I visited a friend last weekend. When I saw the above banner on the wall of his living room, I was surprised to see this logo that I assumed to be a sports team’s resemble that of the bitcoin. I was at that time just taking about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies with my friend. I asked where he got that banner and he said he bought it so long ago when he visited the U.S. and couldn’t remember. But soon we figure out that it belongs to Boston Bruins of the NHL - a hockey team.

Let’s compare them. See how they look alike? ^_^ A capital letter B with some bars behind inside a circle coin like shape and the colors are similar too!!

I barely know anything about hockey (yeah, living in a sub-tropical country and all) and yet now I feel like a fan of the Boston Bruins already!! HA!!

GO BRUINS!! ^_^

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Me and my son visited a friend’s family in Hsinchu for a few days and he took us to the beach nearby. Originally, we planned to let the kids play with the sand but to our surprise, the wind is so gusty (no wonder they set up wind turbines here as you can see in the video…) that the sand is scraped off the surface and fly with the flow all over the beach … you can see this from 0:35 and I deliberately turn off the music so you can hear the original voice and feel the wind!

Of course, kids did not get to play the sand and my 5 years old was even scared by the sand hitting his legs and cried. So we had to leave early. Still, it was a very unique experience for me!!

週末帶孩子到新竹訪友，盤桓數日。其間，朋友帶我們到新竹香山海邊去，想讓孩子們去玩玩沙。結果，那天海邊風很強（難怪裝了很多支風力發電機，影片中可以看到），我們到沙灘時，沙子跟著海風飛起，沿著沙灘形成奇特景象（從0:35開始，可以看到，我保留了現場的聲音，讓你身歷其境），但孩子們也玩不成沙了… 我那膽小的兒子，竟然被這海沙風打在身上的刺刺感給嚇著，不久就開始哭了… 我們只好趕緊離開了，哈哈。不過，對我而言是個蠻獨特的經驗喔～～

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週日晏起，儘管早上九點是NBA西區冠軍賽的關鍵一戰。我約莫十點才起床，想起球賽應該已經進行大半，趕緊快速梳洗，到電視前，開始參與這一場世紀對決。

勇士在這一系列戰，雖然先取得了2:1的領先，但此前兩戰，卻最後都以小比數輸給了火箭。剛好這兩場我都沒空看，不太知道發生什麼事。從事後新聞看來，火箭的防守非常成功，且在進攻部分也有出色發揮。

勇士從事前被看好橫掃或是以4:2擊敗火箭等專家意見中，落到今日戰前，被對方聽牌，再失一場就打包球季，無法再捍衛去年冠軍的名頭，可謂是生死存亡之秋啊！後面等著的，是以小皇帝為首的騎士軍團，或是以年輕新秀團體發揮的賽爾提克綠衫軍，都不重要了，重點是如何先過這一關，把戰線延長至第七戰。

哎呀！今年NBA決賽算是很精彩哪！東西區冠軍賽（最後）都打到第七戰才能分高低，也算是為總冠軍賽鋪下好的梗：兩隊沒有誰能有以逸待勞的優勢，一樣是兵疲馬困，傷兵不斷地，征戰到最後的榮耀之巔來。勢必，總冠軍賽得要更好看了，不管是否最後過程好看，但註定了連在一起看，整個季後賽必然是歷史上的一段精彩。（剛剛看了，原來是NBA過去39年來首次東西區冠軍賽都要第七戰哪！）

說回到勇士。好消息是這生存關頭的第六戰是金州勇士主場，滿場的黃金球迷，是關鍵的第六人。

不過，當我姍姍來遲，在十點鐘打開電視時，竟然看到火箭在黃金海裡領先10多分的情況，看來大勢不妙哪！

我也沒打過專業籃球，甚至沒打過專業球賽。不過，就我看球的歷史經驗，主場當然是個優勢。弔詭在於，如果你自以為的優勢，到時反而沒有發揮，可能反過頭來讓你的自信心更為動搖，或是讓你慌張 … 世間事，往往都有兩面性啊！

我開始看時，就有這種感覺：火箭三分如雨下，出演了原本勇士擅長的戲碼（雖然其實火箭這方面也一樣非常傑出），反觀勇士，球星們卻屢投不進，甚至發生失誤。季後賽發揮很穩定的KD，這時一些平常看來把握度很高的球，竟然也都沒法投進… 而大鬍子Harden，則是屢屢演出精彩，大號三分球，特有節奏的切入等等，在客場表現出王者之姿，信心滿滿。

對啊！看到CP3穿著外套，我才想起他沒上場哪！這樣火箭還能領先雙位數，看來勇士今日苦戰了… 難道林書豪在twitter上說的期待一個火箭跟賽爾提克的總冠軍賽就要成真了？

中場前，勇士努力地把差距縮小到10分，這最後的半場，即將決定他們在歷史上的地位。

中場過後，竟然，情勢慢慢地扭轉過來。其中最關鍵的，大概就是KT的連續兩記三分球，讓勇士拉出一波8:0攻勢，然後Curry後來也跟上，三分與切入連續得手… 火箭被追上後，顯然開始亂了陣腳，加上一些判決對其不利，使得氣勢慢慢扭轉了過來… 後面就不細說了，最後第四節結束，大勝火箭將近三十分，顯然這場比賽並沒有分數看起來的差距那麼大，甚至，火箭在第一節根本就是氣勢如虹，一副今天就把你們淘汰的架式啊！

其實，我這一篇，並不是要講運動，不是要講NBA …

我是從這一場球，再次體悟到一些人生道理。比賽前半，火箭看來就很有可能要幹掉今日在主場狀況不佳的勇士了，球員個個信心滿滿，進球率高。反觀勇士，則是相反，怎麼投都不進的感覺。

整個比賽，似乎就在下半場開始的KT三分球開始，一顆進，再一顆進。這時候，隊友的氣氛也微妙地被帶動了… 如果接下來又連續三顆之類的三分球沒進，那麼，悲觀氣氛將再度主宰，這場恐怕就真的不妙了。不過，Curry成功地也跟進一兩顆，有種把這一波氣勢定住確認的感覺，於是，整場的正能量正式確立，順勢推進，連對手也被氣勢所迫，而表現下滑….

當然，這些都是馬後炮，而且，沒有人真正能知道這樣分析對不對。只是我的一個個人觀點。

說得極端一點，一切，就從KT那一顆三分球開始Build up，然後勇士們成功在這樣一個基礎上努力，而終於克服了這一場開頭困難的關鍵之役。

人生有很多場戰役，有的快，有的慢，但戰役的開展過程，總是在失敗與成功的恐懼與渴望之間擺盪，沒有人，即使你是這些戰役裡的要角頭人，能夠真的在最後底定之前，知道最終的戰果。

有時候，似乎就是那一個看似不起眼的單一事件，後來成為整場戰役成功的關鍵轉折。當大家都在失敗的恐懼裡，誰能帶領大家完成這樣一個單一事件，或是一次又一次，完成幾個關鍵性的單一事件，那麼，失敗的恐懼，才有可能轉化為成功的渴望，進而讓大家都相信可以成功，進而真的成功了。

當然，反過來從火箭的角度，這一切，就得要用相反的方式來論說了。

明天早上，後天早上，連續兩天，東區冠軍最終戰，西區冠軍最終戰，要準時來收看了！

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Hi entrepreneurs, Dean (@deanliu) and Dan (@tradealert) are back and today we’re showing you how to create and manage your very own decentralized organisation with Aragon.

Aragon.

I- Executive Summary.

Aragon is a dApp on the Ethereum network that allows anybody to create and manage a general-purpose decentralized autonomous organisation (DAO). Each Aragon DAO is technically a collection of interconnected Ethereum smart contracts packaged into one sleek user interface. Although the project is still in development, basic DAOs come equipped with a solid suite of basic functions such as token emissions, voting and finance management which we will go over in details in the second section of this article.

