Biking trip: 3rd day

This day we woke up to some great breakfast- the host prepared some sandwich, soymilk(or milk tea)and some bread and a toaster. I'd say it's very good, expecially the toast. What's incredible is that when we woke up, our team leader(he calls himself "anyway"...)has just got back from where I checked yesterday. What an early bird!

Then we took everybody through the rice paddys, pass the smelly rivers across fields of flowers into the mountains where we would play some games. First stop is "bike assembly and sprint race". I'd like to say sorry here because it is I, who layed out the race route, which is so short that only the "bike assembly" part matters, if your bike acted up and you finished the assembly slower, the speed of the sprint afterwards just didn't matter. Because the brake wire got lose, our bike took longer to put together, which put our teem at 3rd place. However, we are good at the other 4 games, which ridiculously made us one of the 2 teems with the highest overall score. But we lost a final round which made us 2nd place.

The waterfall was great, but somehow I was so tired after the games that I nearly fell asleep on a rock.

Then, with a tired mind, but my legs still paddling, we rode on another small route through the rurel country. Yes, I know it's beautiful, but I'm sort of getting tired of those little yellow flowers(油菜花), 'cause they're just everywhere. And my mind is just a blank, not knowing where I'm riding to, just keep on paddling. I didn't even realize people are singing all along.

Oh well, some how I made it with everyone else to the "welcome to Taitung" post. We had some rest and took some photos. Then everyone went on to the next stop, while I waited for a friend to fix his derailer. We chased on afterwards at a high speed of about 30km/hr, but didn't know the way once we got to the town since the others were long gone. But another guy who is with us catcher-ups suggested that they must be at the place where they have the best food(池上便當). And sure
enough, they were all there.

After dinner, we were supposed to ride in the night to guanshan(關山), where we would spend the night. On the order of our teem leader, we, teem 2, rode in a stright line, everybody with their designated place. To my surprise, it really reduces drag, increases efficiency, keeps even the ones without a headlight on the right route, and , with the help of a down hill, the whole teem could finish the trip with a whooping average of 30km/hr and arive at the destination together, no one left out. Just incredible.

We went to a web cafe to do our class selection, which is a new experience. However, I don't like it. The place has a heavy small of tabacco, sticky keyboards and mouse, slow connection, and the "one hour" time limit actually ends in less then 50 minutes according to my watch, now that sucks.

The accomadation is the worst of the trip. Dirty slipers, cranky sofa, small and creppy room , a TV that is so old that can only tune to 7 channels and one bathroom every floor with a tilled bath tub. Oh well, guess that's a way to save money.

Biking trip: 2nd day

Set my alarm to 6:55, but some how the morning call guy knocked on our door just a minute before the alarm went off. After some preperation, we're on the road again. As a speedoholic, I once again rode to the front pack, then realized that the slower pack was no where to be seen. We stoped for a little rest, while someone finaly came over to tell that there's an accident way back. "Someone droped his speedometer, the one in the back pulled on the brakes, then the others just crashed into a mess." Now what did I say about ridding to close together? Although I didn't see it my self, seems that a girl was quite hurt, bless her.

After breakfast and a little riding, we stopped at a suger plant(台糖花蓮糖廠)for some icecream and popsicles. Although it's winter, it's still so hot around here that it's just right for some icy snack. Not only does the stuff taste good, the sceanary and some building around there were beautiful.

We then wound up to a smaller route that crosses the farms. I don't know about the others, but I'm finally having some fun with the little ups and down. Minute hills compared with the slops near home, but better than the flat roads of the morning. It also has less cars and much better sceanary of the country, with orange trees, rice paddies and fields of flowers. You even get a great look of the mountains in the back ground. Now that winding little route was really a film(or should I say memory?)killer. There was a long down hill of the route, where we speed-a-holics once again zoomed ahead, leaving the rest behind. We stoped at near the end of the slope, when we realized that the people behind was once again not showing up. A phone call back reveiled another accident. A friend who joined the club about the same week as me had a brake lock up and his bike rolled over, resulting in him lying on the ground, nose bleeding. Oh well, seems that he's expecting it...(he said he falls every time he rides)

Later, me and 2 others left the pack to check the path ahead, where we would have games tomarrow. In order to get there before it got dark, I said we should stick to an aveage of about 24km/hr. But seems we're slightly under that, because we are a little exusted be the day's riding before this. We asked a woman how to get to our destination, who started nagged like a mom, telling us how dangerous it is to ride there in the dark. Great thanks for her caring, but we have work to do, so we went on. We thought we were going to climb a mountian, but, oh well, the road was so easy and flat. After we maped out the area, the rest of the pack is still about 30 minutes away. Oh well, guess we are fast enough. We even had the time to have dinner before we meet with the pack and greet everybody "long time no see." We learned later that the others, unlike us, didn't have the time to eat until they arived. Oh well, I'm...speach less.

It was another great hotel on top of a hill, over looking the whole town. And to our suprise, it's got digital TV.

Biking trip: 1st day

Got up real early at 3:20 this morning to get on the bus at 4:00, but then we took an hour just to stack all those bikes into the bus. Slept for a while on the bus till we got to I-lan(宜蘭), when it's just about time to have "breakfast". After some intro and the sort, people started singing karaoke. Although I never liked the MIDI background music of karaoke, there's something intresting about it. How come people always pick the same songs, no matter when or who?

Then we got to the beautiful city of Hwalian(花蓮)where we finally got on our bikes and started riding. With all those flat roads and the slow speed of only 15+ km/hr(because we have amatures here), this is way too easy and I started to get bored. Then me and another friend who loves the feel of speed started to go into a cycle of slowing down, get to the back of the pack, speeding up back to the head of the pack then slowing down again. Some sort of entertainment, I'd say.

We then came to Tong Hwa University(東華大學). It's like twice as big as our school with so much grass filds that it looks more like a park. Although the place was so beautiful, but it seems so deserted that it would even be a pain in the ass to get a good meal. We took a rest there,and everyboby did a self-introduction. Being a sophmore, I suddenly feel like a little kid in a pack of big kids, since most people are older and many are already in graduate school. It's expecially weird to hear them say "it's so good to be young" when that's just what you would say to a fresrman. And just as usual, I forgot everybodys' names just 1 hour after the intros', of course. If I tell you I can remember someone's name by just meeting that person once, there's only 2 possibilities: 1)that's couldn't be me, or 2)it's the name of a girl that I decided I liked very much at first sight--which only occured to me once. So, so much for the intros, I don't remember a single bit of it.

Then we biked on. On the road , the first pack got a little fast and the slower pack lagged farther and farther. Guess this well always happen when you've got a lot of people.

We saw a stupid dog, who ran quickly without warning, trying to cross the road. It got hit by a little truck, yeeped loudly, but only wounded a leg, then nearly got hit by a secend. Now that was close.

We also learned a lesson: don't ride too closely to each other, or ride in a perfect stright line - the hard way. Someone slightly swinged his rear wheel, causing the guy in the back to dodge , and me, futher back lost my stabability and braked, causing the guy in the back of me crashing into each other. So, don't ride to close to each other.

Finnaly, we got to the guest house where we spend the night. The host and hostest was very hospitable, making us feel like home.
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I'm tired, maybe I'll right more some time later...

First long range biking tour

I'm going to the east part of Taiwan tomarrow, biking for 5 days from Hualen to Taitung(花蓮到台東). Although about 200km is a little easy for 5 days but it still seems quite exciting. I've just bought new gear, including a new bike for this.
Be calm...
Alright, I'll be on the road for the next 5 days. Maybe I'll post something on the road if I find an AP where I can connect with my clie.
Hay, you've got to get up about 3 in the morning, so why are you fooling around here???
Alright, I'm digging in...^^

Geeks don't know how to love

I saw yesterday on wired news about a geek who only knows how to deal with mac computers but don't know how to deal with women. Then he came apon a book called "How to Succeed With Women" and he finally had some success, and now he's teaching other geeks the trick. Yeah, I'm a geek, too. Although not a mac geek, but play with all sorts of gadgets. I don't think I'm shy, but I, too, screw up relationships. Guess technology is a modern maker of "nice guys".
With a trip to howtosucceedwithwomen.com , I even found a 4CD set called "Overcoming the 'Nice Guy' Syndrome: How to Stop being Shy without Becoming a Jerk". He he, nice guy...

Why didn't our school's library have that book memtoned above? I'd like to know. But on second thought, I guess I don't need it for now. 'Cause I don't even have a target, and it's awfully tiresome to be in "search mode", constantly on the look for beautiful girls... I'd had enough. Maybe I'd rest for the next ten years untill it's time to get merried, oh well.

