Fortune of Solomon...

It must be the toughest time I've every had since I was born. I am so trapped in the problem that I can't nearly think.

This is a problem, a problem must have a solution. I have to figure it out, as soon as possible, it drives me crazy...

Then I think I get it! I haven't tested it yet, but I do feel and believe it will work. Because it's The Fortune of Solomon, "This can also pass."


Get Over It --- Eagles

I turn on the tube and what do I see
A whole lotta people cryin' "Don't blame me"
They point their crooked little fingers ar everybody else
Spend all their time feelin' sorry for themselves
Victim of this, victim of that
Your momma's too thin; your daddy's too fat

Get over it
Get over it
All this whinin' and cryin' and pitchin' a fit
Get over it, get over it

You say you haven't been the same since you had your little
crash
But you might feel better if I gave you some cash
The more I think about it, Old Billy was right
Let's kill all the lawyers, kill 'em tonight
You don't want to work, you want to live like a king
But the big, bad world doesn't owe you a thing

Get over it
Get over it
If you don't want to play, then you might as well split
Get over it, Get over it

It's like going to confession every time I hear you speak
You're makin' the most of your losin' streak
Some call it sick, but I call it weak

You drag it around like a ball and chain
You wallow in the guilt; you wallow in the pain
You wave it like a flag, you wear it like a crown
Got your mind in the gutter, bringin' everybody down
Complain about the present and blame it on the past
I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little ass

Get over it
Get over it
All this bitchin' and moanin' and pitchin' a fit
Get over it, get over it

Get over it
Get over it
It's gotta stop sometime, so why don't you quit
Get over it, get over it

我的视觉...

躺在草地仰视星空
班驳的色彩从树缝中悄然洒落
第三只眼的能力让我拥有神的传说
我要用手托起整个天堂

我喜我怒我静看人生冷暖
停靠行走遗忘是一种姿态

请你
和我一起站在世界的两端
和我一起旋转在舞台中间

The History of Apple Computer

It is unique in the IT industry. It exploited the personal computer market.


It is Apple Computer, who was founded in April 1, 1976. The first sign of it, was not the well-known apple, but a picture of a scene which Newton was reading under an apple tree, and a poem by the British poet William Wordsworth,


Newton……
A Mind Forever
Voyaging Through Strange
Seas of Thought
……Alone


But since it’s too complex, not long after that, the famous one-bite-apple sign was introduced.


And it was since then, Apple began to be known as its own characteristics. Simplicity, fancy, creativity... had regularly become the spirit of Apple. Apple had been the most beloved computer since then.


However, this is a cruel world, as the Apple spirit is not money-oriented, in the beginning of 1980’s, Apple nearly lost the game. October 1983, Business Weekly announced IBM the winner of the fight of personal computer. Apple’s stock got a tremendously drop from $63 in June to $23 in October. But maybe this was not really a bad thing. Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, made an speech to 150,000 people, “IBM wants to occupy everything, Apple is their last barrier. They are now pointing Apple with a gun! Can we let them make it?” The 150,000 people roared “Never!”. This speech, which was spread to the world via radio, made Apple a successful backstroke. And Apple’s secret weapon, the most successful computer Macintosh was first released. In fact now, Macintosh has become the name of all Apple Computer. Because of that speech, the shell price doubled in 2 weeks from $17. And that was known as the Apple’s 1984 Blizzard.


During the history of Apple, there are ups and downs from time to time. But the Apple spirit had never changed. “Think Different” became a mark of Apple. Indeed, Apple never stopped to make its product perfect. “It's been a huge success for us, and therefor, it's time to replace it.” said Steve.


This year, Apple will be 30 years old on the April Fool’s Day, and there is a word by Steve, “30 years, making the best personal computer in the world.”


This is a commercial area, where everything is measured by money --- Microsoft is an typical example --- but only she still persists in her own concept of value. This is an barbarian’s land, where command and conquer is the only topic , only she keeps her own culture.


She is more than a high-tech company, she is an artist; She has to fight for a living, but at the same time, she is also a poet; She nearly died because of her difference, but she is a warrior with a strong heart.


One can never judge or measure her using a normal standard or concept. She used to get hurt, get lost, but her vitality is always beyond what people can imagine. Because of her, IT industry is not too cold; because of her, despite of how much money Microsoft has, it can never get enough respect.


She is the Apple Computer, the miracle made by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, the naive child of the whole IT industry, the lover of all the personal computer users, the poem of the human being.




Ken
18 Jan 2006

All resources come from HERE

Got the iLife06 installed

I simply used the default template to build a temporary personal website, and here it is.


