A tale of network horror, or at least excitement

(This story comes from my co-worker John Calvin, who told it to me someyears ago; I was reminded of it by some recent local events, so it seemslike a good time to put it here.)

One of the things that the central computing people here can do fordepartments is run their basic networking infrastructure, the switchesand wiring and so on. Once upon a time, such a managed departmentalswitch started lighting up the monitoring system with repeated, frequentcontact failures; when the monitoring


享受我們的傑作

有些朋友從來沒有去過露營,也表明過不喜歡露營。說得也對,三十幾度潮濕天氣,徒步五六個小時由馬路進入營地,經過大大小小不同山岳,風景越壯觀代表腳程越艱辛,好不容易到了營地,其實只是睡過一晚,第二天又要走

Communicating on the Go - A Guide to Traveling and Staying in Touch

In late 2009, I spent about two and a half weeks in Rome, Italy, which is far removed from my hometown of St. Louis, MO. Italy, France, Asia, etc. – all these countries are outside of AT&T's nationwide coverage plans, and since I wasn't going to be traveling for many weeks, I decided to not sign up for AT&T's extremely expensive worldwide plans, but rather did the following, which allowed me to stay


Buonanotte da Roma!

(Title, translated: " Good night, from Rome! ")

Many new experiences every day. Greetings from the eternal city! After having been in the city that never sleeps a few weeks ago, it's quite nice to be in a more or less quiet but beautiful place!

Some of the first Roman air I breathed - Alitalia 777 Airplane Engine

Some of the first Roman air in which I breathed. Tasted good!

I hopped off the Alitalia flight into the Fiumicino (FCO) airport, straight onto the tarmac. Hadn't done that from an airliner the size


lady First 專欄(62)- 愛情感覺

如果要你去形容愛情嘅面貌,解釋愛情,你會點講呢?

有人話愛情係天長地久嘅,係細水長流嘅,王子同公主從此以後幸福快樂咁生活落去就係愛情。

亦都有人話愛情係不顧後果嘅,係死去活來嘅,要流好多好多眼淚,先可以成

防曬粉底,最啱女殭屍

近年又Twilight又True Blood,幾乎以摩登吸血殭屍為題材的電影電視小說都總有市場,這令我想起當年(差不多十年前),我曾經在泰國看過的這條電視廣告。

唔講得笑,第一次看時,我真的O了咀,唔識反應,你會覺得,究竟邊個客可以


Wave 用例

Google Wave 邀請一浪浪在網上蔓延,很多人都有個戶口可試玩了。聽到不少試用後的反應是:好像電郵與 IM 的合體,但用上其實好像沒有甚麼特別,而且人一多討論也是會亂,而且還有不少 bug。外國著名科技 blogger Scoble 便以很長篇幅說到 Wave 的


True Blood係咪即係成人版Twilight?

繼Mad Men之後,True Blood是我近期最愛看的電視連續劇。

有人話True Blood是Twilight的成人版,這個我只同意一半。

True Blood的大橋是這樣的,在某個現代時空的假設世界內的路易斯安那州中某某小鎮內,吸血殭屍的存在已成了一個人類公開的事實,


地方太細,腦殘太多


M城真係太細。

你放一個屁,都有人聞一聞,然後同街口個八婆講:「條友放咗個屁呀,不過唔係幾臭,可能最近無錢出街食飯,d屁都清淡咗呀!」

同時,M城人又太喜歡自以為了解M城人。

所以你放完一個屁,比人聞到,都

《醉爆伴郎團》(The Hangover)


表面上此片講一班男人飲大咗,玩大咗,但酒後失憶斷片完全唔記得自己做過D咩,更大件事係整唔見咗個新郎哥,認真大件事。

但事實上此片是所有男觀眾的夢想,成班老友去賭城豪一晚,仲搞出咁多笑料,真係令人羨慕啦。