Halloween Logo

Today is Halloween, some websites around the world changed their logo to a more spooky look. Lets take a look.

今天是萬聖節，一些網站更新了自己的標誌來應節。一起來看看吧。

Google

YouTube
Hong Kong Yahoo

Artificial Tornado

Just now I was surfing the web, came across a news clip about the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Germany. What do you expect to see in this museum? Floors of cars? Engines? Company history? Well, in this museum, Mercedes-Benz has successfully created a 34.4 m high artificial tornado!! The reason for this artificial tornado to be in the building is because the architect decided not to install fire doors in the building, and too meet with regulations, this is the solution to take smoke out of the museum in case of a fire.

未自過真正的龍捲風? 位於德國的平治博物館便成功於室內製作了世上最大的「人造龍捲風」。造這個高34.4米的龍捲風的原因，是由於大廈沒有加設防煙門的設計(美觀因素)。而「人造龍捲風」便可以達到於火警時迅速帶走濃煙的功能了。

Mercedes-Benz news sources

還有 movie clip 呢。 (下方)

Remodelling - Phase II

Started the second phase of the remodelling process, after playing with templates that are bright, colourful, I want somthing more simple, and look a little professional. Hence, I get what you see.

While digging for rounded corners templates, I came across with this fun web that help user creates rounded corners website easily. The webmaster selected 25 commonly used rounded corner styles and shared them. Check out the link below.

網頁改版進入第二階段。這次換版面將會設計成簡單、專業感重一點。希望多一點新鮮感。另外，於網上找到了一個簡單制作網頁上常用到的圓角表格的網頁。25個常用設計，加上自動化工具，真的十分容易呢。

:D http://cssjuice.com/25-rounded-corners-techniques-with-css/

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Jason:
你有看過我的腳架嗎？你心中的價位多少呢？

By far the best shadow puppet show

Saw this video from one of the fun wall post in facebook, it's amazing! never knew your shadow puppet would sing? check it out!

剛從 facebook 看到有一段玩影子的表演，真的出神入化。看的時侯要開聲音啊。





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DD,
Cheer up. You can get over it.

Purchased Tamron SP AF17-50mm F/2.8 XR

FINALLY!!! I bought a new standard zoom lens for my beloved Canon 30D. As a replacement for my kit lens 18-55 F/4-5.6, this lens not only give me a sharper image at the 17mm range, it also provide a large aperture size of F/2.8. Which proofed to be super useful when taking portrait or night shot. Please find the spec for this lens below.

終於入手了，TAMRON 的 A16。之前一直用 CANON 的 KIT LENS, 真的夠了。這支標準鏡不單於廣角端時成像比 KIT LENS 銳利，它更有恆定 F/2.8 光圈值。真的不錯。以下是此鏡的資料。

Model	A016
Lens Construction (Groups/Elements)	13/16
Angle of View	78°45'-31°11' (APS-C size equivalent)
Type of Zooming	Rotation
Diaphragm Blade Number	7 (Circular apertures)
Minimum Aperture	F/32
Minimum Focus Distance	10.6in.(0.27m)
Macro Magnification Ratio	1:4.5 (at f=50mm MFD 0.27m)
Filter Diameter	ø67
Weight	430g (15.2oz)
Diameter x Length	ø2.9 x 3.2in. (ø74.0 x 81.7mm)

PGR4 Camera shots

Today, I played with the camera function in PGR4, I took a few shots, in the city I know. I gonna take some shots of London later, so, bear with me.

今日試了 PGR4 的照相機功能，拍了多張照，都是我曾到過的城市，下次會拍倫敦的照片，等著瞧吧。

MACAU
Tokyu Shinjuku (Near red light district)Tokyu Shinjuku (Near rail station)

Introducing w910i, k850i

Someone asked about the new mobile phones from Sony Ericsson. So, let's talk about them. Recently, Sony Ericsson has announced two new mobile phones - W910i and K850i. I personally longed for the K850i for quite some time, before my HP6828, I was using K810i and I was very happy with it. :)

W910 was nicknamed the "music handset" ;) due to it's specially designed music player and emotional music selector - SensMe. In SensMe, all the music will be analysied and arranged on a map according to the mood of the song. Users can then play the songs according to their mood.





The other new phone - K850i - just like its ancestor K810i. It was focused on taking pictures :D, combined with Cybershot technology and a 5.0 MP CMOS camera, what more need to be said? Oh, did I mention that the lenses on the mobile has the ability to focus on objects?


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To Peggy,
Oh, I wanted the k850i, but the phone you get doesn't have Traditional Chinese, right? If that's the case and you are happy with your phone right now, I think you should get a better offer without a new phone.

PGR4

Finally, I bought "Project Gotham Racing 4" for $258, a reasonable price really :) . New features in the game includes driving motorbike, race in ShangHai and Macau, etc. Being able to recognize the road you're driv' on, it's kind of cool. :p. You can see your country's standing among others in www.pgrnations.com :o

今天終於買入了 PGR4，只是 $258 ，算是很扺玩了。遊戲中包括了新的城市 - 澳門 :D 及上海 :$，以及可以駕駛摩托車。當中的攝影模式中所拍的照片可以上載至 www.pgrnations.com 再用電腦下載。
;-)

Adding Smileys

I woke up pretty early today (in terms of of holiday) and I went on the web and check if I can find anything to spice up my little site. Then I found a little javescript in iBenjamin's site to add little :# smileys :) to blog post, so I am trying it out.

Moreover, I also added the facebook profile link to the left nav bar, check it out.

