Got sometime several days before to sort the photos shooted in my Ph.D Celebration. And they can be found in my photo gallery.
I should thank my colleague Jan, Kelana and David for their photography. It was really a nice moment :)
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Blog.QS is now hosted here by myself …
Dear Friends and Guests,
here I am glad to announce that Blog.QS will be hosted here by myself from now on. The data are completely immigrated to the new server, which also hosts the Wiki.QS and Gallery.QS and you can access the new Blog.QS via:
http://blog.qingshen.de or
http://qshen.dyndns.org:33333/blog/
Wordpress.com does provide nice, riendly and stable services for the blogers and I owe thanks to their efforts. However, the flexibility of the service are somehow limited. For example, you can barely install a desired new plugin at the server, which is somehow resonable. But, I still strongly expect to integrate my gallery with it and finally I decide to host the blog by myself.
Since I am satisfied with the blog software used at wordpress.com, I will keep using the same code released at wordpress.org. The immigration of the data runs very smoothly and works like a charm. Thanks again to all the people working for wordpress.com and wordpress.org. The only pity is that the comments can not be exported from the web interfaces. It could be resolved by contacting the webmaster of wordpress.com, but I gave it up since I did not have many comments.
Although the immigration of the data are already done, I need to configure some new plugins and themes. It might be a little bit unstable in recent days and I sincerely beg your patience :D Again: the Blog.QS at http://qingshen.wordpress.de won't be updated anymore :P
yours,
Sandy
here I am glad to announce that Blog.QS will be hosted here by myself from now on. The data are completely immigrated to the new server, which also hosts the Wiki.QS and Gallery.QS and you can access the new Blog.QS via:
http://blog.qingshen.de or
http://qshen.dyndns.org:33333/blog/
Wordpress.com does provide nice, riendly and stable services for the blogers and I owe thanks to their efforts. However, the flexibility of the service are somehow limited. For example, you can barely install a desired new plugin at the server, which is somehow resonable. But, I still strongly expect to integrate my gallery with it and finally I decide to host the blog by myself.
Since I am satisfied with the blog software used at wordpress.com, I will keep using the same code released at wordpress.org. The immigration of the data runs very smoothly and works like a charm. Thanks again to all the people working for wordpress.com and wordpress.org. The only pity is that the comments can not be exported from the web interfaces. It could be resolved by contacting the webmaster of wordpress.com, but I gave it up since I did not have many comments.
Although the immigration of the data are already done, I need to configure some new plugins and themes. It might be a little bit unstable in recent days and I sincerely beg your patience :D Again: the Blog.QS at http://qingshen.wordpress.de won't be updated anymore :P
yours,
Sandy
Wednesday, July 5, 2006
Dr.-Ing. & Germany beat Argentina
After a long nervous waiting, I finally passed the final Ph.D. defense on last friday (June 30, 2006). As I said, it was a little bit late to realize the difficulty of the defense, and that made me extremly under stress and nervous during last week.
Unlike the Ph.D. defense in US and China, the defense committee in Germany will score the final defense based on the quality of the dissertation, the talk/presentation of the work and the oral defense/exam. Based on the rumors, the dissertation accounts 60%, presentation accounts 15% and final defense accounts 25%. However what I worried about is only the presentation. Because it was written in the defense regularity that the presententation should be finished within 25 to 30 min, less than 25 min. or over 30 min. will be fatal. Beside that, unfluent talking is also fatal :(
Although my colleagues tried to calm me down by telling me that the committee won't be so strict to a foreign student, I couldn't help worrying about it. Because I just finished first version of the slides on Monday, then practiced the german prolog on Monday evening; on Tuesday I improved the slides to the almost final version and started to practise some parts of the talk; on Wednsday I did practise the whole talk for the first time; on Thursday practising the talk with time limitation. Friday, DEFENSE!!! I nearly couldn't take anytime on preparing for the questions in the oral defense.
Fortuantely, I felt quite calm on friday and after eating a delicious dinner made by 00 I felt even better :D. Based on the latest notification (because of an important soccer match: Germany against Argentina, the defense committee decided to push my defense 30 min. in advance) my presentation will start at 15:25, we left home around 14:30 and bought some TicTac candy (I did actualy want to buy Fishman, but it was coincidently sold out) for refreshing my throat on the way.
When I arrived, another colleague Rafael Radkowski just finished his defense (we start our Ph.D. programme at the same time and fortunately also finished at the same time). I saw he was waiting outside nervously for the announcement of his final score. I greeted him and we had no mood to talk further and I went directly to the meeting room and repared my presentation. After settling the hardware staff, I went out for some fresh air. And just in time, Rafael's final score came out, which was "Ausgezeichnet" ( in english is Excellent). As far as I remember, only 3~5% people got this grade. I felt glad for him and congratulated him with a big tight hug and he wished me good luck. However that gave me even more pressure.
