Delicious adds thumbnail previews

Delicious adds thumbnail previews for "Hot Now" bookmarks on their homepage. [del.icio.us blog]

Del.icio.us is one of my favorite sites. It provides bookmarks, tags, and some other functions. It is added so many features recently, like my network. Although it is powerful, it's so crude in visual style. But I like it's so simple, and simple is beautiful. The improvement is wonderful.

Sony's GPS-CS1 provides GPS for cameras

from Sony's GPS-CS1 provides GPS for cameras - Engadget.

We'd like to think if you were carrying a 3.5-inch $150 GPS receiver on your person you'd be able to use it for more than just geo-tagging your Cyber-shot photos, but hey, that's Sony for ya.

It's not like the high price cameras connecting to GPS directly. It is like a GPS tracker which you carry out with your camera. After back home, using the software to make photos filled with GPS tracking data. It's not a new idea, at least I bought a GPS for about 3000 TWD (about 85$) from internet could do the same thing. Oh, but without the filling software. RoboGeo can do the same filling thing.

I bought this cool tool, but had no time to go traveling. I only record my track info to school... I want a trip~~~

Google To Pay Freight for Number 2 Linux Guy

from digg

Now that English-born Aussie Andrew Morton, Linux' second-ranking kernel hacker, has resolved what friends described as his US visa issues, he has "taken a job" with Google. In other words, Google is going to pay his salary while he continues to act as the 2.6 kernel's maintainer full-time.

Above it, there is a comment made by roc69x:

Helping ones friend, while hurting ones enemy(microsoft) is a good strategy.

Hahhhaaa... It's a good reason.

Taiwan sports hero and Taiwan media chaos!?

Wang Chien-ming, New York Yankees pitcher and also a Taiwan sports hero, issued an open letter on August 17. He announced that he will no longer accept any interviews with Taiwanese media.from AsiaMedia :: TAIWAN: Sports hero takes media to task over intrusive reports .

The picture of the open letter can be viewed here, and also a english to chinese translation here.

Taiwan is a small island about 36000 square kilometers, and almost 23 million people live on it.However there are at least 5 news channel broadcasting 24hr a day, and gossip newspapers and magazines. In Taiwan, news managers and advertisement sponsors surely believe in high watching ratio. Higher watching ratio means more people watching the news, and so are the advertisements. To make higher income, news managers and reporters have to catch people`s intresting. However, they thought people like gossip according to the watching ratio reports.

They said everyone likes gossip, but I don't, my friends don't, either. So, who is the everyone? OK, we like RIGHT gossip on RIGHT person, like celebrity, but not professional sports hero.

This time some news media consumes on Wang's personal privacy, what's the next time?

Thank you for standing out and do something to the media chaos. Go! Go! Wang!

ps. this news shocks all sports fans in Taiwan, there are planty of blog articles, discussions about this. Howerver many of them are discussed in Chinese, we still can find the increasing amount of search results in google by this keywords, 王建民 拒絕 採訪 公開信 in Chinese, which means " Wang Chien-ming, reject, interview, open letter" in english.

Hyaku-shiki with X-04

I bought an HCMpro version of Hyaku-shiki last week. Within it were only beam sabers, beam rifle and Bazooka, but without Mega Bazooka Launcher. I want Mega Bazooka Launcher!! Yesterday, I bought one U.C Arms Gallery 3 in the toy stores. It was the beam machine gun X-04 for AGX-04. Hyaku-shiki with X-04 is looked perfect although two of them are not the same scale. :)

Finally Finished New Super Mario Bros...

For 2 months playing, I finally finished the New Super Mario Bros game on NDS, and got 2 stars. First star is for beating the big boss, Bowser(?), and second star is for collecting all gold coins. However, there are 3 stars, but the last star is for finding out all stages. Give me a break! 2 stars are enough!
Here is the walkthrough for this game: Guides: New Super Mario Bros. Guide (Nintendo DS), New Super Mario Bros. Walkthrough

Blogger beta !

Blogger finally adds label function. Here is The origin post, Blogger in Beta . The new functions it said,

• Categorize your posts with labels
• Control who can read your blog
• Change the appearance and content of your blog with your mouse instead of HTML

They are all useful and convenient functions, BUT! where is the ADSense? ... There is no function for Google AdSense in Blogger beta.. I use Blogger this time is for trying ADSense. I searched in Blogger Help Group , there is a post named "Adsense in Beta Blogger". They can't use ADSense in Blogger beta, either. So, just waiting and waiting...