I'm applying jobs now. In fact, I hate filling out all those kind of forms online. They look familiar, and I still need to copy information from my profile and paste them into forms. Why they don't apply some open standards and APIs? For example, they can use hResume, which is a microformat.
I really want to implement my own open resume standards, and let those job application sites just crawl my website in order to get my information. Then I might have my resume done once for all.
Ok. I haven't written anything in this blog for a long time, but recently I have joint an English team blog. That is IfGoGo.com, which is an English blog written by Chinese.
I still have no idea about what I should post here and what I should post there. There's no theme for both blogs, so maybe I'll just post English stuffs randomly. Anyway, remember to check out what's on IfGoGo.com, because it has a wonderful team, and great posts will appear soon.
I've started translating Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action into Simplified Chinese since this month. It's a contract with Turing Book Company, Posts and Telecommunications Press. The book is more than 500 pages, and I'm going to finish it in 4 months, with my partner Junyu Wang.
I've finished first two chapters of the book in 2 weeks, and start feeling that the job is quite interesting. At first, I've found some phrases and clauses hard to translate, and asked the translation support group for help, or just try to see what Google Translate might offer me. Then, I started getting used to those phrases and knowing how to break down complex clauses. Google Translate did offer me a lot, more than translation results. It lets you know how to write translated sentences more like natural Chinese sentences.
The side effect of doing translation job is that, after reading every perfect phrase or complex clause in English, I would try to think about how to translate it, totally naturally, even if I have no intention to translate it. When I'm reading a book in English, I'll keep trying analysing what I've read, just like a parser, and this makes me feel weird.
This is the last day of the month, and I have to post something to keep the pace, which means at least 1 post per month. In fact, I received the MVP Award at the first day of the month, but I totally forgot to write it down in this blog.
There are around 200 active MVPs in mainland China, and about 2000 active MVPs all over the world. And I'm so proud to be one of these 2000. As an MVP, I received an Award Pack from Microsoft, which included a laser pen, a USB drive, and a $150 coupon from Microsoft Company Store.
I have chosen a camera, a headset and a keyboard in the Company Store, and had $60 left. Then I picked some gifts for my parents and friends. Sharing the value of the award with people who supported me makes me feel quite happy, as I think their support is also some kind of contribution to the community and they deserve it.
I think I should keep writing as I'm preparing for the TOEFL iBT. However, I have no idea about what should I write. Keep writing all those TOEFL style topics, like do-you-agree-with-the-following-statement things? I don't think so. Maybe I should read some articles on the topic of American campus life or academic essays everyday, and then write some comments telling that this is something I like and that is something I dislike.
We got rank 26 with 7 votes in Round 1 of Imagine Cup 2007 Web Development invitational, and advanced to Round 2. Our project is a Q&A system with feature of recommendation. Here is the page of our team: Jovenes.
"We're sorry, but access is denied to that document."
"This might be because you are accessing this site from a machine in China. Because of a massive amount of robot traffic from Chinese machines, we've had to take the unfortunate step of blocking access from those IPs."
Why Chinese programmers always design their program to use up all the resources, and do not consider other people who also need the resources?
I don't know what that bot is. It seems that it's Baidu's spider, but Baidu said not. Many sites have been *attacked* by this bot, including some of my sites.
Well, Blog*Spot now can be accessed from China, while Sitesled cannot after the earthquake. I have to change the publishing address back to Blog*Spot. After changing back to Blog*Spot, I upgrade the old template to the new layout which supports widgets, and you may realize that my blog's interface has been changed.
After the South China Sea earthquake, at least 6 international cable connected with China is damaged. In China, we cannot login with Windows Live Messenger or Yahoo Messenger. We still can use Google Talk and Tencent QQ, but friends in foreign countries cannot login with Tencent QQ for it has no server outside China. So, Google Talk become the only choice, if you want to chat with foreign friends.
How about Skype? It's a P2P client. Yes, I can login with my Skype, with a very unstable connection. It disconnects every few seconds, and connects after another minute. I cannot chat with this unstable connection, so I gave up using Skype.
The Internet connection is quite slow in China, because at least 6 of the international cables connected with China were damaged yesterday night, during the earthquake in South China Sea. And it is heard that it needs a few days to repair these cables.
I cannot open almost any of the pages from foreign websites. I cannot login with my Windows Live Messenger. Anyway, Google's services, especially those have Simplified Chinese user interfaces, are accessible here, although they're a little bit slower than normal. Maybe because Google have some mirror servers in China.
I can login with my Google Talk, and I can open my Google Mail, so I'm still connected with my foreign friends. Some friends outside China start asking me why they cannot visit some Chinese websites, and I just tell them the truth.
I hope those cables could be repair as soon as possible, because this slow connection makes me really frustrated, for "refresh" and "retry" are my "favorite" buttons now.
After upgraded to Opera Mini 3.0, I found out that it can upload photos to blog. I registered an Opera Community account instantly, and took a photo to upload. After uploading the photo, I entered some text for title and content and clicked submit, and the post has been published. It's great!
I was dreamming about an easy way for mobile blogging, and I think Opera Mini 3.0 would be just the right way. It's easy enough to use, and just take a little time to publish a post with one photo. In one day, I can publish 2 or 3 posts without interrupting my jobs or wasting a lot of time.
Oh, I nearly forgot to tell you the name and address of my mobile blog. It's called Cat in Mobile. And you can subscibe to its RSS feed.
The hardware network connection fails every few seconds or minutes. This really makes me frustrated!
The campus has just upgraded the network authentication by using 802.1X. We have to use an H3C client software to login the campus network, because they're using the Huawei-3Com routers. Every time I lose my network connection, I lose my login, and I have to logout explicitly after I fix the hardware connection problem and then try to re-login.
Before I get my network adapter fixed, I think I would not try to use any wireness connection, because the login procedure makes me feel that it's just a waste of time. If I want to use the Internet, I would like to find some place covered by wifi signal and use wireless connection, or maybe just use Opera mini in my phone and access the Internet via GPRS.
I am available to my codes. Reading or writing codes are both fine. Nice codes are just like nice articles, can make me feel they are the only truth I should believe in.
I am available to my thoughts. One hour silent time for my thoughts per day would be quite nice. Reviewing what I have done is necessary, while planning for the future is enjoyable. Enjoyable? Right. Reviewing don't need too much imagination, while planning do. And the combination of imagination and realization makes my life enjoyable.
I am available to my friends. Friends that would like to share the same passion to codes and thoughts with me are rare. Without this kind of rare friends, my imagination would be drained, and my codes and thoughts would become ashes.