原來星期五已經在拉斯維加斯宣佈了 HD DVD 的死刑，雖然有點不忍，但市場只能夠容納一種高清光碟制式，早作淘汰總會為任何一個輸家省錢！作為用家，現在的問題是，在沒有兢爭壓力之下，blu-ray 碟將會是平了還是貴了。以近期所見，BD 是平了，但那是聖誕購物期間，價格會比較顛簸，難以為長遠走勢作指引。
BLOG友笑笑團 - 藍鷄 Update 2008-01-06
其實這個週末藍鷄的工作重心並非是一雙膝蓋而是這面盾，但因為造盾需要動用不少造型畢地 (Mori Mori) 的關係，開多了的造型畢地用了在一雙膝蓋而矣。而因為盾的上下延長部份不能同時進行，所以一雙膝蓋初步做了外形時這面盾還只完成了下面延長的部份。
上面一幅圖中新舊盾可謂看不出甚麼重要分別，但下圖卻清楚顯示了兩者的分別：舊盾是可以平放在桌上而新盾則因為弧形而不能夠平放。這個分別基本上反映了自己十多年的技術高下。這種弧面自己就算當年能夠做得出亦不可能在廿四小時內做出來。(當年恐怕連模型用的造型畢地也未有，要做可能要用兩條裝的混合畢地！)所以這次重做藍鷄對我來說是一大考驗
明顯地砌這隻藍鷄比搞龍飛更有趣更有感情，所以龍飛的進度還是免問吧
回家真好！
聖誕過後，元旦日要從多倫多駕車回渥太華，趕在二號那天開始上班。問題是當天正下著大雪，於是乎原本四小時的車程在雪地中變成六個半鐘頭。途中腦海中在思索一個大問題：為甚麼嚇一嚇會鼻哥窿無肉？看倌，在你替我解開這個天大迷團之前，請為我慶幸我能夠毫髮無損地完成那驚險的路程。(鼻哥窿內失去的肉不算數，這並非損傷。)
下圖：回到家中後見渥太華(又)蓋上一層厚雪
假期過後第二天上班自然心神恍惚，尤其是大雪過後氣溫驟降到零下廿多度，加上呼呼寒風感覺有零下三十多度，自然更加無心工作。在公司瀏覽互聯網新聞之際，才知道原來半年前自己還居住的夏理法斯市也遇上這場風雪。雖然是同一雪暴，但渥太華與夏理法斯就相差遠矣；因為這場雪暴是夏理法斯地區一星期內第四場風雪！原以為元旦日在路上遇到大風雪甚不「老黎」，但看罷這新聞後才慶幸自己搬回這裡真好
下圖：經驗說如果一早天際清朗無雲的話，氣温多數會很凍。
The Cost of Surveillance
The following link is a news article about a project called “Large Synoptic Survey Telescope”. The $400-million project tries to build a telescope to survey the entire sky every three nights for ten years. Honestly this is not the first “science” project that has its way to waste money in history. Nowadays people just obsessed with collecting data, any kind of data from any sources; indeed the biggest problem is what to do with all the data? Unfortunately Hollywood always tells the public that it is quick and easy to find, say, a person from various surveillance cameras but this is a huge job indeed. If it is so easy to do, Mr. bin Laden won’t be still at large at this time. All these imageries require analysts to examine inch-by-inch before one photo is found to be useful. The problem with the American military is not they don’t have enough airborne surveillance platform but they don’t have enough eyes to analyze the imagery data. (Infrared, SAR or hyperspectral imageries even require trained eyes.) In the case of astronomy, I believe most discoveries by using Hubble Telescope came from imageries that were taken a long while ago. It takes time and expertise to examine these photos. What good does it do to stream the imageries of the entire night sky to the internet for the general public? Yes, perhaps we now have the technology to do this kind of survey but we must think beyond achieving the technology milestone.
訂閱：
文章 (Atom)