US captain rescued & a real-life Runway 08

Three snipers killed three pirates simultaneously and the captain was rescued. Sounds like a movie! For the first time I know this name: US Navy SEALs, the special operation force of the US Navy. The news reminded me of a TV series that was screened on almost all the TV channels when I was in junior high. The Women Special Duties Unit. They are different, though, since the US Navy SEALs attaches to the army and the special duties units are under the ministry of what, the police? Anyway, the TV station also interviewed a team of SEALs soldiers that were being trained and the story was presented after the news. Well, that looked a little familiar~

When I was 11 or 12 years old, I read the novella Runway 08 from an old Translations magazine published in the 80s. After the captain and the co-pilot of a passenger airliner passed out because of food poisoning, a passenger, who had less than 30 hours' experience of flying single-engine fighters duing the war, took control of the plane and landed it safely at Vancouver airport. A well-experienced captain at the ground control station gave him instructions through the radio. At last, the hero saved near 100 people. The novel was written to be gripping--it was originally a TV series script and was re-written into a novella by its author. It is the most breath-taking story I've ever read, and the storyline was copied in one of the Detective Conan movies. Today, Apr 13, 2009, the same story was staged in south Florida, in real life. A passenger successfully landed a two-engine King Air aircraft after the pilot had a heart attack and died. There were six people on the aircraft and the passenger who landed it holds a license for single-engine planes. I was like, "what??" when I watched the news on an elliptical trainer at Lyon Center. Those novelists are what, prophets???

Vista is eating up my C drive

Microsoft releases updates for Vista so quickly that my 40G C drive was soon crammed with system programs. So I forbade automatic update for a while. Three days ago, Sean, my housemate, knocked on my door and told me that I probably got certain spywares on my computer, which allowed hundreds of open ports on it and caused lagging in our house's internet. It sounds formidable... So I turned on the updates again. Following that, within one day, my C drive turned red again. I've no idea what I can do... Should I install a linux system on my computer?? Or go back to XP???

My very first post!

Well, I was working on my paper and was accidentally directed to this site from google. I always wanted an English blog where I can practise my English writing, so, here I am! 

I live in LA and is about to start my third year here. I've totally fallen in love with this place~~

You're also most welcomed to visit my space on Windows Live: http://pirateship1985.spaces.live.com/, which is mostly in Chinese, and the title means "Kitty's Priateship". It has been 4 years since I created that one, so there's a lot to read. Hope you'll like it! I mean, if you read Chinese :p

Come often and enjoy!