Touring Roma (Day 2)

Photos : View a gallery of photos from my 2nd day touring Roma .

Yesterday I again ventured out into the many streets of Rome, this time focusing on the Southeast corner of the city, and most especially the area surrounding the ancient Roman Forum and Colosseum.

But first, an image to show the craziness that is Italian power:

European Lightswitch and Power Outlet

These crazy little buggers are everywhere. It's always an ordeal to tell which way is on, and which is off, because in Italy, I don't know if


面對歷史的時候


看龍應台的《大江大海一九四九》,沒有理由不問一問自己及家人:六十年前,我們家中的先輩,在做著什麼?

那天我們在讀書會談這本書,我問與我們分享此書的朋友:這本書對澳門有什麼意義?有沒有想過六十年前的澳門是

對於西九來說,我們並不存在

(刊19/10 明報世紀版)

西九諮詢十月開始。近月,爭取文學館的聲音沸沸揚揚,連結了左中右、文學界與藝術界、著名作家與普羅巿民,不少巿民簡直以為文學館快落成了。九月七日我在立法會西九會議上以「文學館倡議

The case against backup MXes

The usual case against backup MXes isthat they cause backscatter and they have less or no anti-spamprecautions. But these aren't inherent problems with the idea of backupMXes, just bad implementations; it's not particularly difficult to dobetter, and anything can be implemented badly. I think there's a morefundamental case against them.

Pretty much by definition, a backup MX exists in order to avoid losingincoming email if your primary MX is down for an extended period oftime. Outside machines


Taxi

Of all teachings given by the emotion intelligence guru Daniel Goleman, none is more important than that of the almond-shaped amygdala in an area of the human brain called the limbic system. Disgust, fear and anger, it is said time and again, come from the amygdala which acts like a central alarm system calling for a full-fledged "fight or flight" response.

My recent lectures in Beijing brought back the nineteen-year-old memory of my first (this is my second) visit of Beijing.

我病了

一個人生病的時候,肉體很軟弱,想的盡都是情緒,盡都是低落,不想去思考,只感覺到內心的空洞。

甚麼是內心的空洞?空洞不是無物,不是甚麼都失去,正好相反,空洞是有物,甚至把整個內心都填得滿滿,但卻竟然沒有一

Emotion

This month, a special issue of Science magazine published over 10 papers, written by a total of 47 authors from 10 countries, covering the discovery of an extraordinary 4.4 million-year-old hominid fossil skeleton known as Ardipithecus ramidus .

Of course, I don't have a whiff of paleoanthropology knowledge to discuss how our ancestors ended up walking on two legs. Still, I must admit, evolution is always a fascinating subject. I've been reading recently about the evolutionary root of our

Review: Canon PowerShot G11 - Digital Camera

Jeff's Rating: 5 /5

tl;dr : Is this the SLR owner's dream pocket camera? Almost! It will do for now, but a tiny bit better lens and image sensor would make it perfect.

Canon Powershot G11

The Canon PowerShot G11 comes from a long line of G-series advanced-amateur digital cameras, and is very much like the most recent PowerShot G10 in all the best ways, but differs a little bit by improving on one of the G10's


SSH in a Locked-Down Network

Recently, during one job for a client, I needed to work for a length of time in a location that had quite severe network restrictions—in addition to a proxy server, the location blocked every port besides 80, 25, 443, and 8080. In order to use secure shell (SSH) to login to my work web server, I needed to use one of those ports (I used nmap to find open ports on my end).

Luckily, I gained access


盡顯無聊



no country for old men

有人看了這電影破口大罵說看不懂
有著名博客看完戲憤而發佈一隻 中指
我比較無聊
之前已看了三次
今日睇第四次
真係覺得好好睇
仲係講唔出點解咁好睇
如果一定要我講一個理由
我會話
成套戲都好靜呀
連槍戰時都無音樂
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