To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.
The article “COSCUP 2006” made me into trouble. Many people criticized my attitude. I think it's not because there's criticism about some parts of the conference, but the words and sentences I used. I forgot to use euphemism and words in a more polite way. It means I didn't think much enough before saying something or posting something. I hope the misunderstanding won't last too long, and I hope next time, I can think more before doing it.
In last year, 23 had a promotion that my account was upgraded to Pro and I could upload unlimitedly. But a few month ago, it showed that my account was “temporarily offline for maintainance.” I waited a while and it didn't change. But during the period, I had a lot of photos to upload, so I tried to contact with them via email. There's no response no matter how many emails I sent them. I gave it up. Maybe someday, if I have a lot of photos to upload, I'll choose Flickr.
Is this company another Wretch ?!
BTW, the Group function of Flickr is fun, and the Organization function is so convenient. Let's start Flickring… :p
PS. My Flickr photos are here.
今天到台大去參加COSCUP 2006, 之所以去參加除了對一些議程有點興趣外，其實最主要還是因為有吃吃喝喝。XD 於是看了看行事曆，沒有什麼衝突後，就直接報名了。
上午我選擇的場次是中文輸入工作坊，雖然我對輸入法完全沒有研究，不過聽得還是津津有味的，畢竟類似酷音這樣的斷詞，也有一點人工智慧的成份在裡面吧！原本就預期這個場子的聽眾會比較多，途中又有不少人陸續搬椅子進來坐，幸好早點來報到，不然沒椅子坐就懶得把電腦打開了。
Because of the upcoming transference of Fancy, I think I need to combine the blog on Fancy into here. I don't have very much time to maintain two sites. Therefore, there will be not only articles in English, but also some in Chinese.
I forgot which day last week, I suddenly found that I couldn't connect to Fancy in VGHTPE. Based on the past history, I guessed maybe a power failure turned the machine off. Because I had something to do that night, the reset was delayed one day. But when I checked it, it hung without reaction. I didn't know what's happened, and I reset it and waited until it returned to work.
Good times didn't last long. Before I went to bed, it crashed again. I thought there might be something wrong about the RAM. I delayed several days, and fortunately when I went to the room, I found the whole office was going to be moved. I moved the machine back to my room in a hurry. If I didn't did that, maybe there would be more days delay because I didn't have the key for the new room.
Since I started using HP laptop, which has a imitative trackpoint, but a blue one, I love the way to control the cursor, especially when I needed to change between a lot of windows. I had been looking for this kind of keyboard on Yahoo!Bid, and found some of IBM's products. But they exceeded my budget.
Today I bought one. Although I like Space Saver II more, I still could not wait and bought the UltraNav, which has a TouchPad, and I thought it's not useful and because of that, I couldn't put it into my keyboard drawer. But it's my second choice. Without the part of numbers, it is similar to a laptop’s keyboard, but the only disadvantage is the ESC’s place. It is not like a normal keyboard, which usually puts the ESC at the left side of F1. Its ESC is juct above the F1. For several times, when I tried to cancel some wrong typing, I always triggered the help window.
Well… I still have to get used of it. Besides that, it is really a good thing.
After beginning my clerk course, I have been in the hospital for long time a day. I couldn't take my notebook because of its weight and the posibility of being stolen. Some of my classmates bought USB flash drives. I remembered Portable Firefox and thought maybe it is a good solution for me.
For several days trying, it's convenient. I had many good extensions installed and made the library’s computer just like what I am accustomed to. But there is a new problem. I found the startup is very slow. I always had to wait more than 2 minutes before I started using it. I don't know why. There is no discussion on the forum. I thought it may because the low speed of the SD card or the USB drive. The speed test (by HD Tune) shows the average is 3.5 MB/s. But strangely, Portable OOo and Portable Gaim work well.
Before I find the solution, I can copy the whole directory of PFF to the hard disc before using, but it's a little inconvenient. >_<
嘉明湖Hosted on Zooomr
Because of the greed of getting a Pro account, I signed up in Zooomr and uploaded a photo, which is the same with the Jia-Ming Lake. Hmmm… Let's see when I could get the Pro account.
I don't know whether it was another episode of mania, I bought a new IBM optical mouse (31P7410) from Yahoo! Bid. Because the postage is a little bit high, I persuaded another 4 people to buy one.
Oh… the leather-like texture on the cover makes me feel very very satisfied. But now, I have desire to buy a new IBM keyboard with Trackpoint (Space Saver II), again. @_@
UrMap is a web service which is just alike Google Maps and can show the map online. Besides these, it’s featured in the detailed street information and high-resolution satellite images of Taiwan, where I live. The API had been released for several days, but at first, I wasn’t very interested in it. After reading this post, I thought it may be fun to use the API displaying the address of some activities. Therefore, I tried it in the YMChmusic’s Blog.
But, WordPress has a feature that will add paragraph tags automatically to the content. When I tried to use javascript in the content, it didn’t work. The auto-paragraph mechanism is activated in the core of WordPress, and I couldn’t find any option to deactivate it. So, I gave it up.
Today, during the rest at noon, I tried again to search the documents of WordPress and found how to use javascript in the content. I had to install a plugin called Text Control, which can control the formatting behavior for a single post or globally. And then, I inserted the code into the post I’d like to show a map. Wow, I succeeded. Thanks, Jeff.
The second problem was that I had to find out the longitude and latitude of the place I wanted to display. The problem was resolved by a greasemonkey script called UrMap Plus 2.0. It can hybridize UrMap with Google Maps, and the most important is, the longitude and latitude information will be displayed. Thanks, CK.
With these two tools, I can show the map. But because the place I marked is a little remote, Map Mode doesn’t indicate it, although it’s very clear in the satellite image. Therefore, I’d like to change the default mode to Hybrid Mode, but there’s no documentation about this. The final method is to hack the source code, and fortunately I found a function called setMapType which is what I wanted. Thanks, myself. XD
Ok, this is the first time I use APIs. Maybe someday when I have more free time, I can investigate other APIs, such as Flickr’s and Google’s. It may be more fun. ^^