Firefox still gainning on IE^^

here's Business week's take on this:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2005/tc20050112_0827_tc119.htm

I guess I've written this somewhere before, but, businessweek's article still has intresting stuff to it.

I'm still waiting for the day that Firefox gains over 10% of the market share though.

關於MP3隨身聽品牌

既然有人在問, 我來說一下我對各品牌的看法好了

Apple: 做蘋果電腦的, 最擅長使用者介面的改善, iPod的操作介面當然最簡單, 但音質就不是最好的了. Apple 過去也跟sony一樣賣超貴, 但最近有在降.

Sony*: 隨身聽的發明者, 音質和外觀造型都是一流的, 但操作介面呢, 除非你用過sony的其他產品, 不然可能不像iPod那麼直覺. (但掛vaio牌子的卻真的跟電腦一慢) Sony還堅持把所有的東西都賣很貴, 老產品寧願停產也不降價. 另外, 因為其下有sony/BMG music唱片公司, 早期產品會強迫你使用有"版權管理"的特殊格式, 還限制一堆(見下面的注解), 只有今年下半年的新產品才支援MP3

Aiwa: sony副牌, 一切比sony低一等XD

Creative: 做電腦音效卡起家的, 也是最早經營MP3隨身聽市場的, 風評不錯, 卻硬是被iPod比下去

iriver: 標準黑馬, 一家沒啥歷史的公司, 忽然就變成MP3隨身聽第二大廠. 音質很棒, 功能一堆, 但操作介面真的很爛

BenQ: 外觀設計不錯, 但其他方面被外國雜誌評得體無完膚

elio: 就是大同啦. 別以為大同只會做電鍋呵! 它也做了好幾年的資訊產品了. elio的外觀不錯, 功能多得恐怖, 但太大台, 而且要價跟sony有比.
無牌的爛貨: 那種音質, 乾脆回去聽錄音帶算了!

其他牌子我就不清楚了...

*sony walkman HD1和HD2絕不能買, 不但是水貨, 還不吃MP3(要經過電腦把MP3轉成MD所用的特殊格式才能撥(Atrac3); 升級可撥MP3的軟體則需送回日本原廠再加收服務費和運費) 要看好是型號是HD3才支援MP3. Sony Vaio pocket也不吃MP3但可從網路下載升級檔, 自行升級到支援MP3

空中巴士發表新雙層機型 A380

在波音的747橫霸了80到90年代後, 第一個挑戰者--空中巴士A380在18號正式發表
747曾經是空中最大的客機, 它剛出現時就創造了歷史, 成為第一個雙層客機, 雖然它的"二樓"其實只是機身前半部的一個"小突起物". 當時因為它的載客量過大, 很多人都在懷疑哪萊納麼多客人; 當時的2樓還甚至純粹當酒吧, 但現在它不但時常客滿, 那些如酒吧之類的豪華設備全被擁擠的座位取代.
現在A380出 現了, 它的二樓是真正的二樓, 也就是說整個機身都是雙層的. 現在又有人說可以設酒吧, 平躺的床......英國的維京航空甚至要在機上設賭場! 算了吧, 搞不好5年內又全被擠得誇張的座位取代.(雖然還是很希望此事不會發生) 然後, 因為全機載客過多, 從下機, 通關, 拿行李到走出機場的時間大概又要比現在多個1~2個小時...若是如此, 那一點也不比747好了. 另外, 各大機場為了迎接更的巨無霸, 必須擴充現有硬體, 把很多設備(如停機坪和跑道)加大, 這些都會使機場稅漲價, 直接影響到旅客的花費. 在歡迎新的巨無霸前, 我看還是先看看往後這幾年如何發展.
為防止市場被空中巴士吃掉, 波音在研發一種小一點, 但更省油的高科技客機--7E7, 強調班次增多但每位旅客的成本下降, 並提倡更大的座位, 更接近地面的機艙溼度(現在的飛機上都極度乾燥), 更舒適的旅程. 嗯, 很為旅客著想, 但很可惜, 會為旅客著想的航空公司比只為盈餘著想的公司少太多了. 我想小小的7E7大概會被視為"可塞進去的座位太少"吧...
其實我2個都覺得不錯, 至少航空業終於有新的東西出現了, 只希望不要又跟747一樣被航空公司以座位塞滿就好了. 現在的航空公司真的很惡劣, 叫人塞在那個迷你的"座位"中, 腳完全動不了; 就只差沒有叫我們相疊躺在機艙中了.

A380照片

An intresting comparison between the big guys of the web

Some companies do just about everything

	Microsoft	Aol/TimeWarner	Apple	Yahoo	Google
Browser	IE	AOL &Netscape	Safari		(in rumors)
Instant messenger	MSN messenger	AIM	iChat	Yahoo messenger	Hello
E-mail service	MSN mail	AOL (subscribers only) &Netscape	.Mac (subscribers only)	Yahoo mail	Gmail (people with invitations only)
Media player	Windows media player	Winamp	Quicktime & iTunes	Musicmatch Jukebox (another in the works)
Blog space	MSN spaces				Blogger
Desktop search	MSN toolbar &in longhorn		In next version of MacOS	Yahoo desktop search	Google desktop search

My Firefox extensions&themes

This post is for Firefox newbes...If you don't know what this is, check here:

Something great about Firefox other then safer and easier to use, is the ability to customize it.
Here is a list of my favorite extensions(外掛), which are things that enhance the features of a software.
1. Adblock.........擋掉網頁中的廣告
blocks ads, not popups, but images and banners in any site, just right click on an image and set it to block images from that address, and you won't see it again!! (you can always remove the address from adblock's list to see it again...)
2.ForecastFox ...在firefox狀態列中顯示天氣預報(城市代碼可搜尋"taipei")
shows weather forecasts, easy as that. But you've got to set your city the first time.
3.Image Zoom....按右鍵可任意放大縮小任何圖片
lets you zoom in or out of an image
4.IE View.............按右鍵可呼叫ie開網頁
right click on a page and open it in IE if it's so messed up that only IE can show it correctly.
5.Tabbrowser Extensions...加強分頁瀏覽功能(仔細找, 有中文版)但設定較複雜
lots of setting including forcing firefox to use one window only, open everything as tabs, and open every tab you left open last time when you run firefox.**A little confusing to set up though.

And my favorite themes(面板)(well skins in winamp language), stuff that change the look of a software.
1.Phoenity Christmas
The one I'm using now
2.Noia 2.0 (eXtreme)
skins nearly every part you could think of !!
3.rein
a clean interface

Oh yeah, and my favorite hotkeys(快速鍵)
1.[ctrl+enter]
automaticaly adds "www." and ".com"
for example, to goto "www.blogger.com", just type "blogger" and press [ctrl+enter]
2.[ctrl+w]
close current tab

photos: 考完試祭祭五臟廟

outing after finnals
今天大伙跑到永康街一ㄊㄨㄚ接著一ㄊㄨㄚ一直吃
不便宜, 但還蠻爽的XD
還要感謝我們的2位"永康街通"帶路
到那要吃什麼, 要到哪裡吃都知道; 連哪家店哪道菜最好吃都知道...
像那種一堆可以吃的又每家看起來都很好吃的地方我若自己一個人去一定會不知所錯的

Year in review~me in 2004

(Late post because of my exams, but now it's winter break, my long posts are back again^^)
Last year was really a big year for me. Many things happend, and I really had an intresting year. Although not a happy year, but it's a year I'll remember for the rest of my life. Here are a list of events that I remember from 2004.

>first half year:

• Finnal exam of freshman's first semester. Found out that collage isn't any easier then highschool, but tougher.
  
• Got to live in the dorm, first time living away from home. Got hooked one to the blazing fast web connection speed of the dorm.
• Got a new computer for my dorm, now I can do whatever I want with my computer without asking other users of the family.
• Got a swimming pass.
  
• Started to get involved in activities. (eg. 杜鵑花節, 生科之夜/lifescience night) Did a lot of handcraft for plays and display.
  
• Did a play in Chinese class.
• Started to ask a girl out, but didn't succeed until summer. (What, never did this before collage? Yeah, I guess that is late from american standerds, but oh well, I live in Taiwan, though)
• Assembled a frog skeleton.

>summer:

• Got a WIFI card for my PDA, the begining of my "net everywhare life". Found out that there are hotspots almost everywhere in Taipei, although most are encrypted.
• Went back to the US, but didn't did much. Found out that it's still hard to find WIFI hotspots in the south California suburban area.
• Got involved in our department's "newcommer's welcome camp". Designed games, and stuff. Camped by the coast on a stormy, rainy, muddy, windy, wet-wet-wet-day, with a typhoon near by, soked many things. But I've already had experience camping prior to a typhoon though, no big deal. It was really fun.
• First date ever!!
• Second date: first time to a movie with a girl^^(but, no more since than)
• Started this blog!!!

