我期待

作词：张雨生　作曲：张雨生

我期待有一天我会回来
回到我最初的爱　回到童贞的神采
我期待有一天我会明白
明白人世的至爱　明白原始的情怀
我情愿　分合的无奈　能换来春夜的天籁
我情愿　现在与未来　能充满秋凉的爽快
SAY GOODBYE SAY GOODBYE
前前后后　迂迂回回地试探
SAY GOODBYE SAY GOODBYE
昂首阔步　不留一丝遗憾

突然好想你

最怕空气突然安静 最怕朋友突然的关心
最怕回忆 突然翻滚绞痛著 不平息
最怕突然 听到你的消息
想念如果会有声音 不愿那是悲伤的哭泣
事到如今 终于让自己属于 我自己
只剩眼泪 还骗不过自己
突然好想你 你会在哪里 过得快乐或委屈
突然好想你 突然锋利的回忆 突然模糊的眼睛
我们像一首最美丽的歌曲 变成两部悲伤的电影
为什么你 带我走过最难忘的旅行
然后留下 最痛的纪念品
我们 那么甜那么美那么相信
那么疯那么热烈的曾经
为何我们还是要奔向各自的幸福和遗憾中老去
突然好想你 你会在哪里 过得快乐或委屈
突然好想你 突然锋利的回忆 突然模糊的眼睛
最怕空气突然安静 最怕朋友突然的关心
最怕回忆 突然翻滚绞痛著 不平息
最怕突然 听到你的消息
最怕此生 已经决心自己过 没有你
却又突然 听到你的消息

腰带

王大现在就象一坐肉山似的坐在厚朴床上，厚朴的床梆深深地打着弯。王大腰带十围，颓然自放，从来不系紧，象呼啦圈似的吊在腰间。在国内，正式商店里，王大买不到合适的腰带。他得去街边小摊。小摊贩面前摊一张牛皮，客人要多宽、多长，就用刀子割下多宽、多长，然后拿一种特制的中间有孔的锥子在皮带上打眼，最后卡上客人挑的皮带环。小摊贩卖各种皮带环，CK、登喜路、华伦天奴，没有一种是真的。但是王大还是喜欢去正式商店，尤其是名牌专卖店去买腰带，这一行动渐渐成为他的一种爱好。名牌专卖店的导购小姐大多眉目姣好，王大喜欢在眉目姣好的姑娘面前将裤带松来宽去，而且最后可以体面的不买，一点也不用破费。

瞎鸡巴扯淡 zz

上高中的时候，我就曾经含情脉脉地看了我的初恋情人三年。初中的时候，我们不在一个学校，我已经听说过她的名声。关于她如何美丽的传闻和《少女的心》、《绿色尸体》等手抄本一起，在我周围流转，和做不完的习题、翻修不断的东三环路共同构成我少年生活的背景。高中的时候，她坐在我眼角将将能扫到的位置。如果她是一种植物，我的眼光就是水，这样浇灌了三年，或许她从来没有想过她如此滋润的原因。

三年不是一段很短的时间，简直有三辈子那么长，现在回想起来，搞不清是今世还是前生。

我很难形容这三年中的心情，有时候想轻轻抱一下，有时候想随便靠一靠，最终都一一忍了，心似乎一直被一汪不旺却不灭的小火仔仔细细地煎着。听说有一道味道鲜美无比的猪头大菜，做法早已经失传，行家讲关键是火候，那种猪头是用二寸长的柴火煨三天三夜才做成的。每隔半小时添一次柴，一次只添一根柴火，三天三夜之后才熟。三年高中，一天一点的小邪念就算是二寸长的柴火，三年过后，我似乎也应该成熟了，跟猪头似的。

