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21:21 逆转 (462 Bytes) » Photos from dbanotes

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21:00 在东北老家坐长途车的遭遇 (4921 Bytes) » DBA notes

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10 月 1 号,我乘坐大巴车从抚顺回长春。前一天去买票的时候被告知,每天只有一趟大巴车,8:40 发车。三个半小时到长春. 我和 Laura 以前乘坐过一次 "虎跃快客",服务态度很好,据说现在没了。都是统一国营的。过了检票口,发现只不过是个小中巴而已,人倒是的确不多,想想也就是三个半小时就到长春了,坚持一下吧。

车开出市区后,感觉有些不对劲儿,怎么不走高速公路呢? Laura 发短信告诉我说要等一会儿才能上高速的。又过了一会儿,发现还不对劲儿 -- 车开到了农村的土路上,颠簸的厉害,问乘务员,说这是走国道呢,不走高速(高速收费),问这样的话多久能到,说下午三点怎么也到了。也就是预计三个半小时的路程,现在要颠簸六个小时,一车人都晕了,面面相觑。再颠簸了几分钟,乘务员终于有解决"方案"了,和大家说,"征求一下大家的意见,要不这样吧,每人交五块钱,咱们走高速,如果有不愿意交钱的,咱们继续走这条路"。他妈的,票价是 55 块,居然没有包括高速过路费? 车上人都气坏了,虽说没几块钱,可比车匪路霸也差不多了,但彼此都没说什么,这样的情况下,交钱吧......有的乘客"抗议"说,早知道这样,你直接要钱不就成了麽? 还往这个土路走什么? 乘务员不说话,笑眯眯的看着抗议者。我心里暗暗叫苦,因为自己晕车,但一点脾气没有,这种情况下,交钱是成本最低的选择。

交了钱,车继续在土路上走,因为离最近的高速入口还有一段路。走啊走的,都看见"铁岭县某某乡供销社", ”铁岭县某某乡农技站"的牌子了,甚至还路过一个农村集市。"铁岭"就是赵本山说的的那个"大城市",现在已经是"铁岭市"了。铁岭市区很小,唯一有印象的是铁岭公安大楼很气派,又过了半个多小时后,终于上了高速。这里的高速也不一般,没几个车从这里走,甚至路边还设置了两道岗,检查车辆是否超载。

接下来的路上倒算是平安无事。车上播放了一路一些东北特色节目:二人转。把我恶心透了。本来东北的二人转是个好东西,可就叫这帮歪嘴和尚把经念歪了。现在的一些东北"转星"搞得那个玩意儿,只能用低级下流,恶俗庸俗来形容。回家做长途车,最怕的就是车上放所谓的"流行音乐"(混音过的,鼓机蓬吃蓬吃,类似迪士高的)或者是放二人转或类似的玩意儿.

下午一点二十分,终于到长春了。收集好票据,回头投诉。

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20:59 在四川黄龙 (656 Bytes) » Photos from dbanotes

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这个地方海拔 4100 米。晕车加上有点高原反应。下车跪在地上就吐,没吃早饭,不过把飞机上喝的一瓶矿泉水全吐了出来。

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李冰的儿子叫什么名字呢?

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19:30 结束休假,回到杭州 (3245 Bytes) » DBA notes

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昨天晚上坐夏门航空的班机回到杭州了。感觉不错。夏航乘务员会在降落的时候给乘客发放薄荷糖缓解耳部的压力,从这一点来说服务还是挺周到的,另外飞机下降的方式也不那么"剧烈",所以少受一点折磨。我这个土包子没见过世面,每次出远门都太遭罪了。

很多航空公司说的比唱的好听,飞机降落的时候飞行员估计是艺高人胆大,忽悠悠降的特猛,乘务员也根本没不会来问乘客的感受,有的时候耳朵感觉炸开了一样,我还以为只是我自己的毛病,有的时候偷着看看旁边的乘客,也都一脸痛苦状。回家的时候乘坐川航就是这样。

飞机上看杂志,学到一个词,"乐活". Lifestyles of health and sustainability--“LOHAS”

好几天没有更新 Blog ,这都怪我带的这张 CDMA 卡,速度慢的一塌糊涂,根本没有写字的心情。假期期间积攒了几百封的邮件,死活收不下来。这几天偶尔上网的时候发现了几篇有关网站架构的文章,有时间整理一下分享。

