Gradual Quietness

Today is Buddha’s Birthday, Apr 8th lunar calendar.

Since 1997, Buddha’s Birthday has been a public holiday in Hong Kong SAR. It replaced Queen’s Birthday, which is a public holiday before Hong Kong was handed over. There are a lot of public holidays in Hong Kong, including both Chinese traditional feasts such as Chong Yang, Qing Ming, Duan Wu, etc and western ones such as Christmas and Easter. Hong Kong has the mixture of culture from both Eastern and Western, so are its holidays.

This photo was taken on Buddha’s Birthday in 2001 in Hong Kong. This is the largest outdoor Buddha statue in the world. You can find some flare around Buddha’s head, it’s not caused by the bright sky, it’s the low cloud instead. It’s also because the base of the statue is also very high.

Here’s another photo I took on the same day. This is the temple where the statue is located. You can see the cloud is really low.

It’s pretty cool to search MP3’s using Google. For example, search

"alizee" intitle:index.of mp3 -html -htm -php -asp -txt -pls

in Google will turn back all MP3’s by Alizée.

Link.

对于多年来已经习惯了晚睡晚起的我，在周末的早晨早起做“early bird”实在是一件困难的事。不过为了尧尧瑶瑶，今天还是强打精神起了个早，去为她搜罗一些价廉物美的好东西。对照着地图开车和尧妈一连转了几个“车库卖场”，而且出发时天空还细雨绵绵，不过收获还是非常不错的，满载而归。
看来做“早鸟”是有道理的，确实有虫子吃。古训诚不吾欺也。

One of the main reasons to switch to Firefox from IE is that it’s said to be securer. But…Firefox is having vulnerabilities too. Before it’s been fixed (hopefully in the very near future), I think it’s better to stay with IE if you don’t want to disable JavaScript in Firefox.

UPDATE: Firefox 1.0.4 is released for upgrade.

Many flickr tools are collected on this site:
http://pchere.blogspot.com/2005/03/great-flickr-tools-collection.html.