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2004-02-29
Switch from Sharpreader to BloglineMany friends using
Sharpreader has decided to switch to more light-weight aggregators, such as
bloglines, recently. With the growing subsription list, Sharpreader will run in a very slow speed and cost a lot of system resource. It's not the fault of Sharpreader itself, it's the common problem of such .exe client, just like Microsoft Outlook.
2004-02-27
Stephen is working against spamFrom Stephen's referral script, "Please note: the referrer system will be a bit slow for a couple of days while I detect and banish spammers. Thank you for your patience."
Thanks, Stephen. What can I do helps? Ok, just two spam-like links ever appear in the referral list, fyi:
- http://www.driessen-online.nl/neenee.htm
- http://www.truehorny.com
(
Other readers, please don't copy them)
Hole opens way to free MSN PremiumZDNet, "A flaw in Microsoft's MSN Explorer software has allowed some Web surfers to gain free access to features and services that normally cost $9.95 a month, the software giant confirmed on Thursday. "
Those Chinese hackers did a great job to help MS debug and amend their service.
2004-02-26
Del.icio.us service failureFrom this afternoon(GMT+8) on, the
social bookmarks service refused to work. You can view the bookmarks in your collection, however, all urls are mis-saved in a weird internal ARRAY-like data.
2004-02-25
Defiant Downloads Rise From Underground Recording industry lawyers consider Tuesday's protest, where over 300 Web sites offered downloads of "The Grey Album," 24 hours of mass copyright infringement.
"More than 300 Web sites and blogs staged a 24-hour online protest yesterday over a record company's efforts to stop them from offering downloadable copies of "The Grey Album." A popular underground collection of music, "The Grey Album" mixes tracks from the Beatles' classic White Album with raps from Jay-Z's latest release, "The Black Album."....... "----- [
NYTimes]
Of course, I've downloaded it from one of those sites. :)
2004-02-23
Referring spam founded on my siteI'm using
Stephen Downes referrer script on my
Chinese blog, to see who visited my homepage in recent 24 hours. However, I found some strange links in these days, which are all linking to adult sites. Very strangeI can't found any such links on those sites. So it must be a new kind of spam trick again besides junk mail, MT comments spam, etc.
Also, yunshen told me that he found some similar referral links on his Klogs.org site, too. What a spam!
This week in pictures---msnbc
,or link
here(Flash player required)
2004-02-21
President Hu Jintao (C) poses with aviation and space scientist Wang Yongzhi (L) and geologist Liu Dongsheng after awarding them the country's top science and technology award. [
Xinhua]
2004-02-20
China's Contribution to the WTC Memorial"It's pretty damn cool, that's for sure, and it sure makes me think, how would China react to a memorial competition for a terrorist act that occured against it on its own soil? I am sure the designs would be in accordance with the actual event, but how would the Chinese do it?" ----[
Living in China]
Bravo those architects. No one likes terrorism, nor any country.
RFID Flash Introduction by
MIT Technology Review (Flash Movie included)
How radio frequency identification tags will help retailers, from supply chains to store shelves.
FBI offering Hollywood its badge. G-man warning on DVD, CD labels, and Cyber crime now its third priority, via [
Toronto Star]
2004-02-19
Grassland BlogThe
Chinese Blog Feed Search Engine now has a
dev blog to track the development history. Cheers!
I will add comments functions to this blog, soon. Shall I select Haloscan, or the comments system from CNBlog itself?
Kerry and Edwards Square Off as Dean Abandons Campaign
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and DAVID M. HALBFINGER
Senators John Kerry and John Edwards battled over trade and jobs as the race veered into a combative two-man struggle. ------[
NYTimes]
It doesn't mean failure of grassroots campaign.
China unveils first anti-graft rules Xinhua: Amid a steady rise of corruption cases, China's ruling Communist Party has unveiled its first-ever anti-graft rules which have brought under its purview the party general secretary, Politburo as well as the 68 million cadres, the state media reported today.
Have to take more time to prove, or never.
Centralized service is becoming slowerSome social software services, like Feedster, Del.icio.us are becoming slower than months ago. Feedster has adjusted freqency of crawling severval times as I observed to match the increasing huge number of feeds. Del.icio.us is good for sharing bookmarks socially, however, it's also becoming jam in traffic and data access. Is that a paradox between "maximum sharing" and "performance". Not really, the answer is distribution while still keep well connected in computing.
2004-02-18
Europeans Reject Offer by MicrosoftNYTimes,By PAUL MELLER, "European antitrust regulators have rebuffed an offer by Microsoft to include rivals?audio and video playing software in the form of CD-ROM...."
Blogger API problem fixedThanks for
Zheng's comment on my
last message. I have changed the API entry point to Blogger API. Anyway, why don't they keep compatible entry, it's so customer-unorientation. :(
BTW, I've found more missing links with Blogger.com while they upgrade their service each time. Does Google have the similar corporate culture?
2004-02-17
Electricity Teleportation Devised
Researchers from Leiden University in the Netherlands have postulated that an entangled electron could continue its existence at a distant location.
The method could eventually be used to instantly transport information between the quantum bits (qubits) of a quantum computer if electrons could be transported over distances of around 100 microns. ----- [
Technology Review]
Really fancy, can we copy our physical-self to another place via Internet in the future?
Why Blogger API can't work?
In these days, I can't work with Blogger API with this blog. Some BA-enabled tools on both my desktop and laptop all reported "HTTP 1.0 302 found" error. I have no time to check it now. It seems it's not my client failure, but from server. Is Blogger.com server too busy while upgrading to ATOM?
2004-02-16
Search Beyond Google
MIT Tech Review, "Google reigns supreme as the search engine of choice�but for how long? A pack of startups�and Microsoft�are developing technologies to find what you want, faster."
