The appeal of XML

For a long time, I was not at all fond of XML. The grandiose claims ofuniversal document exchanges, universal editors, and so on were clearlybogus; as lots of people said, understanding the syntax gives you noclue about the semantics. It all smelled of hype and overselling, withXML the latest in a long line of next big things for the enterpriseymarket.

Then it struck me one day :

XML is a great way to not write a parser .

If you need to write and then read


When I do and don't read a blog's comments

I read (or sometimes skim) a relatively decent number of blogs, and assomeone who writes one too I wind up noticing various aspects of theexperience. One of the things I've noticed is that I am both quitepredictable and quite divided about reading comments on entries; thereare some blogs where I always read the comments and there are a lotwhere I never do, but there are almost none where I sometimes read themand sometimes don't.

In thinking about this, I think that there


成長路上(轉貼)


西崎小姐 處看到以下箴言,與大家分享.

本澳現在的青少年問題令人頭痛,究竟現在的大人是如何成長的?我們的小朋友又是如何成長的?


成長在批評中的孩子--他學會了責難;
成長在敵意中的孩子--他學會了抵抗;
成長

寶萊塢生死戀《Devdas》



寶萊塢生死戀《Devdas》(2002). 對這套Bollywood超級豪華大作, 我還有甚麼話可說? 簡直無話可說!

1900年. 望族出身的Devdas (SRK) 與商家千金Parvati"Paro" ( Aishwarya Rai ) 自幼青梅竹馬, 心心相印. Devdas留學歸來, 與Paro聚首, 所有人都認為
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藝術常識

(刊週一星島日報)
解縛自我.與他人共生
藝術體驗與公共空間

油畫大師龐均在香港街頭寫生三度被趕,輿論大譁而引為港恥,同聲指責城市的過度管理。「不要過度管理」、「公共空間」以前被以為是社運人士和街頭藝術家這

《闔家怪》 (Of Monster mode)


石井裕也親臨電影節, 有觀眾覺得《 闔家怪 》(ばけもの模様) 跟 古谷實 的《 去吧! 稻中兵團 》的虛無兼無厘頭風格類似. 石井裕也否認. 他的電影風格不像早期的古谷實般天馬行空, 更沒有《稻中兵團》刻意地娛樂觀眾. 作為
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抽象同一

夜比生存悠長
比冰短暫。當一切在暗中變形蒸發
綿密的話語只來自星辰
我們蒼白而暗淡如灰石。

當你探身向黑色的泉水
你就品嘗它的鋒刄,舔過
冰涼,映出身後的影子
鋒刄是一種褫奪
並且是一種寧靜
不可理解的黑色泉水

Why there's a bunch of spam from university webmail systems right now

You may have noticed that as of late there's a bunch of spam (usuallyadvance fee fraud spam) coming from various university webmail systems.(When it has real IP origin information, it is often from the usualsuspects.)

Until now, I thought that this was because spammers had workedout how to compromise webmail systems. It turns out that it isworse than that; phishers are specifically targeting universities.And these are not your run of the mill ordinary phish attacks,where you get email about


現代的表層

澳門是一個現代城市嗎?
澳門是一個得天獨厚的城市,擁有舉世知名的賭博龍頭行業,新建的酒店一間比一間瑰麗,澳門半 島的海岸線盡是高樓,澳氹之間有三條宏偉的跨海大橋,路氹新城的金光大道更日漸成形,不久之後我們

都會三角錯《Kal Ho Naa Ho》



《Kal Ho Naa Ho》(Tomorrow May or May Not Be, 2003) 正值Saif Ali Khan和Priety Zinta當旺時推出 (Priety Zinta更贏得Filmfare最佳女演員獎項), 反而SRK聲勢稍微滑落. 也難怪, NRI題材很難取悅一般觀眾, 除非是NRI (Non Resident Indians, 海外印度僑民) 觀眾群. 說實話, 《Kal