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Aug 10 07:14:05 2005

Thoughts on the PSP

After playing with the PSP for some time now, I think it all makes sense to me now: The PSP is what killed the Clie.

Many theories have been made on why Sony dropped the Clie line. The Palm and PPC fans always like to say "bacause the Clie's crap, no one wants them." I really don't think so. If so, then why did the line live so long? Why didn't Sony drop it earlier? I've always thought Sony is a troubled company, figuring out where's their profits. It's a big complex of thousands of divisions. So it's now cuting the smaller ones (eg. the Clie line) to save money.

But also, I think it's more of a problem of products with over lapping markets. The PSP was actually what the Clie was ment to be: a portable media center. The Clies did what it was ment to do, beautifully. However, labling it as a PDA made it's market limited, since most people don't think of PDAs as media devices. They're thought of as organizers or handheld computers instead, which only business man should need. But the PSP is a gaming device, which would be connect to a reputation of an entertainment hub. And it's also more affordable and acceptable by most people.

Thus, I think Sony must have seen the PSP as the succeeder of the Clie, and much more. Under this stratagy, of course the Clies should be cut and make everybody move to the next big hit, the PSP.

Finally found some meaning in my life

Have been pretty down for the past year.
But now, after a month doing experiments in a lab, I guess I found just what I'd like to do for a living: doing research. Actually, I'd be looking forward to this day since elementry school, but never expected I'd be so attracted, excited with and enjoying these lab work that seem to be constructed by a bunch of highly repetitive work. However, once you know about the whole big picture, make sure what you're doing, what's your approach, what's your goal, the whole thing sort of sucks you in. Every failures and success, no mater which, makes you more excited with the whole thing. It's all about tackling problems, finding one, pinning it down and conquering it. Failures are not set backs, but rather clues to what you should try next. You find a stratagy, try it refine it and slowly close in on your goal. Even that part of taking notes and organising your progress is an exciting jorney through a new world waiting for your discovery. By just focusing on the experiments, you get to forget all your worries and woes of other parts of your life. Lab work entices your adventurous sprit.

So now, research as a carrier, cycling as a sport, guess that it for my future life^^

明天到底是怎樣?

台北照常呼?
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/050804/39/254e5.html
台北放假呼?
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/050804/161/254sa.html

怒
亂報一通

好啦,以這邊為主
http://www.cpa.gov.tw/

好了,我今天overnight incubate的菌要怎麼辦?
(其實不想放假)

10th planet discovered?

-News from NASA JPL
-News from ABC News

(Artist's concept image, with the Sun in the far distance. From NASA/JPL's website)

Do not say "the 9 planets of the Solar systen", from now on, make that 10.

It was reported that the 10th planet of the solar system was found, farther from the Sun then Pluto, the 9th. It is now called "2003UB313", with a size bigger then Pluto, and a similar icy, rocky surface. It was discovered using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego, CA. The discovery was announced on July 29 by planetary scientist Dr. Mike Brown of Cal-Tech in Pasadena, Calif., whose research is partly funded by NASA.

However, some may say that this is the "real" 9th planet since Pluto is considered by some as an "astroid" instead of a planet.

今天晚餐的談話...

跟一群社上的朋友去吃飯, 聊著聊著, 講到誰誰誰電腦裡很多蘿莉圖, 誰誰誰又有點色; 不知怎樣, 就有人說: "松智的電腦應該很乾淨吧?" 學長就說: "我用過, 真的很乾淨"
然後一個女生就問說: "難道你真的是木頭嗎?"...

嗯. 被大家這樣討論真不知道該高興還是傷心?(原來我在大家眼中的形象是這樣...)

當木頭, 算是受過傷之後, 不得已的選擇吧.
為了防止自己傷的更深, 全力清除生活中會讓我想到傷心事的事物. 卻無法徹底清除心中的慾望, 只能把它封印到最深處. 成為木頭, 是個讓希望能自己生活快樂一點的嘗試, 卻也是個無法完美達成的目標.

看著身邊朋友一個一個找到那個值得關懷, 付出, 守護的人
心裡非常混亂
有祝福, 有羨慕; 也有忌妒, 憤怒, 和一份自悲的無力感
自己卻已經失去去尋找那個人的動力與衝勁了, 而開始懷疑她的存在
我唯一能做的, 就只有繼續壓抑自己的情緒, 每多一分鐘不去想它, 就多少一分鐘的痛苦.
只是不知到這樣不斷的壓抑, 抑制, 是否會有什麼不好的結果.
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"請你暫時不要理我, 我只是一塊在無情的大海中浮浮沉沉的木頭."

石門水庫探路之行

-3個人一起騎, 卻都分別來自3個不同的學校.
-美聿要借的車剛拿到就已經爆胎了=>一天的早晨從換胎開始.
-一路聊天過去, 每停一個休息點, 又聊至少十幾分鐘以上才走.
-又吃到思樂冰了^^ 中途經過三峽時為了思樂冰特別鑽入小巷找7-11; 回程時邦尼又再去補了第2杯(辦活動時就以這個為收對點, 來個思樂冰團吧XD)
-里程破百, horray!!!
-除了石門水庫風景區內以外, 全程緩上緩下. 之前一直很虛的體力終於恢復正常了. 我全程有80%以上都掛大盤. (飆車真爽)
-石門水庫好髒啊~~
-大家團購了2瓶2.2L礦泉水, 再加上思樂冰, 午晚餐麵湯, 額外飲料, 單日每人攝取水分超過2公升. 夏天騎車的開銷真的很大.
-發現我有一個跟清大邦尼一個相同點: 肚子餓了就開始飆車, 看可不可以早點到達有食物的地方.
-赫然發現, 桃園好近, 而石門水庫的南方就是新竹縣界了. 所以, 新竹也很近, 修推來新竹玩吧:D

其實今天的最大收穫是多了一個可以聊得很開的朋友/車友, 並在談話間更了解清大車社(原來他們專門在情人節辦活動的...好人的怨念...我們台大聖誕節也排一個吧!). 期待學期中跟清大一起辦大活動會師^^

Statistics:
Max speed: 58.5km/hr
Odometer : 1982.7km
Distance : 111.05km
Time : 6:20
Avg speed : 17.5km/hr

Sony to make SLRs with Konica Minolta

Intresting what they might come up with to take on the much acclamed Nikon and Cannon DSLRs.
Hope this means better choices for all consumers.

However, the name might be a tounge twister.
Lets say the guy in the store told you that there's cammeras from "Sony Konica Minolta" and Nikon, and you now try to guess wither there's 2 brands, 3 brands or 5 brands.

Tech in our Lab...

One thing that impressed me when I first met our professor of our lab, was that he used a clie and an iMac G4.
But what's intresting is that a professor seems to have some kind of influance on the others in the lab.
Lets see, there's a total of 3 clies that I knew of in the lab (mine would be the 4th)
Even more impressive is that there's another iMac in the lab as a public computer, and amoung the graduates, an iBook, 2 powerbooks. There's even more people saying that they are planing on buying an Apple as their notebook computer.

So when you have good products, I guess it's good marketing to let leaders use them, and the people that he leads might follow suit. :D

暑假墮落...

