五師兄字

中文地盤沒落記

Blog 寫少了，就算有貼文也是英文或貼圖貼片，實在是有苦衷。原本 PC 用開縱橫輸入法，轉 Mac 後沒了，OS X Han Recognizer 又常瓜（寫唔瓜，但 quit 唔到，要 reboot） ，學倉頡和拼音的時機己過，但又未想學九方。

其實最實際就是寫全英文。反正我的 blog 也沒有太多人圍觀；爛英文又好，慢中文也好，自說自話，甚麼語言也沒有分別，對吧？

我們今日可以，因為當年不是一個

我們今日可以沒有民主，其實因為自己當年不是一個政治 related iPhone posted iPads。

Extracted by 文字雲 http://timc.idv.tw/wordcloud/

3AM

Here I am. 3:47am. After the second shot of Ristretto, I don’t think I would be heading back to bed too soon. Oh well. I got plenty of things on my list anyway. Writing something here is one of them. But of course not like this. I didn’t plan to be this way anyway.

By the way, my problem of not updating here has been tackled. Kinda. My excuse was to find an easier way to type. I mean Chinese, particularly on my Mac.

Now, I have found the way out. I would either use my iPhone as the wireless numpad to type qcode (which I have learnt already in 90 seconds two days ago) on my MBP, or to simply switch myself back to pure English. The later could be a better choice because eventually I need to write something formally in English with perhaps a quarter million of words. And I better start practicing it from now.

hmm… finally it is the WordBooker who got me. Now I am sleepy enough to go back to the bed.

不如從新開始

昨晚那篇是本新居的第一 post。現在再補充。

首先，我再次要後悔不早一點獨立。如我所說，整個搬家過程，由 installation 到揀 theme 再加些少 customization，全程真的可以在一小時內搞掂並開張大吉（Wordpress 的 安裝過程真的如他們自己所吹噓，是一件五分鐘之內的事）。其間我已建構好用分類來定 URL 永久連結（現在歸納為三大分類：湊仔經，吃喝玩樂和民間研究），加入 tagging 系統，做好 Google customer search engine 和 XML sitemap，更新了 Feedburner feed，甚至連 iPhone 的 WordPress 2.1 blog client 也弄好！

唯一的問題，是舊文。

回想當日我由 Blogspot 轉去 Mysinablog，結果其實是逐篇文 copy and paste 過去。但今時唔同往日，八百幾篇，點抄？如陳牛同學所說：兩年前，我首度接觸 WordPress，感覺良好，但最後也是因為不知怎樣可以將文章匯出而放棄。而且，原址的流量不錯，一下子要回到由零開始吸引人流和 SEO，有點不捨。

今日又怎樣？心態真的不同了。自從 Jacky 兄提點說可以用 Google Reader 的 Atom Feed 一次過抓下幾百篇文，要將舊文備份已不是一個問題（只是轉化不到在這裡出現而已）。在這裡（暫時）只看到新文其實又再沒有甚麼所謂，因為我在這裡寫文，最根本的目的，是想切合那副題「不要忘記」。只要在某地方切實記下，便已達到目的。至於人流和 SEO 的問題嘛 ~ 要來看的，自然會來。其他經 Google/Yahoo 來看一篇便走的，儘管幫補了流量，本也不是我的目標（我又不是靠這個 blog 為生，其實多人經過又如何？最緊要是有真心想看的讀者嘛！）。

就這樣，如果不用搬文的話，我這個 Project 便已達標。而且，扣除我為了搬舊文而苦惱的時間，整個 project 真的只用了一小時，以我這個 programming 門外漢來說，簡直像穿了 Avatar 去飛天遁地的地球人一樣心花怒放！

The Myth of Not Updating

I have not been updating my blog for almost 2 weeks now. Why? Coz I would like to get my blog a new home. The purpose is to make it more flexible so that I could start to organize my thoughts about my research more effectively. Now I have done it. So, please come and take a look!

I picked WordPress. And after the transfer, I know why so many people have picked the same thing. I am amazed by how easy the task has been, thanks to the super super user-friendliness of WordPress. It let me enjoy the flexibility and capability that a decent software / platform should have, as an outsider. The actual setting up and customization only took me around an hour (the pain is how I could export my old stuff to here, but I have given that up after a few tries, coz I simply don’t have time for it). Now I feel regret not to move earlier (I did say it out loud 2 years ago.)

With the new structure, I try to make it more organized (with categories and related URL links). I won’t update my old site ngszehin.mysinablog.com anymore. The new domain is ngszehin.net, with the same old Feedburner RSS. Please bookmark / subscribe me.

Stay tuned, folks!!