A thought of the day
Something that occurred to me not too long ago:
Once you start thinking of furniture as a type of computer hardware,it becomes much easier to talk yourself into buying a decent deskchair.
In some sense it is completely absurd how many computer people arewilling to pay several hundred dollars for a good monitor (LCD or CRT),but will balk at spending even a hundred dollars for a comfortablechair. (In another sense, it is very human; we're not exactly entirelyrational creatures.)
Link: A lovely summary of the XHTML issue
On the WHATWG mailing list, Henri Sivonen put together a marvelous andconcise summary of the whole problem with XHTML in today's world, andwhy XHTML advocates usually irritate me. I'm not going to quote anything;just read the whole thing here .
(From Sam Ruby , who linkedto an Ian Hickson WHATWG mailing list message that quoted HenriSivonen's message.)
The problem with #ifdef
Something that crystallized in the process of writing the earlierBourne shell quoting entry is that #ifdef abuseleads to bad results for the same fundamental reason that multiplelevels of escaping are bad: after a certain point, people can no longerclearly see what the real code will look like.
When you can't see what the code looks like, it's really hard to makesensible changes; either you make blind stabs or you have to carefullyreconstruct the actual code, usually by hand. Either process is error
有鈴鐺，就是聖誕了
保留與開展--捍衛天星之雙重意義
董啟章
近日因為清拆天星碼 頭而掀起的抗爭，最為鮮明的是當中的行動性質。一群青年闖進正在動工的地盤，連日冒寒風冷雨，以身體阻擋清拆的進程。這
What Google Sitemaps isn't
The Google Sitemaps XML format has a somewhat underdocumented The priority of this URL relative to other URLs on your site.[...] The Google documentation is somewhat imprecise here, as there are atleast two meanings for 'priority' and they don't really say which onethey mean. The first sort of priority is 'which pages do I want crawledfirst'; the second sort of priority is 'which pages (within my site) doI
專屬我的紀念館
平安夜的清晨5時53分，玩樂過後，如常在等那頭班開出的巴士。
毫無先兆，接到A的來電，有點醉的我，卻認不出那電話號碼。
聽到他的聲音，我知道他喝醉了，反而放心。
因為
變，還是不變？
我們是澳門本土首批大規模培訓出來的大學生，我們是主力迎接澳門回歸的青少年，我們在特區政府成立前後投身
罅隙
這裡的人逐漸分開不同的階級，住什麼地方，過什麼生活，不單標籤了每個人的身份，不同的生活型態也把各人分門別類。
這裡的人越來越懂得消費，有時候他們也不知道
強與弱
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