And also tried out the default page template by RapidWeaver, and here it is.


The oldest one made by .Mac web page is here.

Got the torrent file for the new iLife06 and iWork06

Ha~ happy~

feel free to contact me if you want

Fisrt time I went to a party

I've never been so dizzy before.
pictures later, same as always.......

Just want to show my Desktop :)

Lots of fun with .Mac

HERE is my rough homepage. I hope I can many things more after I got the newest iLife component iWeb

3 happy things of today

1. won a bottle of French wine with only NOK20
2. paid for dotMac service, waiting for the activation code
3. start to archive the photos, and use iViewPro3 to organize, and found myself much better with the raw handling.

Study In Norway

这篇文章其实是我对挪威语言文化课考试作文的回忆。也算是对这半年来挪威学习生活的一个小小的回忆与总结。希望还比较完整吧

When I landed and put my first step on the totally different country for months ago, at that exact moment, I suddenly realized that, I'm going to spare 2 years of my life here.

Life

The reason why I use "suddenly" is not because I'm not well-prepared for studying abroad, but, I've never thought before that, 2-years' time apart from the place where I belong seems a bit long, especially at that moment.

Indeed, the No1 feeling I got in the first week is lonely. I'm not a sensitive man but, this small , quiet, human-lacked town gave me such a great impact that I chose to be abandoned from my family and my friends.

So, the first challenge is loneliness.

Then the semester began. Which made me happy was, all the bad feelings I got in the first week had gone. I made new friends, the teachers are nice, and I get everything started.
But in no time, the food became a big problem. It's so different from what we used to have. So I, together with my new friends, had to explore, what and how we can make our own food. Besides that, most of us had never cooked before we came here.

Fortunately,

to be continued...

雾是“小猫脚上带来的”

绝妙的比喻，可惜找不到出处了，只知道是一首诗。希望以后能补上。

Edit on 17 June 2008: I found it here. :-)

Fog
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)

THE FOG comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

And another one: Link

Pearl Fog
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)

OPEN the door now.
Go roll up the collar of your coat
To walk in the changing scarf of mist.

Tell your sins here to the pearl fog
And know for once a deepening night
Strange as the half-meanings
Alurk in a wise woman’s mousey eyes.

Yes, tell your sins
And know how careless a pearl fog is
Of the laws you have broken.

摄影上来讲，利用雾气，可以达到“使远处看起来更远”的效果。人的大脑觉察深度，某种程度上讲是通过较远物体细节的减少来达到的。雾抹去了远处树上的细节，产生了在近处和不远处物体之间较大距离的幻觉。

Macworld Conference & Expo - San Francisco 2006

Macworld Conference & Expo is the largest Macintosh exhibition event of the year to showcase professional, business, and consumer Macintosh products and services.

Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs kick-off Macworld Conference & Expo 2006 with a keynote address from San Francisco's Moscone Center. See the video-on-demand (VOD) event right here exclusively in QuickTime and MPEG-4.

Press HERE to track the huge event.

There will be Keynote & Feature Presentations,
Two Digital Photographer Days

And, at the same time, there is "Save the Dates: January 8 - 12, 2007, The Moscone Center, San Francisco" on every invitations. Pleasant surprise!

Possible new items:

Mac OS X 10.5, iLife 06, iWork 06, the new Intel Mac, new Movie Server, new Music Server, new iPod, Mac home Media Player and so on...

But it all depends on God -- Steve Jobs.

p.s. for Chinese readers who want to know more about Apple®, click HERE

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updated: 11/01/06
苹果公司在今天发布了iPod的最新固件升级2006-01-10。这次的iPod固件升级支持了大部分的iPod家族成员，包括iPod software 1.1 for iPod, iPod software 1.1 for iPod nano，iPod software 1.2.1 for 彩屏iPod，iPod software 1.4.1 for iPod mini，iPod software 3.1.1 for 三代iPod。
这次的升级主要是为以上iPod的固件加入了iPod Radio Remote符件的支持，同时也修正了一些固件中的Bug。

苹果公司还在今天推出Server Admin Tools 10.4.4升级，这次升级的最大变化是带来了通用二进制编码的支持。

以上软件可以通过OS X系统的软件更新来获得。

Google公司也赶在Macworld大会开幕期间，正式推出了Google Earth的OS X苹果版。这个软件结合了卫星地图和搜索导航功能，方便人们精确的定位和查询相关地理信息。
点击这里下载Google Earth软件！
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与昨天的keynote大会同时进行的，还有一系列的软件更新，主要包括