There's nothing special to say about my presentation, I haven't done it ever better than that and finished my talk just when my Presenter viberated, which was set for 26 min. I should thank my colleagues and friends for reacting my talking with their positive expression in their eyes and nodding, which gave me great confidence. The oral defense was easier as I thought, the professors didn't ask many deep theoretical questions. However, the question were very general and covered CS, ME and EE, which might relate to my work. I was confused twice in my defense. Once was by a extreme easy and self-explaining questions. I did beg the professor to ask it both in english and german to make sure that I didn't make a mistake in understanding the question. But it was indeed simple, which became however difficult to response. I had no idea but re-explicated the meaning of the question in another mean. Fortunately, the professor seemed to be satisfied. Another suprising question was the last one, they asked me to predict the results of the upcoming soccer match: Germany <-> Argentina. I was frozen for a while and then answered, " Germany will win" ! After that, I got the "Sehr Gut" grade (in english is Very Good, which is one grade less than Excellent). I was totally satisfied or even much more better than I expected...
After a long queued congratulations, all the friends, colleagues and professors sat together and started to watch the soccer match, which started at 17:00. As I had predicted, Germany did beat Argentina in the final Penalty Shoot-Out. We started the celebration with a dilicious Banquet and "hundered" bottles of beer were drunk in that night...
It's saddly to see germany lost their chance on July 4 to get the 2006 world cup ... :(
Unlike the Ph.D. defense in US and China, the defense committee in Germany will score the final defense based on the quality of the dissertation, the talk/presentation of the work and the oral defense/exam. Based on the rumors, the dissertation accounts 60%, presentation accounts 15% and final defense accounts 25%. However what I worried about is only the presentation. Because it was written in the defense regularity that the presententation should be finished within 25 to 30 min, less than 25 min. or over 30 min. will be fatal. Beside that, unfluent talking is also fatal :(
Although my colleagues tried to calm me down by telling me that the committee won't be so strict to a foreign student, I couldn't help worrying about it. Because I just finished first version of the slides on Monday, then practiced the german prolog on Monday evening; on Tuesday I improved the slides to the almost final version and started to practise some parts of the talk; on Wednsday I did practise the whole talk for the first time; on Thursday practising the talk with time limitation. Friday, DEFENSE!!! I nearly couldn't take anytime on preparing for the questions in the oral defense.
Fortuantely, I felt quite calm on friday and after eating a delicious dinner made by 00 I felt even better :D. Based on the latest notification (because of an important soccer match: Germany against Argentina, the defense committee decided to push my defense 30 min. in advance) my presentation will start at 15:25, we left home around 14:30 and bought some TicTac candy (I did actualy want to buy Fishman, but it was coincidently sold out) for refreshing my throat on the way.
When I arrived, another colleague Rafael Radkowski just finished his defense (we start our Ph.D. programme at the same time and fortunately also finished at the same time). I saw he was waiting outside nervously for the announcement of his final score. I greeted him and we had no mood to talk further and I went directly to the meeting room and repared my presentation. After settling the hardware staff, I went out for some fresh air. And just in time, Rafael's final score came out, which was "Ausgezeichnet" ( in english is Excellent). As far as I remember, only 3~5% people got this grade. I felt glad for him and congratulated him with a big tight hug and he wished me good luck. However that gave me even more pressure.
There's nothing special to say about my presentation, I haven't done it ever better than that and finished my talk just when my Presenter viberated, which was set for 26 min. I should thank my colleagues and friends for reacting my talking with their positive expression in their eyes and nodding, which gave me great confidence. The oral defense was easier as I thought, the professors didn't ask many deep theoretical questions. However, the question were very general and covered CS, ME and EE, which might relate to my work. I was confused twice in my defense. Once was by a extreme easy and self-explaining questions. I did beg the professor to ask it both in english and german to make sure that I didn't make a mistake in understanding the question. But it was indeed simple, which became however difficult to response. I had no idea but re-explicated the meaning of the question in another mean. Fortunately, the professor seemed to be satisfied. Another suprising question was the last one, they asked me to predict the results of the upcoming soccer match: Germany <-> Argentina. I was frozen for a while and then answered, " Germany will win" ! After that, I got the "Sehr Gut" grade (in english is Very Good, which is one grade less than Excellent). I was totally satisfied or even much more better than I expected...
