禮頓道Starbucks

終於,它回來了,就在舊店的斜對面 —— 禮頓道50號。

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舊店充滿回憶,而新店,因我是禮頓道街坊,自然加了分。

不過,這陣子過得很混帳,幾乎天天和酒精打交道,在酒吧的時間遠多於咖啡店。

唯一需要清醒的時候,
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[電影]-第四張畫(The Fourth Portrait)

【第四張畫】

故事大綱
十歲的小翔獨自一人面對父親的死去,三餐無以為繼的他,遇見了一位面惡心善的老校工,帶著他 處撿舊貨。就在小翔以為找到新的歸宿時,陌生的母親出現了,把他帶到新的家庭和性格陰沈的繼父同住

Chai-ed the Knot - Making 500 servings of Chai Tea Mix for Wedding Favors

Often, someone comes up with a brilliant idea, and later, upon realizing how much work the idea will take to come to fruition, the person gives up on the idea. However, when the idea is good enough, one might sacrifice quite a bit to make the idea reality.

Such was the case when, about six months ago, my then-fiancée and I decided we loved Chai Tea Latte. In fact, we became somewhat addicted to the substance. It didn't help that my

Chai Tea Latt\u00e9

一本遺失了的剪貼簿

我年少時在詩刊(例如《詩風》)和報章(例如《新晚報》)發表過好些詩作和散文,作品一刊出之後,我都會剪存,貼在一本剪貼簿上。當年這本剪貼簿頗令我自豪,因為除了在詩刊報章發表的詩和散文外,還貼了我的幾次得

How big our fileserver environment is (part 1)

I've said before that I call us a midsized environment(for a number of reasons, including that we're clearly not smalland also nowhere near the size of large environments). Now Ifeel like sharing some actual numbers on how big and not-big weare. Today's entry is about the hardware of our fileserver environment ; a future one will cover data size.

(This is necessarily a snapshot in time and is likely to change in thefuture.)

Our fileserver environment is made


Why visited links being visible is important for blog usability

One of the annoying things that some websites do is make it impossibleto see the difference between visited links and unvisited links. This isnot just irritating, I maintain that it is somewhere between a bad ideaand a terrible one for real blog usability ; howbad it is depends on how densely interlinked your writing is.

To summarize, for real blog usability you want to encourage people toexplore your site; having landed on one page through a search or aninbound link from somewhere, you want them to keep reading


第六感

女生,總有無法解釋的第六感。

某天,一切如常,吃零食喝熱花草茶用電腦。

忽然,看著那畫面,很心慌。

沒有任何理據,但就是覺得,某個灰色小格,會在不久將來消失,無聲無色地。

我一直在意,猜忖每個可能。

最終,第六

文學的抱負



諾貝爾文學獎不一定是偉大作家的指標,過去這個獎項已經漏掉了不少大師,例如博爾赫斯 、普魯斯特、喬伊斯、卡夫卡,所以對於沒有得獎的好手而言,的確可以用上述的名字來安慰自己。今屆諾貝爾文學獎得主略薩 ( Mario Vargas Llosa
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一部將我們從手機桎梏中拯救出來的手機—-Window Phone 7最新電視廣告

等了很久聽了很久也說了很久,Window Phone 7終於來了,雖然有點姍姍來遲。

廣告語是”The phone to save us from our phones”,我姑且譯為「一部將我們從手機桎梏中拯救出來的手機」,這個產品承諾很大,說得有點玄,它的電視廣告,更玄。

廣告中

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假神父

我有時跟學生開玩笑說,假如我要假扮傳道人,走上台上講耶穌,相信沒有人會看出我不是正貨。我熟知《聖經》內容,了解教徒心理,又有三寸不爛之舌,加上當年聽過不少傳道人講道,記得他們的舉手投足、聲線表情,要模