剛看了 David Fincher 的《社交網絡》( The Social Network )，一部關於 facebook 創辦人Mark Zuckerberg的故事
還沒開始寫，只在facebook寫了一些零碎感受。
不如 add 咗我先啦 ! 我在fb的名字: Ellis Yip , profic pic 是一隻長江七號 ! 騎白馬的，和貓咪照片的，是另有其人。
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如此校長
星期一下午教完書回到家裏，還未坐穩，便接到兒子的校長打來的電話，告訴我兒子在學校跟同學爭執，弄傷了對方，校方決定罰他停課三天。
我做父親的覺得事態嚴重，但這校長說話時卻沒精打采的，像是做例行公事。據他說
我做父親的覺得事態嚴重，但這校長說話時卻沒精打采的，像是做例行公事。據他說
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,
長尾理論與利基文化
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
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,