八筒

人均持有量终于超过一台了……

Picasa Can Do Slide Show in Blogger

Morning

First Day of Vista

This happened on the first day, actually first hour, after I got the Compaq laptop with pre-installed M$ Vista - the blue screen of death. I did not get a chance to capture the blue screen itself before the computer went down and rebooted. But even the blue screen is worse than (the blue screen) of XP - it has ghost shadows, the text was very hard to read, let alone to make sense of.

This happened within the first hour after I got the computer. After initial startup, Vi$ta was automatically downloading some updates, then asked for a reboot, then trying to install 33 updates, then it blue-screened and died.

新买的Compaq笔记本预装了Vista，到家的头一天（其实是头一个钟头）就蓝屏了。我没来得及拍下蓝屏的样子机子就重启了。靠啊，就连那个蓝屏，都不如XP的蓝屏，字都带重影，完全没法认。

买回来的头一个钟头我还什么都没干，开机以后，微死它 自己在下载更新，然后就要我重启机器，然后屏幕上显示在安装33个更新项目，然后就死翘翘了。

国际贸易与全球变暖

五百多的电脑收了快八十刀的运费，原来是从上海寄出来的呵！这电脑又要二度重洋，带回长沙去了。早说嘛……

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.