最近總覺得只要一離開實驗室, 就變的很...沒精神
結果除了實驗外的事都做的很糟糕

排課拖了很久, 拖延了幾個禮拜後, 搞出一個以超重課塞滿20幾學分的自殺課表

社團下學期的活動時間表, 一直停留在暫定的狀態, 有不知要去哪的, 也有不知誰主辦的

社團網頁, 也是一直拖延, 現在又停格在半成品狀態了

到圖書館借了一堆書回來, 結果卻只是借回來占書架空間的, 沒什麼在讀

只要一個人獨處就再度進入無神狀態, 只是掛在電腦前發呆, 或想著自己有多爛
一直說要忘掉的事卻每天回想
一直說要療傷卻自己在傷口拼命抹鹽...

...(好準的星座分析, 正親身體會中T_T)

雙魚座最怕失去的東西：夢想
雙魚座是一個愛幻想，精神空虛的星座，由于他長期需要一個精神支柱，所以常常有一些不切實際的夢想，一旦夢想破滅了，可以想象。
from: http://tw.mb.yahoo.com/astro/board.php?&bname=152958182&action=m&tid=105424&p=3
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disillusioned, no more day dreaming...

WTF, Docs2go kept loosing data!

I've been using docs2go on my clie to take notes on lab work.
Today, it kept quiting it self without saving everytime I open another application.
I guess I reentered some stuff for more then 3 times.

Then, the sad part.
As I just said, I reinstalled the OS on my desktop. So my docs2go desktop app is reinstalled, too. A first sync today right after the reinstallation, loaded 3 duplicates of my labnote file on both my desktop and my clie. But it also restored all 3 duplicates to where I stoped last week. That means a DATA-LOSS of A WEEKS worth! Holy shit!

Alas, I reentered all of what I can remember, but some data are lost forever. but the part that I entered over 3times today is partly documented elsewere, and I remembered every bit of the part that's not documented, thanks for the mutiple inputs that make me memorise them...

CRAP.
I don't think I should sync docs2go anymore, since backing up files doesn't require the mess of syncing.

PSP firmware update2.0! (for japan)

(also posted on 1src, read the discussions on 1src)

Hay, intresting update, makes the PSP a more mature product.

Here's what I can get with my clumsy Japanese. If you're Japanese, you can read it here:
http://www.playstation.jp/psp/update/ud_01.html
or better, correct where I'm wrong :)
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>web:
-A browser (finally! But I doubt it'll be easy to surf the web with a D-pad)

>video:
-Jump function?(what's this?)
-A-B repeat (repeat playback between 2 points)
-4:3 video mode added
-Mute function added
-New format supported for the memory stick: MP4（AVC）(what's different from the original?)

>Music:
-ATTRAC3 format supported for MS PRO DUO with use of Sonicstage 3.2! (Horray! Can we use ATTRAC3 in MS PRO with clies also? :D )
-AAC and WAV file playback supported (great!)

>Photos:
-You can now set wallpapers!
-Photos can be receved(with what? IR photo transfer from a clie?)
-TIFF、GIF、PNG、BMP formats supported

>Settings:
-Added:
Korean menu option, font selection(I guess), theme settings, browser launch restrictions, security settings, "WPA-PSK(TKIP)" security supported(what?), keyboard input to web supported.
---
Oh yeah, the update will be avaliable on July 27. The file you get now from the link is ver 1.52.
14MB on the MS needed and the file should be under /PSP/GAME/UPDATE
Wonder if this works on models not bought in Japan, can't find a warning that says you can't.

The eXPerience

Here is my "eXPerience"with window$. Since "Micro$oft" used to tout the "new eXPerience" of XP, here's a discription.
(Just reinstalled XP again, and much thanks, it wasted me at lease 7 hours of life, including the reinstallment of my applications and drivers. Yes, my computer is running smooth now, but don't expect it to hold for more then 4 months)
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Welcome to the great experience of XP.
It gives you a chance to see the "safe mode" everyday, which you rarely have the chance to see in previous versions of windows.
We've minimized the chance for you to see the infamous "blue screen of death", so that you won't know what hit you when your computer freezes up.
We've also included new features, for example, "system restore", which you well be seeing with every bootup!
New Monthly updates require you to pause your work and reset the system constantly.
Also new, we invite you to experience the world of "reset loops", which is also a new feature! It altomaticaly reboots your computer when you try to turn on your computer, everyday before windows is completely loaded, add tells you that windows didn't successfully load. from here, you have the choice to try the new feature of "system restore", or enjoy the extream security of "safe mode". And also, "reset loops" allows you to enjoy the floating flag of the windows logo several times a day!
But here's the best feature yet! The reset loops make you reinstal windows every six month, which allows you to remember your windows CD key or even be able to recite lots of micro$oft propaganda!

Enjoy your eXPerience with XP!

Y.A.S.T.

WTF! "Yet Another Stupid Typhoon" had just passed by.

It provided an additional day off, leaving me with nothing to do but play games on PDA /PSP, or sleep. Since I didn't plan for a day off, and all my unread books and computer files for all the undone work are far away at my dorm, I've simply got nothing to do. It brought almost no wind from a typhoon's standard and lots of rain. It brought back some stupid memories of last year, of the stupid things I did, the stupid phone calls I made, the stupid messages I sent, the stupid thoughts I had... Damn it, will it just go away?

Hated typhoons last year just because some stupid reason. I was the fool. Had no reason to hate them this year, but am still a little down because of the memories.

pa1mOne name now back to Palm

palmOne Becomes Palm Again
(on 1src)

And a new logo so it can now sell orange soda (lol)
The design fits just right on a can of orange soda, just what I needed for this hot and sweaty summer night!

I still like the good old blue circle better

待探活動路線&下學期活動預定

1.北宜->小格頭->石碇->109->106->軍功路
2.土城/新店 (unusable)
3.三峡 (double check滿月圓)
4.桃園/石門水庫
5.汐止
6.福隆露營, 老人自hi2天大活動
7.瑞芳->九份, 維持一天

活動暴力化の始める ○￣＿

date of sunday	sat	sun	note
Sep 18 2005		1. 北海岸/龍門露營	中秋老人自hi団,之後開學
Sep 25 2005	士林	2. 猫空 by芳諭
Sep 30 2005			Fri, BBQ by 牧梅＆naox
Oct 1 2005	o1. offroad101	淡水by 智誠&naox
Oct 9 2005	b.大活動	々by chroma&牧梅	國慶3休日
Oct 16 2005	深坑	3. 巴拉卡
Oct 22 2005	o2. offroad2	?
Oct 30 2005	勉強します
Nov 6 2005	期中考
Nov 12 2005	b2.宜蘭hybrid	々by 牧梅
Nov 20 2005	x	5. 桃園へ？
Nov 26 2005	6. 北47/北47-1by deadkid＆松智
Dec 3 2005	x	o3. offroad3
Dec 10 2005	烏来		(烏来休推)
Dec 17 2005	7. 瑞芳／九分by 松智and Toby
Dec 24 2005	?		クリスマス前夜祭
Jan 1 2006	勉強します
Jan 8 2006	期末考
Jan 15 2006	花東？

想接主辦的請跟我連絡^^(尤其是知道"社上沒出過活動的好路線"的人報上名來吧)
給個意見吧！------------------------v(點這裡)

Where've all the portable video players gone?

About half a year ago, when Gates just launched the "Windows portable media stations", hard disk based portable video players were all the rage, with all tech news prodicting it as "the next iPod".

Well, what do we see now? Portable video players are no where to be seen on the news or fourms, already pretty hard to find in stores, and I've never seen one used on the streets. Instead, people are saying that PSPs are great video players and memory sticks are selling like hot cakes. I don't know if people really do watch movies on their PSPs, but I guess sony accidently killed the portable video player market. Sometimes a product is going to die, no matter how the press likes it.

