緣起緣滅 方死方生
緣起緣滅，方死方生。 看《愛在你左右》( Mother and Child )，Rodrigo García 導演，由《巴別塔》《21克》導演艾力謝路依拿力圖 (Alejandro González Iñárritu) 監製，有著他標籤的三段式結構：三個獨立的故事，出生、遺棄、死
民主的限制
今天是美國中期選舉，又一次提醒我民主政治制度的限制。我這樣說，不是由於自己支持的政黨或候選人失利（雖然事實是如此），而是由於眼見各政客無所不用其極、各大小利益團體無孔不入、和到處都是愚夫愚婦受政治宣傳
One reason that I call us a midsized environment
I mentioned earlier that I have a number of reasons tocall us a midsized environment. One of them is how we need to run ourenvironment, in that we are in the middle between two extremes of howto deal with systems.
On the one hand, we are sufficiently large that you don't want to dothings by hand and it makes sense to automate at least some things.We've long since grown past the point where all of our machines could beset up separately or run individually (
愛與醜
上星期在系內讀書組討論同事那本講愛的書時，談到一個問題，竟然所有同事跟我持相反意見！那問題就是：如果你愛一個人（這裏說的是戀愛，romantic love），可不可以同時覺得他／她樣子醜陋？（If you love someone, can you find him/her ugly?）所
不能每天去旅行，最少也可以每天看旅遊節目。
除了常看的財經台 Bloomberg 及 CNBC 之外， Discovery Channel 的Travel & Living幾乎是我們家的default channel。
旅遊能豐富我們的人生，時間許可又有能力負擔的話，我相信大部份人都會喜歡出外旅遊，品味一下世界各地的風土人情。
只可惜，我們的工作總都是盲著地忙
印度男兒本色 《Dabangg》(暴烈刑警)
看印片, 我絕少會選擇「 Salman Khan 系」的電影. 除了寶萊塢版「真情」《 Hum Aapke Hain Kaun! 》(1994) 及與前度女友 Aishwarya Rai 合作的《 Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam 》(Straight from my heart, 1999) 外, 對Salman Khan向來避之則吉.
Salman Khan與Shahrukh Khan、 Aamir Khan合稱「寶萊塢三更」
Abortion III
I advocate legal abortion being implemented does not mean I agree with the very act of abortion.
Personally, I choose to consider life begins as a sperm first enters an egg, there might not be a scientic explanation, but you can't deny the symbolic meaning of it - a vivid illustration of how two lifes fuse together. It is not a morality judgement that lead me away from abortion, it is simply a personal uneasiness in making this decision.
Deciding to go for abortion needs just a moment, but I
Personally, I choose to consider life begins as a sperm first enters an egg, there might not be a scientic explanation, but you can't deny the symbolic meaning of it - a vivid illustration of how two lifes fuse together. It is not a morality judgement that lead me away from abortion, it is simply a personal uneasiness in making this decision.
Deciding to go for abortion needs just a moment, but I
這是詩嗎？
昨天朋友從香港電郵給我一則剪報，報導的是武漢市紀委書記 車延高 憑詩集《嚮往溫暖》獲得第五屆魯迅文學獎詩歌獎，消息引來各方批評，例如國內詩人沈浩波說：「魯迅文學獎是可以用錢買來的。不少魯獎得主是用錢買的，
Redirecting from HTTP to HTTPS is a bad security idea
Every so often, people setting up SSL websites have the bright idea thatto be friendly, they should have a non-SSL version of the site thatredirects people to the SSL website. They are entirely correct that thisis the friendliest approach, but you shouldn't do it if you care aboutsecurity.
(There are plenty of reasons to use SSL even if you don't care aboutsecurity. Pervasive SSL frustrates all of the people who want to sticktheir fingers in traffic between actual users and your