Two years ago, I posted the first blog in this blog, its named “Rainy Days”, and two years later, Beijing rainning again. The sky is gray and the weather is cool, I like it, because it feels lonely and I like lonely.

In Chinese has an old saying: Spring rain is more precious than oil. It’s spring now, so the rain must be important for farmers, it foretold this year is a harvest year in the Autumn.

In past time, Beijing was a lack water city, so rain is a valued resources. The emperors visited the Temple of Heaven every year, they asked god for rain and good harvest. Spring and summer, people put water urn in their quadrangle that catching or collecting the rainwater.

Today, Beijing changed to a modern city, there is no farm and farmers. But modern city need trees and green plants, so rain is also very important. But Beijing lacks water too, there blow sandstorm in Spring, last week the wind brought a lot of sand yet.

Yeah, today is rainny, so tomorrow must be a good weather.

This blog ran under wordpress 2.3 before, and it was upgraded just now, it running under 2.7.1 now.

I found the new version is more easy and clearly, but it also added more functions. So, I have to learn it for some times.

The processing of the upgrade is easy, I export and import the database, then installed the template that designed by myself, and the last added the friend links (Blogroll) manual.

Then, modified some tiny options, as like as the Settings, Prelinks, Ping Servies, etc, that’s all

It’s the second upgrading in my blogging life, the first time is upgrade from wordpress 1.7 to 2.3, the second time is from 2.3 to 2.7.1, I like blogging, and I will go on.

I found a new site that including more interesting Beijing articles, the URL is www.mrshang.com. The domain, MrShang dot com, is easy to remember, isn’t it?

There is a community in the new website, if you want to talking with me, please visiting the community, and posting any subject you want.

In the new website, the first column is Beijing Impression, the articles will be sync here in the first time.

I will posting “Beijing Impression” every week, 3 to 5 pictures per post.

The Prince Gong’s Mansion or Gong Wang Fu Museum is located in the western part of central Beijing, China, north of the Shichahai Lake. Consisting of large mansions in the typical siheyuan laylout and gardens, the Pince Gong’s Mansion is known as one of the most ornate and extravagant residence compounds in all of Beijing. (Prince Gong’s Mansion)

Jiumen Xiaochi is a famous snack seller in modern Beijing, there are a lot of traditional foods selling. There are 11 old and famous enterprises, you can eat hundreds snacks if you can.

This taxi is an unusual style in Beijing. I saw this style first, and it likes England Taxi I think.

There are four Botanical Gardens in Beijing, I have posted a blog that described the laggest one - Beijing Botanical Garden.

And today will show another for you. It’s also named Beijing Botanical Garden, yeah, these two gardens have the same name, and they were built togeither, but the second is smaller than the first one.

The other two Botanical Gardens in Beijing are Beijing Education Botanical Garden and Beijing Chinese Medicine Herb Garden. I never went to there, if I have time, I will go to visitting them and take some photos.

Beijing Botanical Garden (the smaller one) nearby the laggest botanical garden, it was founded in 1956, it is base for researches for conservation of biodiversity and plant germplasm and for their sustainable use in northern China.

Among the display areas are the Arboretum, Perennial Garden, Rose Garden, Magnolia and Peony Garden, Chinese Medicinal Herb Garden, Gymnosperm Section, Wild Fruit Tree Resources Section, Environment-Protection Plants Section, Aquatic and Climbing Plants Garden, Rare and Endangered Plants Section, Crape Myrtle Garden, and Tropical and Subtropical Plant Houses.

The Botanical Garden had a collection of nearly 6000 plant species and varieties from home and abroad, which is one of the largest site for ex situ conservation among the botanical gardens in China.

Let’s read the photos now, they were taken today:

Da Shi Lan is the oldest, the most famous and the most beautiful business street in Beijing. The street is not very long, just 275 meters, but there are many old buildings, one by one.

Da Shi Lan nears Tian An Men, it’s in the center of Beijing city. From Tian An Men to south are: Tian An Men suqare, Qian Men, then is Da Shi Lan street.

When you arrived the street, you will find many old builddings, because this street is very old, it was found 500 years ago. So most of the buildding on the street are famous in China, for example: Nei Lian Sheng is the most famous shoemaker, Rui Fu Xiang is the most famous dry-goods, and Zhang Yi Yuan is the most famous tea shop.

