Friday, February 09, 2007

專屬天使

 

 

演出:Ella∕吳尊



作詞:施人誠 作曲:Tank 

編曲:呂紹淳 演唱:Tank

 

我不會怪你 對我的偽裝 天使在人間是該藏好翅膀

人們愚蠢魯莽 而妳纖細善良 怎能讓妳為了我被碰傷

 

小小的手掌 厚厚的溫暖 妳總能平復我不安的夜晚

不敢想的夢想 透過妳的眼光 我才看見它原來在前方

 

*沒有誰能把妳搶離我身旁 妳是我的專屬天使 唯我能獨佔

 沒有誰能取代妳在我心上 擁有一個專屬天使 我哪裡還需要別的願望

 

小小的手掌 大大的力量 我一定也會像妳一樣飛翔

妳想去的地方 就是我的方向 有我保護笑容儘管燦爛

 

Repeat *

 

要不是妳出現 我一定還在沉睡 絕望的以為 生命只有黑夜

 

Repeat *

 



  

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Web 2.0

Web 2.0

An umbrella term for the second wave of the World Wide Web. Sometimes called the "New Internet," Web 2.0 is not a specific technology; rather, it implies two paradigm shifts. The one most often touted is "user-generated content," and the second is "thin client computing."



#1 - The User Rules!

User-generated content, comprised of blogs, wikis and social networking sites, such as MySpace and Friendster, let everyone have their say on anything and publish it to the world at large. As Web applications become more sophisticated, people can easily develop elaborate personal Web pages, create a blog, and upload their own opinions, audio and video. Users are augmenting the news by reporting current events sometimes faster and with details often overlooked or ignored by the professional news media.

Although millions of opinions and videos, often very amateurish, only add to our information overload, a significant advantage to user-generated content is that truly talented authors, artists, musicians and movie makers can gain an audience much more easily than they could in the past. Word-of-mouth via the Internet is worth a fortune in promotion. Web 2.0 is leveling the playing field in all arenas just as the PC leveled the playing field in business.



#2 - Thin Client Computing

In thin client computing, data and applications are stored on Web servers, and a user has access from any computer via a Web browser. Thin clients are not a new concept for the Internet, but many believe that thin client computing will eventually supplant locally installed office and other applications and that turning the Web into a gigantic application server is the ultimate manifestation of Web 2.0.

In time, this could have significant impact on the type of personal computers users choose. As more software is executed from scripts embedded in Web pages, the CPU chips and operating systems become less relevant. Browsers interpret scripts the same way no matter which hardware or software environment they reside in.




Web Evolution



In the mid-1990s, the Web began (Web 1.0) as a repository of information and static content. Within a couple years, a huge amount of content was dynamic, returning custom results to users. By the turn of the century, the Web became much more interactive (Web 1.5), allowing users to play, stop, rewind and fast forward through audio and video content. Web 2.0 makes Web-based applications act like local applications, but on a worldwide scale with the social implications mentioned above. In the discussion of Web 2.0, the 1.0 and 1.5 generation labels may be used occasionally, but there is no formal classification.




友情誠可貴 愛情價更高
若為自由故 兩者皆可拋
 
FREEDOM > LOVE > COMPANY

Saturday, February 03, 2007

Clipmarks



 

Firefox的Add-ons

超好用...

我愛Web2.0時代!!

 



 

Clipmarks lets you save and share Web page content without having to bookmark the entire page. When you find something in a Web page that interests you—whether it’s a compelling paragraph, an interesting tidbit, or a cool image—you can clip and tag it.

 



 

Thursday, February 01, 2007

The Real Science Behind the X-Files





前陣子博客來黃金週買的書

作者是Chris Carter的老婆的好朋友的女兒

一個攻讀完基因學博士又半途轉行的病毒學教授



這本書是Anne Simon在1999年

差不多美國在播第六季的時候出的書

其實台灣有出中文版



也不是說它翻譯得不好

只是有些東西翻過以後難免會變調

更不要說一堆奇奇怪怪連字典都查不到的冷僻單字了



光看完封面封底目錄

然後是Chris Carter的前言

就學了至少一百個生字



這種奇妙的感覺

有點像當年上楊哲銘的英文課

納悶自己背"變裝癖"怎麼拼到底要幹嘛...



還是學了幾個實用的的同義字

-phile fan buff aficionado devotee

泛指...迷, 狂熱者



總之

我是抱著中世紀修士捧讀聖經原文的心情

一頁頁爬過去...