台风来了,杭州大雨。

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18:53 长假日记第6天:避风塘里的1天 (3276 Bytes) » Fenng's shared items in Google Reader
早上9点起床,收拾东西就出家门打算去魏公村的避风塘,这一天就准备在这里过了。其实也不是很想来避风塘,只是想找个可以上网的地方,北京虽然有很多咖啡馆都可以无线上网,但我平时很少去咖啡馆儿,总觉的很贵,也不知道什么其他能够无线上网的地方,于是就只有来避风塘了。

来的路上我想“避风塘”这个名字真不错,休闲时光、打牌、和朋友一起欢乐等等,这些词儿都来了。魏公村的这个店我以前来过,2005年初和宝贝一起无家可归的那个情人节就是一起在避风塘里过的。记得那个晚上我很困,但是宝贝儿精神却很好,起初五子棋她是赢不了我的,但是后来就能赢我了,后半夜我已经困的不行了。那天的抽奖我们还得了二等奖,一个玩具,不过至今还没有玩过那个玩具,好像是个要放4节7号电池的魔力球。

在这里写东西的效率还真是高,转眼就补上了长假日记,不过梅里2007还没有动笔开始写。刚才忍不住给几个哥们打了电话,想找他们一起来玩牌,好久没一起玩牌了,以前一起pk五十k的日子多爽啊,今天真想和他们一起打打牌。不过一个人在这里写东西、上网、听歌也很有意思,而且自己还有任务要完成,真是矛盾啊,不过我还是想和他们一起打牌。下午不行就晚上吧,晚上吃了饭一起也不错。

最终是晚上8点左右有2个哥们来避风塘,我们一共3个人,可以五十k,也可以斗地主。已经在避风塘待了有8个小时了,写了不少东西,梅里2007已经写了大概5000字了,如果这么初步计算的话,我这个流水帐应该能写到5万字左右,那就没什么可读性了,变成了纯粹的流水帐了。不过我出去旅行回来就喜欢写流水帐,去西藏我写了3万字,去杭州写了1万多字,去威海写了有5千字,去趟天津我都能写2千多字。这趟梅里2007写上个5万字没什么奇怪的,我写这样的流水帐主要是记录给我自己看,估计给别人帮助的不多,因为里面掺杂了太多个人的东西,绝对算不上是攻略。

在避风塘的这8个小时还是很愉快的,说几条特别的体验吧:

1,基本是比较吵的,不适合独自一个人上网、看书什么的;
2,无线上网的速度不错;
3,椅子坐着不舒服,是不是故意这么设计的,不让人待太长时间?
4,上午来的时候人比较少,被从二楼哄到了一楼,理由是二楼上午没有服务员,二楼下午2点才正式营业;
5,我在的这个魏公村店通风不好,大玻璃窗没法打开,只能用排风扇或是空调;
6,如果一个人来上网,上厕所很不方便,现在一大群人一起吃饭都有可能丢东西,一个人离开自己的东西去上厕所是很危险的。

别的暂时没有啥了,8点哥儿几个就来了,就可以玩牌了。坐这里一天了,没怎么说话,真有点烦了。
17:07 银杏叶儿黄 (6449 Bytes) » Fenng's shared items in Google Reader

