We love Andy

He’s a mystery,

Just cuz he’s too savvy.

Being with Andy,

Feeling like an absolute dummy,

Cracking jokes like crazy,

Never stops mocking even when you beg for his mercy.

Andy, Andy,

Back from Sydney,

he didn’t bring me any candy,

but behaved like a Korean hottie.

I never show my jealousy,

but Andy does have a strong body.

although he is not ‘lofty’,

but when playing basketball against him never expect to get the ball in.

Andy never likes meat but meat just loves Andy,

I thought he’s getting skinny but he’s still a bit chubby,

He drives a Beemer like a total richie,

Unfortunately girls never hop in because he never wants sucky sucky.

He’s doing engineering making solar panels,

you might think the major is a little quirky,

but he’s saving earth by producing recycling energy.

When the whole earth is out of gasoline,

he’s gonna make big money.

Question is how you dump the battery?

but don’t worry cuz he says everything’s gonna be okay.

And Here’s Andy:

We love U, ANDY.

This video totally opened my eyes. I never realized genomics can link to so many different things, and most of all, I feel fearful.

Couple days ago a good friend of mine gave me a new mouse as a gift. The mouse has been lying around in his lab for thousands of years, I tested it and loved it. Here I introduce the Apple Hockey Puck!

I did a little research on this amazing little mouse, well, I can’t find any wikis on this mouse, however, I figured that it came with the very first IMAC in 1998 (well, that IMAC has also been lying in that lab for years, nobody ever bothers to touch it, maybe I should just steal it). Besides, Imac is the first product Steve Jobs introduced when he came back in 1997 (he was fired from apple in 1984). Before that all apple’s product is just like any other electronics companies’ products (for example, dell). So this mouse is basically the milestone in apple history for being fancy. Not only the look, this mouse is also a milestone in technology, this is the very first mouse in history that uses USB input.

However, this mouse does have couple of problems:

The first problem is the length of the wire, if I plug in the mouse to the USB slot that is on the left side of my MacBook Pro, the string would obviously be too short to reach. If I plug in the mouse to the right side of the MacBook Pro, the wire would be too long.

The other problem is the feel of the mouse, although it’s fancy looking, but this mouse is really uncomfortable to use, I still couldn’t find a perfect way to handle it because it doesn’t fit with a normal person’s hand.

Apart from the previous two problems, this mouse only have one button. Before the mighty mouse, all apple mouses have only one button, although mighty mouse have one button but it can actually tell if it’s a left click or right click. So you feel really awkward sometimes because you really want to do a right click!

Even back in 1998, the Hockey puck is what British would call — Rubbish.

Now let’s compare it with the mouse I’m using, the Logitech MX 1000.

From the picture, we can actually see (well, I can but you can’t) that my MX 1000 has 12 buttons versus hockey puck’s one button. MX 1000 has a more comfortable grip, it has buttons for you to scroll up and down, go forward and backward while browsing the internet. It’s like what an auto drive does for today’s drivers.

Hockey Puck does have problems here and there, it might just none of that matters. The MX 1000 is just a bucket load of science and math. But this Hockey puck, is heart and soul. Although MX 1000 gives you so much astonishing convenience and effects, it doesn’t have the passion and flare this little 2 inch wide hockey puck has.

So if you just use this little thing once in a while, it somehow makes you feel — special.

Next time, I will go back more in time to review one of the first generations in the mouse family:

I’m still trying to find an adapter for this mouse because it uses the ps/2 input. There is only one reason I would test this mouse: to find out what the heck that middle button does!

How low-cost labor produces high-priced handbags.

据说美国今年Thanksgiving Sale的收益将达到历史最低。一部分原因是最近美国经济不景气，另一部分的原因就是因为前一阵子闹得沸沸扬扬的“中国制造”事件导致美国民众没有信心买打折便宜货（名知道会有这样的后果Times这样的傻逼媒体还把这种事情闹大，增加美国民众对中国货的仇视情绪）。今天在纽约时报上读了一篇“Made in China on the Sly”，觉得有必要分享一下。

很多人就想等Thanksgiving Sale的时候买Burberry,Gucci, Prada等意大利名牌包，很大一部分原因是因为人们相信此等高档欧洲名牌出自欧洲名匠之手。 尽管此等名牌高官一度否认这些产品产自中国，事实证明，Prada手提包的最后装订和部分制作都是在中国完成的，这些“Made In China”的Tag可能会藏在不那么显而易见角落里面。

How do the brands get away with this? Some hide the “Made in China” label in the bottom of an inside pocket or stamped black on black on the back side of a tiny logo flap. Some bypass the “provenance” laws requiring labels that tell where goods are produced by having 90 percent of the bag, sweater, suit or shoes made in China and then attaching the final bits — the handle, the buttons, the lifts — in Italy, thus earning a “Made in Italy” label. Or some simply replace the original label with one stating it was made in Western Europe.

