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September 23, 2005
Back to Downtown
Back to downtown
New toy in your hand
Same gaze upon the ground
Music from afar
More about Ohlones:
Before the coming of the Europeans, for thousands of years, the Ohlones rose before dawn, stood in front of their houses, and facing the east shouted words of greeting and encouragement to the sun. They shouted to the sun because they felt that the sun had a nature very much like their own.
Malcolm Margolin wrote: “The Ohlones were very different from us. They had different values, technologies, and ways of seeing the world. Yet there is something that lies beyond differences. If we look long enough, if we dwell on their joy, fear, and reverence, we may in the end catch glimpses of almost forgotten aspects of our own selves.”
Posted by Xiao at 01:28 PM
September 18, 2005
在台北
逃出会场
去诚品
买书看书
迎面又是
青春
部落格
Posted by Xiao at 05:07 PM
September 13, 2005
来去匆匆
归来若流水
飘去有白云
旧房间
Posted by Xiao at 10:23 PM
September 11, 2005
Starry Starry Night
Albuquerque
又见高原辽阔的星空......
已经走了很远很远
好像又回到了出发的地方
今夜星辰依然闪亮
异乡早已是故乡
Posted by Xiao at 11:48 PM
Project Backpack
You are very pleased to hear about this news. (Thanks! Stephan.)
Posted by Xiao at 11:15 PM
September 10, 2005
遗迹
未来已经到了，只是还需要扩展出去，而已。
Posted by Xiao at 01:46 AM
新教程，旧主题
需要很多年才会懂得
而是
生活在世界上
Posted by Xiao at 12:15 AM
September 06, 2005
A new approach to web applications
Jesse Garrett wrote on his daptive path:
Take a look at Google Suggest. Watch the way the suggested terms update as you type, almost instantly. Now look at Google Maps. Zoom in. Use your cursor to grab the map and scroll around a bit. Again, everything happens almost instantly, with no waiting for pages to reload.
Google Suggest and Google Maps are two examples of a new approach to web applications that we at Adaptive Path have been calling Ajax. The name is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, and it represents a fundamental shift in what’s possible on the Web.
Posted by Xiao at 01:50 PM
What makes a signal reliable?
You remembered what Judith said:
The simple answer is that a reliable signal is one that is beneficial to produce truthfully, yet prohibitively costly to produce falsely. Understanding the types of signals and systems that satisfy this condition is the basis of signaling theory.
Posted by Xiao at 12:21 PM
September 05, 2005
Baby Blue
Reading In the Net, with Wifi, Dylan, and baby blue.
"The continued growth and influence of global civil society face two fundamental problems: increasing monopolization of global information and communication by transnational corporations; and the increasing disparities between the world's info-rich and info-poor populations. Global computer networking makes an electric "end-run" around the first problem and provides an appropriate technological solution to overcome the second."
-- Howard Frederick: Computer Networks and the Emergence of the Global Civil Society.
Also, encountering OPML. (thanks, Dave!)
Posted by Xiao at 12:38 PM
September 03, 2005
Katrina, Katrina, Wiki, and Katrina!
It's not the time
for
celebrating
technologies
but humanity
reaching out
to
each
other
Posted by Xiao at 01:50 PM