After a long queued congratulations, all the friends, colleagues and professors sat together and started to watch the soccer match, which started at 17:00. As I had predicted, Germany did beat Argentina in the final Penalty Shoot-Out. We started the celebration with a dilicious Banquet and "hundered" bottles of beer were drunk in that night...
It's saddly to see germany lost their chance on July 4 to get the 2006 world cup ... :(
Sunday, June 25, 2006
准备博士答辩，汗！
博士答辩安排在本月30日。长期以来一直吊儿郎当，也没正经拿个时间来准备答辩。直到上个星期一觉得再不准备就太过分了，才开始做slides。 本以为一两天就能搞定，再加上很多内容也已经多次在会议上present过，实在没把这个任务放在眼里。可是直到做的时候才想到答辩委员会的那几个老家伙对俺底细一清二楚，要想拿老slides改改糊弄过去估计不行。想到这里，狠狠地汗了一把。
次日，赶紧去找老板，问答辩的时候能不能用英语present我的论文，这样能减少不少难度。谢天谢地，老板爽快答应 :D
直到今天5天过去了，我才完成了初稿，还是汗！希望明天能完稿，开始实战练习。现在无聊，没心情干别的事情，来Blog上发泄一通...
次日，赶紧去找老板，问答辩的时候能不能用英语present我的论文，这样能减少不少难度。谢天谢地，老板爽快答应 :D
直到今天5天过去了，我才完成了初稿，还是汗！希望明天能完稿，开始实战练习。现在无聊，没心情干别的事情，来Blog上发泄一通...
Thursday, June 15, 2006
网站整顿
前天拜托所里的系统管理员开了一个端口给我。虽然出于安全考虑没有使用80端口，但是不影响使用。总算摆脱了原来使用学校无线网时的不稳定问题。 其实问题不一定出在学校，也有可能是Linux下的那个驱动不是太稳定。
另外起用了subdomain，使得Gallery,Wiki和Blog的访问更加直观便捷。具体为：
wiki.qingshen.de
gallery.qingshen.de
blog.qingshen.de
现在还剩下的问题就是域名解析了，在国内访问的时候常常不能解析www.qingshen.de。 实在是麻烦得很，如果哪位朋友知道解决方法，请赐教了。
另外起用了subdomain，使得Gallery,Wiki和Blog的访问更加直观便捷。具体为：
wiki.qingshen.de
gallery.qingshen.de
blog.qingshen.de
现在还剩下的问题就是域名解析了，在国内访问的时候常常不能解析www.qingshen.de。 实在是麻烦得很，如果哪位朋友知道解决方法，请赐教了。
Monday, May 15, 2006
更新了Gallery!
整理照片要比拍摄照片辛苦得多，对此我是坚信不移的。而且，照片要是不一张张亲自筛选和调整，拍摄的水平也不会有什么提高。更糟糕的是，以后会仍然保持机械式shotting, 带来的只有缩小硬盘的存储空间而已。建Gallery可以带来一些动力，和发Email或用Messenger来比，用Gallery和亲朋好友分享照片的方式更“美“。等今天整理完“人骨教堂”的照片后，我就算真正完成了3月份的捷克之旅。以后的整理工作也准备按时间的倒序来弄，这样比较有兴致 :D
Friday, May 12, 2006
懒！
懒！一个我深恶痛绝而又难以战胜的“敌人“。 这种由痛恨和无奈而产生的矛盾心态一直折磨着我。所以说，在对付懒惰情绪上，我依然是个新手，亦或说是缺乏毅力和方法。我的德国同事们在这方面似乎处理得很好，他们习惯于有规律的安排和处理自己的事情，很少看到他们手忙脚乱，或者手足无措的样子。 我想这得益于他们长期养成的规划习惯。
在我看来懒分两种。 第一，纯粹的倦怠： 这种情况下，人们多数在荒度时光，说好听点则是在享受时光流逝时的平静而闲暇的生活。 第二： 对个别事物的过分投入，而导致对其他必要事物的忽略和拖拉。 出于这种情况下的人，比较缺乏自制力和规划的兴趣，做事情比较随性。 我觉得自己倾向于后者。 常常因为对自己的Hobby太投入而导致很多重要事情的延误。 每次反省的时候，耳边总回响起儿时父亲的教诲。 羞愧的是到现在我也没有什么大的改变。 今天打算把想到的一些解决方法纪录下来，以便能时常对照提醒 （这人上了年纪阿， 脑子就不好使了）：
- 切忌做一件事太投入，要分清“轻重缓急“。 该收手的时候决不能妥协。该放弃就放弃，对一件事情太执著，吃苦头的时候就知道有多难受了。 这和对待感情上也是一样。
- 做事要有规划，不能想到什么做什么，这样可以避免浪费时间在一些无意义的事情上，而遗漏了重要的任务。
- 要提高做事的效率，这个说起来简单，但是实行起来最复杂。 这牵涉到做事情的方法，步骤，心情，精力和能力。 这个还需要经验的积累。
- 没有必要让自己忙个不停，可能的话找个清静的时候，静下来想想有什么事情下一步要做，有没有遗漏掉什么。 如果有的话赶紧记下来，随后整理一下自己的Calender。
- 个人觉得做计划的时候要切实际，别以为自己是牛人，弄得眼高手低。 而且要多少考虑点意外情况。 比如说老婆在周末突然说要你陪逛街之类的 :D
- 要平衡好自己对金钱和时间的价值观。 自己好几次因为在eBay上为了便宜3，5个欧和别人争Action而每天浪费好几个小时。
- 最后，对于合理制定的计划，要严格执行。否则都是空谈！
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Google Maps in Europe
By A Googler
Posted by Steven Crossan, Product Manager, Google Maps Europe
We're excited to announce that we have just launched beta versions of Google Maps for France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. These sites include the full suite of interactive street maps, driving directions, and integrated local business search. This has been a global effort with Google teams in Paris, Hamburg, Milan, Madrid, New York, Mountain View, Kirkland, Sydney, London, Dublin, and Zurich working together for much of the past year to build a truly "local" product.
