貓鎮的小公寓
Where Hui & Little Cat Dwell

Have subscribed to napster for about a month now, and I must say…

I LOVE IT!

It’s perfect for someone like me, who:

• loves to listen to all kinds of music, but don’t know where to start
• is less advanturous when it comes to CD buying -> I’m cheap!
• owns too many CDs that has only one or maybe two nice pieces in them

I can also organize my music in a fashion that’s quite similar to that in iTunes. The song selections in their radio station are quite good, too. I’m recently addicted to the Classic Rock station, and have been listening to it for the past 3 days. :D

I’ve tried Yahoo!’s music service for a few days, too, and I unsubscribed it even before my free trial period ended. Yahoo!’s player’s kinda flakey, it throws errors when it’s unable to find a song! and somehow it slows down my computer. So unless I hear that they get better, I probably won’t try Yahoo!’s service again.

I actually see myself buying more albums that I would otherwise been hesitate in buying, and I’ll know that I like them. ;)

訂購了按月付費的線上音樂服務 “napster” 已經一個月了. 如果照廣告上的講法的話, 我要說…

我愛使它了!

雖然我很喜歡聽音樂, 但對於購買 CD 總是很沒有勇氣. 有時候好不容易下定決心要買張 CD, 結果又常常是裡面可能只有一兩首真正好聽的歌.

Apple Music Store 出來的時候其實我已經覺得滿爽的. 至少可以聽個三十秒試聽看看自己喜不喜歡. 可有了 napster 又更好了, 因為只要他有的音樂你都可以隨意聽. 對我這種什麼音樂都想聽聽看的人, 每個月付十大洋聽個至少二三十張不同的專輯也算是撈回本了吧?

而且像 Yahoo! 的 Launch 一樣, 它也有 online radio station. 歌曲的選擇應該都還算專業, 不會只放那些超流行的歌. 我已經聽 Classic Rock 台聽了三天了, 還剛好聽到了之前覺得很好聽但一直不知道誰唱的歌耶~ ^_^

之前也試了 Yahoo! 的版本, 可是他們的軟體實在太不穩了, 不穩到雖然它的價錢是別人的一半我都不想訂.

其實這樣下來我好像反而會買更多的 CD 喔, 最大的原因是因為聽了很多 classic 的專輯, 覺得不買實在太可惜. 這些可能都是以前不會特別去買來聽的.

現在上班的時候就把 player 打開聽各式各樣的音樂; 下班回家電腦一打開也可以隨心情選擇家裡的背景音樂. 我們試過聽一個晚上的 80’s 流行歌曲, 晚餐的時候聽古典音樂, 週末吃早餐的時候聽香頌, 下午在家聽 finger style guitar, 真的很有那個氣氛喔~ ^_^

OK, first of all, I am never a big car fan, and my dream car was VW Cabrio, the ultimate chick car.

Unfortunately, they don’t make Cabrio anymore.

So, when you REALLY need to buy a car, you have no idea what you’re going to get except that you kinda sorta want a hybrid, and your boyfriend is a uber Honda fan who dreams of one day owning everything Honda, include a lawn mower, then you will start to go to (or be dragged to) the preview party of the new Honda Civic.

I think we weren’t supposed to take any pictures (Honda’s been really secretive about the new Civic.) But here you go…

Ooooooooo… not bad, eh?
(more…)

I don’t play video games that much. Seriously.

But once in awhile I get addicted to some silly little game, like this one Tim showed me.

The idea is quite obsurd, really, that you need to roll up everything on earth and make them into stars in the sky.

These days, whenever I see something, I will start thinking, “How big should my karamari be to roll that up…”

I just finished creating the moon! and I feel the cosmos!
(… and here are some tips. I’m still resisting the temptation of reading about where all the royal gifts are…)

我的罩門就是那些很愚蠢白痴的可愛日本電動.

自從同事 Tim 借我玩 “塊魂” 以後, 我這兩個禮拜以來每天幾乎都會玩個二三十分鐘. 並不是因為我很有自制力所以沒有玩更久. 我玩 3D 的 game, 會暈車啦… ~”~

這個 game 真的是超白痴. 它的重點是, 你要用 “塊魂” (想成一個球就好了) 把地球上的東西都滾起來放到天空變星星.

嗯自己說出來都覺得不好意思… -_-|||

Today is the first time I take my clie on the road (i.e. outside of home and office) to see what I can use it for. And I’m not disappointed.

The Practical Uses of Clie #2: Taking notes, pictures, and blogging at a conference I feel totally out of place.

- blogged from clie -

5:15 am: Alarm went off. Ugh.
5:16 am: LC kneaded and purred.
5:17 am: LC kept kneading and purring, plus rolling on the bed, and on me.
5:19 am: Fine, fine, I’ll get up, even though it’s still dark outside.