  九月底的一天,我回到北京大学,走在33楼南边的人行道上的时候,听到前面传来木棒敲击树干的声音。仔细一看,原来是一位中年妇女正在敲打银杏树上结的白果。这一击看来很有效果,因为我很快就看见她丢下木棒,弯下身迅速在地上不停地拾掇;等我走近时,她已经拎了一大袋离开了,只剩地上几个较小的白果。
  银杏,是中国特产的树种,也是中国人十分熟悉的树种。野生的银杏目前仅在浙江天目山有少量分布,但栽培的银杏却早已遍布大江南北。银杏的用途是多方面的,它是很好的观赏树种,被我国和世界其他国家广泛用作行道树和园艺树种,还是佛教中的一种圣树,因而在寺庙中也广为栽培。银杏的木材也很优良,而且因为其生长缓慢,成材不易,更显名贵。此外,就是用白果和银杏叶片来做食品和药材了。
  白果就是银杏的种子。银杏是雌雄异株的裸子植物,不形成果实,因此“白果”一名从植物学的角度讲是不正确的。白果有三层种皮,最外层蜡黄色,肉质,因含有丙酸、丁酸等低级脂肪酸而有臭味,在其破裂或腐烂时臭味更烈,这就是雌银杏树不适合作行道树的原因。白果的中种皮为坚硬的骨质,白色,内种皮为一层薄薄的红褐色膜,内种皮里的种仁(包括绿色的胚和白色的胚乳)才是可食用和入药的部分。因此,要得到种仁,必须先把外种皮剥掉,再把中种皮敲开,然后还要用水浸泡,以使紧贴在种仁上的内种皮变软而易于除掉,这工序真是够繁琐的。
  不过,白果是很有名的干果,中国八大菜系之一的鲁菜中有一道名菜“诗礼银杏”,就是以白果为主料做成的,所以爱吃白果的人大概不会嫌剥白果麻烦。但是白果不可多食,因为吃多了会中毒。其毒性成分长期以来被误认为是氰苷(一种分解之后能产生剧毒的氢氰酸的物质),这很可能是因为中医主要用白果来镇咳,而同样被中医用来镇咳的苦杏仁和桃仁的有效成分是氰苷分解后产生的氢氰酸,所以有人看到白果和苦杏仁、桃仁一样都是种仁,就想当然地以为白果也含氰苷了。
  但是所有的化学分析都表明,白果压根不含氰苷,真正的毒性成分其实是白果酸(ginkgolic acid)及其衍生物。而白果酸及其衍生物根本不能镇咳,白果中所含的其他物质也都没有镇咳的效能。那么中医为什么会认定白果能镇咳呢?只要看看《本草纲目》中的如下记载就明白了:“银杏……色白属金,故能入肺经,益肺气,定喘嗽,缩小便。”原来说白果镇咳,根本是胡乱攀比附会的结果!
  正因为如此,国外从来不用白果入药,但他们却对银杏叶片情有独钟。原来银杏叶片含有大量的黄酮类物质,在其将黄未黄的九月时,黄酮类物质的含量可高达24%,这是其他任何一种植物都不能比拟的。在那些认为黄酮类物质能治病的内科学者看来,银杏叶片无疑是最好的提取来源。所以用银杏叶片入药实际上是国外的发明(它是第一个现代植物药),而和中医没有任何关系,《本草纲目》就没有银杏叶片入药的记载。但是中医为了给自己脸上贴金,硬说中医早就用银杏叶片入药了;更有趣的是,连西方人居然也认为是中国先用银杏叶片入药的。
  不过银杏叶片并不能直接服用,因为它和白果一样含有有毒的白果酸。有的人听说银杏叶片能促进健康,直接就从银杏树上摘叶子泡茶喝,结果喝得头晕耳鸣,上吐下泻,这只能说是自作自受。现在普遍采用有机溶剂提取银杏叶片中的黄酮类物质,并要保证提取物中的白果酸含量不能超过百万分之五。因具体提取方法不同,银杏叶片提取物的成分也不一样,而有不同的名称,德国威玛舒培博士(Dr. Willmar Schwabe)药厂研制的EGb 761是最常用的一种。
  对于黄酮类物质的药效,我在《七月雪莲开》一文中已经有所论述,结论是没有确凿的证据能够证明其药效。银杏叶片提取物也摆脱不了这个命运。在欧洲(特别是德国),银杏叶片提取物被用来提高智力,减缓智力衰退,特别是用在阿兹海默症(即早老性痴呆)的治疗上。但是据《科学美国人》2003年的一篇报道,临床实验表明银杏叶片提取物的效果并不显著,有的实验丝毫显示不出它的药效,甚至还有实验表明它反而会降低智力。而且,所有这些实验的样本数都不大,如果进行更大规模的临床实验,说不定连一点正面的效果都显示不出来。这篇报道不无讽刺地说,银杏叶片提取物“也许会轻微地提高你的记忆力,但是你吃一根糖棒也能获得相同的效果”。正因为如此,美国FDA不认可银杏叶片提取物是药物,它只能作为膳食补充剂出售,任何在美国经销银杏叶片提取物的个人和公司如果声称它可以治病,都要遭到FDA的追查和警告。
  在中国,情况当然相反。各种银杏叶片制品卖得不亦乐乎,在单独的银杏叶片提取物之外,还有各种各样的“复方”,一会儿和人参搭配,一会儿和绿茶为伍,而且所有这些商品都宣称可以治病。深圳海王公司还为他们的银杏叶片制品想出了“六十岁的人,三十岁的心脏”这样一句苦心孤诣的广告词,堪与八十年前南洋兄弟烟草公司的白金龙香烟广告词“饭后一支烟,赛似活神仙”相媲美了。
  十月中旬,北京气温降下来之后,银杏的叶片便全部变黄,所有的树都披上了黄色的盛装。北京大学公主楼前的银杏小道,此时更是美不胜收,很多人都觉得这是北大最美的景色之一。我想这才是银杏叶片最大的价值。