>Second half year:

• Turned Sophmore!!
• Got a dorm room again, this time a cleanner room.
• Got into the cycling club, biking about.
• Also got a taste of the badminton teem of our departmont, but quit soon.
• Got Gmail!!
• Took a class on immunology at the medical departmont, decided that this might be what I'd want to do research on in the future.
• Got to goto 龜山島, a tiny island of the coast of Taiwan, were daily vistor numbers are limited.
• Found out that the girl I liked was really just a friend...

One more thing... I resisted the desire of buying any new gadget and sticked to my clie PDA and black and white screened cell phone. Thanks to my clie NX73, over 90% of the new gadgets on the market seemed so lame :) (it was like: wow new color phone...what? 4096colored tiny color screen? that sucks. Or: wow, harddrive mp3 player...what does it do? play music only? never mind.) Still nothing does more then a clie, and most new phones are sophisticated and ugly. And I just can't stand a color screen about 1/3~1/4 the size of my clie's 320*480 screen.

Well that about closes the book on 2004 for me. In 2005, I guess I'll focus on school work and biking. Although I still haven't ever had a girl friend in my life, but boy is it tiring thing about someone 24/7, and since more and more of my classes are going to be for our own department(with classmates I know well), I doubt that I'll meet another girl in collage. And I won't have that chance in graduate school 'cause I'll be in the US, with far less Taiwaness people there. Oh boy, I'll be single for the next 10 years. It'll be a decade for me to concentrate on science.

呼~~終於考完了

在和期中考+期末考合體大魔王決戰了近半學期後, 終於結束了.
有鑒於上學期期末念不完, 這學期改採老師教到哪, 我就唸到哪的策略, 結果是唸到哪忘到哪...
其實臨時抱佛腳若唸得完好像也不錯
下學期不知要如何了, 但從小到大, 考試這種東西通常都是"船到橋頭自然直"吧
到時再依情況調整策略吧
但可以肯定的是, 以後要早點睡

總之, 這學期期末考了8科, 另有2科沒考試; 其中大爆炸2科, 小爆1科
有種比上學期糟糕的感覺, 但等到總成績出來再說吧.

之前每次考試時都一直想著考完要做什麼
但卻每次考完都因為懶, 或是其他原因而沒有一次真正的完成所有的目標.
這次索性不計畫了, 結果一考完, 看著PDA上空空如也的todo list, 有種異常空虛的感覺.
今天吃完晚飯後, 就龜到誠品, 把有興趣的雜誌全翻過一遍(圖書館的雜誌我有興趣的不多而且已經看完了), 然後買了一本痞子蔡已經出了很久的"最新小說".

就趁寒假把我一團亂的人生整理一下吧!

唸書無用論?

X科唸完1遍了!
很有成就感
當大家只唸一半時
我唸完2遍了, 很自hi
最後考試時卻忘了9成
考出來的成績比大部分的人都還低
我的記憶力到底是怎麼了?
為何唸的次數和成績成反比
然後考輸一堆臨時抱佛腳的?

考前無腦症候群

我的期末考準備計畫phase 1告一段落，雖比原先計畫晩了一天，但也讓我暫時鬆了一口氣。
結果今天下午大部分的時間都被漫畫，雜誌，和報紙吃掉了。
進入phase 2也只好等明天了。

今晩非常熱血的以最高速衝到了新體要游泳，要換衣服時才發覺...泳褲沒帶!!!
看看，若回宿舍拿泳褲再回來，游泳也差不多要關了。
只好若無其事的洗澡洗一洗，穿好衣服，就回宿舍龜了。
可惡！明早去晨泳算了～～

一輕鬆下來，我又開始胡思亂想了。
我真沒用，到現在還在想著那已經不可能的感情...放寒假時怎麼辦？
又要再讓自己玩一次憂鬱症嗎？用生科之夜的工作的忙碌來麻痺自己好了。
各大藥廠真的應該要賣點"思春少年用testosterone inhibitor"讓我們這些人暫時免除煩惱XD(也讓我們少花一點錢再一些芭樂歌的CD上)

Notice: Lower of post frequencies

As the final exams are closing, I'll do less posting for the next 2 weeks, I guess.
And, yeah, guess I'll take down that "Xmas" theme after my exams, maybe a New Year's theme :)
Happy New Year everybody, and good luck on your finals.(if you are a student, that is)
Boy, sure's cold these days...

Thought: Semi-split self

"Where am I?"
"at school, of course!" / "some strange place??"

"Who am I?"
"come on, you don't have to check your ID, do you?" / "I don't know"

"Why am I here?"
"To learn" / "I'm not sure"

"Am I dreaming?"
"pinch yourself and you'll know you're not" / "Maybe..."

Seems that there's two of us inside this body.
One confident, optimistic and rational, can answer each of the questions above.
The other not sure about any thing, pessimistic and sentimental, always not satisfied with the rational answer.
Actually, I'm not really sure which one is really me...

My emotions are going up and down at a fast frequency, alternating between the two selves.
Some voice tells me I need to improve my EQ; another telling me there's a hole in my heart that I need to patch, with what??

One thing I'm sure, I'm really confused, but not sure of what.

心情：On this morning's post

Well I was quite down this morning...
But feels much better after venting out my emotions here.
Just I don't have to do this over again tomarrow morning.
I've got to improve my EQ.

心情：......

Optimistic on the outside, pessimistic on the inside.
You smile in front of all your friends, you laugh with everybody else, but you are crying on the inside.
Your friends tell you you're strong, healing so fast, but they don't see the helplessness inside.
Your heart is bleading, you try to run away, but realize there's on way you can run away from yourself.
Everyday you try to forget about it, but it just keeps comming back in the morning.
It haunts your mind everytime you're all alone, you can't concentrate on anything.
Turning up the volume, turning up the bass, want to scream with the music.
Lost all confidence, in self denial, wondering whay doing it in the first place.

心情: A Lesson of Life

You could do all the day dreaming as much as you like
You could admire someone as much as you like
But you just can't ignore reality
I am thankful that I meet you and I learned a lot from this experiance
I now know more about my strangths and my weaknesses
And I now know how you could live such an intresting life

I well treasure the good memories
And it's always good to have a good friend

~Learning is what growing up is all about.

Thought: Done my Christmas shopping(finally)

Actually, it's my first time doing this my self
And the first time doing it for someone special.
I guess I've learned some things from this:
1. Good planning could save some time(yeah, I just went, found it and, viola, this is it!)
2. You could get wrapping paper at the bookstore for 70, but you can also get that for only 8 if you know where to find^^
3. Don't even look at the "pre-packaged fancy gifts" like a teddy bear in a plastic clear box with candy--they try to be fancy, but usually suck. Besides, it would be much better to package the present with your own hands, you could add a little touch to it.

Anywas, happy holidays!

Commentary: The Return of the Sprit of the Internet

I remember back in the early 90's (yeah, I'm an early web user) when the net was just starting to develop(well back when Yahoo was the only search engine), the web was once such a wonderful place. New stuff was comming out everyday, there was even a link on the Netscape toolbar labeled "what's new" which lists the newest sites. It was the era of rapid internet growth, with far less ads and almost everything free. Free news, free streaming music, free software, free email, free web space...etc. That's what it's all about, generosity. The spirt of the web was once "everything free".

Then came the internet bubble burst, taking a lot of the free stuff down. Maybe, people thought, it was just a little too generous. Then websites started to want people to pay. First, email spaces started to shrink, and they want you to pay for extra storage. Then they started to take down some of the other free services. Later on "registering" started to be all over the place, some free, some not. At last, the ultimate advertising era, with mail boxs full of spam; adware that don't charge you money but overwhelm you with ads; pop up ads everywhare; then automaticaly self-installing ad serving programs.

Now they are really getting on our nerves. People started to fight back. Now we have spam killers, pop up blockers, ad blockers that take out the ads from a page. I've even heard of a site called "bug me not" that do something like regestering for you.(well, the free ones I guess, but I haven't tried it)

But now, we are not only fighting back, we are making it better. People are doing more and more free projects that are open for anyone to contribute, eg. wiki, open source software. Great free services are comming back, and better too, with Google's Gmail taking the lead. What's more people are using free stuff to revolutionize media, with blogs and wikis, trying to do better then traditional misleading media. The whole internet community of the globe is pitching in to make improvements, and counteract the greed of big corporate behemoths. Now the web is finally improving once again.

