Sourceforge.net is now unblocked by the G.F.W of China, and netizens from the mainland can now visit this largest repository of Opensource with little hassle. The site of Notepad++ is also left untouched by the seemingly impenetrable “Wall”, and its almost blasphemous attitude toward the Holy Olympic Games is visible to the people from the Mainland China. However, the original picture of five interlaced handcuffs on the site of Notepad++ is gone.
The fate of these recently unblocked sites (such as Wikipedia.org, Sourceforge.net etc.), are uncertain after the ending of the Olympic Games and the departure of the most foreign Game visitors. Meanwhile, netizens on this site of the “Wall” can at least ease their use of VPN or other tricks to peek beyond the Wall.
To be exact, I guess it is a design flaw of the File Manager under C-Panel. Blame me if I didn’t’ find the option to fine tune it, but its default setting under Hostmonster can make you accidentally delete all your files. I can’t play back exactly what happened. But it occurred a few times when I tried to move or copy files, and somehow it quickly displayed a delete confirmation window defaulting to the delete button. It also happens when I tried to change the destination of the copy/move operation. I will look into the matter when I use File Manager, but at least this web interface File Manager should at least default to the Cancel button in Delete operations.
I decided to visit my hometown – Zhangye in Gansu Province during this summer vacation. Having not visited the city for five years, I am eager to meet my relatives, see the city and most of all, eat to my heart’s content the local foods. I miss the Beef Noodles, Sauce Noodles, Rangpizi and many snacks with local flavors.
Traveling by air is always expensive, even with discounts. As a poor person like me, I have plenty of time, and a three-day trip on the train doesn’t sound too bad.
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According to Xiamen Seismological Bureau, a Richter magnitude 4.4 Earthquake shook Xiamen at 9:36, July 5, 2008. The epicenter (24°5′N-117°9′E) was between Xiamen and Longhai. Most of Xiamen area felt the temblor.
Did you feel it? I am wondering if Xiamen is vulnerable to a tsunami when a major earthquake strikes.
Here is the official explanation to the protest happened last week, which was sparked by the controversial death of a young female student:
At a panel discussion on the protest on Wednesday, officials from the provincial and local governments said local authorities in Weng’an County had failed to solve disputes over mines, demolition of homes for city building, relocation of residents for reservoir construction, reform of state-owned enterprises and many other issues.
“Some legitimate interests (of the people) were not effectively protected, and some people bore grievances,” said a Guizhou Daily report on Thursday.
The quotes are from a post in Xinhua, the state news agency.
The next question to ask, after admitting that some people’s legitimate interests were not cared for, is who was responsible and what to do next.
I stumbled upon a cool Wordpress plugin called WP Cumulus. It animates the Tag Cloud widget using Flash, and renders tags into a rotating sphere. I am a little tired after an overhaul of my blog a few days ago, so I’ll bookmark this plugin in this post and implement later. It appears to support Wordpress 2.5.
Download and watch it in live action at: Flash based tag cloud frontend
“Who cares, I am just buying some soy sauce” said a pedestrian, when he was asked of his opinion about the leaked porn photos of Hong Kong celebrities. Perhaps because of the public attention on the widespread porn photos, the man’s response sounded very funny for netizens. Now the saying “I’m just buying some soy sauce” is attached with new meaning, suggesting a cynical attitude toward the major events happened in China. It also carries a sense of the silent protest on the part of observers – by claiming to distant oneself from the event while silently paying attention to it.
The official description at the press conference about a young girl, whose suspicious death triggered a riot last week in Wengan County, created another popular phrase among Chinese netizens — doing push-ups. You can read my post Rape or Push-up exercises to see what happened. The focused public attention on this event again contributed to the instant popularity of the phrase “doing push-ups”, suggesting some netizens’ disbelief about the official explanation that the young student drowned herself, instead of being raped and murdered.
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