最近有人問我 Youtube 對香港民間的有何影響？其實重點就是 user generated content。正好 TED 發佈了 Larry Lessig 在今年年初有關 copyrights, user generated content, creativity 的演講，簡潔而有力，絕對值得一看。
一曲三變
香港人最熟悉的版本: 軟硬《食o野一族 》
原裝正版Melina Mercouri 《Never on Sunday》(Pote Tin Kyriaki)
The Muppert Show 《Never on Sunday》, 難得希臘人又接受得到美國式戲謔
中女三級制
中女三級制
二十八歲這個年齡，常常令我感到很苦惱。二十多歲的女人，正處於「氣質真空期」。她們既已失去十幾歲少女的天真瀾漫，卻又未發展出三十歲後的成熟韻味。不論事業、愛情、家庭，二十多歲的女性仍在起步、探
The risks of spam filtering (part 2)
Rejecting supposed spam at SMTP time is somewhat controversial (withthe risk being that you will reject legitimate email). What is lessappreciated is that not rejecting spam at SMTP time is also dangerous;it just has different and less obvious risks.
The problem is that if you do not reject spam you will wind up filteringspam, and the consequences of mis-characterizing legitimate email asspam are much worse if you filter than if you reject. If you rejectoutright, the sender of such email knows that it didn
Bollywood英雄落難
Sanjay Dutt: 我無做「大佬」好耐...(設計對白) 近日, 印度法庭對被控非法藏有AK-47的著名影星Sanjay Dutt, 終於作出裁決. 法庭裁定Sanjay Dutt罪名成立, 將被監禁六年. 有關方面多年來誓要整治Sanjay Dutt. 儘管Sanjay Dutt多次聲稱藏械 (三枝)
An object oriented design mistake illustrated
Being written in Python, DWiki uses a certain amount of object orienteddesign (not huge amounts; it has basically no inheritance hierarchyamong its classes, although they have various interrelations). Inparticular, it has a Page class that represents a particular real pageat the model level (not the presentation level, which is where templateprocessing and so on happens).
Here is a trick question: is a page's URL a property of the page?(That is, should the Page class have a url
How Linux handles virtual memory overcommit
Following up yesterday's entry on the general background of system virtual memory limits, here's howLinux deals with this issue. In its traditional way, Linux gives youthree options for what happens when a process tries to allocate somemore memory, controlled by the value of the vm.overcommit_memory sysctl:
- the kernel gives you the memory unless it thinks you would clearlyovercommit the system (mode 0, the default, 'heuristic overcommit').
- the kernel always gives you the memory (mode 1
東京鐵塔 — 老媽和我，有時還有老爸。
看罷此書已一陣子，但故事中的好些小片段，卻仍歷歷在目。
有趣的是，書中的老媽形象，已代入成我已離去的母親，故事中的男主角，又變成了吊兒郎當的我的化身。
每個人，都有心目中不同形象的母親，但我相信，每個人對
「我係讀Law架 !」
角逐區議員一職的前DJ梁安琪, 在傳媒面前斷言社會科學(Social Science) 不入流, 法律才是王道. 一句:"我唔會讀Social Science, 我係讀Law架!" 引來無數人恥笑, 也令我想起同是讀Law、但出色百倍的翁靜晶.
如果在香港要選出一名真正兼備