后来她去了另外一个城市上大学，于是通信，因为同学过三年，有一起回忆的理由。记得忽然有一封信，她对我的称呼少了姓氏，只是简简单单一个名字。她原来浅浅深深、云飞雪落的基调却变得严肃起来，开始谈起国内形势、艺术表现和学业就业等等重大问题。我回信说，国内形势好啊，有空到来玩吧，洋鬼子建的旧燕京大学味道很好。那是一个夏天，在北大的静园，我们坐在一条长凳的两端，四下无人，周围尽是低矮的桃树和苹果树，花已落尽，果实青小，远未成气候的样子。我们的眼睛落在除了对方身体以外的所有地方，她长发长裙，静静地坐着，头发分在左右两边，中间一帘刘海儿低低的垂着，让我心惊肉跳。我说我索性讲个故事吧，话说一个男孩如何听说过一个女孩，如何看了她三年，如何在这种思路中长大。她说我也讲个故事吧，话说一个女孩如何听说过一个男孩，如何想了他三年，如何在这种思路中不知所措。我不由得倒吸一口冷气，在狂喜中一动不敢动，我想，如果这时候，我伸出食指去接触她的指尖，就会看见闪电。吐一口唾沫，地上就会长出七色花。如果横刀立马，就地野合，她会怀上孔子。

两年后，我上了生物统计之后才明白，这种超过二十七个标准差的异类巧合，用教授的话说就是，瞎鸡巴扯淡。

Garmin Nuvi 200 Track Hack

http://www.nerdboys.co.za/2008/03/19/garmin-nuvi-200-track-hack/

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 at 10:30 pm by Marc Forrest

After having the Garmin Nuvi 200 for a while now, I have come across a really handy feature. The feature allows you track your routes on your Garmin Nuvi 200. This is a hidden feature, so it is still relatively unknown.

YOU NEED TO ENSURE YOU HAVE FIRMWARE VERSION 3.40 OTHERWISE THIS WON’T WORK. To check what firmware version you have, do the following: Menu->Settings->System->About. Here it will show you the version number. If the version number is not 3.40 this will not work. If you need to roll back to version 3.40 to enable track logs, download the firmware HERE

To get to the track feature on the Garmin Nuvi 200, do the following:

1. Select a destination you want to drive to.
2. On your view map screen, press the Arrival time button in the bottom left corner
   
3. This will bring you to the Speedometer Screen. Once in this scree, press and hold the screen for 8-10 seconds over the speedometer.
   
4. This will bring you into the Garmin Diagnostic Menu. DO NOT change anything here. Click the Next button at the bottom.
5. At the next screen, you will see the “Logging Control” screen. Press “START RECORDING” to start recording your track
   
6. Once you have completed the trip, press the STOP button on the main map screen.
7. Connect your Garmin Nuvi 200 up to your computer via a USB cable.
8. Go to the Garmin Nuvi 200 drive, and browse to the X:\Garmin\Logs (Where X:\ is the disk drive of the Garmin)
9. Go into the latest created folder, and download the gps.bin file.
10. Download Nutrak from this site. Extract the contents of the zip file to a folder on your Computer
11. Go to the command prompt (Start-> Run-> “cmd”) and go to the folder where you extracted Nutrak.
12. In the command prompt type “nutrak.exe gps.bin”. This will create a .gpx file.
13. Open Google Earth
14. In Google Earth, click File, Open and browse to the .gpx file that was created.
15. You will now be able to see where you have driven in the track you have created.
    
    This is an example of a track I created.

If you would like anymore info go to this GpsPasSionForums post, and there is some more info on this great feature

how to convert images to a animation GIF zz from atppp

convert -dispose previous -delay 10 *.png kxnorz.gif

牛人的一生

刚刚看了PPT的发明者Robert Gaskins的个人主页,吸引我的一个主要原因是因为他回复了一个中国blogger关于PPT命名历史的问题.对于一个陌生人询问的一个不是很重要的问题,Gaskins本人在至少接近七十岁,现在还是高级管理人员,依然回复了一封超级长信,详细地解释了PPT命名历史.这封信(附后)令我汗颜.自己已经有多久时间没有好好写东西了?生活中杂事是很多,但这并不能成为我忽略最重要的东西的理由.而且我有什么资格觉得哪些东西是trivial的呢?

