老六的blog上有一句话，”见证一本书的诞生和成长”。意思是当年老六办《读库》的时候，在自己的blog上几乎是全程的发布工作流程。他的读者们可以从一开始就了解《读库》的点点滴滴。结果是这些读者对《读库》产生了一种特殊的感情，《读库》就想是邻居老六家的小孩，大家从小看他长大。后来老六说这种感情成为了《读库》这个圈子间的纽带，把圈子里的男女老少联络了起来（大意如此）。
其实何止是一本书？在我感兴趣的领域里，这种事情算是比较常见的。开源项目即是如此。开始的时候，作者或许仅仅有一个rough idea，把它quick and dirty的实现了出来，公布到网上。然后有人使用它、关注它、渐渐的提出改进意见或者直接给作者寄patch。从此，这个项目在大家的关怀下逐渐完善。与《读库》不同的是，开源项目里大家多了一点互动，但进入的门槛高了许多。
最近经历了一连串失败。
主要是围绕着blog来的。首先是想恢复因为Twitter而松懈下来的blog。本来很久没更新就放在了那里苟延残喘，后来服务器受攻击，结果我的目录下的东西都没了。恢复后放了一个首页，加个Twitter Badge和几篇垃圾论文凑合着。想想也挺可惜，就想把blog恢复了。
然后就是最近看了些敏捷开发的东西，想借这个机会试试Ruby on Rails或者基于Python的Django。用它们来开发一个blog也是件挺酷的事情。况且最近新进了MacBook，TextMate，对RoR的支持不错，就找了几篇文档来看。结果实践下来，总是有这样那样的错误无法解决，最后终于气馁。恰值WordPress 2.5发布，之前用着也挺顺，就用它凑合了。
当初我想用Linux的一个很大的原因就是想使用Linux下发展起来的工具。尽管Emacs、gcc等工具有Windows下的移植版本，但它们往往不能完全正常的工作。自从使用了Linux以来，我一直没有机会再用过TeX。最近我们要交期末论文，我便有了机会体验在Linux下写论文的感觉了。
Today, when I was on the bus to school in the morning, I saw someone stood beside the road. Both of them had a board wrote “On Strike” held in front of them. Some of them waved to the bus and they looked pleasant. I thought they might be in some kind of party, or maybe something dangerous happened since there was “Strike” on the board. As far as I know, the word “Strike” may mean what we are doing in the game “Counter-Strike”.
Today is the real thanks giving day in Canada(the thanks giving day in Canada and in the US are in different days). Last night, we went to Garson’s home for their thanks giving dinner. This night, we had our thanks giving dinner.
In the afternoon, Annette’s ex-daughter came. Her name is Ashley(sound). She told me she was 23 years old. And she was working in McDonald’s. We had dinner together.
Today, is the thanks giving eve. The homestay mother of Garson, Blue, invited Forrest and I to her home for thanks giving dinner. In western custom, people will have turkey on thanks giving dinner.
This was the second time I had turkey. The first time was in the airport of Vancouver. I bought a turkey sandwich for dinner. At that time, I couldn’t understand what did the seller say, and I spent a lot of time to explain what I want. The seller even explain what a turkey is to me!
In these days, ELC held some interviews between instructors and students. The main topic of interviews is about the learning and the life in ELC. Each students had to attend the interview. And each interviews is about 10 minutes.
The interviews is individual. During the interviews, only the instructor and the interviewee was allowed to stay at the classroom. All the others were going outside. Students who didn’t have interview in that day is allowed to go home earlier. So in these days, I always arrived home before 2:30.
It’s a long time that I didn’t update my blog. The reason was I felt a bit tired. To write English everyday is not as easy as to write Chinese everyday. And I found the advantage of English writing was it can easily express the logic. That means, you can say something academic or argue some topic. That’s simple. But if you’d like to talk some feelings like in Chinese, that’s not that simple.
Today my homestay mother’s friends came to our house. Annette wanted the man to repair the swimming pool for her. After they finished, we chated outside.
They are very kind people. We talked about the Chinese food, Chinese words.
They were surprise when we said we made the decision of learning in Canada. The woman said she couldn’t let her daughter go out for a few days. She will be crazy.
Yesterday was a fantastic day, because I could run Ubuntu on my laptop. I had heard about Linux when I was in primary school. I tried to get one and use it, but always couldn’t achieve it. Sometime my parents didn’t buy it for me(the Internet was not that strong in that days), or sometimes I didn’t have a computer for my own use(if I installed Linux, others couldn’t use the computer), or most of the time my laptop didn’t support Linux.