下午4点多welan.com突然无法访问，发现DNS已经不对，ping的结果如下：

流氓横行的互联网时代呀，真是让人不省心！

Writely will update to use Google Account for a user to  sign in,  if  he/she registered the Writely account with a gmail address.

It’s fantastic! It would be even better if the Google guys put a writely shortcut to Writely on the top left bar of Gmail just like Spreadsheets.

Writely nicely supports E-mailing documents. To use it, click E-mail In, on the opened page you will see an e-mail address which is unique to you.

Now write and send something to this address using your favorite mail tool(for me it is surely Gmail). The mail subject will be the title of the document and the body will be the content of the document.

You can also attach any supported documents to the email, which will be converted to separate Writely documents.

One thing you should notice is that if you add the unique address as a contact of your Gmail account, when you send anything to it use the “nickname”, you will receive an error message from Gmail’s delivery system:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
youruniqueaddresshere@prod.writely.com

Upset huh? Why can’t I send to Writely using my Gmail. Google has purchased Writely!

Don’t worry. It seems to be odd but you have to put the pure address into the “To” filed, not the friendly Writely yournuiqueaddreesshere@prod.writely.com form. Now try again and you will receive the Writely confirmation mail before long.

贴图不说话。

 

传统的桌面软件、特别是微软的许多软件，倾向于大量使用弹出式对话框（Modal dialog），典型代表是 Office 系列。在 Office 中，这样的对话框主要分为两类，一类是属性对话框，另一类是错误信息对话框。

属性对话框是 Office 系列一大特色，这一特色与 Dreamweaver 的面板形成鲜明的对比。当年初学 HTML 和 Web Design 时，就是因为超喜欢 DW 的面板而对 FrontPage 不屑一顾，才没有沉沦到对那些自动生成的垃圾代码的依赖中去。在 Office 2007 Beta 中，ribbon 和 galleries 的出现，使属性对话框的角色充分淡化。这种新的 UI，我非常喜欢。其实在 Office 2003 中，taskpane 已经是一个不小的改善，但 taskpane 的切换还是略显麻烦及不直观。

但微软似乎仍然对弹出式错误对话框情有独衷。用 Outlook 2007 Beta 回复一封邮件时，我切换到 Insert，尝试去发掘一下有什么新的好玩意，没想到欢迎我的是一个不停弹出的错误框，告诉我 Clip Art 没有安装。（如下图，点击图片察看完整大小图片）

最终，我不得不在任务管理器中杀死 Outlook 的进程以结束这段不愉快的探索。

很多网站也喜欢使用弹出式对话框来提示用户特定的信息。在“上世纪末及本世纪初”，貌似 95％ 以上的网站设计师们只会使用 window.alert 来向访问者提供反馈。后来随着 DHTML 动态网页的流行，这种现象有所缓解。这两年，Ajax 的横空出世，彻底冲击了这种作法。我们看到大量的网站使用无刷新的不会阻断用户操作的方式，对用户进行操作提示。

但是对于整个 Internet 来说，这些“大量”的网站，其实只占了一小部分。对于访问者，我们还是会不时地与弹出对话框亲密接触。比方说，如果你使用 Firefox 来访问 QZone，你会获得与上面提到的 Outlook 一样的不爽体验：

要命的是，点N下这个对话框的 OK 按钮，它还是精力十足地继续弹着。不具备我那份坚韧不拔的顽固劲的用户，说不定就只能把 Firefox 杀掉，同时把那些无辜的 Tab 一并干掉。世界并不完美，我们不得不忍受这样的不可用体验。

Subtext released its new version 1.9 “Daedelus”,  which “simply be a straight upgrade to ASP.NET 2.0″. I just couldn’t wait to install it side by ashchan.com (which was also built on ASP.NET), and would test it several days before deciding to keep it or not.

Personally I love WordPress most among all the blog platforms, but as I currently program asp.net, Subtext seems to be a better option.