Category Archives: English
Trip to Silica Valley
It's been four or five months. I visited silica valley this summer and took some pictures of the headquarter of Google and Apple, my favorite computer companies. I was impressed by the creativity of the Google and Apple guys. Please note that I didn't take many pictures, nor did I publish the pictures that include [...]
GEB - Crab Canon
Try to read it reversely.
- Would it be awful if you know the ending of the book when you just start it?
- Not at all. At least I will be proud of this: I’ve done the book “Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid”.
Sure I know, you never heard about the mathematician Gödel and painter [...]
Free Hugs
Just saw this cool thing from http://www.thinknext.net/archives/1707
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4
Flickr integrated
Hooray! I just tried the Flickr service and found it great.
Flickr will be my primary gallery for this blog. I installed a plugin, Flickr Photo Gallery, which is an awesome stuff! The only problem I have is that the gallery page isn't really like a page ; )
I'll fix it up later.
Here are some of [...]
Blog enhanced
During the previous week, my blog was only viewed by myself. There is a fatal limitation in my blog: my RSS icon doesn't have a notable position. The icon on the bottom is way too small to be found. Since the widget plugin doesn't work quite well on this template, I added some boxes in [...]
Wap blog
In order to let my best friend Sonic to view my blog on his smartphone any time, I downloaded a wap plugin for wordpress. Now you can visit my wap site on http://www.shawiz.net/wp-wap.php or http://wap.shawiz.net
I haven't check the plugin since I don't have a smartphone. If you have a smartphone, please let know if it [...]
Palindrome
Palindrome is an type of words or sentances that read the same either forwards or backwards. For examples,
"Madam, I'm Adam"
-- Adam
"A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!"
-- L. Mercer, 1914
"Men, I'm Eminem!"
-- M. Salveit, 2000
Interestingly, when Napoleon lost his campaign and be exiled to Elba Island in Italy, he said, "Able was I ere I [...]
Revolver Reloads
I'm always too lazy to celebrate what I need to celebrate, so does this brand new blog. As a tradition, I won't write a long post to tell how excited I am to have created this new blog. Nevertheless, I'm sure I will make this blog more geeky by adding some technical discussions, instead of gossiping about the boring daily news like my msn space. An interesting thing is, [...]