操作系统
Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.4的升级
- SMB/CIFS 和 NFS 网络服务
- 蓝牙无线连接
- Core Graphics, Core Audio, Core Image, RAW camera支持, ATI和NVIDI显卡驱动
- Spotlight索引与搜索
- AppleScript, iChat, DVD Player, 和 Safari升级
- Dashboard widgets升级，主要包括: Calendar 和 Stocks
- Software Update 本身程序的升级和同步服务升级
- 增加了USB和FireWire设备的兼容性
- 以前的安全更新

Quicktime 7升级
提高了性能和增加对全新iLife 06的支持

iTunes 6.0.2升级
提高了稳定性和运行性能

针对老PowerBook系列电池固件的刷新
本次升级大约耗时15分钟，升级后需将电池取下，重新装回让系统识别新电池固件，并对电池进行一次全面充放电校验
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苹果发布intel芯片的iMac和Macbook Pro（原powerbook）
在今天的Macworld上，除了软件方面iWork 06和iLife 06的发布，在硬件方面的动作更为惊人。因为全新的使用intel芯片的苹果机在今天正式发布了！

首先推出的是使用intel双核处理器的iMac，这款iMac在外形上和之前的iMac G5没有太大的区别，但处理器己换成了intel 1.83Ghz／2.0Ghz速度的双核芯片。苹果宣布使用intel芯片的iMac在性能上大幅提升，benchmark性能测试分数是前代iMac G5的两到三倍。

在one more thing环节上，苹果推出了全新设计的Macbook Pro，即原先的Powerbook G4，本次换芯后，Powerbook这个名称将成为历史，Macbook将成为今后苹果笔记本的代名词。

第一款使用intel双核芯片的15.4英寸Macbook Pro，有高低阶两种不同的型号，低阶机型使用的是1.67Ghz的intel双核芯片，而高端机型则采用1.8Ghz。Macbook Pro在体积重量上均有大幅改近，整体厚度只有1英寸厚，与之前的17寸Powerbook相当，而在重量上则控制在5.6磅，与之前的Powerbook 12寸相当。

Macbook Pro还加入了内置iSight摄像头和用于FrontRow的红外线感应装置与摇控器。在电源方面苹果也采用了全新专利设计——MagSaft magnetic电源接口。

两款Macbook Pro的售价分别为1999美元和2499美元，会在2月份正式出货。

更多具体的细节，请查阅苹果网站。
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苹果发布iLife 06和iWork 06
苹果公司在今天的Macworld开幕演讲中，正式发布iLife 05和iWork的软件的后续版本：iLife 06和iWork 06。

iLife 06对之前的各个组件有都所更新，并加入了全新的iWeb组件。iLife 06的主要更新细节如下：iPhoto支持全屏浏览操作，相片库也由原先的25000张上限提升至250000张，同时新增了打印书册、月历和卡片功能。

iMovie HD则是加入了全新的动态主题。iDVD加入了针对宽屏电视而新增DVD菜单的设置，GarageBand 3新增了播客节目的制作与整合。

iLife 06的新成员，iWeb是一款操作简便的网页制作设计软件，同时也与其他iLife组件相互整合，可以调用相关资源，从而方便的制作发布含有图片浏览、博客以及播客内容的DotMac 网页。

而iWork 06版并没有之前所预测的电子表格软件。但新的iWork对Pages和Keynote两个组件还是做了不小的改近，包括立体的图片、类似iPhoto的图片编辑器、更高级的遮罩工具、支持计算的表格功能等等。

iLife 06的零售价为79美元，同时也随最新的苹果机免费附送。
iWork 06的零售价为79美元，在最新的苹果机中会有30天的试用版本。

why can't i just add a clock to my personal profile

Like this one...

Euro Trip

大勇和小花的欧洲日记
Strange names, but I promise you're gonna love that.

Only a woman like you...

the lyrics goes here...

How to make Saft (cocktail)

This is a first link I got when I tried to search "how to make cocktail" in google.

and here is the first result i got when i click the "Random Drink" on that page:
-_-"

Silk Panties

Ingredients:
• 1/2 oz Peach schnapps
• 1 1/2 oz Vodka (Absolut)
Mixing instructions:
Combine over ice, strain into shot glass.

Superman (It's Not Easy)

I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
I'm just out to find
The better part of me

I'm more than a bird:I'm more than a plane
More than some pretty face beside a train
It's not easy to be me

Wish that I could cry
Fall upon my knees
Find a way to lie
About a home I'll never see

It may sound absurd:but don't be naive
Even Heroes have the right to bleed
I may be disturbed:but won't you conceed
Even Heroes have the right to dream
It's not easy to be me

Up, up and away:away from me
It's all right:You can all sleep sound tonight
I'm not crazy:or anything:

I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
Men weren't meant to ride
With clouds between their knees

I'm only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me

It's not easy to be me.

