Ching's Weblog 敬.網.誌 (2004~2005)

3/29 Love Stories

There many love stories we have this time in 3/29 TW Blogger BoF.

1. We love Joi Ito, and he loves us :-) Joi thought people were here because of the iPod Shuffle. No, it's not like that (Joi, remember what the Taxi driver describe u this morning?). Joi loves black jacket and shirt, and he is like a black Santa Clause, who gave us exciting jackass style video clips, black political jokes, coolest ideas of protecting/distributing creative works, and many other unexpected ones in his white iBook.
2. We love Heewon Kim, and she changed...her strategy of composing her future blog posts. I think this time we did not really "LEARN" from her. Kim's blog has been a very popular one in Korea. Next time in July, Kim, we need to talk more, and show more of our love to you ;-)
3. We love Wretch, and we will still love him/them, although they are going commercial $$
4. There are so many "I don't know you, but I love you" conversation, or "I read about you, and I know that I'd like you so much".
5. Bloggers are now lovers to the "traditional" media. How long this precious love can last?
6. Ethusiastic bloggers like Schee and Yoshigi and many others who make audio/video recording for this historical and memorable events are so lovable and adorable.

Love is in the air, in a rainy evening of 3/29, or Blogger Day, in my beloved hometown Taipei.

More to say in a few day. I am loving it...hmmm, can't say that.....

(zh-tw)
1. 中時李大記者怡志在來之前, 非常用心寫了一篇報導, 果然人在做, 天在看, 吉人自有天象, 被他抽中一支iPod Shuffle.
2. 跟著Joi Ito參與幾個會議, 竟然在S.....t ISP公司碰到十年未見的高中同學劉君, 我與劉君當場熱情擁抱, 兩個胖子的激烈碰撞, 嚇壞不少人; 另, 在PC...e 公司碰到根本未曾謀面, 但聲稱是我國中同學老婆瑋瑋在Boston U的室友...how does she even know me?

0944

Bad Luck. Not again. As many know that I am involved in the ENUM trial in Taiwan with the number prefix "09440" assigned from the DGT, or Directorate General of Telecommunications. Couple days ago there was a really bad story reported in local media about somebody received a call w/ the caller ID "0944-444-444".

"4" in Chinese sounds exactly the same as "death".

I was on sick-leave when I heard the news. Emailed the news URL to Dr. Tseng and the team. The next day, several reporters called and asked tough questions like ENUM / VoIP security and privacy issues. My ENUM trial team checked that the call was not originated from our network and technically it's impossible to make calls from our network to PSTN with that ghost-like caller ID...technically speaking.

Yahoo! Creative Commons Search (Beta)

http://search.yahoo.com/cc

On the description page, it said:

What is this?

This is Yahoo! Search for Creative Commons content. It will help you find content on the Web - text, books, educational material, etc. - that is free to share or build upon.

"Free" ? Better to address as "Available"!

Also, Yahoo may wish to enhance thier COPY INFRINGEMENT policy (http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/, see #24)

BTW, where is our beloved Google this time?

Taipei is not China

What makes today special is the parade in downtown Taipei. It's to against China baby-come-back-or-i-will-shoot anti-succession law.

It's basically a happy parade, like a bigger weekend festival, with lots smiles, (political) stars, and suveniors. The pan-green Government plans it very well and pays the bill (we need more body exercise and happiness anyway). But I was thinking that if they can allocate some to my IPv6 project, that would be cool.

I accidentally joined the parade a bit while I walked to my hair studio around 2:30pm this afternoon. I grew up in Taipei, my parents were both immigrants from China (after the 1949 civil war). I might be a non-mainstream identity in the current political atmosphere but I am a Taiwanese, educated highly with Chinese culture influence. I am proud to say so. I am just like the people, with many of them are actually from the central or southern part of Taiwan, in the parade for thier true love to Taiwan and the country's bright future. Although today's traffic is 10-times worse than usual, I still like them. Usually I got short-temper easily because of bad traffic.

However a wierd feeling that I had this afternoon--a very few group of participants intend to make my hometown city Taipei as part of China for stupid political bias. I am very, very uncomfortable with that. Many non-Taipei residents think that Taipei is another world of Taiwan, much closer to unification with China. No, it's not the case.

My Desk

Oh my poor desk, I have not been able to manage / clean it for like 3 months, or I should say, I have never tried to manage / clean it since I moved to this good new bigger desk w/ a window view on the 10F-floor building in downtown Taipei. How could I ever do this to my desk?

You can see my big heavy IBM R32 which have worked for me for more than 2 years, yet enlightened by my new Dopod 818 smartphone w/ Jabra bluetooth earphone, just got these two cool gadgets last Thursday w/ cost of 400 USD (bundled w/ TCC number, 2 year contract; was nearly 600 USD half year ago). However this Monday the news on the street talked about the new Dopod 818, released on May this year, will equip w/ WiFi...T-T

I finally gave up buying ASUS P505. I am also the fifth person in TWNIC to buy Dopod 818, and there might be two more to join the party...

Gadgets, wires, documents, phone calls, phew.....so I have one bottle of Advil in the middle of those things...

TW Blogger BoF (2)

Promotion for 3/29 TW Blogger BoF started today. I also wrote something about the core value of organizing this BoF (zh-tw).

Drupal works very well this time for the event. I am sincerely thankful to Schee and Charles especially, for coaching and guiding me, and to quawn for designing the BoF logo. I am doing my best to make this event more meaningful and helpful to all bloggers who spend their 3-hour in the meeting room. I am lucky enough to be able to do cool things, and making history!

Now the problem for me is about time management...

PR from APEET

Link 1 (from APEET website): http://www.apenum.org/Press_Releases/Live_Trial_At_APRICOT2005
Link 2 (copyright Nikkeibp): http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/free/NCC/NEWS/20050223/156610/

We are planning for the next trial during the August APAN meeting. More ENUM features and PSTN termination, and better WiFi phone (but I think to out-beat Hitachi in 6 months is just too hard....)

ASUS P505 In Store!

Finally, ASUS P505....see more detail . No WiFi la!!

Ideas on Programming in Local Language

I replied to one of my mentor about her question on programming in local language. I think it's worthy sharing for those who might be thinking about similar issues:
(The points below reflects advises from friends as well as my humble understanding to programming language--)

1. Back in early 80's, there were several initiatives to tranlate programming language into various language sets, such as the popular "BASIC" language for beginners. However, for simple command like "Print", it takes more time to set command using Chinese characters "列印".

TW Blogger BoF (1)

3/29網誌青年運動會

I am organizing a blogger event--2005 TW Blogger BoF (website is under construction, with helping hands of Mark Kao from TWNIC and Charles from Yam.com) in conjunction with TWNIC 2005 Annual Seminar

Very very excited about this one. Meeting new friends / bloggers and learning new things from them. Bloggers in Taiwan have done a lot, but this event is somehow the first-ever joint effort by bloggers, blog service providers, media, socialists / critics etc. BoF means anyone can join and say something--we(TWNIC) might be able to move closer to the at-large Internet user group.

Joi Ito is coming. That's even more exciting!