今個星期六，從美國回港放暑假的兩個外甥和姊姊姐夫一家人，山長水遠，特地來了我在愉景灣的家。
席間，我和兩個已經十三、四歲的外甥，在我的工作室內，聊起如何用電腦做音樂，我又播了一首從前寫的歌給他們聽。
他們
真實在你的左邊冷冷睨著你
網上容量無限大：有些人在某個圈子裡先撩者賤丟盡了人，往日與之交遊者都低頭嘆息「由他去罷」，無地自容先將自己的blog裡的東西delete扮冇件事，再弄個網頁到另一個圈子面向國內讀者，將人家見不到的香港事搬弄一番，故事
著數
Link: Linguistic blindness illustrated
If you can answer this, you are not paying attention is a nice illustration and discussion of the importance of thinkingabout what you're writing in prompts and questions in software.Also interesting is a followup entry on whyeveryone is so against using 'yes' and 'no' for answers in dialog boxes.
(From Daring Fireball .)
A brief history of cut and paste in X
Here's a brief history and explanation of how cut and paste works in theX Windows system (to give it its formal name), prompted by this blogentry withthe entirely reasonable gripe that selecting something in a program andthen exiting the program causes the selection to disappear.
There are two separate cut and paste mechanisms in X, from two separateeras: the cut buffer and selections.The cut buffer is the older mechanism, and works by having programs storethe cut data into an X property on the
Walking away from Slashdot: a story of design
A while back I wrote about the two faces of RSS , in the process of which I held up Slashdotas an example of a site where I preferred the actual site to thesyndication feed by a large margin, and why.
I have to change that, because Slashdot has lost me as a regular visitorto their website, and what Slashdot stuff I read nowadays is almostentirely through their RSS feed. It's for the traditional reasons: awebsite redesign that actually injected 'design'.
Slashdot used to
如果遠方有戰爭
入睡一小時，有朋友打來，叫我 明天去 。我迷迷糊糊問，明天是什麼日子，他說，明天是以軍轟炸黎巴嫰第13天。
願黎巴嫰人有一夜安眠
〈砉然〉 楊牧
豆類是一種壓抑的思想
始終如此，重複的露水使它
瀕於崩潰，當星星成群向
願黎巴嫰人有一夜安眠
〈砉然〉 楊牧
豆類是一種壓抑的思想
始終如此，重複的露水使它
瀕於崩潰，當星星成群向
書展收獲
去了書展
買了高陽
買了孔少林
買了梁文道
買了龍應台
買了董橋
買了邁克
買了蘇偉貞
買了金克木
買了方卓如
買了蔡子強
買了游思行
未來日子
會好忙
要寫書評也多了本錢
不過最大收獲不是書
而是離開書展之後買了軟硬的新碟(這一次
Weekly spam summary on July 22nd, 2006
We rebooted this server Monday around 6:50pm, so a number of the statsare truncated this week. Having said that, this week, we:
- got 11,369 messages from 257 different IP addresses.
- handled 15,931 sessions from 851 different IP addresses.
- received 87,698 connections from at least 31,657 different IPaddresses since Monday evening.
- hit a highwater of 6 connections being checked at once sinceMonday
Solaris's sparseness
Coming from years of working primarily on Linux, one of the things thatkeeps getting me about working on Solaris 9 is just how sparse and barea Solaris install is. I especially feel this with system diagnostictools, where about 90% of the things I am used to considering as routineare either third-party packages or just not available.
(Solaris 10 holds out the promise to be much better, with things likeDTrace, but I'm stuck working with Solaris 9 machines at the moment.