$ 1.10

我说,成为一个blogger可以有很多理由,但没有一个和钱有关(参见关于)。我不太确定这种说法能不能站得住脚,尤其是当一个声称non-profit的blogger把Google发的小广告贴得满墙都是的时候……好吧,让我们坦诚一点,如果一不小心天上掉下钱来,我不介意他们砸到我的脑袋上。

运气太糟,我还真被砸了一下。今天无意中查看了一下AdSense的记录,发现现在帐户上居然有了 $ 1.10。gosh,我的第一个一美元,赚到了!

我不嫌它少,也不担心人民币的不断升值,我很高兴。高兴不是因为 $——事实上,这还只是个数字,并不是真正的财富——而是因为这是我的第一个一美元;还可能是因为这个从无到有的过程太漫长了——太难得到的东西终于到手时会让人有加倍的成就感,不管事实上他是否真的需要这个东西:从零开始,不记得什么时候有了第一个美分,之后大约一年的时间里都没有一个数字敢站到小数点前面来,今天,英雄终于出现了,看,小数点前面威风凛凛地站着一位自然数……虽然瘦了点;还有,躲在这个增长缓慢的数字后面的,是那些关注我的朋友以及那些路过的朋友,尤其是那些点了广告的朋友——你们的上帝之手哟!正如我最开始所说的,我不是黄蓉不是徐静蕾不是黄健翔,我不会写新闻不会写绯闻不会写¥◎#%(!※%,但是你们还是来看我(走错门的也算),我真的很感谢(尤其是那些点过广告的,再次强调一下哈)——更是佩服^$^

最后,没什么可说的了,恭喜发财!

new online Word from Google

Writely , a web-based office “software”, has been acquired by Google for months. Though still in beta, Writely is open for register now. Writely provides a lot of amazing features, and most important, it’s totally free. Compared to MS Office, it’s so far not perfect, but this free online Word is very promising and surely worthy a try.

With Writely, you could easily post on your blog, as I am doing now.

Blogger.com in beta

It’s so exciting to know Google’s Blogger.com recently unveiled a upgraded beta vision (check it out NOW) with a long list of new and updated features. You see, not a lot has been changed since 2003 when Blogger.com was acquired by Google. The release of new Blogger convinces all bloggers across the world the search engine Titan has prepared as powerful a weapon as AdSence, Earth, Google Talk, etc. to amaze the world again.

The beta version improves the Blogger’s usability and help it catch up to the state of the art. I think there are five obvious improvements:

  1. Improved dashboard. More user-friendly interface and more easy to use.
  2. Dynamic serving. It’s really a great improvement compared to current version, and most of other blogs. Now you can make any of your changes to your blog least immediately visible.
  3. Label functionality. You can add tags to your posts so that they can be accessed more easily. In fact, category has been available by Google’s competitors for long.
  4. Access control. You can make your blog either open for public or only available for visitors with permit.
  5. Easy template editing. Very easy to edit colors and fonts, add or remove a page element, and change position of some element by simply dragging. But HTML editing functionality has not been available yet.

Of course, there are more new features in the beta version. I think the best way to learn more is to try it out. In fact, Google is inviting a limited number of current Blogger users to switch over to the beta version. Unfortunately, I’m not invited, so I simply go create a new account for the beta and now I am having fun (ahhhhmen@beta).

By the way, Blogger promises all users will be able to switch eventually. Look, patience will give you a new Blogger, just the time.

SuperBlog Returns

高兴得不得了!

google的blog终于回来了。从年初开始,这个blog就不能够访问了,甚至一度让我对中国政府都产生了怀疑……不管怎么样,超级blog终于回来了。

希望这次回来不会是昙花一现。谢天谢地。