近乎想象 » English http://shawiz.org/blog experimental shall we zen Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:15:47 +0000 en hourly 1 Announcement http://shawiz.org/blog/2008/announcement/ http://shawiz.org/blog/2008/announcement/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:47:34 +0000 shawiz http://shawiz.org/blog/?p=109 I am currently working on the a new version of my personal website and the integrated blog theme. I am also purchasing a new web host for this domain. I've updated the "about" page. Coming soon.

]]> http://shawiz.org/blog/2008/announcement/feed/ 0 Why should we always accept the unfairness but never challenge it? http://shawiz.org/blog/2007/why-should-we-always-accept-the-unfairness-but-never-challenge-it/ http://shawiz.org/blog/2007/why-should-we-always-accept-the-unfairness-but-never-challenge-it/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:14:38 +0000 shawiz http://shawiz.org/blog/?p=76

"Children are born with such a sense of fairness that they will accept no less than equal treatment for all. I know -- I have three. I hope that as they grow, they keep that sense of justice and learn to challenge the old adage 'life's not fair.' It should be, in so far as we have control of it."

-- Beth Vanden Hock

As a young man, I personally choose to challenge the reality. No matter how hard it will be.

]]> http://shawiz.org/blog/2007/why-should-we-always-accept-the-unfairness-but-never-challenge-it/feed/ 1 I am sorry for the victims in Vaginia Tech Massacre http://shawiz.org/blog/2007/sorry-for-the-victims-in-vaginia-tech-massacre/ http://shawiz.org/blog/2007/sorry-for-the-victims-in-vaginia-tech-massacre/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:45:36 +0000 shawiz http://shawiz.org/blog/?p=75 I hope such tragedy will never happen in any campus in the future.

]]> http://shawiz.org/blog/2007/sorry-for-the-victims-in-vaginia-tech-massacre/feed/ 0 New!!! The Shall We Zen Labs http://shawiz.org/blog/2007/new-shall-we-zen-labs/ http://shawiz.org/blog/2007/new-shall-we-zen-labs/#comments Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:42:20 +0000 shawiz http://shawiz.org/blog/?p=64 I listed some ideas I had and some projects I am working in the labs page. If you are interested in any of them, feel free to discuss it with me. I will appreciate your interest in my whimsical ideas and have a great pleasure to share them with you.

You can add my msn shawizir(a)hotmail.com, or send me a mail to chat with me.

]]> http://shawiz.org/blog/2007/new-shall-we-zen-labs/feed/ 0 Dream Recorder http://shawiz.org/blog/2007/dream-recorder/ http://shawiz.org/blog/2007/dream-recorder/#comments Mon, 15 Jan 2007 03:11:11 +0000 shawiz http://shawiz.org/blog/?p=36 Human's dream has the wildest imagination. I can't tell how I felt when I realized that I had a long dream like a elaborate fiction. The bad thing is that when I wake up, in most of the time I completely forget the content of the stories as if I had never experienced them. But this time when I woke up in a snowy morning, I did remember the movie played in my brain last night. I was in the plane and traveled from a place to another. My friend chose the easy way to get to the ground, so he brought a parachute. He waited until the plane flew over the school and left the plane with his parachute. His mind became mine and "I" landed in the grass outside my classroom. As I landed, I saw another me (the former me) coming in a hurry. My mind instantly transfered to his mind again, so I saw "my friend" landed in the grass outside my math class. Then the story ended. There is a long part of the story before this, but I don't have any clue. If I had a dream recorder, I would record all the dreams I had, and replay the most intriguing stories of mine. They are better the best fictions in the world.

]]> http://shawiz.org/blog/2007/dream-recorder/feed/ 5 idea idea idea http://shawiz.org/blog/2007/idea-idea-idea/ http://shawiz.org/blog/2007/idea-idea-idea/#comments Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:16:05 +0000 shawiz http://shawiz.org/blog/?p=35 Just now when I tried to subscribe the feed of a blog, I mistakenly copied the url of the RSS and pasted it on a del.icio.us post window (yes I still manually copy the urls and paste them on rss readers & del.icio.us). It was just a mistake but it reminded me that I could combine all the fancy functions of web2.0 applications into only one search bar, which will automatically parse the things I input and pick the best application for that thing. And I should be able to costomize the applications they use. For example, I can setup the social bookmark website I like (del.icio.us), RSS reader I use (zhuaxia), serach engine I favor (Google), flv video downloader (...), and so on. And as I type in any text in the "search bar", it uses google; for urls, it uses del.icio.us; for RSS addresses, it takes zhuaxia (and it can recognize urls from feedburner as RSS). It will be smart.
I love integrating different things and make them a mashup. It is just an idea. I may think about it when my web2.0 project "IC" (keep the name for a secret now) is done.

]]> http://shawiz.org/blog/2007/idea-idea-idea/feed/ 1 Fun days with Mac starts! http://shawiz.org/blog/2007/fun-days-with-mac-starts/ http://shawiz.org/blog/2007/fun-days-with-mac-starts/#comments Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:36:07 +0000 shawiz http://shawiz.org/blog/?p=34 And I enjoy it so much!

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]]> http://shawiz.org/blog/2006/why-ajax-sucks/feed/ 3 Steve Jobs's speech on 2005 Stanford graduation http://shawiz.org/blog/2006/steve-jobss-speech-on-2005-stanford-graduation/ http://shawiz.org/blog/2006/steve-jobss-speech-on-2005-stanford-graduation/#comments Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:33:07 +0000 shawiz http://shawiz.org/blog/?p=30 ]]> video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

I am affected when I listened to his speech. His life is dramatic, but undoubtedly, much harder than mine.
I believe that not only a single choice can change one's life, but one can control his life by encouraging himself and choose to do what he likes. Be independent.

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