Here are some great free stuff!
1. Blog hosting: Blogger.com (now owned by Google)

2. The wiki stuff:

• Encyclopedia: Wikipedia.org
• Dictionary: Wikitionary
• News: Wikinews

3. Email:
>Gmail beta (not open to all yet, you need an invitation, but I'm sorry to say that I haven't got a single invitation to give since I got in)
>Many other older email services has ballooned to 250MB thanks to Gmail

4.Open source software:(which should be free)
>Linux OS(Although I'm not familiar with this, it's so significant that I must mention this, you can do a research, if your intrested, though)
>Mozilla.org- A spin off of Netscape, with many projects, including:

• Firefox browser that's rapidly gaining ground, with pop-up blocking, and tabbed browsing.
  
• Thunderbird mail application with spam filter and other great features.
  
• The up comming Sunbird calender application
  
• a mobile browser called Minimothat's coming to cell phones soon.
  
• And of course, the old Mozilla browser suite(built on the old Netscape code) is still alive.
  

5.Other freeware:

>Skype- free VOIP net phone

6. Creative commons- see how people are sharing intellectual property, including music, texts and more.

心情：great, I screwed up again

Quote:
If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Damn it! I'm playing it safe once again.
I've got to break this habbit, now what do I change first?

知識: 關於鋰電池

今天聽大師說某個手機販子關於鋰電池的說法:
鋰電池充電的次數是固定的, 不管你是一次充飽, 還是充個幾秒鐘就拔掉; 只要達到那固定的次數, 電池就掛了...

我想, 關於鋰電池的傳言我大概聽過n種版本了
於是我上wikipidia查了一下"lithium ion battery"
發現那是騙人的!!
以下是我的整理
1.鋰電池每次完全放電, 都會大大減短壽命, 所以不要把它當鎳鎘或鎳氫電池來完全放電
2.鋰電池的壽命一般是不會變化太大的, 不管你充電次數多少, 從"出場日"起算三到五年後它就掛定了. 下次買電池記得看製造日期呵!
3.若有一段很長的時間不會用到它, 保持在約40%的電力最好
4.高溫會加速它老化, 但也不要放冷凍庫
5.所以還是保持它在充飽的狀態最方便吧

物慾

糟糕
本來想說買了萬能的pda後應該能止住自己的購物慾望
畢竟pda可以替代隨生聽, 遊戲機, 照相機, 甚至是筆電的上網和文書處理功能
...
結果, 遊戲機和筆電是取代掉了
但是mp3隨身聽功能現在是用上癮了, 覺得記憶體不足, 想買個20GB的硬碟型隨身聽(sony walkman HD3)
然後, 加入單車社後, 騎車到很多風景很棒的地方, 開始覺得pda的3.1萬像素有點虛, 偏偏此時sony又出了付旋轉螢幕的510萬相素cybershot數位相機
(>_<);" >我又不是班上某同學, 為了隨身攜帶那成千上萬的高科技產品(anything, you name it, he brings it all the time), 還去買一個大到可以塞一個國小3年級學生的背包...

好吧, 買台好的腳踏車就好了.(然後專找資訊賣場試玩試玩, 過過乾隱)

Note: New look for this Christmas and winter

Although I really live in a so called "tropical island" (Taiwan), it's still good to have a snowy theme, gives people that feeling of winter. And the red colors and green leaves give a some what warm feeling of Christmas. Christmas is on it's way, a time to celebrate, a time to get together, a time to share, a time to give, a time to have fun.
So I give you the new "Christmas look", how do everybody think? Kinda borrowed the idea of "snow" from japan's Yahoo. But all materal is freshly made, no copy and paste. Hope everybody'll like it.

Speaking of Christmas, wish everybody a merry Christmas, and wish everybody could be with friends, family and whoever they love on Christmas. And yeah, has anybody gone Christmas shopping? I'm wondering if there's any good ideas for Christmas presents.

News: M$N 的新blog空間服務

哦，比爾蓋茲（他的公司名稱/商標以下一律馬賽克處理）今年大概把頭號敵人訂為google吧
看google把blogger.com(就是我這個blog的服務提供者啦)買下來
也不甘示弱，來個「M*N 空間」（基本上就是blog）
這次又有啥新花樣了？
我的研究結果是
1.內建相簿->還不錯
2.介面複雜
3.大家的blog看起來除了內容以外，只有背景和顏色的差別
4.超大M*N連結＋超多M******ft相關連結（變相廣告？？）
5.表情符號支援->還不錯

但重點是：
M*N使用規定中第6項：
「對於您張貼或以其他方式提供給 M******ft 相關「M*N 網站」資料 (以下簡稱「提供資料」)，您同意 M******ft 得 (1) 使用、複製、散佈、傳送、公開展示、公開表演、重製、編輯、修改、翻譯和重新格式化 (Reformat)「提供資料」」

向對之下，blogger的使用條款6a：
"CONTENT OWNERSHIP Unless stated otherwise for specific services, Member will retain copyright ownership and all related rights for information he or she publishes through Blogger or otherwise enters into Blogger-related services."

我寫啥干你啥事？最大軟體公司就可以妨礙別人的發言自由是吧？
另外，人家寫的東西使用/修改權在你手裡，你要幫我們為其內容負責任嗎？
(關於使用規定的事情我是看到這篇文章才去調查的：MSN Spaces = soylent green )

若你也想要一個blog點此頁左上角的連結就對了啦！

心情：大二生活

去上課
卻聽不懂火星話
只知道那是台語口音國語+日語口音英文

念講義
卻也看不懂火星話
只知道那是一堆由羅馬字母拼出來的東西
台式文法，單字拼法像英文卻不是，更不像拉丁文

念課本
永遠離進度還有好幾百頁要追
但至少看的懂

賴床->起床->吃飯->上課->打瞌睡->唸書->吃飯->考試->唸書->吃飯->好累->睡覺
日復一日
生活幾乎不在自己的操控之下
煩了
騎上腳踏車，校園夜間爆走，尋找自己存在的感覺
冬天的風吹在我的臉上，利用低溫使自己清醒一點
至少，此時我可以暫時自己決定我的方向、路線和速度

Comments: On Fortune telling...belivable?

Fortune telling, horoscopes, tarot cards and the like have a common problem. I'm not saying there's any thing wrong with fortune tellers, I tend to believe that most of them do their best to give you a picture of the future.
Some people think these things are unbelevable, because "they're un-scientific", "just a matter of probability"or "myths". But although they are not proven (and unprovable) by modern scientific methods, they are also un-disprovable, you can't design a good experiment and directly prove them wrong. We don't even know if there are any of those so called "powers"or "channels". Which I would consider limitations of modern science.

Well then, ARE they believable? Read on.
The big problem of fortune telling actually comes from this unanswerable question. Just because people are unsure, most people(well the people that have learned what is science, that is; people who don't might just believe it) tend believe WHAT THEY WANT TO BELIEVE. If people were told they well have bad luck, they pascify them selves by thinking: "That's not true, after all, fortune telling isn't scientific." On the other hand, if people were given good news, they would say: "Sounds reasonable", and tend to believe it. This is just what people are best at, selective faith. It's analogus to the reaction "I can't believe it!" when some thing bad happens to somebody. I guess it's something that evolved to lighten psycological stress on our brain.

So, if you want to be a respectable fortune teller, you not only have to be good at your profession, but you may also need to know a little psycology. (Is this why I more often get good readings then bad reading from my horoscope?)

And as clients, I would just take it for fun. Getting reading and waiting to see if it'll come true is kinda fun and exciting. But be careful not to spend too much time on these stuff and relating websites. If you spend most of your time here, the bad part of your readings might come true just because you aren't doing good use of your time. (some thing like getting an F on exams :) )

Thoughts: Absorb.Reform.Evolve...

The slogon of my blog: "Absorb.Reform.Evolve" is actually my resolution apon going to collage.
When I was a freshman, I tried to stick to just that. Because once in collage, you've got freedom, so learn as much as you can, what ever you want; and you've grown up, so reform, change and throw away the unmature, childish stuff. And then evolve into a better man when you graduate. I thought I was always afraid of this and that, giving my self too much limits, so I also wrote down a quote from Goethe: "Plundge boldly into the thick of life", as a memo.

After almost a year and a half in collage, I guess I didn't do very well, according to my "freshman's resolutions". First of all, I've still been too cautious, still losing many great oppertunities. Second, trying to live a more meaningful life, indeed I changed a lot, but my grades are slowly going down. I've got to try to balance school grades with play. Third, I put most of my time on play, web surfing and studying, leaving no time for additional book reading. Like, we've got a huge library, but you haven't read even a tiny part of the books, what the hec are you doing?

