我们都是红宝宝，抱着红宝书的红宝宝。

考完AW了，终于又拿起红宝书，一个多月没背了，认识的单词也没了几个…

还有Research，Internship，都是很麻烦但是又要去care的事情。最近神经觉得有点衰弱，可是还是要做，一件一件地去做。

灯下，喷一点Tommy 10 Anniversary，放起Love Spirals Downwards的音乐，红宝宝开始学习了，恩。

今天运气是不好的，抽到的题目都是没准备的：
Issue topic1:
209"Progress is best made through discussion among people who have contrasting points of view."

Issue topic2:
41"Suchnonmainstream areas of inquiry as astrology, fortune-telling, andpsychic and paranormal pursuits play a vital role in society bysatisfying human needs that are not addressed by mainstream science."

Argument:
140， Professor Thomas' promotion
Issue 41是很高频的，但是我已经事先打定主意把它丢出考虑范围了。
不过考场上还是宛如神助，Issue 35分钟写完600+，Argue25分钟写完600+，至少字数上有些保证了。
感谢支持我的朋友们，考前bless我的朋友们。Bow to all of you~

阴郁夜暗 徘徊凄冷海岸
走寻渺茫梦中的人
他的面目竟如此沉重
轻声唤你的名
幻变之间来到无边大海
云雾中人影隐隐流着不舍
风沙阵阵吹起声声无奈
看无我族的将来
快步行入云雾牵伊的手
弯头凝视目神无限忧愁
苍白的面色乾瘦的身躯
等待时机不甘回首
茫茫大海波浪澎湃
无法掩饰心中悲哀
悠悠冥界无限等待
全为今日祖孙熟识
我族子孙汝不通忘记
我们今日的梦中见面
不断诉说我族事迹
伊的身形却渐渐腐逝
阴郁夜暗 徘徊凄冷海岸
走寻渺茫梦中的人
他的面目竟如此沉重
轻声唤你的名

Google中国，或困境中求索的谷歌。

Google中国最近launch了一个非常具有中国互联网特色的服务：http://daohang.google.cn/.本服务目前只有中文版本。

怎么说呢，Google导航里面的描述是“Google 网站导航包含了详细的分类，提供您热门网站列表，让您免去输入关键字及搜索的步骤。”然而这无疑是自欺欺人，谁都知道，Google正是以更加方便的关键字搜索取代了Yahoo!式的分类目录搜索而成为互联网霸主的。

Google中国，不挣扎，就灭亡。

噢，你再也碰不到我了
噢，无论你怎样努力
再见，这残酷的世界，一切都结束了
我将静静走过

背靠我的墙，我在我自己的堡垒里
等着蠕虫的到来
背靠我的墙，我给自己划定了完美的孤独
等着蠕虫的到来

我要伐倒那些朽木
我要收拾这个城市
我等着跟随蠕虫
我要穿上一件黑色的衬衫
我要消灭那些胆怯
我要砸碎那些窗户，踹破他们的大门

我等着那最后的结局
我等着。我的紧张加剧
等着蠕虫的到来
我想再一次淋浴，给自己烤一份面包

我等着女王，我等着那些无可救药的人
我等着共匪，我等着犹太人
我等着，跟随蠕虫的脚步

我曾经有一个黑色的尾戒，细细的环，戴在我的尾指上很好看。我记得曾经把它扔进我的抽屉。然而今天我去找它的时候，却再也找不到了。

我有一个十字架，是有一天我突然很想用钱的时候买的，然而有一天它丢了。再也找不到了。

我有一个受祝福的指环，是戴在我的无名指上面的。有一天它和那个代表自我的十字架一起丢了，于是再也找不回来了。

Life is a blessing. Hopefully I wont lose it.

Issue 121: should we make extraordinary effort to save endangered species?

