William Osler

A glance at my dialysis patient's blood count reminds me the Recession – everything went down except the level of anxiety. It's the third month like this. I told my patient, "Well, we don't really know what's happening. Your white cell and platelet counts are both coming down, almost as quickly as you're going anaemic." I suggested him to have a bone marrow test to figure out the problem.

Of course, my patient didn't believe me.

待意念之兔

我曾 說過 自己每天都有很多意念(ideas),不請自來,有時天馬行空、不著邊際,有時卻是(自以為的)真知灼見、妙到毫巔。然而,很多時候我必須集中思考一個問題,不能對腦袋採取放任政策,而要規限自己在一段時間內不想

When Linux's rp_filter might make sense

I wrote a grumpy entry about net.ipv4.conf.*.rp_filter setting back here , where I said that it didn't make anysense. Well, I can actually come up with one situation where it maymake sense: virtualization and thus virtualization networks.

One relatively common virtual machine setup is NAT-based, where thevirtual machines get IP addresses on a private virtual network on thehost. While the host doesn't route to its virtual network (or networks,if you


A find optimization and a piece of history, all in one

One of the floating pieces of modern Unix lore is that if you are doinga find that matches against both filenames and other properties of thefile, it's best to put the filename match first. That is, if you want tofind zero-sized object files the right order is:

find . -name '*.o' -size 0 -print

I called this a piece of modern Unix lore for good reason; this wasn'tnecessarily true in the old days (and even today it


差人online

在廣東話裏,不計粗口,最馳名中外的除了是「老母」,也許就是「差人」。一句「差人大晒呀?」幾乎陪伴了我們整個九十年代的黃金歲月,上至街邊執紙皮的阿婆,下至屋村潛閃卡的細路,每一個都知道,這句話背後有一份

科技,因人而熠—-Nokia N8

已忘記了再那裡讀過的一篇訪問,受訪者是某獲獎攝影師。

攝影師說,他總是不明白,為何每次做訪問或與人家閒談,記者或朋友們總只愛問他這張那張作品,究竟是用什麼相機什麼鏡頭拍攝的,反而,大家很少會關心他的作品

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何韻詩 x 謝金燕—你是80年代 x 嗶嗶嗶

我一直在想,到底有那位香港歌星會在演唱會內,夠膽翻唱謝金燕的洗腦歌—-「嗶嗶嗶」,邊個唱邊個high硬。

我一直在期望草蜢會唱,誰知撲了個空。

但係我終於等到啦,無錯啦,就係佢,阿何菇已經在演唱會內將「嗶嗶嗶」


福仔旁軸初試 – bessa r3a

第一次用旁軸相機拍照,使用的當然是最強的負片,號稱比正片都還要細膩的kodak ektar 100。

沒機會也沒什麼時間去拍大片,就乘中午時間跑去了九龍公園測試了一下。

這次使用的鏡頭是福仔的nokton 40 1.4,評價並不如35 1.

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邪神

今天邀請大家做個思想實驗,想像以下的情況:

『這個宇宙,原來真的是由一個全知全能的神創造,然而,跟大多數宗教的了解不同,這個神並非至善,相反地,祂是極度邪惡的(就叫祂做「邪神」吧)。邪神創造宇宙,尤其是

[電影]-嚇到笑(Where Got Ghost)

【嚇到笑】



《嚇到笑》是讓人心驚膽笑的“驚喜”片。由《路邊有鬼》、《森林有鬼》及《家裏有鬼》令人又驚心又開心的恐怖故事組成。

《路邊有鬼》講述三個老千 - 阿財阿福阿壽想到萬無一失的“發財熱線”計劃。中獎的人
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