Accompanying this release, we have greatly improved high resolution imagery coverage for Europe in both Google Maps and Google Earth. Check out the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Olympiastadion in Berlin, and the Grand Canal in Venice.
To give you a preview of what's to come, we've also rendered street maps for many other countries in Europe. Developers, you can incorporate these maps and imagery into your own websites using the free Google Maps API Version 2.
Posted by Steven Crossan, Product Manager, Google Maps Europe
We're excited to announce that we have just launched beta versions of Google Maps for France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. These sites include the full suite of interactive street maps, driving directions, and integrated local business search. This has been a global effort with Google teams in Paris, Hamburg, Milan, Madrid, New York, Mountain View, Kirkland, Sydney, London, Dublin, and Zurich working together for much of the past year to build a truly "local" product.
Accompanying this release, we have greatly improved high resolution imagery coverage for Europe in both Google Maps and Google Earth. Check out the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Olympiastadion in Berlin, and the Grand Canal in Venice.
To give you a preview of what's to come, we've also rendered street maps for many other countries in Europe. Developers, you can incorporate these maps and imagery into your own websites using the free Google Maps API Version 2.
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Frapper: Place photos of you and your friends on a Google Map
Frappr was created by Brian, Kun and James at Rising Concepts, who wanted to see where all their high school and college friends went after they graduated.Frappr (Friend Mapper) lets you see the zip code where your friends live or work, letting you find out who works in the office building next door and who lives in the apartment complex across the street.
Google Calendar
上次还和lihlii提起过Google要出Online Calendar，当时还有不少网上公布所谓测试页面的截图，有真有假。今天碰巧看到一篇说Google自买了Ori Alon算法后推出”Google Sets" 的服务。于是兴冲冲的跑去试，碰巧发现Google居然已经开通Calendar业务了。还没来得急仔细试，不过我也就要个记事提醒的功能，它也自然都带了。在我看来好处是可以和我使用的其他Google工具在一起使用，比较方便，当然你也就被套住了，哈哈！下面是个截图：
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Using Enlightenment DR17 in Debian
The motivation is to use the small tool coming with E17 called Engage. However the packages provided by Debian are little bit out of date and the Engage is still not included. After trying out, I finally achieved the installation of the latest E17 in my Debian box. Here is one of my screenshots with default settings.
There might be other friends who are also searching for the solution. To share the experience I recorde the installation procee, including different achievments, at Wiki.QS in the article "Using Enlightenment DR17 in Debian".
There might be other friends who are also searching for the solution. To share the experience I recorde the installation procee, including different achievments, at Wiki.QS in the article "Using Enlightenment DR17 in Debian".
Friday, April 21, 2006
写中文Blog的老外们！
Thursday, April 20, 2006
重新组织了网站结构
主页面还是www.qingshen.de, 然后分为Blog.QS, Wiki.QS 和 Gallery.QS.
Blog.QS 主要用来记录一些流水帐和一些文摘，Wiki.QS则用来保存和整理一些重要的并需要不断更新的文档, Gallery.QS估计也就是当Gallery用吧:D
Blog.QS 主要用来记录一些流水帐和一些文摘，Wiki.QS则用来保存和整理一些重要的并需要不断更新的文档, Gallery.QS估计也就是当Gallery用吧:D
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