Please have stable ids for your feed entries

In both RSS and Atom syndication feeds, feed entries can have anidentifier element (optional in the case of RSS, mandatory in Atomfeeds). The entry ID is supposed to be permanent and stable, no matterwhat; things that process feeds use it to know what they've seenbefore and what they haven't.

This might seem like an unimportant picky thing, except thatLiveJournal just inadvertently gave everyone reading Planet Debian aglaring example of why it's so important. (And Planet Debian is


Enduring Love


昨晚半夜看了Enduring Love(凶汽球),我也喜歡看這種很刻意地探討人性的電影。故事講一個教授本來在郊外向未婚妻求婚,但一個遇上意外的汽球飄來,他和在場的另外幾個人想拯救汽球上的人,可惜事敗,他接受不了意外中有人死

關於我


本月十八日《澳門日報》刊出小弟的專訪,一日之內,“知名度”大增,不少好友來電“祝賀”。小人物突然出現在報紙上,往往有這種溫馨效果。

值得一提的是訪問稿內提及這個blog的個人介紹,相信當時我隨意的一句話會成為

The limits of web spider tolerance

I have an important message for web spider operators: our generosityis not unlimited. In fact, it's probably running out.

There are a lot of web spiders out there, and many of these spidersdon't seem to be offering anything for free to the public. When youcrawl to build a private index, you're building a business in part off our resources, which you are using for free, and there is verylittle in this for us. To put it plainly, such spider


出中國記


前日買了康正果的《出中國記:我的反動自述》,讀了幾章,追溯歷史,對照現實,大有感慨。

這本自傳開篇寫四九年共產黨入西安城,作者的父親是知識份子,祖父是佛教領袖,新政府首先沒有打壓這些舊時人物,還委任作者

A Python length gotcha

Python calls the __len__ method on your objects to implement len() , and in a few other situations (for example, as one way ofiterating through the elements of a sequence-likeobject). Surprisingly, there's an under-documented restriction on whatyour __len__ can return: objects can't be larger than sys.maxint .

In fact, it's stricter than that: your __len__ method must returna literal integer. You


without linkage

不是這樣的。反省和檢討不是這樣的,回應和討論不是這樣的。次貨。還有,更為嚴重,的:佔據一個完全訴諸良心自我監察的位置,然後扭曲事實夾槍帶棒以報私仇——那些不是批判,我不明白為何有人會分不出其中差異。我

時間

被搶先。

雖然明顯不是海子最好的詩,但我想不同的人都被「面朝大海,春暖花開」這個押韻句意象感動過。吐氣的開口音佔絕對多數,配合著開闊的意象——一個人叉著腰在金黃的早晨大喊那樣,而音節、聲音(而非文字)尤

剪舊

突然在網上看到一篇陳惜姿收山後客串的 訪問 ,訪問許仕仁的。well,有一點點避重就輕並給許臉上貼金,尤其節錄版;但其中高手的機鋒偶露,因此而更如寒芒微閃,之奪目。

這不是最精彩的一段,但短,適合分析:「只求完成

盛事

有個人,BLOGGING。而好像連直接提起都怕驚動了。
我一面撇咀道好巴閉咩,一面把聲音調低腳步放輕。