 

2007.10.07

14:50 为自己设定一个极限是愚蠢的行为 (2400 Bytes) » Fenng's shared items in Google Reader
最近一段日子的深夜或者凌晨,我总是在美剧的陪伴下仔细阅读和翻译《Google文件系统》的论文。翻译我做得不够完美,甚至谈不上好,但是这份工作带来的巨大的得道般的满足感一直支撑着我,让我不觉得疲倦。这本是我觉得自己不可能读懂的文档,但是真正深入的时候,我发现阅读它令我很快乐。

倒推10个月,在我和霍炬创办银杏技术咨询之前,我一直认为自己的性格不适合创业。但是现在我们用10个月良好的收入状况和日益增长的口碑,证明了我的论断是错误的。

再倒推到我的大学时代,我曾经认为自己会永远仅是一个VB高手。事实上后来,我轻松的学会了Asp,用它在大学赢了一个网站设计比赛,轻松学会BCB用它找了我职业生涯的前两个工作,轻松学会了Vc开发了365kit的outook插件,等等。而VB几乎已经7-8年没怎么用过了。

甚至,在某次刻骨铭心的恋爱失败后,6年中我以为自己会孤独一生,但我现在还是找到了相信可以步入结婚殿堂的人。

每次回想到这些,还有其他的一些另我自己唏嘘的往事,发现原来阻碍自己进步的,往往不是自己的能力和机遇,而是自己给自己设置的极限,而是自己以为的自己可以做到的最高点。

记得好像是李卫公同志哪篇blog提过龟兔佯谬,话说是只有学了极限才能最好的理解这个问题的实质。其实,这个有问题有个思维逻辑上面的解决方法,那就是你把过程抛弃,直接看N秒后,按速度×时间,很容易算出兔子一定在乌龟前面。

那么中间是怎么超越的呢,可以给出的一个简单的答案是,如果你太关心怎么超越的细节,你可能就真的很难超越了。So,把对手先隐去,跑吧!

所以,最好的对手是自己,最好的目标是无限远处……
14:03 HighLoad 2007 Review (7191 Bytes) » Fenng's shared items in Google Reader

Almost two weeks have passed since HighLoad 2007 conference in Moscow, Russia so I’m pretty late with feedback and my only excuse I was pretty busy to spare some time for it.

Lets start with bright side.
The conference had a lot of great sessions by experts in their field. A lot of top Russian companies such as Yandex Rambler, Mail.Ru had sessions covering their internal architecture. Speakers were very open in many cases sharing data about their internal implementation, for example Yandex would tell you a lot more details about their search process than Google would be willing to share. I specially mention Yandex here as they had very well presented team on the conference and had largest number of sessions presented by the same company.

The other very impressive thing was publishing of materials for previous (Russian Internet Technologies) conference in the book and distributing them among this conference attendees. And it was not just slides as I’ve seen on other conferences - the talks from previous conference were recoded and them converted to the text and put together with slides. I can only imagine how enormous effort it required but it is very handy to get.

Also the conference had all sessions recorded and broadcasted on RuTube - this however did not always work well. As my wife tells me my sessions were not broadcasted for some reason and also I did not find them on the Session Videos page.

The presentation stand was prepared much better this time. You still was requested to use conference laptop rather than your own but at least you had remote control allowing you to switch slides manually rather than ask for slide to be changed as on previous conference.

Generally I had very enjoyable time talking to speakers as well as a lot of conference attendees. We had a good talk with Bruce Momjian and I learned a lot of interesting low level details about PostgreSQL transactional engine internals.

Now what I did not like.
The previous conference was rather crowded and this one looked like larger one but taking place in much smaller space. I would say it was about half the size of MySQL Users Conference 2007 but probably had 1/8 of the space.
This means corridors were very crowded (forget about place to sit outside of speaker rooms) and good sessions were so crowded you could not get even standing place.

I also did not like the lunch idea - to make it less crowded break was split into 2 parts - the break in one room was when other had session going which meant you have to choose between food for your stomach or for your brain. Plus as I mentioned lunch was very crowded with no place to sit.