Alright, I've still got lots of stuff to improve on and lots of lessons to learn. Lots of stuff to learn more about, on my studies, on life, on love, on relationships...

News:What? A typhoon in December?

Watch out everybody, according to some news report, this could be the first typhoon to strike Taiwan in December in history!
40年首見冬颱 南瑪都最快明晚警報

Or is it just another weather report to keep readers reading on?
I just read the other day in a magazine that modern weather reportors don't always report professional predictions, but report the worst instead, because their supervisers want more people glued to the news reports--and the ads, that is.
Edit of 12/3:Hay it's comming for real! I hate typhoons! Go away! Get lost!

anyways, here's the prediction from CWB:
http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V4

or from the US Navy:
Joint Typhoon Warning Center

My new web site!

Just did a website to organize my photos:
intelllidryad's forest
partially done, but will gradually add things

when will it be done?
will, some I-don't-know-when time in the future :)

Histology photos updated!

just added today's integumentary system photos
click here

單車社陽明山/濱海公路一日狂飆

好累喔
但是很爽XD
(台大->陽明山->陽金公路->金山->濱海公路->淡水->回台大)
photos here

>今日數據:
全程:111km
騎車時間(扣除休息):6hr49min00sec
平均速度:18.55km/hr(mine)
最高速度:55.4km/hr(mine, 下坡)

Don't buy flexible toothbrushs with a rubber flexible joint

I broke my tooth brush, after only less then 3 week's use, and I thought that they say on most packages that you should change brushs every 3MONTHS!!

does your tooth brush looklike this?

It was a "flexible" tooth brush, a brand starting with the letters "aqua..."
At first it was quite soft, but then it broke, where it was supposed to bend but not break.


see what I mean?

What a crap!! I'm not buying any flexible brushs any more.
Can I get a refund?

有趣的表情符號

\(^o^)/
隨著討論版, 簡訊和即時傳呼軟體的流行, 表情符號也越來越多, 我的sony PDA(日文機)甚至內建表情符號(日本人稱之為"顏文字")選單, 還分類為"笑", "泣", "怒", "驚", "焦", "謝禮", "返事"和"其他", 可以直接選, 聯打都不用打(日本人還真是的...)
好啦, 我真正的用意是要推薦這篇文章, 有表情符號介紹; 還有"orz"的來源介紹喔!
(推:鋼彈版orz圖片 XD)
udn-yam 表情符號 千變萬化

這篇文章中還有orz相關連結:
>みんなの作った　＿|￣|○クラフト　"paper craft of orz"
~各種orz的圖片, 還有orz紙雕教學...
>挫折禁止/株式会社マップス
~挫折禁止orz交通號誌; 有人要拿來當msn照片嗎?

另外, 在google搜尋orz就更有趣了
>失意体前屈
>www.orz.jp~哦好熟悉, 這不是mXn嗎XD
>Windorz Update~哦好熟悉, 你的windowsXP更新了嗎XD

士林一日遊

唸書唸煩了,今天就放著生化不管,跟著社團跑到士林玩
遊記,因為生化禮拜二要考,就先不寫了
照片在此

回來後真的覺得腦袋清醒多了,書唸久了果然是需要充電的.

友達の新いblogを誕生！！

BXの新いblog：BX's kingdomは新作成！
おめでとう！
Please check my links in the sidebar on the left of this page.
or click here

Damn, Biochem took me by surprise!

So I've been studying Histology for a week, thinking that Biochem is still sometime away and I simpily focused on Histology and forgot about it. Until just a while ago, I called up my organizer to see how many days I have to relax after the Histology exam. Then my jaws droped. The Biochem exam is JUST THREE DAYS after the Histology exam, which means I heardly have time to prepare, and I havent touched the Biochem book for a long time!
Damn was I stupid!

My stupid new quary file(名片檔) at ptt2 XD

Intellidryad is busy
I've gone on an on going conquest
killing time-eating evil EXAMS...
one each week
I SHELL NOT LOSE, I SHELL KILL YOU EVERY ONE OF YOU!!!

分享: 組織實的照片

as title, enjoy!
click here

and
上課投影片
助教介紹的網頁

Brain malfunction XD

I woke up one day, not knowing where I am, what time it is. I don't know what I should do. I don't know what I can do. I don't know if it's an earthquake or just me. I don't know if this is a dream or real life.

All I know is that I don't feel good, and as far as I know (which isn't much), I can do nothing about it.

--------brain recovering---------------

Alright, do something, anything, get busy. Just don't think about what you were previously thinking...＊※＃～...
┌──────────Fatal Error──────────┐
│The program just proformed a prohibited │
│action. Reset required.
│ ［ Reset ］
└───────────────────────────┘
...rats, brain short circuiting again...

News: Setting the web on fire~Firefox 1.0 is out today

Behold...the ultimate browser.

To switch>english version here >中文版下載
News on cnet
(They're going to do an ad campain on the New York Times, so download it fast, before a whole lot of New York Times readers clog the server, making it slow!)
but I would suggest that those who are upgrading from previous versions or those who like extensions(stuff that add functionality) and themes(skins, stuff that change the look) should wait a day or two. I guess the firefox update site, where you get themes and extensions, is down because of heavy traffic...

note:
browser=瀏覽器, 是用來上網逛網站的軟體
上網不是不用軟體的!!
最多人用的是windows內建的IE, 但IE會自動下載病毒和廣告軟體喔
下載firefox吧
(註:大家喜歡的kkman是一個IE外掛, 不是獨立瀏覽器, 所以有跟IE相同的安全性問題)

這是什麼季節？

「今天是個天氣晴朗的日子。刺眼的陽光從窗外照進來。走到戸外,蝉正在樹頭上高聲嗚叫 ...」請問以上引文是在描述那個季節？
如果這是一張國文考巻上的問題,答案是？ ...「簡単,一定是夏天嘛！」
但問題是 ...這是我今天早上走出宿舍時看到的耶！現在是 11月, November耶！蝉還在這叫？！這是怎様,連亞熱帯地區的台北都可以是「永夏」？
是 CO2過多？還是地球原有的周期性氣温変化？Is there any thing we can do?
難道 1,2年後的國文老師教到這種題目時要説：「這是以前的状況,現在没有季節之分」 XD

我們未來的孩子大概不會了解什麼是季節〜悲哀呀！

2nd Biochem exam~edited!

>Time: 據說改到11/23, Tue 晚上6:30 ~ 8:30(time copied from ptt 生科work版)
(抱 歉, 為了搶救物理, 我第一次翹生化, 聽說是新老師, 而且比之前的教得更爛! 怎麼說哩? 之前的雖然大家一直罵, 但我若中午先走, 事後問BX說他教了什麼, 他至少都說得出來; 但這次他的回應竟然是: "他教麼爛我怎麼知道他教了啥?", 難道我第一次翹課就被我翹對了XD?)

>Exam range: starting from 講義p12~hiarchey of proteins
&emphinson's experiment: the determination of protein sequences
to~??(I don't know)

>ch6重点:
mechanism of Lysozyme and Chymotrypsin(p216,217)
*serine protease:
the active site- Catalytic triad催化三分体~Ser, His, Asp

>no homework prior to exams

News: A new way to read my blog!

My blog has an atom site feed!
(What is atom?)
That means that you can make a live bookmark if you use Firefox 1.0 or 1.0pr
And you don't have to goto the homepage to check for new posts, just check your live bookmark folder in firefox, and all of my latest posts will just showup there, easy as that!

So how do you do it?
(You've got to be using Firefox1.0 , of course!)
Just go to the homepage of my blog (if you're reading this in the page with this post only, please click on the blog's title)
and the little orange "live bookmark"icon will light up(on your right lower corner, on the status bar)
click on it and click "subscribe to 'intellidryad's blog'..."
choose where you want the folder to be and you're done!

Of course, you could do the same thing with other sites whenever that little gray icon turns orange.

By the way, if you have other feed readers, my feed is at: http://intellidryad.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Share: Great Music - A Japanese Indies group "J.e.t"

Great music don't need to come in an expensive CD
I found some websites that let people download FREE MP3s of so called "indies" music.
These are great people who like making music, and share their works with the world for free.(But some of them still sale CD's if you like them)
Among these groups, I expecially like a group called "J.e.t", their music gives you a clean feeling. Since I'm not very good at discribing music, just download and listen for your self.
The J.e.t. page at muzie.co.jp
Their own homepage

~If you want to save money but are afraid of being sued, just listein to music that's legally free~
On copyright for sharing, please visit the Creative Commons site.

A slide from Histology class 

note: 有意義的文章回來了!

