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Peking U or Beijing U

February 12th, 2007

前不久看到一篇文章,顺着链接跟过去,原来是出自北大中文论坛的一篇旧贴,题目是《北京大学不应该是 Peking University 的20个理由》,文章还挺长,耐着性子读完一遍主要是为了瞧瞧这个无知的人到底"无畏"到了什么地步。哦,就因为普通话、汉语拼音得到了推广,所以沿用百年、在世界范围内拥有相当知名度的 Peking University 都得跟着变了。按照这种逻辑,那"中国"的英文译名也不能叫 China ,得改成 Zhongguo ,成天"瓷器瓷器"地叫咱们,多没面子、多没国威啊,对不?"爱国者"们,赶紧行动起来吧!发起一场声势浩大的改名运动,要求英语世界必须统一使用 Zhongguo 这一新译名!还有还有, Hong Kong 得叫 Xianggang , Macau 得叫 Aomen , Tibet 得叫 Xizang ,。。。

想起一更无厘头的。我在南京读书的时候,有一次在猫空和人吃饭,听到有人在议论东南大学的英文译名问题。听到其中一人说道,东南大学不应该叫 Southeast University ,而应该叫 Dongnan University 云云,这厮给出的理由是如此翻译方才符合有关规定。闻得如此宏论,我们桌几个人都乐了,赶紧扭头找这高人。

对于地名和专属名称的翻译,规范确实是必须的,但是惯例和约定俗成也是必须得到重视和尊敬的。

无节制地拓展爱国主义、民族主义的"爱国者"是为贼,"爱国贼",可恨可恼可怜。

Someone's Watching Over Me

February 8th, 2007

这首歌曲是 Hilary Duff 音乐中我比较喜欢的一首,另外还有一首 Come Clean 也很好,下次介绍。 

Lyric

Found myself today
Oh I found myself and ran away
Something pulled me back
The voice of reason I forgot I had
All I know is you're not here to say
What you always used to say
But it's written in the sky tonight

So I won't give up
No I won't break down
Sooner than it seems life turns around
And I will be strong
Even if it all goes wrong
When I'm standing in the dark I'll still believe
Someone's watching over me

Seen that ray of light
And it's shining on my destiny
Shining all the time
And I won't be afraid
To follow everywhere it's taking me
All I know is yesterday is gone
And right now I belong
To this moment to my dreams

So I won't give up
No I won't break down
Sooner than it seems life turns around
And I will be strong
Even if it all goes wrong
When I'm standing in the dark I'll still believe
Someone's watching over me

It doesn't matter what people say
And it doesn't matter how long it takes
Believe in yourself and you'll fly high
And it only matters how true you are
Be true to yourself and follow your heart

So I won't give up
No I won't break down
Sooner than it seems life turns around
And I will be strong
Even if it all goes wrong
When I'm standing in the dark I'll still believe
That I won't give up
No I won't break down
Sooner than it seems life turns around
And I will be strong
Even when it all goes wrong
When I'm standing in the dark I'll still believe
That someone's watching over
Someone's watching over
Someone's watching over me

Someone's watching over me

Hilary Duff

Hilary Duff 全名 Hilary Ann Duff, 1987年9月28日出生于 Houston, Texas. 她很小就开始参加演出,出演了不少电视剧、电影,使她名声远扬的是2001年1月起在迪斯尼电视台开播的电视剧 Lizzie McGuire, 该剧获得了巨大的成功,在2002和2003年连续两年被评选为最受欢迎的电视连续剧(Favorite Television Series),之后又拍摄了电影版 The Lizzie McGuire Movie 。

Hilary Duff 的个人专辑有:

2002 Santa Claus Lane
2003 Metamorphosis
2004 Hilary Duff
2005 Most Wanted

Using Nutch 0.8.1 for Intranet Crawling and Searching

February 6th, 2007

本文尝试使用 Nutch 0.8.1 来为几个指定的网站建立全文索引,且不使用 Hadoop 提供的分布式能力,只是简单地在一台单独的机器上完成索引工作。如果需要使用 Nutch 的分布式能力,需要熟悉一下 Hadoop.

约定 Nutch 部署后的目录结构如下:
/home/hys/nutch-deployed
    /nutch-0.8.1
        (Nutch 0.8.1 installation goes here)
    /nutch-0.8.1-web
        (Nutch web module for searching goes here)

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