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Wednesday, October 29, 2003
this semester, i go on with webdesign. this is the page i made. mine is kind of serious. but any way, i think it is ok.
posted by jing on 5:55 PM
Saturday, July 19, 2003
How is everybody going in this summer? I had thought the first session was the busiest part of my summer, but it isn't. Concordia Language Village will be.
posted by jing on 6:01 PM
Saturday, June 14, 2003
busy days, next week, i will take 2 exams . Psychology is interesting if i have more time to take a close look.
posted by jing on 7:24 PM
Tuesday, May 27, 2003
i saw a humming bird out of Renee's window on May 15th. a pretty bird with red neck, he stood on the edge of feeder, put his bill into the flower shape feeder.Although i never saw a humming bird, and Renee was not there to introduce Mr. Humming at that time. i immediately recognized that is a humming bird without trouble--because it was the smallest bird i had ever seen!
He was too alert, when i tried to get a close look. He flew away. i heard humming is the only bird that could stay in air and suck honey from the flower. i hope i could see this scene. i felt pity that Renee's feeder had an edge for him to stand. :P
Since summer just begins, i still have handful chance to see them.i will wait.
posted by jing on 11:09 AM
Monday, May 26, 2003
The day gets longer. The sun rises at about 5:00 am. At 9:00 pm, the sun is still in the sky.
I remember in winter, the sun always sets at 4:10 pm, then long night.
Suddenly i realize we are closer to the Pole, no wonder i could see nothern light!
posted by jing on 10:20 AM
Sunday, May 25, 2003
i am back. alas, this relaxing week.
posted by jing on 9:03 AM
Sunday, May 11, 2003
Final Report
Prologue
Chinese are reluctant to move. Therefore, almost all my relatives and my friends are in a same city. Although people feel comfortable with this cay-style life, they still have curiosity on the outer world. Now, I am here, I become their extended eyes. In the first days when I came here, I was busy to report my new experience to them. “Today, a squirrel picked up a nut in front of my feet and sit down to eat. Obviously, he regarded me as a tree or something else stationary.” “My Goodness, people here uses rice to brew soup!” Actually, my discoveries also give the native a shock. They feel amazing that some people do not live in this way. For instance, when I told the native that I never eat raw vegetable, all of them, without exception, asked me how to make salad in China. It sounds incredible for them that some people somewhere can live without salad. For me, the life here is like expenditure. I know several years later, I will miss these days, but I am afraid I will forget the details. Weblog writing gives me a chance to keep an electro-journal and make my friends in China get my information. Therefore, Spectacle came into being.
My plan
In my proposal, I hope,
1.My Spectacle can be a watching-tower, my friends back home can see a new world, and my friends here can see their familiar world from a new angle.
2.My blog can be an important archive for my other two courses— Shakespeare and English Language.
3.I can take this chance to learn hypertext and learn how to maintain a blog.
4.I can keep five long entries every week.
What is going well?
The main part of my project is going well as I expected. Spectacle serves as my electro-journal.Thank Renee, I always be with her family every weekend and those fascinating Fridays always make me have much to say in my blog. Quilt story, Northern light, humming bird story… most intresting stories from her and her family. When my friends in China read the story of northern light, they asked me why I didn’t take a picture of it. And they were really jealous for I can see humming birds. This is a place for me to show off.
I also put my puzzle in my journal. Studying and living here for me is a kind of challenge. My blog is a place where I can complain. “I know grammar” is a typical example. It is the earliest one, which I almost forget, but I find most of the people who visited my blog mentioned it. When I look back at this post, even I myself can’t help laughing. However, at that time, I really posted it with great annoyance. Now, those posts, like the footprints in snow, stay there reminding me what I have experienced.
What changed?
I had planned to allot one or two sections for my other two courses, but later, I just combine them into my journal and develop some links on my sidebar. However, they still help a lot when I do my literature research. I have followed my link to the audio record of Canterbury and practiced to speak old english for two days before I read it aloud to Dr. Donavan. Besides, the links involving Shakespeare also help me to do research on the backgroud of his plays.
What I unfulfilled?
I can’t keep on posting long entries five times a week as I planned, although I insisted to fulfill it before midterm. When I did my proposal, I didn’t know the technology problem can be a great obstacle to my work. In this whole semester, I encountered all kinds of technology problems, which were from blogger.com and my computer itself.
Sometimes, I couldn’t post it. The error report always said something wrong with my template or the characters in my post, but I never figured out what was wrong with them. It was just like a curse, haunted over my blog for a whole day, and then withdrew secretly.
Once, I did find something wrong with my template. On April 2, when I opened my template, I found it was totally replaced by someone else’s template, the title Spectacle was changed into The Peanut Gallery. I had thought I was attacked by a hacker, and was worried that I was a weak chain of our team, which would make our whole team vulnerable. Although I worked a whole night to get back my template, I wrote to Dr Morgan and talked about my doubt. His answer dismissed my puzzle,
“it might have been a glitch at blooger or blog.spot rather than a hacker. We edit blog entries on blogger, and if when we publish, it uses a script to figure out which blog to update. If something goes wrong at that point - a network glitch, for instance - I imagine it can go to the wrong blog address. It really shouldn't happen,but perhaps the programmers haven't figured out how to handle it yet.”
Am I fortunate?
Besides, my computer also likes to strike and force me to go to the library. Fortunately, it just finishs its stike so that I can do this final report in my computer.
My Response to the obstacle
Honestly, it is a frustrating experience. The only reason I still feel confident to keep on with my blog is I believe different trouble attaches to different blogger. No one can be free from it. Anyway I am not the most unfortunate one. My posts are still going on. Besides, I did get to know some technical knowledge when I tried to fix either my blog or my computer.
Nevertheless, I will go on to keep my blog. I still like this new writing space, which is vitalized by the latest technology. I believe it is not a monster but a wild horse. I need only courage and patience to harness it.
posted by jing on 2:00 AM
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