更加讽刺的是，就算是在欧洲制造的大多数皮包其实也是“中国制造”，为什么？根据报道，很多欧洲的厂都是被中国的巨富买下来的，而且这些厂雇的都是非法偷渡到欧洲的中国移民，每小时大概也就是2欧元左右。

Today, the Tuscan town of Prato, just outside of Florence and long the center for leather-goods production for brands like Gucci and Prada, has the second-largest population of Chinese in Europe, after Paris. More than half of the 4,200 factories in Prato are owned by Chinese entrepreneurs, some of whom pay their Chinese workers as little as two Euros ($3) an hour.

所以我要说的重点在哪里？商家现在都已经为了达到利益最大化尽一切可能性降低产品成本，就连档次最高的意大利皮货都不惜一切手段放弃自己“欧洲名匠手工打造”的美誉，再通过“包装上市”的“恶劣行为”来骗取消费者手中的钱财。

其实中国制造一直都不差，一些媒体偏偏抓住出问题1%来夸大整个“中国制造”的问题，从小我爸就给我讲过这个道理，倒了澡盆里的水不要把澡盆里的孩子也倒了。

假如哪天真的把中国货都给禁了，我们可能连Prada都买不了，哈哈。

转发 ——

看了韩国新近崛起的超级围棋奇才李世石的一招棋后，常昊说，“能在这里脱先它投的人，要么是超级高手，要么就是不会下棋的人。”答案当然是前者。
现 在的李世石，真可谓是大胆而自由，而这种“自由自在的着法”，正是一个超级高手的最高境界。想当初，马晓春的全盛期，着法不也是自由得惊世骇俗吗？对小林 光一，他也有过石破天惊之着：1992年在中日名人战中首次战胜小林光一的那局棋是多么自由奔放！无拘无束！从棋盘上能感觉到他自信而自由的心情。对柳时 熏，能轻松弃掉50目大块，然后亮出杀着，吃掉对手更大的一块棋而潇洒胜出。那个时候的马晓春，着法何等挥洒自如，何等天马行空。
李昌镐曾被 人称为“等”的围棋（巴菲特不也就是“等”吗？），但这正是人们对他的一种误读。在他的棋局中，曾有过无数的新手和变招，在对付曹薰铉、马晓春的快速行棋 时，他敢于龟步以对，甚至到了大块未被封锁却自己做眼两目活出的极端地步，从另一个角度来说，难道这不也是一种勇气和创新吗？
艺术的生命在于 创新。当年吴清源敢于冲破前人的藩篱，创下无数新定式，以至于武宫正树说，“说我们现在的职业棋手的光彩中一半是托了吴先生之福也不为过。对于我来说， 不，对于几乎所有的棋手来说，吴先生犹如苍天在上。” 很难想象，一个心灵不自由，人格不独立的棋手能够弈出名局，能够成为一代宗师。
沈君山曾说，“凡继往开来为一代宗师者，必有其特殊之气质，曾与爱因斯坦共事并为爱氏立传的一位科学家曾说，爱氏是他所识人中，最自由、最不妥协、和最有自信者，这也正是吴清源先生天才围棋的一生写照。”
棋界曾有人评价罗洗河说，“虽说他在棋上不能算用功，但可以肯定地说，他再下30年棋没有一点问题，原因很简单，他生活在一个自由而单纯的世界，他的棋始终充满活力。”这大概也是对罗洗河自由行棋的一种肯定。

学会“脱先”，才能“它投”，下围棋和搞投资都是如此。人生的最高境界，也无非是”自由自在“而已。

用了一个礼拜的Leopard，写写感受。

先说Leopard的由来，一个朋友是Apple的Developer，免费给我拿了一套来。一分钱都不付，既然是不要钱的那么就甘愿当白鼠了。

安装很轻松，我选择的是Upgrade，整个过程不用一小时。安装结束后所有的过去的软件都还在。而且都能正常运行。

至于Leopard的新花样我已经写了一篇“The New Leopard” 。真正用了以后发现Mail里面有很多新功能。最爽的就是增加了一个RSS Reader。我就可以直接吧Google Reader里的Feed转到Apple Mail里，好处是你们谁更新了Blog 就会以Mail的格式发到我的信箱里，出门在外的时候就可以在Iphone或者Blackberry里直接读别人的Blog。

Mail的一个新的好处是和Icalender的完美衔接，可以直接将教授发的邮件做到Todo里。

Quicklook真是爽的没话说，放700M左右的DVDrip完全不用开任何播放软件。但是放BluRay和HD的时候就有区别了，VLC的HD在色彩，音效上的优势就完全体现出来了。但Quicklook的作用就是便捷，所以也没有必要挑剔。

顺便放两张帖图上来。

Spaces (I had a extended monitor, so 4 spaces becomes 8, but you can modify the number of spaces.)

