Song Way

Links to some of my creation/collections

• my notebook:i’ve been using this blog as a public notebook for a little bit, but i found this to be a better place to dump all that.
  
• my chinese blog:this one is not likely to be blocked in China.
  
• my google reader shared items:high volume. caution
  

Cheers!

Room 1034, 1 Cougar Place

Oh. I need to update my address page, too.

just started a very simple cms for my group, and i’ll blog research related stuff there.

the address: http://moon.cs.uh.edu/

my selections from internet junk

just added A lot of podcasts and videos in the reader cause i’m getting too lazy to read…

anyways, i recommend those who are still interested in this thing to subscribe to the rss feed.

working with the paper. stay assured guys, i WILL write the posts. good luck.

i’ll be freed after May 13th.

sorry for my inactivity before that!

After asking several readers of this blog (Actually the readers of this blog is few.), I found that my daily log is of interest to no one except for myself. It is a good document for myself since I can keep track of what I was doing, but it simply flushes the other readers’ eyes with boring sentences. OK. Cool. Maybe I should just keep this to myself and present here what you guys like to read.

OK. Adios, my public daily log!

BTW: Yes, I did ignore a lot of sensitive activities intentionally in my daily log:)

This is a fragment from my reply to a friend seeking abroad study program in China.

So yes, I have a million and one questions about China, it’s beautiful places and beautiful people. Where shall I start? How about one question at a time….

1) Who are you? And what makes YOU uniquely Chinese? (Besides the fact that you were born in China). More specifically, what beliefs were you raised with?

———-Ru, Tao, Chinese history. Although twisted and transformed by the culture revolution, those are still the very origin of the belief of a Chinese.

2) Has your Chinese identity changed at all since you arrived to the US? And if so, how?

Yes. As I said before, by communicating with people from all over the world, I’m changing my own way of life to combine the merit of them all. I’m quite open minded.

3) How do Chinese people perceive Americans in China? (Americans that study abroad, versus Americans who live and work there).

They don’t distinguish American students and American workers. They think Americans are wealthy, fashionate, arrogant, cool, sex-indulging, lazy, frequent practitioners of one night stand and they won’t be surprised if an American commits any crazy deed:) Some think Americans are superior, some think Americans are foolish. All of them think Americans are from Mars or somewhere before they really meet some. And, for most Chinese who have had a fair amount of communication with Americans, they’ll be happy to learn that you are not that different from them and you’re willing to make friends.

4) Have you ever seen Latinos in China? How about South American women?

I couldn’t distinguish a Latinos or a south American women from blond in China. It’s still hard for me now.

A long long time ago, a friend invited me to facebook.

I forgot the password before I can make any contact there.

So, today, I’ll re-register…

Hope I can make more friends this way.

o…

i’m so lazy.

but perphaps i’m just tired of writing a post every, cause it bores the most of you.

listening this guy blogging alone, i can’t help imagining myself singing:)

is it that my blog boring life boring or my life boring?

i will change both.

come on!

想想这还是第一个没有跟老爸老妈一起过的春节。

没怎么特别想家，但是知道老爸老妈都挺想我，立即比较歉然。

希望爸妈身体好

希望朋友们都过得好

我一定会回来的

damn it i’ll make it up.

Recommend those great guys’ blogs:

lele

darkblue

arrive

http://songwei.blogsome.com/2006/09/18/917/#comments: darkblue : seems u r busy and happy:) — Busy? yes. Happy? depends.

http://songwei.blogsome.com/2006/09/12/assignments-and-tests-before-oct4/ Da: The stuff seems interesting! — I’m trying to make them so!

OS: test#1, Thursday, September 21.

Software Engineering short essay: Battle of Somme, information radiation

Automata assignment2 Due Sep.27 { 2.5.2(a)+/sigmacap(p,a)+/sigmacap(q,a)+/sigma_cap(r,a) 2.5.3(b), 2.5.3(c) 3.1.1(b), 3.1.2(b), 3.2.4(c) }

OS assignment1: Process Scheduling due on September 28, 2006 at 11:59:59 PM.

