After a few days working on the camera but with no luck. We observed the signal from the Rabbit's serial port on a scope, with the expected waveforms but the camera just would not response. Therefore we have decided to drop the camera for now and concernate on the Roomba and Rabbit for now, will go back to the camera when we have time. It's a good call by Kamil, hopefully we will have WiFi, motion detection and Roomba control (path planning) done soon and starting integrating everthing together soon. Good luck everyone!

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Today I have installed a dictionary which I found very useful on my Buddhist site. The thing I like about this dictionary is that it include pinyin which is very useful when I was learning Mandarin. It supports Chinese Traditional, Simplify, Pinyin and English lookup. This dictionary is based on CEDICT and a interface written by Chinese tools. Try it out if you have time, hope you find it useful too.

Chinese English Dictionary Page

Vincent Lai 

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I decided to update my Buddhist site on Pure Land Buddhism. AMTB.co.uk has been setup for almost two years now, and I decided it need some changes since the content are not very organised and informative. I therefore decided to change the whole site, having some hard time deciding what program I'm going to use this time. The choices were Mambo, Joomla, WordPress, etc… and I decided to give wordpress a go this time. I only started using WordPress about a month ago, the first site with wordpress is Kamil's Blog. Then it's this Blog. The reason for going for wordpress is easy managment and the support of contribution from the users. You can now comment on the articles and pages that I put up for the site. Your advice and suggestions are very welcome, do leave me feedbacks so I can improve on it. There is still a lot to be done . Enjoy and hope you like it.

Namo Amituofo
Vincent Lai

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After yesterday paper, can finally take a break from Exams as the next one is on the 22nd. Did learn a lot during this exams, mainly on practicing things that I know I should do. But it's easy to say but difficult to do, to be able to let go is not easy! (三歲小兒也曉得，八十老翁行不得) Most of us feel stress about exam and upset if we had a bad paper, and we just have to look at it wisely! Like Kamil says, if we look back at it 10 years later, this paper really doesn't matter. I'm saying we should not work hard, but don't get too upset if things don't turn out the way we want them to be. Here is a quote that I would like to share.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. ~ Buddha

Today is very meaningful, went to the temple today and feel very relax afterwards.

May everyone be happy,
may everyone be free from misery,
may no one ever be separated from their happiness,
may everyone have equanimity,
free from hatred and attachment.

Namo Amituofo
Vincent Lai

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I decided to installed a googlemap module into Gallery2 for displaying photos on the map. However experience problems displaying the maps properly using the current template. And after some search on online, I find a travel blog which also uses the same template with googlemap and display very nicerly! The owner of this blog kindly share his edited template with me, so thank you very much for sharing Owen. And the googlemap on this Blog will be up and running shortly.

Have a look at Owen's really nice travel Blog, and thanks again. 

Plan: Put photos onto googlemap and create a credit page

Preview of photos on googlemap 

Vincent Lai 

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Sorry, it's in Chinese.

佛：总称名佛陀（Buddha），又名休屠、浮陀、浮图、浮头、勃陀、部陀等，译成中文的意思、就是觉者，或说是智者。觉、就是觉察和觉悟，是以一切的智慧来觉察一切的烦恼，而不为烦恼之所缠缚。而且对于一切法的事理，能够觉知，了了分明，好似于睡梦中醒来，觉悟梦中境界，而是虚妄不实。

佛、不但是自觉，而且能觉他，更能觉行圆满。自觉是简别于凡夫，凡夫是痴迷，是不觉；觉他是简别于二乘，二乘只望自了，不顾他人；觉行圆满，是简别于菩萨。菩萨虽有自他二觉，但是未能圆满。所以佛是经过历劫以来的修证，觉悟一切诸法的真理，不但是自己觉悟，而要使一切众生如自己一样的觉悟。

佛与凡夫，在事相上说，是高低悬殊各不相同；但是于理性上说，是没有分别的。因为一切众生皆有佛性，佛心与众生心，是没有分别的。佛能成佛，众生也能成佛，这一点是与基督教以上帝永久是上帝，众生不能做到上帝的不同。他说上帝是创造宇宙一切法的，上帝是能创者，万物是被创者。而佛法不是这样，佛与众生是平等不二，只要你能行佛所行，就能证佛所证，那么你就是佛，其众生不能成佛的原因，也就是未能行佛之所行，证佛之所证。

佛乃大慈大悲，救世而非出世，是不离开我们这个世界的，但是他处于恶世之中，而不为恶世法之所转，如莲花生于污泥之中，而不为污泥所染。佛之心，好似一面大光明镜，其体透明，于世间一切法，无不含照；而凡夫之心，如大光明镜上惹了多层的尘垢，对光明透澈之本体遮蔽，不能明照一切法，所以不能与佛相同。凡夫要得成佛，必需要加一番拂拭的工夫。神秀大师说：‘时时勤拂拭，勿使惹尘埃’。尘埃拭净，垢去明存，一切的智慧光明，也就自然显露了。

~ 節錄自甚么是佛法

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