我正在16层加班，突然听到巨大的响声。我立刻喊了一声“坦克”，然后冲到靠二环的窗户边一看，几十辆坦克正排车一队驶过。这班加的太值了，兼阅兵了！

最近看《士兵突击》，正对这些东西感兴趣，看到这些东西特别的激动。我一路跑到二环边，一个劲往旁边蹭，有个当兵就吆喝我，让我别离那么近。

先是大概50辆坦克，然后又一队装甲车，马路边还停着貌似一辆指挥车，顶着个大王八盖子，都是一身迷彩。太帅了！不过我这手机太差了，诸位将就着看吧。

最近练车真是憋屈。次次大大的太阳烤着，一天能消耗4瓶矿泉水。这都不算啥，最可恨的是那个带着墨镜，脾气很大，一边抱怨嗓子疼还一边抽烟的老太教练。

我这也是马上毕业的人了，连20km时速都没开到过，三档都没挂过，说来还真是丢人啊。每次时速刚10多km，就觉得风驰电掣。这驾校的应试教育也是到了一定高度了。

这个教练试图体罚我不说，最可恶的是还藐视我的存在。除了考试内容，什么都不教。都练了几次了，我连雨刷怎么用，车灯怎么开都不会。我问她，她就全当没听见。每次听别的学员说教练带他们去后山学，上下陡坡，最高速度还开到60km，我都羡慕的不行。这北京驾校的练车场太真实了，不仅有立交、红灯，连堵车都模拟的极其到位。有的司机就找没人的地方练。而我们那位大妈就非要扎堆耗着。可怜我这也就一天的时间，全用在堵车上了。后来我实在不能忍了，就小心翼翼的问她：“我们别在这里堵着了，右转出去行不？”她一如既往的面无表情。得，我这说话又成放屁了。不管了，我只管右转，然后哪里没人哪里开。终于算是把车速上了40km。半个小时后，她终于发话了，而且相当的大度。“我带你们去的地方，都是有杆的地方。你可以不听，那你就随便开，我也不教了。”我心里暗想，这驾校怎么这么多脑残，几十辆车，排着队在一根竹竿前面练习停车。去哪里看着棵树不能练啊。反正撕破脸了，我是自己练得挺欢。可和我一起学的那个乖乖男，依然是按照老师的路线毅然决然地加入堵车的队伍，一个小时，只练习了两次靠边停车。

晚上看“士兵突击”，正好看到在老A大队训练的那几集。跟人家比，我受的那点儿委屈简直太微不足道了。哎，都半截入土的人了，怎么还是受不得委屈呢。

两年了。我又去了同一个地方，住着同一个旅馆，做着同样的事情。
看书，游泳，听海涛，吃烤鱿鱼，喝啤酒，逛步行街。
临屋的维族夫妻每晚都打的地动山摇，满脸挂花。
海边的木栈道上，旧的字迹磨灭了，又留下了新的字迹。
大脑就在那片沙滩上晒化掉了，带不回来了。

烦躁的北京、拥挤的北京。我的躯体回来了。

这是我今年看过的最好的一本书。这是我今年看过的唯一一本书。

你们是这个世界上最最智慧的人。你们永远是理智的，你们做的决定永远是正确的。你们让我做任何事情，我都会不问理由的服从。分别多年，你们在我心中的光辉与日剧增。我的英雄们，你们是不是也一样的崇拜我呢，就像我是这样的崇拜你们。

昨天睡了三小时午觉，很是受用。最最幸福的是，我梦到某人腿断了，还缠着骄傲的绷带。他住在我对面楼上。我打开窗户，看到有人背着他走，我就在后面追，心里充满了重逢的喜悦。知交之情尚且如此，恋人之爱还能深到哪儿去？岂不是只有刻骨铭心了。

我才知道，原来《飓风营救》是纪录片。

After working on some projects on Leopard and Linux. I think I'm in a fair position to make a comparison between those OS giants, namely Windows XP, Vista, MacOS(Leopard) and Linux(Ubuntu).

