I got a lot of computer books. Some of them are getting very "outdated". I have to flow them away. That is very sad! Thus, I am aimed to have a paperless reading life. I am trying to ebook or online resources only.
Firstly, I had an account at Safari. There is a kind of electronic library. I loan some books in there. I bought an account with 10 slots of books. So I can loan ten books from there. As long as I pay the month fee. I can keep those books as long as I want. But after I used the slot, I need to keep it one month. After one month, I swap that slot with a new book.
Secondly, I will use my kindle. Safari has a lot of computer books, but there are not many novels. So, I use my kindle to novel.

I hope this way can have some trees!

I am trying to find an open source alternative of Visio. Previously, I used ArgoUML. That is very useful tool, but that is UML only. I cannot use it to draw system diagrams. I found Dia can use this kind of job. Moreover, it got a Linux and Windows version too.

I found the Facebook is changed again! The list of onlined friends is improved. Now is not a name of your friends. They are replaced with the thumbnail of your friends' profile photo. That looks more fancy! But I am more prefer to be just a name only. That is easier to read! Moreover, there is another change too. There is a new menu opinion to create a Facebook group. I heard about Facebook group became alive again! That is good, they are changing and trying to improve themselves!

I am quite happy about Microsoft building a new mobile OS, Windows Phone 7. That is much better than just a upgrade for Windows Mobile 6.5. After I used Android, I don't really like to use Windows Mobile 6.5. Windows Mobile sounds a bit old fashions style interface. Now, Microsoft re-invent a new interface for Windows Phone 7. That is so great! Moreover, it can run Xbox live games. That is the greatest advantage!

However, there are some down sides on Windows Phone 7. That is very new. Not many applications are built for it. Moreover, so far, that is not still a real Windows Phone in the market yet! That sounds a bit too late!

If you mention the word,"Microsoft", to me, "Windows" and "Closed Source Development" will pop up in my head. I won't think about much relationship with "Opensource" and "Microsoft". But Actually, maybe, there are some changes. Microsoft committed to the jQuery projects. I watched the video on Channel 9. They built three plug-ins for jQuery. They are jQuery Templates,
jQuery Data Link and jQuery Globalization API.

I love jQuery Templates most! It looks like a dynamic data repeater. I can use the code like the following to build a table for displaying data:

Code

For jQuery Datalink, it can blind the fields to the data object. That sounds useful as well. However, in the most of cases, I won't do any hard blind the fields to the data objects. That is not very flexible.

jQuery Globalization is very impressive too! It can localize all currencies and date time for most of cultures. That is a huge job. That needs backing with a big firm! If your application can supports multi-languages, that is very useful for you!

Those plug-ins sounds very helpful!

Reference:
Channel 9
jQuery Blog