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.

------
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?

The fight for your pocket

So many things are fighting for your pocket space, how do you choose?
Let me list the stuff:
1.Phone, 2.MP3/walkman, 3.games, 4.digicam and 5.PDAs.

Now, I think the first thing is to consider which is most important to you.
As #1 can do the work of at least 3 and 4; #3 may do #2; my PDA can substitute 2, 3 and 4
A Treo can even do all of them.
But convergent gadgets never do all of them well.

Phones only take calls good, they do a lot more, but do non of them well.
For example, many mini memory card maxs out at 128MB, so, takes too less MP3s; most can only play simple games; 0.31MP camera; and inputing data with "multitap"(worse then a PDA's touch screen)

Walkmans usually just play music, and do it well.

Portable games(aka PSP)are only good at games, too big and heavy for music play(and bad UI)

Digicams also just take photos.(Only a friction plays music)

PDAs may also be good at games or music play, but never good at taking pictures. I'd say it's best for reading web content on the go.

So focus on what you need most and keep in mind that the added on functions seldom do well.

Thus, for me, I have a seperate PDA and a phone that is only for phone calls(There is an email function, but it's taken care of by my PDA). Personal data management and news reading is essential to me, PDAs are OK with music play, and I'm not that found of phone calls.
Maybe it's because I seldom get or make calls, don't have much close friends, and no girl friend. Call me a loner.

But for some others, I guess the simplist solution is to keep the pockets clean and empty :D

Learning to be ignored

I guess, because everybody's life is so busy, they have a tendency of ignoring others.
Because you aren't any "important somebody", they don't have to always notice you.
Thus, you've got to get used to being ignored.
No, nobody takes a friend that serious, so you might as well think you're just an acountance.
Get used to being ignored, and live with it.
The world still keep on moving even without you.

Thus you learn that you, also, have a right to ignore others.

I'm going to turn off my phone for a little privacy...

News: New Sony HD walkman anounced

The new sony NW-HD5 walkman is just released.
Quite nice, but
1.Hay that's ugly, looks more like an uglified gameboy
2.only displays 6 language, without Chinese(hay, iRiver had something like 20+)
3.only 20GB
4.no cradle nor remote control(which makes the HD1 still better)
5.Man, it lakes the "Sony cool look"

The HD1 made me look forword to a HD2;
The HD2 made me look forword to a HD3;
The HD3 made me look forword to a HD4;
Now the HD5 made me look forword to a HD6...
Nice try Sony, go on, and let Apple and iRiver eat it out.

Related:
http://www.betanews.com/article/NWHD5_Sonys_iPod_Killer/1112802877
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000420038937/

All right, done another web site(I hate IE)

Finally done the Wuling site for the cycling club.
With each debug, the more I resent IE and the more I appreceate the hard work of the guys at mozilla and W3C.
It seams that M$IE always have some kind of rendering problem with this or that. But with Firefox, you usually get what you want to see.

But the thing that really pissed me off is not the rendering problems of IE, but rather the "safety measures" that came with XP SP2. It went so far as to block my flash movie and my 2 javascripts.
The Flash movie is the navigation bar that links to the pages of the site; one javascript is for showing the last modifing date of the site, and the other just a count down clock to a certein date. IE said that they are "active content", and that they may be harmful code. Come on, man, this is just like saying that "THE CLOCK ON YOUR DESK MAY KILL YOU!" Yeah right, can you strike someone to death with an alarm clock?

This forced me to go on to MSDN for some help, and found some hysterical solution:
Just add the following tag to your page

with"http://yoursite.com/"being the URL of your site
Yeah, I guess M$ like to play with "digital signatures", but this is absolutely stupid.
There's a Chinese saying that goes something like "taking of your pants just to let out the gas of the guts".

Ok, so next time remember to add that junk code to your page if you use flash or java, or IE will block them: for no reason.
And, once again, use a W3C compliant browser, such as Firefox. Website developers around the world will thank you.

---

I also played around with HTML validation, and found that the number of errors of a M$ Word generated HTML file could be 10times the normal errors of HTMLs you write yourself. Macromedia Dreamweaver is a very good piece of softwere, thank them for their generous 1 month trial(such a shame that I can afford to but it); and thank them for including a "Word/Frontpage junk code cleaner".

