ppip: In the mood for straying~

18 Aug, 2007

1. instead of getting bogged down in the low level details and examples, you emerge with a clear sense of the big picture. 
2. If you jump straight to a speed of 4x... The material may sound so garbled you won't be able to make sense of it.
3. I nudged her and pointed to the man across the street.

bog down: get stuck, get slow down.

garble: so strange, been made some changes so that you can't understand anymore

nudge: touch somebody slightly

BTW: I like t9 input method on my NOKIA 1100!

23 Jun, 2007

The European Union has made progress in dealing with municipal wastewater in individual countries and as a corporate entiry. However, it intends to make still further and substantial progress over the next 15 years. Currently, the most widely available options in the EU are the agriculture utilization, the waste disposal sitees, the land reclamation and restoration, the incineration and otehr novel uses. The selection of an option on a local basis reflects local or national, cultural, historical, geographical, legal, political, and economic circumstances.

From Utilization of sewage sludge in EU application of old and new methods—A review

21 Jun, 2007

The lexical structure of a programming language is the set of element rules that specifies how you write programs in that language. It is the lowest-level systax of a language, it specifies such things as what variable names look like, what characters are used for comments, and how one program statement is seperated from the next. This short chapter document the lexical structure of java script.

From OReilly Javascript Definitive Guide

19 Jun, 2007

Alex Barnett write: How I write stuff I like.

He have three ways:

1. Read feeds, focus on what your like.
   
2. Use website like Techmomo.
3. Use del.icio.us network, see what is others look.

6 Jun, 2007

"Bench-scale study" mean you have you do your experiments in a tube

2 May, 2007

Round·-up
n.

1. The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in. [Western U.S.]

Bloggers like to use a word "round up", for example:

The Simple Dollar Morning Roundup: PBS Mormon Documentary Edition

They use it to describe the information they collecting form internet.

17 Apr, 2007

Thinking about wikis talks about what a wiki should be

Wikis let us "quickly get the heart of the human, social challenges to managing and creating knowleadge", and it "has the potential for vastly imporving knowledge worker productitity", which is "one of the major organizational challenges of the 21st century."

But do we understand how wiki works, more importantly, do we understand how to manage knowleadge. It's not as easy as setup a wiki.

13 Apr, 2007

Everybody is talking about Twitter, also am I. Here is my link: http://twitter.com/ppip But twitter is stupid program, it can't work with MSN, it can't automatically get your nickname from MSN or Gtalk. When you change your nickname on your IM, you always means you have new ideas, that you want your friends know. It's twitter's job to record what you have said on your IM, with your work with form morning to night, not to force you write what you are doing on the web. But it seems to be no site to meet my need...

13 Apr, 2007

I want to install Vista now, cause Linux is hard to maintain. You spend too much time on the installation of software, no the use, not say improving your life. So, in the most time, its the Windows that help you get a better life. So, let me try vista this week.

4 Apr, 2007

I asked lawrence how to understand English better. I think there are two ways: first, more conversation in English; second, compare the translated texts with the origin.

But lawrence tell me, read more is the best way-- read an English magzine/newspaper everyday. And you don't need translate then into Chinese, assume you can't think in Chinese is better.