Registration was the other problem. Registration opened at 9 and sessions were supposed to start at 10. This produced huge crowd fighting to get to registration desk. A lot of people (including myself) also could not be found in the list and had to go to special desk to resolve the issue which had a long line as well. Were were no special speaker registration as well.

Another problem worth to mention was schedule. Because registration problem sessions went late and other issues agenda changed from printed one, while were were no board or anything which would show current schedule. Were were also time swaps which were not announced widely enough so few times I came to the session just to find the session was changed or actually moved earlier so I already missed it. In my case of spending a lot of time talking to the people rather than just visiting sessions up to date schedule information is important.

Different
Few things for this conference were just different from most of International conferences I’ve been to.

First - the amount of interest you raise is enormous - I spent 2+ hours after each of my sessions answering questions, not to mention questions/talks you get at other time. And this was same for many other speakers.

Second - it was very interesting to see probably every 3rd person on the conference out where hunting for people - good engineers are extremely hard to find in Russia now as the market is pretty hot. A lot of people I spoke to were approached about job opportunities so it was great place for job hunting as well.

Third - It was truly Russian conference. Were were two sessions in English - once from Microsoft, another by Bruce Momjian from PostgreSQL which were translated to Russian live (I did not listen Russian so have no clue about translation quality). There were also people from Oracle speaking on the conference but this is about it. It was very surprising to see no Google people attending, even though they now have office in Russia.

In generally it surely was worth the visit for me and I think this conference has potential of tuning to very exciting yearly event.

P.S My sessions from the conference uploaded to MySQL Presentations section as usually. Note - they are in Russian.


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14:03 HighLoad 2007 Review (7162 Bytes) » MySQL Performance Blog

Almost two weeks have passed since HighLoad 2007 conference in Moscow, Russia so I’m pretty late with feedback and my only excuse I was pretty busy to spare some time for it.

Lets start with bright side.
The conference had a lot of great sessions by experts in their field. A lot of top Russian companies such as Yandex Rambler, Mail.Ru had sessions covering their internal architecture. Speakers were very open in many cases sharing data about their internal implementation, for example Yandex would tell you a lot more details about their search process than Google would be willing to share. I specially mention Yandex here as they had very well presented team on the conference and had largest number of sessions presented by the same company.

The other very impressive thing was publishing of materials for previous (Russian Internet Technologies) conference in the book and distributing them among this conference attendees. And it was not just slides as I’ve seen on other conferences - the talks from previous conference were recoded and them converted to the text and put together with slides. I can only imagine how enormous effort it required but it is very handy to get.

Also the conference had all sessions recorded and broadcasted on RuTube - this however did not always work well. As my wife tells me my sessions were not broadcasted for some reason and also I did not find them on the Session Videos page.

The presentation stand was prepared much better this time. You still was requested to use conference laptop rather than your own but at least you had remote control allowing you to switch slides manually rather than ask for slide to be changed as on previous conference.

Generally I had very enjoyable time talking to speakers as well as a lot of conference attendees. We had a good talk with Bruce Momjian and I learned a lot of interesting low level details about PostgreSQL transactional engine internals.

Now what I did not like.
The previous conference was rather crowded and this one looked like larger one but taking place in much smaller space. I would say it was about half the size of MySQL Users Conference 2007 but probably had 1/8 of the space.
This means corridors were very crowded (forget about place to sit outside of speaker rooms) and good sessions were so crowded you could not get even standing place.

I also did not like the lunch idea - to make it less crowded break was split into 2 parts - the break in one room was when other had session going which meant you have to choose between food for your stomach or for your brain. Plus as I mentioned lunch was very crowded with no place to sit.

Registration was the other problem. Registration opened at 9 and sessions were supposed to start at 10. This produced huge crowd fighting to get to registration desk. A lot of people (including myself) also could not be found in the list and had to go to special desk to resolve the issue which had a long line as well. Were were no special speaker registration as well.

Another problem worth to mention was schedule. Because registration problem sessions went late and other issues agenda changed from printed one, while were were no board or anything which would show current schedule. Were were also time swaps which were not announced widely enough so few times I came to the session just to find the session was changed or actually moved earlier so I already missed it. In my case of spending a lot of time talking to the people rather than just visiting sessions up to date schedule information is important.

Different
Few things for this conference were just different from most of International conferences I’ve been to.

First - the amount of interest you raise is enormous - I spent 2+ hours after each of my sessions answering questions, not to mention questions/talks you get at other time. And this was same for many other speakers.