*getting ready*

5:58 am: Sigh. Reminded ht to feed LC @ 8. Left home.
(It’s so bright outside already. THAT’s why daylight saving time is useful?)
6:19: Wow, took only 16 minutes to drive to work. Maybe coming to work early is not a bad idea.

*met Claudia of the 12th floor in the elevator. @ 6:20 in the morning*

me: You’re always here this early?
c: Yeah, I have to work 12 hours a day, so I have to come here early so I can go home at normal hours.
me: Wow, good for you. ( -__-||| )

*grabbed badge upstairs*

6:30 am: Headed toward the train station.

*Hum… which track should I go*

me: Excuse me, is this the train to San Francisco?
pedestrian A: … the bullet …
me: The bulllet?!
pedestrian A: (speaking slowly) Are. you. taking. the. baby. bullet?
me: (must mean express train?) Yes.
pedestrian A: Yeah, this is the train.
me: Thank you. (@@”)

6:45 am: On the train, aka the bullet. Train moved. Hum… That guy sitting over there looks awfully like Andy. Without the beard, though. Oops, eye contacts. *smile* *wave* I wonder if he rememers who I am.
6:48 am: Ticket checking. *preparing cash* “Miss, we don’t offer train passes on the train anymore. (!!!) What you can do is to buy passes on your way back to also cover this trip. I’ll trust you on that.” Oh boy, I’m embarrassing myself a lot these days.

(Two people sat down in front of me. Talking loudly about JavaOne and the latest Java technology.)

(Lady next to me is putting mascara on. How do you do that on a moving train?)

*blogging on the train*

- blogged from clie -

Now that you all know I got a CLIÉ® that I don’t know what to use it for, I guess it’s time for me to find out exactly WHAT I’m gonna use it for.

I thought if I play with it long and hard, then maybe I’d be inspired by something. That something happened today. Here’s the result:

LC’s Diary - A Star Is Born

(If the file is not associated with any program automatically, you can try QuickTime)

There you have it, CLIÉ® Usage #1: Taking video clips of me cat.

K, if this still doesn’t work, I’m gonna give up looking for a way to blog in Chinese from my clie. I’ve tried two most used Chinese systems for palm so far, and have turned on all possible features now that even my palm UI is in Chinese. Here it goes:

､､､蟠ﾕ

*google unicode table chinese traditional palm*

Oooooo

*google create reference palm*

Ahhhhh

*google unicode reference palm*

Got this: http://xtrinsic.com/geek/articles/encoding.phtml
-__-|||

But then I can’t view unicode chars on the clie browser (netfront)…

*google netfront unicode*

and this is what I got from netfront’s website…

Yat chinese support
23-12-03 01:44:42 does Netfront 3.1 for Series60 support Chinese? for both unicode pages and big5 coding pages?
NetFront support chinese support
23-12-03 10:43:27 The current version of NetFront for Series60 that you can download these days does not support Chinese.
Yat chinese support
23-12-03 17:08:36 how about on a chinese enable phone for example Chinese version of 3650? will it support unicode chinesein such situation?
NetFront support chinese support
23-12-03 19:49:11 hi Yat,
sorry but support for Chinese is disabled in the current version of NetFront for Series 60 - it will not help if you install it on a Chinese handset. The only thing I can say for the moment is stay tuned for other versions to come.
Tom Why not to support Chiese?
26-12-03 16:52:08 Why not to support Chiese?

and it stopped there. @@

… of my new CLIﾈ is to try to blog in…､､､蝪C

Jun 21, 2004  13:32:00 PM  IN THE BUILDING CA US  WHERE!?
    Jun 21, 2004  09:02:00 AM  SAN JOSE CA US  DELIVERY
    Jun 21, 2004  04:24:00 AM  SAN JOSE CA US  OUT FOR DELIVERY
    Jun 21, 2004  04:06:00 AM  SAN JOSE CA US  ARRIVAL SCAN
    Jun 19, 2004  03:37:00 AM  SACRAMENTO CA US  DEPARTURE SCAN
    Jun 19, 2004  01:34:00 AM  SACRAMENTO CA US  ARRIVAL SCAN
    Jun 18, 2004  10:43:00 PM  SPARKS NV US  DEPARTURE SCAN
    Jun 18, 2004  03:31:49 PM  SPARKS NV US  ORIGIN SCAN
    Jun 18, 2004  12:19:16 PM  US  BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED
    Jun 18, 2004  07:54:41 AM  Fernley NV USA  SHIPPED 

Alas, the joy of shipping stuff to my office…