引起我好奇的几点如下:
1 Gaskins学士学位拿的是Literature然后转到了计算机!!!
2 他开始进行PPT的研发工作已经是40岁之后的事了!!!
3 他于五十多岁去英国研究音乐!
4 六十多岁又回美国做音乐网站了

当然,这些看上去不相关的专业又有着千丝万缕的联系,在60年代Linguistic的人学计算机是很多的,他以前做的也是艺术相关的工作而最后做网站依然是艺术相关的.
不过我想说的是,要抓紧时间做好手头的工作.get busy living or get busy dying, that's goddamn right



以下是一个简单的背景

1968–1978:	Studied and practiced computer science, especially applications to research in humanities (literature, art, music) and linguistics, at UC Berkeley
1978–1984:	Set up and managed a new computer science research section for an international telecommunications R&D laboratory near Stanford
1984–1987:	Invented PowerPoint, the first product to attract strategic venture capital from Apple and later the first significant acquisition made by Microsoft
1987–1993:	Headed Microsoft’s business unit in Silicon Valley, managing the growth of PowerPoint to $100 million annual sales worldwide on Mac and Windows
1993–2001:	Moved to London, restored a historic home in Westminster, researched music history in British libraries and museums, studied the concertina
2001–2009:	Created authoritative websites about concertina history to draw together current research, after 10 years moved back (mostly) to San Francisco

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Dear Eddie Liu,

Thanks for writing about the meaning of "PPT".

"PPT" is not properly an acronym for PowerPoint, because

"Acronyms ... are abbreviations that are formed using the
initial components in a phrase or name. These components may
be individual letters (as in CEO) or parts of words (as in Benelux or
Delmarva)."
--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym

An acronym can be formed by taking the initial letters of multiple
words, sometimes only the important words, for example

BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation
CNN: Cable News Network
USA: United States of America

(there are other types as well).

So an acronym is a special kind of abbreviation formed from initial
components such as letters, and "PPT" was not made up that way. (All
acronyms are abbreviations, but most abbreviations are not acronyms.)

The need for the abbreviation "PPT" came about in this way. In
Microsoft's early MS-DOS system and later in Windows, every filename
ended in a dot (".") followed by a short "file type". (See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_file_types.) In MS-DOS in the
1970s, and then in early versions of Windows built on MS-DOS, the file
type had to be only 3 letters. A filename had a maximum of 8 letters,
then the dot, then a 3-letter file type, so this naming format was
called "8+3". When PowerPoint was invented, we had to decide on a
3-letter abbreviation to identify its files to the operating system.
Even though PowerPoint was developed first for Macintosh, we knew from
the very beginning that the most important target would be Microsoft
Windows, so we planned for it all along.

In English, abbreviations of single words are often formed by
taking the first letter of the word and the last letter of the word,
adding between them the most important letters from the middle to show
what the word sounds like. For example,

MR: mister
JR: junior
DR: doctor
REVD: reverend
MGMT: management

We made "PPT" as an abbreviation for PowerPoint, by taking the
first 'P" and the last "T", adding between them the middle "P":
PowerPoinT. This was natural, because in English "power" is a common
word all by itself, and "point" is a common word all by itself, so
people understand "PowerPoint" as a combination of the two
words--further indicated by the fact that we capitalized both "P"s.

"PPT" was a natural English abbreviation for the word "PowerPoint"
and it was the right length (3 letters) to be an MS-DOS file type.

As to the others, any computer program deals with many types of
files. Each file type required a different 3-letter abbreviation. We
made up other file types by making them similar to "PPT"--for
instance, "PPS" for "PowerPoint Show". Since they all start with "P",
you can sort a list of files by their file types and find all the ones
for the PowerPoint program sorted together.

Much later (as you say, starting with PowerPoint 2007), Microsoft
introduced new files formats, the XML-based formats. By this time,
file types could be longer than 3 characters because the foundations
of Windows had been entirely rewritten. For example, in early
versions of Windows, HTML files could only have the file type "HTM"
("index.htm"), but now you often see HTML files of file type "HTML"
"index.html").

Microsoft used this freedom to make 4-letter file types for the new
formats, by using the old file types ("PPT", "PPS") and adding an "X"
(from "XML"), resulting in new file types "PPTX", "PPSX" and so forth.
This way you can look at a listing of one of the new files and see
instantly that it is, for example, "the XML revision of a PPT file".

I hope this explains how "PPT" came about.

Best regards,

Robert Gaskins