雪 ‧ 前路

2001年暑假後,全家由加州老遠搬到維珍尼亞州,那是二千多哩的距離,為的就是一份為期只有一年的客席教職。這一年很苦,申請居留工作證件時波折重重,到學期開始前的兩三個星期仍未辦妥,雖然最終弄到手了,但期

I do not like Unix's fossilization

I like Unix, but I'm not entirely happy with the modern world of Unix,and not for the reason you might expect. Instead of disliking thechanges from the old days, I find it distressing to see Unix slowlyfossilize.

Unix should be picking up new good ideas. It should be adopting betterways of writing shell scripts, adding more little programs,and all of that. Yes, things like seq and (GNU) stat and (GNU) date and time are not in the Posix specification


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命名是一件非常嚴肅的事,對於改壞名的人來說,可能是最不含糊的教訓,因為他會是說得最多「名字都只不過是個稱呼」的人,同時卻因為名字而常常被人掛在嘴邊。

於是大家的命名都爛透了,例如投稿的照片是一幅運動員向

只此一次

只此一次

牛年是個好年,身邊不少朋友當了父母,大家的話題由升學、就業、拍拖、置業、結婚,到了現在的孩子經。彷彿約定一起做,事實卻是全屬巧合。

轉變,來得這樣自然。

轉變,再自然也會有讓人無所適從的時候。

不止
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Thoughts on Avatar...

Not Real - Move on with your Life

Image from Geekologie

From a friend's blog post on Avatar :

People applauded at the end of the film, which I found a bit disturbing. Visually, it was awesome. But we just saw humanity slaughtered on an alien planet. We just saw the greed of humanity at its worst. We just saw a terrible spirituality exalted as ideal. And, finally, we just saw the remnant of the humans sent back “to their dying planet,” and we cheered.

No wonder people feel depressed after stepping out


怕黑

我不怕鬼,卻怕黑。我怕的黑,不是停電時全屋沒有光,也不是深山野嶺月黑風高,而是真真正正徹徹底底完完全全的黑。其實,這種黑我只在很多年前經驗過一次,但到現在仍記憶猶新,絕不想再試。

那次我們十幾個大學同學

轉戰樓上鋪


悼方盈

到便利店打個轉. 隨手揭開《明周》, 一幅六十年代黑色照片, 還道『明周開倉』講已故邢慧, 看傻了眼. 看真點, 是另一個─方盈女士仙遊了.

方盈在去年才推出《自在住》一書. 想不到生活簡樸的她, 健康一直欠佳 (胰臟癌

The A-Team 2010

期待已久! 希望影片不只動作場面吧!


Different visions of what packaging systems are for

I think I should write down one of my background views on what packagingsystems are for, and what jobs they do, because there are competing (orsomewhat clashing) visions about what is within their scope.

One view is that the job of a packaging system is more or less confinedto properly installing, removing, and upgrading packages. This need notexclude things like apt-get ; if you take a broad view of 'installingpackages', this can easily include fetching packages and dependenciesover the Internet.