more, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in Sales.  

j. If they have already left for the day, put them in Management.  

k. If they are staring out of the window, put them in Strategic Planning.  

l. If they are talking to each other, and not a single brick has even been touched, congratulate them and put them in Top Management.  

m. Finally, if they have surrounded themselves with bricks in such a way that they can neither be seen nor heard from, put them in Congress.

UC wants the truth on student applications

It pays to be honest. Don't gamble with your future. Read more here.

BlogEngine.NET

While surf the NET, I found a blogger using the BlogEngine.NET. It catch my eye. This software is open source .NET blogging application.

On the Net:
http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/
http://www.asp.net/Downloads/starter-kits/blog-engine/
http://www.codeplex.com/blogengine
http://community.discountasp.net/default.aspx?f=25&m=19101

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Legacy 16-bit DOS Application on Windows Vista 64 bit

Quote from http://www.macvswindows.com/index.php?title=Legacy_Software_Support:

There is no support at all for 16-bit (windows 3.x and MSDOS) programs.

So, we have few options:

• Using Virtual PC 2007 to create virtual machine running DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 98, Windows XP,...
  
• Downgrade to Windows XP. Need more time to build new machine, install new OS and setup
  
• Convert to Windows application using Dot Net. More money to spend.