讀九把刀的〝功夫〞
第一次讀九把刀的小說，〝功夫〞吸引我的，是披著武俠小說的外衣。
我對武俠這種類型甚感興趣，也很想知道網絡作家如何處理武俠。
讀了一半，心想：此君有意顛覆，〝功夫〞不是純粹的武俠小說。小說厚達385頁，其實
新年快樂，或最後的時光
新一年，開工！
元旦早上與太太重溫了周星馳的“西遊記之仙履奇緣”，這段緣份是上天注定的，大哂！
下午在重溫小脂的新書，真的要動筆
Universities are peculiar places
In particular, universities have a computing environment that is morepeculiar than I think a lot of people realize (sometimes even peopleinside universities, because from some angles it is very easy tomiss). I wrote about one example of this (and the practical effects ithas) back in UniversityFirewalls .
One of the ways that they are peculiar, a way that I think is at thecore of a lot of things, is this:
In most parts of most companies, communicating with the rest of thecompany is
06 新年快樂！
Weekly spam summary on December 31st, 2005
This week we received 12,270 email messages from 159 different IPaddresses. Our SMTP server handled 31,972 sessions from 2,643different IP addresses. Session volume is down from last week , which is a relief, although it'snot back down to the historical levels yet.
However, connection volume has not dropped substantially from last week : 260,000 connections from at least 53,760 different IPaddresses,
斷背山
2005年最後一小時讀完短篇小說“斷背山”，充滿驚喜。
這個故事又剛陽又溫柔，兩個男人的同性之愛既赤裸又婉轉，情節簡單得不能再簡單但張力十足，小說的場景鄉土味濃厚卻跟故事散發的氣息相結合，李安已將之拍成
再見2005年，再見！
這一年特別苦，也特別難忘，身體和心靈前所未有的脆弱，在職場上做得最差也許負了很多人，寫了四百幾天的小說連載也叫做“去日苦多”
A logical consequence of def being an executable statement
I've mentioned before that in Python, def is actually an executablestatement (in FunctionDefinitionOrder ). A logical consequences of thisis that default values for function arguments are evaluated only once,when the def runs.
I say this because expressions generally get evaluated when any Python statement runs, so the expressions in things like ' deffoobar(a, b=greeble(c), d=None): ' are not being an exception. Theexception would be if they were not evaluated then and were instead
Notes on getting a Solaris hardware inventory
Being able to find out what hardware is in a random machine is one ofthose things you don't think about very much until you inheritresponsibility for a bunch of machines that you didn't build yourself.
The best hardware inventory program I've used is SGI's hinv (although it doesn't have enough disk information). Linux has decenthardware inventory support, but not bundled into a single command; youhave to look through a bunch of /proc files and know a few commandslike