A Macintosh / Thinkpad Diary ... by Kenneth

Sunday, April 24, 2005

Yet another writing night

I have to spend tonight in some kind of writing. The thesis book. I can't push it till the end of the thesis itself. I am a programmer, an engineer more than a mathematician. So I do need more efforts to understand those fancy theories of the fancy SVM in order to write the principles clearly. I've been reading the Motorcycle Diary for quite a while but I could not find a whole afternoon to enjoy it. I hope one day in the future I could have some dedicated time for reading and I know it could be a kind of luxury for me. Sorry, 'Che'.
I meant to treat this blog as a Tech one but I just can't stop talking tiny stuffs in my daily life.......
Anyway, recently I met a software called Starry Night. It reminds me SkyMap and those happy days when I owned a little telescope. Have fun.

PS: Faye's birthday just passed by and we never celebrate together. Best wishes.

Saturday, April 23, 2005

Rega Institute

We had a visit to Rega Institute where SARS is being studied. Well, we did not have access to that part of the building which should be highly protected of course, but we did see some mass spectrum machines. A nice visit, anyway.
I had some tough experiences these days with some Chinese websites which I loved before. Safari just can't recognize their coding as well as the fancy objects inserted in their pages. In fact, no browser could except IE in Windows plays those little videos. Nothing could I complain since MS is the biggest player there, except I wish they could add 'charset=gb2321' in the meta. I chatted with one of my friends who is a programmer and he told me that 'dot net' is really 'hot' there. I personally never successfully made my conversion to .NET, exactly like I did not successfully make my switch from Warcraft II to Warcraft III (neither WoW). LOL.
Okay, that's it, I'm going go back to my sexy Mac (and looking forward to tiger's coming).

PS: There are a lot of things that you won't care unless you do dream about it. What a weird sentence I am typing.....

Friday, April 22, 2005

Endless SVM.....

Every day before dark I feel my eyes pain. I may spend too much time in front of my Mac, doing nothing but coding.
The thesis, which we've been working on for 4 weeks goes slowly these days. There are quite a bit repeative works: measuring the performance, coding, so on and so on.
Endless.....But enjoyable.

Thursday, April 21, 2005

About the logo

I spent half an hour on this logo.
A short explaination:
'ik' == 'I' in Dutch, 'K' comes from 'Ken', and the little man standing there , which forms the 'i', indicates that I am male..........

PS:the logo is hosted on ImageShack™.

The 1st post on the hot Mac

Well, this is my 3rd Blog........
The 1st is in Chinese and I'm still updating it...
The 2nd was aimed for the thesis work we did last year and it was stopped with the finalization of the thesis work.
Here comes the 3rd one........
I'm not a native speaker of English. Sorry for those silly sentences.