Say, where's the smart phones that they said were so cool? So far I only see ocassionaly, Treos and the Sony Ericsson P series. Where's the others? Shouldn't they be taking the world by storm?

my lab...

糟,在我這個lab中,男生似乎是極為弱勢的族群...

Google Earth Rocks!

Want a 3D map+sat photo package? Get google earth for free!

I've located my home, school, and even tried a search for driving directions from my cousin's home to LAX airport! Although it's a little disapointing that detailed read data seems to be only avaliable for the US, which means no driving directions for Taiwan. Anyway, try to let it "play" the directions, and it will take you "flying" from one place to another, it's like riding some sort of floating device in the air :) The driving route it showed took the best route possible, avoiding all the older highways which are heavy with traffic, and the line drown is in such great detail that it reminds you where to change lanes and which ramp to take at highway intersections.

Little problems with it are that parts of the photos are very old (our school's library is still a flat plaza/not built in google earth), some parts not clear, and some other parts covered by clouds. And only the US had the most detail. And, it is heavy on your graphics card and internet grid, since it does a lot of 3D rendering and gets all photos and data from google's servers.

However, it's still a very fun tool. Satalite images were never easier to get.

I've saved the spot of our school, if you can't find NTU, just feed this file into google earth :)

...

積存了半年的淚水, 只有稀釋, 沒有釋放

也許, 失去愛人的能力, 會讓生活好過一些

News: Teen slain for his iPod

A sad reason not to buy an iPod?
I don't know, but exchanging a life for an iPod just isn't right.
(news from usatoday.com)

Independence day

Forth of July, happy birthday USA!
However, I don't have much to do here in Taiwan...

耍笨夜騎上武嶺

6/30經過一整天很累的爬坡, 終於到達觀雲山莊. 吃完那要用搶的晚餐後, 到大通舖整理一下東西, 並休息了一下. 此時智誠說要出去夜騎看看. 很想夜騎(很想試試新買的頭燈在夜晚的威力), 又以為只到大禹嶺的我就說我也要跟去.

頭 燈裝了新的4顆電池(80元T_T)後輕裝上路. 本來想說要在11:00前回山莊, 就要求要定一個時間折返. 結果心中想著9:30說出來的卻是10:30, 也不知為何當時不想跟智誠更正, 就認了... 一路上狀況很好, 不到30分鐘就到了大禹嶺...原來才4公里而已. 好吧, 就繼續往武嶺殺, 看10:30前能到哪. 大禹嶺有好心人士叫我們要注意夜中高速行駛的"蔬菜運輸車".

從8號切入14甲後, 路開始明顯變陡, 但不知為何狀況真的很好. 除了要運用2吸1吐的技巧多吸點氧氣外, 真的不覺得累. 空氣很涼, 但我那"大賣場100元防風外套"的保暖效果還滿棒的XD. "蔬菜運輸車"果然多, 夜晚中的安全靠口語通報. 跟智誠2人一前一後, 看到前方有轉彎就互相通報方向("turn left"), 聽到或看到有車更是要喊("incomming" , "有車, 距離300公尺" 或 "truck comming, stay out of the curve"), 然後找個安全的地方停下來會車. 就這樣走走停停, 一直休息, 偶而還看看星星, 慢慢的就爬上山了. 山上的星空真的很棒. 在沒車經過時可以說是幾乎完全無光害, 北斗七星, 銀河等都一清二楚. 我還是第一次注意到有些星星真的會明暗閃爍呢! 另外還看到了一顆流星喔, 只不過太快了, 來不及許願...

爬了一段山後忽然發現前方的路段變成很長的下坡, 開始懷疑是否走對路. 智誠只好打電話回去問技師. 一段時間後, 確定沒問題, 就帶著不安的心情滑下去. 然後, 過了氣象觀測站(有個電子看板顯示氣溫12度C)後, 果然不出所料的出現超陡坡. 這超陡坡果然毒, 之前的輕鬆都不見了, 開始累了, 而且左小腿腓腸肌開始痛了, 而且風超大的, 還要不時下車躲卡車, 在陡坡上又很難上車...真的不好騎. 過了一段度日如年的爬坡時光後, 又見到了下坡...此時心裡只想著"Oh man, not again, 又要浪費未能再繼續爬了喔...武嶺怎麼這麼遠?" 但智誠卻發現旁邊有個不起眼的小樓梯. 停下車, 爬上去, 手電筒一照, 竟看到了...一個熟悉的牌子, 上面寫著斗大的兩個字"武嶺"! (哇! 2日上武嶺耶^^)本來計畫要在山上大喊一聲"幹"以發洩過去一個學期的怨念的, 卻過度興奮, 對天大喊了2句我自己也不記得的瘋言瘋語. 只記得第一句好像是類似某連續劇中女主角看到愛琴海時喊的東西XD(好啦, 我已經瘋了) 山上的星空再加上天氣的配合更美麗了, 遠方暗暗的山丘也很漂亮, 再加上乾淨的空氣, 真是棒極了. 沒帶相機或PDA出來還真是可惜... (真希望有個女友可以分享這份喜悅)

在 觀景台上hi完後, 準備快樂的滑下山, 沒想到卻是災難的開始. 首先我的後燈沒電了. 然後滑了幾公尺後, 前燈也掛了. Great, just great. 運氣真好. 只好拿出鑰匙圈上的單顆LED照路(可見度比鹵素前燈少了至少2/3)然後靠智誠借的頭燈滑下去. 此時的前燈很怪, 休息過一陣子又亮了. 本來以為過熱, 燈泡拿出來卻冷冷的(後來問技師才知道其實是電池沒電了, 然後過一陣子又有電了). 然後, 過了氣象觀測站開始爬坡時連智誠借的頭燈也掛了. 結果兩個人很寒酸的靠著一顆LED慢慢往上爬...到了下坡路段時我忽然發覺, "蔬菜運輸車"好亮啊. 有些為了夜間安全還全車為了7彩小燈泡, 有如電子花車. 於是我們兩個就趁著下坡還跟得上卡車速度的路段, 貼著卡車的屁股走, 有如吸盤魚吸在鯊魚身上一般. 不但借用它的照明; 有對向來車時不用躲, 它幫我們開路; 卡車後面甚至還會排熱, 完全不怕冷; 唯一的缺點就是必須要多吸廢氣.

再回到8號公路後, 因為我自己記錯觀雲山莊的里程, 智誠又認錯"山莊", 結果迷路在觀雲山莊和大禹嶺間短短的4公里...現在想起來還蠻搞笑的. 打了好幾通求救電話回去, 又一邊幾找路. 此時還要輪流開頭燈輪流"休息頭燈". 然後又在對自己的直覺信心不足的情況下, 竟在到達觀雲山莊前半公里折返, 一直到"再度遇見大禹嶺"後才搞懂自己在轉圈圈. 回去後又衝過頭幾公尺, 因觀雲山莊把招牌的霓虹燈關了. 在路口見到文三錩等人所組成的搜救大隊, 真是太感動了. 還聽說他們走了一公里, 還被一群狗包圍, 真是對不起大家.

為大家帶來的麻煩與不便非常抱歉. 回去後只有冷水澡可以洗也可以算是種懲罰吧.

第二天早上要跟大家一起上山時, 發現自己已經把體力在前一天晚上用完了, 一路上像個需要散熱的野狗狂喘氣, 慢慢龜上山...這才是耍笨最直接的報應啊~~

The movie of Narnia in the works!

