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文(原稿)

春暖還寒，
在櫻花間梭巡。

清風吹過，
一陣緋紅或白淨的雪景。

是漸暖的天氣吸引，
還是美麗的花朵擄獲人心？

文(定稿，感謝小作家月刊修潤)

春天乍暖還寒，
我在櫻花間巡梭。
滿眼緋紅和雪白裡，
清風更是振奮人心。
只是忽然分不清，
是美麗的花朵
還是宜人的天氣
讓人這麼開心？

Here is a short description of Nowpublic.com

Technology has broken the corporate news monopoly. Digital cameras, camera phones, blogs, and RSS put the tools of the news trade into the hands of the public, and now real news comes from real people everywhere. Now you can demand coverage of the stories you care about—all you need is nowPublic. Here public demand launches investigations. Story Ideas come from people on the ground, insiders, community leaders. Footage comes from eye witnesses, citizen reporters, people close to the real st.

I never knew this site until I received a request mail this morning.

Hi,

NowPublic is running a news story on starbucks profit down 97% and we’re trying to put together a collection of photos of starbucks. If you’re interested in sharing your photo, please follow the links below and feel free to add your own comment as well. Looking forward to seeing your work on the site!

In case you haven’t heard of us, NowPublic.com is a participatory news website. The requested photos will appear as thumbnails when you follow the link. I’d also encourage you to comment on the article (after following the link) if you have opinions on the topic. It will appear as a comment beneath the article (NOT as a caption to the photo).

In brief, the author on Nowpublic.com wants to use two photos in my flickr photostream (as the follows). And, here is the news, a bad news of Starbucks. XD

It is really interesting, and let me to think of 鄉民 and the Gossiping discussion group (八卦板) in PTT. I think the information from 鄉民 is really great, quick, powerful and true (well, sometimes is just gossiping), and, now, I am wondering the model like Nowpublic.com, gathering the information from users to form news, can work out or not in Taiwan…

天氣好的日子，住處外頭的景色其實還蠻不錯的，有種寂靜的美感（當然是在車輛少的時候），那天準備去等公車的時候映入眼簾的就是這樣的景致，減低飽和度之後我覺得更有味道了。

Last week, I bought a second-hand espresso machine to replace the old American Coffee Maker. In these days, I went to downtown and bought a tamper and a frother.

Although it it not as good as using steam frothing, the froth made by the frother is acceptable. And the espresso is very good after I tamp the coffee powder in the filter. The follow pic is the two shots coffee powder after extraction.

And this is my espresso machine, it also contains two another filters, an one shot and an pod size.

Espresso Latte in Kyoto Mug.

It’s really nice to have a cup of espresso-based coffee in the chilly morning. To celebrate the setting of my espresso system, I change my blog logo to an image of the fringe of the Kyoto mug with coffee stains and sun light.

Well, how about the old American Coffee Maker? I may sell it on the Internet. :Q

一開始Colette動作很生硬（下面照片是倒過來的順序），可能是因為不熟悉的關係，再加上原本預計的場地–窄門咖啡沒那麼早開始營業，有點打亂原本的計畫，在周邊街道上閒晃等待的時候，我也不知道該怎麼樣帶會比較好。

等到窄門開始營業，進到裡面才發現是我蠻喜歡的光線，如果可以再搭配無線網路就更好了(誤)。接下來Colette的肢體動作也比較鬆軟一點，拍起來就順手許多了。

全部的照片在這邊。另外，拍攝的時間是中午，如果是傍晚的話，面西的窗戶應該會有很殺的光線吧。