同時滿足了休閒娛樂

語文能力的增進

還有理工科女生骨子裡蠢動的科學性



★★★★★



The Real Science Behind the X-Files: Microbes, Meteorites, and Mutants

 

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Doomsday Clock



 

科學家用來計算人類離世界末日還有多久的類比式時鐘

很酷

隔幾年還會隨著時勢調整指針的位置

 

狀況最好的一次在1991年

聯合國和蘇維埃簽署戰略武器減量條約

只不過顯然樂觀得太早



'91年的17分鐘 '95年的14分鐘

逐年逼近到'98年的9分鐘 '02年的7分鐘

今年甚至只剩下5分鐘而已...

 



 

Exactly how close are we to the end of days? The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists recently reset the Doomsday Clock indicating how close the world is to nuclear Armageddon. The hand was pushed to five minutes before midnight、due to the nuclear ambitions of Iran and N. Korea and ecological concerns such as global warming. The clock has moved forward and back since 1947、when it was first set at seven minutes to midnight. Scientists deemed the world safest in 1991、adjusting the clock to 11:43 p.m. That was better than 1953、when we were just two minutes from the world's end.

 

"I know not with what weapons WW3 will be fought、but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones." — Albert Einstein

 

Thursday, January 25, 2007

0 / 1

老實說

我是個很害怕失敗的人

也不想承受挫折

 

我喜歡那些只要努力就有結果的東西

喜歡得心應手

喜歡每件事都在我的掌握之中

 

而我的冒險精神

只會在那些風險評估後、最大損失值仍可被接受的前提下

小小地發作一下...

 

一旦超過那個界限

我就變得固執而且保守了

完全是個奉行全或無率的理工科女生

 

就像電子啊

只有激發和不激發兩種狀態

沒什麼好模糊的

 

只是 嗯...

不知道我努力要躍升上去的那個軌道

是不是比現在更stable呢?

 

考生名單



 

今天發現網頁上竟然有這種東西

每個考生的出生年月日

還有住址全列上去了

 

好奇看了一下

15個人的考場

除了一個'79 兩個'80

 

其它都比我年輕......

 

最小的只有'93

搞什麼 國中生考什麼托福

存心來給我們這些老人難看的嗎

 

一想到要和一堆小毛頭一起考試

而且是一群唸雙語幼稚園長大

不懂25歲以後記憶力衰退的人的痛苦的小毛頭...

 

稍感安慰的是

我在隔壁考場發現一個'65的考生

雖然整個考場平均年齡還是比我小

 

不過一轉念

他可能是補習班老師來試考的吧...

實在沒什麼值得高興的

 

我突然想到那個信用卡的廣告台詞

什麼實現夢想要趁早之類的

現在總算有感觸了

 

嗚 年輕真好 >_<

 

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

太遲了

我明明記得

這次的佛腳我很早就開始抱了

為什麼有一種抱錯佛的感覺呢...

 

心裡一點都不踏實

以前那種評圖前夕把圖和模一鼓作氣衝出來的本能

好像離我遠去了

 

焦慮焦慮....

 

Sunday, January 21, 2007

TOEFL_IPT

今天

不考白不考

去參加了那個報錯名的TOEFL_IPT 

 

匆忙進了逢甲

拿出准考證才發現上面沒有考試地點

嗚嗚 我的一千去不會白白浪費掉了吧...

 

突然想到第一次自己搭火車去女中上學的往事

那時候不知道怎麼從車站到學校

反正跟著綠制服走就會到了吧!?

 

於是開始在校園裡張望

終於讓我瞄到手上拿著很像准考證的東西的人

誤打誤撞走到了考場

 

進去坐好以後

才想到忘了先打聽要考些什麼

怎麼全部都是選擇?

 

我可是來這裡練習寫作文的欸~

結果考了聽力、文法還有閱讀測驗

聽力還是新制已經廢除的短對話

 

托福都已經從CBT進化到iBT了

這裡還在用2B鉛筆作答

更誇張的是設備和考場環境

 

聽力帶是用巨無霸擴音機播放

監考人員一直在那裡問夠不夠大聲啊

後面的兩邊的人聽得到嗎

 

等全班都聽清楚了 我耳膜都快破了

考試座位表幹嘛不按年齡配置

把可能會重聽的中老年人都安排在最前面呢

  

考試期間

窗外還不時傳出提款機的語音

請輸入密碼 請選擇要操作的項目...

 

總之

哀怨地在兩個半小時以後

結束了奇怪的托福筆試

 

呦嗚。