Just found out that the classics of C.S. Louis are being filmed into a new movie, with the first of the 7 parts, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, comming out this Christmas. The director is Andrew Adamson, who directed the Shrek series, and like the Lord of the Rings, it's filmed in New Zealand(with some parts in Cezch). The effects and sceneary in the trailer are beautiful and ashtonishing, reminding me once again of The Rings trilegy, and yes, the creatures are almost like what I expected them to look like when I read the stories. Since there are 7 books in all, I guess this would be yet another sequel series just like Herry Potter and the Lord of the Rings. However, I'm already sold when seeing the trailer on apple's quicktime movie directories, and really think this is a movie to be excited about. Also, I'd really like to see how they interprited the story. I'd really hate to see another movie that does as bad a job at story telling as the Herry Potter movies, which had a lot of the important info stripped out.

By the way, if you haven't read the book, read it. Although a child's book, it's still a masterpiece.

As for the trailer, see it here.

2005武嶺會師

I'm back. Was really a good trip.

Here's my photos

遊記嘛...還不知到要不要寫XD

Just saw the LifeDrive

It's finally released in here Taiwan.

I tested it today in a store and here's what I think.
The casing is absolutly good looking. The sturdy and cool feel of aluminum is just great. And somehow the design makes you think that the screen is very very big. I had to take out my NX73 to convince myself that it's the same size as my clie's.

The notorious 5sec lags are nonexistant. Everything jumps out almost instantly. (Maybe the complaining guys are comparing it to a palm Vx?) The longest lag I've seen is from pocket tunes, which took 3~4secs indexing just 2 songs. But pocket tunes is a known to have some bugs on the lifedrive, and would have an update soon. And besides, my clie audioplayer also lags sometimes when indexing songs, no big deal here. And you know what, pocket tunes on the lifedrive still loads faster then sony's vaio pocket music player(which is a piece of crap).

Everything is so suprisingly smooth that at one point I was considering to buy it as my next PDA... until I came apon blazer. The sells told me that the lifedrive is that fastest web browsing PDA he had ever seen, and asked me if I ever seen pocket IE on PPCs. I said no, and proceeded my test. He said that he was always a PPC guy, but this thing made him consider switching to palm.(good one here, palmOne)
WIFI connection is slightly faster then my clie, and blazer loads palmOne's moble portal site instantly. But then, I decided to see if it renders normal sites as good as Netfront3.1. I was expecting the same result because Access said on their site that palmOne used their rendering engine in the newest version of Blazer. So I tried the slowest, bulkiest site that I would read with my clie~ www.1src.com . At first I has problems with grafiti anywhere, I don't know how to tell it whether I'm selecting or writing. But eventually, I wrote in the URL. (with grafiti 2, which is also difficult for me) And now, Blazer suffers, slowly rendering the site, with text only, and a window popped up saying "not enough memory" a minute later. Hay man, didn't you have a harddrive built in? And you are telling me you can only show me pure text? I tried to see if I could force it to show not only text but also images, to no avill. Maybe I'm not familer with Blazer, but it's menu is sure confusing. Sorry, Netfront still rules, both on palm and PPC.

That's it, Blazer is that thing that brought me back to reality. The lifedrive lacks 3 essentials: Netfront, Decuma and Picsel viewer. Now, maybe I should get a TH55 as a backup instead.

Class list for next semester

3分子生物學 molecular biology
3動物生理學 animal physiology
1動物生理學實驗 animal physiology experiment
2生物統計學 biological statistics

2計算機程式設計 computer programing
2心理學 psychology
2拓撲學 topology
2体育 PE

共17學分
adding more in the future...
天阿7個重課！！

My NX73 in a comic?

Isn't this my clie?
今天在死亡筆記本第64話中看到的, 夜神總一郎用sony clie NX73掌上型電腦傳訊息給兒子
天阿, 這個作者實在是畫得太棒了, 跟我的NX73長得一模一樣, 一眼就認得出來

Systematics Ch10text book notes

Evolutionary classification
Criteria
1.genealogy/common descent
2.different degrees of modification which descendants have undergone.

Steps
1.sort into provisional classification by overall similarity.
2.test for monophyly, usually by cladistic analysis.

Recognition of taxa
1. Distinctness(size of gap)
2. Degree of difference(more charactors better)
3. Evolutionary role
4. Grade characteristics (groups of animals similar in general level of organization as distinct from groups of common genetic origin are called grades.)
5. Size of taxon
6. Equivalence of ranking in related taxa(balance)
7. Stability

Article link: PDA obsession

PDA24/7 - The PDA ruined my Life?

In this article, by Shaun, who runs one of the biggest PDA related sites, he talks about his obession with PDAs and his site.
He said "the PDA starts to dictate how you spend your leisure time and stops you from thinking reactively" that's an intresting point. However, I guess what really matters is how much of your life do you organise with your PDA. In my case, I have chunks of free time that I don't know what to do with exactly, while I only have 2 goals in mind: 1)study, 2)look for fun. You could organise every bit of your life, however, as I'm a guy that always do stuff on impluse and who seldom work according to timelines. I'm a "goal-orinted guy", so for some stuff, I prefer to use the To-Do list instead of the Datebook. Besides, I've tried severel times to completely organise my day, comming out with a datebook view with numerous chunks of "study time", which is quite boring just to look at. And besides, I never succesed to use time precisely according to that kind of organisation. I usually end up using "study time" reading novels :) Actually, I use Datebook for appointments that have time limits, such as classes, speechs I need to go to, or appointments I have with others. Other stuff goto the todo list. I like flexibility.

On the other side, I've seen a friend with his datebook completely blank. I'd ask: "then why buy a PDA in the first place?" seem that some people buy them not to organise, but just as another expensive toy. Now, in that case, the PDA is wasting a lot of his time while saving none.

intresting news: A Wireless World, Bound To Sockets

A Wireless World, Bound To Sockets
Washington Post (Link may need free registration)
Sunday, June 19, 2005; Page A01

Intresting article.
It said that an average modern person brings about 5.5 power eating gadgets... How much do you bring around?
Let me see what I have with me...
PDA
Camara... built into my PDA
Computer... just what my PDA is used for
MP3 player... also built into my PDA
Electionic dictionary... also covered by my PDA
And mobile phone.

Hm...
That means that if I buy everything seperately, I would have 5 seperate gadgets with 5 heavy chargers. However, I only need to bring one for my PDA, while my phone has a battery life of a month. Sometimes it's good to have a convergence device :)

And yeah, I did sit on the airport floor next to a socket last summer for a quick battery charge. And I did notice that at Osaka airport, there was and army of guys with Apple powerbooks, forming a whole line along the wall, one or two next to each socket.

Cell biology exam info

These are from my notes, if I missed anything, please comment.(BX板上也有小球的必考題整理)

Ch1
-Search: What is "Yeast-Two Hybrid system"?
-Important: Temperature sensitive mutatent~ a mutant gene product is only defective in function under unnormal tempratures
-one cell is about 10 microns in diameter

Ch12
-Important: tables 12-2&12-3
-Important: patch clamping research

Ch16
-Search: What steroid hormone other than progestrone has a membrane receptor?
-Important: FRET~Floresence resonance energy transfer
(Check here for more info on Wikipedia)
-Give an example of the "dominant negative" receptor techneque. (Which is flooding the membrane surface with over expressed truncated receptor.)

By the way, Scirus is much better than NCBI's search engine, it shows abstarcts and searches more databases.

