軟骨文人?

我還是個文藝青年時,常常讀余光中的書;不是他的詩,而是他的散文。余光中說自己「右手寫詩,左手寫散文」,我就當他是個左撇子!我覺得他的詩呆板無味,意像又不美,音樂感也不強,遠不及洛夫、瘂弦、和鄭愁予等。

娛圈短評

電影-十月圍城
終於看到一套像樣的港產片.
  • 觀眾千萬別以為電影橋段是真實歷史
  • 電影中真正主角是沒有武戲的王學圻和梁家輝. 王學圻精准地演繹出對革命存愛存恨的心情、對兒子的溺愛. 每一次出場都綻放異彩,牽引觀眾的

The annoying timing of future SSL certificate renewals

One of the most annoying things about the whole ipsCAsituation for me is what it's goingto do to our SSL certificate renewal timing (ipsCA gaveeducational institutions free SSL certificates, so we have abunch from them). In his entry about ipsCA, Bob Plankers commented:

It would also be nice to have all those SSL certificates co-terminate,so we can renew them all at once.

This is not an attractive idea for me. There's two problems with this,one general one and


最好的聖誕禮物

「就是這兩天媽媽帶給我的快樂。」

我問小女孩今年收到什麼聖誕禮物,這就是她的答案。

「今年聖誕節過得份外開心,因為這兩天媽媽都不用開工,整整兩天都陪著我。」

原來,因工作性質關係,小女孩的媽媽每逢大時大節,


忙完了


忙完一輪,休息幾天,然後靜靜等待新的生活和新的一年。

周六去邊度有書主持了一次「讀來讀往」,都是隨便講,但難得大家都認真討論,有幾位朋友聽完我亂講也會發表自己的意見,那就很好了,近年來我也很少這樣談文學

十年回望


1999,伴學生排練回歸表演大半年,思考讓學生打腰鼓的意義
2000,出版《撫摸》
2001,出版《雙十年華》
2002,因為看到一則招聘廣告而轉工,結婚
2003,因工作太忙而辭職,但被挽留,然後升職,工作

我沒能力判高下

我雖然喜歡聽古典音樂,但音樂底子很薄弱,只學過兩三年鋼琴,勉強看得懂簡單的樂譜。所以我聽過一張唱片或去過一場音樂會後,如有人問我意見,我通常只會說喜歡不喜歡,少有正色評論其好壞。若追問我喜歡甚麼不喜歡

Some OpenSSL and SSL certificate basics

I'm writing this down for the traditional reason, that being to try tofix it in my mind for the next time I have to deal with all of thisstuff (which will probably be in about a year):

  • a SSL key is basically a blob of data. It has no interesting attributesassociated with it, and it is thus reusable if you want to. There areprobably OpenSSL commands to dump key information, but I haven't looked.

    SSL keys are generated with openssl genrsa . It


悶蛋

有一種人叫做悶蛋,你我都一定認識一兩個。說悶蛋像杯白開水,是老掉牙的比喻,而且不很貼切,因為我們總要喝白開水,卻不一定要跟悶蛋打交道。悶蛋更像的是杯極淡的茶,徒有茶色,卻無茶味;我們或一不留神,或礙於

我之為我,無可奈何

問朋友對我的網誌有甚麼意見,他很直率,說我寫的東西 "so polished, so cultured",而且有刻意製造形象之嫌。

第一點我絕無異議。本人天生凡事都喜 polish 一番,寫文章如是,下廚如是,打掃家居如是,連戴著的眼鏡也要經常除下來抹,以