For me, Windows XP is long dead. Vista offers a variety of functionality. Admittedly, some of these features are not very easy to use, but once you do, you won't be able to live without them. (*1)

Yes, I know. A lot of Mac fanatics will argue that those features are stolen from MacOS. Like this guy:

But I don't care about that. Even if vista do steal, it steals good. Some features are even better than the original. For example, the spotlight of Mac can only highlight the top level elements of the control panel. But vista search can uncover things deeper inside and filter out those unrelated.

Just several years ago, it's ironic that you can use a search engine to find almost anything on the web but not a picture of yourself on your own computer. But almost in one night, Google Desktop and Picasa changed all that. They even freed you from the chore of arranging your documents and pictures. Obviously, Microsoft is furious about these two products. And he pursued a very 'logic' step - bundling them with Vista, like bundling IE against Netscape more than 10 years ago. I love Picasa, but I'm a little too lazy to download it when I have Window Gallery readily installed.

My first impression of Leopard is that it's full of animation. It's fun to have your windows flying around. It's much better than Alt+Tab in XP or Win+Tab in Vista. And the animations and effects are not merely showing-offs. They have deep suggestive meaning. For example, in mozilia browser, the search keyword will pop off the ground and shake a little, so you will notice them. After developing with iPhone SDK, I find the NeXTStep framework is rooted in animation. It's very easy to programming(Despite the awkward Objective-C Grammar). So Windows will not be able to catch up easily without a total startover.

But what I dislike about Leopard is that it's mainly designed for the mouse. But I prefer keyboard and shortcuts. And the windowing system lacks the advance docking functionality of Visual Studio 2008 or Photoshop MX. So when it comes to a very complex program, the interface layout is a bit messy. Is it a patent problem? If it is, who are you people then, to reason with the unreasonable, to be honest with the dishonest.

I've been long wondering what's the good about Linux. How something so hard to use are so fond of by so many? But now I finally start to understand. First, all the academy guys use Linux. It can open your eyes and let you experiment with all those cut-edge things in the academy world. Second, I'm born in the age of Dos. It feels cool to be able to use the command line to do all those thing efficiently. Third, there are tremendous of command line utility programs to use. You can pipe the inputs and outputs to make the potential endlessly. Fourth, most of the programs are open source, so if you find a bug or you want to tweak it to suit your unique taste, you can do it. Fifth, it's more secure. Seventh, it uses less memory. ...

But wait! Have you noticed? All of its strength are also its weakness. A common user will never care about these things. All he care about it to be able to watch a video or browse the web, without any annoying problem. But even my newly install Ubuntu 8.10, the ground breaking first easy-to-use Linux, still need a lot of tweaking. One day, I encountered a video/audio unsync problem, and searched the forum. Someone said, it's a feature to have video/audio unsynced! You should create a configure file to and add 'framedrop=yes' to change the default behavior! How on earth would someone understand that!

(*1): Some of my pet features in Vista:

   * The new start menu has a search box. If you want to run a program, you won't need use your mouse to click open a series of folders in start menu. You can simply input the initials of the program. For example, if you input 'cal', 'calculator' and 'windows calendar' will appear. You can use the arrow keys to select one of them. It's very handy when you have a lot of programs installed.

   * The control panel have a search box too. If I want to remove a program, I will press the Win key, input 'control', 'control panel' will appear, and press enter. Now Control Panel window opens, the focus is in the search box. I will continually input 'remove'. All unrelated setting utilities will be filtered out, 'add or remove programs' appears right on the top.

   * The Photo Gallery allows you to add tags to photos. So you won't need to arrange your photos into a lot of folders. The next time, if you want to find the photo of your pet dog, you can input his name.

   * Similarly, you won't need to arrange your documents. Throw all of them in the Documents folder. And use the search function to uncover them in a second. It's like googling on your own hard drive.

   * You can edit permission for each folder or file. So multiple users share the same computer can have some degree of privacy.

