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Perimeter firewalls and universities

Wandering Thoughts | Aug. 5, 2005, 1:18 a.m. | Original

The University of Toronto doesn't have a firewall. There, I've saidit and you can all gasp in horror: how could any organization on theInternet in this day and age fail to have such a basic thing as afirewall between them and the nasty net?

Because it doesn't help all that much; because it has the wrong threatmodel. A perimeter firewall protects you from evil people out there onthe net, but does nothing to protect you from evil people inside, onyour

無題

空姐的行李篋 | Aug. 4, 2005, 8:03 p.m. | Original

元迎探惜，原應嘆息

我在想，

身邊的友人，

有多少人明白這一句，

明白我在說甚麼。

別讓寂寞害你傷得一夜白頭

空姐的行李篋 | Aug. 4, 2005, 8 p.m. | Original

在這個陽光燦爛的日子，

卻份外覺得寂寞。

是為了很重要的事嗎？

我不知道。

無論再重要，

也只得淡淡然不縐眉頭。

Never explain and never complain.

因為記得那算命先生說過，

命中注定，

太過認真的，

一切都是劫數難逃。

差不多冬至　一早一晚還是

迎新營與性

tswtsw | Aug. 4, 2005, 6:42 p.m. | Original

中大學生會搞的迎新營（並非指大細O，而是中大學生會自己另外給新生搞的迎新營，新生需另外報名參加，每年人數都很少），今年以「性」為主題，海報上非常明白的寫著「兩性平等」、「性工作」、「同志」及「大學生」

虛擬後樂園

JackysBlog | Aug. 4, 2005, 2:48 p.m. | Original

最近在行書店時，看到一本名為《虛擬後樂園》的書，包裝十分獨特，要特地拿出內容才可以看，看了幾篇，自己對內容很感興趣，所以就買下了。

此書講的是現今的電腦遊戲和網絡，以文化研究層面去探討這些流行文化。現今

Keep your hands off my font size

Wandering Thoughts | Aug. 4, 2005, 1:18 a.m. | Original

There are many things that puzzle me about common web design. One ofthe biggest thing is this: why do so many sites reduce the font sizeof their main content? This is the single largest readability problemthat I run into on the web. (For some reason this seems to be especiallyprevalent on blogs.)

I see it over and over again, in CSS like 'font-size:small', 'font-size: 80%', 'font: normal 76%/