Don't Know

I have been learning to make use of the skill to acknowledge what I don't know that I don't know. Knowledge is different from all other kinds of resources, as we have been told, because it constantly makes itself obsolete.

Last week, one of our talented fellows asked me what's the reason of stopping salbutamol , a short-acting "reliever" medication for chest tightness, in case our patients are coughing up blood from the lungs. I took a deep breath and then told her

At the Catholic New Media Celebration (Boston, MA) [Updated]

I'll be hanging around a bunch of other Catholic techies this Saturday in Boston, MA, at the Catholic New Media Celebration . In case you haven't heard, I just started a new podcast, Catholic Car Wash ( read more about it ), and I thought CNMC MMX would be a great venue for its introduction.

A good friend and fellow Catholic programmer/blogger, Matthew Warner, spent much of last night individually uploading tons of photos from last night's meet-and-greet. I

Jeff at CNMC 2010

免費性愛

Woody Allen有句幽默而深刻的說話:"The most expensive sex is free sex." 甚麼是free sex?就是不用付錢而得到的性愛;既是免費,為何又會是最昂貴的呢?Woody Allen說的免費性愛,是指男女朋友或夫妻之間的性愛,那當然是不涉及錢銀交易,可是,說那是

Why buying a Linux machine is not such a simple thing

I'm somewhat considering buying a new home machine.If I used Windows, this would be an easy process; I could just go overto the local cluster of computer stores and pick up an inexpensivegeneric white box machine, or just buy something from Dell et al if Ifelt the need for a name brand. I wouldn't have to think about whatcomponents were inside the box because the result would invariably runWindows, although perhaps not without minor glitches; everyone buildsthings that run Windows.

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一個女人的故事

交男朋友就像買唇膏,塗過上嘴才知是否真正適合自己。逛化妝品店的時候,基於生你只能把唇膏的樣板塗在手上,再看看模特兒那經電腦touch-up又 retouch-up的廣告。就是憑這點虛無飄渺的資料,決定買或不買。

結果,我家裏

七月蘋果 (2010)

《 母 親 與 太 平 館 》


早幾天,母親大人親來探視已重感冒半個月的我,我問她晚飯想吃甚麼,說要好好「犒賞」她,她想了一想,答我三隻字:「大家樂」。平常她來探望我,明明約好了到酒樓飲茶,最後她總是忽然致電說已在大

把酒兄弟情

四年前到過夏威夷,遊了幾個大島,今次舊地重臨,主要是和弟弟一家找個地方一起度假,好讓兩家的孩子親近親近。他們從加拿大飛來,住在比利時的妹妹剛巧探望他們,所以也一道來了。這次我們只留在 Waikiki Beach ,享受陽光與海

A thing I miss in the modern X world: command line arguments

The modern X world of Gnome and KDE and so on has a fair amount torecommend it; applications are sophisticated, genuinely nice to lookat, and have a lot of useful functionality. But there are a few thingsabout the old clunky world that I miss, and one of them is command linearguments.

(Anyone who doesn't think that old-style X was a clunky hideous placeis invited to start up an old application that dates from those days,if you can find any that are still


夢裡不知身是客

( 原刊 AV Magazine 06-08-2010)

人生音像城

夢裡不知身是客

〔注意:內容涉及《潛行凶間》(Inception )劇情 〕

看電影一定會看過「發夢」的情節:許多意想不到的場面,恐怖、驚嚇或浪漫……最後接上一個夢醒的鏡頭,主角可能


閱讀的成本 2之2

如果書本是一件商品,其價值就在於盛載著多少知識的話,那麼它是一件可悲的商品,因為知識都是無價的,從兩個角度來說都是。

無價,是無以評價,因為知識代表著人類智慧和經驗的累積,努力、天份加上機遇,背後的價值