Second - it was very interesting to see probably every 3rd person on the conference out where hunting for people - good engineers are extremely hard to find in Russia now as the market is pretty hot. A lot of people I spoke to were approached about job opportunities so it was great place for job hunting as well.

Third - It was truly Russian conference. Were were two sessions in English - once from Microsoft, another by Bruce Momjian from PostgreSQL which were translated to Russian live (I did not listen Russian so have no clue about translation quality). There were also people from Oracle speaking on the conference but this is about it. It was very surprising to see no Google people attending, even though they now have office in Russia.

In generally it surely was worth the visit for me and I think this conference has potential of tuning to very exciting yearly event.

P.S My sessions from the conference uploaded to MySQL Presentations section as usually. Note - they are in Russian.


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12:29 月经又来了 (2695 Bytes) » Fenng's shared items in Google Reader

现在我更新blog竟然一月一次了, 成为所谓的月经一族!

现在已经在挪威一个礼拜了。 结束了在巴黎两个礼拜的名为OFS-1的课程, 虽然没有什么压力, 但是每天早上要6点起床吃早餐然后坐车去一个叫ELC的地方上课还真是痛苦。 不过想想班上正在斋月重的穆斯林兄弟们, 就觉得自己是在天堂了。 他们白天整天都不能吃东西, 为了吃早饭, 四点多就要起床, 吃点东西然后再睡,而且每个人都十分满意这样的斋月, 真是让我佩服他妈。 课程差不多是公司的洗脑课程, 好像每个公司都喜欢这样的东西好让员工尽心尽力, 但是穿插安排了法国大餐还有卡丁车在洗脑程序中, 让我们也能勉强接受了。 讲得最多的就是各种安全问题, 举个例子吧, 为了说明安全的重要性, 我们的讲课的老师在课堂上就撕开了三四个安全套, 最后还给大家每个人发了一个法国版的杜蕾斯。 到了挪威以后, 我的墨西哥小帅哥经理称OFS-1为巴黎假期, 但是毕竟还是一个缺觉的假期, 课程最后一天, 大家一起出去玩, 我的飞机是六点钟的, 也就没有睡觉, 从pub直接打车去机场了。 当然, 也有其他人没有睡觉, 然后把课堂上发的安全套给用了。

到了挪威见了经理之后第一件事情就是大睡了十五六个小时, 和我一起来的印度人和挪威人都惊呆了, 看来他们都不知道我睡觉的真正实力。 这一个礼拜基本上都在学习公司发的CD, 全名Online Interactive Learning, 简称OIL, 封面上还画了一滴油…… 现在油价80美元, 基地里根本没有工程师在, 全都到北海上挖油去了, 基地里全是一些和我们一样刚来的trainee, 有不少挪威本地的trainee, 说起挪威话就像唱歌一样, 说一个词还要先降调, 再升调, 再降调。 我每次听了都想笑, 尤其是我的挪威同事霍肯的名字, 两个字就听起来像一首歌, 我现在每天早上做的第一件事情就是叫他的名字, 因为他是我的闹钟, 每天早上负责叫我起床, 我就用他的名字回答他。 这是真正的早上第一件事情, 甚至在睁眼之前。

这里是在巴黎还有挪威Stavanger的一个悬崖去啊爬山的照片

11:08 假期 (4767 Bytes) » Fenng's shared items in Google Reader

国庆七天的假期,明天就要结束了。

独身一人的游子,最自然的选择度假方式就是回家。跟往年的不同,我提前一周订好了往返的机票。去年这个时候回程机票的紧张让我记忆犹新。

在家待了五天了,无所事事的上网、打游戏、看电视、陪父母聊天、还有看书。大多数事情我平常都不会去做,也没什么机会做。

自从两年多前出来独立带团队,我对“事业”这个词就有了新的感受。虽然它依旧是个游戏,但是个不同的游戏。不知该如何形容这种感受。或许我想说的是“责任”,但又觉得不应该用这么个略感沉重的词;把这个词换成“梦想”,又显得虚无飘渺,有点儿戏;谈到“压力”,一定是自欺欺人了,像我这样骨子里玩世不恭的人,谈压力是可笑的。

可是,我却不能不无时无刻的想着正在做的事,如何把路走下去,直达终点。假期这种无所事事的状态,总是让我觉得正在过于奢侈的挥洒时间。

父亲刚动过胆摘除手术,恢复的很不错。不过他老人家退休在家只是种种花养养草,平时没啥运动。我想买台 Wii 放家里做健身器材,不走运的是,整个假期,武汉所有卖游戏机的店居然都没有现货,很让我郁闷了一阵。

