家庭 • 自由

老婆回來了。一去兩星期,遊上海世博,到廣州探望好朋友,在香港陪母親和購物。我問:「此行好玩嗎?」她說:「好玩得很!還未玩夠呢!最享受那種獨來獨往的自由。」接著竟還說:「我以後要每年自己出外旅遊一次,或

A sudden realization about Unix access time updates and disk mirrors

I have a small confession: we have only recently turned off file accesstime updates on our fileservers . Whileturning off atime is one of the most common pieces of advicefor how to speed up overall filesystem performance (see here for oneexplanation why), we haven't felt that our filesystems were particularlyslow and sysadmins famously have a lot of inertia.

(What spurred me into action was being exposed to a bunch of stuff onZFS performance tuning, which caused me to start thinking again aboutsome long-


Satisfaction

The difference between surgeons and physicians is so much that you can basically put them in two species. Physicians are teased as boring impractical philosophers, while surgeons are primitives who work in reflexes.

I guess this forever-ongoing accusations originate from our different source of satisfaction.

Surgeons are powerful, they diagnose, investigate and CURE. Who would not be amazed after surviving from a Whipple operation? It is simply amazing to every patient who has been bombarded by bad news of cancer, while being treated completely under surgeons' hands.

Sony alpha NEX-5植入音樂錄像的催淚廣告

過去兩三個月,我一直在心大心細,考慮著應不應該買 Sony NEX-5 ,最近看完這個廣告,我又真的心動了多一點,我想,這就是所謂廣告的效應吧。

一般邏輯你會認為電子產品是理性消費,廣告中對產品解釋得愈清楚愈好,但其實


戀愛植男

(原刊 AV Magazine 20-08-2010)

人生音像城

戀愛植男

我的Blog有一句自我介紹:「葉七城,不是影評人。記住這一點便夠了。」

不是因為我對影評人有偏見而拒絕這身份,而是我覺得自己沒有資格做。

我認為,影評人評論電影


D700+Zeiss 21 2.8+三家村

好遲來的相,拍了沒一個月都快兩個月了。唉,拍raw就是雲吞,快不得,張張選,張張執,攞命的辛苦,看來拍的時候真的要收收手。

影raw除了在白平衡和曝光可以放心些外,在裁圖方面都很自在。選擇色彩的調控,銳利化等等

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大麻和靈感

在美國,科學家中有學術成就而又經年致力於普及科學的,恐怕沒有人比天文學家 Carl Sagan 更有名。他主力研究火星、金星、和木星,但他廣為人知的則是他寫的普及科學書籍;他負責撰稿的十三集電視節目 Cosmos: A Personal Voyage ,由80年代

A clever blog anti-usability trick

Here is something that I have run into more than once. Through one of myvarious sources of links, I'll wind up somewhere reading an entry thatis called ', part 1'. At the end of the entry, I'lldecide that indeed, it was interesting, and I would like to see ifany part 2 has been written yet. So I try to look around.

The best answer would be a 'next part' or'related entries' link that


Euthanasia

Watching the recent news, you may notice the previous (and probably, current) euthanasia advocate moving into his new house, finally leaving the bedbound life in hospital.

After the claim for euthanasia, people from everywhere starts eagerly to donate and offer all kinds of financial and technical help, and finally he sees the world again.

Though cruel, i ain't very much excited about it.

I have no personal opinion towards euthanasia. But my point is, among all the bedbound patients here, there are lots who

These things happen

讀棧主的 好人,好事 ,我的第一個反應是:那個人真好脾氣!These things happen,在我腦裏想起著 The Phantom of the Opera 開頭 Carlotta 遇上意外的時候:

Manager: Signora, these things do happen. Carlotta: Well, until you stop these things from happening, this thing does not happen!

遇上倒楣的事,有不快情緒很正常,要發洩