因為手頭上的單行紙用完了,突然就好像hang左機那樣了。工作已經像俄羅斯方塊壓下來,我則好像跌在另一個次元裡迷迷茫茫,大概是到頂了。只有鏗鏘如 h ,教我儘管是崩潰邊緣、到頂瀕死彌留,到底是滿口噙香的。這篇看來

五月蘋果

《幻 海 奇 情》

新 相 識 的 朋 友 聽 到 我 是 空 姐 , 總 會 說 : 「 你 就 好 啦 , 可 以 免 費 旅 行 四 圍 飛 , 一 定 眼 界 大 開 。 」 眼 界 大 開 是 必 然 的 , 而 且 用 不 下 飛 機 , 單 是 一 次 十 小 時 的 航 程 , 已 經 較 幻 海 奇 情 更 離 奇 。

◎ 「 小 姐 , 我 要 睇 香 港 報 紙 。 」

Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

剛在美國這邊看了,不知香港上畫沒有。

今晚是星期五晚,播放的劇院居然也頗冷清,另一邊的幾間劇院,正在排隊的,都是去看Kung Fu Panda。

坐在我後面的兩位小朋友,相信是被與我年齡相約的爸爸強逼帶來看,電影中段,爸爸不


一個故事的終結

一個故事的終結


希拉莉的總統夢宣告粉碎那天,幾個平日只看娛樂版的男律師,忽然在地球的另一面關心起美國政治來。

「你都有今日啦!」Eric 一邊看CNN,一邊習習聲地咬著蘋果。Pantry 一時間聚集了好幾個溜出來吹水的同事,大家


Why 'file as blog entry' blog engines have problems

One enduringly popular model for blogging engines is that entries willbe files in the filesystem, and the blog engine will just wrap themup in various simple ways. This approach has a clear and attractivesimplicity and thus an obvious appeal, but as I have found out fromfollowing this route myself this simplicity hides a number of subtle problems .

All of the problems can be summarized in one word: metadata . Blogentries have (or need) quite a lot of of metadata associated with them,and making files your entries


時間停滯了

話說電影《凶心人》 (Memento) 的主角患了一種失憶病,就是不能夠將短期記憶,轉變為長期記憶。所以,每數十分鐘便會甚麼也記不得剛剛發生過甚麼事,所以身上滿佈紋身筆記。當問他最後記得的東西是甚麼,他說是他被襲擊時


巫言




剛讀完高行健的"論創作"

最近幾天在讀朱天文的"巫言"

這本小說令我佩服得五體投地

人家真的任何事物都可寫入小說

而且寫得好

人家的文字真的精煉到出神入化

而且處處都那麼不經意地流露學問


我喜歡讀這樣的小說

讀的時候


Why shells should have small programming languages

In light of things such as Perl and Python, it is reasonable to askwhy the shell should have anysort of programming environment or language at all. Why not justrestrict shells to simple commands, pipelines, and redirections?

(I'm assuming here that you have a good Unix glue language around for everything that people currently writeshell scripts for.)

The obvious problem is the issue of where you draw the line. Is loopingover lists of files and doing something to each of them a common enoughoperation


Friday Night

Friday Night

Thank God,終於捱到星期五!雖然週末也有conference call,但Friday night畢竟還是令人心情愉快的。

Sam和Katie等大班同事一早在Halo 訂了檯,我改完手頭上的document便趕去與他們會合。Guess what?竟然給我在途中碰見一個「疑似banker」的物體大字形躺在路邊,

Urine

I was struck by how often the book Saturday by Ian McEwan led to revelations. Pearls are found throughout the story of a day in the life of Henry Perowne, a neurosurgeon and his minute-to-minute thoughts in reaction to those events.

One startling story is about the neurosurgeon's thought whilst flushing the loo, when he remembered a magazine lying around in the operating suite coffee room. At least one molecule of his own urine will at some time fall on him one day as rain, according to an