一天，我得到了一包小浣熊干脆面。上面写着，打开此袋，就会见到你死去的亲人。于是我撕开了它，我的表弟出现了。

我们住在一个活火山的山顶，每天看熔岩从门前流过。我一直有一个疑问，这些熔岩流向何方，能流多远。那天，我们决定去探索这个问题的答案。

我们一起沿着山坡向下走。熔岩越来越稀薄，就像在山体上镀上了薄薄的一层纱。可是明显还是能感觉到它的热量。我表弟用脚踩了一下，鞋底的橡胶立刻烧硬了一层。我好奇地用手摸他烧硬的鞋底，手也被烫了一下。山上的景色很美，除了熔岩，还有瀑布、流水、积雪。越往下走人越多，都是一些野营探险者。他们还在雪地上放置了一些奇怪的电子路标。此时下起了大雨，我们决定返回了。

路上，来时见过的瀑布变得格外猛烈。一处低洼的地方，此时成了一条河。我们只能跳下去，向对岸游过去。表弟先到了对岸，可是就在我也快到的时候，出现了一个女人，她说喜欢我，还拼命的想拉住我。我可不想在河里被抱住，就一边反击，一边逃。在下游几百米处上了岸。上岸才发现，我和表弟上岸的地方之间隔着一面不可逾越的围栏。围栏是粗大的滚木十字形交织而成的，向上直通天际。不过好像上面有几根木头有些松动。我就顺着围栏向上爬，眼看接近那几根松动的木头了，那个女人又出现了，拿着一根长长的竹竿捅我。我一手得抓住围栏使自己不掉下去，另一手拨打竹竿。正在我无计可施的时候，传来了一个老者的声音说：“生命就是如此，充满了挣扎，我应该放这个孩子过去吗？”我突然意识到自己是一个仙人给学生讲课的道具。那个女人消失了，我砸开了木头，跳到了围墙的另一边。

表弟不见了，地上只剩下一包撕开的小浣熊干脆面。我仔细一看，是小浣“能”干脆面，并不是我先前得到的那袋。环顾四周，我看到了那个讲课的老者，知道这又是他跟我开的玩笑。我拿起那个袋子，走到他面前说，“你把我表弟还给我”。他这么捉弄我，我并不生气，我只希望他能换回那包真正的小浣熊干脆面。一瞬间，面在他手中变成了正品，他从里面倒出了一排药片，告诉我：“每一片药，可以召唤你表弟一星期。你在打开袋子的同时，已经使用了一片了。”我没想到是这个样子，眼泪都快出来了，就问他：“可是我以为我表弟永远的回来了。”他说：“孩子，没有什么是永远的。你会慢慢老去，而你召唤出的他，却会永远年轻。”

昨晚的一个超长梦如是记。

因为懒得查NBA全明星节目表，就打电话给cm。那厮说早上5点开始。可怜我4点50就爬起来，打开了一瓶啤酒，蹲电视前面苦苦的等，一直等到9点。骗我这么老实的人，太禽兽了，这人肯定会被雷劈的。好在节目很精彩，又是一个大团圆的结局，要不然亏大了。奥尼尔太有才了，15年全明星，好像就是弹指一挥间。OK组合最终拿到MVP，多好的结局。

一个N年没见的重庆姐姐跟我说她最近可能要来北京一趟。还说某MM总念叨我哪里哪里好，她要来看看真假。我就说“她这么器重我，不如就嫁给我吧”。她说“那正好，她刚离婚，我帮你们说说”。汗，几年没见，人家都开始第二两轮了。

一个同事拿出了他刚上大学时寝室的照片给我们看，都是一张张稚嫩的脸。然后又拿出了一张现在的照片做对比。10年，怎么感觉跟一个世纪似的。不是早生华发的问题了，怎么都已经秃顶了？

从万泉河到北师大的路上。昏暗的灯光里，一瞬过去一瞬现在，我仿佛看到了几年前的幽灵。我不是在寻找爱，而是那么迷醉于失意。

今天突破、分球、空位投篮、后仰挑投全都无敌了。一口气打了3个小时。打完球，我去游泳馆洗了把脸。看镜子里的我，头发蓬松，脸上还滴着水，面色红润，透着一点儿野气。好帅啊，自己迷倒了...

