Laughing Means A Lot To Me

There's no doubt that this new stuff will make it the hottest keyword in the coming days - iPad. Hey good name is't it? While just changing a character of iPod, there's no better one.

No need to say too much about what it can do now - as so many rumors have been proven - this not-too-little gadget costs $499 for 16GB, WiFi, 9.7inch touch IPS screen, $599 for 32GB and $799 for 64GB. Use 3G to browse internet? $130 more for each model makes it true.

Ok. That's all for the show. Surprised and excited? Nah~~ that's ok. For me, it's cool enough, but I like my MacBook more. 

Plus, it must be the hottest stuff in Starbucks in the near future too.

You must know where to find it.

Update: Maybe I have to take my words back? It beats the photo frame, the game console, the book, and ... I'd say, who don't want one? 

I dreamed of having a box of color pencil when I was a child. The more color, the better. 12-color pack was the most popular set. And later, 18, 24 color pack came out. But check this out, the whole pack of 500 color. Available here.

CTRL+SHIFT+EJECT
Works in Snow Leopard.
Note: Before that, check the General tab on the Security System Preferences panel to ensure that the "Require password [some period] after sleep or screen saver begins" box is checked.

Not too long ago, yeeyan was closed. The reason was well known by the yeeyaners. What we say? It could be "Much better than feudalism, you might have died for 10 times." Like Phoenix TV, a lot of people know that it's actually a RED media. It just looks like "neutral". Even so, when rebroadcasting in mainland China (not broadcasting in the whole nation, but a few big cities in the south), the program would be blocked when related to some so called "sensitive topic".

When yeeyan was created, a lot of yeeyaners had worried about the closing issue, which is ironically called "being concordant". There is always a good excuse for this kind of action -- To clear the environment of internet. It's good to see that yeeyan comes back one month later. Very complicated to describe the feeling. Just say, congratulations.

I introduced Paparazzi! to capture the whole webpage until Ray recommended Layers by Wuonm. Now I just got Snagit from TechSmith, another screen capture too. From the video introduction, it looks good. Will try it out later.

Riding in Zhuhai was a nice experience. Especially just after upgrading my bike. Even though there's no too much differences between 7 speed and 8 speed gear, it was feeling good. New chain and new wheels were running smoothly. The breaks could stop the bike in every urgent situation. No mention the convenient road specially built for bike and fresh air by the seaside.

On right time, at right place, with right partner - my bike, I took the 62km trip across Zhuhai city. Specially thanks to Leon, brought me and my bike to Zhuhai with his GOLF, and offered me 2 nights' accommodation.

In less than one second, I fell from the bike onto the ground, hard. It felt hot on my chin, must be broken. Palms, elbows, right knee was hit on the ground too, which felt hotter. Suddenly, the world's color started to change, beyond the reality, it was like illustration. It was from periphery to center, blurred gradually.

It proved the truth again that art comes from life, even caused by hurting the brain.

Chinese saying, "Better work needs better tools". That's a good excuse for me to upgrade my equipment. Including the MacBook, the brand new DELL U2410f, and the DXRACER LCD/laptop stand. All above are installed on my desk in office.Colleagues thought I'm crazy: A geek who use his own equipments to work for company, and the equipments cost nearly 20,000RMB. I'm thinking in another way, the powerful computer and large LCD make me work more efficiently. And they make me feel happy when working. Compare with that, money is nothing. Like my blog title said, laughing means more to me.

The LCD stand arrived today. I had to go to the logistic center in downtown to pick it up by myself. It needed 10 minutes riding to get there. The toughest part was carrying it back. Without a shelf on my bike, the 8KG box left a strip of bloodstain on my shoulder.

In short: it's caused by compatibility of different version of MySQL.
I have installed php + MySQL on two similar servers. The first one was running without any problem while the second one gave me "PHP has encountered an Access Violation". Here is the version of each component:

• PHP: 5.2.8
• MySQL: 5.1.34
• Zend Optimizer: 3.3.3 (The key point)

On the 2nd server, I installed MySQL before PHP. When deploying the web application, "Access Violation" appeared. I reinstalled MySQL, problem solved. I remembered the difference in phpinfo() between 1st server and 2nd server: MySQL Client API version - 5.0.51a vs 5.1.34. Strange that I installed 5.1.34 on both servers, why the 1st one got older version of API? I did not pay more attention on this question for the problem was solved at that time. But after no more than 24 hrs, same problem happened again. This time, I remembered that I forgot to install Zend Optimizer on 2nd server. Then I install it and found that the API version changed to 5.0.51a... Now I know why the 1st server is running well: Zend Optimizer replaced the MySQL API for php.
My experience is proven here, exact same problem.
It teaches me the lesson again, which, though, I already knew but often forgot to apply:
The latest version may not be the best

6 years later, I finally got my new large screen LCD. Costs less, but much lager (17" vs 24").

Dell U2410, what I like most, is the OSD design.  5 buttons with touch sensor and blue LED, when moving fingers over it, the LED turns on automatically. Touch it slightly, the other 4 button LED turn on and the menu appears just next to them. With so detailed settings, U2410 meets all my needs.

I've been thinking of buying a new LCD from last Oct. When doing the coding and designing work, the old pal Maya 17" was not large enough to show so many windows I opened. And it was too dark to watch movies. After all, it's been worked for me for 6 years. 2408WFP was my target at that time. Just one thing: it exceeded my budget. Then I waited and waited. So many times, I would like to step back and get the 22" model, with was so hot and popular too, 2209WA. What a coincidence, 2 days before I making the decision, Hei told me a new model released. This is it. Another dream comes true story.