緣起緣滅 方死方生
緣起緣滅，方死方生。 看《愛在你左右》( Mother and Child )，Rodrigo García 導演，由《巴別塔》《21克》導演艾力謝路依拿力圖 (Alejandro González Iñárritu) 監製，有著他標籤的三段式結構：三個獨立的故事，出生、遺棄、死
The Disappearance of Alice Creed("愛麗絲蒸發奇案") ------ A movie without any supporting actors/actresses!
Film : The Disappearance of Alice Creed (British) (2009)
Directed by J Blakeson
Written by J Blakeson
Starring Gemma Arterton/ Martin Compston/ Eddie Marsan
Music by Marc Canham
Duration : 98 mins
1. 此片最厲害之處是三個人做晒一齣戲而且大部份時間也是在那房間裡發生而看的過程又不覺悶！是的，真的看不到有第四個人，
The Concert("非常愛樂樂團") ------ 戲劇性太強反變得胡鬧！
Film : Le Concert (France) (2009)
Directed by Radu Mihaileanu
Written by Radu Mihaileanu/ Héctor Cabello Reyes/ Thierry Degrandi/ Matthew Robbins/ Alain-Michel Blanc
Starring Aleksei Guskov/ Mélanie Laurent
Music by Armand Amar/ Tchaikovsky
Duration: 123 mins
1. 樂團指揮淪為劇院清潔工已夠戲劇性，已完全脫離了真實感，當然政治因素下，甚麼事也有
我在教會目睹之怪現象
我年少無知時，參加了幾年基督教會活動，甚麼團契、崇拜、主日學、查經、擘餅、愛筵、祈禱會，都定時定候出席，最後還受了浸（全身浸入水那種），得救重生。後來打回原形，又是迷途羔羊一隻了，還越走越遠，迷途而不
What we (currently) use virtualization for
I've pulled this out of Random's comment on yesterday's entry :
[...] but I stop short of doing everything on virtual machines,which I think you do more of.
Although I may have accidentally left people with a differentimpression, right now we're actually not using virtualization forvery much. We have one virtualization host machine, and on it wecurrently run only three virtual machines: two Windows imagesand a small Linux machine that forwards some low-priority email .
民主的限制
今天是美國中期選舉，又一次提醒我民主政治制度的限制。我這樣說，不是由於自己支持的政黨或候選人失利（雖然事實是如此），而是由於眼見各政客無所不用其極、各大小利益團體無孔不入、和到處都是愚夫愚婦受政治宣傳
One reason that I call us a midsized environment
I mentioned earlier that I have a number of reasons tocall us a midsized environment. One of them is how we need to run ourenvironment, in that we are in the middle between two extremes of howto deal with systems.
On the one hand, we are sufficiently large that you don't want to dothings by hand and it makes sense to automate at least some things.We've long since grown past the point where all of our machines could beset up separately or run individually (
愛與醜
上星期在系內讀書組討論同事那本講愛的書時，談到一個問題，竟然所有同事跟我持相反意見！那問題就是：如果你愛一個人（這裏說的是戀愛，romantic love），可不可以同時覺得他／她樣子醜陋？（If you love someone, can you find him/her ugly?）所
不能每天去旅行，最少也可以每天看旅遊節目。
除了常看的財經台 Bloomberg 及 CNBC 之外， Discovery Channel 的Travel & Living幾乎是我們家的default channel。
旅遊能豐富我們的人生，時間許可又有能力負擔的話，我相信大部份人都會喜歡出外旅遊，品味一下世界各地的風土人情。
只可惜，我們的工作總都是盲著地忙
