情人节的由来
传说公元三世纪时，古罗马有一位暴君叫克劳多斯（ Claudius）。离暴君的宫殿不远，有一座非常漂亮的神庙。修士瓦伦丁（ Valentine）就住在这里。罗马人非常崇敬他，男女老幼，不论贫富贵贱，总会群集在他的周围，在祭坛的熊熊圣火前，聆听瓦伦丁的祈祷。
这一时代，古罗马的战事一直连绵不断，暴君克劳多斯征召了大批公民前往战场，为了保证人们忠于战争，他下令禁止人们于此时结婚，甚至连已订了婚人也马上要解除婚约。许多年轻人就这样告别爱人，满怀悲愤地走向战场。
瓦伦丁对克劳多斯的虐行感到非常难过。当一对情侣来到神庙请求他的帮助时，瓦伦丁在神圣的祭坛前为它们悄悄地举行了婚礼。人们一传十，十传百，很多人来到这里，在瓦伦丁的帮助下结成伴侣。消息终于传到了克劳多斯的耳里。他暴跳如雷，命令士兵们冲进神庙，将瓦伦丁从一对正在举行婚礼的新人身旁拖走，投入地牢。公元270年的2月14日，瓦伦丁在地牢里受尽折磨而死。悲伤的朋友们将他安葬于圣普拉教堂。为了纪念瓦伦丁（Valentine），后来的人们把这一天作为“情人节”。
我最钟爱的游戏，最敬仰的大学，是不是在痴人梦想？NO，这一切都是真实的，伯克利大学开设了名为“Decal ”的星际争霸2课程，并可以获得学分。
只有真正玩过星际争霸的人才会明白，StarCraft的意义已经远远不止是一个游戏了。这个游戏甚至带给了我最重要的一个人生领悟——唯有全力投入，才能成功。
自从SW曝出新闻，伯克利大学开设了 Decal 星际争霸2课程，并可以获得学分后，很多网站都转载了这个消息，全世界都知道了这们星际课程。联系过 Alan "Nimue" Feng 后，我们发现这并不像某些网站宣称的那样是一个玩笑，Mr Feng介绍说他们已经为这门课程的开设准备了很久。
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课程以一篇历史大纲入门
这门星际争霸的课程被称为“Decal”，意思是由学生而不是教授来教授整个课程。如果有教授来接手，会产生更大的社会影响(当然对媒体也是)。但是至少 得有一位教授参与(同其他StarTrek或Firefly的Decal课程一样)，Alan解释说：“在Berkeley大学，想开设一门课程，需要一 位教员参与，才可能得到批准，我们要论证出这门课程主题的重要意义。”他接着说道：“我找到一位教授，向他展示了课程的重要性，并保证课程会很严格，比如 课程将会持续13周。”
"Nimue" 是一名辍学的星际玩家，并在星际职业比赛里度过了2年半，由于来钱不多，他又重新回到了校园。他主修物理专业，并说他和其他职业玩家之间 有很大的区别：“由于很多我在星际争霸职业比赛内使用的战术、模型、数学知识都和大学教授的物理学有关，这可以使人们对星际争霸的态度有些转变。”
在SW新闻出炉和世界上其他媒体知晓前，Alan 在TL论坛发贴介绍了他的课程。“在发贴24小时内，有了超过50人次的回应和1000人次的浏览记录(这和NGA比起来真有点…)”
考虑到这些回复都是来自职业玩家群体，在SW之前居然没有媒体报道真是怪事！Mr Feng继续介绍大学内的反应：“人们都很激动，教授们从来没有把游戏 世界当回事儿，但是包括不知道星际争霸的人也在询问这门课程。”当问起负面回应时，他说：“我想，我父母这边有时候会说‘如果你再辍学，就杀了你’之类的 玩笑话，但是我们不能对自己的兴趣说不，对吧。”
课程没有前置要求，第一部分周2开始，但是截至我们的采访为止，Alan仍对出席人数不太确定。“最大的教室可以容纳480人，但是我很怀疑学校会允许我 使用。”他估计或许最后课程结束的时候会有40人。我安慰他，对于一门非传统的课程，在我们向网络披露信息前就有这么多人，已经很不错了。他引用其他 Decal课程的例子说：“对比一下，上学期国际象棋课有20个人，魔方课有15人。”
Alan "Nimue" Feng
Alan是一位来自中国的教师和受过专业训练的演讲者，他希望这些技能能够对课程有所帮助。他反复准备了上课的笔记和材料，对作为老师一事非常乐观。在星 际2已经近在眼前之际，我问了他星际2主题作为课程内容的可能性，他回答道：“实际玩过星际2后的激动不是抽象的讨论就能表达出来的，我的课里有许多纯理 论的方面几乎适用于所有RTS游戏，我将尝试让学生们了解一种解析思维的方式，可以将星际争霸和魔兽争霸3，或是星际争霸和星际争霸2联系起来。”
课程会上传到YOUTUBE上，PPT可能也会上传出来。
到了周五，他的课程受到了更多媒体的关注，而且一些主流媒体比如NBC也有相关报道，和Alan联系变得很困难。一位参加课程的同学，在一个博客上发表了 自己的印象。包括第一堂课的很多细节，并预测了Alan的计划。今天我们又一次和Alan取得了联系，他确认他的课程主页 BerkeleyStarCraft.com已经瘫痪，两台服务器主机的带宽限制也已不够。IncGamers.com同意接手他的站点
很多游戏媒体网站试图采访他，他承认独自站在演讲厅上有点害怕。来听课的人大大超乎预计的150人，演讲厅座位满员，还有不少人站着在听。我们的 Nimue课后总结道：“我认为第一场讲座很不错，群众纷纷给予肯定，认为气氛很轻松，我们课上都在谈论星际争霸或是在玩这个游戏。授课很生动，有时也会 包含一些抽象概念。
Change is the most stressful event a person faces in life. There are simple strategies that you can use to help you make it through times of change.
