麵包店女孩The Baker's Girl from Monceau

故事大綱:
男孩子遇上女孩子,男孩子愛上女孩子,二人分手;男孩子遇上第二個女孩子,男孩子愛上第二個女孩子,男孩子重遇第一個女孩子,男孩子到底該怎麼抉擇?

在《麵包店女孩》(港譯《三心兩意》)中,男孩子一個

Machine room archaeology

The Computer Science department has been using its primary machine roomfor at least 25 years, and it's a proper machine room, complete with araised floor. (People with the right sort of experience are now wincing.)

The problem is best illustrated by an anecdote: we just recently tookout some hybrid 208V plus 120V power circuits that we believe were putin to power old Vaxes (which would make them obsolete for going on 20years). We didn'


What I currently do to stop comment spam on WanderingThoughts

WanderingThoughts has been pretty free of successful comment spamattempts for a while, so I think it's about time to write up all ofthe various things I'm currently doing to stop comment spammers.

(I'm not worried about comment spammers reading this and working past myprecautions, because I'm confidant that comment spammers don't botherreading the blogs they spam.)

First off, I get a big leg up by being neither popular nor using commonsoftware. This basically reduces the comment spammers


只是比較喜歡寫


近幾個星期的生活都離不開寫作,說起來實在不可思議,不過,我喜歡做這種由我一個人控制的事,事實上,生活上有多太事情是個人能力無法操控的,能夠在某件事情上顯示自己的力量,其實已經很幸福。

白天都在應付公事,

New warning messages might as well be fatal errors

There's a widespread view that a good way of deprecating something isto have the new version of your project emit warning messages when itruns across code using whatever you're getting rid of. The theory goesthat this is pretty harmless; the people using the to be removed featurewill get notified about the situation but can fix their code at relativeleisure, because things still work.

As a working Unix system administrator, allow me to disagree violently.To sysadmins, a program's output or its lack


閱讀,無以名狀

我們應該怎樣閱讀呢?

躺著讀坐著讀站著讀透過電腦讀?都可以。讀新書讀舊書讀工具書還是讀暢銷書?當然可以各取所需,不同的人在不同的時期有不同的口味,在某些突發情緒下,閱讀的興趣往往突然擴展或收窄,強求當然

閱讀的盲點

常會有人問,書讀不完,怎麼辦?這個問題的潛台詞是:我想讀書,並且已經開始閱讀,可是有些書,或者太難,或者太爛,讀不下去,該怎麼辦?更深一層的意思是:不是我不想讀,只是我找到的書實在讀不下去。

有時,一些

閱讀的信心

閱讀,有人追根究底,有人不求甚解,但先決條件是要有信心。

文字表面上可以表達思想,反映真實,但今時今日大家都不再純情,港澳社會走火入魔的傳媒已經把文字的虛偽發揮到極致。許多人承受不了文字,皆因受不了主流

閱讀的時機

張潮在《幽夢影》裡這樣談讀書:“讀經宜冬,其神專也;讀史宜夏,其時久也;讀諸子宜秋,其致別也;讀諸集宜春,其機暢也。”這樣的分類法,令我想到什麼時候讀什麼書,暗藏某種玄妙,也許亦是讀書的樂趣。

喜歡讀書

閱讀的感性

在這個事事講求“效益”和“價值”的年代,也許很多人已忘記了閱讀該有的感性一面了。港澳年輕人都在五顏六色的圖片中吸收資訊,不少人評價一本雜誌,會用“少字多圖”為標準。是的,多字是錯的,沒有字是最好的,因