After the Nestle drivers and delivery workers ended a three-day-old strike, we heard a new story from another bank company in Hong Kong. To my amazement, they announced granting a day off for the employees on their very days of birthday. Like many "aha" ideas, it's so simple you wonder why nobody had thought of it before.

Why? You might ask. As Gordon Livingston has pointed out, life's two most important questions are "Why?" and "Why not

What is guaranteed in languages in practice

Wandering Thoughts | July 30, 2008, 1:18 a.m. | Original

In theory, what is guaranteed in a language is the things that arein its (official) specification; if the specification is silent orsays that something is not guaranteed, it isn't, regardless of howimplementations behave.

More and more I have come to believe that this is mistaken, and that inpractice what is guaranteed in a language is what programmers code to,regardless of what the specification says. This is because of simplepragmatics: a new implementation that does not run most of the existingcode

追

silencemo | July 29, 2008, 5:47 p.m. | Original

讀龍應台在《目送》中寫的一段話，很難不想到自己的情況，她寫道：“我慢慢地、慢慢地了解到，所謂父女母子一場，只不過意味著，你和他的緣分就是今生今世不斷地在目送他的背影漸行漸遠。你站立在小路的這一端，看著

另一種充實

silencemo | July 29, 2008, 8:21 a.m. | Original

最近都在為自己洗腦，把不開心的事忘記，做些最簡單的事，令生活充實，至少，不用鑽牛角尖。

煮過若干次晚餐，簡單，享受過程，不好食也不難食，但感覺真是充實。 (圖中的沙律，完全唔需要烹調，洗淨就食，最適合我)

古典翻新《太空奇兵‧威E》(Wall-E)

agnesvaria | July 29, 2008, 6:06 a.m. | Original

一年前看《五星級大鼠》(Ratatouille) , 電影的預告片是《太空奇兵‧威E》(Wall-E). 當時我對《Wall-E》沒有留下很好的印象, 如果像《露寶治的世界》(Robots) 或《反斗車王》(Cars) 的角色設定HE般過於擬人化, 那我沒有必要捧

Predictably Irrational:

The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

proud of you, isabella

ericayuen | July 28, 2008, 11:46 p.m. | Original

2006年底，我與isabella一起上詹sir的課。你被“雪藏”期間來到這個教室，帶著一份失落，卻無掩你與生俱來的魅力。你實在太討人喜愛，表演潛質更是不容置疑。

當時你跟我說想學好寫作，把腦袋所想的表達出來。我提議你多

鑽石陣容Screen Testing

agnesvaria | July 28, 2008, 12:03 p.m. | Original

David Letterman唯一曾經主持Oscar的那一屆 (95年), 笑話連連. 其中這幕Screen Testing印象最令我印象難忘: Jack Lemmon (友善) , Martin Short (竭斯底里), Steve Martin (講錯對白), Albert Brooks (口水多過茶), Alec Baldwin (扮有型), Tom Hanks (鬼聲鬼氣), Rosie O'Donnell (發脾四