23:23 Winter - Tori Amos » 欢乐波|JoyWave
Snow can wait, I forgot my mittens
Wipe my nose, get my new boots on
I get a little warm in my heart when I think of winter
I put my hand in my father’s glove
I run off where the drifts get deeper
Sleeping beauty trips me with a frown
I hear a voice ’you must learn to stand up for yourself
Cause I can’t always be around’
He says when you gonna make up your mind
When you gonna love you as much as I do
When you gonna make up your mind
Cause things are gonna change so fast
All the white horses are still in bed
I tell you that I’ll always want you near
You say that things change my dear
Boys get discovered as winter melts
Flowers competing for the sun
Years go by and I’m here still waiting
Withering where some snowman was
Mirror mirror where’s the crystal palace
But I only can see myself
Skating around the truth who I am
But I know, dad, the ice is getting thing
When you gonna make up your mind
When you gonna love you as much as I do
When you gonna make up your mind
Cause things are gonna change so fast
All the white horses are still in bed
I tell you that I’ll always want you near
You say that things change my dear
Hair is grey and the fires are burning
So many dreams on the shelf
You say I wanted you to be proud
I always wanted that myself
When you gonna make up your mind
When you gonna love you as much as I do
When you gonna make up your mind
Cause things are gona change so fast
All the white horses have gone ahead
I tell you that I’ll always want you near
You say that things change my dear
Never change
All the white horses
22:34 The Cost of Poor Quality Software » del.icio.us/chedongIn the US alone, up to 60% of software developers are involved in fixing errors. -- We examine results from a recent Capers Jones study and discuss the implications for improving the quality of the software quality process.
20:12 倫敦恐怖份子攻擊：地鐵與巴士爆炸 » ilyagram倫敦的交通系統，包括地鐵與巴士，於倫敦時間週四上午 8:50 分前後，發生至少六起以上的連續爆炸。BBC 倫敦爆炸紀錄與 CNN 時間紀事有每分鐘的消息報告。一般相信是跟 G8 的會議有關。至少 2 人死亡，地鐵與巴士系統停擺。手機線路擁塞。倫敦有地鐵blogger的地圖（LondonBloggers），我目前參考london-underground.blogspot.com，但是接下來仔細閱讀應該還可以找到更可靠的消息來源。隨著時間過去，Google News 頭條有關的資訊來源一直增加中。
19:19 The death of a master: Chinese media on Qi Gong's passing » Danwei RSS 2.0"Study to teach others; act as an example to the world."Calligrapher and classical scholar Qi Gong passed away last week. His death was front page news (see this post on Danwei for a cover image), and many newspapers ran several pages looking at his life and work. Memorial activities over the next few days included a candlelight ceremony at Beijing Normal University.
China Daily calls him "the best-known calligrapher in the public's eye." Qi Gong's unique style of calligraphy is immediately recognizeable, and, the papers say, he hardly ever refused a request, so examples of his work can be found all over.
At Beijing Normal University, where he had worked since 1952, he came up with and wrote out the school motto (pictured). Practically every building on the BNU campus has a sign in his wiry hand as well - the joke goes that he even did the "Men's" and "Women's" signs for the restrooms. In cities around the country, one can glance at certain buildings and know immediately that Qi Gong did the sign. His running style was encoded into a font that is available for download online (see the links at the end of the post).
17:38 Beijing Media Top Stories: the 60th anniversary of China's victory over the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression » Danwei RSS 2.0July 7 is a special date for Chinese. As the day of 1937, Lugouqiao (Marco Polo Bridge) Incident happened and marked the start of Japan's all-out assault on China. From then on, China started its 8 years long war of resisting Japan. Last evening, lots of Chinese gathered in Luguoqiao to commentate and started a series activities to mark the 60th anniversary of China's victory over the war of resistance against Japanese aggression.
Other hot news:
Taiwan's New Party arrives in Guangzhou
London wins the bid for 2012 Olympic games
The pictured front page is from Beijing Morning Post. It features a photo of two soldiers from China's 29th Army at Lugouqiao fight. The photo is showed at Great Victory exhibition which mark 60th anniversary of China's victory over the war of resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
15:50 The last emperor great great granddaughter is a model » Danwei RSS 2.0China.com was one of the dot com boom's darling China portals, but has since become just another mediocre portal cum SMS service cum general Internet services company.
Lately however, it seems they are trying to revitalize their content by hiring some editors from state-owned lads mag Xinhua, who have unearthed girlie photos of someone they say is the last Qing emperor Pu Yi's great great granddaughter. The photos are thusly annotated:
Times have really changed: if you saw so much flesh of a Manchu princess 100 years ago, you'd get your head chopped off, or at the very least have your eyes gouged out.
The great great granddaughter of the last Qing Dynasty emperor Pu Yi is now in Hong Kong working as a model. Because of her imperial blood, she really attracts people's attention...
Only thing is, Pu Yi didn't have any children, so it's not too clear who this girl is. But the five images of her on China.com put FHM China to shame.
Links and Sources
China.com (Chinese): Qing Dynasty descendant Aisin Gioro BayiChina.com (Chinese): More China.com babesName_of_source (Chinese): yet more China.com babesDanwei — Another Pu Yi relative talking up his blood line: An Imperial Personality
15:11 CPanel Updates Breaking Movable Type Installations » ProNetMany users are experiencing intermittent 500 errors when using Movable Type, apparently as a result of certain Perl modules being upgraded by CPanel. (CPanel is an application which automates the management of shared hosting accounts.) The modules are currently identified...
