繼續讀舊書，這次是《長尾理論》。此書 2006 年出版，但理論至今仍然適用，只因網絡平等、分散、去中心化、沒有實體限制，必然會生出長尾。長尾理論說來簡單，就是指利基 (niche) 產品在網絡平台和推薦、過濾器下，會
The problems with testing for round-trip capable codecs
In theory, testing a Python codec to see if it's round-tripcapable is pretty simple:
def willtrip(cname): c1 = [chr(x) for x in range(0, 256)] try: uc = [x.decode(cname) for x in c1] c2 = [x.encode(cname) for x in uc] except UnicodeError: return False return c1 == c2
(Since it's been a while,
挑戰者
在電視螢幕看到被困地底兩個多月的智利礦工終於重見天日，心裡感恩的同時，對何謂人生挑戰者有更深刻的體會。
跟他們面對的絕境相比，失戀、失業、成績欠佳、同人鬧交、做人無目標、無錢買樓、減唔到肥，全部都是小菜
跟他們面對的絕境相比，失戀、失業、成績欠佳、同人鬧交、做人無目標、無錢買樓、減唔到肥，全部都是小菜
Abortion II
Let's put the science aside, considering the current medical definition of abortion - would I advocate or not?
Well, a yes and a no.
Yes. In a social-function perspective, I support the law for legal abortion. We have entered a generation where pre-maritial sex is no longer a debate topic but a norm (I am not saying its morally right ), and in the short OG rotation I had seen at least 10 mother-to-bes who were still in their school
Well, a yes and a no.
Yes. In a social-function perspective, I support the law for legal abortion. We have entered a generation where pre-maritial sex is no longer a debate topic but a norm (I am not saying its morally right ), and in the short OG rotation I had seen at least 10 mother-to-bes who were still in their school
Congratulations to Cardinal-designate Raymond L. Burke!
During his Wednesday General Audience this morning, Pope Benedict XVI announced that then-Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, among others including then-Archbishop Wuerl of Washington, D.C., was going to be elevated to the rank of Cardinal in the Catholic Church in November!
Read more about the elevation of Cardinal-designate Burke and the 2010 Consistory of Cardinals ... also, follow events from the 2010 Consistory of Cardinals live on the St. Louis Review website.
Congratulations to this
抄襲的迷惑
方舟子的網誌最近又轉載文章揭發了一個中國大陸學者抄襲論文，看來 證據確鑿 ，部份抄襲內容簡直是搬字過紙，最離譜的是連只有數十字的論文摘要也有六、七成雷同，可謂猖獗。學術抄襲的問題在大陸非常嚴重，這個現象的
Round-trip capable character encodings in Python
Suppose (mostly hypothetically) that you have some bytes in an unknownencoding (or possibly in no encoding because they represent somebinary data), but you need to pass them through some routine that onlyaccepts Unicode strings. What you need is a character encoding that canround-trip arbitrary byte values through Unicode, one that can uniquelyrepresent and reproduce all byte values from 0 to 255.
(This is not true of all character encodings. The 'ascii' codec isonly defined on some bytes,
閱讀喜劇之王 (第一部完)
第十一章 -- 適應，是演員創作的重要技巧，能夠恰當進入角色的精神生活，感受而且表現出真的反應才是演戲，但不能否認，這種能力與資質和天份是相干的︰某些人的氣質只適應某些角色性格。
第十二章 -- 類似於總結，心
第十二章 -- 類似於總結，心
20.30.40.女人
去年的10月21日，我與友人在西苑下午茶，一心享受灌湯餃這極致的人間美味，豈料，所有的專注忽然被《Face》的報導——「Speed Dating溝掂o靚醫生，30歲官恩娜超恨嫁」搶去。
然後，回家寫了 《從官恩娜到speed dating》 。
然後，因
