信靠神,何罪之有?

最近俄勒岡州有對夫婦因宗教理由拒絕替生病的兒子找醫生治理,結果兒子病死了,他們被控疏忽引致他人死亡,罪名成立,法官判他們入獄十六個月。

這對夫婦所屬的教會叫" Followers of Christ ",是基督教的基要派教會,主張有病時只

Updated Front Page Images...

After a few months without seeing an update, I finally took the time to process a few more photos for the front page of Lifeisaprayer.com - you can visit the front page and take a look for yourself. You can always click on one of the images to see them all for yourself, in a timeline of sorts.


Web analytics versus GET parameter security

I have recently run into an interesting collision between typicalweb analytics practices (and applying this to random URLs) and goodsecurity and robustness. The straightforward manifestation is that linksto WanderingThoughts entries from the Planet Sysadmin Twitter feed don't work; trying to follow one getsyou remarkably terse error messages from DWiki (the software behind WanderingThoughts ).

DWiki is very cautious. One of the ways that this manifests is that itdoesn't accept random query parameters on requests; it knows what queryparameters each URL accepts,


如果狄娜是我的媽媽

如果狄娜是我的媽媽,大概很多男人想問候我的媽媽。For God's sake!王迪詩,你就不能正經一點嗎?Well,我笑嘻嘻可不代表我不認真啊,做人又何必那麼沉重呢?都是一場遊戲嘛。等我伸個懶腰先……好啦,繼續寫。

總而言之,

你有什麼資格死﹖

上星期寫了〈教養〉,換來一個「奇景」。

話說那篇文章提到,部分中學和大學生讀者給我寄來的電郵莽撞無禮,慘不忍睹。文章刊出後,我的電郵信箱一下子逼爆「80後」和「90後」的來信,to my surprise,竟然全部用「您」!

放心不下

我的健康一向很好,無病無痛,食得瞓得,可是,幾年前卻發覺心臟有點問題: 心律不齊 。正常的心跳是平均的「卜卜卜卜卜卜 …」,我的則會突然停了一下,例如「卜卜卜 ---卜卜 …」,而且發生時通常可以感覺到。

我看了

October 2, 2010

Wedding Rings

...of course, our rings won't be gold, nor will they be intertwined in some crazy manner which prevents either of us from ever putting them on. But they'll be on our fingers on October 2nd!

Please pray for me and for my fiancée as we progress on the journey toward married life and communal love! Expect a few more posts about Marriage/Weddings, and about love in general, between now and then.


Guru Dutt的故事 (二) : 初出茅廬

Guru Dutt得到表舅B.B.Benegal及其他親友的幫忙, 及後獲得為期五年的獎學金, 順利攻讀Uday Shankar India Culture Centre. Uday Shankar曾留學倫敦和巴黎, 曾與著名芭蕾舞者安娜‧巴甫洛娃 ( Anna Pavlova ) 合作. Uday Shankar回到印度後開設演藝學校. 他表示開設學校的目的

Volleyball/Webmaster Status Codes

Some of the crazy thoughts that go through my head... yesterday I was watching some of the other teams play at De Smet (where I'll be coaching the freshmen volleyball team this year), and I thought of a relevant comparison between HTTP/1.1 status codes and volleyball plays.

  • 101 Switching Protocols - A play's not working? Move a couple guys around.
  • 200 OK - Good job. We got the point.
  • 300 Multiple Choices - The setter

The problem with general purpose languages as configuration languages

Lately, one of the popular ways to configure programs is not to comeup with a custom configuration language or format (and the associatedparsers and so on) but to use a general purpose language for thispurpose, generally augmented with as much of a DSL as you can wedge in.One example of this is Rake , but thereare others; I have the impression that it's most popular when there maybe actual logic that you need to express in the program configuration,as is the case for makefiles