After spending several days here in San Ming, I am more impressive about the city.
It is a developing city. Dusts are flying everywhere because there are so many developments going on. There are a lot of people and a lot of cars passing through the street interchangingly.
I have a really good time with the friends and children that I am visiting. The children are very friendly and I am very impressive on how well they behave and how much they welcome us.
I am very blessed to be here.
Congratulation to Miami Heats to their first NBA championship.
The most talk about topic about the finals was referee.
Many felt that the referee did not do a good job. Sure, they missed some calls and made some mistake, but they had been professional. They did not back down even though there were so much pressure on them and they were able to keep the game under control.
We might able to see the replay on TV to check if there is a foul or not, but the referees cannot stop the game and watch the replay. Their decision had to be made within a blink of the eyes. NBA players move so fast that it is hard to make every call correct even though you are a professional referee. So, hat off for the referees.
Congratulation to Olonzon Mourning, he deserves to win a championship trophy and a ring.
When I feel others do not know about me, I have to think about if I have allowed others to know about me.
As we use computer more frequently than exercise these days, we need to know more about RSI.
Sometimes I have the syptom of RSI causing not only from computer use, but also from play sports.
I have been aware the problem and also correct them. Following is a list of what I experienced:
1. My knee lost power suddenly when walking.
2. My right index finger tingle.
3. My back hurts.
4. My shoulders tighten up during sleep or after waking up.
5. My right elbows causes pain.
Again, I did not know about RSI before, but I was lucky that I was able to correct them before it becomes severe. See a doctor if you experience such problems. You may also read something about it here: http://www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu/
Snap.com was officially launched yesterday.
Their advertise slogan is "The other way to search". They focus more on visual search result instead of just text.
They have a business model of pay-per-action. When a user click on the link and if the user purchase something, the cost will be paid or charged.
I think that Snap gave the Internet user another way to look at the search result. It is great to see a fresh idea presented out to the pulic.
I have an opportunity to visit Google's new office in Santa Monica today.
It was a very fun experience. I was able to talk to the people who work at Google. They were very friendly and have a really good conversation with them.
I was glad that I was able to meet with the Picasa team. It was because I like the program a lot and I use it for my photo collection.
I was also glad to meet with some recruiters there. They encouraged those who apply not to be intimidated about the interviews.
The office enviroment was easily to be fallen in love with. It was not because of the free soda or Pac Man machine, but the learning culture and the idea gathering culture of it. Surely, Google employee can talk to each other from IRC or messenger while they are working on their dual 21-inches screen plus a laptop, but having a pool table or having a game of table tennis together will give them a chance to talk to each other about what they are working on and exchange ideas. It is probably how ideas are formed.
Anyway, Google is probably a place for those who can express their idea and understand each other.
These employees are so good at communication that I can actually remember all their faces. No wonder why Google attracts so many good engineers.
King James explained why he is the One.
Spurs slaughtered the Kings.
Baby Bulls showed that they are the rising team.
Clippers won their first playoff game out of the late game scare.
Overall, it was a very exciting game 1s from 8 teams.
I have not watched all the game yet, but from what I watched, Bulls vs Heats and Nuggets vs Clippers, I am very satisified with the intensity from teams and the executions.
Besides the Spurs and the Piston, the ticket to play against this two teams is up for grab.
NBA Playoff will start this Saturday.
16 teams will try to get this year's NBA championship trophy. It is highly likely that Piston and Spurs will be meeting each other to fight for this trophy.
Besides Spurs and Piston, other teams who are hopeful to get this trophy is worth of mentioning about their name.
Suns: Despite of losing their best interior player, Stoudemire, they were able to shoot down other teams by their sizzling 3-pointers.
Bulls: Late season run made them to become a playoff team. Kirk Hinrich will become one of the famous point guards in the NBA history.
Wizard: A team packed with athletic players. Jamison and Butler are nice teammate to be with for Areana.
Clippers: A truely amazing season for them. Cassell is credited to turn the losing culture in the Clippers to a playoff contender.
Mavs: A team full of unorthdox players. A center who shoots 3 pointers, undrafted forwards, and an unheard of point guard buzz around the league.
Kings: The changed of team philosophy in the mid season made them better. A dangerous team in the eighth spot.
I always thought a subject in email and a title in blog entry is useless.
I was wrong.
It is actually very important. A nice brief information about what the email is about or what the entry is about helps the reader a lot.
After struggling for a while, I have decided to put in the title for the blog entry. It will surely help the readers and the editor, me, a lot.
Fedora Foundation might depart with Fedora project. Redhat will soon stop the Fedora foundation.
Here is the announcement made from the mailing list.
As a long time Redhat user from version 8 to Fedora 3 currently (Fedora 5 just came out), I think Fedora has moved too fast. However, the issue is not here, it sits on the problem of legal matters.
At first I was impressed by Redhat to take partnership with Fedora project after they discontinued Redhat 9. I like the idea of keeping the Redhat product tradition of putting everything together and ship it to desktop user. It eases a lot of installation issue.
I like Fedora, I hope without Fedora foundation, Fedora project will continue to grow to help the Linux desktop community.
Apple posted a program call "<a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/">Boot Camp</a>".
It is a software that helps user to use both OS X and Windows on the new Intel base machine.
Before the machine boots up and if the Option key is pressed, the selection between which OS to boot will show on the screen.
It definitely will affect the decision when a consumer think of getting a new computer. I wonder if boot camp will support when two hard disks are installed on the Mac Intel.
Source control management system.
The major brands are CVS and Subversion (SVN). I started off with CVS to manage my source code and lately, I have been using SVN more and more.
SVN claims to be a improvement for CVS. It has a slightly different method to track the source code.
For more information, you can visit their respective web site for more detail.
<a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">Subversion</a>
<a href="http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/">CVS</a>
My personal option:
I like CVS more because I felt that it made more sense to me when having version for each file. SVN uses revision of the project instead of the file individually.
Example:
In CVS, I will say:
Version 1.1 of foo.c om project p.
In SVN, I will say:
The foo.c in revision 5 of project p.
The argument could be similiar to either VI or EMACS is better (VI), but it's personal preference and I think as a programmer, I should be flexible to either.
