I have been using Skype for communicating with my family for quite a while. I was very impressed by its very clear voice quality. A few days ago I bought 10 EUR credit of SkypeOut because I have to call to Hong Kong to arrange the flight when I am going. Now I can use it to call any local phone from my computer, with a low calling rate!

I tried to call my family in China for about 2 minutes and 30 seconds, and it only cost me 0.09 EUR, which is less than one Yuan in RMB. How cheap is that! And for other countries, they also offers very low calling rate. For example, to a Japanese local phone it’s only 0.02 EUR per minute. This will be very convenient for me to call to Japan after I go back to China or England.

I got this coupon from a chain ramen shop called KOURAKUEN. I went there quite often because its price is suitable for students and the taste is good too. But last time when I went there for lunch, after I finished my ramen and paid my bill, they gave me this coupon. It said ‘When it’s rainy day, this coupon worth 100 yen; for a non-rainy day it worth 50 yen’.

This is interesting. The value of coupon depends on the whether it’s raining or not. But when I thought carefully, this make senses! Because it’s Tsuyu (the rainy season) in Japan now. In Japan, June is normally the time when it rains almost every day. Japanese call it ‘Tsuyu’. However this year luckily doesn’t rain so much, actually yesterday was sunny.

I guess KOURAKUEN might be a bit disappointed about this ”marketing strategy” this year :-)

Last Friday my blog was hacked by a hacker named “Cn_angel”. But luckily there wasn’t any serious damages to my blog. My blog is using the Bo-blog system. Last week a serious bug of this program was found, after a while a lot of Bo-blog users were hacked.

I updated my blog with debug files from the official website right after I found it was hacked. And wrote an entry about my blog was hacked in Chinese. However no long after, that hacker came again and changed that entry to a sentence "I am so sorry". Maybe she realised it’s not very appropriate to hack a person with NO technical knowledge like me. But I was confused with how can she still hack into my blog after I updated the latest debug programs. Finally I found out she had already save some Trojan programs in some roots.

I think this Cn_angel didn’t mean to attack my blog seriously, otherwise all my data would have been deleted. Also, she left her QQ number wanted make friend with me. I don’t think my blog will be seriously attacked by her again. But those left Trojan programs really make me uncomfortable to continue writing. Just like one day when you come back to your house, and you saw a note on the wall say "I just visited your house, nice!" Then of cause you are worried about that, so you add more securities. However the next day when you come back home, there is another note "Don’t worry, I won’t steal your stuff!"

I don’t have any PHP knowledge, I don’t know how to find out where those Trojan programs are located. So I backuped both my Chinese and English blogs, deleted all of them from the server, installed the latest version bo-blog and then recovered all the data. Now I think it would be safer to continue blogging.

Well, thanks to Cn_angel! I got a chance to exercise how to reinstall the whole system. But only for once, no more hacking please!

I went to Tokyo Edo Museum yesterday.

It’s a pretty big museum located in Ryogoku. It has 6 floors where exhibiting a lot of exhibitions from Edo era until recent years of Japan. A lot of them are originally from Edo time, for example some bowls which were used hundred years ago and also some cars from that time.

After visiting there, I was trying to compare this one to the National Folks Museum of Korea, which I visited last December when I traveled to Soul. I found some similarity of these two museums: the ancient time of Japan and Korea are similar to ancient China. This shows that China was really the center of Asia at that time, and its cultural and economic influents are largely affect these two countries.

A very nice and interesting museum! But it was a pity that I were there only 2 hours and it’s not really enough for me to learn from this museum. I think I will go there again before I leave Japan.

Here are some pictures taken from yesterday: