Mi Mancherai （我想念你）- Josh Groban

我是先听的 Josh Groban 的 Mi Mancherai，后来才看的意大利电影 Il Postino (The Postman)。这首歌和电影没什么关系，只是用了电影的主题音乐，两者都给我留下了深刻的印象。电影虽然是虚构，但是诗人 Neruda 却是真实的。他和邮差的友谊，对邮差的文学艺术和罗曼史的帮助，都非常的温馨。电影的结局让我很意外，伤感所以感动。回来再听 Mi Mancherai，就更加体会到那份深情。

但是，实际情况是，我直到今天才知道这首歌是讲什么的，谁叫我不懂意大利语呢。今天用了几个翻译器（Google, Bing, Yahoo），发现最好的还就是Google，不但能将意大利语翻译成英语，还可以翻译成简体中文（虽然有的地方很可笑，破坏了哀伤的气氛，所以下面的中译我根据英译做了适当改动）。Bing的英译还行，但是不能中译。Yahoo的英译实在太可笑了，所以已经被我打进冷宫了，呵呵。



Mi Mancherai

Mi mancherai se te ne vai
Mi mancherà la tua serenità
Le tue parole come canzoni al vento
E l'amore che ora porti via

Mi mancherai se te ne vai
Ora per sempre non so come vivere
E l'allegria, amica mia, va via con te

Mi mancherai, mi mancherai, perchè vai via
Perchè l'amore in te si è spento
Perchè, perchè...
Non cambierà niente lo so
E dentro sento te

Mi mancherai, mi mancherai, perchè vai via
Perchè l'amore in te si è spento
Perchè, perchè...
Non cambierà niente lo so
E dentro sento te

Mi mancherà l'immensità
Dei nostri giorni e notti insieme noi
I tuoi sorrisi quando si fa buio
La tua ingenuità da bambina, tu...

Mi mancherai amore mio
Mi guardo e trovo un vuoto dentro me
E l'allegria, amica mia, va via con te

English Translation

I Miss You

I'll miss you if you go
I will miss your serenity
Your words like songs in the wind
And love that now take away

I'll miss you if you go
Now I do not know how to live forever
And joy, my friend, goes away with you

I miss you I miss you, why go away
Why the love in you is dead
Because ...
I know nothing will change
And inside I feel you

I miss you I miss you, why go away
Why the love in you is dead
Because ...
I know nothing will change
And inside I feel you

I'll miss the immensity
Of our days and nights with us
Your smiles when it is dark
Your naivete as a child, you ...

I miss you my love
I look and I find emptiness inside of me
And joy, my friend, goes away with you

中文翻译

我想念你

我会想念你，如果你离去
我会想念你的宁静
你的话，就像风中的歌
还有被带走的爱

我会想念你，如果你离去
现在我不知道怎样活下去
欢乐，我的朋友，与你一同离开

我想念你，我想念你，为什么离开
为什么你的爱会死去
因为...
我知道什么都不会改变
我在心里感觉到你

我想念你，我想念你，为什么离开
为什么你的爱会死去
因为...
我知道什么都不会改变
我在心里感觉到你

我会想念，无边无际的
我们的日与夜
黑暗中你的微笑
你孩子般的天真，你...

我想念你，我的爱
我看见，我发现我内心的空虚
欢乐，我的朋友，与你一同离开

Coverage

Oh no, this is not a post of anti-cleavage :)

Last night when I was walking to my car in the underground parking garage, my cell phone rang. It startled me, because I always lose signal when I enter this garage which is two stories below the ground level. Apparently now it works, and the signal is really good: I got 4-bar out of a 5-bar maximum. I am really happy that my cell phone service provider has improved their coverage where I could benefit from. Then again, this is the underground garage that has enjoyed free wireless Internet service since a year and a half ago. Cell phone coverage is definitely the next thing on the agenda.

Viva technology!

Data Mining

Earlier this week, D came to me, "wanna see something scary? It's in the computer room." Worried that I might have got scooped, I followed him to his big screen and saw many names next to social security numbers. That was scary! Identity theft had happened to one friend of mine. And those people with their SSN out there are apparently in danger. How did D get all this?

D explained that he was only extracting data from the "accidentally" released AOL dataset of 20 million web queries collected from more than 650 thousand users over a period of three months this spring. Who would know that people sometimes search their own SSNs online to make sure nothing bad happened to their identities, but such queries would be one day released for academia research, and into the public domain?

Poking around a little bit, we found more interesting behavior of individual users. For example, a lot of people had to query "google" to find the google site; a lot of people query their own names or their family and friend's. This was very interesting! In the last few days, data-mining from this 2-gigbyte dataset had become our computer gurus D and M's favorite past-time. They could pretty much reconstruct an user's personal life from the searches they did, and figure out what they do in real life. For example, today they found

1) a cancer patient on a special diet who also had some special "physical" need
2) a high school student who had to search online to complete his/her biology homework in DNA replication (Oh, my biggest dream when I was a high school student was to have a home phone so that I could discuss homework with my best friend! How technology had changed our lives! To GOOGLE the answers!)
3) more weirdoes (I can't remember more now)

How shocking a person's privacy could just easily be revealed in a few search strings. Just like what I said in one of my previous posts that the Internet is not as private as we had thought. You just have to leave too many traces.

Looking back at my most recent google searches, I am glad to see that I am such a simple person. But still, you can see what has been going on in my mind from the following queries:

aol data release
google analytics
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
google suggest
窦唯 摇滚世界杯
duke pharmacology

What's going on in your google searches?

Hit-Counter Added

Yes, I can't help wondering how many hits I get. So now I have a hit-counter installed in my blog. I myself have already accessed my blog half a dozen times to confirm that it is working fine.

In any case, I figure half of all the hits will be from me, me alone. Haha!

Do I sound very narcissistic?