很高興，我的blog又開始出現一些有意義的文章了。前陣子在不知道要寫啥又忙著唸書的情況下，除了耍白爛的post以外，幾乎都是生化習題，結果逐漸遠離了我原本對此blog的期望。現在，blog又逐漸恢復剛開版時的樣子了我會盡量做好自己的po文品質管理的^^
另外再次強調，也歡迎大家以comment的形式提出對po文的看法。

～不忘初衷～

Just went to a great seminar~An Expanding Genetic Code

Our Biochem Teacher went abroad to attend a meeting, and a much better one came to teach this weak. Finnaly a good teacher who can at least get us intrested in Biochem once again. Today, he told us there was this seminar when the name "Peter Schultz" appeared in the text book. He said that this guy might get a Nobel prize in the near future for his great work, and that Schultz HIMSELF would be speaking here at school this afternoon. Finally a great seminar that I have time to go! And I just went "Wow" and grasped the chance.
Actually, I never thought Biochem could be so intresting before this. The title was "An Expanding Genetic Code", and he talked about how he changed a gene coden to represent a 21st amino acid, in addition to the normal 20 amino acids found in organisms. He thought "Why are there only 20 amino acids encoded in the genome in all life? What if God also worked on Sunday, would the number be something like 21, or 22?" (Which makes me think: How come Christens can always add "God" to every thing they think of?) And so they(him and his team) started out on a project to add more amino acids to an organism (E.coli actually) and see what could happen, and see if it will have an advantage or disadvantage over life with only 20.
In the process of translating mRNA (which is a info carier transcribed from DNA) into proteins, ribosomes read the mRNA strand and tRNAs bring the correct amino acid to ribosomes and add the amino acids up into a polypeptide chain (a precursor to proteins). In the process, an enzyme called "Aminoacyl-tRNA synthatase" load tRNAs with the correct amino acids.
So they tried to mutate tRNAs and Aminoacyl-tRNA synthatases to carry and load the specific amino acid they wanted to add. Surprisingly, it took them 6 years, several tries to produce what they want. I guess you need incredible patience to succeed in such an ambitious and ground breaking research, and you need lots of funding to do it, too. So it took them 6 years just to get the right tool they needed, now they finally are starting to add unnormal amino acids to E.coli.
They tried several different kinds of amino acids, even artificially synthesized amino acids with unseen-before side chains, with much success. Even more astonising, he said that because most triplet codes in the genome are already used for important Amino acids, only 2 not commenly used codens could be utilized to introduce additional ones. In order to add more, he did further mutating to get tRNAs and Aminoacyl-tRNA synthatases that use codons with 4 basepairs! And success again! Now there are already major pharmaceutical companies using these methods to develop new protein based medicines. In conclusion, he said that the proteins of life are constrained by the genetic codes, to only 20 amino acids, with no apperent reason.
What's intresting is that in the making of those tools, they made large mutation pools, insert into E.coli, and use negative selection to get the one they wanted, by adding genes that make the unsuccessful ones die off. What's more, in the adding of 4-based codens, it also competes with the less seen triplet codes which has a same sequence as on the 4-based. This is very like the development of T and B lymphocytes of the immune system, which also selects the sucessfull cells and let the failed ones die off. Which also makes me think of the similarity to the process of evolution of life it self. How intresting it is that the rule: "survival of the fittest" applies not only to the evolution of species, the developement of lymphocytes, but also to genetic engineering techneques. Maybe this is THE ULTIMATE RULE of life. Wonder if it also applies to anything else associated with life?

News:(kind of old news though) Bush gets to stay in DC for another 4 years

Looks like Bush won by a slight difference again. Actually, from an american point of view, I don't think there's much difference between Bush and Kerry. (Well, if you ignore the jokes on the tonight show that Kerry and his partner are constantly kissing and hugging like gay...) And I think that's why the 2 got a similar number of votes. But from a Taiwanese point of view, I'd say I'm happy because Bush is less likely it butter up China, and is more friendly to Taiwan. Which means that we could live safely for another 4 year, with a less possibility of war with China, since Bush will protect Taiwan.
Anyways, congrats to Mr. Bush, and good to see Kerry's a good person who is willing to admit he lost.
Good thing that he didn't went around saying" Not fair", shouting "Vote not valid", sueing everybody, creating riots, and practically messing up the whole country~~like some loser did when he wasn't elected the Taiwanese president(may be hard to understand if you're not a Taiwanese, but some people are really childlike). 1 or 2 bad losers is enough to mess up this country, those guys should see Mr. John Kerry as a role model.
Maybe we should write a law that says:"Losers who didn't behave well after an election can never apply to race again in their life."

心得: 植多實驗畫圖原則

從大一普植實驗到現在的植多實驗
一直都不知道手繪圖的意義為何
只能猜測，是助教除此之外不知道要出什麼作業？
還是照相機發明前古代留下來的傳統？
只知道再怎麼畫還是比不上相片
一張圖要畫很久，點到手痠；只為了在一個禮拜過後看到自己辛苦畫的東西
被打了一個紅紅的R或B-，退回重畫
然後更想不通為何抄課本圖的人分數永遠比照實畫的人高

直到昨天植多實助教的提醒
才知道原來植物圖是這樣畫的
啊這次終於解開了我長久以來的疑惑，也終於能畫出一張好圖了。
也把這些準則跟大家分享吧！

「為何連一些期刊上的論文也要附上手繪圖？
手繪圖的意義在於「呈現出原來的樣子」並「去除雜訊」。
由於在玻片的製作過程中細胞會萎縮，所以一些皺縮的結果要去除，以呈現它原本的樣子。
而不是非常寫實的畫下來。
不然的話直接照相就好啦！」

希望對大家有幫助。
（當然還有最基本的 1.用點呈現陰影 2.線條不要交叉）

另外，昨天還被眼蟲耍了40分鐘以上，不但一直跑，難追又不能畫；我還碰到了一隻用光照不死的……奇怪，不是據說眼蟲會被強光照死嗎？

Photos: 自己無聊騎車衝木柵

前天(星騎六)無聊就沿著水源校區那邊的河濱公園單車專用道騎到底
發現往左通??~好我忘了, 只記得有一家即將開幕的家樂福...以後可以騎車到家樂福耶
往右通木柵
在木柵看到了這台廣告車...

大師啊~po個連結到你的個版吧

對了, 這次又再次證明了我們成功是台北市最小的高中這個事實...
我經過景美時, 發現他們光警衛室就至少是成功警衛室的4倍大XD
校園就更不用說了...

A Thought...The consequences of BK's free drink refills

1.you prefer Burger King over the "m"
2.you talk your self into buying a drink, even if you're not thirsty
3.you decide to eat in instead of bringing the food home- just for the refills
4.you try every flavor, coke, sprite, tea, orange soda, ...
5.you drink until you feel like your bladder is going to burst
6.you tell your self:"No, it won't burst, it's made of transitional epithilium...", and you still keep on drinking
7.your bladder starts to hurt, and you thought:"come on, just a little more, I payed for this."
8.after you finally leave, all you can do is constantly running in and out of the restroom
9.and your bladder still hurts baddly...

Alright, just an exaggerated joke, I didn't experence this in person :)
But you've got to have some self control before walking into BK.

cereal in a box, chinese style, part of this complete breakfast. 

Biochem HW of Oct 26

1. Where on a phospholipid chain does the enzyme phospholipase A1, phospholipase A2, and B, C, D cleave?(check the text book)

2. In what range of degrees will alpha helix and beta sheet occure on the Ramachandran plot? (check the text book p125)

3.

news: 納坦颱風來, 明天放假

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...from here



>氣象圖:

美國海軍颱風警報台

氣象局



>明天(Oct 25)放假XD

我該高興還是不高興?

但這個颱風已經害我今天不能去鶯歌了...

而且下禮拜的組織要狂課了

but anyways, 書唸不完的同學們把握機會!

Notice: Yeah! This site has had more then 1000 visitors!

Visitor flow has been growing since I've opened about 2 months ago.
Although I, my self still constitutes a part of that number, it's still feels kind of good.
Intrestingly, most of you visitor, are my classmates, seeking for those Biochem HW questions.
Wish you would also find my other posts intresting, as I try to keep the quality of the blog, and try to make it better.

