时常会忆及幼时的景物，湛蓝的天空、明媚的阳光，似乎触手可及。清晨、温暖和煦的朝阳、透明的空气、上学的路。小学的操场、屋后的土丘，如今都已不在，伙伴们的呓语最终飘向了哪里？
终于意识到一切都将失去的时候，会惊恐地伸出双手试图抓住什么，然而那个“什么”并不在那里。到头来只能依靠记忆留下三两画面，仅此而已。果然还是在老去。
但愿我伤害过的能够原谅，远离我的奔向幸福，我会在此守望。如果有天我变了，那么你可以告诉我，至少我曾经这么希望。
作者： Keefe Dunn
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Turning 5D Mark II into a Production-ready Cinema System
Although officially released, Canon 5D Mark II is not in the market yet. But this does not stop other accessory manufacturer from preparing accessories for it.
RedRock video DSLR Bundle
Not long ago, RedRockMicro announced their accessories for video DSLRs (including 5D Mark II) that transform video DSLRs into production-ready cinema solutions, which provide:
- Rock-solid 15mm support system
- Follow focus for accurate and repeatable focusing
- Swing-away mattebox for light management and easy access to changing lenses
- Shoulder mount and handgrips for steady handheld use
- Support cage for enhanced stability and low angle shot
5D Mark II Looks
Let’s first take a glance at how 5D Mark II will look like equipped with these bundles. It’s stunning!
Just imagine what you will produce with this set of babies. I’m so excited!
Availability
The so-called DSLR bundle will be available starting October 28th.
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FeatPlug – The Way Your Featured Posts Are Meant to Be Displayed
It’s been a while since my last post, er…, quite a while. Being busy is not an excuse, I just don’t feel like writing, or am simply getting lazier. Anyway, I see blogging constantly as a way of exercising my patience, so I’ll keep doing it.
Today’s highlight is cast on FeatPlug, which is
“a WordPress plugin that can mine your blog’s content and generate ‘featured content’ section for your site using the suitable stories”.
Anyone ever tried a magazine-style WordPress theme knows what the “featured content” is – a section that makes some of your posts distinguished from the rest and your blog to be more appealing. The only problem with this, is instead of getting everything done automatically, you have to add the custom fields manually. I’ve tried some scripts that will do the job, such as TimThumb, but still, there’re limitations (like, the path to the image must be relative).
And for now, those problems are in the past, because we have this fantastic plugin FeatPlug (see the RiWiA homepage for a demo). To get the featured content section, just upload and activate the plugin, and put the function call in a proper place among your codes. It then searches the very posts for images and display them in the format you indicate. All you have to do, is to compose the posts as usual, and that’s it, nothing more. The jobs after that are taken care of by this amazing plugin. FeatPlug also brings along 3 completely different templates to show your featured posts: imagemenu, slideshow and banners. And there’s more, you can even create template of your own.
The features FeatPlug provides include: image caching, template support, layered architecture, image enlarging, broken image checking and WordPress MU support. Check this page for more info about it.
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战国BASARA2英雄外传人物浅析-伊达政宗篇
相信刚上手的玩家看到这么多武将，都有不知从谁入手的感觉。对我来说比较简单，前面说过了，开场伊达很帅就直接选他了。。。lancelot 同学用猿飞佐助开始，原因问他。
每个人物各有特点，操作过硬都很强。嗯，这是套话，也是废话，根本没人想看！
接下来我就用过的人物说点看法。人物选择最主要是看玩家的喜好（还是废话？别急，往下看），比如我重点关注攻击速度、打击范围、收招硬直。以此为标准，我推荐下面几位武将：
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关于战国BASARA2英雄外传的一些浅见
实在不曾想到自己还会写下关于 video game 的文字，虽然作为玩家游戏龄很长，但在最为热爱 VG 的岁月里，却未留下只言片语，有些遗憾。
回归正题，今回的主角是战国BASARA2英雄外传。我玩的是 Wii 版，不过据了解与 PS2 版除了操作外，没什么不同。此 game 本为战国BASARA2的资料片，奈何我原版玩得不多，因此若有疏漏，还望读者谅解。玩上这个游戏实属巧合，若非 lancelot 同学国庆到访，可能其光盘至今仍深藏在我的碟册之中。
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Feedburner Unblocked
Don’t know why they kept doing this, blocking useful services provided by websites from out of the country. I mean here in my country. Unfortunately, feedburner is in the blocking list. You just can’t visit links in this form: feeds.feedburner.com/username.
But now, it seems to me that feedburner is unblocked. And I guess Google has done much to make it happen. I don’t know if it’s only temporary. So, anybody who concerns about this like I do, pray to our mighty God that this will last.
In my opinion, blocking is definitely not a good way to solve the problem we confront. Confining people’s vision in a limited scale will lead to a rebellion from inside. At least that’s how I feel to be restrained.
