Journal
A Thought on this Blog
The great Chinese chess grandmaster Yang Guan-lin passed away. I paid tribute to him by posting his early games in a Chinese chess forum. The posts received thousands hits. Naturally my time spent on this blog has reduced. I did not even know Wordpress 2.5 was out for a month, or Ubuntu 8.10 was on […]
My Visitors
I have taken no active step to promote this site. But I have got unexpected visitors from Google. I must have disappointed them.
Most of them searched for “paper tiger chess“. I searched the Google but did not find my site. My visitors must be very patient. Minority matters.
A few visitors searched for “web usability and […]
Deep Blue
As this site is named Chess 360, I hereby write something about Deep Blue:
Today I changed to Deep Blue theme. According to Jakob Neilsen’s Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005, the number one mistake is poor legibility. That includes small font size and poor contrast between text and background. So I made some changes:
Used […]
Run 3 Miles
This is a personal record again. Today I ran for 3 miles in 37 minutes on a treadmill. I started from 4 miles/hr, increased to 6 miles/hr peak. I am still unable to run more than once a week.
Treadmill vs Runway
OK. I note this down to push myself for regular sport.
For last two weeks I ran on a treadmill in a gymnasium. I set the speed to 5 miles/hour and ran for 40 minutes. So I ran for 3 miles. I ran 2 days each week.
Today I ran in the track of a stadium. I […]