香港都?

這幾天有一篇署名「余英時」的文章在網上廣為流傳,文章題為 〈香港老百姓要提高警覺了〉 ,頭三段已駭人聽聞:

『中國共產黨要準備行政區劃改革,把現有的省增加、擴大,計劃變成大概50省。現在宣佈的只有49省,理

Periodic Table

When was the last time you studied the Periodic Table after the secondary school chemistry lesson? Or, frankly, any at all?

Hardly, if not because of the recent chaos about iodine and plutonium.

Once hailed as the "Law of Octaves," the elements were arranged by their atomic weight to repeat their patterns at every eighth place along a scale, like the octaves on a piano keyboard. The idea turned out to be widely mocked, and withered. It was not until 1869 when Dimitri Ivanovich

不會看的書

「概論」只要出現在封面,我就不會看的了,無論是《中國哲學概論》或是《西方美學觀念概論》,一看見就頭痛,翻兩翻就頭暈。我實在無法理解為甚麼會有這麼多人,出這麼多其實沒有人看的書;而出一兩本做教科書都算了

初試柯達TMAX 3200

菲林年代的高ISO底片,那雜噪點一定好強,黑白的柯達TMAX 3200更是當中的班霸。拿去沖還要特別貴,我想我如果還學不會自己沖黑白,我是不會再拍TMAX 3200的,太貴了,不合乎成本效益。但3200的ISO,對菲林來說,

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每週失眠

不思考,腦子裡就有無數剩餘能量,像散亂的星系在打轉。四肢濕重,好像已經熔成液態化在被子和床單上,但還是有一個,敲不碎的頭顱。


而起床嘗試組織思考比較完整和深入的問題,腦子就像想要溶掉。論文和理論書都看不

莫走冤枉路

兒子明年升九年班,是四年高中的第一年;在美國的學校制度,由初中升高中是一個大轉變,因為功課會變得繁重,學校成績對升讀大學有影響,高中的校園環境亦複雜很多。

這兩個星期,兒子要升往的學校一共舉行了三次家長

A slightly unobvious trap with 'from module import *'

If you are already being lazy , it is easy todrift into the habit of doing ' from yourmodule import * ' in yourown code, especially in situations where you really are going to useeverything from your module in the code that you're writing (forexample, importing your Django app's models into your view code forit). As it happens, there is a little trap for you waiting here.

When they write ' from import * ', most people are probably thinking


A really annoying gap in system observability

The other day I had a problem; new gnome-session processes weren'tworking right on one of our major login servers. They didn't quitehang outright; instead, strace showed that they seemed to spend allof their time talking very slowly to one file descriptor instead ofresponding to other Gnome processes that were trying to talk to them.

(When this happens, the other Gnome processes are not very happy andyour entire Gnome session basically hangs.)

This left me with a big question: what


把想法組織起來

這就是《車窗望》的文字雲,以圖像方式表現這裏到底寫了甚麼,字越大,代表用得越多。有人說這是風格問題,有人說這是思考方式的象徵,你會如何詮釋?

我都會害怕患上口頭禪。用「患上」因為我認為這是一種症病,一種

香體噴霧誘惑天使下凡?

科技不斷步,互動廣告現在真的無處不在。對於不少智能手機用家來說,相信對「擴增實境」(Augmented Reality)這技術也可能不太陌生,簡單而言,就是只要你啟動了手機面前的鏡頭,你就能夠在手機屏幕上,看到現實與虛擬世界結合的

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