Tall-in-the-Saddle Confidence

While the funny story of Yes Prime Minister has given me hours of pure joy, the dialogue inside this witty comedy is a classic in itself.

"May I just clarify the question? You're asking who would know what it is that I don't know and you don't know but the Foreign Office know that they know, that they are keeping from you so that there is something we don't know and we want to know but we don't know what because we don't

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《修身中,請勿打擾。》11/16/2006


打算明天在20度微涼天氣下玩wakeboard的我,發現了一件事 ── 我胖了很多,甚至是太多。

模糊面孔

Google Street View 因為私隱問題,決定以技術將人面車牌等模糊化掉,看起來像是這樣子的:

google stree view

看到這張照片,覺得似曾相識啊… 原來… 莫非… 他們都看了 錄影帶

當年的《午夜凶鈴》嚇倒不少人,我也是其中之一。我認為面對恐懼的其中一


紅色中環

紅色中環

在招股書 drafting meeting 上,我用「福娃妮妮」原子筆憤筆疾書,批改對家律師草擬出來的這份垃圾。我喜歡妮妮,因為她是綠色的,綠色旺我。正要開口念出我的大作,來自北京的張總卻突然宣布會議暫停,因為他要到街上看聖

疑似人肉 SPAM

最近多了些奇怪的留言,最新鮮的有 這篇 在回覆 05 年的 Blog 事回顧一文。他這樣寫:

BLOG已經大眾化,民間化。我們每天落班必做的事。 抱住不同的心態,在這虛幻的空間裡暢遊。記錄落每天發生在身邊的點點滴滴事情,等10年


無知的喧囂

有人選擇愼言,有人喜歡口不擇言,千萬別以為這是個人性格問題,其實這也是一種社會風氣,影響着每個人的生活。

我不是昨天才開始在澳門生活,因此,我會深深地感覺到這個城市的人其實是越來越喜歡亂講,有些人喜歡扮

湯禎兆

冷笑話:以前讀心理分析的概念「 sinthom 」,季廣茂譯為「徵兆合成人」,當然馬上想到「湯禎兆合成人」——再翻一翻,就是今天的《全身文化人》了。出自選集,好型。

湯禎兆新書對談會 如何 全身 .怎樣 四國 》(05.17

Too Good to be True

During the lunch I talked with my friends about winning the lottery, making precise prediction, and all those that will be too good to be true. Miracles, nonetheless, should always be interpreted doubly cautiously when they seem too extreme to be true. That may not be the kind of advice most of us want to hear. But that doesn't make it any less the truth.

This reminds me of the story that Oscar winners were found to live longer than their less successful peers. Alas, what a wonderful

Why it is hard to decommission a DNS blocklist

Every so often some ex-DNSBL makes the geek news because itsex-operators have gotten tired of people still trying to use it yearsafter it was taken out of service, and to fix this they make theirex-DNSBL return positive answers for every query, thereby blacklistingthe world and insuring that email systems that still use the ex-DNSBLwill bounce everything until they are fixed. Which should happen fast,because people generally notice when they are not getting email.

(Not always, though.)

When


What protects the strength of a ssh connection's encryption

Here is a suddenly burning question: what protectsthe strength of a ssh connection's encryption?

The answer is that the connection encryption is protected only by thestrength of the random numbers chosen for the initial Diffie-Hellmankey exchange that arrangesthe session key. This protection depends on both the server and theclient using strong random numbers; if an attacker can guess the randomnumber for either side, they can immediately recover the session keysimply by acting out that side of the exchange.

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