Badminton game with a friend

I shot the game which I played with my friend and now have it on Vimeo. It's quite interesting.

I estimate the Kodak Zx5 (which was used for shooting) can only work for around 1hr of intensive recording. I was using 720p/60frame per second video resolution to capture players' fast movement.

And the sound recording is absolutely bad.

But generally Zx5 works fine for my purpose here, it's such a handy rugged gadget, I'm quite happy with it.

Ubuntu Unity

I'm sure the radically re-designed Ubuntu interface is brilliant, but it's just not at all quite ready yet.

It seems to work fine on my Lenovo X61 laptop, but I'm having LOTS of trouble on my 2-year-old Dell T1500 desktop PC.

=== newly added:

Surely the advanced graphical user interface is big trend these days. Apple has been digging the mine all over the years, and look at the blooming of new web design, fancy/elegant styles are all over the Internet... But we're talking about Linux! Does Linux have to minic and re-engineer that Mac UI to win to get users? Isn't Linux all about freedom, performance, and get-job-done?? Wouldn't it be bad if it resulted nothing but burned out developers and grumbling users?


=== added again:

Above complaints were about 12.04 beta.

Just re-re-re-re-installed 12.04 LTS 32-bit on the Dell desktop, and rather pleased that it seems to do fine.

Look forward to setting it up on my new Thinkpad X220.


$ uname -a
Linux subtleKnife 3.2.0-24-generic-pae #37-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 25 10:47:59 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

B players

Steve Jobs' approach to B players is to drive them away, with a stick and loud humiliation.

Because he had A players under his charge.

Or he thought to be so, or they thought to be so.

And for me...

Photo album "Trip to San Francisco 12/26/2011"

DSC_5057, a photo by Xin Zhou on Flickr.

Click to view all photos taken during the two hours dwelling in San Francisco, chinatown

From Nokia 2330 to iPhone 4S

While I'm still looking at the Nokia 2330 in my palm, such a transition is likely to happen.

Or Google Nexus or whatever, not necessarily Apple stuff.

I would like to draw analogy between it and my software development project. From virtually a piece of crap, to one of those also-ran, to something thrilling and catchy like an iphone. Not there yet, but it's happening, a slow and steady morphing process.