太平山之行感想

• day1~北宜公路to羅東

雨天騎車真的很不好受. 雨衣只蓋到上半身, 下半身全濕, 雙腳還感覺的到雨水在鞋裡前後流動. 下坡時更為了讓雙腿不要太冰而必須繼續空踩. 不但如此, 鏈條卡滿了泥巴, 砂石; 最扯的是變速因此管線不順, 還定位跑掉...
在坪林休息後, 天氣放晴了, 但那雨後故障的變速開始折磨我. 就在此混亂之中, 忽然感到後輪特軟, 還跟著踩踏上下擺動. 下車一看, 發現一小塊"暗色錐狀不明物質"卡在外胎上, 伸手一拔, 後輪"噗嘶"一聲把僅剩的氣洩了大半, 真是禍不單行.
把車倒過來, 準備清車, 車架上的一個孔卻有如水龍頭般狂洩, 一小柱水柱流了出來...靠, 還車架積水咧!
嘿, 住羅東真好, 什麼設備應有盡有, candy甚至還有和室可以睡. 還要感謝智誠那超棒的阿媽. 只可惜在這麼棒的地方的夜晚, 必須要在補胎和沒完沒了的變速調整中度過.

• day2~羅東to太平山

Candy真貪吃阿(怎麼每次出來完都會跟很會吃的女生同桌, 記得大一新生宿營時也有), 大清早就嗑了2大碗稀飯和一堆肉, 結果上車騎了沒多久, 就消化不良了XD
話 說羅東到土場間的路程比想像中遠, 騎了很久都看不到土場. 期間經過一大片田園, 因飆太快, 又張嘴狂吸氣, 吃了不少drosophila(果蠅), 攝取了一些不乾淨的幾丁質. 還有一隻直接飛進我的喉嚨裡, 淹沒在澱粉脢和唾液中, 弄得我喉嚨很乾, 還一直咳嗽; 幾十分鐘後才被喉嚨吐了出來.
沒追到大隊, 大家都有自己的理由. 到土場前, candy消化不良, peacer和我肚子餓, 智誠不小心跌倒受傷; 上山後, 我受不了那冰冷的空氣, 氣管很痛, 變速又不順; 智誠背包太重(為何背包需要裝鋼架?); candy好像比較沒問題了; peacer血糖不穩, 還是校園跑車...結果都沒追到. 只有我剛好看到最後一批人要上去放行裡的那一刻.
等我們4個人都到了, 大家都已經在碰碰車上, 房門全鎖, 又沒鑰匙, 只好使出住宿舍學到的"刷卡大法", 把一間的門刷開.(哈, 那個鎖真好刷)

• day3~翠豐湖, 下太平山
  

早上跟柚子去騎翠豐湖(是怎樣, 前一天有一堆人要去, 今天只剩我們2個), 這真是個飆車的好地方, 路大部分是緩上緩下, 還有一堆髮夾灣, 不但車速很少低於20, 還可以練練高速壓車過灣. 我有好幾次差點擦到護欄, 看來過灣還要練練. 此外這條路還謀殺了我們不少相機記憶容量.
滑下太平山還滿空虛的. 花了近6小時爬上去, 滑下來卻不到一小時...
在遊覽車上, 終於了解維中學妹有多好人, 竟連點快10首的好人歌, 狂唱(一開始還唱了"我是女生", 承認了身為學妹的事實).

photos

Thoughts of today

Before you want people to work for you, you should respect them first.
Not let them wait a whole afternoon, having nothing to do, practically wasting their time.

Today, I was not respected. So I left. Wasting 5 hours for nothing is enough.

My favorite keychain

Have I mentioned the TV-B-Gone keychain before?
This is a must get I'll be getting the next time I'm going to the states, turns off almost any TV you see!

News: Gmail is now 1 year old

Last year's April fool's, Google launched Gmail beta with 1GB storage, and we now know clearly they weren't joking.
Today, it's once again April fool's, and Gmail just turned one.
On Gmail's one-year birthday, they celebrated by putting this "Infinity+1 storage plan", and you started to wonder:"Infinity Gigabites?"
To archive their funny April fool's special homepage, here is a copy: (all rights belong to Google)-------------------------------------------

A Google approach to math.

