The danger of having system programmers around, illustrated

My little issue the other day with DTrace makes a nice illustration of a variantof programmer laziness . As I sortof alluded to in the entry, although DTrace's function tracing limitationis documented, I didn't actually find it by reading the documentation.Instead I found it the hard and indirect way, by being a systemprogrammer.

When I ran into a kernel function that DTrace couldn't trace, I woundup:

  • using the Solaris kernel debugger to verify that the function wasactually present in the

飲食戰爭

食自助餐,就等如用行動表達一種態度︰「別蝕底」。這是一場戰爭,在手袋放好的一刻,我們就要盡所有能力,食最貴最好最多的食物,當我們感到回本,以後就是勝利的光榮,這亦是停戰的唯一條件。最好飽到辛苦,才是最

I'm (almost) Drupal 7... and so should you!

I've now created three different Drupal 7 sites, and I can heartily state that I'm pleased with where the community has come in the past couple of years—especially from a UX perspective (the admin overlay has actually turned out to work VERY well across all the browsers I use). I will be posting more impressions of Drupal 7 from a themer's perspective in the coming weeks (check out an older post on D7 theming here ).

I'm going to attempt an upgrade of


一日未死,一日仍有運行

我從沒想過原來避孕套有這個用途。舊老闆Lawrence 約了我和Sam 到Mandarin 吃飯。

Lawrence 這種退了休的富貴阿伯,家住山頂天天對無敵海景發呆,悶到抽筋,跟我們這些後生仔女埋堆保持心境青春,好過打botox。

關於避孕套的話題,源於Sam 看了電

[音樂]-林生祥:大地書房(The Land is My Study)

【大地書房】

2010 年,在鍾理和文教基金會的邀請下,林生祥將自己農村的日常與鍾理和的文學場景及題材連結,以歌謠的形式探索,與四位南方作家:鍾鐵民、鍾鐵鈞、曾貴海、鍾永豐,共同改編、重寫、再生鍾理和的文

Kristin Chenoweth

美劇《Glee》有很多明星客串亮相,其中 Kristin Chenoweth 飾演的 April 是個潦倒無名的歌手,但現實 Kristin 是個著名的多棲藝人,她說話是娃娃聲,但卻有歌劇女高音的嗓子,變化多端,以下這首《The Girl in 14G》就盡顯她的技藝:

以下這段看她如何


盲目的無神論者

著名無神論者 Sam Harris 剛出版了新書 The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values ,我的同事寫了個 書評 ,因此被本地的一個無神論者組織邀請去做 presentation,講解一下書的內容和帶領與會者討論該書。我和另外幾個同事也有捧場,結果我們都大失所望。

令我們

復仇者未死,我死。

( 原刊 AV Magazine 10-12-2010)

人生音像城

復仇者未死,我死。

告訴朋友我看了《復仇者之死》時,對方總報以色瞇瞇的眼光,流著口水,問「蒼井空正唔正?」

我答:「不及閣下家中珍藏的蒼井空AV(不是AV Magazine )正。」


How to get sysadmins to never use your software again

If your software keeps some sort of database or even just reads datafiles, and you want happy sysadmins, make it always be backwardscompatible with the file formats of older versions. If you wantmoderately unhappy sysadmins, give it an automated migration process sothat it reads the old format files and rewrites them in the new format.

(This makes sysadmins moderately unhappy because we can't back out of anattempted upgrade without restoring the old versions of the files, andas a corollary we can't switch back


脫離現實

甚麼叫做脫離現實?十年前的答案是,小孩子看完電視扮超人,從十二樓跳下來,大家不禁驚歎,人類的智力為甚麼可以這樣低。枉稱為萬物之靈,十年後,脫離現實不但存在,毫無寸進,還變本加厲成為我們的常識。

就比方我