Software Engineering Initial Report Due: Oct. 4th

Automata test#1, Oct.4 Wed. { pre-stapled stack of 5 pages use pen, not pencil nor eraser. close book }

In order to encourage comments, I will reply to them in specail posts

http://songwei.blogsome.com/2006/09/05/95/

to Da:

Absolutely. We always need the trade off:)

http://songwei.blogsome.com/2006/09/05/photoes-from-houston-tour/#comments

To Jinzi:

It’s due to the camera…

The number is 832-964-6883. The service provider is T-mobile.

Suggestions: I’ve got 600 minutes call time per month. Calls made at night and weekend don’t count. But no prepaid text messages. Every message I receive costs me 0.1$. So CALL ME, DON’T send messages.

Details: Plan Details

Today I looked at all the categories I have:

daily log explanation and announcement graduation project log plan or decision research journal tech journal thought Uncategorized

Isn’t this too business oriented? There is no fun, nor any feelings in this list. Maybe it’s some people’s first impression with me… Anyway, I’m a lot more than that, and actually I’m going to present you My life. OK, I’ll post some “ordinary” post in this category. Have fun:)

I simply changed a theme. But there is still some problem in the who am i page. Since this is an open source site, I still recommend you to use firefox to browse this site.

I’ve been using firefox recently. Just now I opened my blog in IE and found that it was in a mess.

So strange!

I’ve try to fix this problem, if I have time…

As you can see, I added a google calender on this blog following the instructions of http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/eventpublisherguide.html If you also have a google calender, you can save your events to your Google Calendar by click the “remind me with google calender” button on the top-right of the blog.

from local time to Houston Time.

Mmm…

very possibly it was stolen in the railway station of Xiangfan.

now that i’m leaving China, the number 13718420064 will no longer be in use.

i’ll try to get a mobile phone as soon as i arrive in the U.S. But i recommend my friends in China to contact through internet:)

and, a lot of people are asking about the date of my departure. well, i recommend you go through the “explanation and announcement” and “plan or decision” categories first if you want to know anything about me:)

anyway, i’ll restate it here: i’ll leave for Houston at 09:40 H on 2nd, Aug (Beijing Time) from Beijing, and arrive at the IAH airport of Houston at 09:31 H on 2nd, Aug(Houston Time).

You can refer to this link for details.

i’ll take the train on Saturday night to Xiangfan. I’ll arrive in Xiangfan at Sunday afternoon.

I’ll leave for Guang Zhou on 18th. I’ll be on a tour there with my family.

I’ll return to Beijing on 31th or 1st, Aug.

I’ll take off on 2nd, Aug.

quite busy these days. and quite a lot of things to write.

i’ll try to catch up with the regular progress in time.

i’ve been travelling with my classmates from July 4th to July 6th. I’m preparing the pics and will post my travel journal later.

there are some photoes here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/67081939@N00/sets/72157594190728054/show/

I’ll call you from this “number”.

My skype account is song.wei.1983

I booked for it too late. It cost me 6967 RMB. Two days ago the price is 5100 RMB…

Briefly speaking, I’ll leave Beijing on 2nd, Aug, and arrive in Houston after 30+ hours of flight. Itinerary Date: 08/02/2006 Flight: AIR CHINA INTL 925 Boeing 777-200(772) Booking Code: M Departure: PEK Beijing 09:40 H 3HR 15MIN Arrival: NRT Tokyo 01:55 H
WEI, SONG SEAT UNASSIGNED Economy

Date: 08/02/2006 Flight: AMERICAN AIRLINES 154 Boeing 777(777) Booking Code: M Departure: NRT Tokyo 06:25 H 11HR 35MIN Arrival: ORD Chicago 04:00 H
WEI, SONG SEAT UNASSIGNED Economy

Date: 08/02/2006 Flight: AMERICAN AIRLINES 1457 McDonnell Douglas Super MD-80(S80) Booking Code: M Departure: ORD Chicago 06:50 H 2HR 41MIN Arrival: IAH Houston 09:31 H
WEI, SONG SEAT UNASSIGNED Economy

Caution: all date and time are local

Thanks a lot for your comment on my task list from 6.4 to 7.31.

sorry i didn’t see it in those days. long time no comment…

:)

Thanks a lot for guys at blogsome. They’ve taken care of the problem:

http://blogsome-forum.blogsome.com/viewtopic.php?p=8348#8348

This was a temporary problem yesterday as we installed our new comment code. See details here: http://blogsome-docs.blogsome.com/docs/anti-spam/captchas/in-form/notes.html

Roger

And it works fine now, indeed.