On the eve of Gmail's one-year birthday, our engineers were toiling away furiously. Notes scribbled all over the walls. Complex calculations on napkins and empty pizza boxes. Millions of M&Ms.

The result?... starting today, we're beginning the roll-out of our new and top secret Infinity+1 storage plan. The key features are:

• Write, don't worry.
  You want to stop caring about storage. We want to keep giving you more. Today, and beyond.

• The gift that keeps on giving.
  1394.860506 megabytes of storage (and counting) for every user.
  (the number in front should be running on their own site...)

• No complicated equations. No tough algorithms.
  Just this one graph:
  

Gmail turns 1 today. And we've always loved a good joke. We know we won't reach infinity, but check out what we will do ...

Well, in fact they said they ARE giving out TWO GIGs, that's right, one more gig.
Are they going to give out one more gig every year?(lol)
(Although my account says: "You are currently using 26 MB (2%) of your 1398 MB.", I guess they well gradually add it up)
I don't know, but one thing clear:"They are always number 1 in free storage"
(Just as Yahoo anounces "plans" for giving out 1GB)
By the way, anyone needs a Gmail invitation? I've got more then enough to spear^^

天阿: 好忙

這兩個禮拜真是有夠忙的
之前邊準備生化考試邊坐杜鵑花節美宣就已經覺得有點忙不過來了說
結果杜鵑花節結束後不但沒有輕鬆點
現在還是生科之夜+武嶺會師網宣+物理+細生+期中考大神...
然後還有一堆閒書, 不但看不完, 每次到圖書館看到好看的還拼命借...
回到宿舍又會忍不住到PDA討論版逛逛

每天熬夜
每天上課睡覺

今天有種快虛脫的感覺
明天去騎太平山, 放3天假, 看會不會好一點

單車社16週年社慶^^

今天愚人節, 也是單車社的社慶
以下是大家高興的吃蛋糕照片
感謝出錢買蛋糕的兩位同學^^

putting on the candles

everybody drooling...

Haunted

Was overwhelmed by emotions,
So tried overwhelming myself with duties,
Alas,
I realized that the later adds on, rather then replaces the previous.
Thus,
I found myself washed on helplessly by the undefeatable drift of life.

Was overwhelmed by memories,
So tried depriving myself of the bad rememberings,
Alas,
I realized that I can't delete them clean, as all that passes leaves a trace,
Thus,
I found myself haunted constantly by the unpleasent artifacts of the past.

News: Life expectancy of Americans to drop?

According to a report on nature.com, the life expectancy of Americans is due to drop, because of obesity. It's the first time that life expectancy in the US is predicted to drop, so this is going to make history.
That's intresting.
Although it's about americans, but I don't think that only Americans should face the problem, other countrys around the world is adapting a greesy food life style, so these countrys might face this problem some time in the future. Beware.

So guys, watch your weight.

糟,睡過頭(>_<)

昨天發瘋之後
今天一起床,（驚）已9：00了
而張文章竟在第1堂課就把18章最後面的大神教完了 T_T
我到的時侯已教到了21章...

然後之後的分類又睡了過去...

下午的物理課又因為老師生病而停課。

真是個空虚的曰子,一事無成,也没學到多少東西。

今天發瘋...

今天不知道發什麼瘋(大概是因為昨天只睡4小時吧)
晚餐時間不吃飯, 跑去游泳
然後游完還不想唸書
放著進度落後的物理, 分類學, 流行病學和細胞生物學不唸
飯也不吃
隨便一支powerbar+牛奶
然後就跟冠宇他們衝烘爐地(老子今天不爽, 不想唸書只想玩)

過了擁擠又塞車的中,永和一帶
開始爬山...哇沒看過這麼陡的山坡路...
但還是硬著頭皮死命的殺了上去

途中, 騎上坡經驗較少的諺樺在上車時不小心跌倒了, 受了傷...祝早自康復啊~

剛開始一片漆黑, 於是我拿出我的手電筒+橡皮筋
就成了窮人車燈
到了半山腰開始塞車!!
是的, 這窄窄的山路竟會塞車, 只因為太多人上山拜拜orz

夜景很美
只可惜路線太短...