武汉的数字电视不错,尤其是电影台,让我补习了好多近两年的大片。另外还陪父母看了两部电视剧,除了假期,大半年我都没看过电视了。

从书柜里翻出一些我前几年买的书,一本讲春秋时期齐鲁兵家的,一本讲商周文化的异同。读读这些,一则我对先秦文化有点兴趣。二则每每在觉得自己虚度光阴时,总不由自主的拿点书充充电。书到用时方恨少嘛,没事灌点东西到脑子里总没坏处。虽然如今 google 检索知识已经足够快了,可毕竟没人脑方便。有些时候也替代不了大脑。

闲书也看了半本,大仲马的《三个火枪手》。小时候总听大人说,应该读读一些世界名著,这本也算。可那个时候我读金庸兴趣更大一些 :D 买这本小说纯属无聊,想看看西洋人的武侠是个什么样子。一开始觉得有文化隔阂,我对法国历史没啥感情,所以显然不如金大侠的书好看嘛。不过看着看着觉得还有点意思了。

网上还碰到些难得一见的人。或许他们时常是上 IM 的,但是我不注意罢了。几年没主动在网上找人聊天了,这次捉到了就聊上几句。都是五年以上的网友,见过面。虽然不是同行,可网下也有交情。清点下 IM 上的好友名单,那些见过面的朋友,几乎没有新近几年认识的。看来互联网真的成了生活的一部分,成了人感知的延伸。只在网上联络的那些朋友们,只在屏幕上表现为一个符号,我们只在乎网上沟通搭出来的形象,已无所谓现实中那是谁。

最后,我还认真的再次考虑了一次虚拟游戏社会中的经济和虚拟物品的价值问题。以及虚拟经济系统跟运营商收费模式的关系。

我们公司绝大部分的游戏产品按用户游戏时间来收费,极少介入虚拟物品在现实世界中的交易。为什么公司有不少人坚持按时间收费,我们坚持的到底是什么?我相信,因为经济利益的驱动,以及对新模式的试探,我们也会有新产品去做虚拟物品的售卖。那么,所谓道具收费模式到底又意味着什么?

很多业内人士都在分析所谓有时间的玩家和有钱的玩家的需求;分析收费模式对公平性的影响等等。我总是觉得这样的研究很肤浅,总在问题的表面打转。

如果我们抛开运营商如何获得更多收益这一点。研究虚拟社会的建立、完善,虚拟物品的价值的呈现,等等这些问题可能更接近根本。或许我们可以更多的了解网络游戏怎样(在社会性方面)更好玩。

哦,我的意思是说,运营商的收益拓展问题跟游戏更丰富的玩点两个问题应该正交分解。这样,就不应该直接去考虑怎么更多的延长玩家的每日在线时间,或是怎么向玩家推销更多的收费虚拟道具。

让玩家机械性的沉迷网络游戏,投入超过他能接受的金钱与精力到游戏里,绝对不应是游戏设计者的目标。

……

我的假期,就在这胡思乱想中度过了。

07:19 写在与阿北对话的50天后 (豆瓣 豆瓣fans小组) (4949 Bytes) » Fenng's shared items in Google Reader
鄙人的《论校内网的倒掉》一文是我的Blog上点击率最高的一篇日志。那篇评论发表至今已经是半年有余了,很多人都读过它,不乏Web2.0的牛人,比如上次和阿北吃饭的时候,他就告诉我他读过。

半年以来,发生了很多事。但是不管发生了什么,这篇评论可以原封不动的继续流传下去,我的观点没有丝毫的改变。其实我不知道校内网在业界和广大的学生用户群里到底是个什么口碑或者评价,至少是我接触的一些业内的朋友,对其都是没啥好话的。

我今天之所以突然蹦出来这么个话,是因为刚才花了老半天的功夫才把我在校内加的所有群组给退掉,还有所有的课程等等。直到我要开始改涂鸦板的时候,它跳出来一句“你所发布可能含有违禁内容”,我按先前没改的提交它还这么提示。

校内网的UE,也就是“用户体验”,要多么糟糕就有多么糟糕,首先受不了的就是速度。如此糟糕的用户体验还能招来这么多的用户,这不可谓不是一个奇迹。不知是我们广大用户的要求太低了,还是大家使用校内的诉求本身就很少,比如像我,要是只每天写点日志,倒也是相安无事的。

