So apparently Gmail knows I'm Chinese. Or so I think. In the past when I log out of Gmail, it will say "Please wait..." Recently, perhaps through some heavy-duty data mining, it told me to "请ç¨ç‰..." (Chinese for "please wait") instead. I thought that I had turned some settings in Firefox to display Web pages in Mandarin or I revealed through my emails that I'm Chinese - in which case that would be a serious case of privacy invasion, I think.
This is one of the most amazing video of nature I have ever seen. Over the years I've watched countless nature documentaries, many of which are on the savanna with the lions, buffaloes, giraffes, and elephants roaming free. This video clip from YouTube below beats them all.
If you're confused with the many different types of creative commons licenses out there, here's a gem for you. Take a look at this pictorial show (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Sharing_Creative_Works). It explains in a near idiot-proof way what the differences between the creative commons licenses are. It's very easy reading, so take 5 minutes to boost your knowledge.
I've installed the reCAPTCHA plugin for Wordpress today. The whole process is very simple - took me less than 15 minutes. Simply follow the instructions on the download page. I like reCAPTCHA because not only does it help to prevent comment spam, it helps digitize books as well. I don't know how it works exactly but the basic premise is that words are scanned from books and used in the pictures for reCAPTCHA. How the system tells whether the entered words are correct or not, I don't know. All I know is it works and that's good enough for me.
Well, I finally got around to doing my own blog. All along I had wanted to create the software for my blog. I've had that idea for nearly half a year now, I think. Considering that in these six months, the development of my personal software for the blog has been less than 'progressive', I decided to simply use one of the open source blog software out there. Realistically speaking, the Wordpress blogging Web application that I'm using now is definitely better than what I can do in my spare time, which isn't a lot.