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空姐的行李篋 | Dec. 13, 2009, 5:03 p.m. | Original

R：「下星期三book咗場打tennis啦。」

E：「哦。」

R：「咁我地約時間去買球拍啦。」

E：「唔使啦，問P借啦，佢有。」

R：「球拍都唔買你點學呀？」

E：「打tennis嘅重點唔係塊球拍，係網球裙。」

How to Get Free or Cheaper WiFi Access at AT&T and Boingo Hotspots

Jeff Geerling | Dec. 13, 2009, 3:49 p.m. | Original

I was recently in Chicago, lamenting the fact that, to use the Boingo WiFi at the airport for a mere half hour, I'd need to pay $6.95; rather than pay this outrageous amount (since I already have an iPhone with Internet access, and the WiFi would be a convenience, I looked to Google for some help.

It is well documented that you can simply change your browser's "User-Agent" to use the 'Mobile Safari - iPhone' profile, and

Getting from Evanston to the O'Hare International Airport

Jeff Geerling | Dec. 13, 2009, 1:13 p.m. | Original

As I was preparing for my return trip to St. Louis from Evanston, IL (I was at the DrupalCamp Chicago this weekend), I realized I hadn't set up any way to get to the O'Hare International Airport in order to board my American Airlines flight. Luckily, I looked up 'Evanston to O'Hare' online, and found a little nugget that many people don't know about.

There's a Pace bus (route 250) that goes straight from downtown

98詩朗建中

crimson-hall | Dec. 13, 2009, 6:55 a.m. | Original

The Little Prince

drkmchow | Dec. 13, 2009, 6:31 a.m. | Original

I remember reading the queer experience of the little prince seeing a lamplighter putting out the street lamp, followed by lighting it again. And then another morning, with the lamp extinguished again. Over a hundred thousand times. I remember it as a back-and-forth between the lamplighter and the little prince's fondness for his own rose. Antoine de Saint Exupéry's story helps me understand what the little prince describes as "the rose that belongs to me."

"Because she is my rose

賭徒的謬誤

魚之樂 | Dec. 13, 2009, 3 a.m. | Original

賭徒大多迷信，信手氣、信風水、信運程、信孩子說一聲「買書」會令他們輸錢，但他們有一個想法卻合理不過：下注在較有機會開出的，便較有機會嬴錢。可是，他們對哪較有機會開出，哪沒甚機會開出，通常都有錯誤的看法

Mercurial versus git for sysadmins, or why we picked Mercurial

Wandering Thoughts | Dec. 13, 2009, 12:18 a.m. | Original

I've recently managed to persuade my co-workers to start migrate awayfrom doing version control with RCS and to using a modern VCS (whichhas made me think about various issues ). Specifically, I picked Mercurial, which I thinkis one of only two sensible options right now (the other being git).

I'm perfectly prepared to believe that git has important aspects that make it technically superior , and that githas more power for doing sophisticated things that matter for seriousdevelopment. But for us

Sysadmin versus developer uses of version control systems

Wandering Thoughts | Dec. 13, 2009, 12:18 a.m. | Original

Here is a thesis: sysadmins use modern version control systemsdifferently than developers. Specifically, sysadmins generally use VCSesfor documentation, while developers use them for development. By thisI mean that when sysadmins make a commit, it's for something that isalready in use; for example, you change a file in /etc and then commitin order to document when and why you made the change.

(This is certainly our local sysadmin usage of version control, but Ithink it is more than just us,

哲學天份

魚之樂 | Dec. 12, 2009, 6:44 p.m. | Original

最近發覺兒子可能有點哲學天份。我剛買了 Peter Cave 的兩本書: Can a Robot be Human? 和 What’s Wrong with Eating People? , 考慮用來做哲學導論的教材。兒子見書名有趣，便拿去看了；他讀得津津有味，還興致勃勃走過來要跟我「分享」他的得著。誰知他

香港贏了

silencemo | Dec. 12, 2009, 6:31 p.m. | Original

昨日我說希望香港足球隊得勝
他們果然爭氣
打到最後12碼擊敗日本
奪得東亞運金牌
有運氣也有技術
看新聞見到場內的觀眾都很開心
上高登看看更發現有大量正面討論
很多香港人都說
從未試過為足球而這樣激動
看來因為有這場球

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