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Wonderful Project: Fruits to Trees

February 18th, 2009 | 8 Comments »

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.



Google Reader Is Not A Perfect Reader Tool

January 11th, 2009 | No Comments »

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 :(



ThinkPad X60 + FreeBSD 7.0 + Gnome

January 10th, 2009 | 3 Comments »

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



Find out Pagerank from my website

December 7th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

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.



Photo Composition is very important

October 4th, 2008 | 6 Comments »

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:



Movie Review: Kung Fu Panda

June 20th, 2008 | 17 Comments »

Kung Fu Panda is cool, great, wonderful, excellent, funny, beautiful… I think it is the best cartoon film, it’s comparable with The Lion King.

Yensid asked me a question on The 12 Chinese zodiac animals, his question is: There was a movie about Chinese Zodiac in disney channel what was the title?

I don’t know, I never heart about that. But today, I watched a movie, Kung Fu Panda, is it the key of Yensid’s question?

Why I use so many adj words? Because I like Kung Fu Panda very much, I give full mark to it. Yeah, I have to say, Kung Fu Panda is cool, great, wonderful, excellent, funny, beautiful and more.

Cool, there are a lot of Chinese Kung Fu actions in the film, the best section is Panda and his master fighting in chopsticks, that’s florid Kung Fu style.

Great, the animals in the film are all symbolizing lucky in Chinese culture, and most of the animals are Chinese national treasure.

Wonderful, the scene is good at Chinese painting style, the house, montain, foods and many items in daily use are nice to me, I enjoy it immensely.

Excellent, the context of that scene clearly, and the story developed excellent.

Funny, it’s a cartoon film of comedy, the dialogue and facial expression are full in humor.

Beautiful, this admits of no doubt, the colourful pictures are very beautiful and cause to be enjoyable and pleasurable.

More, my english is poor, so, you must be get more harvest after watch it. My friend liciece also reviews this great movie in his blog: Kungfu Panda.

The last, if you want to read more about Chinese Zodiac animals, The 12 Chinese zodiac animals and The 12 Chinese zodiac animals II may be useful for you :D

More about Chinese Movies’ review:

- Movie Review: The Forbidden Kingdom
- Movie Review: The Assembly
- Movie Review: Se Jie or Lust Caution



Drive traffic to your blog from Thoughts

June 19th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I found that a successful blog must be helped by the other good websites. For example, John Chow’s early articles were digged to the Digg’s first page, Blog Storm’s early traffic had a fifty-fifty were drived from Digg too.

So, if I need more traffic, I have to join more the other websites, I’m sure that bloggers will succeed if we employ our cards well.

Today, I checked out an interesting Forum called Thoughts.com, it provide users with free blog and gallery, and many other useful functions, you can upload photos, videos and podcasts, or chat in the community forums and bookmark the latest news.

Personally, I think its free blog service is a good chance for me, because I can creating a mirror blog on it, and place my own blog’s address on each post. Then, the more friends read my articles, the more traffic will be arrived to here :D

When I joined it, I found that its blog service advanced with jurisdiction management: it allows me to decide for each blog post if I want it to be public, private, or only viewable by my friends. The jurisdiction management looks like Flickr or the other cool community websites.

Then I posted some articles and uploaded a few of photos on it, then added a few of friends via its Friend-Networks, the friend network looks like facebook, because I have get a lot of traffic from FB, so I trust the Thoughts also could give me traffic too.

Besides offering blog and gallery, Thoughts.com offers community forums and bookmark, these functions will also useful to get traffic. So I invite you to get on the bandwagon, set up your mirror blog and try to get traffic from it.

Who knows, you might become the next success blogger one day, enjoy ;)

More articles about “How to get traffic to your blog”:

- I joined Facebook to get traffic
- Four Tips To Get More Traffic From Delicious
- Find out the ways of traffic source in flickr



Reading Today: the Dragon Boat Festival

June 8th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Today is Duanwu Festival, it is a Chinese traditional festival, we eat Zongzi, watch the Dragon Boat game, and yearn Qu Yuan today.

Chinese ZongZi - Rice Wrapped in Bamboo Leaves - Consterj asked where he could buy these in Manhattan to bring home, I thought eBay must be sold it, but when I searched Tzung Tzu, zongzi and many other keywords in eBay, I could not find the goods.

Dragon Boat Festival - Janetluo launched into a detailed explanation about Dragon Boat Festival, and tell us why people eat zongzi or threw it into water today.

Chinese Traditional Food:Tzung Tzu(glutinous rice dumpling) - There are some photos to teach you how to cook Tzung Tzu, I found this blog is valueable, because you can find many Chinese food’s cook methods there.

Free Port Analyzers - Defeat Spyware And Botware - Great, it’s an useful and easily article teach me how to defeat Spywares, everyone should learn it I think, you have to defeat spywares and botwares always.



Zongzi is the traditional Chinese food

June 7th, 2008 | 11 Comments »

Tomorrow is China Dragon Boat Festival, likes the other traditional festivals, we Chinese eat special food in the special day.

For example, we eat mooncake in the middle autumn, dumpling in Chinese new year, and Zongzi in the dragon boat festival.

Zongzi made of glutinous rice, stuffed with different fillings and wrapped in bamboo leaves. The shape of zongzi range from relatively tetrahedral to cylindrical. Wrapping a zongzi neatly is a skill which is passed down through families, as are the recipes.

The fillings used for zongzi vary from region to region, but the rice used is always glutinous rice. Depending on the region, the rice may be lightly precooked by stir-frying or soaked before using, and the fillings may be sweet.

I like Zongzi, if you does not heart it before, I suggest you taste it, it’s great delicious.



China Traditional Kongfu: Dabei Boxing

June 7th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

There are many types of Kongfu in China, Shadow boxing, Shaolin boxing, Tongbei boxing, Bagua boxing, and Dabei boxing, no one knows the quantity of China Traditional Kongfu.

Dabei Boxing is a major boxing for Kungfu, but there is few people practice it, because it is more harder than the others. It is a combination system of Taiji, Bagua and Xingyi, to do well takes years of practice, it takes time to get achievements.

Because of Dabei Boxing is too hard, so old persons does not practice it. Fortunatly, the researchers of this boxing published an easy version for old ages. They can improve their function of the heart, and improve their function of the lungs via this great sport.

My mother likes Kungfu very much, she practices Kungfu many years, and practices everyday. Last year, I have wrote about the lovely Chinese old lady: My Mother Likes Chinese Martial Arts Very Much.

Recently the lovely old lady had learned how to Dabei Boxing, and she asked me recording the video of her labor.