Blog of Ginn Chen (陈琦/Chen Qi)

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Hao Haidong struck China's second goal [Adnan Hajj/WSG]

From official site

Shao Jiayi scored twice as Asian Cup 2004 hosts China took a big step towards the quarter-finals, trouncing Indonesia 5-0 at the Workers' Stadium on Wednesday.
The big win leaves China needing only a draw from their final Group A match against Qatar on Sunday to advance to the last eight.

Today I tried Opear Web Browser on my cell phone.
Here's a screenshot of www.sun.com, it's pretty good.
The picture on the page was shrunk to fit mobile's screen.

Wish someday I can try our Mozilla on it.

Related: Nokia has funded a cell phone browser project at the Mozilla Foundation, breathing new life into the open-source effort once written off as Microsoft roadkill. (full story)

Last month, Macromedia announced Flash Lite 1.1, as the Macromedia Flash profile specifically developed for mobile phones.
It supports SVG-T(Scalable Vector Graphics-Tiny) playback, MP3, ActionScript and network connectivity.
Like Flash Player on the web, in time, Macromedia expect Flash Lite to be ubiquitous in the mobile phone industry. They're going to support Symbian, Palm, Smartphone and BREW.

Before Flash Lite 1.1, Macromedia released Flash player 6 for PocketPC and some certain phones in Japan.
But, I didn't see any executable for Symbian yet. I wish it will come out soon. Somebody said the program's size is about 300K.

As you know, Macromedia's Flash format is one of the most common and most widely used formats for enhancing websites with multimedia. I guess it's going to be a competitor of J2ME very soon. It's really simple and powerful. Maybe you'll see some mobile games based on Flash Lite in the future.

One satirical announcement which Macromedia threw out 3 years ago, "Flash headed for Symbian".
Wish I can try it before the retirement of my cell phone.

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time is my favorite mobile game. Very good gameplay and a lengthy adventure.
I finished this game after one week's playing (about half an hour everyday).

This screenshot from ign.com is a little different from my mobile, it seems there are several versions, sis version and J2ME version.

Really a good game, it got 9.5/10 from ign.com.
"If you're buying a new cellphone, make sure it plays this game."

My friend Cao Heng at ubisoft, is one of  the game's developer.
Great job!

Now I'm seeking the next game.

(Photosource: peopledaily.com)

(Photosource: xinhuanet)

Everybody had one new cellphone, with their photos in it.

Hao haidong, the best striker in China.

Arie Haan, China national football coach.

Unbelievable victory, Greece defeated Portugal at 0:1, and won the European Championship.

Everything that has beginning has an end. In the first match of UEFA EURO 2004, Greece defeated Portual at 2:1.

This is a moment should be memorized forever in UEFA history. The other one is the tale of Danmark, they were called up at the last moment in 1992 after Yugoslavia's late exclusion, and won the Championship finally.

An incidnet in today's match, the match was held up as a Portuguese supporter ran on to the pitch.

Last week, I bought a new cell phone, Siemens SX1. I'm a Siemens cell phone fan, my last phone is 3568i.
It's a great phone with MMS, Camera, Radio, MP3 and RealOne.
The next day I bought a 256M MMC card, and transfered a MP3 album to it. It cost so long it transfering, because the phone only supported serial port bandwidth in deed, while it used PC's USB port. I should buy a MMC card reader/writer to improve. However, its sound quality is perfect.

A flaw is the ringtone volume is too low, I can't hear it in crowd. Someone said it will be fixed in firware version 14 in two weeks.

I used Java Desktop System's screen as the phone's screensaver. This cheated my co-workers, they asked me how to install JDS to cellphone.

I downloaded SMTK(Siemens Mobile Toolkit) from Siemens Developer Village . Maybe I will develop some applications for my phone later.

And I wish I will take some phones by it, and post here to make my blog more interesting.

Many times I see AG after some companies' name, but I don't know the meaning.
For example, Siemens AG, Swatch AG, Suse Linux AG, etc.

I really spent a lot of google searchs on finding the meaning of AG.
Maybe it's hard to search too short and too common word.

At last, I got it from OnVista.com.

AG (abbr. for German Joint Stock Company) AG stands for a German Joint Stock Company, a capital funded company which exists as a legal entity. The shareholders are co-owners of the Share Capital, which has been divided up into shares. The goal of a Joint Stock Company is to accumulate capital for investment and the like by means of share emissions, in order to divide the entrepreneurial risk as much as possible among the shareholders. AG (German Joint Stock Company) The Joint Stock Company is a company whose shareholders, or investors participate in the share capital through share purchases. Investors are liable only up to the amount invested in the company, not for any sums surpassing their investment.

Today our team received gifts from Macromedia, Inc.
The gift for every Sun-side team member is Timbuk2 Classic Messenger Bag, medium size, red color, with FlashMX 2004 sign.
There are too many belts on the bag, I don't know some belt's usage, and there's no user guide. //shrug

Macromedia sent us gifts to thank our hardwork on making Flashplayer 7 Linux version.
Macromedia released it on May 26.
Some snips from the news, "We are pleased to have worked closely with Macromedia to help bring Flash Player 7 to the Linux platform," said Curtis Sasaki, vice president of desktop solutions, Sun Microsystems. "The integration of Flash Player 7 into the Sun Java Desktop System will enable our joint customers to view the rich, interactive Flash content that is so widely used on websites worldwide."

The release Flashplayer 7 Linux version is another step into the direction of creating a platform independent virtual machine for Macromedia Rich Internet Applications. It supports Macromedia Flex, the Enterprise solution for rich media Internet applications.

The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history.

The boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival are traditional customs to attempts to rescue the patriotic poet Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Chinese citizens now throw bamboo leaves filled with cooked rice into the water. Therefore the fish could eat the rice rather than the hero poet. This later on turned into the custom of eating zongzi.
(Zongzi: glutinous rice dumpling;dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leeves)

But I didn't eat zongzi yesterday. I had Subway BMT sandwich for supper instead.

1 hour before, Italy's UEFA EURO 2004 campaign ends at the group stage despite victory as Denmark and Sweden draw in Porto. Unbelievable game, Jonson of Sweden kicked a goal at 89 min, Cassano of Itlay kicked a goal at 90+4 min. Sweden's late equaliser made Cassano's last-gasp winner academic. Italy got 5 pts and didn't lose any match, but they were out. Winner is not enough.