這是這學期第二次家聚，因為 tanny 學長剛退伍，準備開始他榮總內科住院醫師生活前，想跟大家聚聚，於是就寫信通知我，要我幫忙聯絡。交給我聯絡的話，當然就可以做一點小試驗：用 wiki 來報名，而不是像以前那樣用回群組信的方式。結果也還蠻順利的，雖然上面兩位學姊 hana & rancy 和在羅東的 owen 學長不能來，在校的應該都到的了，五個人也不算太冷清。
Querying CGMH For Kilo
Yesterday, Kilo asked me to query CGMH about the result of the residents enrollment for her, because she doesn’t want to hear the bad news herself. I made the call in the coffee break time via Skype, on the wireless in the 2nd Teaching Building.
The connection quality seemed vary bad. The other side could hear my voice, but I could just intermittently hear his. Finally, I was referred to the Medical Teaching Division, and successfully asked them about the result of the residents enrollment. Unfortunately, Kilo‘s not enrolled.
Hope she won’t be too sad when I tell her the news tonight.
My First Translation For OSS
Last week, I changed my Gmail Notifier, a firefox extension, to Gmail Manager, which can manage several gmail accounts at the same time. I love the feature. But, the extension is too new that it doesn’t have a Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) locale files, but it has a Simplified Chinese (zh-CN) locale files and firefox will use zh-CN, which is similar to zh-TW.
I don’t like this to happen, so I just spent about 1 hour making the new locale files and sent the patch to the author. This is the first time I translate the locale files for an open-source software. Hope he will receive this and applies to the new release of Gmail Manager quickly. :p
Tags: Firefox, Extension, Gmail, Gmail Manager
Chinese Blogs Awarding Ceremony 2005
I’m now at the Chinese Blogs Awarding Ceremony 2005, which is sponsored by Chinatimes.
The reason why I’m here is that about three days ago, I read a article posted by KJ. She said that any of the participants will have change to get a Acer laptop, so I signed up without any hesitancy. :p
There was something wrong before the ceremony began. The workers didn’t know about that the participants, not the finalists, can have chances to have a lottery of the Acer laptop. But finally after I confirmed the situation with the workers, it’s solved. :)
The hosts are Gon-Tou-Jian (工頭堅) and Miss Chian (sorry, I don’t know her name exactly. ^^a) Jia-Li Chuan, who are both bloggers. They play an important role in the whole ceremony. Time-controlling is very good. And some of the prize-awarding people are very famous, such as amarylliss, Ke-Sian Liu, Schee (although I’ve seen him before), etc. Although I sat in the back of the chamber, I’m very happy to see these famous people.
Some of the award-winners are not as I thought originally, but I think it should be fair.
It’s almost time to have the lottery, but I’ll just stop here. Hope the God will give me a surprise. :p
2005.12.17 UPDATE: Of course, I’m not lucky enough… ╮(╯_╰)╭ And the list of all award-winners is here.
Tags: Blog, Ceremony, Chinatimes, Chinese
PCMan’s Speech @ Corridor Cafe NTU
PCMan is my classmate, who wrote some famous programs including PCMan, a BBS client, IE Tab etc. He is making a speech about GTK+ programming at Corridor Cafe NTU now. The sponsor is TOSSUG. They hold conferences every 3 weeks, and this week is PCMan’s turn.
He introduces what GTK+ is and an associated IDE program called Glade. Also he makes a demo of how to use Glade to establish a GTK+-based window program. Huu… I’m always confused in window programming. The reason I come here is in the first sentence, “PCMan is my classmate.” But maybe I underestimate the charm PCMan has. There are now about 50-60 people here listening to him. Wow! I think he can run in the election of legislators in the future. :p
Hmmm… he records video of the speech. Maybe someday I can put a link here. But he speaks Chinese only… :p
2005.12.16 UPDATE: The video is here (avi, 260MB), the presentation file is here (pdf, 295KB), and the demo codes is here (tar.gz, 109KB).
Don’t Make A Statement Easily
There are too many things we don’t know very much. Remember not to make a statement easily before you find out all the situation. That may enrage somebody and you don’t know, especially when the statement is strong and he shirks his responsibility and shift the blame onto others.