I took some time this afternoon to watch Bridge to Terabithia (aka The Bridge to Terabithia). After Howl’s Moving Castle, this is the fairy-tale fable film I’ve liked most.

Based on the requirements FL鱼SH laid out originally, I’ve been tinkering with this for over a month, and the e-magazine publishing platform’s basic functionality is OK — there’s still a lot of grap...

Too funny — I found an Anti-Aquarius group on Douban, and the name left me very very very very very very curious. The first thought that flashed through my mind (and the last one before I clicked the link at thunderclap speed — no time to cover your ears, never mind steal a bell): slip in and take a look…

Just finished the finale today. I’d actually written a whole lot… and then deleted all of it.

It really is a big world full of wonders, and hidden masters just keep coming out of the woodwork! I came across this badass review over on Douban, -_- Is the author a huge detective & mystery fan or what? They actually worked out a hidden plotline. I can’t track down the author’s site for now — I’d really love to go pay my respects. What follows is the original text: I watched the movie twice more from the beginning and picked out a few details here and there, and I found that Tai Lung isn’t actually bad — he was most likely framed. On the contrary, Tortoise may be the real mastermind behind it all.

SGA Season 5Episode 1 had already aired, and after a long 13-day wait I finally caught a glimpse of Episode 2. Just found the time to watch it

China’s first Flash 10 3D engine is now open source Thanks to the author machaoii for the painstaking, day-and-night grind. Work on the Flash 3D engine officially kicked off in early July, and yesterday it finally took shape. The project has now been renamed NewX3D — China’s first Flash 10-based 3D engine

I joined the “We’re Not Otaku Boys or Girls” group on Douban. Ugh, there’s actually a Jiongxing community, and even Jiongjiong TV…

Ever seen Iori go head-to-head with Moriya Minakata? Ha — there was once a bootleg fighting game, KOF2004, that crammed in characters from all sorts of fighting games, though I don’t think Moriya Minakata made the cut. This morning I was still wondering when I’d next get to take on some pros in KOF and The Last Blade, and then tonight Lao Niu recommended me a KOF game made in FLASH by Chinese developers — KOF Wing.

Last night I played Sins of a Solar Empire (hereafter Solar) until midnight. I’ve finally got the hang of it. Three takeaways:

Bad movie.

Talk about rotten luck! Today while making a payment, I discovered that the familiar [E-Payment Card Payment] button had vanished into thin air….. I went to the ABC (Agricultural Bank of China) official site and found that just 16 hours earlier, ABC had suspended most e-payment card payment services:

I’m never one to back down from wrestling with the most bizarre problems—let’s see who comes out on top. It’s been ages since I hit an obstacle while coding, yet today I ran into a little snag—XML generated by PHP came out as garbled text when fetched with FLASH. After some digging I finally solved it. Recording it here, and also jotting down the general solution. If you also run into XML <-> FLASH garbled text, here’s a quick reference: 1. When you’re certain the XML is absolutely fine:First, FLASH reading XML and getting garbled text involves the static property System.useCodepage. Official description: “A Boolean value that tells Flash Player which code page to use to interpret external text files.” Defaults to false.

In the afternoon I watched Alvin and the Chipmunks. Mm, an immortal theme — family.

I’ve trekked over high mountains and lakes, visited orcs and the undead, commanded angels and demons, studied science and religion, crossed the ancient past and the distant future, savored the instant and the eternal, lived through the epic and the immortal.