2000年5月18日星期四

Slides of the Q9 workshop are now available online

Dear friends,

Thanks to those coming to my virtual workshop yesterday on Q9 the Chinese Input System, I think we had a very successful workshop, with participants from Hong Kong, New Jersey, as well as Florida.

The slides of the workshop are now available online. I built a lot of animation into the slides that they are almost self-explanatory. If interested, check them out:

http://www.senseasy.net/leeyuiwah/files/Q9-illustrated.latest.pps



Clement Lee
New Jersey
May 18, 2008

2000年5月17日星期三

九方家課區 Q9 Homework Submission Zone

Dear students of Chinese Heritage School, please leave me a comment below with the following content:

Option A: Write a standard message
張小明 (your name):進修班 (your class):


Option B: Write your own message
張小明 (your name):進修班 (your class):
Plus any Chinese message of your choice with no less than 20 Chinese characters (not including your name and your class).

If you do not have Q9 installed on your computer, you can use the Q9 on http://hk.dictionary.yahoo.com (Remember to select the 字型 input method)



The PPS file of the course is available here:

http://www.senseasy.net/leeyuiwah/files/Q9-illustrated.CHS.v2.0.pps

2000年5月6日星期六

Clement 網上開班教九方輸入法



My dear friends,

Many of you probably know that I am a fan of Q9 the Chinese input method 九方輸入法 (besides being a fan of RTHK, PBS, NPR, TiVo, J.S. Bach, …). I think it is a godsend to Hong Kong people. It is particularly suitable for most of us because we normally do not do pinyin 拼音 nor bo po mo fo 注音, nor are us professional typists who can afford the time for a dedicated training to master other Chinese input methods, such as Cang Jie 倉頡 (which is painfully difficult to master).

Q9 literally has changed my life, since I learned it’s basics in 15 minutes in 2004. If you know how often now I email, blog, and facebook in Chinese, you will know what I mean. I am so happy with Q9 that I often recommend it to my friends in Hong Kong. I even held a few Q9 workshops in various occasions in Hong Kong and in New Jersey.

This is the first time I try to hold such a workshop virtually (on the Internet), via the service of GotoMeeting.com If you have not yet mastered any Chinese input methods, and you are interested to learn Q9, please check out the following details about this virtual meeting. (Note, see my comments on hand-writing board below.)


The workshop will be conducted in Cantonese. The workshop is free, of course. I am doing it just for fun. Disclaimer: I receive absolutely no commission from Q9. I just think Q9 is a great piece of software for my friends from Hong Kong.

Date/Time: May 18 Sunday 11:00 am – noon Hong Kong Time

(May 17 Sat 11:00 pm-midnight US Eastern Daylight Saving Time)

Place: virtually, on the web, in your home, through your computer and telephone

How to join

  1. Reply this email to register telling me that you want to register (I will send you an acknowledgement email)
  2. On the scheduled meeting time, call this USA phone number (note: you will have to pay for the long-distance call fee, but it should cheap these days) +1-(605) 990-0010; when prompted (in English), please press the following access code (216-730-101) with the numeric buttons on your phone.
  3. Point your web browser to this address https://www2.gotomeeting.com/join/216730101, when prompted, please enter the following meeting password: behappy


During the virtual meeting, you will be able to see my desktop on which I will show the Q9 demo. At the end, I will also teach you how to try out Q9 for free – by using the online service of hk.dictionary.yahoo.com (but of course if you really want to use it on a regular basis, you can buy a copy of Q9: the download version is HK$ 250 or USD 32, the CDROM version is HK$ 350. )

For enquiry, please feel free to contact me at mailto: leeyuiwah@hknet.com

For background information of this virtual workshop series, you can check out a blog article of mine http://leeyuiwah.blogspot.com/2008/04/blog-post_05.html

For more info about the software, visit Q9’s official website: http://q9tech.com/

I hope you will find the workshop useful – it may change your life too!

Clement Lee 李銳華

New Jersey

http://leeyuiwah.blogspot.com

P.S. I still think Q9 is superior to the hand-writing board, which is very slow. For example, if I have to write my Chinese name, I will have to write 7+14+12 strokes altogether, and I need to pray that the software can recognize my handwriting the first time I write my words, or I will have to retry, which means more strokes. In contrast, with Q9 I only need to type 4+5+4 keys and the computer almost always get the words correctly. Q9 also supports “associative suggestion” 聯想字, so it can sometimes guess your next Chinese word based on the current word. E.g. often leads to 文、國、心、央 etc. This can speed up your typing further. Also, if you forget how to write a certain word, but you still remember its sound, you can find words from their homophones 同音字 (words of the same sound). Basically, I think Q9 solves the practical need of input Chinese for most people from Hong Kong, and its speed is decent.