New skin for SkinUI: Concept C1

New skin for SkinUI: Concept C1

Studying for the final exams sure is boring, and I really want a new skin to liven up my day, so...
Partly inspired by sony japan's beautiful website (If only their walkmans are as cool as their website...)
Finally done it :) Enjoy.

Comments, anyone?

t-storms; with thunderstorms; a t-storm or two...

Something I really hate to see on my clie
(From the weather panel of Avantgo travel)

Seats at the library are hard to find

First, of course, you want one with a desk, because you want to study, not just read.

Next, you avoid those next to the library offices to avoid the noise.

Then you want one next to a power outlet so you can listen to music without using the battery; leaving you with about 30% of choices.

Sometime you want a spot with a strong WIFI signal for web access. However, this is not important.

Last, you want to avoid the noisily chating, hugging and kissing couples. But avoiding these couples leaves you only 10% of choices.

With the power outlet & kissing couple avoidance rules, I get about 10*30=3% of the seats to choice from~ and most of those are usually taken.

Mood: Oh, man, not again...

(Warning, do not read if you don't like crap talk)

Damn, I'm day dreaming again. Hormones overwhelming, can't concentrate on studying. In the mode which half of my mind is going irrational, or just going haywire. When that half takes over, stupid things I will do...

Quit it! I need a logical, rational mind right now. To hell with the hormones and neurotransmitters. Once again, I'm wishing that some kind of antagonist exists as a pill...

Great places to get wallpapers

Some of my friends like my wallpapers on my clie or my desktop, so here's where I usually get my wallpapers:

1. JAL壁紙コレクション:
   Japan Airlines has a great colection, renewed monthly usually comes with a calender.
2. deviantart.com :
   A great site to get art, photograph, GC, skins and much more.
3. National Geographic:
   I guess everyone knows this is a great destination if you're into photographs.

As for anime, some are great, but I don't like them to be my wallpaper, they usually make it look messy, expecially if you have a desktop full of shortcuts/icons. As a rule for a clean look, I stick with photos and keep the number of icons on my desktop under 5.

More clones? this time with PPCs

Do these 2 look alike? These are the Fujitsu pocket Loox v70 and Asus Mypal A730W
Specs look the same, and the casing is defenently the same. My guess is that Asus made this as an OEM for Fujitsu, but also sold it under the Asus brand in Taiwan. I recall the 2 already did this kind of thing with some notebook before.

Looks good, was one of the only 2 PPC I'd be intrested to play with (the other is the iPaq with the touch pad) and is the only PPC I'd consider "nearly as good" as my clie. However, I still see no reason to switch to the darkside. Start menus just downright suck.

Yes, I stick with PalmOS unless palm screwed-up badly.

Ultimate skinning tool for PalmOS5~skinUI

In case you are a Palm user and haven't known about it, check out skinUI by dmitrygr at palmpowerups.com

It skins title bars buttons menus and much more. Although it's still in beta, it's nearly done, with some minor bugs left, and it already seem like the coolist new app of the palm comunity lately, being mentioned on most major palm related sites :)

And don't forget a skin I modified from the original Cobalt skin:

CobaltDark, with new command bar icons!

And of course, thank dmitrygr for this great app.

Just got a new pair of headphones

My new sony Q36

Sadly, my old Q33 somehow got it's cord badly bent, and it won't play a note unless I kept it bent with a wire or tape or press it hard with my fingers. The wires sort of broke, I guess. It's such a waste. My old Q33 headphone was the first "clip-on" style headphone I know of, can change color by switching "shells" and has very very good sound quality. I've used it for about 2 years, I guess.

Oh well, here I am with my new Q36 I got today. It looks cool, matches the color of my black clie (PDA) and the cord is soft and comfortable, covered with cloth. Best of all, it has a built-in cord coiler, with the press of a button, the cord will be pulled in, out of sight.

However, I was disapointed with my first experience with it. Sony said that the cord roller is "quite". But, when I pressed that button, the cord rolled in with CLICKS so loud that it would only be "quite" if you're at some noisy place like Disneyland. The sponge is harder because it's still new. And, this thing is made in China, while my old Q33 is made in Japan. But most of all, sound is sort of dull and muffled; not as clear as my old Q33, now sound quality is what I really care about, and this preformence makes me think that this thing is a waste of money. However, they don't accept returns unless it's defective. Also, I've heard that all new headphones need some "molding in", and it takes time for it to do it's best sound quality.

Well, I guess I'll have to wait and see. Wish it'll get as good as my old one.

流行病學info from ptt PH-92版

1)流行病學期末考:
6/27 @基醫201R

2)轉鄭老師來電通知：

下週一(6/13)的流行病學課程，原則上正常上課，

可能會上到 PM6:30 或 PM7:00。

After reading the chapter of Cladistics in Systematics

A few thoughts...

The conflict: the words "Holophyly" and "Monophyly".
Originally, taxas of which all are from the same ancestor are "monophylitic groups", and out-groups are considerd another monophyly. Then came Henning with his Cladistics methods. In order to get his method to make sense, he took the word "monophyly" and applied a new defenition, meaning taxas that are composed of ALL the offspring of a common ancertor, including out-groups. Now with one word, two meanings, we have a confusion. Then along came Ashlock. In an attempt to clear things up, he tryed to replace Henning's "monophyly" with a new word, "holophyly". But, people started to use both words in cladistics; and we now have 2 overlaping words with 2 definitions, and a total of 3 combinations of word:definitions pairs.
Thanks a lot for messing stuff up, folks.

Notes: to find apomorphic charactors.
1.Out group comparison
If one of two homologous characters that occur as variants within a single holophyletic or monophyletie group is also found in the sister group, it is the plesiomorphic character.Any character that is restricted to the monophyletic group is apomorphic. A paraphyletic group is a monophyletic taxon which does not include all the derived ex-groups.

2. Ontogenetic sequence~ development.

3. Stratigraphic sequence~ fossil record.
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Autapomorpeic characters evolved in only one of two sister groups.~ignored in cladistics.

How did Mayr wrote this chapter?
Introduced the Cladistics method with detail with 10 pages; told the advantages and usages of cladistics in half a page; then used up a total of 20 pages bashing the method and the supporters of cladistics altogether as if they are all useless unreasonable junk.
He even used emotional phrases such as "..., so be it."

Boy, he really hates the new kids in town...

What the hell...

Threw in my clothes in the dryer, inserted the coin, and waited 45 minutes here in my room.
45 minutes after, went back just to notice that I didn't press the "start" button...
Rats...

To my classmates...

明天6/8起一個禮拜內, 別忘了填教學意見調查
對各個老師的感激或怨念都在這時獲得解放...

On life: Real intrests?

While preparing for the nearing final exams, I started to feel bored and dosed off several times. Then I started to think, "What do I really like?" I choose to major in biology because I felt it intresting in high school. But now, I feel bored, so what am I really intrested in?

Now I come to think of it, I'm actually intrested in all sorts of things. I could walk in a library on a free day, and read all kinds of books, from technology to literiture, you name it. However, I hated to prepare for tests on those kinds of things. Literiture or computer science exams, or something else, whatever, I hate exams. However, when it comes to Biology, I just feel the exams boring, but I don't HATE them.

So now I have a more clear view of my self, I guess. It's the test preperation boring, not the topic boring. So, oh well, I should retreve my intrest of biology after the exams, I guess.

iPod sells falling...

Saw this on MobileRead.
Looks like the sells of iPods are falling.
I wouldn't say that "it's the end of iPod fads", but rather, I guess it's turning into a mature market, just as PDA. Most of the people who wants one have already got one, so growth is slowing down. That's all.

