A thought on Toradora's ending

Here's one of the things that struck me as nice about Toradora 'sending:

Many ordinary romantic comedy animes have endings that could immediatelybe followed with 'and then complications ensue' (with 'stay tuned forthe second season' being optional). While the leads have gotten togetherand the show has ended, things have not really concluded .

Toradora's ending is not like this. It stretches events out long enoughafter the climactic events to make it clear that things really areconcluded and that complications


「陰容宛在」


幾千蚊一個名牌手袋, 孝奉先人只須數十元正...


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江若琳與蜜柑


從來對江若琳沒有興趣, 也沒有留意過她的新聞. 直到Laughing哥全城效應, 特意收看大結局. 但我竟然覺得蜜柑那「眼大大Innocent」的面貌 (花面貓) 好似江若琳... (姑勿論人同貓的Innocent係咪真情流露定刻意假裝). 最好笑的是屋企人

The theoretical advantage of a separate /boot filesystem

To elaborate on something I said in a comment on here , the theoretical advantage of using a separatefilesystem for /boot instead of just putting it on your / filesystemis that your root filesystem isn't limited to environments that GRUB (orthe bootloader of your preferences) can understand. This matters(in theory) because GRUB more or less inevitably lags behind theoperating system in general; first the code has to be written inand stabilized in the kernel, and then it has to be ported intoGRUB.


初初開始做生意

發覺任何一個程序都會有野出錯,經常比人激到氣咳。

事件1)比local courier激爆
搵了一家local courier幫我由我家送綠粉和squalene到anthonG。

courier公司人員上來拿貨,我用家裡的(公斤)磅在他面前磅。12kg。他問我即是幾多磅,我拿計數機幫他計就

手影識唱歌?

這位仁兄的手影表演把戲,玩得簡直出神入化。

趁今日天灰灰雨濛濛,介紹這首開心好歌的手影演繹給大家聽聽,咁都得,名副其實What a wonderful world。


以法國名導高達手法拍美國電視劇24再crossover賣Stella啤酒,真係俾佢吹到啤一聲。

剛看了這條英國佬做創意扮法國人拍美國電視劇24查實幫比利時啤酒品牌Stella Artois拍的網上廣告片,如果你都對法國名導Jean-Luc Godard(高達:唔係機動戰士果位呀)電影略有所聞,加上又睇過下美國電視連續劇24的話,你才會覺得


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公然親熱也講資格


這幾天網上熱爆的短片,已由機場阿嬸大鬧登機閘口急轉彎到一段「香港學生港鐵月台公然親熱」(咁hit都搵唔到條片既話我幫你唔到)。

那段片長36秒的真人騷,有一名大概剛下課仍穿著白色校裙的女生,

The git version control system as a creation of the modern age

It has recently struck me that git (thedistributed version control system that Linus Torvalds created) is verymuch a creation of the modern age. By that I don't mean that it wascreated recently or by modern, Internet-enabled methods; I mean that itonly makes sense in the modern era of really cheap, really large diskspace.

Earlier version control systems were created when disk space was muchmore expensive and not all that large relative to your source code. Inthat era, wasting disk space


An important difference

As a note to myself, there is an important difference between

; timeio 10G somefile; timeio  

and what I actually intended to do for the second command,

; timeio /dev/null 

Forgetting this difference has several times left me wondering whydisk IO read rates on test systems seemed to have dropped by severalorders of magnitude from what they should be for no apparent reason.(Since writing null bytes to your screen is a great way to burn CPU