想起

朋友在晚飯時問:「你可有經常想起他?」

我答:「有的,但... ... 只是『想起』,不是因為掛念而『想起』。」

朋友有點似明非明。

飯後往咖啡店的途中,我們對著迎面而來高聲談笑的四個年青人多看了數眼。

我跟朋友

Why del has to be a Python builtin

A posting today to the LiveJournal python_dev community wound up sort of askingwhy del has to be a Python builtin instead of a method. At first Ithought this had a nice simple answer, but the more I thought about itthe less obvious it became, and by the time I'd worked out a satisfyinganswer I'd had to really think about how Python fits together.

The short summary is that del needs to be a builtin because Python'sobject model is based on references and namespaces


繁簡馬後炮

最近幾個 Blog 都指出,聯合國只使用簡體字這件事,其實老早就發生了,算是為網上的繁簡風波告了一個段落,現在讓我來馬後炮一下。

在最初,我自己對於這個題目,沒有太大的感覺。首先,繁簡誰優誰劣,其實高下立見,不用


一隻興奮的夜枭

以前在學生報出版又出版,出版之後總是心如止水,像計份數除法把一個數劃去那樣,了結而已。《四十年》出版時也有期待,衝回中大去看那些書,但記得在等的時候只是想,快點完吧。到自己出書時,終於覺得緊張,類似是

網摘的引文

本來想整理一下最近「繁簡風波」的討論,寫寫個馬後炮,所以瀏覽一下在各個 Blog 所貼有關此事的討論。在看到 Blog-you 的 Blog 裏一篇 博客文摘 – 化「繁」為「簡」? 的回應,才知道發生了一件有關「引用」的小風波。

在此篇文摘裏


庸俗紅樓

光管壞什麼都不想做,亂update吧。這篇文章是年初就想寫的。

三年級開始看《紅樓夢》,應該是鄙人的怪異經歷裡,最登得大雅之堂的一項(其餘如誤闖沙頭角無禁區紙被警車解回之類的,還是待我再堅強一點時才說吧)。那時看

握緊與鬆開之間


艾尼斯:

還在想念傑克嗎?你這個膽小的契弟,憑甚麼可以傷害這麼多人呢?

看到你和傑克在斷背山上牧羊,天高地闊,只有你們兩個人和那數之不盡的羊群,你們曖昧地行進,我明白你倆的苦悶,了解你這個粗人和傑克這個牛

An obnoxious RSS feed trick

I suppose it was inevitable, but the marketers have definitely arrived;the otherwise excellent In The Pipeline 'ssyndication feed now has banner ads. Animated banner ads atthat. I find this especially irritating because the feed is already a partial text feed , which means that I'm goingto visit the website anyways (because I have to). Adding animatedbanner ads on top is just adding insult to injury.

I honestly don't know why marketers still keep doing this. Everyonewith three brain cells to


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Something to remember about networking restarts

I helped a coworker debug an interesting Linux problem today, and inthe process wound up reinforcing something that I already more or lessknew but hadn't really thought about for a while. Namely:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart doesn't unload and reloadthe kernel modules for your network devices.

A networking restart will bring down and then restart all of yourinterfaces, reset parameters and so on, but the one thing it doesn't reset is kernel modules. They