The sense and sensibility, pride and prejudice in economics

[經濟學的理智與感情、傲慢與偏見]

Feed aggregators should fail gracefully

I don't just mean that they should fail gracefully when thefeeds aren't well formed (although that's an important part ). There are all sorts of troublesome things thatfeeds can do; they can be longer than you expected, for example, or theycan be sent to you very slowly. In all of these cases, feed aggregatorsshould try to fail gracefully, to extract as much information from thefeed as possible unless it is utterly clear that something horrible hasgone wrong and you cannot


必飛「沙沙滾」男友

明報:袁彌明必飛「沙沙滾」男友

袁彌明認為倪震與周慧敏的分手聲明是權宜之計。問她可覺得倪震偷歡很衰?她說﹕「係女人都覺得衰,如果係我會即刻飛佢,我唔會揀成日『沙沙滾』的做男友。(倪震可曾相約?)沒有,不

讀點來勁的(或曰:咁先係波)

在《今天》三十週年朗誦會上聽到歐陽江河讀 〈玻璃工廠〉 ,仍然非常激動。他當日沒有唸出來的詩是〈手槍〉,記得以前第一次讀時也是非常激動,寫的方法彷彿很簡單——「分拆」一種激烈的調動,可以掙破現實那種知性的

The pragmatic problem with strict XHTML validation

There is a pragmatic problem with strict XHTML validation (well, several,but I'm only going to pick on one right now). It goes like this:

Strict XHTML validation in the browser clearly punishes users . If there is more than a trace amount ofactual XHTML problems, this means that not doing strict validation issignificantly more user friendly and thus a significant advantage forany browser that is not XHTML strict.

Given that you are punishing people by failing strictly, you areeffectively engaged in a giant game


歲月無聲

快要離開工作了多年的地方
這幾天開始認真執拾辦公室的東西
包括早年購置數量不少的參考書
還有各種與我有關或無關的雜物
這個十二月當真十分特別
這種氣氛真的十分特別
對於公司的情況
我沒有多少意見
對於同事們的際遇
我也

真係頂唔順

在yahoo news攝攝下睇到。

我可以講乜? 我覺得自己好低B! 倪匡火滾:分手發甚麼聲明!
星島日報 : 2008-12-12 (星期五) 6:12 AM

(星島日報報道)倪震與周慧敏發表聲明宣布分手,事前明顯沒有知會父親倪匡,本報


大娛樂家

2008-12-10
主持人: 蕭定一 ,袁彌明
主題: 大娛樂家-(第26集)- 倪震 should eat wise? /柏芝錫媽咪?Janice Man剩半年約、亞視、李嘉欣整容好奇咩?

十一月蘋果

《隆   冬》


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Two-step updates: the best solution to the valid XHTML problem

Let us suppose that you want to create an environment that insuresthat XHTML stays valid XHTML. The corollary of how validationfailures should punish the person actually responsible for them is that the site author should bepunished for invalid XHTML, and you need to punish them directly.

So let's make the web server itself validate your XHTML; if it's notvalid, it doesn't get served. Does this punish the site author? Notnecessarily, because in order for the site author to notice they have