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April 22, 2003

SARS Crisis

Second SARS death in Malaysia confirmed. The most concerned thing of people now is the "SARS Index", which indicated how many "probable SARS cases", "suspected SARS cases" and number of people quarantined. The fear is widely spreaded. I felt pretty tensed while I was in my hometown (Johor, soutern area of West Malaysia) and watching Singapore TV. There is news about SARS progress around every 15 minutes on TV. Watching them didn't get me learn more about the disease, except nervous.

War is _almost_ over. We really hope this SARS outbreak could be over very soon. I wonder should my friends and I still go to Lang Tengah for our May trip, as planned two months ago. All we could do is wait-and-see.

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MT Localization

I setup my Chinese Blog using MT with zh_TW encoding. It is not actually zh_TW encode, but utf-8 (Unicode) encoding of zh_TW language (Traditional Chinese). MT Localization team did a good work (also help from Jedi). All I need to do is to download the zh_tw.utf8.pm archive and the graphs/icons. Put them into proper places (zh_tw.utf8.pm at $MT/lib/MT/L10N, lang-zh-tw graphics folder put under images). Then create an user whose language preference is zh_tw. It's done.

It suppose should be done as everything works well, from displaying proper language and icons, to posting your articles in utf-8 encoding. But the text messed up after you posted! I have tried setting browser encoding to utf-8, zh_TW. All didn't work on posting. Or it might work after you first posted, displayed properly while you viewing your site. But the text display while you edit the post, is scrambled. The utf-8 charset was manually changed in main index template instead of setting MTCharset in mt.cfg. I use the same MT system to manage 2 blogs in different language, that might be the cause.

I am wondering why not trying other software. b2 looks pretty nice. I've installed it in my Windows and trying it out. It is written in PHP, which means it's more hackable to me (I don't know Perl).

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What's your Winer Number

That's definitely a way to make famous people more popular. Guess we'd going to have 2 more acronyms in blog community, where WN stand for Winer Number, and EWN stand for Extended Winer Number. Check it out at Mark's post.

I couldn't really following what happened when I read Mark's Enough already. It should because I am not a regular reader following all the happening regarding RSS. Until reading this, and Winer Number. I do sense something about Dave over some posts on mailing list/forums. I was just among others, initially reading lots of his articles/blog when getting to blog world. And then surf away. As first knowing Blog, one thing I always complained about scripting.com was why it took so long to load. I also found weird of own webserver implementation of Radio Userland, and its unfriendly outliner/scripting environment -- I thought it was because I never used Mac then. MT come to rescue...

Mark really got the good sense of humour. Why is he acting like this? He explained. You could check Kevin Burton's experience as well. :)

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