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Aurogon's latest news

Aurogon(烛龙) is a game company founded in 2008 and most of its staffs are from Softstar Shanghai (上海软星) which was affiliated with Tanwan's Softstar (大宇资讯), soon after the PAL4 (Chines Paladin Series 4 仙剑奇侠传四) hit market on Aug 1st, 2007, Shanghai team was dismissed as they complained they didnt get much support from its parent company.
Most of the team members joined Aurogon, and the new firm, funded by one Real Estate businessman from Beijing, determines to insist in PC game development. Its first try, The Bizhero(商战-飞黄腾达), a webpage game, was released for testing in Jan 15, 2009, and now the team are working on a RPG game, as they promised at very first.
The official forum just opened two weeks ago, serveral sketches of the new game were presented to players, as quoted here, very ancient Chinese style:


They didnt disclose any more information of the new game, which is expected by many many game players, especially those touched by PAL4.
PAL series are one of the most popular Chinese RPG games and PAL4 is the best-seller game in China with around 800, 000 copies sold so far (it is also my favorate game), although the game was cracked one month after it hits market, many players show their support by buying genuine copies. Meanwhile, it is estimated that millions of pirated copies are downloaded thru Internet.

PAL5 development is taken over by Softstar Beijing, supervised by Yao Zhuangxian, the creator of PAL series, it is said the storyline will finish by year 2010.

Run Multiple Instances of Messenger

To be able to run multiple instances of messenger (Messenger多账户登陆) is always an appealing function for messenger users, in the past users would use third-party plug-ins such as Messenger Plus! or MSN Shell to get additional features and functions, however, now the new messenger (version 9.0+) added native support for that, although it was not officially integrated, there is a trick to do that.
I remembered to realize that function when I first used Live Messenger 9.0 without doing anything, however, after a re-installation of my OS, and messenger of course, I could not use the feature anymore, I inspected the installation pack, and the sign-in assistant is there, why?
After several searches through Google, I found following hack on the registry will get the function back:
Open registry editor, and navigate to
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Live\Messenger", right-click on Messenger and create a new dWord, name it as "MultipleInstances", set its value to 1.

Close registry editor, and now you can run as many messenger as you like, as is shown in snapshot below:
Well, it's done, but one problem I am not sure is whether it has something to do with sign-in assistant, which is described as to be used for linking multiple accounts.

Summer Palace (颐和园)

Summer Palace is an imperial resort built in Qing dynasty in China, here it stands for a moive co-produced by Chinese and French, in year 2006; initially it was banned to screen in mainland China as the movie depicts the 64 Tiananmeng Square Event (六四事件), and also involves large amount naked and sex clips.

Depicting the love & life of college students in 80s, it gives us a rough picture how the society looks at that time and how the youths think and behave, quite different from what we see now in the campus.


The picture is dim and the companion music is melody-slow and oppressive, while plenty of asides added to more depress feelings.

It is the only asian movie selected to compete for Golden d'Or in Berlin (柏林国际电影节) in 2006. Here is the link to IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0794374/, as is described there, this movies is about obsessive love.

Personalize Blogspot Template

Tictac is really a nice template, except that the layout is a bit tight for me; to utilize more space, we need to expand the columns, which is fairly easy to do, below I will demonstrate how:

Step 1: expand the columns
Before that, you need to download the original template which is already provided, see snapshot below:


open download template, which is a XML file, with a text editor, here I use MS Expression Web, spot the following section as is highlighted in blue:


outer-wrapper wraps the whole section so first we assign a larger value (default width is 800 px?) to it, then we increase the main (left column containing posts) and sidebar columns respectively, note that we need reserve some margin in between otherwise the sidebar will not be positioned properly. Here I assign the width using percentage value and give 64% for the main column and 30% for the sidebar. Meanwhile, we need to set the float attribute for each, see highlighted section.

Above step finishes the layout expansion, next we will expand the backgrounds to make them fit the modified page.
There are 5 background images we need modify, as background-size attribute is only supported by CSS 3, we need to manually resize the images.
Download the images and edit it in any photo editing tool, here I use Adobe Photoshop to equally expand the images by setting image size to 984px, which corresponds to the size of the outer-wrapper.


Upload the amended images to any web repository where you can retrieve them with URLs, what I use is Google Picassa Web album, get each image address and place them in the template to replace the original, save the template and then upload it, OK, IT'S DONE!

Fairly simple, right? If you are not interested to try it yourself, you can download the modified template HERE.

Ashes of Time Deluxe (东邪西毒终极版)

前天腾出时间看了下东邪西毒终结版-Ashes of Time Deluxe，这次没有像上次一样看得昏昏欲睡，觉得确实不错，一直很讨厌故弄玄虚故作高深的作品，东邪西毒没有如此那般，让我佩服的地方是台词比较打动人心，能咀嚼出些味来。

“他虽是一个落魄的剑客，生活却很有规律，每天都会来这里，饮一杯酒，吃两碗饭”
听到这样的台词就很喜欢，这是一种人生的态度，落魄的生活不应该磨灭人的心志，不应放之任之，如果生活也颓废，也就意味着心已经沉沦了。。

影片主旨是爱情，却也包含了人生。有了感情经历后，看着共鸣也自然会多些。
喜欢洪七的一段，喜欢梁朝伟的一段，喜欢最后一段。。
复刻版场景处理得确实很美，一帧一帧的如油画，很有艺术感。
贴张片头截图，某人的眼神实在太迷人了。


片头曲换了，原来的天地孤影任我行（片中洪七北上的插曲）多有气势的。。

北大教授健康讲座笔记

刚听了一个很有益的讲座，不知是那个教授。

一，首先是健康长寿三大要素：

饮食+有氧运动+心理状态

二，国际公认的6种健康饮料

• 绿茶-茶多酚，抗癌，软化血管
  
• 红酒-逆转醇，抗自由基
  
• 豆浆-抗癌
  
• 酸奶-防病
  
• 骨头汤-延年益寿
  
• 蘑菇汤-增强抵抗力
  

三，健康饮食搭配之“亚洲金字塔”

即谷，豆，菜三类
具体谷类有玉米（含卵磷脂），荞麦，薯类，燕麦，小米，芝麻等；
蔬菜水果包括番茄（番茄素，需温后食用），大蒜（切片，生吃），胡萝卜（养眼）等；
花粉具有诸多功效，包括祛斑美容，除皱，防止前列腺增生，减脂等；
螺旋藻被誉为“21世纪最优质蛋白”，列入太空食品，作用有四：
1. 降血压、血脂，防止心脑血管病；
2. 防止糖尿病；
3. 防止肝炎->我国健康第五大杀手
4. 防癌

四， 有氧运动及作息事宜

国际推荐的有氧运动为慢跑或者散步，强度中等，一周三四次，每次半个小时至一个小时；
每天最佳起床时间为早上6点，开窗户时间为9点到11点；
午睡如需的话，应该在饭后半个小时之后；
笑是肠胃天然的健美操。每天应大笑三次，每次三分钟左右。。

五，其他一些注意事项

老年人忌早起锻炼；
菠菜含草酸，四十岁以后宜少食用；猪肝含大量胆固醇，松花蛋含铅，宜少食；
臭豆腐宜少食；
花生的红衣->提高血凝性，不宜食用；

Love & Friendship

Love is more about mutual trust, understanding and giving;

Friendship can stop at joking and gossiping;