When The Smoke Is Going Down

Just when you make your way back home
I find some time to be alone
I go to see the place once more
Just like a thousand nights before
I climb the stage again this night
'Cause the place seems still alive
When the smoke is going down
This is the place where I belong
I really love to turn you on
I've got your sound still in my ear
While your traces disappear
I climb the stage again this night
'Cause the place seems still alive
When the smoke is going down
I climb the stage again this night
'Cause the place seems still alive
When the smoke is going down
When the smoke is going down
When the smoke is going down

The Heart of the Matter

I got the call today, I didn't wanna here
But I knew that it would come
An old, true friend of ours was talkin' on the phone
She said you found someone
And I thought of all the bad luck,
and the struggles we went through
And how I lost me and you lost you
What are these voices outside love's open door
Make us throw off our contentment
and beg for something more?
I'm learning to live without you now
But I miss you sometimes
The more I know, the less I understand
All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning again
I've been tryin' to get down
to the heart of the matter
But my will gets weak
and my thoughts seem to scatter
But I think it's about forgiveness
Forgiveness
Even if, even if you don't love me anymore
These times are so uncertain
There's a yearning undefined
...people filled with rage
We all need a little tenderness
How can love survive in such a graceless age?
The trust and self-assurance that lead to happiness
They're the very things we kill, I guess
Pride and competition
cannot fill these empty arms
And the work I put between us
doesn't keep me warm
I'm learning to live without you now
But I miss you, baby
The more I know, the less I understand
All the things I thought I'd figured out
I have to learn again
I've been trying to get down
to the heart of the matter
But everything changes
and my friends seem to scatter
But I think it's about forgiveness
Forgiveness
Even if, even if you don't love me anymore
There are people in your life who've come and gone
They let you down and hurt your pride
Better put it all behind you; life goes on
You keep carryin' that anger; it'll eat you up inside
I've been trying to get down
to the heart of the matter
But my will gets weak
and my thought seem to scatter
But I think it's about forgiveness
Forgiveness
Even if, even if you don't love me
I've been tryin' to get down
to the heart of the matter
Because the flesh will get weak
and the ashes will scatter
So I'm thinkin' about forgiveness
Forgiveness
Even if, even if you don't love me

The first Pasta I made

I definitely screw it up. :(

Life's a gift

I was lucky enough to be invited to another Norwegian dinner tonight. And this time again, I could fell the man was so proud of his experience of the amazing world. And that made me more sure of being a traveller in the future.

The old man is an expert on bridges. He told us he had been invited to 42 countries to give lectures, and his will is to increase this number to 50 in his life time.

I had an idea that European people has the most elegant life styles in the world. Well this man is a perfect evidence to that rule. The old kind man showed us his house. Which made me most impressive was, there are souvenirs everywhere in his house. Pictures on the wall, photos in the living room, and I could find tens of different fridge stickies on the fridge, which are from different countries he had visited.

He is also a man with tons of knowledge. "It is difficult to buy new books", he said, "because I have to buy a new house for them". Knowledge makes people think. That's most correct. We talked for like 2 hours after the dinner, and I learnt a lot from him. He's so font of history and culture and economy that, he always tried to connect these three things together to think and to judge things.

Norway has the highest tax all over the world. But this man seems happy to that. He think this is a good way of sharing with each other. And that makes him to feel himself more valuable.

A German philosopher said, "People who know the other countries, know his own countries more." I can easily understand it now. And I think, it also makes a person to know more about himself.

Life's a gift, so seize the day and experience it.

One Last Breath

Please come now I think I'm falling
I'm holding to all I think is safe
It seems I found the road to nowhere
And I'm trying to escape
I yelled back when I heard thunder
But I'm down to one last breath
And with it let me say
Let me say

Hold me now
I'm six feet from the edge and I'm thinking
That maybe six feet
Ain't so far down

I'm looking down now that it's over
Reflecting on all of my mistakes
I thought I found the road to somewhere
Somewhere in His grace
I cried out heaven save me
But I'm down to one last breath
And with it let me say
Let me say

Hold me now
I'm six feet from the edge and I'm thinking
That maybe six feet
Ain't so far down

Sad eyes follow me
But I still believe there's something left for me
So please come stay with me
'Cause I still believe there's something left for you and me
For you and me
For you and me

Hold me now
I'm six feet from the edge and I'm thinking