Friday, March 27, 2009

separation

If I have time to worry, I would rather use it to do something useful. Now I am straightforward. I shall devote to what I really ought to do and meant to do.

After talking with Jekyll, I started to notice the difference between the "real colour" and "the colour measured by the camera". However I am still in doubt that whether the colour measured by the camera can better represent the full range colour of the environment or not. I am keeping this professional camera plan only a plan, not something urgent.

I have been busy these days in Taiwan. I have been to Taipei to see about 14 friends, in four days. See, I am efficient. Friends are the lubricant of life, food is the energy, family is the base, books are colours.

After Taipei, there was Kaohsiung, meeting with two friends. I didn't understand why, why people always try to miss out each other, making decisions, to avoid being together; well, the words from Vicky really make the point, she said "If I were to doubt anything in this love, even only a bit, I would not step into it, to prevent from regretting it".

This sounds a little pessimistic, but true.

Monday, March 02, 2009

Cloud computing servers - in the Future

I am reading the articles about netbook and it raised some of my previous thought of cloud computing. I was thinking when people walking on the street, the nearby object (walls, street lights, pedestrian signs, etc.) starts to show up some relevant information to this person. This person can also call some routine jobs on his personal computing system built on cloud computing to do daily jobs while waiting in the bus station through wireless Internet accessed by his liquid crystal contact lenses or the bus station advertisement board.

All of these are governed by some mobile wireless protocols.

The new era of wireless computing is certainly no doubt. One can access Internet deeply even in the jungle or on the Mars one day. Cloud computing server is the first step. Personal cloud computing servers probably emerge in a way that everyone can build them. Once you buy a personal cloud computing server and set it up at home, it becomes a remote computing site of your own. You can access this server from distance. In another sense, you can also let the service to a third party through your ISP. Your server will probably be divided into parts, having millions of RAID drives and CPUs to do millions of small tasks at a time. Millions of different softwares are installed anonymously on your server by other people. The server is probably solar powered but the energy is from some genetic engineered giant trees that embedded with genes from electric eels.

The Future is endless.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Flowering in St George's Field Leeds

Last Sunday I and some friends had a buffet in Chaophraya. On my way home with Pik, we walked through St George's Field and saw the flowers are starting to grow. What a nice scene!!



These flowers forms a cross. Sadly, probably the gardener forgot the position of the cross and drove through it. However, the flowers are still beautiful.










Wednesday, February 18, 2009

A piece of pancake

Well from today.... I am not going to keep abandoning this website anymore. I am going to, at least trying to, fabricate some news for everyone to read. Although sorry for the audiences for reading garbages, but it is a good practice to interact with readers who are capable of reading English, whether it's their mother language or a second language, covering almost 1/3 of the earth population.

After playing non-challenge squash with Michelle, I am hungry, and eating red bean pancake. This is a kind of pancake that is sold in the Chinese supermarket in Leeds. The supermarket is called Wing-li Hong if I am getting it right. The interesting thing is, the pancake is from Taiwan. I show you the pictures here. You can see the product is from Taiwan. And, I also want to tell you that this pancake is delicious, if you correctly fried/grilled it. There is indication on the package about how to make a perfect red bean pancake and a sweet potato pancake.





Eat!! Eat!!



I guess, and I am only guessing, the product from Taiwan is increasing because the market is expanding. The product of Taiwan, the silicon island, somehow garaunteed the quality of it. I am also an example.

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

"We do not beleive there is" VS "We beleive there is no"

English people sometimes say "We do not beleive there is..." instead of "We beleive there is no..."?

I received a mail saying:

There was some disruption to XXX earlier this afternoon, between 12:28 and 12:37. During this period, jobs will have experienced a delay while attempting to read/write files in /nobackup or the user home areas.

Other than the delay, we do not believe that running jobs were affected; however, we recommend that output files should be checked carefully.


I am wondering if this two expressions are "equal" in English for native English speakers, as usually if we want to say that we think there is no such a thing happens we would say "I beleive there is no..." instead of "I don't beleive there is...", which in the latter case I have the impression that if the speaker really doesn't beleive or he/she doesn't want to beleive.

The reason I have this impression is because when people say they don't beleive something is when they are questioned about something that has been observed, and thus the people being questioned have an option to beleive or not.

Friday, January 02, 2009

pm io pm iwo

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tt ir v io ba voms , ix kba noa hrgq dd iwn po hwn kq . ix al ydo rin igo sp pde jn hhmb tkoe ez pno d bn .

tm g pp gz ux hjn oov pri ix hj fe wi jba kj ha , ix th v hjn ao aoh pri nfl ey bin jcl nfl fpx xy snoh ha jpd fa se wgo d ao ao wlno wlno .