今天一早醒來，心血來潮想為自己的 BLOG 加一些新玩意，結果於 iBenjamin 的 Blog 中找到了為 Blog 加入 :p 表情笑臉 :) 的 javascript 真的很有趣方便，最好的還是它不會拖慢 BLOG 的載入時間，所有文字載入了，才會用圖示取代。

另外，我亦加入了 Facebook 的連結到左面的控制列，連到本人的 Facebook 檔。

Canon announced two new lenses

Canon Just announced two new tele lenses, both lenses are top of the range and god knows how much they'll cost. Below are the two lenses, photo linked to Canon's USA site, and should give Hi-res image when clicked on them.

Canon 發表了兩支新的遠攝長炮 L 鏡，分別為 EF200mm f/2L IS USM 及 EF800mm f/5.6L IS USM。試想像 200 mm 的焦距加上 f/2 光圈，還加一個防手震功能，真的是頂級鏡，而 EF800mm f/5.6L IS 便可用來拍攝生態、運動等照片。以下是兩支鏡的特寫，按圖可連到 CANON 網看 3100 x 2300 的高解像照片。

EF200mm f/2L IS USM (3100 x 2300)

EF800mm f/5.6L IS USM (3100 x 2300)

Youtube released Hong Kong version

The well known Youtube video site has just launched a Hong Kong portal site. People will be able to view videos from Hong Kong.

Google 收購了 YouTube 後終於於推出香港版本了，希望以後多點「港式短片」吧。

網址 : http://hk.youtube.com

宣傳短片：

The ugliest mouse in the world

Was looking at new I.T. gadget lately, and I came across a mouse designed by 'Chris Lomaka'. The two buttons on the mouse was created with real-skin-like-texture thumbs ( it even has little hair coming out, Yike! Gross! ) Turn the mouse over, and you'll see two sets of teeth at the underside of the mouse. I think I don't need to say more, just look at the picture...

最近上網看到一隻最噁心的滑鼠，滑鼠上的兩個按鍵設計成如兩根手指頭般，而上面更長有毛髮!! 把滑鼠翻轉，便會看到兩排牙齒，真的很噁心......

Remodelling (still??)

Yes, still working hard in remodelling my site, after searching for information on blogger, I realised that by using javascripts, and CSS, it is possible to improve the blogger experience to a much higher level. However, I have also realised that not all web browers supports the functions used. Anyway, I can safely say that the content you view in your website will be content, but if you want full effects and proper functionality, I would suggest you use firefox.

還在改網頁嗎？是的。最近埋頭於網上找資料豐富自己的網頁，結果發現 Blogger 的可塑性的確頗高，利用 javascript 和 CSS 於 template 內，整個上網體驗也可以改變。 (不信可以試試行 WEB 2.0 的 NEOBRICK Blogger) ，當我改自己的網頁時，同事發現很多的效果不是每一個瀏覽器也支援。總之我這個網支援的主要是 Firefox，快點轉換吧。

Reference Web Links:

• Kaie's blog
• Ben's 部落不及格

Remodel of Site (cont')

I have been having problem with remodelling my site. I finally managed to add a navigation bar (column) on the left, and fixing it within the rounded rectangle. It's been quite some time since I last do coding. I will keep on adding functionality to this site. Just to satisfy you (as a reader) and me.


終於完成了建構左面的工具列了，的確花了我不少時間，不單因為我很久沒有寫程式，要順利把圖示放到圓角矩形中亦不是容易的事，我將會不斷加入新示素，既方便你閱讀，亦可以讓我過一下寫程式的癮。

Big Bug in Excel 2007

What is 20.4 x 3212.5 ?

If you are using Excel 2007, it would probably tell you it's 100'000 . However, if you have the time to plug in those numbers in a calculator, you would amuse yourself by finding the display shows 65535.

Yes. They admitted it. Microsoft has just admitted that this is a bug in Excel 2007. It's a problem displaying the figure incorrectly. Actually, if you want more fun, you have try the above maths, they all (should) give 65535, but excel gives us more ^_^


By the way, this bug was discovered by people in Google group.

Remodel of blog site

These two weeks, I have been working hard. Not only about my teaching work, but there is also the school promotion thing. We are making a booklet and a promotional video for our school, and I was part of the team. Luckily, the most time consuming part - shooting - was over. Now I awaits for the companies to send me the first drafts.

I am taking time to remodel my site here, I wonder if writing me blog in English will attract more readers? Um.... we'll see...

PGR4 Launched

期待已久的 PGR4 已經面世了，但我還未買 (??) 因為總覺得有一些對不起 Forza Motorsport 2，Forza 2仍未玩透，再買一隻新賽車 game 好像有一點。

相比起 forza，PGR4 是一隻著重速度感多於真實的賽車遊戲，所以其實兩者也有值得買之處，加上 PGR4 有澳門賽道，$170的價格，實在值得。

The long awaited Project Gotham Racing 4 has launched last week. However, I still haven't add it to my collection of games. Why, you asked, the reason is I still haven't finished playing my previous racing game "Forza Motosport 2".

However, Forza 2 and PGR4 are two totally different games. Forza focuses on the reality of racing mechanics, like the abality to remodel your car, all the technology, racing statistics. whereas PGR4 simply look for speeds and the feeling of driving a super car at 200 mph through real city roads.

To be honest, I AM gonna buy PGR4, not only because in this version, it includes streets of Macau, but the price is also very flavourable, only $170...

Halo 3 ~ 爆機了

HALO 3 入手約一週，和 Raymond 合作下終於爆機了，結局有點伏線，或者會有 Halo 4??

玩過 Online 戰，14人也沒有 Lag 機的情況，十分滿意。只是，網上的其他人升級太快了。自己顯得很不濟...