The grand vision behind Aragon is to create an entire network of decentralized organizations ruled by a decentralized court system to create a transparent and censorship-resistant new economy on the blockchain. The Aragon network possess is own native token (ANT) which will be used to decentralize the government of the protocol in the future but aren’t required to deploy nor manage your own DAO at this time.

Aragon DAOs currently come in two different flavors:

1. General purpose tokenized democracies;
2. Business oriented multi-signature organizations.

Since the DAO hack, autonomous organizations have somewhat faded into the background and their general-purpose nature makes it somewhat difficult to lay out their benefits to new users but today we would like to focus on giving you an overview on how to deploy a multi-signature organization and propose one use case which hopefully might inspire you to start your own project on the platform.

We will discuss the more technical stuff for subsequent articles once the project develops and also once we gain in familiarity with the platform and its functions.

So let’s get into it.

II- How to deploy a Multi-Signature (Multi-Sig) organization.

Our project started with the need to pool tokens in order to run a node on a third-party Ethereum-based network. Multi-Sig DAOs not only allow you to securely store the tokens needed to run a node into a multi-sig smart contract but also to create a decentralized “bank account” where the rewards can be pooled then sent out to individual investors according to their stake in the investment.

Let’s break this down.

Step-by-step guide:

• Go to Aragon.one and open the Rikeby Testnet on Metamask, make sure your Rinkeby wallet has got some ETH in it, you can request some from this faucet:
  

• Then click on the “Try Aragon Core 0.5” Icon:

… and create a new organization, ours is a Token Project with Multisig:

• Now you can claim your own testnet domain:

…and assign as many co-signers as you want:

• Next, name your DAO governance tokens and assign a ticker symbol to them:

• Finally deploy your unstoppable organization and tokens on the testnet by signing a couple of transactions:

• Shazam! You’re now the proud owner of your very own (testnet) DAO.

• Once the real app goes live on the main-net you’ll be able to fund your DAO with tokens by going into Settings and sending ERC-20 tokens to it, sending real tokens to a testnet DAO now will only result in the loss of your tokens, you’ve been warned!

• Your tokens will appear in the Finance Tab, together with a tool to implement automatic payments, it’ really neat:

• Finally you’ll be able to manage the government of your DAO from the Voting app and create polls for your community to vote on:

And that’s it! You’re now part of the decentralized governance revolution.

Aragon surely is an ambitious project with a grand vision to reinvent governance at every level of society. What’s more, its general-purpose design can be disarming at first but the tools the dApp offers are just as well suited for micro projects, community building and investment management on the blockchain. That’s why we strongly encourage you to go check out Aragon for yourself so you can experience first-hand the power of its smart contract and start the governance revolution at your scale.

Dan & Dean.

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The following photos were taken during my high speed rail trip returning home from Hsinchu. The meal box was our dinner which costs $3.5 only. Home sweet home.

這些照片是我跟孩子從新竹返回台北搭高鐵的路程上拍攝的。傍晚時分，特別有感覺。飯盒是高鐵便當，台幣$100元。

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今天用照片說話，分享我到花蓮鐵道文化園區拍攝的園區景照以及一點點關於內容的照片。

簡介一下主角，東線鐵道的故事。(source: image below)

中央山脈阻隔台灣東西兩地的鐵路建設，因此而相對保留東線鐵路的迷人風采。1910年開始建設762mm窄軌輕便鐵路，直到1982年因東線拓寬改為1067mm軌距。
70多年，762mm的鐵路歷史軌跡，構成獨特鐵道魅力，打造出這段不朽的東線鐵道傳奇。

園區在花蓮市相對沒那麼熱鬧的一角，顯得相當悠閒。有鐵路歷史相關器具文物，也有園區建築與火車頭等景觀喔！地圖如下：

看一些展覽內容，其實非常多，內容豐富，可以看上一兩小時的。

舊時售票窗口。（還可以看到“匪諜”字樣…. XD）

這是繪製的舊時花蓮火車站貌。（話說，目前正在重新整修中，又要換版了….）

老車票樣子。

真希望他們在東部復活一下蒸汽火車啊～～………

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