Change is one of the most stressful events in an individual’s life. Moving, taking a new job, having a child, all of these can seem like the proverbial perfect storm of epic proportions. The water is rising and you feel overwhelmed. But individuals that plan for change can stay afloat.
How you weather change in your personal life starts with the approach you take to change in general. If you see change coming, make decisions with that change in mind, and are committed to that change you will make it through. If you know change is coming, but do nothing to prepare for it you might weather the change. If you do manage to survive it without pulling out all you hair, you’ll still have the scars of stress. Finally, you could approach change the same way you would approach walking the plank with screaming and crying and doing nothing to save yourself. Give up and change will happen to you, rather than you creating change.
One of the keys to moving to a positive and proactive attitude towards change is to stop the wailing and gnashing of teeth about how bad things are going to be. If change is inevitable, then there is absolutely nothing you can do about the current situation. But you can do something about how you handle it! Take the attitude that you are the one creating the change, you have control over it, and you can dictate the degree of change that occurs.
Once you’ve chosen to prepare for change, to look it in the eye, there are several things you can do to help you see the break in those storm clouds. First, embrace trying new things. The more you try new things, and enjoy them, the better you learn to handle change and the unknown without fear. You also need to couple this with breaking habits. Routine can be your enemy, because it is easier to stick with what is comfortable. The harder you cling to habits the more you make change that much more difficult. The more you hold on to things, the harder it is to change. Second, concentrate on the strengths you already have. Those elements that people compliment you on can often be the source of stability and strength in getting through change.
Researching the change you are facing is also an important element in making it through change. The more you know what to expect, the better you can prepare for it in your life. With the internet and other ready resources these days, researching could be the easiest part of change. Once you have completed your research make sure you focus on the things you need to become successful. Check out training, community education courses or other things you can do to help you be better positioned to make it beyond, not just into, change.
A positive attitude, calm reasoned choices and a little research can help you manage personal change. It may seem scary, but you can be confident it won’t also be stressful.
世界进步的太快，很多词我还是第一次听说。原文出处
GOOGLE, the world’s top search engine, is getting into the beginning of year spirit. It recently published its annual rankings of China’s new hot words. These words reflect major events that took place during the past year. Here are the top 10.
1. 山寨copycatting
This Chinese term literally refers to the mountain strongholds of bandits. First borrowed to describe rip-off products, it has evolved to refer also to homemade products, such as video parodies of movies.
2. 囧be sunk/sunken
This is an ancient Chinese character, pronounced jiong. It means "light shining through a window". Young Chinese use it to express embarrassment, or a bad mood. Look at the character. Doesn’t it look like a disappointed face?
3. 很黄很暴力very pornographic, very violent
During a CCTV interview about a new Internet censorship regulation, a girl said that an uncensored Web page once popped up on her computer. She called it "very pornographic, very violent". Some believe the girl was told to say it by CCTV, so it is now used to mock the way the network covers news.
4. 槑nuts
Pronounced méi, the word is a variant of the word for "梅". But it also looks like a double version of the character 呆 (dai), which means stupid. So netizens have borrowed it to mean "very silly or very stupid".
5. 叉腰肌Psoas muscle
Xie Yalong, the former head of the Chinese Football Association, once criticized women players, saying they have weak Psoas muscles. (This is the muscle that links the trunk to the legs; it’s important for motion.) However, nobody, including the players, knew where the muscle is. This quote is now used to mock Xie, who was recently removed from his position.
6. 打酱油get some soy sauce
When a person in Guangzhou was asked to give his opinion of the sex scandal involving Hong Kong star Edison Chen (Chen Guanxi), the man answered, "It is none of my business. I am just out to get some soy sauce." People have since begun using the words to mean "it’s none of my business".
7. 泡良族 pick-up artists
This expression refers to men who seduce married women.
8. 凤凰男Phoenix man
This expression refers to a man who grew up poor and in the countryside, but later moved to a big city and married a city girl. Due to the couple’s different backgrounds and habits, they often encounter problems.
9. 做人不能太CNN don’t be too CNN
It emerged in response to foreign media’s coverage of Tibet. Many Chinese thought it was biased. It gained more popularity after CNN commentator Jack Cafferty’s rude talk of China.
10. 三个俯卧撑three push-ups
A girl in Guizhou was rumored to have been killed by the relatives of local police officials. However, a local government official claimed the girl’s boyfriend said the girl had jumped into the river when he was doing push-ups. The popularity of the term signals people’s doubts over the story.
今天读了一下这本有名的盖洛普公司的出版物，做了一下这个关于发现你优势的测试，好长，有180个问卷，比当年做MBTI时间还要多。
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盖洛普是美国著名的社会科学家乔治盖洛普博士与1935年创立的一家名义测验和商业研究/咨询公司。盖洛普公司在长达六十多年的时间里，致力于测量和分析人的态度，意见和行为，被认为世界权威。
我的测试结果： （难道这些就是我的优势？不过这本书提出了一个新的理论就是通过扬长避短来获得成功，以往人们或者组织往往针对人的弱点进行改进，而忽视了如何去最大化一个人的优势，该书通过2百万的调查统计来说服这个理论）
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