Emotion

This month, a special issue of Science magazine published over 10 papers, written by a total of 47 authors from 10 countries, covering the discovery of an extraordinary 4.4 million-year-old hominid fossil skeleton known as Ardipithecus ramidus .

Of course, I don't have a whiff of paleoanthropology knowledge to discuss how our ancestors ended up walking on two legs. Still, I must admit, evolution is always a fascinating subject. I've been reading recently about the evolutionary root of our

Review: Canon PowerShot G11 - Digital Camera

Jeff's Rating: 5 /5

tl;dr : Is this the SLR owner's dream pocket camera? Almost! It will do for now, but a tiny bit better lens and image sensor would make it perfect.

Canon Powershot G11

The Canon PowerShot G11 comes from a long line of G-series advanced-amateur digital cameras, and is very much like the most recent PowerShot G10 in all the best ways, but differs a little bit by improving on one of the G10's


SSH in a Locked-Down Network

Recently, during one job for a client, I needed to work for a length of time in a location that had quite severe network restrictions—in addition to a proxy server, the location blocked every port besides 80, 25, 443, and 8080. In order to use secure shell (SSH) to login to my work web server, I needed to use one of those ports (I used nmap to find open ports on my end).

Luckily, I gained access


盡顯無聊



no country for old men

有人看了這電影破口大罵說看不懂
有著名博客看完戲憤而發佈一隻 中指
我比較無聊
之前已看了三次
今日睇第四次
真係覺得好好睇
仲係講唔出點解咁好睇
如果一定要我講一個理由
我會話
成套戲都好靜呀
連槍戰時都無音樂
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Backup MXes versus redundant MXes

There's a potential confusion when one talks about 'backup MXes', soI'm going to throw some terminology around:

If an additional MX machine can accept inbound email and get itdelivered all the way to the user's inbox even when all other of yourMXes are down, you have a redundant MX .

If an additional MX machine can only accept inbound email but notactually get it delivered to your users (without the help of anotherMX), you have a backup MX .

Backup MXes


Video Clips from Around Roma


Touring Roma (UPDATED)

[ UPDATE : All the pictures from Day 1 have been posted to a gallery.]

St. Mary Major Basilica

Saint Mary Major Basilica.

Fortune smiled upon me today, and I was able to travel to many destinations in Rome, mostly around the Vatican. After walking past Saint Mary Major Basilica (picture above), I walked to the Trevi fountain (a nice place for a pickpocket, I would think), progressed to the Triton fountain, and then hopped on the Italian subway (the Metropolitana, or something like that).


光榮的敗家仔


我承認,我係一個極度有問題嘅敗家仔。

我承認,每隔一段日子,我就會發作。

我自己都知,再咁搞落去,真係會好唔掂。

不過我都唔想架,係佢哋逼我呀,書店大減價呀,咁我迷迷糊糊就入咗去,然後,成個銀包d錢唔見哂,

Automated web software should never fill in the Referer header

Yesterday, I noticed that Yahoo Pipes does a really irritating thing: ifsomeone has asked it to pull a syndication feed, it puts the Yahoo Pipesinfo page about the feed into the Referer header of its feed requests.

Wrong .

I feel very strongly that no automated web software should fill inthe Referer header, ever. In practice and custom (if not in thespec), Referer has a very well defined meaning; it is there to tellwebmasters where a real human visitor came from. If you do


「阿甘正傳」大結局之「一鋪清袋」

醜聞永遠都是好看的,只要主角不是自己。但這部「阿甘正傳」播了兩星期,我已經在打呵欠了。For god's sake,他是甘乃威,又不是甘迺迪!整件事其實簡單得很,並不涉及任何智力活動。Boring。


甘乃威不過是個身痕的小男人,晉