–my English is poor–

I used to  agree with the assert that the development of economic will benefit lots of areas of a society, such as the morality, human rights, and people’s freedom.

This argument seems flawed. Taken China for example, with the 30 years’ open and development, the economic of China has been developed a lot. But the human rights, and freedom of China just has little progress. Especially in the year of 2007-2008, the economic still develops fast, but the social is becoming instability. Many Chinese will agree that the morality of a society is decline in some areas with the develop of economic.

In the very meaning of my first assert "development of economics", not refer to the increase of GDP, but the economics. They are quite different.

When people get rich, get comfortable, and the their life become easy, then they’ll understand the value of freedom, the value of human rights, and the value of human life. When people start to value these values, start to respect other people not because of fear and power, the morality of the society then will develop. So maybe the assert should be: When most people get rich, the society gets peace.

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I haven’t read as much as I used to, for the endless works in the lab. If you love the feeling of have a rich brain, read a lot and frequently is quite necessary. There’s something you can not get from practice.

for me, if I open a blog writer, and fill the title blank, but suddenly found I have nothing to say, feel empty in my head, then I need to read something.

I know sometimes my point is not easy to understand, especailly when it’s expressed in English.  If there is anthing not right in my posts, please let me know. very appreciate of that. For a talentless English learner, suggestion is valuable.

Sometimes when we get nothing to do, site alone with ourselves, thinking about things hanging around us, or thinking about our futures, our plans, our sweet dreams. In that moment, life has no ends and full of possibility to let us be different (from now).

Sometimes when I suddenly wake up from the status, I’ll stand up and look for something to drink, and feel necessary to talk with someone about something never matters to help me get rid of all these anxiousness.

I’m afraid, I’m scared, they can never be true.

I made my first try of windows live writer 3 years ago when its first version was just released. At that time, it disappointed me a lot: an ugly face, and poor support to WordPress.

I don’t know why I download the live writer again :(. For no reason, I just download it, and open it, and this time, it surprised me a lot :). I’m confident that Window Live Writer and Windows Live Messenger must be managed by different groups thought they are both Windows Live Software, because Live Writer are getting better, and Live Messenger are becoming worse and worse everyday. Lots of time, I can’t make myself believe that Live Messenger is a product of Microsoft.

You needn’t to specify what the proxy used by your blog system, or where the xml-rpc file is (if rpc is supported), just tell Live Writer your blog address, he’ll know everything about your blog: Category, Pings, and Trackbacks, Current Styles…

I noticed that in WordPress 2.3, tags system is built in. So there is a Keyword area in Live Writer where you can fill with tags. Because I’m using Ultimate Tag Warrior to build my tags system, so the keyword doesn’t work in my blog. :(. Hope it will be supported in future released.

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One of my biggest problem is making quick decision, or making quick choice. At many times,when I have to make a choice, I’ll think about every possible consequence of every possible choice. I always focus on how much I’ll lose, and can’t stop asking myself: Can I afford it? Can’t everything just be perfect?

Study of Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

1.Breif introduction of Thomas HardyThomas Hardy(1840-1928) was born in Upper Bockhanpton,southeast of England. Hardy learnt a lot from his poor yet well-educated and aspiring parents. He was interested in various topics, such as archetecture, literature,and science , which helped to make his works full and impressive. Greatly influenced by some liberal thinkers such as Darwin and John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hardylost faith in Christianity,and this contributed to his tragic novels including Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

2.story and theme

Story: In short, novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles mainly talks about an innocent, and beautiful girl Tess’s bitter struggle in making her way to freedom. At very young, she was taken advantage by an evil man Alec who happened to be mistaken as her family’s rich relative. Couldn’t be reconciled to be his mistress, she left him and had her baby (which died at an early stage) at home. She was under great social pressure and left home to work in a milk farm where she met her beloved husband Angel who deserted her after knowing her indecent past. Having no way to support her family, she returned to Alec. Angel later, resented his decision, came for Tess. During a fit, she killed Alec and ran away with her truth love. She was commited to death in the end. Finally, she was free from family burden, from love’s torture, from resentfluness to Alec.

