November 30, 2005

[Tech] FireFox 1.5 is available today!

I forgot where I saw the news said that November 29th, 2005, Mozilla will release FireFox 1.5. I was excited about using new version of FireFox. I tried FireFox 1.5RC3 before 1.5 version comes out. I like to use FireFox and some of its extensions, such as Web Developer, RSS Reader, Weather Forcase.
I've beening trying lots of different web browser, such as Internet Explorer, KKMan, Crazy Browser, Sleipnir, Opera, and Flock. Personally, I still like to use FireFox. As a web developer, FireFox is a really good choice for me because it supports most standard specifications. In my previous school project, I had XML projects that FireFox is the only one that can display content properly and support XML/XSLT and CSS2/CSS3.
I checked FireFox website yesterday, it was still 1.5RC3. Today, I check it again, and finally it becomes version 1.5! Immediately, I update it to new version for all my computers. Happy!!
Going to discover new features of FireFox 1.5 browser!! :)

November 29, 2005

Back to school

After one week break, school starts today. I traveled NYC and Boston during the break. Now, everything has to back to normal again. In winter quarter, I plan to finish up my master project. Besides, I apply to be TA in 4004-737 Website Design & Implementation course (evening section). This is my first time to be TA in grad class, and I hope that I can do it well and help other students in the class. It is a review for me since I had taken this class one year ago. Moreover, I can strengthen my knowledge and skills in designing website while being TA in the class. 一舉兩得! :D

New York City Trip - Part IV

2005-11-21
This was the last day staying in New York City before going back to Rochester. We had a tranditional Chinese breakfast in the morning. I haven't had REAL Chinese breakfast for ages. Finally, I ate yummy traditional breakfast! Ha...Asaka was always showing her satisfied face when she ate delicious food. :) After eating breakfast, finishing up Ying's business, we were on the way home! We all had fun on this NYC Trip~ (NYC Trip - The END)

November 24, 2005

New York City Trip - Part III


Time Square
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2005-11-20
This day, we went to most famous places, such as Grand Central Teminal, New York City Opera, Ground Zero, Empire State, and Time Sqaure. Sumicco and Asaka was planing to see an opera or listen to a music concert. However, the cheapest tickets were sold out. We, therefore, decided to go other places instead. We took a city bus and travel to whatever the place we wanted to go to. Along the way, we passed NYIT and New York Public Library. We went to south part of Manhattan, and our target was Ground Zero. Going around the place and taking pictures there, we was planing to take subway to Empire State. When most of us got into the station, Asaka couldn't get in. Thus, we decided to walk to next station to take subway. It was tired since we walked around all day. Finally, we could take subway to Empire State.
The price to go up to 86th of Empire State is $13. Sumicco thought that was too expensive so that she and I didn't go up. Fortunately, when she and I went around the Empire State, one of the staffs gave us a pass card to go to the top of the building for free. How lucky we were!!!
After visiting the Empire State, we had Korean food with Sumicco's friend. Finishing eating dinner, we took subway to Time Square. It was cool place to go to especially at night time. The place was still bright even though it is dark night. The most fun part was we had a buddy ride in front of Time Square. Five of us ride a circle kind vehicle and one controled the direction. Each of us paid 5 dollar for a ride and only spent about less then ten minutes, but it was a cool experience though. :) (continued...)

New York City Trip - Part II


Central Park
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2005-11-19
The day was a nice sunny day, good for walking around. This day, we went to Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifth Ave (including World of Disney and NBA Store), and Heartland (for dinner).
We walked through the Central Park and toward to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We spent about three hours in the museum and enjoyed the art work of Van Gogh and some other different art. Although we stayed in teh museum about three hours, it was too huge to look through all exhibitions. However, I enjoyed a lot and felt satisfied with it.
After visiting the museum, we went toward 5th Ave. (a.k.a. window-shopping street) Along 5th Ave., we went to World of Disney and NBA Store. Those were cool place to go. Without buying anything, just looking around was also satisfied me.
Dinner time, we went to Heartland for dinner and met my ex-roommate (Wen) and other groups of people (Mio, Yiwen, and Yali). Yiwen introduced their pumpkin beer to us, but I didn't choose that one, and I ordered raspberry cider instead. After drinking, I felt not good since I do not drink beer so often and only had a little food before dinner. That ended the day!! (continued...)

New York City Trip - Part I

A group of my friends went to New York City to have a four-days trip. Three different groups went to the same distination but departured at different time - 1st group (Ying, Jay, Sumicco, Asaka, Winnie), 2nd group (Mio, Onchi, WaiWai), 3nd group (Yiwen, Yali).

2005-11-18 First Day
Basically, we left Rochester around 9:30AM, and took about 8 hours arriving at New York City. It was late for the day so that we had dinner (Korean BBQ) in Flushing with the 3rd group. Food was pretty good. Ha...Yummy! Haven't had good food for a long time. :p (continued...)

November 14, 2005

陽光 Lyrics

陽光

翻滾吧!男孩 (主題曲)

早晨的路上 空氣很清涼 像百合一樣芬芳
過去的憂傷 不要再去想 要大步邁向前方

藍藍的海洋 無限的寬廣 乘著風迎向海浪
自由的想像 自在的翱翔 我想要大聲的唱

有夢就去追 不要覺得累 因為有你我不會疲憊
帶著翅膀飛 讓我往前追 勇氣就會一路相隨

美麗的早上 充滿了希望 我想要和你分享
燦爛的陽光 歡笑和夢想 就要一起展翅飛翔

有夢就去追 不要覺得累 因為有你我不會疲憊
帶著翅膀飛 讓我往前追 勇氣就會一路相隨

有夢就去追 不要覺得累 路上有我與你相陪
帶著翅膀飛 讓我往前追 讓我們一起迎接陽光

November 11, 2005

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Launch


戰利品
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Today, two friends and I went to Buffalo to attend a Microsoft event - Visual Studio 2005 Launch. We were a little bit late arriving there because of finding the place. We got there about 20 minutes late, I was kind of out the track and didn't understand what the speaker talking about. ha... I saw some cool stuff using Visual Studio 2005. Really, everything you can do is visual. I rarely saw him writing code but only modifying some properties. Then DONE! My roommate was doing a JSP project, and lots of functions had to be done in hours and hours. However, the basic website functions, such as login, register, the speaker just used about 30 minutes to complete them. That's a pretty cool develop tool. After the event, we got some cool stuffs back including a pan, a notebook, a set of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 CD, and a special edition CD. Wow... :D Happy! I can start using it to develop applications.

November 03, 2005

Sunny Day


Sunny Day
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Today is sunny day. These days, the weather was not that good. I don't like raining day because it makes me sad. I'm happy today because the sun comes out and smiles to me. :D