心得: 跟著單車社殺山路

今天是入社以來第一次跟單車社的同學們出去騎車。因為自己只有學生車，只好借社車。騎好車殺山路豈止一個爽自可以形容！過去都是自己一個人，沒技巧，騎便 宜的登山車，靠蠻力，又騎又牽車的。現在車好、變速好，再加上有技巧的踩踏和新的觀念，輕輕鬆鬆，不必下來牽車就殺上去了。中途下車的路段，除了是大家集 體休息或等候面的同學外也只有拍照時才會下車。

great scenary /curving road

vegetation

「騎山路上坡路段，不要勉強自己，慢慢騎就好了。」
其實我過去最缺乏的，就是要「保持體力」的觀念吧！過去都是用蠻力硬踩，快速耗費體力，踩踏又沒效率，不但一下子就累了，大部分的能量也是平白的浪費掉了。

looking down from the top

另 外，以前都覺得能在陡坡尚祈車繼續踩踏前進而不必牽車的人很厲害；其實是靠「好車」的加持才做的到的（當然，若在山坡上還能用高速檔前進那就太強了）。 「好車」騎起來真的感覺很棒。檔位多，變速反應極快，煞車靈敏，車價輕……只是一萬塊以上的價格真的很恐怖。但這下真正體會到consumer report雜誌所說的：「若要買車絕不要在低價大賣場(discount store)買！」

好啊！明天學生車衝鶯歌！

Biochem HW of Oct 21

1. How many kinds of different protein folds may be produced by a protein coil/chain with 5 pairs(a total of 10) of sulfhydryl groups?

and the HW of Tue is here
(or just look further down the page...)
(重要:please click the comment link)

段考期~~

最近考試一科接著一科到來
人體在壓力下免疫力是會下降的
再加上東北季風
很容易感冒
大家要保重身體呵

(expecially you..., if you are reading)

心情: 學校的課外活動...

奇怪，學校的課外活動總喜歡辦在段考前後。
難道是說是我們考段考的time range拉得太長，
以致於主辦單位隨便挑都會衝到考試？
但以這次的「醉月湖音樂會」和上個學期的「藝術節」為例，
都是在段考2週前啊。
難道是以「閒人才能參加」為條件，避免人數過多？
不會吧？人少就沒意義啦！

好吧，實在想不出什麼合理的解釋。

像我這個段考時間各科打散的人應該就是所謂的「閒人」吧！
只是，「閒人」不多，根據上次去聽「藝術節」的音樂會的經驗，
其實孤單一個人去也怪無聊的。
人類果然是群體動物...

～～ㄟ，我現在還在blog不就代表我太閒了？糟糕～～

Comments: On our biochem class, *sigh...

Just read the first 3 chapters of the biochem text book. (will, of course not every single word...) And I must say, Biochem is quite an intresting part of science, if it isn't for that guy who teaches poorly and totally screwed it up. Yes, it's not only intresting, it's a hot topic, and still developing, helping the advancement of biology and medicine and eclipcing traditional chemistry. In the words of the Wired magazine, Biochem is still wired, but that guy is tired. I guess I'd be reading the book myself in the future, and attending class just to know what's going into the exams and what's next week's home work.

You may be good at research, but if you are not intrested in teaching or find it annoying, then quit, just do the "glorious research" of yours. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Biochem HW of Oct 19

1.課本：
ch2: 2,3,8,16
ch3: 10,12,14

2.Why in SDS-page the small molecules come out first while in gel filtration the small molecules come out last, although they both utilize polyacrylamide gel.
(Tip: check the difference of their sieving effect. SDS-page 在課本p92; gel filtration=Size-exclusion chromatography, 在課本p90~91)

3. Polystyrene resin is a strong cation exchanger, what is it's structure? How does it bind with a sulfonic acid group?
(Tip: check the Merck Index, or search the trademarks: "Bio-Rad AG 50" or "Dowex 50")

4.the problem on the handout p11~Arrange the order of elution...

5. The structure of Ninhydrin?
(Icetimerの更正:The structure of Ninhydrin and how it reacts with NH2 of amine)
(anyways, 我也漏了後半題但我印完了, 算了)

*星期四給那張練習題の解答
*And I still don't know where!
------------------------
alright, if I want to learn some stuff, I need to forget how bad he teaches; but focus on what I can get from him, no matter how less.
But hay, he's better this time!

Photos from the NTU auto show..

porsche carrera/front ferrari 328 gts


ferrari interior ferrari front


lexus sc430 mercedes SLK

porsche carrera4/front smart cabrio

Great boost of free e-mail space

Since Google came out with the ultimate G-mail beta
which provides 1Gig mail storage for free
it suddenly became every free e-mail provider's pain in the ass
and then there was a big frenzy of free storage space up grades
first it was Yahoo mail, which grew from 5MB(or 6? I forgot) to 100MB
then Hotmail, from 2MB(or 3? I don't use Hotmail, I'm not sure) to 250MB
And then all along G-mail is still in beta
So thank Google for making other companies provide better service ^^

Alright, now what surprises me is that
with no hype, no publicity,
My Netscape mail is silently upgraded from 5MB to 250MB!!
And Netscape mail's site still says 5MB!!

Which reminds me of my Yahoo mail upgrade
Yahoo mail users of the whole world got the upgrade in about early July (I guess)
While Yahoo Taiwan said we should wait till the end of August.
When I saw the news, I was a little mad at first (since I also use a Yahoo Taiwan account)
And I logged on Yahoo mail to check
What I found was some kind of glich or something,
but I got the upgrade just as fast as the users in the US
while all the other friends using Yahoo Taiwan's mail was still stuck with single digit MBs!!

Although I don't have a G-mail invitation
I guess I'm always the lucky ones who get the early upgrades (lol)

But really, I rarely use more then 7MB of my Yahoo account (which I use the most)

Thought: Learning in this age

Just got a thought...

when you have questions on your studies
there are always those guys with photographic memory
who can give you an answer to your questions right away

But when ever people come and ask me
I'd usually say
"Wait, I guess I've saw that some where..."
or
"I think I know where to find the answer..."
once I learned something
I don't remember a lot of stuff in detail
but I remember where to find it

wonder which is better?
knowing where to get what you want? or photographic memory?

but of course, I can only play my trick in this age...
I mean, if I live in an age without libraries or google
I'd certeinly be trash...

On music software

Have been using Sony's Sonicstage instead of Apple's iTunes for the past weak
just for the eye candy...
I admit that iTunes is still the best in ease of use and functionality
but after using it for a year
I guess I'm a little sick and tired of that "brushed metal" look

Looking for new stuff to play with
I even downloaded Windows media Player 10
2 days ago
it was quite fun, with color changer and play speed changers
And I thought:
This is a Real player killer
But anyways, even if Windows media Player 10 didn't come out
I guess that crap would just die by itself...

After 2 hours, I decided that it still isn't easy enough to use
and despite the color changer and stream lined user interface
I still like the look of Sonicstage
LOL
Sony does know how to make eye candy's
and the easy of use is good--only Apple can do better

心情: Trying not to think about it...

Oh boy
I guess I have a tendancy to think too much when I'm alone
and usually thinking about bad things

Funny that I can seem all that happy and optimistic in front of others
But extreamly melancholy on my own

Joined the bike club today
just to find more friends
and find stuff to do on the weekends
cycling with others seems healthier then moaning for yourself alone in the library
busy doing something would let me forget about it...
at least while I'm doing it...
which means I could be temporally be happy for a while
expecially bike riding or swimming(like I did yesterday)
feeling the speed of the air or the water flowing past me
Guess I'm using the feel of speed for what people use drugs for-- to forget about the sad stuff
Speedaholic I am.

Speaking of addictions
The volume of my clie(which I use as a walkman) is constantly rising
frequency of listen also rising...
musicaholic I am, also.

Damn, why can't I just enjoy life?

物理実験レポート について

〜A4 の紙で書く〜
>原理〜整理
>歩驟〜流程図
>数据〜結果
>分析
1.定量（実値）
2.定性k=0.3~0.6
3.原因探討
>討論／思考問題
>補充資料
>other 2数据

*数据表示方式：平均+-標準差

隨筆亂寫: 年輕

缺乏經驗，知識不足
除了多多吸收，努力成長外
只能憑著認真的態度
和一股衝勁
揮灑青春的活力
闖出自己的一片天。

Hate post: What an asshole!

今天那傢伙(who?我同學都知道吧!但在網路上指名罵人是會被告的...所以還是不要指名是誰, 發洩一下情緒就好)真的超臭屁的
教的不好, 人人嫌, 竟然還能那麼臭屁?!

為何說他臭屁?
See for your self.
What he said today:
"...好那這樣大家懂嗎?
什麼?不懂? 那我也沒辦法啦.
這麼簡單的東西也不懂, 是怎麼進臺大的?
...
你們浪費我太多時間了, 我還有很多是要做!"

什麼?教我們是浪費你的時間?
既然你那麼偉大, 時間那麼寶貴, 那就不要來開課, 去做你的偉大事業好了
反正也沒幾個學生覺得你教的好.