Theme: For this novel, many famous critics made profound and sensible understandings. Connected with Hardy’s misbelief in Christianity, it is quite reasonable to consider the novel is a religious liberation. There are at least two symbols( the death of the child and the Stonehenge) in the novel which outlined the stages of Tess’s religious-orientation.

a) the death of the childTess’s child Sorrow died, as a christian, Tess pleaded the priest to give the child a funeral of chrisian. The priest’s rentless refusal pushed Tess to declare that “……then, I don’t like you, I will never go to your church……” Later, she buried her child and placed a cross on the tomb. At this stage, Tess started to question Christianity as a sacred and loving religion, though she was still afraid of God, afraid of not going to heaven.

b)The Stonehenge

Stonehenge stands on the open downland of Salisbury Plain two miles (three kilometres) west of the town of Amesbury, Wiltshire, in Southern England. According to many studies, the Stonehenge has various symbolic meanings. One idea is that Stonehenge stands for “the natural”. In Hardy’s word, Tess Durbeyfield is a pure woman, being natural of her femininity, her beauty and her motivation. And by putting Stonehenge in the end, the author wanted to show that Tess struggled her life for being natural. Another idea is that Stonehenge is a sacred place for religion. With Stonehenge being the last scene, the author wanted to advocate religion freedom. All in all, both two views are supportive for the theme of religion liberation.

3.Writing techniquesAs a famous novel writer, besides his thought-provoking theme revelled in his works, Hardy was also known for his great command of English. Though reading the book, I think the following two characterisics are prominent in the novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles. a) sharp contrast and deep ironyFirstly, if we focus on the plot itself, there are several examples of this technique. For instance, when Tess went to claim kin with Mrs d’Urbervilles with, at bottom of her heart, reverence to the honor of the family name, however, what she saw were very different from what she had thought. The mansion was new, and the so called noble rich relatives were actually named Stoke. For fun, or any other vanity sake, the rich family bought the noble name. Another prominent one is, after Tess and Angel’s marriage, their different responses to each other’s confession. Tess, with unbreakable love for her husband forgave Angel’s indecent past without hesitation while Angel, trapped by wordly ethics, couldn’t accept his beloved wife’s miserable experience. These two contrasts sharply revelled a society cruel, unequal, and unfavorableto women, as well as one full of vanity and falseness. The author hatched his irony to the society in contrasts which, when applied skillfully, can effectively pass his ideas to his readers.

Secondly, we also can find such contrast in elsewhere. “When Abraham realized it, the furrows of fifty years were extemporized on his young face.– Chapter4” “furrows of fifty years” and “young”are miles-away in reality, but, when the horse which supported the whole family died, they appereared at the same time on the face. This kind of description gives a thrilling effect. The readers can easily get the idea that during that time, how poverty affected the poor, even to a little boy.

There are abudant examples of such kind in the novel.

b) language.

Generally, Hardy’s language is not in an easy tone, but sometimes, humour is a lovely unforgetable ingredient. Like “.….contemplated his length from crown to toe…”and “As the lad stood in a dubious attitude Durbeyfield put his hand in his pocket, and produced a shilling, one of chronicaly few that he possessed.” (in Chapter1) are nice examples which give a vivid descrition of the crazy reaction after Durbeyfield heard he possessed noble blood.

Also, Hardy exploited the English language fully to show the different education background of different people.To achieve this , he followed two ways. In one way, he dealt with dialects fluently in his writing; in the other, he presented broken English. Hardy displayed “’Tis”, “’em”, “yee”, “Aby”, “O”, “fam”(farm), etc to organize conversations which vividly show the people and society at that time.

There is another feature of his language, that is fate-decided and tragedy implicated. Between his seemed-trivial conversation and narration, careful and sensitive readers can smell the fate of the heroin. For example:

In chapter4

– “Tess is queer.”(father)

–“but she’s tratable at bottom.”(mother)

This one reveals the soft part of Tess and answers why Tess had such a fate.

In chapter6

She thought this an ill omen—the first she had noticed that day. (after seeing Alec)

http://news.hongen.com/news/show_33_2925.html

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMStonehenge.html

http://www.greycat.org/papers/tess.html

There are two steps, and only two.

1. Read Thinking in Java;

2. If you feel confused when reading, then “RTFS”.

That’s quit enough. The code tells everthing. It’s obvious and easy to be understood. Why not just look into it?

(RTFS: Read The Fuching Source)

In my view: atomic service doesn’t like (never) talking with other services(no matter atomic or not). If one web service using another web service’s output, it’s should be a composite service.

In owl-s’ view: atomic services only speak to users once (which means there are no interactions betweent users and web services),  one  input,  one output, nothing more. composite services always have interactions with users.

My way is Services-Oriented, and owl-s’ way is Users-Oriented.

Ten days before, and yesterday, I receive 2 offers (one fulltime, one part-time) about semantic web. The 2 new companies have some wonderful idea by using semantic web technology.

Semantic web adds metadata to all the data. yeh, though not easy to make it reality, but when maked, things will become much simple&wonderful.