All in all, the substance of Internet is freedom and sharing. So, why not just let us be free?By the way, Wikipedia also got unblocked some time before. Does it have anything to do with Beijing Olympic Games? Anyway, just enjoy the could-be temporary freedom surfing around.
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Tiny Post URL
Image via Wikipedia
Just found a WordPress Plugin for GO.6.CN written by fairyfish , which generates a shorter URL for every post using service provided by go.6.cn . I started to think that, hey, why not make a similar one using TinyURL? That must be fun. The problem was, I couldn’t find the API on TinyURL’s homepage. Google did help at that time. Surprisingly, TinyURL has a really simple API, which is too simple to describe. Scripting News gave the detail info here .
Description
Finally, here it is. A WordPress Plugin named "Tiny Post URL", which adds a TinyURL at the end of the post. Share it, enjoy it, have fun!
Installation
- Unzip the
tiny-post-url.zipfile. - Upload the the
tiny-post-url.phpfile to yourwp-content/pluginsfolder. If you’re using FTP, use binary mode. - In your WordPress administration, go to the Plugins page and activate this plugin.
- That’s it! No configuration needed.
Any suggestions or advice, feel free to contact me.
- Unzip the
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Used and Abused – The Promotion of Firefox
Image via Wikipedia
Firefox is one of the best browsers ever, but its promotion in my country is a total disaster. I said there are 2 reasons why I hate Firefox, but I didn’t go further into reason no.2 – promotion. Since with the latest release of Firefox 3, the startup time is greatly improved. I feel like I should discuss about the promotion problem of Firefox. The situation is way much worse than you could imagine.
Localized or disorganized? The dilemma of Firefox.
As the biggest threat to IE, Firefox is excellent with its convenience and extendibility. However, influenced by historical factors, the market share of Firefox is relevantly so low, in which case, the promotion of it becomes an essential job.
Google and Mozilla became strategic partners in 2005. Since then Google took the promotion job by advertising Firefox with Google Toolbar in Adsense, and Firefox went into a highway spreading all over the net.
Most things localized in my country are always customized with “The Features”, and Firefox is no exception. Because the promotion is so profitable, some web masters start to play “tricks” in order to make more money out of it. The tricks include fraud or threatening on their web pages, e.g. “IE sucks, if you don’t use Firefox, your computer will be so vulnerable and defenseless to attacks”, blah blah blah. Some even hide their contents with JavaScript to IE users.
Losing not only money, but also reputation.
Promoting Firefox like this does great harm to the reputation of Google and Mozilla. Let’s make the further analysis of the phenomenon described above.
Basically, we may divide users into three types:
- Those who know nothing about Firefox at all;
- Those who know about Firefox but use other browsers;
- Those who are using Firefox.
As to user type 1, if one doesn’t know anything about Firefox and can’t tell the difference between browsers, they don’t even care! Consequently, the ads are in vain.
User type 2 is the largest part. However, this way of promotion suggests rogue software to users of this kind, because they have the idea of what Internet or Firefox is. Promoting this way does nothing but lower the reputation of Google and Mozilla.
For user type 3, they are proficients, if I may say so. Ads can’t change their viewpoints over something. Now that they are already Firefox users, the promotion doesn’t work either.
Healthy development, the way Firefox should be in.
Firefox is an excellent software with the most promising prospects in the open source world. I sincerely hope that Mozilla and Google will clear out the promotional environment as soon as possible, for the healthy, rapid and sustainable development of Firefox.
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2 Reasons Why I Hate Firefox
Image via Wikipedia
I said I was a fan of Firefox in the article showing massive updates of Firefox plugins. Yep, and I still am. No, I didn’t plan to give up using it. I’m not playing around here. The truth is, although I hate Firefox in some aspects, it doesn’t keep me from using it. There is an old Chinese saying that “one rails badly at what he loves most”. That’s a proper description of me and Firefox.
Nothing is perfect, and Firefox is not an exception either. Below are 2 critical matters about Firefox, which Mozilla should improve in my opinion.
- Startup time. This is nothing new but platitudes, and people complaining about it are all around. To balance between the startup time and functionality, I have to limit the number of extensions I’m installing. Even so, I’m not quite satisfied by the time Firefox takes to launch and get ready to work.
- Promotion. This is a specific problem happening in my country. Google became Mozilla’s partner in 2005 and started to support the promotion of Firefox. Because the promotion is highly profitable, most webmasters were trying every means to make money out of it. Since then the situation became uncontrollable. Ads about Firefox floated all around the pages, some of which even prevented other browsers from visiting them. That’s unbelievable!
As to the browser itself, Firefox is a great program with quantities of powerful extensions. And I just wish it could get better. By the way, are you ready for Firefox 3? It’s coming in no time!