14:13 Lucene使用者沙龙 » CNBlog: Blog on Blog说来惭愧，这篇文章应该是在6月16号完成的，但是最近有很多事儿，实在没时间和精力来写这篇Blog，又不想草草写就，于是一推再推，拖到现在。
这次沙龙的发起者是我和车东，我们在网上有过几次交流，分别是在MSN和SocialBrain的IRC Channel里面。大家都算是Lucene的比较早的实践者，车东还曾经写过一篇Lucene的普及文章（Lucene：基于Java的全文检索引擎简介），在网上流传甚广。
Lucene是一个非常优秀的开源的全文搜索引擎，可以说是一套非常优秀的SDK（开发工具包），我们可以在它的上面开发出各种全文搜索的应用来。Lucene在国外有很高的知名度，现在已经是Apache的顶级项目，在国内，Lucene的应用也越来越多。于是，Lucene这样一个开发包、一种技术，把大家联系在了一起。
这是车东在WebLucene的邮件列表中给出的沙龙安排：
时间：2005年6月16日晚7点
地点：北京 海淀区 清华东门茶餐厅
参与人员：XERDOC开发团队：（米嘉、曹飞、刘力、孟岩），WebLucene项目参与者：（车东、田春峰、张放洪、卢亮），特邀嘉宾（文德）
内容：上半场，车东进行PPT演示，时间20分钟,主题涉及WEBLUCENE的一些初衷，和尚未实现的一些设想（分词，发现，分类……）以及Lucene的一个应用案例（包括搜房、博客中国、gRaSSland.cnblog.org、8fang.com）；下半场，Xerdoc的孟岩和米嘉进行PPT演示，介绍XERDOC的企业搜索和桌面搜索，并介绍Xerdoc中使用的中文分词算法。
比较有趣的是，最先大家争执的是Lucene的发音。我们一直的发音是[lu:s]，车东的发音为[lu'sen]，田春峰的发音为['lusen]，后来田春峰给出比较令人信服的解释，我也在网上查到确切的证据，不过要想马上改正也是一件比较困难的事儿了:P。
Loo-seen.
Danny Sofer wrote:
> ...and where does the name come from?
It's my wife's middle name, and her maternal grandmother's first name.
Doug
- Lucene Maillist
车东的演示主要专注在WebLucene方面，简要的介绍了Lucene的来龙去脉、基本功能以及在gRaSSland（我也是在这次沙龙上第一次知道了gRaSSland的来历，这个名字起的有趣）的一些实践。大家如果感兴趣，可以参考附录中的PPT。
孟岩的演示主要集中在Xerdoc DSearch的一些简要介绍和主要Feature，包括Xerdoc DSearch中的Tag、插件化结构、国际化支持等等。其中，插件化是一个重要的部分，你可以从这张图看到Xerdoc DSearch的整个架构。
米嘉的演示则专注在Xerdoc中Lucene的应用上，分别介绍了基于最长词匹配算法变形的分词系统和Xerdoc的文档管理框架－XDMF。
非常喜欢这种形式的聚会，没有什么功利目的，大家凭着自己的兴趣坐在一起，海阔天空、高谈阔论，在这样的讨论中，你真的能够得到很多有益的东西。套用Scoble评论FooCamp的一句话，“你发现那个演讲者用的是一个构造完全不同的大脑来工作，而那正是是我们遗弃的那部分思维。”。在国外，FooCamp每年都会引起很大的轰动，不知道什么时候在中国也能有这样的聚会，我想，那就期望更多有影响力、有责任心的组织、媒体、个人站出来吧（BTW：看看去年FooCamp的照片吧，Lucene的作者Doug Cutting也在其中哦）。
不知道这是不是Lucene在中国使用者的第一次聚会，立此存照。
附：
1）会议录音（比较大，分成4个文件，每个大概10M）
1（9.42M） - 车东的演示
2（18.31M）- Xerdoc的演示
3（4.65M）- 自由讨论
4（12.83M）- 自由讨论
2）PPT
《WebLucene项目的来龙去脉》－车东（30K）
《Xerdoc XDMF》－米嘉（2332K）
《Xerdoc DSearch》－孟岩（262K）
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10:01 Is the terracotta army in danger? » Danwei RSS 2.0Dust to dust...Domestic papers reported yesterday on a study that found that the terracotta soldiers in Xi'an may be in danger of succumbing to pollution. Sources were the BBC, the AP, and the South China Morning Post (China Daily merely ran the SMCP article in its entirety). According to Cao Junji of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Earth Environment, gradual erosion may reduce the vast army to a coal pit in a mere hundred years. Fungus could erode prominent features long before then.
The main reason, says Cao, is the museum's lack of technical expertise: "From a museum's point of view, it is doing a good job as long as the antiquities are not lost." This comes at the same time that it was decided to leave the excavation of the tombs of Qin Shi Huang and Wu Zetian to later generations who would have better technology.
Today the curators of the museum blast back. In an article in Xi'an's China Business View (which cites the bogeyman of "international media" without naming Cao as their source), a museum representative is quoted saying, "This position is unsupported by logic or data. What kind of scientist did this study?" The museum has international-level climate controls, they claim, and while fungus was present when the figures were unearthed, and there is slight erosion due to occasional damp ground, the army is remarkably well-preserved for having seen tens of millions of tourists.
And according to reports, the museum has already launched a 2 million RMB assessment of air pollution inside the hall housing the soldiers, to be completed in 2007. Perhaps at that time we will find out if there is a genuine problem, or if this is all a non-issue hyped up by the international media.
Links and Sources
China Daily: Underground terracotta army in battle for survival
China Business View: Will the terracotta army be a coal pit in a century? "Erosion" view questioned.
Photo from China Scenes
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