I fundamentally agree with the speaker on the basis that we need not make extraordinary efforts to save endangered species. It is certainly reasonable that money and effort should be paid to save species in jeopardy, I concede. Nevertheless, my points of contention with the speaker involve that the extinction of species cannot be attributed casually and totally to we humans, and it is also beyond the rationale to spend unnecessary and inappropriate amount of resource to ensure the preservation of all endangered species.

First of all, most endangered species are placed on the edge of extinction by themselves thus it is neither reasonable nor fair to put a duty on humans for that. The widely accepted Darwin’s evolution theory argues that extinction of species is a natural and common result in the process of so-called “Natural Selection”, which means in the competition for living resource, the weaker and less adaptive species lost the fight and can not obtain necessary resource to survive. In the billions of years before humans existence, numerous species failed to survive in this plant and were buried in the prehistory, for instance, the well known giant Dinosaur which roared around the entire earth ten millions ago, and also the mammoth, and trilobite. Consider the fact that extinction of species is always proceeding in this planet, we humans need not blindly blame ourselves for the result of natural progress, need not to say that we are the ultimate beneficiary of this progress, till now.

Even some species do become endangered or extinct due to the influence of humans activities, it does not necessarily lead to the consequence that we have to commit the responsibility totally. Since we humans are also involved in the fight for the limited natural resources and we have to win (otherwise we are hoping for protection from other species now), it is again a Darwinian argument that if we have to sacrifice certain species for the overriding concern of our own welfare and survival, so be it. If our ancestors did not annihilate the ferocious smilodon, fight their way through deathly threat of vipers, beasts and other compelling natural enemies, it would be just fantastic for us today to discuss species-protection issues.

Another important argument, and the one I find most compelling, is that it is unreasonable even cruel to place first priority on the protection of other species while we human race have enough immediate problems waiting to be solved. Some extreme advocates of animal protection claim that we have to spend whatever we have to save, for instance, a certain kind of bird living only in a specific forest merely for it appeals attracting and lovely (the flinthead). However, consider the simple but uneasy fact that there are millions of people are now struggling in desperate living condition in Africa and dying from starvation, incurable AIDS, civil war, and totalitarianism. Indeed they have no shining feather or melodic tone, however, they are human being after all. I believe it is not a difficult choice between a few wonderful birds and a group of starving poor people.

It must be said that we must not totally drop the responsibility of species protection. Many species are of great use to our industry and daily life, and some other species always fill our life with more joy and interesting variety. The more important issue is: we human are not live in this world alone, we are dependent on the entire ecosystem, in which every species plays its certain role – some of them are crucial to us. To watch animals dying with no action taken is neither appropriate nor beneficial, and on an acceptable scale, protective responses should be launched.

In sum, admittedly we must protect endangered species from extinction for it is ultimately to guarantee our own interest. Yet for this very reason, I agree that we should not make extraordinary effort to save other animals and plants but leave our own immediate and pressing problems unsolved. After all, the extinction of species is inevitable in the life evolution and we human only have partial responsibility for some of them, consequently we need not blame ourselves too much for this misfortune.

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“有国于蜗之左角者曰触氏，有国于蜗之右角者曰蛮氏，时相与争地而战，伏尸数万，逐北旬有五日而后反。”

何等惨烈呐！那双方的勇士们为了伟大的蜗角，前仆后继，战到尸山血河，何其壮也！

期末有感于大作业

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我虽然是坚定的无神论者，然而对基督教（包括新教和天主教）的文化是非常感兴趣的。这次圣诞夜西什库教堂有个千人弥撒，于是便决定去一下。

西什库是个典型的哥特式交谈，虽然不高，但是好歹是有个尖顶的，彩色玻璃也还凑合，不过室内红绿相间的柱子让我不甚很爽。

沿路上遇到的教堂门口都停了警车和救护车，警笛和节日庆祝的灯光形成的对比还是比较鲜明的。

进入教堂。随着人流缓缓步入大堂，由于路途耽搁不少，弥撒已到尾声，信徒们排队上前领取圣体，我则坐在长椅上，看楼上的交响乐队演奏。圣歌依旧是咏叹调，信徒大多是老奶奶老爷爷，步履略带蹒跚，然而坚定。双手合十，默默祈祷，领回圣体的人们面带宽慰，缓步而出。