夜景

自我改造計畫

在過去的一段時間中, 我覺得我的人格越來越扭曲...XD, 心情越來越糟, 越來越煩

今天經過一番思考, 這樣是不行的, 一個大學生整天哀聲嘆氣的能幹麻呢?
所以決定從現在起執行"自我改造計畫", 並希望能持續(我承認我的計畫都很少持續的)

過去>

• 悲觀
• 沒活力
• 沒自信
• 熬夜
• 和同學約時, 會遲到
  
• 上課打瞌睡
• 有自殘傾向
• 整天沉溺在"好人"的陰影中
  

目標>(找回自己曾經擁有的優點)

• 樂觀
• 開朗
• 節省
• 守時
  
• 有自信
• 早睡早起
• 多看閒書
• 把低落的成績拉回來

(以下則是希望達到的新目標)

• 多運動
• 注重身體健康
• 充分利用生命中的每一刻
• 承認並戒掉"掛網"的習慣(少上b, 少開msn, 少逛討論版)
• 多思考
  

...以後想到再加吧!

News: Sony finally got the flash MP3s right

(photo from sony's site)
Sony is about to come out with a new line of flash based MP3 Walkmans. (the E505 comes with 512MB; E507 with 1GB)They have an incredible playtime of 50hr, supports not only sony's ATRAC3 but also MP3 files and doubles as a FM radio. And it also has a beautiful OLED screen that shows 3 lines of text; now that's what the ipod shuffle lacks.
Not only is it packed with functions you'd expect from a modern MP3 player(except that it doesn't record stuff), it looks good. (IMHO, much better then that white stick) Now, just give it a competitive price, and it will force Apple designers back to the drawing board. Actually, I think the ipod shuffle is the worst looking product that Apple ever came up with. (lack of function and just a plain white plastic stick) Come on, let's have better products to go with your good brand.

site on sony japan (of E507) | review of E505 on cnet

Today @ BK

There was this guy standing in the food prep. area, with his arms crossed in front of him, doing nothing except staring at the employees. I guess he must be a superviser or something close. And boy did you see his face, he had this expression that looks as if someone just slaped his face and took his wallet! Surely not a pleasent look. I guess it mustn't feel too good working in front of him(^○^).
But hay, didn't he notice that a customer is looking at him? They should of taught him not to give the "look" to customers...

News: What? you're taking pictures with that MD walkman??

No kidding, you could actually take pictures with a MD walkman.
Sony just released the new MZ-DH10P MD walkman. It has a tiny color screen, a 1.3Mega pixel digicam, and plays the new 1GB Hi-MD. I'd say it's a great gadget, only if it wasn't an MD.
Yeah, it can take pictures, it's got great design, it's got a color screen, ... But, why would you want an MD walkman when you can carry much more music on a HDD based MP3 player? MD's are like so phased out that a BestBuy store I went to was clearing them out a year ago.

Com'on, Sony , wake up to the reality. We want HDD, not MD!

Nearly killed my Clie!

I was just playing with some dangerous software on my clie, then found some system files corrupt. So I tried to delete the files I just installed. But the OS thought it was a system file, not letting me delete it, forcing me to do a hard reset. So I pushed on the power switch and pressed the reset button...but all I got is a normal reset. This is when I realized that my power switch died! Damn!
I tried to manually delete the bad files, but still to no avill.
Now I had only 3 more options left:
1.drain the battery to flush all data in the RAM(which might take hours or even a whole day)
2.send it to get the power switch repaired, which I'm sure would result in the Clie being away for a whole month.
3.unplug the battery, again to flush all data in the RAM.(which, is risky as I don't know if the battery would go wrong)
For time's sake, I took the 3rd solution, which might be the fastest.
.............................................
So I took off the battery cap and unpluged the battery power cord.
I waited for a few secends then pluged it back in, and...
All I got is a white screen and the power indicator LED flashing on and off...
Now I'm busted.
I repluged it, or repluged it to the AC adapter, but still, the same thing happened again and again.
Durring this, the reset button only temporily stopped the LED flashing.
-Panic--Panic--Panic--Panic--Panic-
I gave up and considered sending it in for a repair, then realized that that means that I'd have to go back to a paper based dayplaner, and copy over everything from my computer to my paper dayplaner...at least 3 hours going down the drain.
After considering that terrible thought, I pluged in the battery once again, minutes after my last try, and...

