jiblog-in-china, originally uploaded by jiruan.
I am now in a netbar in Shanghai. The above screen copy shows my blog is not accessible in China.
The GFW (Great Fire
Wall) is responsible for that. I am glad that we have such a ‘wonderful’ thing in China.
WMV (.wmv) is the Microsoft format of media files. For those previously use MS Windows, but have switched to Mac OS, they might face some problems of handling media files. For example, in a powerpoint slide, you embedded some .wmv video files, but they are not working in the Mac anymore. What could you do? At least, you could try to convert the .wmv files into .mov (Mac QuickTime file format) or .avi (Audio Video Interleave format). For this task, you could try this free software:
Available both in Mac and PC.
I’ve tried it and it is easy to use and free for certain period. But I have to warn you that this is not free or open-source software.
First-time FALL OVER in Liverpool, originally uploaded by jiruan.
This is the place that I had my first fall over from my bike in Liverpool on last Monday. The road was icy due to the freezing weather. It was when I turning right, the bike suddenly lost control and crashed onto the road. Fortunately, there were no cars around and little damage was made to my bike and me.
There is one thing I like about freezing weather, the beautiful sky after the sunset. See these picture I took in the tallest building in Liverpool University around 5pm:
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My friend had an HP printer and I asked whether I could use it, and he told me yes, but I had to bring a cable myself, because it did not come with a cable. I thought it might just be a casual mistake of HP. But it seems I was wrong, as when I get a new HP printer (£60) recently, I could not find a cable in the package as well. What a shame on HP. When I carefully read the item list included inside, it says “USB cable may not be included. If so, purchase seperately”. What a “smart” company!
Then I am curious about whether other people found similar problems. And with a simple google search, I found one here. There are a few similar complains in the follow-up comments of that post, and one person had to travel another 24 miles round trip to buy the cable.
The cable is actually quite cheap, for example here in Amazon UK, you could get it for less than £2. But this incident totally ruined my impression of HP. It shall not treat its customers like this, I believe. Will I chose an HP printer again? Not sure! but I will certainly give pripority to other more decent companies.
It is not a big deal, but I wrote this because you might want to know.
I want to share this nice fireworks display for 2009. Just wonderful!
