Tags:censorship gfw Google
One or two hours ago, all google service(exclude google.cn) have been blocked by GFW(Great FireWall), including search, document, gmail, reader, and all other services server located outside China.
Finally, they did it. And they would pay for it!
UPDATE: All the Google service back online at about 2009/06/25 11pm(UTC + 
, the block last for 2 or 3 hours. Is that a warning?!
Google hold another contest again. This time it wants some gadget(plug-in) for Google Desktop.
When I first time meet Google Desktop, I found it a funny thing. But I decided not to use it. In fact , I am a little afraid Google will take control of my life. Too many things it can do. My feeling is it is too powerful, with great extensibility, leaving no room for other small software. I don’t know why I got this kind of impression. Maybe because I myself also love to write some toy for my using, but the Google Desktop seems(I didn’t study the details) so powerful, beautiful and agilely, I don’t know if it leaves room for small softwares. It makes me a little unhappy.
I am planning to work over Google Desktop’s detail by dint of this contest. At least, I think get a T-shirt is a easy thing.
By the describing of Google Desktop SDK Overview, I found Google Desktop uses COM (however I don’t know if there is better choice). So, take it as my practice of using COM. Good idea 
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The deadline is July 31, 2006. I am a little afraid of lacking spare time to work on this. In summer vacation, I am planning to work on KNote, my intern, one of my ideas and this… Maybe COSINE as well. Also some books(include my newly bought “The Art of Computer Programming” and some novels) are on the reading queue. What a substantiate vacation…
Tags:Google KDE socI heard about Google Summer of Code 2006 last month. After scaning the ideas, I feel terrible, for it seems too difficult for me to solve any of them. Although I have spend more than ten years on programming, my improvement is so limited that I cannot claim that I am an experienced programmer. However, it is the my learning skills,which enabled me to keep pace with the rapid software development,that strengthen my confidence to solve a large number of problems in the learning process. I believe that I am a bright and passionate learner , and dedicate myself to the practise of programming. Nevertheless, destiny always avoid me to achieve my goals—for example,I was defeated in NOI five years ago，and then missed three chances of attending the Department of Computer Science & Technology so that I have to fight alone in my campus life, which is the best period to improve myself.
There is no deny that I donot satisfy my ability now and eager to have greater advancement. Unfortunately, I doubt if I can successfully apply for a soc project before last night. But I decided to have a try at last when an idea striked my mind that it is surely that no result if you don’t try, isn’t it?
I have applied for “KNotes Improvement” in KDE projects,which is very similar with a toy of mine. In addition,this project request a catalog function, which I would like to carry out by using tags that I wrote to organize the information—-what is my incipient design.
Last night, I almost failed to submit application. When I decided to apply, I found that the timeline of proposals due by 16:00 Pacific Daylight Time May 8th(now update to 11:00 Pacific Daylight Time May 9…) and the school network would be down in 2 hours . Futhermore, I was shocked because I had not prepared anything yet. Two hours later, I was exhausted, but submitted my application successfully, just 8 minutes before network down.
That is why the application I submitted last night is full of errors. (I even mistakenly turned GMT for UTF … )I will try my best to finish the task if I get it. Bad beginning, but ending must be fine. The more work will be done in the following days, for instance,I have to set up a page for soc, use a better way to express my idea, read source code, contact the KNotes developer, and so forth.
Although there are four exams in this week, I will do my endeavor to win the task.