IT WORKED!!!

I was sooooo happy to see the friendly "Palm powered" logo back again. And it was so good that MS backup worked smoothly as usual. Now my clie is alive again, only that the power switch is dead(not broken but simply not responding). Good thing that the 4 main buttons still turns on the clie.

Firefox: security update(ver.1.01)

a new security update, firefox 1.01 is out.
it is said on mozilla.org that "The security update for Firefox includes several fixes to guard against spoofing and arbitrary code execution."
I guess you won't feel much difference, but it's a fixed version so it's safer, right?
go over to mozilla.org to update if you'd like to :)

photos:日月潭

日月潭照片
還包括大家下樓梯的影片
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Photos took with Sony Clie NX-73V(j), photo size:640*320pixels

Alright, clies are dead.

This is a really sad day.

It is said that Sony would stop production of clies in Japan after July.
I guess all we could do is save up and buy a new one before that as a backup PDA.

Although in most markets, new and better thing well eventually phase out the old products, but after a year and a half with my clie, I didn't see any non-clie released afterwards that is better then my clie. PalmOne never did any model right after the Palm Vx; and microsoft stuff is always too complex, buggy. and never user friendly.

Wish my clie can live on for years to come...

Related:
1src news | discussions

從醫學院回來的路上...

在這濕濕冷冷的夜裡
漂著雨 視線不明

在這下著雨的夜裡
我無腦的仁愛路的騎樓下高速騎單車

每遇到有起伏的路段就抬龍頭
得意的往前跳 然後加速繼續

在這黑黑的夜裡
我在騎樓下摔車
臉頰撞到了地板
頭微暈 嘴裡流出了紅紅的液體...

在這下著雨的黑夜中
我哀怨的騎著車 回到學校
帶著還在痛的頭
和破裂微腫的嘴唇

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下次騎車到醫學院我要戴安全帽!

Rumer: New clie comming out?(also: new Appshelf update)

It is said that Sony might come out with a new clie (in japan, of course) in the new future.
They said that it would be a successor of the TH55, and it would look more like a vaio then a clie.
Some say it would have never to be seen innovations(some say new features, some say new form factor).

...Lets hope that one of those innovations is the use of Palm cobolt(OS6)(this is not in the rumer, though)

related:
1src: new Clie coming soon
mobile read: A Sony Clie TH55 successor soon? There's hope!
Palm Addict: Rumor of New Clie to replace TH55 in Japan

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Also, Appshelf is recently updated to Ver.1.2Beta3
Major improvements that I notced include:(please check the website for a full list)
1. support for the new landscape app for clies, loads seperate wallpapers for landscape and portrait mode.
2. embedded simple file browser.
3. the extension can now be placed on all 4 sides of the screen.

Palm OS not attractive any more to some developers?

Some how, that's what I feel. Here's why:
1.New software for palm don't appear as frequently as before. I'm seeing less new software now.(or is it just me?)
2.Skype made a PPC version, but said there are no plans for a Palm version.
3.Mozilla is looking for Win CE developers for it's new mobile browser project(minimo). But why aren't they looking for Palm developers? (I would like to see Mozilla on my Clie)
4.There are lots of CF and SDIO accessaries on the market, (like CF modems, WIFI cards, GPS recevers...etc), but with few exception, they only come with drivers for PPC, but none for Palm.
5.Almost all the new comers of the handheld market use PPC, we seldom see new Palm licencees.(I've seen some where that there are about 50+ companys making PPC; while the number of Palm licencees are scarce, and many of them haven't came out with new handhelds for a long time.)

I don't know what's the problem, but PPC is getting all the news now a days, and I don't see Palmsource doing anything about it. All I see is cobalt(OS6) siting there for a year with no one intrested yet. Come on, man, DO SOMETHING. I don't want to see Microsoft eating up everything. We already had enough of that bad UI(like digging very deep in to your start menu to do one simple task) and numerous security problems of Windows on PCs. I don't want those problems show up on every phone or PDA on the market. There is still symbian on phones to fight MS, but Palm is the only one who can stop MS from eating up PDAs.(Linux is not optimized enough for handhelds yet, I've seen them, thank you.) So why are you still sitting there waiting for MS to kill you, Palmsource?

從基隆騎車到臺北!!

