做了Mac友十幾廿年，雖然平時上班都是被迫用PC居多，當然Mac機還是My飛弗。
喜歡Mac機，也喜歡Mac廣告，剛上Apple網站看到他們的新廣告，擺明向 PC(Bill Gates)對著幹。
賣電腦而不賣電腦Functions卻只賣形象或賣Message，以一貫人性化手法(你
Bad patch management at Sun
Today, I tried to use ssh from my Solaris test machine to anothermachine for the first time in a while (I usually push stuff the otherway):
$ scp pca-out.html linux:www/
dlopen(/usr/lib/gss/gl/mech_krb5.so): ld.so.1: ssh: fatal: /usr/lib/gss/gl/mech_krb5.so: open failed: No such file or directory
xmalloc: zero size
我係Mac友你唔係
遇見大師
近日不少大作家來澳
可能澳門的名氣真是越來越大
也可能是香港的朋友越來越喜歡帶一些大作家來澳門玩
今日著名小說家李銳及蔣韻來澳
我在編輯小姐的安排下參加了澳門基金會所設的午宴
一睹作家風采
我特別帶了“傳說之死”
Link: an excerpt from On Writing Well
Here are chapters 2 through 4 of William Zinsser's On Writing Well , a classic book on, well,writing well. Just start with the opening of chapter 2 and keep going:
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a societystrangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompousfrills and meaningless jargon.
Remind you of any computer manuals you've read recently? (Hopefully itdoes not remind you too much of WanderingThoughts . I try, but I knowI have a long way to go
A really stupid web spider
Today WanderingThoughts had a visit from the worst stealth spider thatI've ever seen. Given the previous contestants this is a fairly tall order, but I'm confidantI have a winner. The spider:
- made two requests for directories without the trailing slash, earningit redirections to the proper URLs.
- followed the redirections, making two valid requests.
- promptly made 95 bad requests by failing to treat URLs with a leading slash properly.
I've seen spiders
文化作動
從五月八日開始，晚上 八至九 點，香港電台第二台會有「文化作動」 ，逢星期一會有梁文道和胡世傑，梁文道會當四星期的嘉賓，而我會以輕便旅行箱的方式， 一起出現四星期。
節目重溫 。若有意見可以留言，或電郵我啊。
20060508網摘 – 標籤效應
Kidult, Otaku 與隱青是不同的，香港社會的標籤效應
- 御宅魂去了那裡？ Quote: 宅友們是不是也該從自身建立「另一種的收藏愛好者」的新形象，而不是一味批評普羅媒體的偏見？
- Kidult：成人孩童化現象 詳談 Kidult 的發展和影響
- 拜托！不要將Kidult混
回鄉二
短程回鄉，星期六晚到星期日晚，雜記如下：
- 過關時，工作人員到處派紙，說有回鄉卡的就要填。原來這是一張授權書，容許關卡拍你的相片和取你的指模。搞過這個後，應該就可以用類似「e道」的設施過關了。可是，我奇怪
喝酒就是我的生活
之一
拜編輯大人之賜，從前滴酒不沾的我，終於因為一句：“寫文章的人豈能不喝酒”而成了酒徒。不過那當然是騙小孩子的話，無論我再喝多少酒，仍是寫不出好文章，寫得出好文章的人，也不一定會喝酒。不過年歲漸長，應Menu