News source: China Court Network. Blizzard Entertainment, the well-known American game company, applied to the State Administration for Industry and Commerce of China to register the English name of the new StarCraft title — STARCRAFT: GHOST — as a trademark for esports services and other items. The application was rejected by the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board on the grounds that the name involves promoting feudal superstition. Blizzard then filed suit with the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court, asking the court to overturn the Board’s decision to reject the review of the “STARCRAFT: GHOST” trademark application. This morning, reporters learned from the court that Blizzard’s claims were not upheld.

EA - The Lord of the Rings: Conquest 09-01-13 SEGA - Empire: Total War 09-03 EA - Red Alert 3: Uprising EA - The Godfather II 09-02-24 Blizzard - StarCraft II 09-05-31 (Canada)

Looks like it’s not an official release. Bookmarking it for now.

Getting a close-up look at the world’s great paintings and witnessing the masterpieces of the old masters will set you back a fair amount of money — but now you can get up close and personal with 14 world-famous paintings for free in a virtual gallery on Google Earth.

The Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook is out. In addition to AIR 1.5 being released today, the Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook is also being released. This book will be an essential resource for anyone doing AIR development - as it also includes the new AIR 1.5 features. This book is an excellent resource for beginners and advanced AIR developers alike. If you have never touched AIR, this book can certainly get you started. In addition, we cover all development angles on this: Flash, Flex, and HTML / JavaScript.

Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf is a cartoon that has long dominated the domestic TV animation ratings. Its character designs are adorable, the plot is witty and humorous, and these endlessly entertaining stories are never short on educational value. Every night, whenever I go to that restaurant near the office and Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf comes on the TV, I’m rooted to the spot……

Two exciting things today, and here’s the second: Joanna Wang’s new album is out!

Two exciting things today. First: Fish Leong’s new album is out!

Today I hit an error in the PDO transaction-handling part: Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘PDOException’ with message ‘There is no active transaction’ in /data/www/web.passport/pay/classes/class.Mydb.php:145 Stack trace: #0 /data/www/web.passport/pay/classes/class.Mydb.php(145): PDO->rollBack() #1 /data/www/web.passport/pay/yeepayOrder.php(138): Mydb->transaction(Array) #2 {main} thrown in /data/www/web.passport/pay/classes/class.Mydb.php on line 145 Looking through the error log I saw:

Damn it, this Wang Leehom album falls so far short of what I expected… It’s bad, bad, really bad. Especially that song “Loving Properly” — the lyrics seriously gross me out…

Starting January 4, 2009 Beijing time, the TV series Demons began airing. I’m not particularly drawn to this vampire-fantasy genre; I finished Heroes, so I’ll make do with this one for now.

After seeing Halley’s image processing tool, I came across another mature online image-processing RIA, similar to Photoshop, very powerful, specializing in bitmap work — you can open images uploade...

I came across an online image-editing RIA on Halley‘s blog. MediaCreator alpha1 is an online multimedia authoring app built in Flash — a prototype along the lines of scrapblog. Some basic functionality is already in place: it lets users edit images, text and vector graphics online, and add masks, borders and backgrounds.

Today I hit an error and discovered that in IE the .type of an input element is read-only!

Dolphin Princess Jane Zhang is set to release her new album “Jane Zhang@Music” on the 20th of this month — another treat for the ears in time for the Lunar New Year!