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There are two different purposes of monitoring systems

Wandering Thoughts | June 11, 2009, 1:18 a.m. | Original

It's worth saying this explicitly: monitoring systems have two differentpurposes, one of which is sort of a subset of the other (but notnecessarily).

The first purpose of monitoring, and what many people initially installa system for, is alerting, letting you when there are problems. Thesecond purpose of monitoring is tracking, gathering ongoing data forhistorical analysis; this is part of the vital work of gettingstatistics . Put this way, it's clear that these twooverlap (sometimes badly )

深澤直人操刀，無印造型之Netbook?

Adman's Rants 廣告風涼話 - 一名廣告人的阿吱阿咗 | June 10, 2009, 10:55 p.m. | Original

較早前，在Twitter看到各方網友散「料」，爭相告知Samsung有一Blogger優先試用產品的活動，可選的包括了兩款當時還未正式推出的Mini Notebook，看到這單料時，當晚我查實正在上課，我一方面展示給學生們Twitter這渠道作為營銷平台散「料」之快外，

愛情

葉七城的人生音像城 | June 10, 2009, 6:21 a.m. | Original

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( 原刊 AV Magazine 05-06-2009 )

一位年青人問我最近看過甚麼電影，我說出一大堆戲名，他一部也沒有看過，並且問︰怎麼沒有愛情片？他說只看愛情片。

過了幾天，另一位年青人問我最近看過甚麼電影，我說出一大堆戲名

我們需要理性的聲音

silencemo | June 10, 2009, 5:37 a.m. | Original

越來越覺得這是一個不理智的社會。

只要發生一件稍為突破的小事，這個社會就會有一班人心裏感到不舒服，然後就會把這件事和當事人“妖魔化”。

回想起來，澳門在過去十年已經再沒有令人感到欣喜的事，我主觀地認為，有

Users are lazy

Wandering Thoughts | June 10, 2009, 1:18 a.m. | Original

Here is something important to remember when designing systems andinterfaces: users are lazy . Worse, not only are users lazy butthey're very good at detecting pointless work.

What is pointless work? Simple: it's work that the user doesn't see anyvisible benefit from performing (or doesn't understand the benefit andso discounts it, or feels that the benefit is a lot smaller than you'remaking it out to be). Of course, the work is not pointless to you