webslides allows one to turn bookmarks and feeds into interactive slideshows by converting bookmarks, RSS feeds, blogs to slideshows in minutes. pretty cool tool, have not experienced the creation process myself, but you can also take a look at some of the samples available on the page.
saw that it is “patent-pending”, so does it mean that it’ll not be a FREE tool soon *hmm*
self-intro (cont.) 个人简介（续）
你好，来到这儿，想必单单那三张图不能满足你的好奇心是吧？这里就给你说说那三张图背后所代表的意义吧 🙂
这张图代表了我们一家四口（太太和两个孩子）。为什么”yh4″呢？因为我们的中文名字的拼音缩写都是“Y”+”H”，故四个人就是YH4，不难懂吧 🙂 这回来复旦留学，我们全家都来到上海了。一家人嘛，总是分不开的。
这是我之前执教的学校，培德中学的校徽。我是中学华文教师，我在培德教了三年半后就申请到教育部教育科技司ä任职，在那待了两年八个月。运用科技于语文教学是我的兴趣，网记（blog）、网上论坛(discussion forum)是其中两个例子。我在教育科技司除了一些小研究之外，主管《文化桥》网站也是我的任务之一。我目前是停职留学，回国后还是继续教书的 🙂
（ 取自:http://www.yangzichan.com/）
这是一台古筝侧面的照片。我热爱华乐，曾参加过几个华乐团。古筝是我的独奏乐器，在乐队里，更多的时候我是拉二胡的。这几年由于工作的缘故，已经好一段时间没有练习了，手指也都不听使唤了。若你也是喜欢或学习华乐的，不妨和我说一声，那么我也就多了一个在海外的玩华乐的朋友了 🙂
写了那么多因该够满足你的好奇心了吧？若不然就请用
msn messenger和我联系吧，我们网上再叙！我的帐号是tyhan [在] hotmail [点] com （按：你须要把 “在” 和 ”点“ 转换成它们相应的 @ 和 . 符号方可）
谢谢！ 🙂
LIVAC Synchronous Corpus
was reading my standard reading for sociolinguistics and come across this important online resource:
The LIVAC (Linguistic Variations in Chinese Speech Communities) synchronous corpus, pioneered by the Language Information Sciences Research Centre at The City University of Hong Kong, contains texts from representative Chinese newspapers and electronic media of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Beijing, Shanghai, Macau and Singapore. The collection of materials from the diverse communities is synchronized, and so offers an innovative “Window” approach for a whole variety of comparative studies and useful IT applications.
one month in shanghai
it’s one month and three days to be exact. the YHs came to shanghai one month ago towing some 70+ kg of luggages and lugging yh3 & 4 who’s total weight amt to abt 25kg. the first few days we had survived in wensen’s apartment. thanks and grateful for his willingness to risk the structural integrity of the place with yh3 & 4 around :O
for the first two weeks, it’s like playing RPGs. u need to first collect artifact #1, then proceed to location two to get artifact #2 before you can unlock secret door one to retrieve artifact #3, which will in turn reveals the next part of your quest. of coz in our case, the quest is already known way before hand, except the random encounters common in rpg adds EXCITEMENT to life from time to time. dun feel like recalling wat the artifacts are, but in any case, i have gotten the two final quest items by yesterday, one is called 境外人士居留许可 and the other is the 学生证. both of them have an expiry date tagged, and another round of quests will take place in about 5 mths time i guess 😐 you cant imagine the sianness when i think of that, so better put that aside now.
where study is concerned, we have managed to find yh3 a nursery to join. it’s difficult to find a place to study here in shanghai. probably we din received training in some tactics or something. his school starts from 0830-1630 on 一、三、五 and till 1700 on二、四. so on most days yh2 is the one who sent yh3 to school and back. for me, i had signed up for 7 modules this semester. still trying to adapt to a student’s life, except it’s now studying with yh3 and yh4 around. it’s almost impossible to find time to study during the day. peace only sets in when they are asleep. books & readings are piling, assignments are piling, may buddha/god/allah bless us all :O
the one most difficult thing that’s we are still trying to grapple with is the WEATHER. for once in life, weather forecast become so important! it’s quite easy to 感冒 and get sick here coz it can be very warm in the morning, and after the rain sets in in the afternoon, it’s very cold, plus the fact that it’s super windy here, so it adds to the coldness. and if it rains for a few days, you feel like you are living in a fridge while indoors, and any reason to stay put and not move is welcome :O
it’ll soon be national day and national day holiday 十一黄金周 here. the government has advanced working days from 4/10 and 5/10 to 29/9 and 30/9 so that pple can take a whole week’s break. so for me, i’ll be attending thursday lesson today, and friday lesson tomorrow, and it’ll be one week’s break in school.
that’s about all i feel like writing for now. will pick up to write some more soon i hope 🙂
typhoon’s in the vicinity
weather here’s not as predictable as back home. it was sunny over the weekend, and *boom* out of a sudden (to me perhaps) a typhoon’s approaching fast. it was yellow alert for wind and blue alert for rain yesterday morning and the levels were escalated to amber for both. shanghai authority has ordered schools (K-12) to stop for one day. perhaps university students can judge for themselves so it’s not in the list. more detailed reports can be found here, here, and more. according to the latest news, Typhoon Wipha “韦帕” has been DOWNGRADED, which is great news! the effect to things is still great as you can read from these:
- “韦帕”未到先扰女足世界杯赛事
- 今早航班可能有大面积延误
- 申城景观灯首次避风关闭
- 本市紧急开会部署防汛防台
- “韦帕”今抵沪风力最高13级
- 全市中小学幼儿园今天停课
- 胡锦涛温家宝指示严防”韦帕”
which are some headlines off 新闻晨报’s web.
this is my first encounter with an typhoon approaching this lifetime, not in the face, but the wind’s surely strong and the rain’s surely heavy. and the temperature takes an obvious dip (esp wif the many hot days prior to this). still have a lesson this afternoon, hope the rain dun come in too soon :O