我係Mac友你唔係之 — 擺明窒你 Window 95

這就是Blog友阿力所講的廣告,當年一出,所有Mac用家都陰陰笑。這亦秉承了Apple的一貫作風,擺明居馬,同你隻揪,吹咩?


自問自答

問:「你好 "支力" 呀?」

答:「我同個假人打左成日茄輪兼摸胸,唔 "支力" 就有鬼啦。佢仲要係一個假人TB,叫Anne。」

問:「你唔開心呀?」

答:「我個普通話水平測試 failed 左。永遠都會記得去考試果一朝,我個心好痛好酸,

命運三帖




一.
我慶幸自己對社會一點興趣也沒有,不然一定要寫很多文章,時時要發議論,事事都要有意見,這樣活著多麼辛苦。

我很害怕看到別人勉為其難在談論一件事,像這個政策有什麼內容,那個現象有什麼要注意。其實是淺白得

Bad patch management at Sun

Today, I tried to use ssh from my Solaris test machine to anothermachine for the first time in a while (I usually push stuff the otherway):

$ scp pca-out.html linux:www/
dlopen(/usr/lib/gss/gl/mech_krb5.so): ld.so.1: ssh: fatal: /usr/lib/gss/gl/mech_krb5.so: open failed: No such file or directory
xmalloc: zero size


我係Mac友你唔係


做了Mac友十幾廿年,雖然平時上班都是被迫用PC居多,當然Mac機還是My飛弗。

喜歡Mac機,也喜歡Mac廣告,剛上Apple網站看到他們的新廣告,擺明向 PC(Bill Gates)對著幹。

賣電腦而不賣電腦Functions卻只賣形象或賣Message,以一貫人性化手法(你


替網摘說句好話

由我這個「罪魁禍手」搞出來的有關 網摘引文 的討論,吹到台灣後已經由本來「引文」合法性,轉變為「商業網摘」是否可以使用 blogger 們的文章,因為台灣 智邦 有專業「網摘師」一職。因為那邊人更多的關係,所以討論更為複雜和


遇見大師


近日不少大作家來澳
可能澳門的名氣真是越來越大
也可能是香港的朋友越來越喜歡帶一些大作家來澳門玩

今日著名小說家李銳及蔣韻來澳
我在編輯小姐的安排下參加了澳門基金會所設的午宴
一睹作家風采

我特別帶了“傳說之死”

Link: an excerpt from On Writing Well

Here are chapters 2 through 4 of William Zinsser's On Writing Well , a classic book on, well,writing well. Just start with the opening of chapter 2 and keep going:

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a societystrangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompousfrills and meaningless jargon.

Remind you of any computer manuals you've read recently? (Hopefully itdoes not remind you too much of WanderingThoughts . I try, but I knowI have a long way to go


A really stupid web spider

Today WanderingThoughts had a visit from the worst stealth spider thatI've ever seen. Given the previous contestants this is a fairly tall order, but I'm confidantI have a winner. The spider:

  • made two requests for directories without the trailing slash, earningit redirections to the proper URLs.
  • followed the redirections, making two valid requests.
  • promptly made 95 bad requests by failing to treat URLs with a leading slash properly.

    I've seen spiders


    文化作動

    從五月八日開始,晚上 八至九 點,香港電台第二台會有「文化作動」 ,逢星期一會有梁文道和胡世傑,梁文道會當四星期的嘉賓,而我會以輕便旅行箱的方式, 一起出現四星期。

    節目重溫 。若有意見可以留言,或電郵我啊。