2ad在儿童节发布新版：V.5 attractor，视觉震撼（V.4发布时有点失望，这次是大喜过望）。主页是蓝色主题，各大栏目有各自的颜色主题。2ad的设计理念有了更清晰的表达，看起来更纯净，内容和形式各自都得到强化，却较少互相干扰。强烈推荐。（不知又有多少人想自杀，又有多少人会抄了。）
另外，flashlevel早在3月15日发布了新版V.4，延续了原样，没有惊喜。
1、昨天语文考试，作文题为“我想握着你的手”。题目不错，勾人。我想这大概会在网上引起自发的命题博文旋风。刚才一搜，果然这里，这里，还有这里都开始写起来了，大家动作挺快。我那年的高考作文题好象叫《尝试》，比起来是不够煽情。
2、这几天施工作业要求停止。今天考英语，交警还把某些学校附近的道路封闭，为了不影响同学们的做听力题。上海因为高考，很多人得到了难得的清净。
3、广播里主持人在计算，950万人参加高考，按每人消费600元计，这是一个每年57亿元的市场。其实，以每个大学生四年培养花费4万元计，这950万人里多录取15万人就不只57亿了。这大概也是最终会录取530万（1.8 : 1）的原因之一吧。
4、历史总是惊人的相似。12年前我参加高考的时候也是满耳朵的世界杯。那时候没中国什么事儿，现在还是没有。
5、12年前我因高考写了一篇文章（《我的准遗书》），登在《中学生报》上，稿费5元。哎，真没出息，都吃了。
What? San Jose is bigger than San Francisco in terms of population? It may be a well known fact, but I just find it out. I keep reading "San Jose is the third largest city in California after Los Angles and San Diego". I was wondering whether San Francisco is not included in California, or have some kind of San Francisco, D.C. arrangement... It turned out San Francisco is really smaller in population than San Jose.
According to Wikipedia:
Rank / City / Population / Land Area (in sq. miles) / Population Density (per sq. miles) / County
1 Los Angeles 3,976,071 469.1 7,876.8 Los Angeles
2 San Diego 1,305,736 324.3 3,771.9 San Diego
3 San Jose 945,000 174.9 5,117.9 Santa Clara
4 San Francisco 799,263 46.7 16,634.4 San Francisco
I am also amazed by how many cities California has - 478 cities. So the term of city in U.S. and China is quite different. City in China is more like county in U.S.
For example the Henan Province in China has 17 Cities, and under cities, there are 159 counties. Counties are under cities. It seems just the opposite of U.S.
The average size of counties is similiar with Henan province, because CA is 410,000 sq. km in area, and Henan is 167,000 sq. km in area. Just FYI, Henan's population is 97,170,000 and CA is 33,871,648.
It is an interesting discovery for me. I realized it years ago when I got to know Redmond is part of the King County, but didn't check it carefully until today.
We've been working closely with our friends at Six Apart to improve the connection between TypePad blogs and FeedBurner feeds, and lo, the integration is complete. Starting today, you can choose to connect your TypePad feed to FeedBurner, thereby taking advantage of all of the subscriber measurement and feed promotion tools that are there for the taking. You can also disconnect your feed from FeedBurner just as easily. Chocolate and peanut butter aside, we think this integration is pretty tasty.
What This Means for You
If you are a current FeedBurner customer publishing a TypePad blog, you can now get the full picture of your audience's size. Subscribers who may receive updates from your native TypePad feed can join the subscribers to your FeedBurner feed to become one big happy family, viewable in its entirety from your trusty FeedBurner charts. (CAUTION: Joining these feeds may cause your subscriber numbers to increase!) New TypePad customers — from individual bloggers to the growing number of Fortune 500 corporations and media companies using TypePad Business Class — can set up this connection during the initial blog configuration process.
Getting Connected
Just log into your TypePad account and select the "Feeds" option from the Configure tab of the application. Six Apart has created a few simple screens that walk you through the drama-free process of "connecting" your feed to FeedBurner. Once you've completed the connection, you can log in to your FeedBurner account to take advantage of all that feed management goodness.
I Have a Question of the Tech Support Nature...
We've put together a nice little FAQ with answers to questions we think you might have. If your questions have more to do with the TypePad side of things, please start with Michael Sippey's post at Everything TypePad. Also, much like New York pizza, our Support Forums are open for business around the clock and the answers you receive inevitably taste better warmed up the next day.
Enough with the food chatter already. Salut!
We’re getting a ton of great feedback on Windows Live Search. One of the most common requests is to build the instant answers already available on MSN Search. We hear you and are working hard to get them all in. In fact, we just recently launched our first batch - instant answers for news and local!
The news instant answer will appear on searches for topical news stories. Keywords are identified algorithmically, updated every few minutes. It’s impossible to predict which ones will work when you read this, but iraq and george bush are pretty safe bets.
We can also show the top local listings right on our web results page. This is great when you are looking for a phone number or address of a local business. You just need to type a category or business name along with a location (city, city/state or zip). Try our instant answers to find an edison, nj dentist or seattle pizza places.
Looking for other kinds of instant answers? Found a problem with one we already have? Please send us your feedback. We’re listening.
----Jamie Buckley
PM, Instant Answer Team