小李今天领证了，还专门弄了瓶6年的茅台。请我们小吃一顿。那个饭馆有免费的醪糟饮料。当时口渴得很，我见一个服务员就催一遍，连催了7遍都没有送上来。催第八遍的时候，我突然火了，拍着桌子吵了起来。然后把自己吓了一跳。我好多年都没有发过火了，感觉那几秒钟好象被恶魔俯身了一样。又想到了自己曾经养过的两条狗。它们平时都很乖，可是打假的时候，眼神就全变了，眼睛里完全没有一点儿理性的影子。我想我那3秒钟可能也是这个样子。

5号这天有点儿兴奋。对于我来说，这是春节最后一天了。下午跟同学打了半天台球，然后在江泽民去过的萧记烩面馆撮了一顿。

晚上，又去绿城广场放了会儿焰火。今年好多好多放孔明灯的啊。满天都是，跟鬼火似的。家人或者情侣，把愿望和祝福写在灯上，然后一起把灯举过头顶，等着它越来越轻，然后飞起来。总觉得每个画面都好温馨。

After using Microsoft Live Mesh, my concern about disk failure is greatly reduced. But another problem looms over the horizon.

I have 2 PCs and one laptop synchronized with each other, all of which containing critical data. What if I lost my laptop? Or someone just open the case and peek into the hard drive? All the confidential documents and valuable code will be in others hands.

So I decided to add some encryption mechanism. And the following paragraphs are about my annoying experience with Microsoft Bitlocker and my penchant for TrueCrypt.

[Microsoft Bitlocker]

First, I tried Microsoft's Bitlocker on a legacy laptop running Windows Vista.

Bitlocker take advantage of the TPM chip on the computer. And encrypt the whole partition. But this laptop has no TPM. After some googling, I found out that, in the absence of TPM, you can use a USB drive to store the key file. The only problem is that every time you want to boot up your PC, you will have to insert that USB drive.

Another thing is that a encrypted partition can't be used to boot up. So you need to create another 1.5G boot partition. And vista ultimate edition even offers a utility to do it. Generally, it does the following things.

1. Shrink my C: partition, leave some free space behind.
2. Create a 1.5G bytes partition S: out of the spaces just freed.
3. Install boot loader and boot manager on S:
4. Make S: as active partition.

So the next time you restart your computer, it should boot from the new partition S: and load Vista on C:. At least things should have worked out that way. But my computer just refused to reboot. It says "missing operating system".

I startup the command console using the vista installation DVD. And use bcdedit.exe and diskpart.exe to inspect on the drive or modify some boot configuration. But nothing works. So finally I give up and use diskpart.exe to mark the original partition as active. Now Vista is properly booting again. But I still can't get Bitlocker work.

[TrueCrypt]

Microsoft sucks! I need something else. And I'm very excited to tell you, I found something exceeding expectation! Something so delicate and beautiful. Every detail seems perfect. It's www.truecrypt.org

From the point view of a user, its main features are:

1. Virtual disk encryption. First, you need create a virtual disk with a password. A virtual disk is essentially a very large file. Then you can mount it to a drive letter and use it just like a ordinary hard disk. But every time you mount a virtual disk, you will be asked for the password. According to my test, the virtual disk is blazingly fast, the slow down is barely noticeable. This is the eaiest way to setup and has no potential risk of any kind.

2. Non-system partition encryption. That is, any partition without a booting OS. After encryption, Windows will still see the drive letter. But if you try to use it, Windows will tell you it's not formatted. So you'd better use Windows disk management program to remove the original drive letter. Then you can use TrueCrypt to mount the "hidden" partition to another drive letter. It will be usable then.

