Travels of Rain

Register a new domain name

2005-11-21T21:30:00.001+08:00

I registered a new domain name du-run.com. I will move my blogs to the new site tomorrow. I hope you continue to support me.

P.S.(Dec 6, 2007): Please visit my blog on http://www.durun.cn. The domain du-run.com has been redirected to another site, because it's not very convenient to use.

P.S.(Jun 6, 2008): I have registered a new domain idurun.com, so I moved my blog to this new site http://www.idurun.com. However, the site http://www.durun.cn also is redirected to the new site.

It is cold in Chengdu

2005-11-18T15:12:00.000+08:00

For several days, it has been lightly raining and cloudy in Chengdu. The temperature is below 10ºC. We dress sweater and thick coat. Some people wear down and feather garment down wear(羽绒服, yǔ róng fú).

Begin to Program CFD

2005-11-09T08:54:00.000+08:00

Today, I decide to program CFD. One year has gone, I haven't well understand CFD, but only know how to use CFD codes, i. e. STAR-CD, FLUENT.

New Month Begins

2005-11-01T16:26:00.000+08:00

October had gone. I have been researching on the hydraulic attenuator about one year. Before that, I researched on system control for one year.

Went to Xipu Campus, SWJTU

2005-10-29T16:46:00.000+08:00

We, Ms YANG, Ms LIU, Mr JIN and I, went to Xipu(犀浦) Campus, SWJTU(西南交通大学) by bike at yesterday afternoon. We took 50 minutes to going, and went back about 40 minutes.

The weather is not good, it is couldy. We took pictures in the beautiful campus. The left is took in front of the rainbow bridge(彩虹桥).

Xipu Campus has been built from 2003. In Sept. 2004, The sophomores in Jiuli(九里) Campus moved to Xipu. They would finish their school work there. The new undergraduate students would go to Xipu for their college life. But only the undergraduate students majoring Architecture and arts, the master students and PhD students, and other students leave in Jiuli.

Xipu Campus is larger than Jiuli.

If you want to view other photographs, please visit My Photos.

QQ2005 Released

2005-10-27T19:36:00.000+08:00

QQ, A China local instant messenger, its newest version, QQ2005, was released at today afternoon in Beijing. Its English version is QQ2004II. It has about 77% users of all IMs in China.

I have used QQ for about 6 years. I think that it is very adaptive for Chinese. But in the past years, it became larger and larger, so the computer was very slow if we used QQ's old version. I used the QQ2005, I think it is fast than before, and smaller. I like it, the cute QQ.

Tencent, which develops QQ, its CEO--- MA Huateng, graduated from Shenzhen University in 1994, majored in computer science.

Orkut

2005-10-23T14:22:00.000+08:00

Yesterday, I got an invitation to join orkut.com.

There are many Brazilian, saying in Portuguese. I think it's time to learn Portuguese?

Chinese communities is not hot. I hope more and more Chinese people join orkut.com.

There is a Chinese local connections web on internet, renhenet.com.

On Recreance

2005-10-22T21:13:00.000+08:00

Our "People's Writer", Ba Jin, was dead. He left us much much thinking. We always say somebody is recreant, but we never see ourselves characteristics. Ba Jin was the man, who was brave to say truth, to admit his mistake. So he was brave, not recreant.

They are ignominious, who criticizes somebody all the day but never criticezes themselves.

Notable Writer Ba Jin Died at Age 101

2005-10-19T21:08:00.000+08:00

BA Jin(巴金), one of the most revered writers, died of cancer in Shanghai on Monday after a six-year battle with malignant mesothelium cell tumor and other diseases.
Ba is one of the most revered Chinese authors of the 20th century, standing in the ranks of Lu Xun(鲁迅), Mao Dun(茅盾) and Guo Moruo(郭沫若).

Chinese Astronauts Land

2005-10-17T19:10:00.000+08:00

On Oct. 12, People were very exciting at everywhere of China because that China's piloted spacecraft, the Shenzhou VI, blasted off at 9 a.m. from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, beginning a 5-day mission orbiting the earth.

Today moring, Oct. 17, it returned safely. The flight in Oct. 2003 made China the 3rd country to put an astronaut into space, after the former Soviet Union and the United States.

Understand a little of Tensor

2005-10-06T15:07:00.000+08:00

Six days of Prime week of national day have pasted. I understand a little of Tensor. I have read the book for several times.

Two Weddings

2005-10-05T23:51:00.000+08:00

Prime week of National Day (October 1), I have been at Xichang. I attended two weddings. One was XQ SHEN and YX HE's at Qionghai Hotel(邛海宾馆) on Oct. 2, and another was YL LIU and GC ZHANG's at Sea Scene Club(海景俱乐部) on Oct. 5. I wishes them both a lifetime of happiness.

Somebody Disagreeing with Wang Yin

2005-10-04T15:49:00.000+08:00

Some days ago, Wang Yin(王垠) wrote a blog on his MSN space, who said he would want to give up his PhD degree at Tsinghua because of Chinese educational system. Several days after that, there were some people build a blog on MSN space, named "清华梦依然在". several scholars/students posted some blogs with their experiences at Tsinghua, who would stick up for the report of Tsinghua, but they never used their true names!

Wang Yin Giving up his PhD Degree at Tsinghua

2005-09-25T13:08:00.000+08:00

Who is Wang Yin(王垠)? He is a PhD student at Tsinghua University. Now He wants to stop his study in Tsinghua because he is dull of research environment in China. As for him, it is not easy to make the decision. He has been pursuing his PhD Degree for four years. To many other PhD student, they always choose to yield to the education system. Only Wang is brave to oppose it.

But I think that Wang should be careful about making the decision.

Here is Wang Yin's Space, which is in Chinese.

A good text for Tensor Analysis

2005-09-22T21:41:00.000+08:00

James G. Simmonds. A Brief on Tensor Analysis. New York: Springer-Verlag. 1982

In our image, tensor analysis is difficult. Some books wrote it as doctrine, which are very dull and not easy to understand. But this book wrote it very simple and very easy to learn, to get it.

Thank you, Mr. Simmonds.

Email Blog Test

2005-09-22T10:41:00.000+08:00

Email Blog Test

Learning, writing

2005-09-15T13:19:00.000+08:00

Until now, I can't open *.blogspot.com, but, however I write my blog.

I found a good site www.answers.com today, which can give us answers almost about everything.

I began to learn Continuum Mechanics, which is very dull. It has many maths fomulas, especially tensors calculus.

I began to write my first article on my research, but I found it is not easy to write a good article. However, I should finish the draft in October.

Hope

2005-09-05T13:15:00.000+08:00

Hope is everywhere. These days, I have been thinking about my research project. How large difference there is between theory and computation. Before yesterday, I only thought a little, but never practiced it, because I thought that the delta-distance and the delta-time are short enough. I computed it with computer by means of shortening the delta time yesterday. The result shows me that the amplitude is larger than before, which makes me rejoiceful. I thought I would never finish the project, but now I can see daylight.

Blog page cannot be browered.

2005-09-01T14:38:00.000+08:00

Today, I haven't seen my blog page. I think that net is wrong. I'm waiting for it until it is ok.

My blog is created.

2005-08-31T19:12:00.000+08:00

Today, I am very satisfied with Google's Blogger. So I create a blog to write something, e.g. my family, my research, my life, and etc.