NO NO NO, I'm not going to shutter my blog due to my busyness. (or laziness?)Google.cn recently announced that it might stop its service due to a long list of factors against its operations in China, but I'm here to reassure myself that this blog will live forever. Sorry my dear blog, I've turned you into a wasteland in the past few months, but that would be a thing of the past.Freelancer revives!
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Monday, December 21, 2009
I'm So Busy
Just can't tell how busy I am. My busyness comes half from my routine work and half from house decoration. Let me be clear - buying a house is not an end, and it is just the beginning of another severe ordeal! However, I'm really looking forward to the new house, which is being decorated by two worn-out souls. I just believe all our efforts will finally pay off! Let's walk through these two gloomy months with full energy and passion!
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Learned Vocabularies
1. Towards the end of the evening, a group of about 30 protesters were preparing to spend the night in the centre, apparently with the blessing of security guards.
2. In the main hall, meanwhile, a succession of presidents and prime ministers made set-piece speeches.
3. took the dress on approval.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Billboard Recruitment Ad
What an ingenious way to recruit dream engineers. I have to bow to Google for its all-mighty creativity. Though I know for sure I will never get a chance to work this out, it's still inspiring to see this kind of fresh idea coming out from the IT giant. Thanks Google, you make our lives way better.
Monday, December 7, 2009
The Veil of BTChina's "Licenseless" Shut Down
It's a mourning day.BTChina (btchina.net), one of the most famous BT sharing sites, is totally put to death. The rumour that its webmaster has been detained was once spread like wildfire over the internet, though yesterday, the webmaster of BTChina left a very brief message at the webpage to clarify the case.Not merely BTChina, many other well-known websites sharing BT seeds are shut down since last week. It is apparently that a campaign of cracking down online piracy has been kicked off by some Chinese central government officers, coordinating another campaign of shutting down pornographic wap sites for mobile phones. Now, if we read the above story from a new perspective, we can get something very useful out of these cases.On the surface, the campaigns are aiming at piracy. But the reason of shutting down those websites is not that they don't have copyright license, but that they don't have an administrative license of online dissemination of audio-visual programs issued by the government. Interesting enough?In a nutshell, we learnt from these stories that proving a website "has no administrative license" in China is far easier than proving the content of that website "has no copyright license"In this circumstance, the copyright owners' best strategy of fighting piracy may not be filing the case to court, but reporting the authority that the targeted website does not obtain the license of disseminating Audio-Visual programs (or license of disseminating other contents).These cases, it seems to me, herald a fresh way of fighting privacy.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
A Tough Job Ahead
Well, the decoration battle has just started. It is really a big headache for both me and Zoe. I believe there will be lots of troubles ahead waiting for us. The buying part has come to an end. We have got our dream house for an affordable price and were soon into a debt hole. We will be in an in-debt status for five consecutive years, but that's not something fearful to us. The thing that haunts us the most is the decoration part - getting people to tear down the unwanted walls, finding the suitable decorative bits for our home, keeping an eye on the whole decorating process. There's a hell lot to do. Now we need to juggle a full-time job and home decorating. It's tough. I hope that months later, I would write on my blog something like "we managed to juggle a full-time job and home decorating." Cross fingers and say amen.
Friday, December 4, 2009
The Rising of 杯具
It's time for us to look at an old word from a new perspective. The word 杯具(originally meaning cup in Chinese) has recently got a whole new meaning -- tragedy. For example, we now say 我的人生就像茶几，上面摆满了杯具 (My life is an end table, on which there are a lot of tragedies.) Furthermore, 杯具 is not alone, it has a long tail of siblings -- 洗具(喜剧)、餐具(惨剧)、茶具(差距)...etc. Web language is influencing our life, whether you know it or not. Just brace for the coming web culture wave.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Damned Night
I was on a hunt for website wireframe design soft tonight. After trying some hopefuls - Visio, Axure, Edraw, Firework...etc. - I picked up among them Axure as the finalist. That's when the problem arose. Everything was nice about Axure at first - simple interface, plenty of widget resources, very easy to use - to name just a few, but all these were meaningless when I later found out that it didn't support Chinese input well! That's frustrating to say the least! I "Baidued" for a quite while but still failed to come up with a solution. Of course, I gave up at last. And now I'm downloading yet another soft Smartdraw... What a night!
Monday, November 16, 2009
Different World, Different Life
A few meaningless clicking on a hardworking night led me into the photo album of 曾俏琳 in Kaixin001. I was shocked on the spot. The gal, who was Zoe's classmate years ago, was seen in a villa with nice decorations, a stark contrast to our newly-brought "shabby house." My heart was sunk with depression and my face grew sorta pale. A question popped up quickly on my head "when will I able to offer my family a house as big as hers?" Though the answer didn't emerge, but one thing is crystal clear - being an employee will never achieve that. I should start something big, at least start planning something big... but before that, I need to accumulate enough knowledge, treasure and human resources. What's a contradiction!
How to Compare Different Brands Using Search Volume
Do you think it's possible to compare different brands using search volume? Or have you ever thought about it? The answer is a definite yes, and here is how...First, get into your adwords account and launch a new experimental campaign, in which includes all the brand-related keywords that you are interested. Then run the campaign for a few days. Remember to keep tyour bid high and your daily budget affluent to support the test and eliminate any daily noise. When the test is done, get into your account to view the impression data (never mind the CTR), which will then tell you the truth of the tested brands, by their respective search volumes. Have you done this type of analysis for your market? What did you learn?
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