read the manual first

By snake at 11:45 pm on August 30, 2007 | No comments

从windows转到mac os x的人都知道, mac的鼠标只有一个键.

最近我用ctrl+click实在太烦了, 心想这69块钱买的个mighty mouse还没一般10块钱的双键鼠标好用. 已经开始在网上搜从哪里能买到个便宜点的鼠标了, 结果发现mighty mouse原来是带右键的. 回家找出manual来一看, 还真是, 只要在鼠标设置里面把右边设成secondary就行了. ft, 用了两个月才发现…

ALWAYS READ THE MANUAL FIRST !!!

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champions league draw

By snake at 1:02 pm on | No comments

不是冤家不聚头, 曼联罗马又分到了一组. 另两个队分别是里斯本竞技(c罗和nani的母队)和基辅迪纳摩. 曼联分到了F组.

其他队的分组结果.

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baby-face retired

By snake at 1:23 pm on August 28, 2007 | No comments

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will always be remembered as the forward who scored the winner in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in 1999. His knee injure has sidelined him for most of the time last three years. He made a good comeback last season with 11 goals and helped united to win the Premier. He had another knee surgery before this season and it looks like the recovery is not as good as expected.

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“Ole is one of the best finishers I have known. We have had a few good natural finishers at the club but he is exceptional.”
– Sir Alex Ferguson

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first win

By snake at 2:00 pm on August 26, 2007 | No comments

比赛很悬, nani进球之前热刺有两次很好的机会, 一次ferdinand在门线上把berbatov的铲射挡出, 一次brown的疑似手球, 又是berbatov的射门. 后来慢镜头看好像是肩膀, 但brown的手臂有点摆开, 算是可判可不判的情况. 然后就是nani的世界波了, 禁区外的一脚暴射, 好像经tevez的头稍微有点变线. nani进球后又做起了经典的空翻, 嘿嘿, 不过这次爵爷估计不会说什么了.

感觉nani发挥得不错, giggs后继有人了. tevez的表现一般, 背身拿不住球, 而热刺防守人多, 也没有直塞球的机会. 希望这场球曼联能走上正轨, 下场c罗复出, saha的伤也好得差不多了.

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United 1, Tottenham 0
@Old Traffold

United: Van der Sar; Brown, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra; Nani, Scholes, Hargreaves, Carrick (Eagles, 57), Giggs (c); Tevez (Fletcher, 78).
Scorer: Nani (68)

Tottenham: Robinson; Chimbonda, Rocha (Zokora, 83), Gardner, Lee (Taarabt, 75); Malbranque, Huddlestone, Jenas, Bale; Berbatov, Keane (c) (Defoe, 75).

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Update: my mistake, c罗禁赛还有一场.

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My Life as a Quant by Emanuel Derman

By snake at 11:14 pm on August 25, 2007 | No comments

bought from amazon.ca on august 14th, 2007
finished on august 24th, 2007

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The part impressing me most is that he decided to quit physics at age 33 when he was an assistant professor, and switched from at&t to wall street at age 40. you need a lot of courage to do that. also the part about the fight b/w Lee and Yang is familiar…

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Heinze denied transfer

By snake at 12:33 pm on August 21, 2007 | No comments

左后卫Heinze的申诉转会Liverpool今天被英足联驳回. 弗格森在之前已经很明确的告诉Heinze曼联绝对不会将他转会到主要的竞争对手, 何况是和曼联水火不容的利物浦. 上一次有球员从曼联转会利物浦还要追溯到1964年的Phil Chisnall. 现在的情况对Heinze就比较麻烦了, 转会国外是比较好的出路, 继续留下来会比较尴尬. 这次为转会和俱乐部的关系闹得太僵了.

