最近在听有声读物《赵赶驴手机奇遇记》，一个人听时有时能把自己听得很感动。大概自己骨子里还是属感性的。但从另一个方面想，其实我不觉得此奇遇记的情节有多吸引人，有声读物的速度也是慢吞吞的，这两因素综合起来，我不应该如此感动才是。那我究竟是被什么感动？
其实还是被自己的臆想而感动。比如，听到妞妞发给小强的一封邮件中的 flash 附件，我就拿我纵横网络几十年所见过的最漂亮的 flash 去想象。
突然我有了个 idea，网络小说是不是可以直接加入这些道具的连接，而不是单纯用文字码出来？这样读者直接就可以把妞妞制作的 flash 拉到自己的电脑上看，是不是比 3D 电影更有现场感？
网络小说就要充分利用网络的优势。只是这对作者就提出了更高的要求，估计得像拍电影那样，成立个剧组才能制作一个像样的网络小说。
Inspired by OpenId, I want to start a project – OpenPassword.
What is it for?
People are hesitate to register themselves from site to site. One of the reasons is people are afraid of giving password to the web sites they do not trust much. Most people do not have big memory, so they have to use the same password for all web sites. They may or may not aware that any webmaster / web owner who has access to the password database could try the same password on other sites (or even worse – for online banking). Whether people’s passwords are in safe depends on how honest the webmaster / web owner is. Even the webmaster / web owner is honest, does he have basic skills to keep password in safe? I see a lot of web sites save passwords unencrypted, which could be a disaster.
OpenId comes to solve this problem. But currently not all web sites support OpenId. What if you are in a position you have to use some web sites which do not support OpenId? You have to take care of security yourself. My proposal is:
在管理文件时，我经常碰到这样一个问题：目前树形结构的文件系统，一个文件只能放在一个地方，决定了它只能被单维度管理。虽然有软连接、硬连接、快捷方式辅助，还是非常不方便：要去多个目录下建立连接就费时费力，而且目标文件移动了位置，这些连接统统都失效。多维度的文件管理，我能想到的办法就是用类似于数据库的技术，具体而言：
其实 tag 化的文件管理系统已经有了很多，比如相片管理、视频管理、MP3管理、电子书籍管理等等。但这些系统都自称一套体系，没有可移植性，比如，不能把一组相片连同 tag 信息传输给别人（除非把相片管理系统也传输给别人）。我想要的是在 OS 文件系统层得到支持的 tag 存储，或者是根植于 Nautilus / windows explorer 的 tag 操作。有了她，相片管理系统、视频管理系统、MP3管理系统、电子书籍管理系统统统都没有销路了。
其实 Google docs 就是这个干的，如果能应用到本地就好了。
tag2find 基本可以实现我想要功能，但这个软件看上去不够大气，又只支持 windows，也非根植于 windows explorer，所以不足以打动我。
Html wysiwyg editing is good, but the html wysiwyg editors do not always format text as I wish. Sometimes they transforms some characters which I want to keep them intact.
For example, I wanted to rewrite some of my posts on this blog by hand coding the post. But I must turn off wysiwyg editing in WordPress globally before I can save my post. Another “but” is I do not want to turn it off globally because it is a handy tool for writing some other posts. So I want wysiwyg on and off on individual page basis.
For another example, Magento 1.4 now has wysiwyg editor built-in. However, it can’t recognise Magento’s mark-up tags for CMS block or CMS page. It wasted me an hour’s work by stripping these tags in a second after I clicked “Save”.
In short, for people like me enjoying hand coding, I think a wysiwyg on-off attribute for each page basis would give me the best of both worlds.
It is very time consuming to set Related Products, Cross Sells, Up Sells on individual product basis, and not accurate if you work them out just using your brain. It is good to see Magento has these marketing terms built in, but I hate to do the job by hand (or brain).
So I am thinking of developing a business intelligence module for Magento to let computer work Related Products, Cross Sells, Up Sells for us.
Here is the overview of this module:
First, we need record more data than what Magento provides. we specify a period of data to data-mine.
Then, for Related Products, mine product pageviews by each visit. Put a visitor’s all visited products into an array, and count all visitors’ arrays for every product-product combination.
As for Cross Sells, mine orders received or fulfilled. The algorithm is similar to Related Products.
As for Up Sells, mine the products were added to cart but dropped from final order. Compare the product dropped with the products in final order, and if the former is of higher value, and some sort related to the latter, we can call the former Up Sells. This is my definition, and the algorithm is some sort complicated.
跟各种各样的顾客打交道，自我感觉我还是有较高的“customer oriented”意识，我一直认为这有利于达成交易。
直到有一天，一个供应商突然通知我，某个第二天交货、双面印刷的订单他只印了一面，由于生产环境改变，他无法印另一面。我只有接受既成的事实，一方面安排运输，一方面想去通知客户这个坏消息。退客户一点钱倒是小事，当时我脑袋只想着事先告警好过客户收货以后发现该印两面的只印了一面。
但老板阻止了我通知客户。他认为在客户什么都没有看到的情况下，如果是挑剔的客户，得知这个坏消息可能会在电话里脱口说，“我不要了”；而客户在收货以后十有八九会象我一样接受既成的事实，毕竟产品质量没有问题。
我觉得我光想着给客户最好的服务，忽略了一些客服技巧。老板到底是老板，学习——
On some ocassion, we need some kind service of “release on demand”. Courier service provider should think of offering it as a value added service.
The scenario is – We have some customers are desparate for some products, but they can not pay the money up front. It is understandable. There may be a problem with their card issuer at the time they place an order. If customer need the products the next day, we must dispatch one day earlier before they can sort out the payment problem. Most customers have good history – if they say they will pay, they will pay. We do not want to lose those customers. The best solution would be we dispatch the order once we receive the order, then the order is with the courier, and the courier must hold the order for us until we advise them to release the order. That saves time on route.
Will any courier be thinking of launching this new service?