I wouldn't say that I like iPods since they feel so plastic...
But I should admit that at their recent price, iPods got the best value on the market.
Maybe I'd consider one if they come out with PowerBook styled aluminum iPods :)
In the mean time, the offerings on the market seems to tell me to stick with my beloved Sony Clie for MP3s.

Mood: To my self...

This semester is near it's end, so pull your self back together and kick some ass, man!!
(My progress: Mostly still un-studied, 2 and a half chapters left on cell-biology
Next target: Biochem)

What's that you were puting into your mouth?

A day or two ago, a Taipei city councilor told the press that several food venders were selling food that were recycled from funeral houses, previously used in some funeral ritual. He pointed out several venders (some reported a number of 6, others a number of 11), and since NTU is near a municipal funeral houses(about a mile from my dorm, I guess...), some amoung the list are near our campus, which we, our selves might had eatten some! (eew, sick...)

Overhyped
And so, I did a news search on google, and found some follow up reports. Apperently this councilor wasn't creditible. Of the listed names (the 6-numbered version, I really can't find the 11-numbered version although it was mentioned), as a reporter discovered, one has been closed for over a year, and others were non-existent. Fine with me, since I seldom trust politicians. So, this is an overhyped report, right? I think this is quite apperent. However, I never liked the food those venders near the back of our campus provided, either. Many of them are over priced and contain so much grease and MSG that they make you want to puke. Besides, it's a sticky and oily street with cockroches running about.

"So, just don't eat there..."
Well, I'd think there's much diference in the food in our campus, either. Nearly all the food options that a student could afford on a daily basis are servered over greased, over flavored, and lacks veggies. Sometimes I even prefer skipping meals or just drinking milk as a substitute.

Enter fastfood.
How about the bigger, highly known names?
I just read a book from the library, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
It tells you how these franchises are over charging you with low quality food. Let me point out a few. What you taste of almost every fastfood dish is of flavoring, not the food. For example, real french fries don't taste the way they do at the big M, instead, your tasting beef extract. They undercharge employees, and many of them are teenagers that don't care about your health. You may get a hamburger that has once been dropped on the floor. And the beef paddies. They come from big sloghter houses that care more about production speed then anything else, so your beef may contain shit from raptured guts that are carelessly removed. There are much more, just read the book and you'll know.

So what should we eat?
I don't know. I consider food that you cook a home yourself the only really safe food. However, that is not an option for us dorm dwellers, since cooking is prohibted for fear of fire hazards. So, I guess we are destinied to eat CRAP to get our education done. But is food at home really safer than the food outside? Think again. The "American Beef" you get at supermarkets are also from the same sloghter houses that provide the hamburger beef paddies, and germs that normally only live in the guts (such as E coli. 0157) are frequently found, according to the book. And we all know that vegtables with high levels of pesticides are also heard of from time to time...

I guess all we can do is avoid the foods that we are sure were unhealthy(like greasy foods), and through the rest out of our minds since there's not much we could do to avoid it.

Mood: 夢は綺麗し過ぎる

有些事,幾乎毎部小説,毎部電影,毎本漫画,毎一首流行歌都会出現。但這些事終究還是只屬於虚幻世界,而不可能存在於真実世界。然而,那些不可能実現的東西却時常来煩人, 使心情只有一個乱字可以形容。
如果我的IQ低一點,頭腦簡単一點,或許会過得快樂一點。

Good luck on the exams!

My sister's taking her high school entrance exam today.
Good luck!

Mood: On my recent blog posts...

Just read someone else's blog, and it was so supprising. Never saw someone write out her dispare so boldly and powerful.

As for me, my blog has recently nearly turned into a geeky tech blog.

I guess it's because of me, trying to hide my sad feelings deep inside. Tried to forget about certain things by immersing my self in all those gadgets, spending more and more time on 1src, but deep down inside, I know that it only pulls your attention away temporally, and it comes back when ever I'm free and alone.

Someone told me that nobody likes to share someone else's sadness, so I locked up my ventilation. But, I guess, I'll need to let it out sometime, so I'm venting a little out here.

Just ignore my stupidity on "mood" headded posts if you don't like them.
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悪い記憶が忘れないから、調子が時々悲しい。
私は本とに世界の一番馬鹿です。

Simmulating the Mac experience...

If you, like me, like Macs, but just haven't planed to buy a new computer yet, here's some stuff to make your Win box more like a Mac.
1.First, right click on your status bar click preferences and set it to be on the top of the screen.
2.Next, get Object Dock, and tweek to till you like it.(Hay, this thing's free)
3.Then, if your computer is fast enough, try konfabulator, if you like widgets.
4.If, you like the "expose" function of OS X, try winPOLSION, it's real cool.

As for skinning XP to look like OS X, my computer is too slow for that, so I'm not doing it, he he :)

So, palmOne is switching back to it's old name??

http://www.1src.com/headlines/show/001066.html
Ok, a while ago palm split it's hardware and software divisions into 2 companies.
And the hardware part tells everybody that they are now "palmOne".
When everybody has finnally got used to the name "palmOne", it now says that it is going to buy back the name "palm inc." and switch it's name back to "palm". Are they having an identity crisis, starting to think that the name of the "good old days" is better, or are they just trying to confuse it's customers?

Roachs...

This morning, our dorm was sprayed with pesticide.
Tonight, I see Cockroachs crowling all over the isles...
Do they like pesticides, or are they coming out to get the last of their breath? :D

Is palm turning into the "apple" of handhelds?

I remember seeing this intresting question some days ago somewhere(but forgot where, sorry :P )
It would be sad if palmOne's market dominance demolished to less then 10%, but let us put it this way. I would wish that palmOS would become clearly superrior to PPCs, just like OS X is so much loveable.(Although I know this would be impossible for the"clearly" part before a cobolt device is released)
But with hardware, at least the new LifeDrive truly looks like a good companion to the Power Mac G5s, expecially the holes on the back :D

Always good for more eye candy.
(If you add in cobolt, it's UI even looks a little like OS X's aqua UI)

Thoughts on the LifeDrive(edited)

(logo from palmOne)

It seems that LifeDrive reviews are multipling at an incredible speed. No wonder, it's one of the releases with the most major feature upgrade(4gig harddrive), and in my opinion, the best looking device they've ever made since the legendary Palm Vx.

Now, it has made a big splash on release. But does this mean big sells in the future? I'd say palmOne is having a PR crisis with all those reviews contradicting each other. Among them, the biggest problems are battery life and harddrive spin up speed.
(Here's the best review I've seen so far, on Gadgeteer)

With battery life, one review said"fantastic", and I've seen others critisize the battery life. Now we need a good overall test to see whether it's good or bad. Come on, palmOne, we need numbers!

And the harddrive spin up speed, there's an extreem debate on this fourm, and once again, one side says "very bad", the other says "acceptable".

Now we need some time for this mess to clear up, but palmOne, if you want this to be a hit, you should clear up this as fast as possible.

Personally, I was really wishing this new line of "mobile managers"would be a good replacement for clies and bulky laptops; and the army to fight back Microsoft.

edit: problems solved
Look here for the battery issue(incredibly long?!)
And this thread for speed issues
Seems that this is really the killer device^^

Nintendo finally came out with something "lookable"

Behold the Game Boy micro

from: ign.com

So this is the first Nintendo that you can consider "cool".
Game Boy fan no longer have to carry dull "plastic blocks".
Nice change, Nintendo. Intresting to see how would this effect the market this fall.
(Although, I personally am not that intrested in games, it's still good to see a well designed product :) )

palmOne finally made it right

(logo from palmOne)
The much anticipated LifeDrive Mobile Manager is finally officially released^^
And as in the rummers(yes, we have already know almost every single detal of it), this is an incredible device with a built-in 4gig hard drive, WIFI and bluetooth. And we have also known that you can use it as a plug in USB drive, and it can also do "folder sync" which syncs a certein folder on your desktop to the handheld.

