pick up theory
Suppose there is a big cornfield, and you are asked to pick up the biggest golden ear of wheat, and the condition is that there is only one to pick, and you can only go ahead without return, what you will do?
Israel Trip
From 14th to 21st of Feb. 2010, I had a trip in Israel, this is my first time to middle east, during this trip I had also a two day excursion in Jordan.
About a month ago, I began to prepare this trip.
Feb. 12 of 2010
Two days before Chinese New Year.
Nikon GPS
Last year I got an add-on device for my Nikon camera, it was very convenient to locate the photos that I shoot, wherever I was, the GPS data will be inserted behind the photo, and when I go home, I just upload the photos to the Panoramio site, it was fantastic, all the photos will be mapped automatically on the map.
It was fun till last December, when I upload photos to the same website, the photos were mapped somewhere else, the offset could be even a hundred km away. After a little research, I think the Panoramio got some problems recently, the proof is, to upload a same picture both to Panoramio, and Flickr, they were mapped at different spot, Flicky got the right location.
I don’t know when Panoramio will fix this problem, but before that, I have to map them manually. I will have a chance to visit Israel by the Chinese New Year, hope I can find myself in the map.
By the way, if you have a Nikon, the GPS will work on: D5000, D90, D200, D300, D3, D3x.
Jan. 30th of 2010, snapshot in the Hutongs
For the last few days, Beijing is very warm and sunny. Today I have an afternoon stroll through the alleys in the south of the historic area of Beijing. My itinerary goes as: Baoguosi Temple (a flea market), and Dashilan Area.
A visit to Mutianyu Great Wall and Forbidden City
On Jan. 23rd, I got a chance to visit the Great Wall at Mutianyu section, and in the afternoon, I was in the Forbidden City again. That was a very nice day, not windy at all, and the sky was blue, the snow was still there.
Apple just released Ipad
About 2 hours ago, Apple just released their first so called IPAD, it is about 9-inch tablet, starting price at $499, 16G, for 3G products charge another $130 more, the new toy will be in the market in 60 days…
I am sure, there will be another rush for this.
For more detail, check the engadget site here, or just go to Apple’s site here.
2 Chinese Characters
Chinese character are very independent from each other, most of them have specific meaning, if we check the ancient dictionary, we had more than 10,000 characters, but most of them just stay in the dictionary, they were dead!
Today we use just about 3000 characters for most of the daily use, it is also pretty good enough for most of the academic works, but how to express ourselves properly in sense of modern life, how to say, for example, “internet” in characters? instead of creating new characters, modern Chinese is prone to put characters together mostly for new meanings, and by this way, every year some new words come out.
Today let’s see two Chinese characters.
Ming City Wall park 2
This is my second time to the park, this time I took some more photos with snow. I walked through the park from west to east, as it was a very cold day, this way kept me a little more warmer with the strong wind went from my back. The park is free as a public park, but to climb up the wall, you will need to go to the ticket office at the east end, it is in the arcade way, the arcade was the passage way for the old railway which connected Beijing and Shenyang in the north-east of Beijing.
Click here for more my last visit to this place. The place is very close to the subway station at the Chongwenmen.
Churches in Beijing
1-The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Beijing (宣武门天主堂), also known as Nantang (南堂, the South Cathedral), is an historic Roman Catholic Church located in Beijing. It was built by Italian missionary Matteo Ricci in the early 17th century, as the oldest Catholic church in Beijing, it was damaged many times by earthquakes and fires, the present Baroque style dates from 1904.
