Ugly

When a friend of mine recently heard the radio news story about the failure to rescue a dying heart attack patient on the doorstep of a public hospital, he almost drove off the road.

Over the last two days, much has been written about the moral of this tragedy in the newspaper editorials and by the bloggers. I believe, however, that this is one of those evergreen bits of wisdom that we can never quite get enough of it.

Still, I dare not tell my friend another story because he would be

You need major advantages to really move issues

Here is something that is intuitively clear to me but I am finding hardto explain coherently:

In order to really push an issue, to really get people to care aboutit, you need to have a major advantage to offer in it.

Here is an example of what I mean:

Imagine that you want to improve boot times, and in fact you seefast boot times as both important for usability and a competitiveadvantage. However, most people don't care about boot times right now,or really notice


愛情

(有些東西我實在不能寫,一寫就成這個樣子。)

水浸眼眉,需要改卷。回到城大,我用來儲和派功課那個小信箱前,裡面滿滿塞著「my city」project和log book,幸好都剛好塞得進去——我罵了一聲,想來學生大帝們都早已設想要把功課

害蟲與文明 – 地球停轉日

the day the earth stood still

去看《地球停轉日》前早有心理準備,加上人們以《強戰世界》相比之,所以心中大概有個底蘊。結果不負所望,故事意念其實不差,但說故事說得差。明顯偏重於特技場口,使得主要情節反欠缺說服力。

Spoiler Alert!

戲中外星人 Klaatu 代


@ Asia Game Show

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師大附中97團朗〈也是戰場〉

其實這篇是想試驗影片檔上傳...
(這裡影片上傳格式說明裡居然沒有包括FLV檔)
(這很可怕,因為我是轉rm檔上傳,但5xmb就要花上快兩小時)
(雖然也可以傳到youtube再用嵌入貼過來,但是youtube上的影片是難以保密的)

師大附中

Mr. Children: Hanabi (花火)

現場演出,孩子先生的演繹總有另一番的感人力量。

不是新歌了,已聽了兩三個月,但近日總喜歡在步行上班的路途上,將這首個歌在iPod中響起一遍,然後就頓感精神抖擻,充滿鬥志,在睛朗的一天出發。孩子先生,果然是勵志


給柏柏的信

親愛的柏柏,你好嗎?想不到我仍然記得你吧,究竟澳門還有多少人記得你呢?

我曾經是其中一個把你宣傳出去的人,我和我的同事有幾年的其中一項工作就是要把你的形象向澳門人宣傳。是你讓我知道,宣傳究竟是什麼一回事
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Part of why managing firewalls is hard

Let me say it up front: managing a firewall of any decent complexityis hard. Sooner or later you start losing track of rules and what'sactually going on, writing half-redundant rules, and so on; inshort, your firewall ruleset descends into sysadmin superstition .I've recently realized that part of why this happens is that there arethree views of your firewall's behavior that you need, and you can't getall of them just from reading your firewall rules; at most


The role of superstition and folklore in system administration

Just like users have folklore , system administrationdoes too. Our sort of superstition is a bit different, though ( well , usually ):it is the kind of thing where you say 'I don't know why that's there,but let's not remove it just in case'. When our system environmentsreach a certain level of fragile complexity and westart losing track of the fine details, of course our informed actionsstart descending into rote procedures.

(This really accelerates when new people come