星期三, 十一月 21, 2007

AnimalsTaiwan's Newsletter

When I began to use the phplist system to send out about 1000 emails, shits happen again. My patience was going to explode, so I use a tiny software, DMailer, the notorious SPAM delivering software to do this job. If I use phplist system, I will need at least 2 hours to finish the job, but I only spent only 12 minutes to accomplished the sending of 1000 emails with DMailer.

By the way, yesterday I got another two last modifications again.

當我開始使用phplist系統來寄電子報時,問題又出現了。我的耐心已經用盡,我決定使用著名的垃圾郵件軟體來完成工作,DMailer。如果我用phplist,我會需要2個小時,可是其實我只花了12分鐘,就用DMailer把事情ko了。

附帶一提,昨天我又得到了兩個最後修正~~。

星期一, 十一月 19, 2007

About AnimalsTaiwan's Newsletter

With Michelle's recommendation, I worked with Kim to publish AnimalsTaiwan's Newsletter, the third volume.

Kim is good at editing, and she have finished a lot of work by herself. At first, Kim just sent out many letters to ask many volunteers in AT to write about some events happened recently. After received the replies, Kim again sent out letters to ask translators to make all the articles be bilingual. Now that all the articles were prepared, all the jobs went toward me.

I used the HTML template created by Peter to edit this newsletter. There were several things happening when I was processing the newsletter. Kim was good partner, but she did not collected all the files for me. I had to check about more than 10 emails before I could start the work because all the files were separated between different emails. Some of the translations were missing, and Kim did not find out. After I finished the missing parts question, here came the question number two: SEO, search engine optimization, issues with HTML. Given that I had talked about SEO issues about our web sites to Peter before, I should not just neglect this issue. However, I had deadline, so I only use some "h1", "h2". It was not a good job from the SEO view point.

Shits happened again and again. First, people told me that many of our members emails should change to the new ones. After I finished it, they told me that I should encrypt the emails. That meant that I have to use Email riddler. When I was using Email riddler, several bugs just jumped out again. I still do not understand now why Javascript does not use semicolon as separator for each line. Every time I pasted the script generated by web tool, some of the Javascripts automatically combine together, which causes bugs and errors. Furthermore, selecting suitable photos for every pages was also a difficult job.

Finally, this job has been done.

星期日, 十一月 18, 2007

漫畫店的黑皮~~

漫畫店有一隻小黑狗,年紀和我家的小寶差不多大,叫做黑皮。最近我常常把小寶帶去找牠玩。黑皮長得跟小寶很像,大小也差不多,兩隻狗先在漫畫店門口玩,接著就一路跟我跑回我家玩了。

黑皮是人養的狗,所以二話不說,就跟著小寶走進我家。(如入無人之境啊。)一開始,小寶很小氣,我媽媽拿東西出來請客時,小寶都會想獨占,不請黑皮吃,黑皮一靠近,小寶就”吼吼吼”。

但是現在小寶變大方了。於是黑皮來我家,第一件事,就是走到小寶的房間,把小寶沒吃完的飼料吃光光~~。

漫畫店的老闆:「嗯,說也奇怪,自從你家的狗常常來找我家的黑皮玩以後,牠好像最近愈長愈大隻了。」