娛樂學生

早兩天在知識論堂上講到illusion這個概念時,向學生表演了一個紙牌魔術,以作為illusion的現場例子。今天在哲學導論堂上解釋inference to the best explanation時,又表演了一次,以說明選擇explanation時(例如解釋那紙牌魔術的效果)應該用一些甚麼標準。哲學導

$300換來的小奢華—-香港美酒佳餚巡禮

實不相瞞,對於品酒,我只是略有經驗,那些品酒術語,什麼丹寧、回味、酒體或辛辣等等一大堆,我都只是知其名不大知其意。

但正所謂「貴有貴派頭、平有平享受」,一杯在手、來點芝士或麵包小吃,再加上三五知己一起把

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A very convenient trick: having a testing browser

One of the little peculiarities of my personal environment is that Iactually use two different copies of Firefox at once. Well, sort of.What I have is my regular Firefox and a separate 'testing' instance.

There are two important configuration differences between the instances.First, the testing instance uses a standard version of Firefox, insteadof my usual self-compiled and custom-hacked version. Second, it isconfigured to clear all 'history' when Firefox exits, thereby flushingbrowsing history, the cache,


還是柔弱一點數

有個相士告訴我,男人在辦公桌放些家庭照,對事業運很有幫助。女人在辦公桌放家庭照,等於叫老闆「唔好升我」。


Well,這裡有點心理學,有點社會學,相士都是社會學家。讓我Daisy 來說明一下吧,道理非常簡單:家庭照有助男

Rolleiflex 2.8E 首航+ REDSCALE

張相片

ROLLEIFLEX 2.8e 以成萬元收入,貴是貴的,但配件算是齊備。此機在試機的時候所有快門都沒問題的,不知是不是放了點時日,幾星期前帶他出航的時候,竟然發現1秒,1/2秒,1/4秒是壞了的。唉,有點年代的東西,就是麻

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有趣設計收集

生活創意設計

堆起來的杯子,其實就只有一隻杯。 運用視覺錯覺的設計

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Calpurnia

The stories of au pair taking care of kids have formed a genre of their own in Hong Kong.

Too often, the working parents – me included – are hiring domestic maids to look after children at a very young age. As is often the case, the children spend more time with the maid than the parents, whether we admit it or not. While much has been written about the proper way to wean a child from the breast or bottles, neither Dr. Spock nor the parenting guidebook What to Expect the

擺下擂台

早兩天阿肯色州有個校區校董會成員(那是個民選職位)在Facebook上寫了幾段極度仇視同性戀者的言論,被人公開了:他叫同性戀者做"queers",表示假如他們都自殺死掉就好了,還說如果自己的子女搞同性戀,便會和他們斷絕關係。

What problems the Maildir mail storage format solves

There is a relatively widespread view that the Maildir mail storageformat is the solution to anyissue that one is having with traditional mail message storage ( cf thecomment here ). This is not exactly so, and asa result it is important to understand what problems Maildir actuallysolves and what ones it does nothing about. Or for that matter, theproblems that Maildir can make worse.

(In this entry I'm going to compare Maildir against the traditionalUnix mbox format.)

Maildir excels at all single-


天王星對沖天頂

有許多字在我身體裡
必須把它們釋放才可以入睡
然而我如那些保守的統治者,膽怯
只能釋放另一些無關痛癢的

到底能否用公文電郵代替情感
能否用公開信代替詩
能否用status代替blog
能否用連結平台代替深宵夜談
能否用計劃代替成果