Old news' new

I discovered some old facts about www.blogger.com:

1. Blogger.com is supported by Google
2. There's another kind of blog, audio-blog, also from Blogger.com
   That's http://www.audioblogger.com

Audio-Blog isn't a new technique but a blog with audio files (e.g. mp3). Bloggers doesn't need a computer to make a post, but mobile phone. They just need to dial to a specific number (possible to blogger) and speak.

Yes, I'm not sure whole picture because I don't have a chance to try.

However, in the backend, I believe blogger.com staff paid great effort of hanlding massive phone calls and then add them to blogs. Anyway, I will stay tune of the audioblog movement.

P.S.: I think of a old Commercial Radio programme - "Absence of Driver" 無人駕駛

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幸福的機制

幸福是一種標準，還是一種方向？
我希望幸福是一種方向。

如果幸福是有機制的，可以計算出來的 ...
我覺得這是可悲的，人最美的地方是用心，不是計較。

幸福究竟是什麼？
我寧願永遠沒答案，這才是最幸福。

Fly Away

Fly away
不管留下了多少眼淚堅持下去的動力還在
Nothing I will be afraid

清晨的微風 如此的平凡 看似簡單
霧氣驅散 溫柔的陽光中慢慢醒了過來
準備面對挑戰 在新的世紀
該拋開過去 是好是壞 要放得開
往夢想的路沒有想像中簡單 我還要更勇敢
回憶就像漩渦它將我拉走 時間的鐘響起 我不該逗留

Fly away
不管未來有多困難 我仍然能感覺心跳還在
Nothing I will be afraid

I got lost today because of this & that, but this song have just lifted me up.

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That's it! That's human factor!

Thanks Mr. Tong very much for his comment.

I do agree Mr. Tong's point of view - people don't want to change. I think
there're 2 main reasons of this:

1. People are afraid that technology replaces their posts.

In my opinion, it's applicable for some mechanic or computing-intensive (e.g. accounting, manufacturing) jobs. However, for other areas, the technology is still too far to reach human's ability. The computing technology is able to predict the weather in one week but it can't predict when or where I will have my lunch tomorrow, not to mention whether it can judge how much the student has learnt.

2. The technology (so-called) doesn't meet our needs.

The goal of applying technology in teaching is to improve the quality of education. However, the fact is teachers feel exhausted to prepare e-materials or even animation effects with Flash (moving particles for Integrated Science, ha!). It can be ironic that students don't realize the hard-work of teachers but criticize the e-materials are too simple ..., anyway, they don't like them. The technology doesn't help.

I think we overestimated the technology. We wrongly believed information technology is everything. The real human-computer interaction is still developing stage. That means we have to pay much effort to computerize our works. And don't forget what educators need to improve is human-to-human interaction, with assistance of technology. Therefore, we have to alter our "traditional" attitude to technology, especially info-technology.

It seems too complicated for me to explain what and how we should make this change, but I'm sure we should understand what actual advantages the contemporary information technology can give. Those adv has already flashed in my mind: Storage and Search.

Massive Storage
That's what bookshelves and papers can never achieve. An harddisk can swallow the whole school library.

Global Search
Internet gives "lives" to storage. You are able to search almost whatever you want to know. (Yes, many areas are yet to be improved but it has been very useful for most people)

Indeed, those 2 advantages aren't those fancy ones people always imagine. Those tools are just a method to extract more source of thoughts. Useful or not? That's not technology decides. Human does.

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Technically Practically

For me, technically feasible is, should be, practically feasible. Today, I realized that's just a point of view from I.T. side (or even just from my tiny brain). End users may not agree with that. Why technique can't always be a practice?

I think the reason is Environment. When a kind of technique is placed in an environment, there are possibilities of incapability. The cause of incapability can be anything but I'm sure labour is among the major ones. It can be not enough labour, no labour with specific skills, ... you name it. Imagine an organization wants to build a giant e-dictionary but it has only a few team members available, even though they have software, computers to achieve.

Anyway, discussion helps you to discover something new and reveal something you neglect. Hope to have more in the future. (However, only 1.5 month left ...)

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Strange behaviour of the Navbar

The Navigation bar of my blog was displayed in a strange form, rather than docking at the top. After my email of enquiry to the Blogger support, it replies like this:

This problem often occurs when you post via email from a program thatsends HTML
formatted emails. We are working on improving Mail-to-Blogger so that it handles
this case better, but in the meantime, if you post via email, you might want to
set your email client to send plain text emails.

So, be careful when adding new posts via Email!

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The later, the glitter

It's a mood-less Sunday. I couldn't "get myself up" early because of escaping the boring Enterprise Java (EJ) lecture. Getting through the EJ in the whole afternoon, my mind became aimless. I thought that's the end of today. However, just now, 3 email messages from my colleague ignited my engine to scratch some new ideas. This work is enjoyable but I pressed Send/Receive button at the wrong time. The later time approaches, my mind glitters until 2-3am. Afterwards, it vanishes in the bed and waits for morning-suffer.

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Out of fuel

I'm out of fuel for making topics here (in just 6 posts!!!). Don't worry. It's just temporary.

However, the globe can't be out of fuel because it's the matter of live-and-death. Many people are happy of the technologies we achieved (yes, I'm) as they gives us hope or even ability to do anything. Anything? Including the moment of out of fuel?

Indeed, those so-called technologies are nothing when the world is out of fuel. It's important to know how powerful we can be, and also how sustainable the power can burn.

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Language Dilemma

Which language should I use in this blog?
Maybe, I've already answered this in the very first post ... but that's not my final decision. As a Chinese, I should use my 1st language to express what I feel but using English is very efficient here.

Bilingual is ideal. However, it doesn't guarantee both Chinese and English contents are identical - I can try but the workload of translation (for me translation is a serious task) may destroy my blogging motivation!

At this moment, my temp decision is:

• English is the "default" language here
• When English is too harsh for me, Chinese! 當然啦!
• Bilingual when the post is important.

That's it but I need your opinion. 我仍要聽聽你的意見啊.

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512MB not enough

I always believe RAM with 512MB is enough for my little Sony notebook. It's enough, in most cases, except running Illustrator. It's not the right time to find out why this application is so hungry of memory as it's after 1:00 am. My feeling currently is "The pop-technology isn't advanced enough" or "My money isn't enough".

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