因為無聊, 為了好玩
今天下午1點從位於基隆的家裡騎著單車, 背著家當(一部分啦)
往學校的方向出發
今天先到瑞芳, 轉106號縣道, 往平溪方向爬山
從家裡到瑞芳之間下坡不少, 而且我已騎過無數次
到達瑞芳時碼表上的平均時數竟有26km/hr
但是一上了106, 就慢下來了, 而且一下子就虛掉了, 前變一下子就切到了最低檔, 時速只剩個位數
體力虛掉, 是我過年期間狂睡, 沒運動的報應吧!
爬到山頂, 只有約6~7km, 卻花了我一個小時, 外加3次休息
平均時數降到了13, 我真的太虛了



接著就是快樂的長下坡, 中途經過十分瀑布, 此下坡一直持續到平溪
十分瀑布本身雖然要收門票, 但光是外面的風景就殺了我不少記憶體
拍完照, 又繼續高速往下滑, 一路標到平溪
口渴在平溪買了灌維大力
店員說25, 我給30然後就到外面開始喝
上車要走時, 才想到"沒找錢!"
由回去要錢
很久之後老闆才從裡面的廚房出來, 我說了之後才宣稱他"恍神了"
很好! 我會記得這家店的

離開平溪後又是一段很長的山路, 上上下下, 沒啥感覺, 就騎了20幾公里
經過之前的路程之後, 身體已經進入狀況了吧
一路上重型機車超多的
路上的汽車都狂超車, 還一直跑到對向車道去...差點被超車的撞XD

不知不覺, 來到了台北
發現接上了之前去騎北47北47-1時走過的路!
原來除了106中間之外, 其實這些路我都很熟...虧我之前還特地去找地圖說

出軍功路後
來到了久違的公館
這裡似乎比剛剛經過的木柵擁擠多了
路上塞車塞的很嚴重
呵呵, 才4點多就在下班塞車啦.
回到宿舍, 比過年前熱鬧許多, 看來加已經續回來準備開學了

ride time 2:56(+nearly 1hr of rest time)
average speed 19.2km/hr
max speed 55km/hr
distance 56.05km

A change of walkman recording media

Since Sony came out with the first cassette tape walkman, portable music players were always a hot product. But the recording media kept changing. First was tapes, then came CDs, MDs(which never caught on execpt in japan), then MP3 players with flash memory or hard discs, and all sort of other forgoten ones that never were popular.

Last year, the iPod was that star of the market in the US, causing prices of CD and MD models to drop to a level where there tape playing counter parts once had been. In Taiwan, although the iPod was also hot, but "USB thumb drive MP3 players" were more popular because they sell at a price near (or even cheaper) CD players. These tiny players quickly replaced CD walkman into the main show cases.

I always thought it weird that MDs were main stream in Japan. In Taiwan they were simply "highly over priced", so people stuck to CDs, then jumped on to flash based MP3s, by passing the cool but expensive MDs. But I guess the price of MDs were considered acceptable in Japan, and it was so hot that you can even buy albums in MDs instead of CDs. But, intrestingly, even as Sony came out with NetMDs and HiMDs, people are starting to flock to flash and/or HDD based MP3s, with MD sells droping dramatically. (see a Japanese report) I guess everybody likes newer stuff, not just newer modifications.

I, my self,had ditched my tapes , put away my CD player, is using memory cards(flash based) and my Clie PDA as a MP3 player, and considering getting a HDD based player. Maybe a Sony Walkman HD3.

So, guess MP3s are really going to take over. Face the reality and stop being in the way, record companies!

台灣駕訓班50分鐘體驗

由於已經有外國駕照, 今天只到駕訓班體驗個50分鐘
看看台灣如何考照

本來以為自己已經會開了, 只要到駕訓班玩幾次就可以直接去考照了
(若不是聽說有恐怖的感應線, 搞不好會不知死活的直接去考吧)
結果今天見識到很多我所見過"最窄"的各種道路相關設施
光是那裡的直線道路, 寬度都最多也只有加州一般"一個線道"的1/3不到
要考的倒車入庫的部分活動空間小得要命
我一直都以2個步驟完成的路邊停車(先倒進去再往前打直), 竟要求倒進去一次完成!
那個S-curve更恐怖, 那寬度和關山的單車專用道差不多, 往前開進去我還可以, 但還要倒出來...(我的罩門T_T)
還有考上坡起步的坡道上的4條感應線, 簡直是沿著一般車子輪胎的邊緣貼上去的, 讓我第一次恨不得要拆掉那個令我看不到前輪的引擎蓋

