Link: an excerpt from On Writing Well
Here are chapters 2 through 4 of William Zinsser's On Writing Well , a classic book on, well,writing well. Just start with the opening of chapter 2 and keep going:
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a societystrangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompousfrills and meaningless jargon.
Remind you of any computer manuals you've read recently? (Hopefully itdoes not remind you too much of WanderingThoughts . I try, but I knowI have a long way to go
A really stupid web spider
Today WanderingThoughts had a visit from the worst stealth spider thatI've ever seen. Given the previous contestants this is a fairly tall order, but I'm confidantI have a winner. The spider:
- made two requests for directories without the trailing slash, earningit redirections to the proper URLs.
- followed the redirections, making two valid requests.
- promptly made 95 bad requests by failing to treat URLs with a leading slash properly.
I've seen spiders
文化作動
從五月八日開始，晚上 八至九 點，香港電台第二台會有「文化作動」 ，逢星期一會有梁文道和胡世傑，梁文道會當四星期的嘉賓，而我會以輕便旅行箱的方式， 一起出現四星期。
節目重溫 。若有意見可以留言，或電郵我啊。
喝酒就是我的生活
之一
拜編輯大人之賜，從前滴酒不沾的我，終於因為一句：“寫文章的人豈能不喝酒”而成了酒徒。不過那當然是騙小孩子的話，無論我再喝多少酒，仍是寫不出好文章，寫得出好文章的人，也不一定會喝酒。不過年歲漸長，應
Link: Search engine page size limits for indexing
Search Engine Indexing Limits: Where Do the Bots Stop? takesan experimental approach to seeing how big a page various search enginebots will fetch, and how much of large pages they index.I find this an interesting question because it affects how you organizeyour content and generate indexes to it, especially for dynamic websiteswith auto-generated aggregate pages.
One area not investigated in the article is how far down the pages thesearch engine bots will go looking for links to follow. I smell afollowup project for someone
SCGI versus FastCGI
SCGI and FastCGI are both CGI 'replacements', in that they areprotocols for forwarding HTTP requests to persistent daemons instead ofstarting a possibly big, heavyweight program for each request. Ideallyyour web server will have a built in gateway for them; less ideally youcan run a tiny, fast to start CGI program to talk the protocol toyour persistent daemon.There's discussions around the Internet about which one is better; youcan find people on both sides, and to some extent it depends on whatyour
Weekly spam summary on May 6th, 2006
This week, we:
- got 11,443 messages from 213 different IP addresses.
- handled 15,802 sessions from 820 different IP addresses.
- received 219,841 connections from at least 43,156 different IPaddresses.
- hit a highwater of 50 connections being checked at once, reachingit Monday.
Connection volume is up significantly from the extrapolated levelsof last week . All of this is despite usbeing down for about half of
夢中見
我睡到甚麼朝代去了？唉，又是同一個夢。
哪一個夢？
自妳去後，我每晚都夢見妳。
我，我有離開你嗎？
如果可以再來一次，我一定不會讓妳走。
請告訴我事情發生的經過。
這件事我不想再提起。
我走了之後，你有沒有嘗試聯絡
無聊post一個接一個
從 哥德 那邊看回來。 所以話呢，我最信就係星座！
整體性 格
tsw小姐，善解人意；擅長社交；斯文恬靜；行事圓融；輕鬆享受生活。
待人性格
tsw小姐待人：重視感情；善於應對也樂於獨處；含蓄保守；會適度偏袒自己人；懂得保守
五月．雨蓓
電影節最後一場《嘉比愛》，硬是坐在家裡，電影開了場半個小時才掙扎出門，搭的士。去到，掏翻了手袋，才發現沒帶票，售票處又已關門。呆撚晒。我最難接受自己的掙扎並無意義。朋友在電話裡說，忘了這件事吧。就呆呆Menu
