Earthquake Tonight

Back from Crater Lake

First vacation of the year, man.

iTunes on Windows

Victim of iPhone support?

Democracy Player

Hold It, or Die Trying

Maker Faire 2007

Multiple POP clients with GMail

How should I use POP on mobile or multiple devices?

If you're accessing your Gmail using POP from multiple clients, Gmail's recent mode makes sure that all messages are made available to each client, rather than only to the first client to access new mail.

Recent mode fetches the last 30 days of mail, regardless of whether it's been sent to another POP client already.

If you sign in to Gmail using your Blackberry, you're signed in to recent mode automatically. For all other POP clients, replace 'username@gmail.com' in your POP client settings with 'recent:username@gmail.com'.

6-year Old Computer Saved

Due to a hard drive failure which led to file system corruption, the 6-year old AMD900 box running Ubuntu has been dead for over 2 months.

Just like what happened to the 5-year old iBook, after some good rest, it boots back up, with some help from fsck, everything seems to be smooth again :)

Good news: I just saved a bunch of $s .

Have Not Been There for A While

Plumliquor Sweet, Vintage 2006

Pretty good, pretty alcohol ...

I thought no one would try it, but it was finished! People even picked out the plum for a taste ...

Time to buy more bottles, make more to keep up with demand.

Wisdom Teeth Etraction Again

This time it's the bottom 2. Said to be more complicated and painful... Wait and see...

Last time:
http://fuskuart.blogspot.com/2006/11/teeth.html

It's Just Getting Worse ...

Students fear for job prospects in U.S. visa crunch
EE Times (04/05/2007 8:05 PM EDT)
BOSTON — As foreign students prepare to graduate from U.S. universities this spring, many worry that a record number of applications for U.S. skilled-worker visas may cause them to lose jobs they have already been offered. Fresh university graduates are vulnerable to being rejected for the H-1B visas designated for skilled workers. A record 150,000 H-1B applications were filed in one day this week, nearly double the number U.S. authorities are allowed to grant in a given fiscal year.

Don McMillan (MS 1982 EE)

I don’t want to say that Berkeley is “under funded”, but when the Cal football team somehow manages to win the Ax, their facilities people actually use it.

TECHNICALLY FUNNY

Tech comedian finds laughter in logic, absurdity in analysis

As a professional engineer turned professional comedian Don McMillan (MS 1982 EE) is pretty much one of a kind. A lot of people use Powerpoint, but only McMillan’s slides are intentionally funny (samples are at www.technicallyfunny.com) A lot of comedians make jokes about their spouses and the opposite sex, but only McMillan’s jokes are explicitly in the context of thermodynamics or optimization. After years designing logic circuits, he found his true calling and traded silicon for silly.

- http://soe.stanford.edu/alumni/profile_mcmillan.html

比较牛的家乡人

真的上新闻了，看来不是玩笑。只可惜上次到直港烫火锅的路上没注意，错过一道景观－－

访重庆史上最牛钉子户：与拆迁方僵持三年

2007年03月21日14:34 中国法治报道

工地的中央至今还矗立着一栋两层的小楼

房主

资料图：杨家坪某建筑工地上，一拆迁户的房子像个孤岛耸立在工地中央。

裁决书

Top Gear on Air

On Dragon Air flight to Hong Kong, there was one episode of Top Gear among the in-flight programmes.

Airport WiFi

• San Francisco : free
  
• Hong Kong: free
• Beijing domestic waiting lounge: 300RMB for cup of tea, then network is free, found unsecured office WiFi, I'll use it, of course
• Beijing international waiting lounge: operated by China Mobile. Only accepts payments via SMS on China Mobile cell phone. In fact not even all China Mobile cell phone numbers are accepted, only the most expensive packages allow user to pay for WiFi, otherwise even money cannot buy access. Fees are charged by the minutes.
• Shanghai domestic waiting lounge: operated by China Netcom (CNC). No online payment system, no cell phone payment system. User has to purchase prepaid card. There is NO card sale in the airport.

Another Stay in Beijing

March 11th to March 15th.

The use of Photoshop

« Report on Reuters actions after publishing altered photographs

A brief guide to Reuters values and standards »

The use of Photoshop

January 18th, 2007, filed by David Schlesinger

Photoshop is a highly sophisticated image manipulation programme. We use only a tiny part of its potential capability to format our pictures, crop and size them and balance the tone and colour.

Materially altering a picture in Photoshop or any other image editing software will lead to dismissal.

THE RULES ARE:
• No additions or deletions to the subject matter of the original image.
(thus changing the original content and journalistic integrity of an image)

• No excessive lightening, darkening or blurring of the image.
(thus misleading the viewer by disguising certain elements of an image)

• No excessive colour manipulation.
(thus dramatically changing the original lighting conditions of an image)

凯子一号: Tomson Riviera

Boardwalk ... Park Place ... Tomson Riviera

Shanghaiist thought the name of Tomson Riviera looked familiar, because we posted about it a couple of months ago, when part of its construction site caught on fire. Turns out after that, some people felt the fengshui there wasn't too great, and the government's attempts to cool the real estate industry haven't helped. We recently found some facts and figures about the place that we'd thought we'd share with you:

Spanning over an area of 20,000 sq m, the four-block Tomson Riviera condominium consists of two 40-storey and two 44-storey towers. Each unit is between 434 sq m and 1,200 sq m, priced at RMB 80,000 to RMB 150,000 per sq m – reputed to be the most expensive in Shanghai.

The next most expensive in Shanghai are those places by Xintiandi, which only cost 58,000 RMB per square meter -- but we wouldn't be caught dead in a place like that! According to this report (in Chinese), the prices of these residences range from a modest 39 million RMB to 190 million RMB. To buy one of these you also have to prove your assets total over 40 million RMB. One possibility is to make 40 million RMB, show them the proof, pay 39 million for the cheapest place, pay the monthly fees and eat instant noodles for the rest of your life with the remaining 1 million. Here's yet another way of looking at it -- Shanghaiist used to live in an apartment in Jing'an district that cost us 1,000 RMB a month. At that rate, our 40 million RMB would allow us to live, completely rent-free, for over three thousand years!

Posted by Peijin Chen

Shaolin Temple Meeting Uses Radio Communication