The harder I work, the luckier I get. --Samuel Goldwyn

A Perl Monks poster has collected the address of 5 different Perl(-related) advent calendars:

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=810472

As he says, a "great tradition".

Taekwindow can solve that problem on Windows.

http://tech.qq.com/a/20061019/000169.htm:

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So, they are considering requiring bloggers to register their surname, ID (national ID, work ID or passport), e-mail and phone number. Sounds like they want a quick way to contact you in case anything "dangerous" appears on your weblog. This is getting a lot of press in China, especially online. You can join in the discussion in Chinese on the QQ BBS (QQ is the top website in China by some counts; an ICQ-era relic, but still going strong), which set up a special feature page with news, and editorial viewpoints for and against the measures under discussion: http://tech.qq.com/zt/2006/blog/