Today's Biochem HW ~ Oct 14

1. How does the Dideoxy method work?
2.How does DNA splicing by DNA restriction enzyme work? What is Palindrome?

心情: Tonight...

Have been anticipating tonight for days
But things just don't go the way you want them to

With this suddenly obtained free time
I suddenly don't know what to do
since I don't assign 2 tasks to the same time period

Went to renew my swimming pass for another year
I guess there's no better way to pick your self up when you feel down

After some physics problems(for the next day's damn test)
I went to the pool and dive in
And rats, I feel weak after not swimming for the past month
Right foot hurting from yesterday's bike ride
Left leg's gastrocnemius also starting to hurt because it's keeping up with the Joans...
But so much is going on in my mind that I not only forgot about it but can't even swim in a stright line, bumping left into people and right to the lean dividers
Hay, what's going on with me?

Oh boy, so much for "the big day"
Once again, all I can do is keep on waiting

Maybe I am a fool...

心情：big day for me I guess

This is it, don't freak out at the last moment again...

Didn't some one said: " If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore."?

Wish me luck, if you are a friend who knows what's going on... :p

Comment: Are we a SINGLE organism?

Wow, never thought of that, but we could actually be seen as an "aggregate" of organisms, instead of simplly one organism. Why? Because we have all sorts of bacteria, fungi and other organisms living in our body. And the strange part is that we only have several trillion human cells in our body, while the bacteria cells in our body has a population of more than 100 trillion cells - many times more than human cells. So we really should inclulde the other residents when we mention a "human body". Although revolutionary, but it's a quite simple thought. Neat, isn't it? Now, again, why we haven't thought about that before?

See: Wired News: People Are Human-Bacteria Hybrid
And hold your chin tight--in case you're so surprised that it falls to the ground.

photos:招財貓吃拉麵

買了顆拉麵轉轉蛋, 正好給我的招財貓吃...
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photos: 金山的廁所門...XD

哇, 可以把我彈到月球去嗎?會內傷嗎?
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Biochem HW of Oct 12

1.p10~What is the pI of the dipeptide Lys-Arg (The three pKa of Lysine are 2.2, 9.0& 10.5 and those for Arginine 2.2, 9.0& 12.5)?
(我也不會算耶,課本好像只有教amino acid的 pI算法 (p84)没教dipeptide的算法)
(~今天(Oct 15)老師草草率率的教了一下...)

2.What is beta oxidation? What is the outcome of the beta oxidation of Serine?(Note: Thr Trp can also undergo beta oxidation)
>為何我查到的beta oxidation 是lipid的反應?

3. Find the dielectric constant of Methanol, Benzene, Acetone; compare them with water(dielectric constant=80) (and discover the magnificance of water~like, yeah right)
>tip: check here
|Methanol (77° F) 32.6
|Benzene (68° F) 2.3
|Acetone (77° F) 20.7 / (127° F) 17.7 / (32° F) 1.0159
|~None is higher then water

心情；剛班完宿舍 ...

這次搬進宿舍真是風風雨雨阿∼
前天繳完錢後高高興興的來到了位於上個學期住的男5舍隔壁的男3舍。
找到教官後發生了我被分配到的床位有人住的烏龍（見之前的文章）
換了房間後，又重打了2把鑰匙，花了120元，然後回到房間，發現我打的2把鑰匙中100元的那隻竟然沒有用，因為鎖壞了！
今天扛著大包小包，正要進宿舍大門時，妹妹一針見血的問了一句；“你有沒有帶衣服？“
這才想到我那最大箱的，裝滿衣服和毛巾的塑膠櫃還躺在我那好幾公里外的家中的房間呢！
只好把東西拿到宿舍房間一放就走人，跟著家人逛大賣場，然後回家T_T

回到家後，把那該死的塑膠櫃五花大綁，又坐車到基隆市區，上了客運，然後再度回到宿舍
於是乎
又發現，筆袋和衛生紙沒帶...XD

整理房間後發現又需要檯燈和網路線
以前住男五時這兩樣和鑰匙都是現成的說...

接著又發現室友擺了一隻鑰匙在我桌上，說是多的房間鑰匙...
好，我今天學到了一見事；“要打鑰匙錢先搞清楚是否需要，不是教官說可能要，就急著去打“

前人留下來的東西非常多
有馬克杯、益智遊戲、玩具熊、電池一堆、笛子、音樂譜架、直立式電風扇、床墊、枕頭、網球、一匙靈...
列不完啦！
有些保留，有些丟掉，但宿舍走廊上的垃圾桶很快就被我一個人塞爆了。

好，接著找同學一同跑光華，買滑鼠（舊的太爛了，你動它，游標不一定會動）、網路線、和麥克風（for skype）
回來後，竟發線宿網這學期開始要註冊才能使用，然後註冊完要等1~2天
等“人“來幫你處理申請了資料...
（目前在使用同學的 apple ibook在他的房間blogging，mac OS很棒，但還是不習慣...）

有網路後我就會馬上灌Skype的
但不知那是何時...

Notes~学習と管理

分享一下今天工程倫理課の筆記
>In big shits, hit your mouth shut
>専注の学習能力＆態度/主動積極
>need: self management, passion, relationships, dreams
>Team work does more -> synergy
>#1rule in relationships: listen to others.
>give your self time to contemplate: What am I doing? Where am I going?

我の宿舍〜 T_T

原本很高興終於有了宿舍、去向教官報到 ...

却発現我の床位被黒走了！
到房間一看,都是東西、很明顕有人「正在」住那,這那多の東西看起来不是短時間内搬得走的

Oh,還要多久我才能終結通車生活？

〜後続〜
換了個房間,希望没問題了

today's biochem HW Oct 7（更新&除錯完成）

1.Which amino acid has the most chiral centers?

2.p9~How many optical isomers for arginine(Arg)and tryptophan(Trp)

3.How does the amino acid Pye control hair color?(tip: Pye is a precursor of melanin)
^sorry, but I strongly suspect that it should be Phe, not Pye
(Phe-->Tyr--> Melanin)
4.糖精(saccharin)のstructure?

5. How does sickle cell anemia occur?

XD. What does "eat your heart out" mean? ^^

脚踏車衝醫學院！

今天吃完晩飯後,吃飽没事幹,就騎著脚踏車往醫學院衝,想測測看自己能多快到達。
一出大門口就照著校車の路線、往大安森林公園方向走,然後再往左走仁愛路。一路上車非常多,就連我這小小的bike也被塞住、走走停停。而且紅緑燈超多的。我想我若在這種鬼地方開車大概会很痛苦。（泰國好像更惨...）
走走停停,中徒還到多花2分到別の地方看看,結果到達目的地還是只要 19分 35秒,比昨天坐校車快 20分耶！但那様的塞車状況在校車上度過還是較好。

註：my PDA是日文機、故本文中有些字是日式の漢字 ...

photos: 怪腳踏車...

>bx的腳踏車停在新物館外面的下場...被當大型廢棄物




>有排檔桿的腳踏車...XD

Biochem homework of Oct 5

1.p7~what percentage of glucose solution can be used to substitute for saline solution?
2.what is the amino acid "Tris"?
3.p7~What is the major amino acid in proteins to be used as a buffering acid/conjugated base to maintaia constant pH in cells or plasma?(tip: use this software to draw structures: "Chem Draw")
4.p7~How is Bohr effect related to the maintenance of pH in red blood cells?(tip: check the graph in your text book)
5.

Notes~
HIS:
Honesty, Integrity, Sincerity

News: Diatom genome mapping

我們可愛的藻類之一diatoms竟然如此神奇, 跟我們人類對於含氮廢物有一樣的處理方式! 那麼他們也會產生尿素摟?
article at Wired.com

Comment: Palmone Tungsten T5 may come out next week

Updated Tungsten, Treo set for release | CNET News.com

So much for our long wait for the Tungsten T5, it doesn't run OS6, but for a simple reason.
So this is the reason why NO ONE, not even palmone, wants to make models running palm OS 6(colbat)-->It's desktop software dosn't support macs! Ha! Ha!
Palmsource, are you reading this?

But other then the OS, it's still a disapointing handheld, at least to me, so I won't even consider it unless my NX dies.

First of all, that Tungsten E case is ugly.
Second, still no built in WIFI, and only a single expansion slot. Which means that you can't download stuff to a card.
Third, can't they just dump real player/kinoma and write a better audio/video player?
Last, all of the above are not a problem on the clie NX(with a second slot for WIFI) or TH series, so how come Palmone still prefers to play catch up even after Sony left the market? Waiting for HP+Microsoft to eat them up?

^rumored photo from 1src.com