今天的心得嘛...
在台灣考得到駕照的所有人, 技術都是一流的
終於了解為何那些計程車司機能夠"採著油門, 以極快的速度"倒車退出與車同寬的小巷子了!
在台灣考試, 是考你如何成為"小巷子達人"(在沒有其他車輛時); 至於如何在車子很多的一般路上行駛, 考完再自己自生自滅吧!
而在加州只要在監理站附近開車兜一圈, 沒出啥大問題, 就可以過了. 而至於"小巷子", 那邊既然極為稀有, 就不必考吧.

至於我的台灣駕照嘛, 大概還要再練幾年吧(XD), 或乾脆等到真正需要時再考... 我承認我在窄路中技術極差.

News: 關於火狐狸的3則新聞

火狐狸(firefox)越來越引人注目, 今天赫然發現連自由時報都出現了相關報導 ^^
看來firefox的使用者將會像滾雪球般越來越多吧! 比爾蓋茲閃邊去吧!

隨著firefox的普及, yahoo推出了firefox版的yahoo工具列(雖然還是測試版)
現在只有英文版, 而且只支援美國yahoo的帳號
將來若出現台灣yahoo奇摩版的工具列那我大概會考慮用用看吧

Newsforge網站上出現了一則報導, 預測今年(2005)將會有人開始鑽firefox的安全漏洞. 很 多人改用firefox都是因為IE的安全漏洞過多, 很多病毒, 木馬, 廣告都會進來. 但當firefox的市佔率高到一定程度時, 這些問題也有可能出現在firefox. 雖然firefox的漏洞較少, 但不可能完全沒有, 而且去年就已經補了幾個. 但是在此, firefox和ie的差異在於firefox是開放原始碼, 雖然較用功的駭客可能會從原始碼中去抓安全漏洞; 但開放原始碼也等於全世界的電腦強者都可以幫忙補漏洞. 而且懂得使用firefox的人也比較懂得保護自己. 這將是一場激戰, 請大家拭目以待, 也準備好經常更新firefox喔!

心情: 好人...

在網路上逛著逛著
看到了這篇文章(出自好人俱樂部)

看完
覺得這寫的真是我的心聲啊!

過去一個月中被我埋到潛意識中的悲傷情感
瞬間又回到心頭
說「我沒事」
其實是個騙人騙己的謊言
「不會再想妳」
更是個大謊言

其實一切的情感都只是被草率的壓在心裡深處
一不小心
這些東西又全部都出來了

想哭
眼淚卻一滴也流不出來
也許小時後當愛哭鬼的時代中,有管道宣洩情感
會比現在好過一點吧

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糟糕, 雙魚座多愁善感的毛病又發作了
在這種地方亂吐苦水
十分抱歉 :P

(驚, 好人卡!!)

Gmail invitations~~

天阿, 剛剛登入Gmail信箱發現我可以發出去的邀請函從7個暴增到50個!!!
這下google要開始大方送啦??
需要1GB容量email信箱的人請以comment留個連絡方式吧!

My gmail invitations just ballooned from 7 to 50!!
Any one need Gmail? please leave a comment :)

(I don't guarantee you will get one if you are a stranger, though...)

下學期修推探路之行(全)

今天非常熱血的和智誠學長(修推部長喔)用學生車一次把台北週邊可能辦修推的地點一次探完
據說里程有破百, 可惜學生車沒有裝碼表...
anyway, 騎中最特別的是淡水漁人碼頭, 還有從淡水做渡輪到八里喔!
單車社的好好期待下學期的精采修推, 將有不少社上從沒待過的路線吧!
非社員想玩的也歡迎來亂呵, 不知道單車社版在哪的可以問我^^
太多東西了, 懶得po遊記了, 除非有很多人在此post comment要求XD

就看看照片吧

tamshui fisherman's wharf ; pet pig

pig with yagaga & me

yagaga & me with bike on boat

view from boat ; me on bali wharf