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November 23, 2005

New Residences in the Greenhouse

 

Posted by Ji He at 5:32 PM |

November 19, 2005

In the Vege Greenhouse

Posted by Ji He at 2:00 PM |

Blooming Begonias

Posted by Ji He at 1:44 PM |

November 16, 2005

Texas Town Renames Itself 'Dish' to Get Free TV

A Texas town has changed its name to DISH in exchange for 10 years of free satellite television service. All 125 residents of the town formerly known as Clark will get basic service and a free digital video recorder satellite TV receiver, a move that has some people joking that the Fort-Worth suburb will become a town of couch potatoes. Yahoo News has the full story.

Posted by Ji He at 4:41 PM |

November 12, 2005

Google Toolbar for Firefox

This may be an old news to someones, but came as an excitement to me -- Google Toolbar for Firefox DO EXISTS (and may already been for a long while)! The download link is at here. The only thing is that it is for Firefox 1.0 - 1.4, which unfortunately does not work on my testing Firefox 1.5RC2. Well, I believe once Firefox 1.5 stable is out, they guys should be able to make it compatible to v1.5 pretty soon.

While Firefox has built in a quite fancy Google search bar, I still miss the page rank and spell check functions of Google toolbar, which to my (obviously outdated) knowledge was available for Microsoft Internet Explorer only. Well now, those who believe in Firefox are blessed ;)

Posted by Ji He at 7:34 PM |

November 7, 2005

Visual Studio Express Free for One Year

Microsoft is offering promotional discout on the "light version" of their new development product line, Visual Studio Express, for free for one year. Staring from today till 2006/11/07, anyone can download the whole package for free and use it "forever". The Visual Studio Express package includes
* Visual Web Developer 2005 Express
* Visual Basic 2005 Express
* Visual C# 2005 Express
* Visual C++ 2005 Express
* Visual J# 2005 Express
* SQL Server Express
Story behind this offer? I guess they guys are aware of the web developement market dominated by Apache httpd and tons of free development languages such as Perl, PHP and JAVA and trying to catch up.

This is NOT a beta version, again, NOT a beta. Full story is here.

Posted by Ji He at 8:20 PM |