Copyright/BT/Re-creation
- 有關「青網大使」的論爭 Quote: 政府也許不要單方面站在商家及法例的角度看東西，謙虛地聆聽年青人的看法及與他們多作溝通互動也十分重要。反對者也要保持理性，要堅持的堅持，要反省便改正。
- 為什麼港日商
A brief history of cut and paste in X
Here's a brief history and explanation of how cut and paste works in theX Windows system (to give it its formal name), prompted by this blogentry withthe entirely reasonable gripe that selecting something in a program andthen exiting the program causes the selection to disappear.
There are two separate cut and paste mechanisms in X, from two separateeras: the cut buffer and selections.The cut buffer is the older mechanism, and works by having programs storethe cut data into an X property on the
Walking away from Slashdot: a story of design
A while back I wrote about the two faces of RSS , in the process of which I held up Slashdotas an example of a site where I preferred the actual site to thesyndication feed by a large margin, and why.
I have to change that, because Slashdot has lost me as a regular visitorto their website, and what Slashdot stuff I read nowadays is almostentirely through their RSS feed. It's for the traditional reasons: awebsite redesign that actually injected 'design'.
Slashdot used to
20060724網摘 – 青網大使
如果遠方有戰爭
入睡一小時，有朋友打來，叫我 明天去 。我迷迷糊糊問，明天是什麼日子，他說，明天是以軍轟炸黎巴嫰第13天。
願黎巴嫰人有一夜安眠
〈砉然〉 楊牧
豆類是一種壓抑的思想
始終如此，重複的露水使它
瀕於崩潰，當星星成群向
願黎巴嫰人有一夜安眠
〈砉然〉 楊牧
豆類是一種壓抑的思想
始終如此，重複的露水使它
瀕於崩潰，當星星成群向
書展收獲
去了書展
買了高陽
買了孔少林
買了梁文道
買了龍應台
買了董橋
買了邁克
買了蘇偉貞
買了金克木
買了方卓如
買了蔡子強
買了游思行
未來日子
會好忙
要寫書評也多了本錢
不過最大收獲不是書
而是離開書展之後買了軟硬的新碟(這一次
朋友，昨日你曾經放棄過多少個夢想？
今個星期六，從美國回港放暑假的兩個外甥和姊姊姐夫一家人，山長水遠，特地來了我在愉景灣的家。
席間，我和兩個已經十三、四歲的外甥，在我的工作室內，聊起如何用電腦做音樂，我又播了一首從前寫的歌給他們聽。
他們
Weekly spam summary on July 22nd, 2006
We rebooted this server Monday around 6:50pm, so a number of the statsare truncated this week. Having said that, this week, we:
- got 11,369 messages from 257 different IP addresses.
- handled 15,931 sessions from 851 different IP addresses.
- received 87,698 connections from at least 31,657 different IPaddresses since Monday evening.
- hit a highwater of 6 connections being checked at once sinceMonday
06書展
上年無去書展，今年有時間去，因為平時有行開書局，所以「斬獲」不多，都是買新書/難找的書：
- 殺悶思維 [李天命] – 本來沒有打算買，但揭了幾頁後始終抵受不了李生的魔力
- 基地邊緣 [艾西莫夫] – 基地後傳第一本，還差
Solaris's sparseness
Coming from years of working primarily on Linux, one of the things thatkeeps getting me about working on Solaris 9 is just how sparse and barea Solaris install is. I especially feel this with system diagnostictools, where about 90% of the things I am used to considering as routineare either third-party packages or just not available.
(Solaris 10 holds out the promise to be much better, with things likeDTrace, but I'm stuck working with Solaris 9 machines at the moment.
寫給朋友
寫得不好，但失眠的朋友，簽個到。