Thx wangda a lot, who notified me the commenting problem in this blog: Whey guests submit their comments, the following message appears:

One of the following things has happened:

1. you retyped the text in the image incorrectly;
2. the time allowed for retyping the image has expired;
3. the image in the previous page has already been used for submitting a comment.

Please return to the previous page and try again. (If items 2 or 3 above apply, you will need to reload the previous page.)

I’m trying to fix it. Sorry for the inconveniency.

I’ve just had it renewed.

If you need one, just tell me.

Just make sure one thing:

I know you!

You may have noticed that I write my plans in a code-like manner. This is a geeky habit of mine. You may find it annoying. But I recommend you copy and save it as *.java (or #.cpp)file, and open it with IDE like Visual Studio.Net. Then you can fully exploit the advantage of outline view feature of such software.

1. I wrote the daily log of one day in one post. I may update it for several times during the day. So very possibly, you will see a complete daily log at the end of the day.

2. Generally I’m gonna view the comments at the end of the day, and respond to them in my daily log.

Now that the environment of life of me is going to be changed, and so are the ones of many of my friends, I feel it necessary to update my contact, including emails and ims:

E-mail:

1983.Song.Wei@gmail.com(recommended)

weis02@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn

wei_song_1983@hotmail.com

im:

QQ:38764380

msn:wei_song_1983@hotmail.com

google talk:1983.Song.Wei

They are recorded in the http://songwei.blogsome.com/who-am-i page.

Now I really like gmail and google talk.

You can comment directly. No registration and moderation required, until the day this blog is attacked by comment spam…

Added two explanative pages. One for myself, one for the blog.

Changed the theme, modification applied.

Glad to find out wpress is such an elegant open source blogging system. And blogsome is a nice place for free bloggers. Although I really think they should update wpress to 2.0, and enlarge the file upload space.

But I’m OK with the current situation. Maybe pics and musics distract people’s mind from the essential points. Also I want to keep this place light-weighted. So there won’t be java script, too. But I do want to have server of my own to host the blog. Cause the password scheme isn’t very convenient. Better assign user identification to certain categories. That would be nice.

Am I again sinking into meaningless details? Forget it.

I’ll try to make things here clear and simple.

Welcome to songwei at Blogsome. This is my first post. This is Song Wei here.

What will I write on this blog? Basically I’m gonna write down what I’ve done during the day, and I’ll try to keep posting once a day. Decisions and plans will also be posted. And of course I would like to share my thoughts here, if I come up with any. Most of the posts would be in English, for I want this blog to be international. So my posts here will fall into 4 categories:

Daily log Plans and decisions Thoughts and ideas Explanations

I’ll add more categories when I feel that I need to.

Who will be reading this blog? This blog is open to all over the world. But I think the ones who are really interested with this blog will be limited to my friends, classmates, teachers and advisors.

Why do I keep such a blog? First I publicly log my daily life to keep myself being too lazy. For a time in college I’ve been very inactive. But now that I’m orientated, I’d like to recover, and go beyond. One of the reasons of my inactivity is that I hate being pushed. I knew that if you don’t want to be pushed, you’d better push yourself. But after years of school life pushing myself sounds no longer an appealing idea to me (and to most of us as well, I think.). It took quite a lot for me to learn that if you don’t want to push yourself, you’d better free yourself. So now I’m gonna expose my laziness here, and let you guys scold me, mock me, blame me. I will do this out of my free will, because I think to face the public judgments voluntarily will be a good start of a free way. How can one free himself in a game? The only way is to take the lead. And that’s what I’m gonna do here.

Secondly, decision and plans announced here may make it more convenient for my friends to make accommodation or to cooperate. And it could also be evaluated by the advisors and teachers, if they’d like to, to give me some advices and instructions in advance. Sometimes I may need a place to explain something, and here will be my bulletin.

Thirdly, this blog will serve as a more convenient substitute of ordinary journals and notebooks for me.

And the last but not the least, I’ll publish some thoughts here and wait for your feed backs. It would be my pleasure to discuss with you.

Policies 1. All kinds of comments are welcomed. Yes, I say all kinds and I really mean it. There is a sample comment below by myself to demonstrate this point. 2. Although this is a log of my daily life, please rest assured that all sensitive things will never be shown here. I will always take my responsibility to protect the privacy between me and others.