Orkut doesn't like hotmail, 163.com, and sina.com
Seems many invitations to friends with those email addresses can't delivered with
Orkut.com.
2004-02-14
NYTimes:
Release of Windows Coding Is a New Worry for Microsoft
By JOHN MARKOFF
The distribution of the secret programmer's instructions for the Windows operating system poses legal and security challenges for Microsoft....
Korea's successful human cloning to obtain stem cells sparks calls for US ban
In a clash of politics and science, the first successful cloning of a human embryo - and the extraction of stem cells from it - has ignited new calls for a ban on all forms of human cloning in the United States. ---[
Guardian] [
Safeguard][
Canada.com]
This microscopic photo shows eight cloned embryos that are currently in the eight cell stage each. AFP
[
ABC News]
2004-02-12
RSS feeds from XMU blogs
"
Xiamen University Blog Center", a campus blog community running MT. I didn't reach them yet to get the policy of applying account. Anyway, I guess it's not an officical project open to any students in campus.
2004-02-11
Return of the Son of the Bride of MyDoom
Last week, I thought this whole My Doom thing was over. How wrong I was! Yesterday saw the emergence of "Doomjuice" (written by a Michael Keaton fan, I suppose), a stripped-down version of My Doom. The nastybot targeted Microsoft's Web site yet again, but used a fascinating method to spread infection. Our story details how the virus works and what makes it special. ---- [
eletter, ZDNet]
2004-02-09
Big night for Beyonc� at demure Grammys
Knowles wins record-tying 5 awards; Vandross earns 4; OutKast nets album of year
Slide show of the night, from MSNBC
Who Killed Jesus?
Newsweek, "
Who Killed Jesus?", "Mel Gibson's powerful but troubling new movie, 'The Passion of the Christ,' is reviving one of the most explosive questions ever. What history tells us about Jesus' last hours, the world in which he lived, anti-Semitism, Scripture and the nature of faith itself"
2004-02-07
XIAO QIANG
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Xiao Qiang is the Tang Teaching Fellow and the Director of Berkeley China Internet Project at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California at Berkeley. A physicist by training, Xiao Qiang received a B.S. from the University of Science and Technology of China and studied as a PhD candidate (1986-1989) in astrophysics at the University of Notre Dame. He became a full time
human rights activist after the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989. Xiao was the Founding Executive Director of
Human Rights in China (1991 - 2002). He is a weekly commentator for
Radio Free Asia, and on the Steering Committee of the
World Movement for Democracy. Xiao is a recipient of the
MacArthur Fellowship in 2001, and is profiled in the book "Soul Purpose: 40 People Who Are Changing the World for the Better," (Melcher Media, 2003). He was also a visiting fellow of the
Santa Fe Institute in Spring, 2002. His personal weblog is
rockngo.org. ---- [
China Digital News]
Xiao's student called me today for interviewing arrangement on Blogging in China.
2004-02-06
Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" is now freebieThe complete NKS book is now available online, with full text,
images, 30,000+ links and more...
http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonlineIt's a pity that I can't download the book as a whole.
2004-02-05
TinyURL.com and HugeURL.comThey are all useful sometimes to do some tricky things. :)
2004-02-03
Some updates on my Chinese Blog site- My
RSS now linked with a simple XSL, better looking in IE
- Also I upgrade the program backing my blog to support RSS 2.0. The blog software, Grass, will be merged into CNBlog's "Wego"(codename) program, an integrated personal social software program. "Wego" means "We+Ego".
- More presences of my site logo
, in RSS, on IE-supported favicon, and blog item bullet, etc. The "Timer-like" logo will represent more meanings including lifelong learning and blogging around the clock.
More updates is projected soon, including
Grassland context search and history today links.
2004-02-02
MIT Technology Review, "
Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die ", From typewriters to vacuum tubes, these 10 technologies aren??t as obsolete as you might think. In technology, as in biology, we like to imagine evolution proceeding onward and upward. As new species and technologies appear, their primitive ancestors drop by the wayside, right? Not exactly. Mammals, birds, and flowering plants--all relatively recent innovations--might seem to rule the earth today. But far older designs, from barnacles to crocodiles, are doing just fine in their respective niches, thank you. New species don??t always evolve to replace old ones; they also fill vacant niches, which in turn can actually solidify the standing of older species. So it is with technology.
Mydoom Swamps WebsiteThe Mydoom computer virus caused 250,000 computers worldwide to bombard SCO Group Inc.'s website in the largest-ever such electronic attack.
Mydoom virus 'completes its mission', said
AnanovaAlso there are some web sites can't be accessed in China today, the same attacker?
Bringing emotions to video gamesCan games inspire feelings as well as fun?
MSNBC, "Will players ever fall in love with a game character? The soon-to-be-released 'Sims 2' ratches up the chemistry by allowing players to follow their sim from birth through death."
Wired News, "
Pixar Says 'So Long' to Disney ": Pixar Animation Studios backs out of talks aimed at continuing its relationship with The Walt Disney Co. and will seek a deal with another studio, Pixar chief executive Steve Jobs said Thursday.
Pixar, which co-produced last year's top-box office draw, Finding Nemo, said it will look for an agreement that allows it to retain ownership of future movies.
2004-02-01
Breakthrough! Ten major medical advances you're likely to see in the coming year Medical breakthroughs expected in 2004 include: New, faster CT machines that can take clear pictures of a beating heart without a catheter, sedation or hospitalization, combined with MRI to show blood vessels, blood flow, scar tissue and the workings of the heart muscle and valves plus plaque...
---[WSJ][
KurzweilAI]
Something wrong with
del.icio.us?
I can't post del.icio.us any url just now. Also can't access it's subscription service, what's wrong with the service or my client failure?
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