I went Da Shi Lan last weekend, but when I arrived there, the sun was sinking. There are lots of lights on night, so the night view is beautiful too. I bought a pair of shoes from Nei Lian Sheng, it’s my favorite shoes, I wear its shoes from 3 years ago.

Besides the old buildings, there are many packman, they sell cheap goods to foreigner. Usually, their good worth 10 to 20 Yuan, but they will pricing them more than 200 Yuan. So, be careful they and don’t buy any thing from them.

More photos about Da Shi Lan

I read an interesting and wonderful book yesterday, it teach us to grow trees from the fruits’ seed. It’s truly original, so I bought a lot fruits from Super Market and do it myself.

There are the pictures in the frist day, yeah, they are friuts now, but tomorrow, they will become seeds, and be palnted in the sand. Maybe months later, you will read Tree Photos in my blog :D

Pawpaw, wow, there are lots of seeds, its seeds are very big, I like big seed :)

Navel Orange, they are expensive, because of they are transgenic plants, I don’t like genetically modified fruits.

Longan, they will be eaten at last.

Lemon, I never eat lemon before, so I don’t know how to eat it… they are GM fruits too…

Grapefruit, wow, so big. I guess it must be sweet.

Capsicum, they look beautiful and delicious, but I won’t eat them.

Dragon fruit, their seeds are very very small.

I read news and blogs everyday in Google Reader, but I don’t agree that it is a perfect tool for me.

The problem happens when there are a lot of images in article body. I clicking “J” to reading the next article, but web borwser still loading the first article’s images, so the problem happens: the second article’s body will be pushed bottom from screen. I have to move sidebar to find it, then, the first article’s images still downloading, it be pushed bottom again…

If the first article including a lot of images, the second article hardly to read. In fact, I subscribe many feeds, most of them including lots of photos, I have no idea :(

Hardware: ThinkPad X60
Software: FreeBSD 7.0 + Gnome
Furture: IBM Red-point Mouse, Sound device, Wireless card

Now, my computer running under FreeBSD, it’s cool, I like it very much!

Somedays ago, the old OS (WindowsXP) broken, then I planned to install a new system in my computer.

There are three types of Operation System CD on my desktop: Ubuntu8.0, FreeBSD7.0 and Minix3.

I don’t like Ubuntu, because there are so many fans use it ;) Minix3 is very nice, but its documents are too few to be searched on the web. At last, I decieded to install FreeBSD.

My laptop is Lenovo X60, no cdrom and no follopy. I tried copy ISO to USB stick or USB-cdrom, but they didn’t work. I guess X60’s mother board has some problem in FreeBSD7.

Then, I take off the harddisk and installed it on another computer (IBM ThinkPad R61i), and put the ISO cdrom in R61i’s cdrom, power on and work fine.

After installing the core and X11, put the disc2 and disc3 to install Gnome (I think Gnome is better than KDE).

At last, take off the harddisk from R61i, and put it on X60, power on… Error Message showed, the harddisk can not found. I found the dev list changed from ad1s to ad4s. I openned the “/etc/fstab” file and modified them from ad1sXXX to ad4sXXX.

Restart computer and work fine, cool!

Then re-confirgure the mouse settings, sound-device settings, wireless device settings, all of them works fine under FreeBSD7. Yeah, I think IBM X60 + FreeBSD 7.0 + Gnome is a good choice for me :D

Today, I worte two shells, one analyzing the Apache logs and find out the URLs, the other one checking their PageRank and recording them in the database.

Google Webmaster Tools show that there about 99% pages have a LOW pagerank, and 0.5% is Not yet assigned, 0.5% is Medium.

I hope I can find out every pages’ PageRank of my website, then put the Low Page’s link on the Medium or High pages. I think it must be help my site get higher traffic from Google.

The result let me disappointment, because all the pages from my new website are zero. I tested my shells for another website, no problem, so I guess Google Webmaster Tools is not exact pagerank.

I have to wait for the next PageRank update day to do this work.

I think the composition is very important for photos, the difference between good and bad consists in composition.

My mother went to Beijing Olympic Green Park last week, and took some photos, but she is not good at picture composition, so, the photos without a subject will not impress any-one.

There are 5 photos:

They are very confusion, do you agree with me? Then, I re-composition them in Paint.NET, remove the useless space. Now, these terse pictures were be created: