抹百葉簾的啟示

今早發現家裏的百葉簾都佈滿一層厚厚的灰塵和木屑,才記起安裝木地板後,把全屋清潔了一番,竟忘了抹百葉簾。我家向以一塵不染見稱,我豈能容許這麼多灰塵繼續留在屋內?於是立即拿一塊濕布將百葉簾逐片抹乾淨。

可是

An observation about Twitter (and Google)

Here is something I've noticed lately: when I want to look for tracesof some recent or just-breaking piece of news, such as IPSCa's utterfailure or important potential Solaris licensingchanges , I no longer bothertrying Google or other general search engines; instead, I go to Twitterand search there. And it works. There's a certain amount of noise in theresult but also a lot of signal, more than I could easily get otherwise.

Partly I think that this is because


Listening

Big day for my daughter Jasmine. She has been rolling over from her back to tummy, and is now wiggling and shuffling. Watching her attempts to crawl with the butt high up is an absolute wonder. It's the answer to anyone who wonders if they'd go straight home after work. My wife and I celebrated by giving her a big hug.

My wife was talking about the fascinating baby shuffles and wiggles when I was reading Mitch Albom's Having a Little Faith . I nodded but, oh

世紀末暑假("Summer Vacation 1999") ------ 我其中一套極喜歡的日本電影經典之作!
























片名 : 世紀末暑假 (1988)
導演 : 金子修介
演員 : 水原里絵(深津絵里)/ 大寶智子/ 宮島依里/ 中野みゆき
音樂 : 中村由利子"風之鏡"
片長 : 90mins

1. 估不到電影中心會再放映這齣1988年的經典日本電影,由於只
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沒有面目的人

有個同事,已共事多年了,大家亦不時有學術和工作上的交往,可是,我不會視他為朋友。這不是因為我們有過節,也不是因為我不喜歡他的性格及為人,而是因為我根本不知道他是一個怎樣的人。對我來說,他就像是個沒有面

Evolving our mail system: the overview and our goals

Way back in the beginning of time, or at least when I arrived here , we had a rather old mail systemconfiguration that was very much an artifactof its time. In other words, it desperately needed to be modernized andreplaced. And replace it we did, winding up with our current mailsystem .

There are two ways to describe how we planned the migration from the oldsystem to the new one. Let me write up the nice one first:

There are at least two possible approaches you can take


羅生門之「唔好搞咁多」

這幾天,我Daisy日思夜想,始終解不開一個謎團。讓我在這裏說出來,看看各位能否解謎。

4月10日,報章大字標題報道一個三個月大的男嬰,在瑪嘉烈醫院洗澡時被護士燙傷至二級程度,相信大家仍記得這件事吧。我一邊high tea

子彈頭.大復仇("Micmacs à tire-larigot") ----- 得啖笑都無乜!
























Film : Micmacs à tire-larigot (2009)(French)
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Written by Jean-Pierre Jeunet/ Guillaume Laurent
Starring Dany Boon/ Dominique Pinon/ François Berléand/ Albert Dupontel
Duration : 104mins

1. 在我來說,全片大概只有四五個笑位,而且不是大笑那種,其中有兩三個屬於較低俗那些!其他的我都

Guru Dutt的故事 (七) : 內心抗爭


Guru Dutt與長子Tarun, 次子Arun, 妻子Geeta Dutt (1961)

到底Guru Dutt是個怎麼樣的人? 與他共事的人, 無不認同他在工作上的謙遜、才能和執著: Raj Khosla、Abrar Alvi、V.K. Murthy、Waheeda Rehman經他一手提拔, 眾人佩服之至. 親人認為他熱愛家庭: 弟妹強
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四月二十三日隨筆

想不到一夜之間,中國人居然為了一個日本女優,翻牆玩twitter,令蒼井空的twitter的粉絲一晚之間,300變三萬。我國的動員能力之強,世所罕有,難怪其他大國深自戒懼。

蒼井空小姐為了答謝中國人的支持,還找翻譯發表了言論。