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I was asked to speak in a hospital forum about nonpunitive response to medical incidents. An apt illustration of the current climate comes from those stories in which honest doctors who make full confession find themselves viewed unfavourably. Should we then keep our mouths shut?

Hardly. There comes a time in the career of most doctors when things go badly awry. It comes earlier for those who work the hardest. No matter when it comes, however, the struggle is best overcome with support from the others. That's why I

有涯無涯

中學時的中文課本有《莊子》〈養生主〉一文的節錄,是由原文的開頭到「善哉!吾聞庖丁之言,得養生焉」止,並另有篇名,叫〈庖丁解牛〉。當時要整篇課文背誦,到現在我還可以背到六、七成。

記得最清楚的,當然就是開

Sometimes bugs have very small edit distances

One of the consequences of yesterday's SAN backend failure is that I found a bug in our spareshandling code. It was the kind of bug where the program aborts, and whenthat happens we started getting email with Python exception backtracesthat ended in what struck me as a very odd exception:

KeyError: False

Normally KeyErrors make a kind of sense, in that you see whatyou're looking up and the question is either why you wound up usingthat key or why that key isn't present when


A Python (non-)idiom that I should really avoid

One of my bad habits as a Python programmer is that I am both lazy andimpatient. I will go out of my way to do something overly clever justbecause it saves me some boring boiler-plate code, and because Python issuch a compact language already my threshold for this irritation is verylow.

One of the things that this leads me to is writing conditionalvariable initializations like this:

var = Noneif condition:    var = something()

I've recently come to the conclusion that this is a


溫度文學

寒冷。雖然香港人說天氣寒冷,會被俄羅斯人、芬蘭人、蒙古人、加拿大人之類取笑,人家住在東北三省,零度才不過區區小事,香港人十度八度就嚴禁上山,又要報警又要召直升機,說我們是港燦都不為過。至少,所謂低溫症

Kami @ Appledaily




袁彌明 冲奶茶拉客

袁彌明 近年減少幕前演出,轉營售賣美容和健康食品生意,近日再進軍飲食業,在尖沙嘴斥資約40萬元開設一間專售特色奶茶的飲品店,她表示力不到不為財,幾乎隔天就到店中打躉,除巡視業務,還負責收

Farewell

"Will you still go to our departmental Xmas party?" It was the shaky voice of my colleague after attending the funeral service of my respectable patient last night.

I said yes. It wasn't that I did not shiver after temperature plunged from 20 degrees Celsius to five degrees. I did. No, the uneasy feeling of transit from a memorial service to a social event with party theme is difficult to shake off. And, I didn't miss the party that much. Going to say goodbye

CONTAX G2+G45+ROLLEI RETRO 400S

首次用contax g2來拍黑白,使用的是g45,retro 400s在之前用pentax 645有拍過,黑得不錯,但用g2拍出來,又沒那種黑味,相片整體現灰調,是因為沖的問題還是scan的問題,唉,難道又要自己做底掃,好累人呢。

g45在contax

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智慧和地圖

我希望自己有智慧,卻不喜歡講智慧,因為沒有甚麼好講;別人講時,我也大多避之則吉,因為聽下去十之八九是浪費時間。

究竟甚麼是智慧?我不知道怎樣界定,只能用比喻來表達我的了解:智慧就像地圖,有了它你不會迷路

The elements of a non-event

Today we had an entire iSCSI backend fail . Itwas a heart-stopping non-event , something that took me perhaps 20minutes to deal with. I'd like to run down some of the reasons whythings worked out this way.