其实校内以前是没有UE工程师的,现在有没有我不知道,估计还是没有。其实校内这个网站自从王兴那一拨创始人离职以后,就更没什么好说的了。我这里特别想说的是那拨人里的某位成员的观点,我是万万不能同意的。

一次是饭后,走在路上与某人闲聊起豆瓣,某人说道:“豆瓣靠什么盈利?豆瓣的流量什么的都不高啊。”确实,如果只是按着盈利的多少、用户的数量、流量点击率来评价一个Web2.0网站的优劣,豆瓣是完全排不上号的。但是豆瓣在业内业外却都有着良好的口碑。在某人看来,“口碑至上”就是学院派的观点,Web2.0就应该是“利益至上”,比如像校内这样的用户超级无敌多却没有什么口碑的网站在某人看来就是成功。

可是校内网已经死了,或者这样理解,是“有的人活着,他已经死了”,再或者那样理解,校内网是永朽不垂的。校内网现在无非就是它的所有者用来牟利的一个工具罢了。因为只是一个工具,什么用户体验啊,什么氛围理念啊,什么品位口碑啊,都是扯淡。

以豆瓣目前所产生的口碑,以及它掌握的大量的用户行为的数据,它想大张旗鼓的盈利是唾手可得的事情。可是豆瓣没有这么做。为什么?因为豆瓣就是阿北的亲生骨肉呀。你们理解阿北吗?我不敢说我有多么理解他,但是请注意,阿北是一位已近不惑之年的男人了,是一个一心从事理论物理研究直到拿了博士学位才确定了自己的最大兴趣就是互联网,于是转向IT的(我不知道以前有没有记者挖掘过这履历,这是我和阿北交流时知道的)。

现在做IT的有多少能像他这么纯粹的?有多少不就是看着做这一行有前途和钱途而并非出自兴趣于是就一门心思的来做的?钱是速朽的,于是这样的人也注定会速朽。再想想看当今世界上做得最好的Web2.0网站,哪一个不是“口碑至上”的?“口碑”和“利益”是一体的,我们的很多人却只是为了逐利而逐利。

其实校内网曾经也是那拨人的亲身骨肉,只可惜他们培养孩子的方法出了问题。于是在一家人最困难的时候选择了出卖自己的孩子来换生存,这个最困难的局面是自己造成的,却不敢由自己来承担,其实挺一挺,也许就熬过来了呢?

那么豆瓣无疑是个奇迹。阿北比起这些还不到而立之年的新秀们,多的正是一份时间打磨出来的能力,于是他能够很好的培养孩子。让孩子不仅活下来了,而且活得很好。常常有人对豆瓣的盈利模式之类的感到好奇,觉得豆瓣这样没啥大利可图的网站怎么活呀。那么我要问了,谁家养了儿女是为了拿他长大了来换钱的么?

就说到这里,其实早就想说了。虽然只和阿北吃过一回饭,但是,他那温文尔雅的神情,他那谦逊亲和的微笑,他那坚毅果敢的态度,他(与我)那臭味相投的思维,至今让我难以忘怀。在我从事这一行的道路上,阿北是我无穷的精神力量。

谨以此文向阿北致敬。

http://9.douban.com/site/entry/27831463/
06:56 V2EX 上海聚会 (1950 Bytes) » Fenng's shared items in Google Reader
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V2EX 在上海的第一次聚会外加 FB 活动在浦东顺利闭幕(鼓掌~~~),大家先在 UBC 享用了各种饮料,然后到干锅居享用了干锅兔子肉,中途各类无指向话题层出不穷,众人的知识库的某个区域在这个过程中实现了同步,然后在友好和谐的气氛中,看着升起在远处的焰火各自道别。前后总共来了 10 位 V2EXer:

huzhenghui37,colorjd,且听枫吟,跟着小徐混,淡獭,Jean,shouroujin,MC施特劳斯,郭大虾,Livid。

女生只有一个,而且她对一帮男生关于在不同层的互联网协议的访问技术话题感到 @@@,所以我在回来的路上暗自寻思并和 huzhenghui37 讨论说,如果我们下次聚会的话,应该改成萝莉控主题。然后的然后,如此这般。

一个好玩的聚会在于这个过程中可以见到好玩的人和想见的人,所以这次松散而轻松并且毫无指向的聚会让我感到很幸福很幸福。

特别鸣谢:本次的独家咖啡赞助商——Leica 中文摄影杂志
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