Another source of stickyness for social web sites

Recently, I've started actually doing things with my Facebook account,and I've done a bit with Twitter, and of course I've used LiveJournalfor a while now. All of which, especially Facebook, has recently givenme a bit of additional perspective on something.

You know all that stuff that I wrote aboutwhat makes social networking sites sticky? Sure, it's accurate as far asit goes, but I missed a big bit of it: time. Namely, the sheer amount


Loudness

Do you often find yourself giving the thumbs-up to those who finish the job with a big voice? We do. To be honest, we should quit doing so. Here's why.

We've been lately getting unhappy with the performance of my wife's beeper, which makes a less loud voice than before. Two days ago, we decided to buy a new beeper. We can't – and, in fact, we're not supposed to – have a lot of choices because

Samsung N310 仲硬淨過紅A太空喼?

近期Netbook忽然成為了不少年輕人的潮物,我親眼在街上目睹過有位潮童單手捧著一部Netbook戴住headphone,一邊行IFC一邊睇戲,我真係幾乎想借D意扮無野咁伸隻腳kick低佢。

我又見過唔少括號(廣告)的advertorial,找來好些妙齡少女或者年輕潮人,


一比一高達現身東京台場?

老友”動漫REX史”報料,話說為慶祝高達三十周年,一比一高達已現身東京台場,唔好理佢識唔識得郁,但係其製作之精美仔細,媲美一台master grade模型,唔打得,都已經好睇得。

我先從這位有心的日本blog友,發現了多段高清片,看


Solaris 10 NFS server parameters that we change and why

One of the ways that Solaris does not make me happy is that they donot seem to have changed various system defaults since, oh, 1996, whenmachines were much smaller than they are now. As a result, we haveaccumulated a set of NFS server parameters that we have had to change inorder to get decent performance and functionality.

(This set is not particularly novel, which is part of the irritation;pretty much everyone winds up making many of these changes sooner orlater. But


Why GNU tools are sometimes not my favorite programs

Presented in the traditional illustrated form:

; cat arootcks; cat brootcksabc; comm -13 a b >/dev/nullcomm: file 2 is not in sorted order

If your comm doesn't do this, don't be surprised; this behavior is newin the very latest version of comm , from coreutils 7.2 (as installedon Fedora 11; Fedora 10 didn't have it). This behavior is turned off bythe new --nocheck


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《 頭髮 ‧ 泳池 ‧ 洗髮乳 》


讓容我慢慢地,由頭說起,述敍關於頭髮、泳池與洗髮乳交織出來的血淚史。

太初之時,我擁有像瓊瑤筆下的女主角那黑漆亮麗,啊﹗像海藻一樣的秀髮。

一直引以為傲,那健康強壯得可以剪一束用來當

Email is intrusive, and why

Here is something that I've alluded to before : email is quite intrusive (well, at least in my branch of the world).For both technical and social reasons, email messages are far more like(work) phone calls than they are like paper mail.

On the technical side, you get a lot more email than you do paper mail,and it's harder to scan and sort your email than your mail. For example,most paper mail is loaded with cues as to what sort of


南音粤韵夜


香港茶具文物館「樂茶軒」定期舉行 南音 粤韵表演


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香港有異獸

馬灣挪亞方舟 買了兩張明信片. 相上動物是假物, 本來無甚特別. 但配合了背景, 效果十分抵死, 頗有「臥槽泥馬」的格調.


長頸鹿在青馬大橋

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