What supprises me is the new photos if the LifeDrive. In the rummered photos, it looks dull. Also, I don't get any feeling with numbers, so I didn't realize the size. But now, as now photos are comming out, I realize that this thing is a beauty, and keeping in mind that it has a harddrive in it, it seems incredibly small.

a list of reviews

Next time, palmOne should do a "palmbook" with a clam shell form factor(just like the clie UX) with a bigger harddrive, that way, we can have "tiny notebooks" ^^

淡水河兩岸探路照片

八里自行車道

八里自行車道2

從八里看淡水河

觀海長堤

十三行博物館

從淡水看八里
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みんなは何所ですか？

New computing life

Here's something many may have said before: "My PC sucks." Yeah, mine sucks, too. Although mine is already more stable then many of my friends, it still fails to boot once in a while.

So, I find my self using my clie more and more these days. Not only for making notes, music play back and the usual stuff you'd do with a PDA; but, web surfing, word processing, spread sheet editing, reading e-mail, news reading and blogging are all done on my clie(including this post, too) for the past weak. I find doing web surfing on this much better. Since it isn't as smooth, it will prevent me from wasting too much time on the web. And, to me, palm OS feels much better then windows. Most things are much faster due to lack of "junk code".

Yesterday, my PC showed a message saying "we are sorry but windows did not launch successfully", and I responded simply by switching the power supply off. I'd had enough of XP's lousy experiance. And I'm more sure my next one will be a mac if I had the money.

So, just passed a week with my clie as my primary computer, and it was quite pleasent.

The Lifedrive is no longer just a rumor!

palmOne Announces New Category of Mobile-Computing Products
'Mobile Manager' Line Joins Handhelds, Smartphones
So, palmOne it self is anouncing the Mobile Manager line to store a lot of your music, photos, movies and documents. Since it stores that much, and the first of the line is coming later this month(just as told in the lifedrive rumors), this indirectly varified the presence of the lifedrive. :)

Now, I can't wait to see the real thing.

However, I'd wait if they comeout with a 20gig+ model in the future.

The rumors: 1.pictures | 2.more discussion

用firefox上bbs^^

終於可以用firefox上b了, 真感動...
PCMan extension for Mozilla/Firefox
討論板

感謝pcman作者洪任諭大大造福人類
他還很愛國的在pcman extention首頁上放了台灣觀光局的連結呢

The new sony walkman E series- crippled badly

It was so shinny, it looks like a fragrance bottle, it's so beautiful that you want to own it.
But it's a sony, arn't they notorius for not playing MP3s?
Sony has opened up and it supports MP3s, they tell you.
So it's great, ...
Wait, it's still crippled even if it supports MP3s!

Here's why:
I went to their Q&A site for those walkmans, and this is what I saw:

1.Can I use my own USB cord?
No.
(from what I know, a sony USB cord for PDAs costs about 30USD, what if this one costs the same?)

2.How do I charge?
Plug it in with the supplied USB cord.
(What if I'm on a trip without a computer?

*+?!...)

3.Can I see my music on it with the "exploror"in windows?
No

4.Can it record music?
Use sonicstage.

5.Can I delete songs on it?
No, use sonicstage.

6.Can I change songs titles on it?
No, use sonicstage.

7.Can I load songs on to it with the "exploror"in windows?
No, use sonicstage.

So everything is tided to sonicstage. In fact, that Q&A is unneed, since you can just replace it with one simple sentence: "Answers to all questions are No."

You wanna sell me a crippled sonicstage slave? Eat my shorts!

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This is it, I'm staying with my Clie as my main MP3 player.

Are you skining Firefox or are you cloning Safari?

Have been looking for a new Firefox theme to match my mood and for a fresh look. But, as I browse along, I've noticed that about 1/4 of the themes I see are Safari mods, another 1/4 looks exactly like Safari. That makes half of the themes "Safari look-a-likes". Yeah, I know that there are many Apple fans out there (I, in fact, also installed a dock on my XP machine), and yes Apple is real good at eye candy. But that does not meen you've got to flood the web with Safari themes. You like the look of Safari? Fine, go get one of the "meny" choices out there(which all look the same), Download it and use it, thats all. Don't waste your time doing another duplicate to further waste web hosting space. We've had enough.

Keep on reading, even if you don't have a fat wallet

If you like reading, like me.
And don't have that much money to buy lots of books...

Of course, you can just go to a library.
But, you can read more.
Just found a great place to get eBooks, and they're free!
Project Gutenberg

if you have a palm PDA, you can get the ebooks in formats optimazed for your palm here:
manybooks.net

Dawn of the clones

Yes, I do major in Biology.
But no, I'm not talking about cloning animals or humans here.
Anyway, wanna see clones?
click on the following 2 links to see them:
for Taiwanes-> what we are familiar with | the clone
for others----> what we are familiar with | the clone

Hay, that's sick.
Yeah, we all know that the original is all so successful, and so easy to use.
But, hey you guys at big Y, you are the pionner of the web search engine, have you eatten your dignity to clone big G?
Although the big G formula is good, I like innovations better.

火星人の変化...

DNA中的Adjacent thymines照了紫外線会産生Cyclobutane 5566 thymine dimer...
呵！

Just sent 2 more emails to labs...

Two more mails to two more professors of the institute of immunology.
Wish there is at least a reply.
If not, I guess I would be forced to stick with labs of our own department. If that's the case, maybe I would need to try neurobiology(my second intrest) instead of immunology.

新的行事曆軟體...OTZ

剛剛抓到一個PDA上新的行事曆軟體, 據說可以在同一畫面下顯示行事曆和代辦事項(ToDo)
Motendus
結果灌完後第一次啟動竟然問:"你是還是女的?"
選了"男的"之後,
發現ToDo只有一項: "找女朋友"............................而且不能新增XD
真是令人不解...

又仔細看了一下網站說明, 發現此軟體中的一年只有362天, 其中"情人節, 聖誕夜 和聖誕節"不顯示
但若ToDo中的"找女朋友"前面打了代表完成的勾勾, 就恢復成一年365天
網站說明還寫著:"這下你應該知道此軟體的概念了吧"

這個作者是好人~~~~~

The intresting and funny story of the CEO of Opera software

http://www.opera.com/swim/

The CEO of Opera, which makes the great Opera browser, said that he would swim from Norway to the USA if downloads of the browser exceed one million. And he sure went out to sea... read the link for the story.

Hm......Looks like you've got to find ways to add spice to life from time to time.

How to elongate your boot up time?

Do you think your computer boots up too fast?
If you are using win XP, try Konfabulator, in my experiance, it effectively doubles your computer's boot time :P

Not enough?
Try Norton system works, with a full install of all the components, it tripled the boot time of my old win98 computer(wonder if it's as good in XP...)

P.S. In my opinion, the additional components of Norton system works are junk, you only need anti virus. But, with Konfabulator, it's great eye candy, so I'll play with it for a while... :)

Ok, iPod are getting cheap :P

I once thought that iPods are expensive, as I said in a comment of a previous post.
But today, at Costco, I noticed that they are selling both the Toshiba Gigabeat 20GB and the iPod photo 30GB, with the iPod carrying a price tag that is about a buck or two cheaper than the Gigabeat.

