My Reading Blog

My reading blog has fewer visiters than this blog. In Bloglines, the reading blog has 5 subscribers, while this blog has 64 subscribers. But actually, I updated my reading blog more frequently than this one. When I was busy working on my thesis, I had nothing to say, so I seldom update this one; but I still kept reading, and kept sending new links into the reading blog.

When I'm reading through the Internet, and find some interesting articles, I simply use Blog It tool to add them into my reading blog, and add a few words to introduce them. Simplicity is the motivation that I keep blogging.

Below are the reading blogs I wrote in 2006 so far:

June:

The Japanese is too polite to rob a bank.

"Any idea how you rob a bank?"

The Real New Economy

Phase IV:The world is a mystery for which we care on a global scale

Longing for passion

The worst part is that I envy him for being passionate about his job

A funny Street Sign in Shanghai

West and East?

最後一顆道釘與人頭稅--加國鐵路華工的世紀悲歌

Why the Canadian Government apologize to Chinese community.

Soccer is against Islam

See things from different point of view.

缅甸新娘

New brides of Myanmar

Soccer Glossary

Soccer terms in English/Chinese

May:

Are Web Services Real?

Is it another hoax?

国内调查机构质疑BSA 称软件盗版率不超3成

Piracy software in China

大跃进与文革:谁对中国经济的的损害大?

Cultual Evolution

SWMRP

secret weapons for massive research productivity (SWMRP)

无奈的母爱

Mother's love

工作场所的Small Talk

Small topics to talk

April:

她比烟花落寞

Anita Mui

MIT Open Course of Algorithm

I should follow the course some day.

法制日报记者提出的两个好问题

Some education problems in China

Google's China Problem (and China's Google Problem)

Such a famous article

How to Rob a Bank

The Japanese guy should have read this one

Overheard in New York: The Voice of the City

Small chat in NY

评人论事九难点

Hard to say

第一份自查自纠成绩单

Some websites decided to self-sensor

透视抑郁症

Depression Disease.

警察群众生命受威胁可果断开枪

no comment

中國社科院教授的乌龙

About Traditional/Simplify Chinese Character

电影的争议

Movie/Freedom

《V for Vendetta》和《Thank you for smoking》

Introducing two movies

在香港廣東話引用英文字的指引

How to use English words in Contonese

老罗：剽悍的人生不需要解释

no explanation, for such a strong life

March

第二次汉字简化方案

Simplify Chinese Character Draft, second edition

Attention Means Attention

Hang out with positive people

Formatting advice everyone should know

How to write thesis

电影评论:守望江湖之三：《黄飞鸿》

Kong Fu Movie can be more than Kong Fu

中文金曲编选

Excerpt of Chinese Songs

色情版程序设计教学

Make programming attractive

憶秋娟

Contonese song lyrics

那辆叫做320的公共汽车

People don't care about too much. They care about their daily life

February

我国建成１：５００００比例尺地形数据库

Much worse than Google Map

聯合報請向精神病患道歉

An action in Taiwanese blogsphere

女学生轻信同学遭强奸

The picture is well-known

部落格在教學上的應用

Application of Blog in education

恶搞：KUSO的渊源

Detail of KUSO

January

上海自然博物馆游感

Chinese science

Java 4K Game Programming Contest

I couldn't think of an interesting application, what a pity.

Richard Lam's New Year Resolution

Make your plan every year.

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Gees, I didn't know I had read/written so many in these six months.

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EnergizeIT in Calgary.

June 24, University of Calgary.

I know this seminar is for introducing Windows Vista which is in its Beta 2 last week.

The first thing I like about the Vista is the Virtual Folder. It's like Symbolic Link in Unix/Linux. In Unix/Linux, ln has been long deployed. Sometimes a file can be saved in different place. For example, a picture can be treated as "Family Gethering" picture, and "2006 Summer" picture, so it can be saved in both folders. That is to say, when I try to find it, it is expected in any of these folders. But I don't want to make duplicate of it, because that will waste my harddrive space; and if I want to add a waterprint to the picture, I have to do it twice. That's the situation that Symbolic Link can be used. We put the picture in one folder, and put a link in another folder; double click the link can open the file. Looks like Shortcut? No, it's very different from shortcut. At least, in the thumbnails, you can't see the picture of a shortcut.


Second, The Gadget bar can put some small applications. No matter how big your screen is, Microsoft can help you to make use of it. I like the running clock. :) Also, in some gadgets I saw the familiar symble of RSS , so I assume I can put any RSS feed, and it can display the news from that feed.

IE 7+ is the default browser of Vista. Tab Browsing (of course) is the biggest feature. Yes, in Tab Browsing, Microsoft has something new. It can make thumbnails of all the tabs. It can be helpful, if you have more than 20 tabs running, and you forget which one you want to look at.
The speaker also talk about the search engine problem. Last month somebody claim that the MSN search engine is built in the IE, so it's not fair to other search engine. The speaker showed us how easy it is to use other search engines, such as Google. When I was listening, I was thinking if I can still make custom search engine, such as Baidu MP3, BT download, Ciba as I made for Firefox.
About security, IE7+ provides 2 techniques. 1, Other browsers only judge a website by the existence of security certification. If the certification is existed, Firefox and IE 6 display a lock . But IE7 look at the certification to see if it is provided by a trusted site. If it is from a trusted site, the address bar will become green. Sounds interesting? 2, Microsoft maintain a whitelist and a blacklist. When user visits a website which is in the blacklist, she will get prompted. This is Microsoft's way to fight the rampant phishing activities. Many listeners asked questions about the whitelist and blacklist: How to get in the lists, and how to get out; Do we need to pay? What I concern is: We don't trust a commercial company to maintain such lists. Will Microsoft transfer the list to a non-commercial organization?

The last patch of Windows 98

Microsoft announced today that this is the last patch of Windows 98/ME, which means that these two operating systems are abandoned from the production line.

Windows ME (Mellennium Edition) has never become a mainstream product, because the previous version, Windows 98, was too successful, and the next edition, Windows 2000, which has better security features, is more attractive for users.

Let's talk about the history of Windows.

Windows 1 was a toy, and Windows 2 got a little bit of attentions. But Windows 3.0 was the first successful Windows openrating system. The graphic interface is more accessible than the urgly DOS interface. The later version, Windows 3.1, became popular through out the world.

Because the Windows 3.0 was developed for desktop users, and many security problem were found by computer experts, Microsoft decided to make another OS, based on Windows 3.0. Windows NT 3.1 is the result of this decision. There are two versions of Windows NT 3.1: Workstation and Server.