http://robrohan.com 任意的技术 Fri, 16 May 2008 17:18:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've found a few streaming Chinese radio stations online, but most are hip hop / rap type music. There is nothing wrong with that, but 我喜欢朋克音乐。 I found one this morning that has a few mildly heavyish songs on it. It's style is close to Alice 97.3 - if you're ... http://robrohan.com/2008/05/16/chinese-alternative-music-radio/ If you haven't heard, there was a huge earthquake in south west China. Something like 10,000 people are feared dead. It's a horrible natural disaster. If you have friends or family in the region, my thoughts go out to you and your family. I found a video taken by a student ... http://robrohan.com/2008/05/12/video-of-the-earthquake-in-china/ Random tid bit. A friend of mine went to Africa a while ago and brought me back an odd, but cool souvenir. It's a soft drink made by Guinness called Malta. Here is what it looks like: While this may sound like something you may want to try, he said it ... http://robrohan.com/2008/05/09/guinness-soft-drink/ This looks totally sick! Engadget is reporting that the iPhone 2.0 firmware will add Chinese handwriting recognition, and the screen shot they have looks very interesting. I would absolutely love to have this - I can't even tell you how fun this would be. It would make dict.cn and nciku.com usable ... http://robrohan.com/2008/05/05/iphone-20-firmware-might-add-chinese-handwriting/ I did a small update to Afae this weekend. The main purpose of the update was Eclipse Europa was having probles with the snippet inserting code. It was gacking on a height setting which was causing any snippet that had a dialog to fail. I hadn't been using Afae for ... http://robrohan.com/2008/05/04/small-afae-update/ Yesterday my friend Geoff told me he got some weird redirect spam when he visited my site. It went to some viagra type site. I did a quick look through all the things I could think of, and nothing looked odd. However, today I came across this uncorroborated post that Yahoo ... http://robrohan.com/2008/04/29/yahoo-ads-might-be-might-have-been-serving-malware-bunk-redirects/ Via Digg - An attendee snapped a shot of Steve Ballmer doing a presentation at some sort of business leadership gathering, and noticed he was using a Mac to do his presentation. Here is the shot: (Photo curtsey of Choubistar via his flickr account) ... wait for it ... Ok, it's probably not ... http://robrohan.com/2008/04/28/steve-ballmer-uses-a-mac/ I knew it would happen eventually, but I didn't expect this so soon. According to USA Today China now has more people on the internet than the USA. According to the story, there are now 220 million Chinese internet users vs. 216 million USA users (USA had the world dominate usage). The ... http://robrohan.com/2008/04/22/china-now-has-more-internet-users-than-these-usa/ Another hair brained scheme... I woke up Saturday with an idea (which is actually a joke at our house now, "Guess what honey, I have an idea!"). I wanted to have a podcast of news bits that I could listen to while I did my morning routine - the catch ... http://robrohan.com/2008/04/21/automator-radio-create-your-own-automatic-podcast/ A short video showing how to use Automator to scrape (to use an old 90's term) and download some files. This example downloads some MP3 files by using the search engine Baidu.com. Automator Music http://robrohan.com/2008/04/17/using-automator-to-spider-for-files/