GEEK NEVER COOK

Well, the story began from 800 years ago, China is in Yuan Dynasty at that time. A brilliant dramatist named Wang Shifu wrote a drama Romance of West Chamber, Which is about two youth how to get married through the barricade of their family. The classic scene of this drama is the boy over the wall to meet the girl secretly, it is also the reason why the developer named the project as West Chamber Plan.

The goal of this project is let users can access Internet freely despite GFW and it really easy to use. It solves two problem which led by GFW: connection reset by peer and domain hijacking. The theory is from the paper Insertion, Evasion, and Denial of Service: Eluding Network Intrusion Detection by T. Ptacek etc..

Actually I have no idea of the theory, just glad to see someone use his skills against evil for the masses. With hard work of innumerable people like this, we create the civilization we have today.

I have heard a story about Dingoo Games, a mobile game company in Chengdu. I can’t verify the authenticity of the email in the story, and it can describe some kind of real situation of game industry in China. So I public here.

Dingoo Game is a small mobile game company in the city I live in. It’s small, but not weak. They have won many prize international and national like nominated for the IGF Mobile 2008 of the “Technical Achievement” category. I found an essay says that when IMGA invite they to attend MWC2008, by lack of money, they refused the opportunity. Below is the email they replied to the IMGA.

Hello Jessica,

We are DingooGames.
I did read your mail, very carefully, and my reply was absolutely serious.

DingooGames
Tang

Maybe it’s just a selling strategy to let more Chinese user buy their product because I don’t find the original post. However, it indeed described the embarrassing situation in Chinese game industry. Chinese can get pirated game easily, game company can’t get enough money to develop. Compared with other fallen company, Dingoo is lucky enough. How long can their luck last if things like the mail said, god knows.

The Valentine’s Day is the first day of Chinese traditional lunar. It might be a happy day for every Chinese, that is also a good vacation to get rid of boring work things. I’ll meet some friends and read a book, I have bought Invisible Monster for half a year, it’s time to finish it.

Happy Spring Festival. I shall achieve my dream in this year.

I am glad to see that Google want quit China mainland, because google.cn is just shame but nothing. For the potential big market, Google forgot its Don’t be Evil. Although there is big possibility this decision is also led by money, at least it needn’t give in to the Chinese government.

I am a big fan of Google and at the same time I almost use all the product of Google, I cannot without Gmail and Reader for a day. Maybe after Google left China, the .com domain would be blocked and we cannot use Gmail and other product, it will be a disaster for Chinese university and scientist. For me, it force me to use Tor and other proxy tools, and maybe buy a VPN account. That’s quite not convenience, it make me realize we back to the Qing Dynasty, in that period, the rulers blocked China from the world.

We can’t access YouTube.

We can’t access Facebook.

We can’t access Twitter.

We can’t access blogspot.

Is google.com the next?

Today is the last day of 2009 in China, this year is important to K.G.B., that’s because we found this website in this year. I am glad made two right decision, which are choose a foreign host and writing blog in English. They protect us from the personal sites slaughter of Chinese government. We are lucky.

Happy New Year!

Board game is not popular in China. Most players are young people who like to receive new idea. It’s just fun of minorities. Now the things seem to change because The Battle among Three Kingdom appeared.

In Chinese history, there was some game like the board game we played today. The Picture of Be A More Powerful Officer (升官图） is one of them. In this game, the only target in this game is get the top of the ancient Chinese government architecture.

The Picture of Be A More Powerful Officer

The Battle among Three Kingdom is more like a modern board game. Actually it definitely inspired by a famous board game Bang!. The cowboy is replaced by historical character in the Three Kingdom period after Han Dynasty of China. The  creator added many roleplay elements in the game, every character has their own skills which are fit their background in history.

The Battle among Three Kingdom

It’s popular in Chinese youth, and it make more and more people know the board game and many board game bar opened in major cities of China. Although the group of board game players is still very small in China, I and my friends can enjoy the fun of it.

I have finished my first businese trip in Xi’an, which be famous as the capital of  Tang Dynasty in Chinese history.

I have to say the ancient wall is so great. That’s my first time to see the complete ancient city wall in real life, I even forgot shooting a picture for my exciting. However, I am not quite like the Xi’an city. Maybe the dry climate make me feel bad and the less development is not my dreamed type of city. I know many foreigners prefer Xi’an than Chengdu because they are bored of modern city. And for me, I would make the opposite choice, because I’am the slave of modern society,lol.

Clock Tower of Xi'an

Last year on this day, a man is executed in China.[wiki]

He is a murderer who killed 6 Shanghai police officers in police station. He is a hero who shined glory at last time of his short life.

Today is Thanks Giving Day in western world, I don’t know how many Chinese would remenber him, I know there should be some and I’am one of them.

I don’t belive violence could make a better world, but I hold strong belief that violence is a useful tool forces tyrants choose gentle reformers’ oppion. Yang Jia is the one makes tyrants know we Chinese also can fight back when we being humiliated, if there’s no justice we also can find our own justice.

Graffiti of Yang Jia in Beijing

Graffiti of Yang Jia in Beijing

FREE? FREE. FREE!

What’s the fashion in game industry right now? Yes, free things for indie gamers.

Few days ago, I heared the Unity 2.6 is totally free for personal and commercial use (the pro version still need some charge) . It’s really good news for pool developers, like me. Oh, wait, good things come in pairs. Epic game announced the free Unreal Development Kit.

In my opinion, I will choose UDK, I can find tons of books tutorial and a big community about it. Beside above, the UDK skill is more helpful for finding a job.

There’s wall in China.

It seems like no Chinese know where the wall is, even  the existence of  the wall is some kind of secret in this country.  You can not see it, touch it, throw stone to it. And the wall does no effect to your daily life, how kind the wall is. Is it really true?

The wall is only for the curious ones. For the one who is asking for truth, knowledge and justice, the wall is brutal and merciless. When you want know some knowledge or info the BIG BROTHER forbid, it cast its evil magic let you face the high wall.

They want there is no curious people in China, they want no one ask why and how, they want every one sit down and enjoy their unfair fortune. However, nothing can tie down a freedom heart no matter how high the wall is. We have many ways to gladder the wall and dig some small tunnel in the wall. Can you see the Chinese users in the twitter and facebook, some of them are the hero who cross the wall.

Ah, I forgot to introduce the name of the wall. Please remember it, one day, it  is certain to write in the history book with other things which keep people  far away truth and wisdom for their creator’s evil purpose.

There’s wall in China, we call it Great Firewall.