最新的转会传言是曼联有意Newcastle的马丁内斯. 去年的时候我就说过马丁内斯是曼联一个不错的选择, 当时国米急着要卖, 其人也相当有实力. 这个赛季第一轮他就梅开二度, 其中之一是个漂亮的倒钩. 他的合同里面有个转会条款, 任何俱乐部愿意拿出13m英镑Newcastle就只能放人, 现在就看曼联肯不肯掏这笔钱了. 曼联的前锋线还是需要人的, 现有的四个人Rooney, Saha, Tevez, Solskjaer里面Saha和Solskjaer都太容易受伤, Rooeny现在躺了后就只有Tevez一个人了. 其实我感觉曼联最需要的前锋还是范尼那种抢点型的机会主义者, 现在的问题是机会出来了最后的射门太没有水准, 而且多集中在地面进攻, 如果能穿插一点长传头球的话破密集防守还是不错的.

update: Heinze最终去了皇马, 成为近年来从曼联去皇马的第三人, 前面有小贝和范尼. 早就说了Heinze去皇马是最好的出路, Carlos刚走, 正好差左后卫, 却偏偏吵着去利物浦, 搞得现在丢了曼联球迷的心. 皇马的报价还是8m英镑, 比利物浦的还多.

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5 points to catch

By snake at 9:15 pm on August 19, 2007 | 1 Comment

3 matches without a win. the worst start since 92-93 season, when united lost first three games but still won the league. but time is different now. good news is that today’s game between chelsea and liverpool finished with a 1-1 draw. so we are only 5 points down. well, you may argue that we are 7 points down to the man city, but i don’t think they can stay at the top for very long. our main rivals are still chelsea and liverpool.

looking on the good side, the newcomers are all performing well. hargreaves, nani and tevez all started the game and the only miss is a goal. sir alex probably starts to regret to sell both alan smith and rossi. we only had one goal in three matches. in the second half, sir alex was so desperate that he sent on campbell, a never-heard-of forward coming from reserves. well, it’s sad to see even in the situation like this, dong fangzhuo still hasn’t gotten any chance.

2007-08-19 Sunday

United 0, Man City 1

United: van der Sar; Brown (O’Shea, 73), Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra; Carrick (Campbell, 73), Scholes, Hargreaves; Nani (Eagles, 60), Giggs, Tevez

City: Schmeichel; Corluka, Dunne, Richards, Garrido; Johnson, Hamann, Geovanni (Ball, 74), Petrov; Bojinov (Mpenza, 8 ), Elano (Bianchi, 63)
Scorer: Geovanni (31)

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thesis almost done

By snake at 5:58 pm on August 17, 2007 | No comments

论文基本上搞定了, 今天交给了委员会评审. 下周三答辩.

昨天收到从Amazon买的书, The Year’s Best Science Fiction 24th Annual Collection, 2006年的小说. 今天翻前言, 竟然发现村上春树的”海边的卡夫卡”竟然获得了2006年World Fantasy Award的最佳小说. 说村上的书是fantasy还是太牵强了点吧. 这本书来这边后买的, 只翻了一遍, 什么时候找机会再看看.

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draw again

By snake at 6:08 pm on August 15, 2007 | No comments

another draw. maybe this year we have to play catch-up game again. newcomers are playing well, both nani and tevez had some good chances. ronaldo got a red card and will be suspended for 3 games. chelsea beat reading by 2-1 and they are 4 point ahead with only two games played.

another note: last time we had such a bad start was 98-99 season…

2007-08-15 Wednesday

United 1, Portsmouth 1

Portsmouth: James; Pamarot (Hughes, 64), Cranie (Traore, 46), Distin, Hreidarrson; Utaka, Davis, Mendes (Taylor, 46), Muntari (sent off, 83); Nugent, Mwaruwari.
Scorer: Mwaruwari (53)

United: Van der Sar; Brown (Eagles, 88), Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra; Ronaldo (sent off 85), Scholes, Carrick, Nani; Giggs (O’Shea, 82), Tevez.
Scorer: Scholes (15)

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calm keane

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i like this picture. just by looking at it, you can never tell whether Roy Keane’s team was winning or losing. How calm is Keane? This was his first premier match as a coach, and his team just scored the winning goal in the injury time. i guess he’s experienced too much up-and-down as a player so nothing can surprise him now. if we just compare the calmness, the former united captain is much better than his teacher Sir Alex.

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united will be away facing portsmouth today. tevez will start and replace rooney. united has to win this match so they have a chance to catch up with the main rivals. chelsea will face liverpool in the next round.

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