Here's the prices:(well, I don't remember the actual numbers)
iPod photo 30GB: about 11200NT
Gigabeat 20GB: about 11800NT

Hay man, the iPod has 10 gigs more, for a lower price!
And compare that to the Sony Walkman HD3(Taiwanese version, supports chinese): about 15000NT (that gameboy looking thing hasn't shown up in stores yet)
and the Japanese version of HD3: 12000NT, while both only has 20gigs.

Guess the "expansive days" of the iPod are over. Maybe I should put the iPod back into my consideration list after all.

What an unpleasant experience

Guess I was all drowsy yesterday. When I left the "rich and poor" classroom yesterday I left my little bag of PDA stuff there. And it wasn't until I got home (5 hours later) that I realized that the bag wasn't with me. I've got 2 memory sticks and a clie WL110 WIFI card in there! One of the memory sticks was barrowed from a classmate, and the other one contained a whole backup of my clie PDA, which means that if someone read that one with a clie, they'd get a lot of my important info. To make things worse, that WIFI card was discontinued, and was one of the 2(all discontinued) my clie could take, which means that without it, my clie would be disconnected to the net forever!

I thought about what I would do if I didn't get them back...

I'd need to buy a new MS card for that classmate, and a new clie if I'd want to surf the net on the go again...

I couldn't sleep that night, and went to school, drowsier then ever, the next morning, in search of my stuff.

I was the first one to get it when the doors were opened. I got back into that blasted classroom, and looked around - I can't find that little bag! I went over 3 times before I gave up an started my way down stairs.

Then I tried my last chance and asked the guy in charge of classroom maintenance. And was he soooooo good! He had put it in a safe place, made sure I knew what it was, and gave it to me. He said a lot, reminding me not to do it again.

Of course, I won't want to experience that again.

AvantGo User Support is Great!!

Starting Apr 16(Apr 15 in the US),I got a problem with Avantgo, it's the 2nd server orinted problem I've encountered since I started using it(more then a year and a half ago)
I can't get the Avantgo homepage loaded. All I get is a page with this message:
"An error occured
We're sorry, but an error occured while processing your request."

So, the next day(Apr 17), I filled out their support form, and got an automatically generated email assuring that they would reply in 3 days.

And sure enough, I got their reply today(Apr 19), and it was fixed!
(execpt for the ads, oh well, that's a bigger problem for them)
A good company with good support deserves our support, so, here's a little publicity for them; and I'll continue using their great service.

Finally found THE MP3 player, and it's not a sony

All right, just found this, from Toshiba:
The Gigabeat F series (cnet taiwan review | engadget report )

touch pad, good looks, USB on the go, big color screen and a reasonable price.
almost did well everything sony did wrong with their walkman HD
The only draw back is the battery life of 16hr compared with sony's 20+
(the 30hr they claimed is just for ATRAC3, not MP3), but hay, I can live with that.
just compare that with this:
which one looks better? I don't think there is anything to argue here.
I, would not want to hold that gameboy looking thingy on the streets.
I was once a Sony fan, but after they droped the clie and then lost the edge with walkmans, I'm turning.
Besides, walkmans don't support Chinese traditional ID3 tags, no color screen nor USB-otg, AND BOTH SONY &TOSHIBA HAVE THE SAME PRICE.
So, I'd go for the "more for the buck", with the same high quality you'd expect from most major Japanese companies.

I'm saying bye bye Sony unless you come up with something just as good.

剛考完流病...

嗯~很久沒有一科像這樣採用"臨時報佛腳"戰術了
因上學期有好幾科太早唸完, 考前忘光, 所以這次就試試看
很神的, 今天下午3:07剛好唸完, 從圖書館走出來
驚!
3:30就要考了, 而且是在醫學院!!
結果在狂飆而且各個紅綠燈都很配合之下, 我破了自己的紀錄, 在15分鐘內從總圖騎車到達基醫大樓^^
一開始發答案卷時真是嚇死人, 竟然每人要拿6張答案紙
結果題目難易適中, 共7題問答, 2組計算題
我寫了3張(單面), 在最後一分鐘剛好寫完
真是驚險, 接下來等成績了...

段考...

明明就還有好幾科沒唸
卻一點書的慾望都沒有
無聊的掛在網路上, 也沒啥好看的網站
新聞很無聊
也沒什麼新奇的gadget上市...

真是糟糕, 再這樣下去我爆定了..................................................................................

On the movie playing functions of the PSP

I'v recently seen many websites saying how revolutionary the PSP is as a portable movie player.
Yeah, it plays movies, but not very good.
First, it uses UMDs or Memory stick duos.
With the UMDs, it's like you've got to buy another "lower resolution version" of every DVD you have. And they haven't even started selling them yet.
And with the Memory stick duos, it's very expensive (from what I know, it could sell for twice of that of CF or SD cards). And besides, it maxs out at 1GB.(Yeah, they just came out with a 2gig version in japan, but the price is like intended to stop anybody from buying it)

So, I guess most people would use MSs instead of UMDs for movie viewing.
But this isn't practical.

Viewing movies with the PSP is similer to viewing with a clie(a sony PDA). In fact, it uses Image converter 2(which is a modified version of what came with clies), to compress the files on your computer to a MS card. And notice the difference: Image converter for clies are free, but Image converter for PSP is "sold seperately".

First of all is the problem: where do you get your movie files?
The easiest way is to convert from VCDs, but those are hard to get these days.
DVDs are protected by encrption, so you need to crack the code first(and breaking the law), rip it to MPEG format(which is extreamly slow), then feed it to Image converter. I've seen someone on a fourm that said it took him a whole night to rip a DVD, and maybe an hour more to put it into the memorystick. That's crazy, if you have time for riping, why don't you just see it on your desktop, with a larger screen?
Or, get them with BT or P2P and look out for subponas from Hollywood. Something I wouldn't do.

Then, after you have it on the memory stick, do you really need to see it on the go? Only if you commute long distances on public tranportation, I guess. Steve Job got it right: "You can listen to music while doing other things, but you can't while watching a movie." Yeah, imagine watching a movie on your PSP while driving on the highway to work.

My Clie can play movies just the way PSPs does, but I seldom do it, even if my Clie's screen has much more pixels then the PSP. I don't have much videos to watch, and I can't watch videos while studing for an exam.

Just got my bike fixed

今天到阿綸去修我那台在北宜公路上掛掉的活動車
本來以為要大翻修, 把變速拆下來重調.
結果沒有整個拆下來, 反而是把變速線換掉.

我的變速線竟然折到了!!

而且還折到兩處, 在龍頭那一個, 可能是我不小心吧
但在車價邊緣又一個就太扯了...
聽鎮祐說色彩賣的車有好幾台都有類似的變速怪問題...

難道他專門折人家的變速線?
不會吧...
只能說算我衰吧
以這種方式慶祝活動車里程破1000km

Turning off my phone

Although mobile phones are all the rage
I'm starting to get tired of the bombardment of ringtones, vibrants and calls.
I decided toturn off my phone and return to the peacefull life I once had. It really doesn't matter to loose call since none of them were truely important, and besides, I'm a loner.

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Disconnecting from the world.

今天の生化課...

之前一直告訴自己「生化是重課,不要翹」所以細生只念了一章就徒図書館過来了。
結果来了,却不知道老師在講什東東。只知道従上個星期到現在都是一堆不知要幹麻的pathway。
What the heck am I doing here?