New Zealand Dictionary 2006
The new one just released few days ago.
[11 August] Week 4 Term 3 ends
The school has made itself nationwide well-known this week.
可怕的“白领交友圈”
最近MSN里突然冒出来一堆中文名字的联系人要求加入，这些人，也许我应该说是机器人，他们唯一的任务就是推销一个叫“中国缘”的“高素质”，“高品位”的“白领交友圈”，至于其他的问题，机器人不知道也不会回答你。
这种现象最近更加严重，几乎天天都有两三个叫类似于“缘来是你”“幸福总是相似的”要求加入，而且垃圾邮件也是一天几封，脾气再好的人也会被搞得火大。类似于流氓的网络暴力行为虽然全世界都有，但不得不承认的是，中国特别多。虽然在现实生活中，每个国家之间都是有国界的，但是网络却不存在国界问题，我看不见另外那半球的土地，那边的流氓仍然在天天骚扰着我。
我很奇怪是他们如何搞到那么多人email地址的。其实一看注册页面就明白了：
MSN邮件：-------- 此处输入您的MSN帐号
密码： ------- MSN密码就是您在中国缘的登陆密码
重输密码： ------ 再次确认你输入的密码
登录帐号： ------ 可包含英文字母、数字、长度为4—20位
这已经很明显了，这个网站通过用户注册来欺骗MSN的用户名和密码，然后导出联系人名单并且开始发广告。这种网站全世界也有，但从来没有那么流氓过，最多是以注册人的名义发一封邀请函。
但这也是我拒绝注册类似于Hi5!，Bebo之类玩意的原因，就算70%以上的朋友都在上面，我也不会去注册。这些网站里的注册程序都有诱导你交出MSN，GMAIL或者AOL帐号密码的行为，谁知道他们究竟有没有记录任何信息，现在也许只是对你的朋友发封信，但对于明天他们要干什么，我就不知道了。
我不知道是我联系人里的哪个蠢货会上这种当，我一旦发现这个人一定要好好教训一顿，你最好自己出来自首。
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[4 August] Week 3 Term 3 ends
The regular weekly report.
Winnie the Spiderman
So our foreign minister Winston Peters is discharged from hospital in Australia. For public figures like Winnie, any news on him would cause a huge controversy and sometimes, jokes.
You should know that he was hospitalised because of a spider. As news reported, he sat on a spider while he was attending a meeting in Malaysia, thus this heroic spider bitted Winnie's ...buns and causing fever.
I learnt two things out from this.
1. Tropical forest is a dangerous place to place you buns.
2. People usually betray politicians while they were away. Jim Bolger is a good example, and this time, just few days ago I heard someone suggests we should done a deal with aussies: tell them to hold Winston as long as possible to stop him back to NZ, in return New Zealand government agrees to host half of aussie's psychiatric patients for free.
And I think that's a pretty good deal.
MSN is just getting ridiculous.
or shall I say "Windows Live Spaces"?
The newest update is totally an failure, this theme is just look awful and the banner on the top of the page is definitely putting me away.
The most important one,Micro$oft doesn't care to ask about people's opinion before any changes, so you don't expect they will listen anything after those changes, also changes in the future time.
If M$ is still thinking that people will just use any rubbishes they offer like the case of Windows, they are definitely wrong. In the age of Internet there's much more freedom to choose services and when you get unhappy about something, you just use your foot to express your feeling.
As far as I know, probably 50%+ of bloggers using MSN Spaces I seen are planning to move out from there.
And I am one of them. My old space will stop update very soon but remain opens as the archives. (Bear's Blog Beta - MSN Space)
