1/18/2008

Evernote 2.2


Ordered the license for Evernote 2।2 at a price of 19.99$ with 3$ 3 years download warranty. It's the first software I bought ever, except the Winxp coming with laptops and some versions of Linux.

Evernote is a great product. Like Microsoft Onenote but much cheaper(I notice that from lenovo website you can buy a copy of Onenote at 20$ if you buy a tablet, wow, that's great! But my x60 tablet is coming from Lenovo outlet store and I just cannot customize that. What a pity!). Acutually its free edition is powerful enough for normal laptop users. But you'll feel the strong temptation when you're using a Tablet. Handwriting is very important feature. Say, I ever considered that I can handwrite with sticknote and use some snipping tools to copy the handwriting to notes, but it's too fussy. Then, what could you do when you want to make some change to the handwritings? There're some other advanced features like handwriting recoganization is very useful -- but not the decided point.

Richard Hammond presents Bloody Omaha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRS9cpOMYv0

bloody work done!

1/14/2008

文革与希特勒的种族屠杀之胡思乱想

最近看《金婚》,有关于文革的一些镜头。lp说她爸妈那时候觉得就应该那样的,觉得那样就对。而我好像接触到的人对那段历史多是大摇其头的。也许是,这就是只有深受其害才能知其利害对错,而很多根正苗红的无产阶级们是不是只是play而已。反正痛的不是自己。人性中卑劣的一方面被名正言顺的发扬光大了。

联想到希特勒的种族屠杀。犹太人似乎是一个一直受迫害的民族,嗯,似乎偶是一直这样受教育的。近代尤以希特勒为甚。当年学习修正版历史的时候被教育说因为犹太人如何富裕如何精明商业而与普通民众有间隙,民众被挑拨对犹太人的仇恨,所以如何又如何的。这个说法不太经得起推敲吧,总感觉到这后面有太多的背景故事是我们不熟悉的,不然,以犹太人的素质不应该受到千年的迫害而是应该得到充分的敬重吧。

今天看到这样一个帖子,应该是交代了一些真实的背景,贴到这里给自己当个索引,以后想起来可以参考:)

(那个文章正文贴到回复中了...)

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

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Today Galileo is a famous and romantic name। We have all been taught the story of his heroic fight in the name of science against the intractable ignorance of the tyrannical Catholic church. The reality is not so starkly drawn, but no less interesting for that; Galileo's own arrogance created many enemies, and Rome's anxiety over its authority in the schismatic era of the Protestant reformation made their collision inevitable.

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