Spaces (click to enlarge):

Quicklook (click to enlarge):

Cover Flow (click to enlarge):

这篇文章在挣扎该不该发表的边缘徘徊了许久，还是发了吧，你们怎么想就怎么想去。

在去学校的火车上随便抓了本Time Magazine. 无意间看到一篇关于中国80后的文章，名叫“China’s Me Generation”。文章的主要内容是说随着中国的经济的飞速增长，80后正在成为中国“中产阶级”的中坚力量。并将中国的上一代与其做比较。说我们这一代的人更加崇拜物质，对政治不闻不问。来了美国两年，我所看到美国的多数“80后”不还整天吸大麻玩Xbox 360看大片喝老酒，真正有几个人关心美国经济与政治，整天就知道骂布什傻逼又说不出傻逼在哪里。然后称骂布什傻逼就叫民主因为你能当场骂不被政府屏蔽掉。我的意思是，每个国家都是有一批人是先进的，一批人是一般的就想把日子过好的，一批人就是虚度生活的。更何况文章报道的那群人哪是中产，明明就是小资。中国有相当一部分的“80后”是相当有思想的社会精英。

当然文章抱怨的不是“80后”的教育是失败的（当然不是失败的），文章的重点是说80后没有意识到中国政府对他们的危害，中国政府的政策应当是保护中产阶级的，谁来给你危害，政府危害你的动机是啥，这啥跟啥啊？

Time作为不知道哪个党派的傻逼木偶就知道在那里攻击中国甩出如此不负责任的报道。不过话说回来，每个政府都会有这样几个傻逼媒体在那里成天煽动民众情绪，就看民众傻不傻逼了。总之美国的媒体越来对中国方面越偏激，他们怎么说就怎么让他们说去，我们继续走我们的路。

Just seen the new guided tour of the new mac operating system: the Mac OS X 10.5 AKA the leopard, which is coming out on October the 26th, exactly 5 days from now.

Here are some of my thoughts on pros and cons of the new operating system.

Pros:

• State-of-the-art user interfaces. (Com’n! it’s a mac)
• the new feature of spaces (old feature of linux).
• Itunes-like new finder, which means there is a cover flow of all of your files, you can scroll through all the files from your finder like scrolling through the album covers in itunes. You can even preview pdf, keynotes, windows excel sheets and VIDEOS without opening them. (this feature was in tiger, but you have to preview them from “get info”)
• the new Ichat. It’s really hard to describe in words, you can choose your background using leopard preset videos, and even your own videos, the semi-craziest idea is to show many documents such as pdfs, office files and even videos to the guy your are chatting with. The craziest idea is that you can remotely control the other guy’s computer using Ichat, sort of like the remote control assistant in windows, but it’s so much easier and you can keep chatting during the whole process, bringing video chatting into a totally new era.
• There is only one version of leopard, no such things like home, professional, business editions.
• Pricing. The Leopard costs only $129. A much better operating system than windows Vista and only costs half as much, totally putting Microsoft on shame.
• The last but the most important (to me): Upgrading. If you try to upgrade your new system on your old mac but worrying about the hassle of reinstalling all the software you had on your old mac and backing up all the old files. The solution is: you don’t need to. When you upgrade your new computer, the system asks you what to keep and what not to.

However, some of the pros are also cons:

• yea, I know the design is a beautiful piece of artwork, but is it gonna be running smoothly on my n-year-old mac? doesn’t apply to me because I have the freaking ass kicking macbook pro. Although the tech specs are here.
• about the new Ichat, you have to have a 128kbps to enable screen sharing, which means say goodbye to wireless, hook up a cable and pray that you don’t have internet providers such as earth-link.
• I’m not a Ichat user, I have aim which can be run on Ichat, I also use gmail(Gtalk), MSN messenger, I have to talk to my parents in China on SKYPE every week. Unless all of your friends are using mac, then this fancy feature is more or less useless to you.
• I don’t actually like the time-machine, I like the idea that you can go through all the files that you deleted and the star wars interface. But to back up the files needs a huge hard drive and what I’m REALLY worried about is if your computer has viruses, and it is GONNA be in your back up files and after formatting your computer you happen to extract some files in your infected back up files. I think apple is confident about there anti virus system because there’s only few viruses running on unix and I admit I never use anti virus software on mac because I’ve never got viruses on my mac, but there’s still possibilities that your mac CAN get one.

Other thoughts:

I like Leopard VERRRY much, but there is always compatibility problems when the new operating systems come out. I know and lots of people know that never ever be the rats of the biology labs, wait for couple of months and see how the reviews are.

P.S.

If you really hate reading and can’t go through the videos because of the poor internet connections. Learn more on apple’s leopard new features page.

哎。。。刚刚发了篇“如何在校友录上转utube视频的文章”结果昨天得知中国官方已经把utube给封了，一开始以为可能是党开会的原因，结果发现原来是因为人家开了个台湾站和香港站，而且都是国民党党旗的标志。
今天布什同学给喇嘛同学颁发荣誉奖章，中国官方立刻宣布退出关于伊朗的官方会谈。
在美国，媒体和不少民众都将中国定为“dictatorship”独裁政权。
再看看大家写的一些文字：“我看着美国社会里华人的处境，就像漆黑的夜里几道手电筒发出的光，道路是有限的。”觉得真的是无奈不已。

原本这段文字我是打算在Chinaren上发表的，结果连续几次系统都提示我：留言失败，故此放在自己的博客上。