Charlie Brown

Charles Monroe Schulz has always been one of my favourite cartoonists. He told us wonderful stories about Charles Brown, whom I shall never forget.

One day, Charlie Brown lied on the bed, murmuring to himself, "Sometimes, I lie awake at night, and I ask, why me?"
Can you imagine how Charlie Brown comes up with the answer himself?
Then a voice answers, "Nothing personal… your name just happened to come up."

One can envisage ourselves engaging in these endless "why me

黑色的國慶前夕

起初估計道指會跌破10,000點水平的時候,我沒有預料過會有救市方案這一著。
救市消息一出,更從來沒有想過會被House否決。

一直不敢說,(淡友插個市,還在這個投資氣氛下,好易被人罵),就是上一次恆指下試16,

給你1萬元會買什麼?

【明報專訊】入讀明年小一的報名季節展開,33所私立或直資名校的面試試題疑於網上曝光,個別名校除要求面試以廣東話、英文及普通話三語答題外,部分試題對於年僅5歲的幼稚園高班學生來說相當刁鑽,如需以英語回答

給蠢才的信

給蠢才的信

蠢才:

小女子仰慕你,已經有一輩子那麼久了。我Daisy生性高傲,目中無人。但對住你,我服。

如果閣下一邊讀信,一邊懷疑我這信是否衝著你而來,那麼請你放心好了。因為要是你懷疑自己是一個「蠢才」,那麼你實

假東洋美女之回顧篇

日本人祟洋, 恨不得自己脫亞入歐. 無奈種族由天注定, 對金髮碧眼只好望門興嘆. 因此特別喜歡歐日製造的混血兒, 貪其美貌與血統兼備, 就可以韜韜光, 當作是大和榮譽出品. 難為濱崎步扮得辛苦, 染金毛、瞪眼睛, 還是長
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SSL/TLS and forward secrecy

Here is an interesting question: does SSL have perfect forward secrecy , so that anattacker who compromises a server key still can't decrypt the server'sconversations?

(While lots of people talk about SSL, thereal name of the whole protocol is TLS , more orless. 'SSL' is the name Netscape gave to the original protocol; TLS isthe name that it was officially standardized as.)

The answer turns out to be 'sort of', as I have found out through abunch


公民力量的力量

論政團體"澳門公民力量"昨日成立,我以會員身分參加了成立儀式暨首個活動:“澳門.公民的視野論壇”,過了一個很有力量的下午。

成立儀式,外人看來也許不怎麼樣,有些人也許不習慣這樣,但我自己是覺得很感動的,

Why I hate Solaris 10's service facility right now

I have a production Solaris 10 x86 server with an onboard serial port. Iwant to make the Solaris 10 equivalent of a getty process listen onit, so that I can still log in when the system's network falls off acliff. Ideally it would do so with a (fixed) baud rate of my choice.This is all that I want to do; in particular, I do not want to makethe serial port into the system console (especially as this wouldrequire a


被遺棄的浦山桐郎 《我拋棄的女人》


《我拋棄的女人》( 私が棄てた女 , 1969) 出奇地吸引許多觀眾捧場, 因為影片沒有影碟發行, 也少有機會公映. 但為什麼影展要將浦山桐郎列入為日本新浪潮電影導演之一?

浦山桐郎在日本影壇地位極其尷尬, 一生只拍過

鐵漢告別我們


Paul Newman (1925-2008)

兩個月前心血來潮, 翻看Paul Newman的《Cat on a Hot Tin Roof》 , 《Hustler》, 《Hud》, 《Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid》... 當時已有種預感.

猶幸我不是在他身故後才領教他的風采.