Chinese Kungfu Emperor KO Google Blogger

It's near 3 month since my last update. Some of my laziness, but the most important reason is Blogger has been knocked out by Chinese Kungfu Emperor (my translation from "功夫王", which is a nickname of GFW, another nickname of it is Mitten Crab King -- "河蟹王", we invent these names because "GFW" may be GFWed too --- for example, search "GFW" in google.cn only returns 48 results, but search in google.com returns 4,110,000 results).

It's not only a shame but also a pride that GFW can do what seaquake can't do. I am shocked when I finally realize that.

But there is also some good news, wikipedia can be accessed from China now, but we don't know what happened, we don't know what will happen. Someone believe they the Chinese network 007s are adjusting the configuration or testing some new weapons. Anyhow, that give me a naive hope that blogger will be back in some day. Yes, that's impossible isn't it? Currently, inblogs.net provide a alternative entry to my blog, though I still need tor to login blogger and post new articles.

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缔造健康的互联网络，美国万岁！

Refactory of feedbuner chinese version

Note: This article is written in Chinese.

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今天看到若干blog推荐Feedbuner中文版本，结果顺着链接一看，选择语言里面没有Chinese么，原来正在回炉重造：

More choices are coming soon. Where did Chinese go? We heard your feedback and we're taking it back to the shop for more work. Thanks for having your say!

sohu blog 404

Note: This artical is written in Chinese.

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今天访问一个blog结果得到上述页面。

首先，文章没有了，有提示是好事，问题是为什么无关内容例如“刚刚更新的博客”放了很多，却不肯给该链接所属的blog首页一个链接？而且刚刚更新的博客放了5个图片（头像？），问题是看博客难道是根据头像做决定的吗？有人觉得这几个小图片有吸引力吗？

再说主要区域，放了一个申请sohu播客的链接莫名奇妙，你见过找不到文章马上决定自己上来写的主吗？原来sohu自己的广告就是这么乱投的。

最后说说右边的图和话（链接到sohu blog主页），两个字：矫情。新浪的404也做的不怎么样，但至少没有sohu那样无病呻吟恶心人。

Balance security and easiness

See jojo's memory and my comment (in Chinese).

CapsLock reminder for password

See caps lock reminder

Someone(geeks?) enter password under cap locks on status, so the reminder may leak some info of their password if someone notice that.

In my opinion, such reminder can be shown when you enter wrong password.

Which button is better?

See How to make a button more clickable (in Chinese) and the comments.

My first choice is ebay. Not like most people, I doesn't choose amazon, because it's too rich, especially the thick border make it like a banner. I choose ebay because it's more similar to the normal, non-styled button. I don't know whether it is due to my technical background.

The cross symbol on the button of target.com is great, the only problem is the cross symbol is isolated with the button, so the button seems like a bookmark, on the contrary, the button of dell which use arrow symbol is more suitable and looks better.

Just like some comments said, except the obvious wrong design (in my opinion, samsung's is the worst), we can not determine which is better without put them it the real pages. And as a vote with too many options, it's unfair because the latter tend to be ignored.

Anyway, it's a wonderful article which show the importance of the details of the UI elements to the customers' feelings.

Today is a good day

That's it.