” ~ wain~

Finally I realized the power of facebook. I was surprised and impressed that I just wrote to 28 friend friends (not facebook friends) in an hour. Since this is really my first time visiting the East Coast area, (sorry David, Virginia doesn’t count) there are tons of friends that i really miss and hopefully i will be able to meet them within next 3 weeks.

Facebook is not that bad after all. It really connects. At least to me it came out at the age when all my facebook friends are truly friends.

on my desk I have:

1 pair of very loud speaker,
2 computers,
3 mouses and
5 monitors.

I sold my fujitsu laptop. Finally my boss successfully converted me to a power Mac user.

2:39 AM @my room. I spent about another 5 hours on my photo journal again. Surprisingly it does not feel very tedious and I was having fun doing it. Hmm… Fun is not the right word, it felt contented. It is hard to tell whether I am doing this for myself or others. See building websites is definitely a mix of both. Right now I want to add more content to it so that more people can enjoy them. The PJ is a gift. And I am hoping that everyone not only will like it but will actually write down something to appreciate it. Hmm… Should I? My belief should be strong enough too keep me motivated. I am doing the right thing.

It is funny to notice all internet users tend to click whatever thumbnails they see. They do not care about the huge instructions at the top or the written descriptions. Maybe I don’t need to worry too much about them then. It could be an interesting Human-Computer-Interaction topic.

First time visiting a horizontal oriented website from my friend! Feel like an idiot but its so enlightening. http://mistersun.org.

Oh, back to my PJ, I think I care less about the quality of the pictures now. Particularly for those I took 2+ years ago, most of them are more like stories and more about people having fun. I m now starting from 2001 and working chronologically. I would definitely be more selective when it gets to the Japan session. But right now, filling the page is priority. Plus I can delete them later.

wow. too bad finally there is one thing i don’t like about firefox. when i open the same page from firefox and safari, the image in firefox is much more desaturated. its about 15-20 in photoshop saturation scale. that makes a huge different when viewing my photo jounral… anyone know how to fix it?

3:00am @soville. Why do I always worry so much whenever I m thinking getting a Mac? Was it because of the price? No, it should be a nice investment. Was it because it’s Mac? Not really, I’ve used Mac for quite a while already. It may be true that it’s too extravagant (wc?) to change my notebook within an year and half. But I think the biggest problems is I m not sure I m ready to commit to the media business. Mac is known for better graphic and sound, editing images and videos. And buying a Mac means commitment to me. I don’t really care about the ads about how Mac is the new idea of life and those BS. But I care about Photoshop and FinalCut, and other applications relate to it. Buying a Mac means I m ready to spend more time doing media work.

On the argument of Mac against PC, it was funny to see myself slowly switching from one side to the other over the past few years. Growing up with PC, starting from MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, 95, 98, me, 2000, and finally XP, I must say there’s a lot of sentiments involved in it. Still remember typing “cd windows/win” to start windows; getting my ICQ url with 7 digits only (8282040); my first email account with hotmail (still using it!); practicing typing Chinese, editing king’s yearbook… Anyway, basically I learned about the computer world thru PC. As well as the pirated free software world.

But then my boss Paul has changed me. He has been using Mac for his profession. Over the past 4 years we have exchanged so many opinions about each other’s computer world. It was honestly quite frustrating when I first extensively used Mac in my Intro to Video Production class. It was FinalCut, a software that I want to be fluent in, and is also only available on Mac. I slowly learn about the supreme performance of Mac working with media. Even I was still lean towards PC at that time, I had to admit Mac’s rock solid stability. I remembered at one time, I opened Photoshop, FinalCut, QuickTime player, Soundtrack and Livetype, each is doing its own rendering while I was surfing the net. Nothing crash. Amazing.

But I was still in favor of PC for its cheap and customizable price. I still enjoyed the fun assembling my first AMD PC, buying only necessary and affordable components only. A Mac was over US$3000 at that time and I always asserted that if Mac cut down their price in half I will definitely get it. Well, guess what, they finally did it, starting with MacMini. I have no more complaint. I will buy one soon. I will like it.

7:45pm, 21/12/2006. it is finally on web. This historical moment deserves a post in the archive.