Change of Guard in Buckingham Palace - with music

Change of Guard in Buckingham Palace

I will survive

Wooden horse painting

Wooden horse manufacture

Here is the process of how the wooden horses are manufactured in Dalhalla in the Dalarna län.

Concert in Dalhalla - II

Second part of the song!

Concert in Dalhalla - I

Themes / Skins

I have coincidentally got the experiences of changing the themes / skins of my blog as I've found that my first theme is same as the template of one of my blog mates. I do like the colors which show more feminine feeling which are mainly pink and purple colors.

Changing themes is common for bloggers by choosing one free theme to another or develop your own one. I have tried to customize to my first theme, by changing code, but it didn't look good as a result , and thus I could only choose the best one from the templates area.

To design a blog theme, I mainly focus on the colors ,which explains the reason why I have changed the theme. Readability is also important so I want to make it as simple as possible and that does not detract from the visitors to read my blog.

What happens in / behind Facebook?

Do you know what's happened when you join and are addicted on Facebook? After reading the Terms of Use on Facebook, I would like to share my personal feelings here. Indeed, I think many of my classmates have also read about those and felt that we have sold our privacy to them even there is 'privacy' setting .

When people sign up the account, some people will write their personal and professional life on their profiles, and later they will join the 'group' and share their interest, add different applications, update their status every moment or everyday. Do we know that we have already given away or sold our privacy to different organizations indirectly for commercial uses? That maybe one of the secrets / reasons why Facebook get $60 million investment lately from the richest East Asian man, Mr Li in Hong Kong and $240 million investment from Microsoft.

Not only for commercial uses, some investors and venturers of Facebook who are working related to CIA and IAO ( Information Awareness Office) and it seems that our personal information, privacy rights and our behaviour such as internet activity are disclosed to such 'spy' organizations.

I'm here not to ask people to quit Facebook and for sure everyone has own thought. Privacy is the freedom. It is valuable that granted in our lives and we should not give them away!

Re: Google maps

After looking at the latest blog of David Weinberger’s who has talked about 2 types of control, I like the type of 'report abuse' which can protect privacy . However, I think the edge cases or 'grey area' will still remain controversial over period of time.

One thing I still don't understand why we cannot search more detailed information, for example to located the exact address of a building in Guangzhou, Mainland China, on google maps..

What is miscellaneous?

What is miscellaneious? I have watched a video about David Weinbergers' speech. In this video , it's talking about "Everything is miscellaneous". What is that about?

When you have access to such a huge information resource as the Web, categories really break down. They break down even in your home. You have one box for "kitchen stuff", one for "christmas stuff", one for "shoes" and one for "stuff that I didn't know which box to put them in". You don't have millions of anonymous sources of stuff, only what you have yourself brought home, but still you can't categorize it properly.

When Yahoo was started, it's main point was that Altavista didn't work, people just searched on random terms and got random results. What they offered was instead something much better: information sorted into categories, sorted by real, intelligent people instead of a stupid search function. They had a point, of course, and quickly became a popular alternative to the search function of Altavista. As the Web grew, though, they had problems keeping up. How do you decide what categories to carry? And how many people do you need to keep your categories up-to-date when new pages pop up at an ever-increasing rate? An ever-increasing amount, of course, which Yahoo didn't have. As the chaos increased, search engines were becoming more relevant again.

Then something happened. The founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted to develop a technology that would retrieve appropriate information from the vast amount of data and they combined the two ideas into something even better: information sorted into categories, sorted by something that increased at the same rate as the pages to be sorted. The pages themselves. They harnessed the power of a million real, intelligent people writing links to each other's pages. And the categories are many: they are the search words. Before Google, search engines competed on how many pages they had indexed and how many hits you would get when searching for a certain term. Google beat them all, both on pages indexed and acquired hits, but that was not their strength. Google was immensely more competent on providing relevant hits. They had the ability to reach into that big miscellaneous-box that is the internet and bring back that screwdriver you were looking for. And they could do it cheaper and better than Yahoo. A million of web authors writing links produced more detailed and updated information than a handful of editors on Yahoo's payroll.

What happened to Yahoo? Obviously, they created a search engine. The directory apparently still exists at http://dir.yahoo.com/, and is still being updated by humans. But when you go to yahoo.com, it's not the directory you see, it's the search engine. That's why Google is the most preferred search engine of the world!

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