So the problem is how to change the UI language. The website URL for the Chinese version of google maps is the same as the English version, both of which is maps.google.com, so must be another way of doing it. Searching the UI, I can’t find a control to change language anywhere. However, I did notice on one page when clicking around, where I have this in my address bar.

http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?hl=en

by chaning it to:

http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?hl=zh-CN

As expected, I get Simplified Chinese version of google maps. So to switch UI language in gmap is to append “?hl=LANG_CODE” to the URL, such as:

http://maps.google.com/?hl=en

Will load the gmap front page in English. Some LANG_CODE I tried which are recognized by gmap is: de, en, fr, ko, ja, ru, zh-CN and zh-TW. (See language identifier for a complete list)

I will upload pictures of our little baby to the online gallery soon.

Thanks first go to my family, including my parents, who  made my PhD study possible finacially and they are always ready to encourage me whenever I am struggling with whatever issues. My wife, (was my girlfriend) , also support me throughout my PhD study.

This research was made possible under the excellent supervision of Prof. Andy Tyrrell and Dr. Julian Miller. I would like to thank them for their continuous support and guidance of the project as well as their suggestions and direction. In addition, I highly appreciate the efforts they exerted to find financial support for my further research.

Credits should also go to my friends, labmates, thanks for the assistance and suggestions, as well as the laughs and times shared with me.

I think this should be the last degree in my life, or anyone know is there a higher degree to pursue? (I know postdoctor is not considered as a degree, but rather a job) Although, even if there is a higher one, I doubt whether I am willing to consider it…

Big thank you to AWTOHOST again.

Anyway it should be ok now.

When finally it got back to normal, seems it did not like IE any more: it was impossible for me to add any items to my shopping basket. As I had been aware that ASDA was not compatible with Firefox when checking out, I thought adding items to basket should work fine, so I opened a new tab in Firefox to access ASDA.

It turned out to work just fine under Firefox. When everything was added and we were satisfied, I just proceeded to check out under Firefox (which had not worked out of the box, I had to modify the dom tree to get ride of some broken javascript function calls to make it work). After the successful page shown up, I realized that ASDA is now compatible with Firefox, finally! That’s nifty.

I had no idea what I could do for my country today: I am no way near of literal master to write an article about China. However, when I heard the "Today is your birthday, my China" (今天是你的生日我的中国) in a forum thread, the idea of translating the lyric to English came to me. I did try my best to translate it but please bear with my English.

Any comments about improving this translation are appreciated.

	Original Chinese	Translated English
1	今天是你的生日我的中国	Today is your birthday, my China
2	清晨我放飞一群白鸽	In the morning I release a bevy of birds of peace
3	为你衔来一枚橄榄叶	to bring you an olive branch
4	鸽子在崇山峻岭飞过	Birds of peace voyage steep mountains
5	我们祝福你的生日我的中国	We bless your birthday, my China
6	愿你永远没有忧患永远宁静	Wish you for all time peaceful and have no miseries
5	我们祝福你的生日我的中国	We bless your birthday, my China
7	这是儿女们心中希望的歌	This is the song of wish from your offspring’s deepest hearts
1	今天是你的生日我的中国	Today is your birthday, my China
2	清晨我放飞一群白鸽	In the morning I release a bevy of birds of peace
8	为你带回远方儿女的思念	to bring you lovesickness from distant offsping
9	鸽子在茫茫海天飞过	Birds of peace voyage boundless sky and sea
5	我们祝福你的生日我的中国	We bless your birthday, my China
10	愿你月儿常圆儿女永远快乐	Wish you for all time moon full and offspring happiness
5	我们祝福你的生日我的中国	We bless your birthday, my China
11	这是儿女在远方爱的诉说	This is the expression of love from your far away offspring
1	今天是你的生日我的中国	Today is your birthday, my China
2	清晨我放飞一群白鸽	In the morning I release a bevy of birds of peace
12	为你衔来一棵金色麦穗	to bring you a golden ear of wheat
13	鸽子在风风雨雨中飞过	Birds of peace go through storms
5	我们祝福你的生日我的中国	We bless your birthday, my China
14	愿你逆风起飞雨中获得收获	Wish you take off against the wind to acquire what you deserve in rain
5	我们祝福你的生日我的中国	We bless your birthday, my China
7	这是儿女们心中希望的歌	This is the song of wish from your offspring deepest hearts
5	我们祝福你的生日我的中国	We bless your birthday, my China
14	愿你逆风起飞雨中获得收获	Wish you take off against the wind to acquire what you deserve in rain
5	我们祝福你的生日我的中国	We bless your birthday, my China
7	这是儿女们心中希望的歌	This is the song of wish from your offspring deepest hearts

References:

1. Download: Today is your birthday, my China

Trial and error has a number of features:

• solution-oriented: trial and error makes no attempt to discover why a solution works, merely that it is a solution.
• problem-specific: trial and error makes no attempt to generalise a solution to other problems.
• non-optimal: trial and error is an attempt to find a solution, not all solutions, and not the best solution.
• needs little knowledge: trial and error can proceed where there is little or no knowledge of the subject.

To my surprise, the feature list of this method perfectly describes the finding the right person procedure as well:

• solution-oriented: no need to know why the right person is right, it just is if you feel it
• problem-specific: each and everyone is different, so their right one is specific as well
• non-optimal: there is not only one "the right person". Of course, it can be argued that "the right person" should be the and only one person fits.
• needs little knowledge: you do not need to be taught about how to find girlfriend (the potential right person)

So I draw my conclusion finding the right person is a use case of Trial and error.

At first glance, I think this is sad: trial and error method is not such an ideal approach, it seems to me. However, it is not all that bad. Quote from the wiki page:

The scientific method can be regarded as containing an element of trial and error in its formulation and testing of hypotheses. Also compare genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and reinforcement learning – all varieties of search which apply the basic idea of trial and error.

Biological Evolution is also a form of trial and error…

The method is also used in scientific method and nature, so why shall we complain about using this method in finding the right person