A rule for Internet software

Here is one of the general rules for Internet software:

You cannot count on other people not screwing up.

(You can barely count on you not screwing up.)

Any time you talk to the Internet, you have to assume that someday,the other end will do something that it isn't supposed to by thespecification. People are endlessly creative, which means that sooneror later someone will get pretty much anything wrong that it's possibleto get wrong; for example, they will use permanent HTTP


A feature that I wish Linux package managers had

One of the things that I wish Linux package managers like yum and Apthad was a convenient way of retrieving the original, stock version ofsome file and optionally reinstalling it into its original place. I'dexpect (and wouldn't mind) that this would require re-downloading theoriginal package that the file came from (and thus it was restrictedto packages that were still in the package repository and hadn't beenobsoleted and removed by some more recent package).

You might wonder what use this


updated youtube links

https://youtubehknews.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-post_4983.html

or

https://www.youtube.com/user/ericayuen

神呀

現在是早上七時多,當然,不是剛起床,是還未睡。

剛剛寫完蘋果的稿,就獎勵自己吃點甜。

拿出了那包八千里路雲和月才來到手中的waffles,邊吃邊看你們的網誌。

吃罷第一片,很好吃丫,也就讓自己再吃一片,然後,又一片。


爭氣不爭氣


偶然在吵吵鬧鬧的社情民意中冷靜下來,不難發現有很多事情是面目模糊,似是而非,古靈精怪,有時甚至會讓人感到害怕,甚至惶恐。

那些事情可能關乎我們的前途,甚至影響到下一代的發展,但人們就是有本事不關心,不了

荒廢但沒有止息

七月看了三次醫生,吃了好多藥,第四次突發眩暈時,暗裡覺得是因為之前的藥在身體裡自己打架,就不肯再看醫生。到現在,還是經常昏,雖然不像那一次整個世界向左後方捲皺起來那樣不能直立,但一旦沒有聚精會神地將整

小科技大環保—打電話開街燈 Dial4Light

剛從今期TIME Magazine讀到這篇有趣的文章,話說德國某小鎮,有熱心市民認為入夜後街燈長開其實有點兒浪費能源,於是便主動接洽政府及相關部門,想出了用這個On Demand啟動街燈的方法,即是說,當你行到那裡,街燈才開到那裡。

街燈


A downside to syndication feed readers respecting permanent HTTP redirects

In theory, well behaved syndication feed readers are supposed to noticewhen the URL that they are polling changes; when they see a permanentHTTP redirect, they should update the feed URL. I recently ran into adownside to this behavior.

One of the online webcomics sites that I read bits of recently failedto renew its domain name in time. While the domain name was overdue forrenewal, the registrar redirected all URLs on the domain's website to amore or less generic domain parking and advertising page on a


何韻詩網上徵召Super Heroes急急如律令?

早略有聽聞何韻詩今次這張新大碟的主題是玩Heroes這條大橋,但無諗過佢會玩到咁大。

無錯,何韻詩今次在網上公開召集五湖四海的超級英雄,一起參與拯救地球(查實係有機會成為佢MV內的角色)。

這支網上徵召Super Heroes的短片,除


台山之旅‧二


第二天動身去尋找碉樓. 首先到開平附近的赤坎古城. 赤坎這個名字也實在過癮. 普通話拼音為Chikan, 熟悉日文的朋友自然知道這也是「 癡漢 」的意思.

赤坎的建築也受到西方風格的影響. 這片街的建築, 很像小時候從國貨公司買
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