國慶前頹想…..

非常之唔明白,為什麼孫明揚說現在不是小班教學的時機,我以前讀書39人一班,20人一班不過份呀,教師資源又擺在那里,創造就業又加強了師生溝通學術交流,用同樣的資助做出更好的效果...外國就是這樣呀,什麼

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台北之旅‧台北故事館之電影篇

這次到台北旅行, 特別留意有關電影的東西. 我很幸運 (又或者是撞彩), 沒有計劃過便闖入台北故事館, 卻發現意想不到的驚喜. (我原以為, 在台灣再看不到台語電影的文物了...)



台語電影《流浪到台北》(1966)
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Birthday

It's almost instinctive – you count the number of candles on the birthday cake, and you start to gauge the age of its owner.

Which makes perfect sense. I should have forty on mine yesterday. With time, I learn to tell my friends that chronological age has nothing to do with one's real age. During the lunch conversation yesterday, my friend didn't believe that I remain young, and then looked me straight at a scar on my face.

Before she asked, I knew she

iPhone

This is probably the most hi-tech product I have ever invested in my life.

All along I considered my cell's only purpose as the phone itself (or proably an alarm too), so, despite all the heat around new mobiles, I remained an insulator in changing my old nokia phone.

But these weeks I see the point.

One boring day in paediatric surgery team, we are invited (or you can call it summoned ) to join the team surgery in the operation theatre. Well, I

運氣?

今日幾乎一整天都花在寫一個報告上,是替某哲學期刊評審一篇論文。明天是交報告限期,可是,我最近忙得要命,到兩三天前方騰出時間看那篇論文,今天才寫報告。本來過限期一兩天是等閒事,但我就是有這份近乎病態的執

A surprise about random IO versus unnecessary IO

Here is a tough trick question: which is better, a mailbox format whereall the messages are just concatenated together (eg, traditional Unixmbox) or a mailbox format where everything is concatenated togetherbut you have an index of the starting byte offsets of every message'sheaders and body (an indexed mbox format)?

(Assume that there is no overhead for maintaining the index.)

Some years ago, I would have confidently told you that the indexed mboxformat was clearly better, and it was obviously more


潮熊熊抱Coke Zero

皆因我為人節儉(查實是孤寒),本來,對那些什麼潮牌,我一概沒甚興趣,但某天,當我手上拿起一罐新近的特別版 Coke Zero ,發覺罐上那隻樣衰衰、幪著眼、抱著另一頭小熊和一支電結他的啤啤熊插圖時,我便按奈不住,開始為

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亞洲電影節選映《策馬入林》


今屆亞洲電影節 (HKAFF) 為資深攝影師 李屏賓 作回顧展, 《策馬入林》(Run Away, 1984) 榜上有名, 令我十分意外 .

《策馬入林》
第30屆亞太影展最佳攝影獎, 李屏賓早年的作. 記憶所及, 台灣曾舉行的中影回顧展, 《策

精武風雲---陳真("Legend of the Fist The Return of Chen Zhen") ------ The film got no soul!!!
























片名 : 精武風雲---陳真 (2010)
導演 : 劉偉強
演員 : 甄子丹, 舒淇, 黃秋生, 黃渤
片長 : 106 分鐘

1. 自從"無間道"之後,劉偉強似乎已沒有拍過好作品(也許是有的,只是我忘了,讀者可以提點一下),令人覺得
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簡單心

不少人喜歡說要以平常心看世事,尤其是看人生的起跌和別人對自己的毀譽。「平常心」本為佛家語,馬祖道一謂「平常心是道」,《景德傳燈錄》說得詳盡點:「若欲直會其道,平常心是道。謂平常心無造作、無是非、無取捨