Some things I dislike about the ASUS Eee

I should note that I actually like my Eee (for what it is). But everytime I try to write some sort of review of it, these things bubble up tothe top of my mind, so I am going to write them down to get rid of them.

In no particular order:

  • my one major issue is that I really want more vertical space.480 pixels is pretty cramped and limiting; while I can fit intwo overlapping, readable 80x24 terminal windows,

背後的人

我有時會這樣形容一個歌者:背後有個人!

據說歌者的其中一項技巧,就是通過特別的發聲方法,使到聲音不單單只是從喉而發,而是引發身體不同部位產生共鳴,化身成一座喇叭,聲音得到放大,感覺深遠,嗓音直上雲霄,繞


對星辰的驚慌

上圖右起:葉輝、北島、鄭單衣、黃怒波、歐陽江河、翟永明、唐曉渡、汪暉。

下圖左起:黃子平、李陀、汪暉。


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青春「不」殘酷物語

看膩了對「性」這話題虛偽不堪大驚少怪的香港娛樂圈,頓然覺得這部電影的可愛。

Ellen Page老積死撐得來,卻不失16歲小女孩應有的天真低能;對白寫得精彩, 除了男女主角的啜核卻動人的對話,JUNO繼母在化驗所內,狂丙那位自


總要面對的二三事

明天要上班但我只想哭。

永遠塗不好深紫色甲油。

醫生說我有抑鬱症。

還是,還是先看這個

身處拉薩的各方記者開始在軍方監督下被迫撤離。這叫泱泱大國,泱泱大國。坐在家裡填表今天要交,看了新聞發急就哭。我們每天看著殺人,還要讓兇手把我們的眼闔上。雖然從小就追看奧運,希望奧運能在接近的地方舉行,

Why I expect more from Solaris

One of the asides I cut from my recent entry about Solaris iSCSIsupport was a comment that while Linux iSCSI supportalso has its flaws, I expect better from Solaris. It's worthwhile toexpand on why this is the case.

(It's not because we pay Sun for Solaris; after all, the university paysRed Hat too, for RHEL (which may wind up being our preferred serverLinux; we are not too happy with Ubuntu 6.06 LTS).)

Fundamentally, it is


20080317 網摘 – 2038 年蟲

2038 Bug

Security


Age

On the weekend evening, I sat with my old classmates at an outdoor food stall when a waitress said to us (not my classmate's son!), "Hey, young boys, anything to order?"

What are we supposed to feel about her remark? Must we see it as lip service? Or do we quietly congratulate ourselves for appearing young? Would it be terribly stupid to grow old and yet acknowledge we remain young?

Absurd as it might seem to you, that depends upon how you define

繼續努力

前幾天說自己"鬼上身"記下來的故事
趁周日在5點起床就開始寫
寫到11點出外陪家人飲茶
到1點回家再寫
寫到3點完成第一稿共4200字

之後用了半小時寫了我今日要交的報章專欄
用了一小時寫了一篇工作上的文件
到5點