2000年4月27日星期四

近期文章節錄(2008 年 4 月 27 日)

與毓民商确——為甚麼要撐港台

【原載於香港經濟日報(2008 年 4 月 26 日)。本版本為 1.1 網上修訂版,與原來《香港經濟日報》上的附印版略有不同,敬請留意。】

感謝毓民(黃毓民先生)四月十三日(2008年)在太陽報提出問題:「撐港台所為何事?」相信道出了一些人士的心聲,這其中包括了一些相信新聞自由的進步人士。這些人士原來應該會是香港電台的支持者,但可能為了有著與毓民相近的疑問,因而對撐港台的行動有所遲疑。小弟不才,試以一點粗淺的個人意見回答毓民的問題。... (全文見此)

一個漢人在新疆的隨想

2008年04月20日

筆者去年(2007 年)有幸參與一個教育考察活動,在中國的大西北——甘肅、青海、和新疆拜訪了一些學校,小學、中學、大專院校都有。

記得在新疆時,當地的教育官員向我們介紹教育政策,其中提到,為使維吾爾族及其他少數民族能融入社會,這些少數族裔的學生都要學習漢語。這本來是無可厚非的。

...


狂熱愛國主義的基礎是民族主義,當漢人能怒對洋人加之於我中華民族的欺侮時,我們能不能又去思考一下我們漢人對維吾爾族、藏族、和其他少數族裔實施著怎樣的政策?他們若同樣地舉起民族主義的大旗,對我們怒目而視,我們又能否理解事出何因呢? (全文見此)

廉價愛國主義

2008年04月11日

北京奧運聖火在巴黎遭遇抗議,五度熄火。有網民深深不憤,認為是「法國有心策劃破壞中國舉行奧運的邪惡行為。 這樣的行為和直接開戰根本沒兩樣, 所以中國應該和法國斷絕外交關係。」這樣的呼籲,竟然可以得到不少網民的響應。在 Uwants.com 的討論區上的投票結果,到目前(香港時間 2008 年 4 月 11 日正午)為止是 72 票贊成, 44 你票反對。

這 使筆者想起 2003 年時,美國布殊政府醞釀攻打伊拉克,法國是其中一個最旗幟鮮明反對這場不義戰爭的國家(中國也不贊成,但中國較為低調)。結果激起美國內部的廉價愛國主義 者發起反法國行動。其中最搞笑的,是美國國會的餐廳,把薯條的英文名字 French Fries也改為 Freedom Fries 以示劃清界線云云。 ... (全文見此

胡佳被判刑,你會「橙色」北京奧運嗎?


2008年04月06日

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轉載:胡佳妻子曾金燕:请你告诉我:判决公正吗?

2008年04月06日

[ 網主按:本文最末有聲援胡佳的網上聯署及聲援人權的「橙色奧運」的連結。請廣傳。「莫以善小而不為,莫以惡小而為之。」 謝謝! ]

轉載自《曾金燕 了了園》

作者是胡佳的妻子曾金燕


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(全文見此)

十九世紀的沙龍在今天

2008年04月05日

我的性格好交朋友,也算是在各行各業都認識了一些人。但我比較不喜歡風花雪月、嘻嘻哈哈的淺交。偶一為之雖然無妨;但過多的話,我就會「潛水」(婉拒謝絕)或「閃人」(托詞離開)。其實,與人相處時,我更感興趣的,是從與不同的人的對話中吸收新概念、新知識。

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我們香港人很刻薄

2008年04月01日

我們香港人很刻薄
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藝人裸照一案,再一次反映了香港的文化特質——我們香港人是很刻薄的。

案中幾位藝人,原來是受害者,但大部份圍觀看熱鬧的群眾給他們的反應是甚麼呢?不是冷嘲熱諷,就是嚴詞苛責。

甚至到了「阿嬌」站出來委婉地表示歉意,評論員們,也沒有停止落井下石。一邊是「除了天真與傻,還有對錯!」;另一邊是「大家鄙視的不是你的放蕩,而是你的虛偽!」蔚為奇觀。

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