閱讀紀錄

從2001年開始,我便每年都有一張清單紀錄自己看過的書和期刊或文集裏的文章(一般雜誌文章不計),只是順閱讀次序羅列項目,不加評語或任何排行。目的?就是留個紀錄吧了,好讓將來記不起自己看過甚麼書的時候,

The Irony of the Office

From Seth Godin:

Factories used to be arranged in a straight line. That's because there was one steam engine, and it turned a shaft. All the machines were set up along the shaft, with a belt giving each of them power. The office needed to be right next to this building, so management could monitor what was going on.

Read on...


When Harry Met Sally



勝過千言萬語

這陣子,也會在B & L的網頁上到處逛,看看其他人生命中的某個高清時刻。

基於設計,在分頁上,只會看到文章題目的小字,突出的是相片。

我也是被相片吸引了,按進去再細看文字。

有些時候,真的,一張相片勝過千言萬語

The problem of testing firewall rules changes

In an earlier entry , I mentioned thatfirewalls are a classical case of difficult testing where differencesbetween your test and your production environments can be vitallyimportant. Let's elaborate on that.

Suppose that you have some firewall rules changes that you want tomake. As a good developer-style sysadmin, you are not going to just dumpthem on your production firewall; instead you have a test firewall thatyou push rules to first for testing. But here's the question: how isyour test firewall'


我的人生賭博

我們一生中大大小小的決定,很多時候都難以估計後果,以為十拿九穩的,可能結果是一敗塗地;打定輸數的,說不定卻會有驚無險。所謂人生如賭博,可以是這個意思,不過,在這些情況下,我們那賭博的感覺是事後反省時得

睇波不賭波

刊於 2010年6月16日澳門日報新園地版

我明白,在世界盃進行得如火如荼的日子,選用這幾個字做題目,多少有點掃興的意味。可是我也深信,反應快捷的讀者,看到這個題目,也許已衝口而出唸出心中的完整句子: 「睇


Always Exciting: Weather in St. Louis

It's always exciting to be a St. Louisan in the springtime. God puts on a very nice show about two times a week; right now I'm staring outside the window at some of the most beautiful lightning strikes I've seen in a storm! I'm also thankful I'm not in the crazy rain.

Color weather radar St. Louis


All Fours

As my energetic little baby starts showing her kinetic energy, we know it's high time we do some childproofing around the house. Without the slightest idea of what to do, I ended up reading my favorite manual What to Expect the First Year .

I was taught that the best way is to take a baby's-eye view of our home. How so? Simply get down on my hands and knees, and crawl around the house. From there, alas, I will see the world in a

My current photo processing workflow (as of June 2010)

In Thom Hogan's June 14th update ( now here ), he wrote:

Tonight's homework: document your workflow. Really. Write it down.Include everything that happens from pressing the shutter release tolooking at the final image (wherever it may have ended up, e.g. on awall, on Facebook, etc.).

I have some spare time today for once, since I already wrote today's techblog entry, so I feel like tacklingthis one just because.