Easter and Passover
I never thought the question about this. Because I thought the date of Easter is just close to Jewish Passover. But actually, both have different calendar calculation. That is why Easter always on Sunday.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci really a great artist.
Watch the videos
The Mirrored Handwriting of da Vinci
Secrets of “The Last Supper”
Desktop search review
I like to read articles online. And I will save the webpages to my computer, especially programming tutorial. Sometimes I don’t have time to categorise what I have downloaded. So, I just drop them to some of the folders. But, when I want to search the file, there will be the problem.
We can search the content of a text file by using built-in “find” function of Windows. However, the searching will always slow because it searches file by file. Therefore, the files need to be indexed first. To do the indexing service, we just need to install desktop search software.
Lent season
Now is the lent season. Do you have any question about lent season? Do you know how to count the days of Lent?
To answer some of the questions about lent season, please read the followings:
How do we count the days of Lent?
Should we fast on Sundays?
What should replace the Alleluia during Lent?
Is the abstinence prohibits soups made from meat?
Simplified chinese or traditional chinese?
Actually, I personally prefer traditional chinese. Because the character is more complicate, and look prettier than simplified chinese. And besides that, the traditional chinese character provides better meaning in the presentation of the character itself. Especially the character “love”, 愛,in traditional chinese, the centre of it is 心,that means we love with our heart. However, the simplified chinese is 爱, which doesn’t have the 心 at the centre.
Another important reason is the surname. When I was young, I was taught to write the surname in simplified chinese, that is 钟. The traditioanl chinese of 钟 is both 鍾 and 鐘. While both meanings are different. Therefore, in computer, the simplified chinese of 鍾 becomes 锺, instead of 钟. So, that is why I prefer traditional chinese, because of the surname problem.
Game benchmark comparison: XP and Vista
Fortunately, I still can download a lot of software that support Windows XP. Otherwise, I need to switch to Windows Vista. Vista or XP, which one is better?
Seven out of ten of the games tested produced frame rate averages which were lower under Vista than XP SP2, however, a closer look at the numbers shows that when Vista is slower than XP SP2, the actual frame rate differences are only in the single digits. Read more.
Free image editor
If you are editing image, what software you use? MS Paint? Adobe Photoshop? For me, MS Paint is fast, and only fast. Nothing special. Photoshop, is not free. If you want to install, it requires a lot of space.
So, I use 2 image editors, Paint.NET and GIMP Portable. Both of them support layer editing. Very nice. Actually, I prefer using Paint.NET. Because it is more usable (easier to be used) compare to GIMP. The interface is easy to understand. However, it does not as powerful as GIMP.
Gamma Panel, adjust the brightness easily
Since my laptop (Toshiba Satellite M200) cannot adjust the brightness using fn-key. Therefore, I set the brightness using Intel display driver graphics properties. Adjust the colour at the “color correction”.
However, when I play some games, and when the games are set to full screen, the LCD colour will be reset to the default colour. This is the problem. That means I need to right-click at the desktop to choose “Graphics Properties…” to adjust the brightness each time I play the game.
Chinese Bible
There are many translations of English bible. There are RSV (Revised Standard Version), NAB (New American Bible), New Jerusalem Bible, Jerusalem Bible, Christian Community Bible, and etc. Even Chinese bible got several translations.
I prefer 思高譯本 (Studium Biblicum) for the Chinese translation. The translation is used in the readings of the Chinese mass. But, these years, I heard another translation. I don’t know what is the name of the translation. Inside the translation, the name of James is translated as 雅格 instead of 雅各伯, Peter as 伯鐸 instead of 伯多祿。But this translation I only heard in daily mass, not Sunday mass.
Human and Cell
Human being is consists of cells. Each type of cells can be differentiated by its functions. Each cell cannot think like a human think. However, human can think because of the systematic organisation of the cells. Human can live because each of the cells plays its own role. If a cell does not function or malfunction, it will become a cancer. And human needs to destroy the cancer so that the cancer will not spread to other cells and he can live.