Taxi

Of all teachings given by the emotion intelligence guru Daniel Goleman, none is more important than that of the almond-shaped amygdala in an area of the human brain called the limbic system. Disgust, fear and anger, it is said time and again, come from the amygdala which acts like a central alarm system calling for a full-fledged "fight or flight" response.

My recent lectures in Beijing brought back the nineteen-year-old memory of my first (this is my second) visit of Beijing.

我病了

一個人生病的時候,肉體很軟弱,想的盡都是情緒,盡都是低落,不想去思考,只感覺到內心的空洞。

甚麼是內心的空洞?空洞不是無物,不是甚麼都失去,正好相反,空洞是有物,甚至把整個內心都填得滿滿,但卻竟然沒有一

Emotion

This month, a special issue of Science magazine published over 10 papers, written by a total of 47 authors from 10 countries, covering the discovery of an extraordinary 4.4 million-year-old hominid fossil skeleton known as Ardipithecus ramidus .

Of course, I don't have a whiff of paleoanthropology knowledge to discuss how our ancestors ended up walking on two legs. Still, I must admit, evolution is always a fascinating subject. I've been reading recently about the evolutionary root of our

Review: Canon PowerShot G11 - Digital Camera

Jeff's Rating: 5 /5

tl;dr : Is this the SLR owner's dream pocket camera? Almost! It will do for now, but a tiny bit better lens and image sensor would make it perfect.

Canon Powershot G11

The Canon PowerShot G11 comes from a long line of G-series advanced-amateur digital cameras, and is very much like the most recent PowerShot G10 in all the best ways, but differs a little bit by improving on one of the G10's


SSH in a Locked-Down Network

Recently, during one job for a client, I needed to work for a length of time in a location that had quite severe network restrictions—in addition to a proxy server, the location blocked every port besides 80, 25, 443, and 8080. In order to use secure shell (SSH) to login to my work web server, I needed to use one of those ports (I used nmap to find open ports on my end).

Luckily, I gained access


盡顯無聊



no country for old men

有人看了這電影破口大罵說看不懂
有著名博客看完戲憤而發佈一隻 中指
我比較無聊
之前已看了三次
今日睇第四次
真係覺得好好睇
仲係講唔出點解咁好睇
如果一定要我講一個理由
我會話
成套戲都好靜呀
連槍戰時都無音樂
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Backup MXes versus redundant MXes

There's a potential confusion when one talks about 'backup MXes', soI'm going to throw some terminology around:

If an additional MX machine can accept inbound email and get itdelivered all the way to the user's inbox even when all other of yourMXes are down, you have a redundant MX .

If an additional MX machine can only accept inbound email but notactually get it delivered to your users (without the help of anotherMX), you have a backup MX .

Backup MXes


Video Clips from Around Roma


Touring Roma (UPDATED)

[ UPDATE : All the pictures from Day 1 have been posted to a gallery.]

St. Mary Major Basilica

Saint Mary Major Basilica.

Fortune smiled upon me today, and I was able to travel to many destinations in Rome, mostly around the Vatican. After walking past Saint Mary Major Basilica (picture above), I walked to the Trevi fountain (a nice place for a pickpocket, I would think), progressed to the Triton fountain, and then hopped on the Italian subway (the Metropolitana, or something like that).


光榮的敗家仔


我承認,我係一個極度有問題嘅敗家仔。

我承認,每隔一段日子,我就會發作。

我自己都知,再咁搞落去,真係會好唔掂。

不過我都唔想架,係佢哋逼我呀,書店大減價呀,咁我迷迷糊糊就入咗去,然後,成個銀包d錢唔見哂,