Last Friday, I finished the anesthesiology exam. It finally came the relaxed time. In addition to sleeping more than 12 hours a day, I also spent a lot of time with my computer.
During these days, I set a online service of browsing the source codes in the subversion repository with a software called Trac. In order to make it work properly, I have to add mod_python into the Apache. And when I tried to browse an article in the BBS repository, I encountered the problem of wrong charset encoding. Even I tried to ask in2 on IRC about the setting of Trac, although at last I solved it on my own. The problem is, that article uses a Chinese character encoded in Big5, which UTF-8 doesn’t have, so the converting process failed. Keep Reading
In October, I found that my 23 account was upgraded to a PLUS one, then in the whole Oct., I uploaded 3GB+ photos to 23 and integrate a 23 badget to the Hsien-Chih’s blog. But the javascript of the badget has to connect the 23 server, get urls of the photos that want to be shown, and then write to the document. Maybe the connection quality between 23 server and here is not very well, I have to wait about 3 to 5 seconds that the page can be fully shown. I don’t like the method 23 uses, but I have no time and ability to modify it.
Today, I saw this page about integration of BubbleShare photos. The method it uses is iframe. After some trial-and-errors, I succeeded. Now Hsien-Chih’s blog can show the article contents before the 23 server’s dealing. That’s great. All I have to say is, “There are so many things that I don’t know about the internet techniques.”
From Solidot.org, Google announced a AdSense referral program. Originally, I was not very interested in the new feathur, because in nearly one year, I haven’t received any check from Google. The click rate on my site is too low. But I think I can just place a button only in this post, and the result maybe is not so important. ^^a
UPDATE: According to this page, there must be only one referral link in a page. So I can’t put the Chinese version button, although the Chinese one is in Simplified Chinese, not Traditional Chinese, which I use.
UPDATE 2: Oh… because there is a existed adsense in my template page, that means I can’t put any new adsense, including this referral link. I can just leave it empty, maybe someday I can find a way to resolve this.
It seems that WordPress can find all the trackback urls in the posts and trackback them automatically, but FancyBlog can’t. I tried googling something, and then find this by ijliao. Just now, I copied the trackback_url function from WP and modified it for FancyBlog. I don’t know whether FancyBlog works correctly or not, but let’s take a try… ^^a
Yesterday, while I was browsing at Darkkiller’s personal BBS board, I found a site called YouTube that supplys video uploading and sharing. Then I registered an account, but didn’t try at once.
Just now I uploaded some videos of meeting with teacher yesterday. The procedure isn’t easier than Google Video, but the admin interface is better. I can easily find what I’ve uploaded and the “Tag” function is what I love most. Although there is limitation to the size of video for uploading (100 MB), maybe I won’t be restricted by this rule recently. (my SD card in the camera is only 128 MB.) Keep Reading
I had been thinking of owning a laptop for a long time, and it came true today.
Today is the last day of Taipei Computer Exhibition 2005, and luckily, it doesn’t need a entrance ticket. (200 NTD is not a small amount for me.) I arrived at about 11 a.m.. There were many people already there.
I met the Asus’ stall first, but I thought their products do not fit my demands, and also a little bit expensive for me. Second, I met HP. A cheery female salespeople introduced a lot to me about their products, but the one I like most is out of stock. Although she said that she can supply the more high-level one for me with the same price, I also need to think about it more. And then, I went around watching the Toshiba, Acer, IBM (although it now should be called Lenovo). They are the 5 brands I previously considered. But I didn’t like the attitude of Toshiba’s salsemen.
Finally, it remained Acer and HP under consideration. The Acer one is wide-monitor and has more complete functions, but a little bit expensive. As I asked for the Acer one’s specification, the salesman compared it with the HP one. The company he belonged sells many brands, and he provided me with a nicer price of the HP one I previously wanted.
I was confused that why are there so many different prices, which depend on different stores?
At last, I chose the HP one mainly because of its price. It’s embarrassed for me to buy a expensive laptop, which is not for a essential use. In fact, I broke the rule I’d maintained for many years – earning my life on my own. After buying motorcycle, there are not enough money in my account to buy a laptop. But I think I won’t get a job of private teaching until I become a intern, when I’ll have salary. And during the period, I need a laptop more then my intern period. So I decided to borrow some from my mother. I’ll give it back more in the furure.
After buying that, I was so excited that I didn’t feel hungry at noon. In the afternoon and evening, I prepared the working environment of the laptop. I think it must be useful in August, when I’ll go around Taiwan and participate a Chinese orchestra practice.
Before the end, there are 2 pictures of my laptop, and the other is about my new camera stand. It helped me to take picture of them. (Because it’s not light enough, so that it needs a slower shutter.)