3. System partition encryption. This is the coolest part! In method 1 and 2, you will have to manually mount a drive. It's very inconvenient in some circumstances. For example, it will not be possible to start a SVN server on a virtual disk at boot up time. But if you encrypt the system partition, every time you boot your computer, it will ask you for a password. If the password is correct, then the Windows will start to boot. Everything is normal from then on, you will not even fell the existence of the encryption.

4. Hidden partition. Although technically, the encryption is invulnerable. What if someone with a gun asks you for the password? Will you be able to refuse? This software has taken that into account. It will create a hidden partition within a encrypted partition. So if you input password A, you will enter an ordinary disk which contains some appearingly important documents. But in fact they are not. But if you input password B, you will enter the real important disk.

From a technician's point of view:

1. By default, it uses 256bit AES encryption. For the foreseeable future, it can't be cracked. And it offers a lot of other algorithms too.

2. A tremendous amount of details are taken into account to make this software. For example, it will use your mouse movement to generate real random numbers.

3. The hidden disk thing is genius! It's technically impossible to tell whether there is a hidden disk without a password. It just hides within the random bytes of the unused free space of the first partition.

4. It's very robust. I tried to mess with the virtual disk file, change some bytes here, delete some bytes there. And when mounting it again, TrueCrypt tells me that the disk header is broken, I can choose either to use a backup one hidden some where else in the file or to use a recovery disk with the backup header. After restoring the header and successfully mount the drive, I found that some of the files in the drive are still good. So it's possible to recovery a failed disk just like an ordinary disk.

5. It's very user friendly. The text of the disk creating wizard is very clear and meaty. It will explain the consequence of each choice option. And it's very cautious about each step. For example, after telling me to create a recovery CD, it will wait for me to put the CD in the tray and verify it. (I use a virtual CD to fool it). Before rebooting, it tells me to print out a snippet containing some emergency procedures in case it doesn't boot.

6. It waste you no time waiting for the disk to be encrypted. The encryption is done in the background, and it can be paused and resume at any time. It will even resume after a power off.

7. It will carefully make sure your previous unencrypted data are erased. Using some advanced techniques such as magnetic force microscopy or magnetic force scanning, it's possible to recover the data that has been overwritten. So before encrypting a sector, it offers you a choice to write some random bytes into it, and overwrite it with some meaningful data, and some other random bytes again, and so on and so on... Only after that, it will write the encrypted data into that sector.

So join me and encrypt you laptop now.

感觉微软从来就没有推出过像样的网络应用。这次终于打了一个胜仗！

如果你有如下类似的烦恼，强烈推荐使用微软的www.mesh.com

1、你有3台电脑，办公室一台、家里一台、还有一台笔记本。总是要把一些文档考来考去，都搞不清楚那一份是最新的文档了。
2、硬盘损坏，使得你损失了好几年积攒的照片。
3、你想用笔记本给朋友展示一些照片，可是打开电脑才想起来，那些照片在家里电脑上。
4、你想和朋友共享一份文档。每次更改后，都要再给他发一份新的。

www.mesh.com 的思路是这样的。把多台机器串在一起，组成Mesh。任何一台电脑上的文件改变，都会自动传到另一台电脑上。只要两台电脑同时开启，并且连接着网络，就会自动进行文件同步。不过这么做的一个问题是，你必须同时打开两台或以上电脑。mesh其实也部分解决了这个问题！

www.mesh.com提供了一台5G空间的虚拟PC。这就是说，你的文件至少会被同步到这台虚拟PC上。当你打开另一台电脑时，虚拟PC上的文件就会自动下载到本地。

而且mesh还支持多人共享文件，Mobile设备的同步(up coming)。

其实这个功能就是我很久前想要的。当时苦于市场上没有这样的产品，我甚至想研究一下文件共享协议，自己做一个这样的软件。没想到让微软抢先做出来了，哈哈。在此暗自佩服一下自己的远见。