主教为新入教的信徒施洗后，弥撒在大家的祈祷中结束。

一点感想，信仰乃是每个人都必须要有的东西，或者信仰有神，或者信仰无神，或者人格神，或者自然神，或者科学，或者马列，唯有什么都不信，什么都不敬畏的人最可怕。

中搜其实是很可怜的，在最新的中国市场搜索引擎报告中，来自中搜的数据已经被作为残差处理了，然而中搜又是很NB的，在cnBeta上看了个新闻：中搜:超越百度 两年之内可见分晓，我看了标题就被吓到了，于是一定进去看了一看。

越看越觉得需要OTZ一下中搜的公关了，恩，摘录一点精华段落如下：

早在2002年时，陈沛（中搜ceo）便决意撤退，撤出“红海”(同质化竞争)，改道新的个人门户，占领未来的市场。这是因为，他当时已看出，众搜索引擎公司断难出头。

“中搜已经转变为包含了搜索服务在内的个人门户供应商。从关键词搜索到个人门户的转变是一个长期的过程，需要几年。在这几年中，中搜实现了从理想到现实的转变。”

实际上中搜的创新早就引起了市场的跟随。2004年，中搜推出了首款桌面搜索引擎，随后大部分搜索引擎紧跟而来。GOOGLE、微软、雅虎、百度先后推出了桌面搜索产品。之后，中搜将桌面搜索完全升级为个人门户概念。Google、微软、迅速推出Google Pack、MSN Live，百度也开始酝酿“百度空间”进行同类竞争。

　　市场的跟随让陈沛坚信自己做出了正确的判断。他断言，中搜在技术积累上已经走在了前面，现在的几家跟随者提供的产品都远落后于中搜。中搜在新市场成为领航者。

这真是一个星期内看到的最好笑的笑话。然后我跑到传说中的改版后的中搜看了一下，赫然发现标题栏是”中搜，个人门户的领导者”看看首页内容？恩……………………………………大家可以自己去看一看。

我怀着对中搜无比ORZ的心情，把cnBeta上的软文转到了水母Joke。

If you buy my lamp, you won't need drugs.

                         --CRAVEN WALKER, the inventor of Lava Lamp

熔岩灯是一个非常好玩的东西，大致原理是在一个柱形空间里封闭上水和蜡，然后在底端加热，蜡受热之后融化比重变轻上升到顶部然后遇冷凝结落下，如此循环不已。

我首次见到这种东西是在Google China，看着灯里面蜡滴不断上下变幻，有时候它们会在半途相撞，却是融合为一体，施施然地优雅落下。有人说盯着这个玩意儿看会让你处于出神状态，以至于想到人生大义宇宙苍穹，我想未必，然则这至少是个好玩的东西，可以想象63年它被发明出来时候其中带着的嬉皮风味。

如果不是它会发出比较多的热量，以及造成眩光导致我的绩效降低的话，我想还是可以买一个放在桌子上玩一下的。

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Alpha, Beta, Gamma, ready and waiting.

Karajan大牛做出来的问卷已经通过了我和Fox的Alpha Test，下一步该是组织一个Beta test了。

突然想起Knuth写软件，或者用/pi或者用/e来做版本号，Version 3.1415926……每次升级一次增加一个小数点位。相比之下，改个界面就从i.0变成i+1.0的软件作者可以惭愧to death了。

Anyway，SRT终于进入到数据采集阶段了，相比给研究生做课件的，翻译书的，coding的，我们这个SRT真是有够爽的。Nice director and colleague。Interesting topic。而且学到了statistics和usability的很多东东。

也得开始复习了，恩