當你見到所謂宗教書室，有一半位置都在售賣十字架頸鏈、耳環和擺設，你就知道沒有東西是不能消費的。
上個世紀已經有人投訴過，聖誕節變成了消費大節慶，連任天堂、微軟和sony都趕在聖誕前夕發新貨，加上電影的聖誕檔期
Always remember that people make mistakes
One very important thing to remember when trying to design practicalsecurity systems is that people make mistakes . Always. Even underthe best of circumstances and the best of intentions, sooner or latersomeone will do accidentally do something wrong.
If your security system breaks explosively when people makes mistakes,your system is wrong in practice. Regardless of how mathematicallypure it is, you have not designed something with real security . Real security needs to cope with things going wrongand people making mistakes, because that's what actually happens
失去了什麼?
以下的真人真事令我明白現在的青少年失去了什麼。
眼前這位小朋友還在唸大學，他因為文學的事與我見面，但他反覆在談的卻是他的兼職生活：老闆對他不好，同事很不濟，客人很麻煩之類。我說既然工作不開心，何不專心讀
Drupal.org approaching 1,000,000 nids!
I noticed a few months ago that we hit the mid-950,000 range for posts... since then, I've forgotten to mark down the numbers through time (I wanted to try plotting the exact day when we'd cross over to 1,000,000 posts).
Today (December 14), we were at node #998,346 (obviously, some nodes have been deleted, and database causes notwithstanding.
網癮
(原刊 文化地圖 CultaMap 12/2010)
七城影頁
網癮
朋友阿強( 假名，像黃子華棟篤笑時常提及的阿強，不必深究)換了部智能手機，join 了個無限上網plan，便開始染上網癮，尤其是facebook癮，朋友聚會時，總見他不時用手指在手機面掃
韓Phone、七Phone、Windows Phone
因為Microsoft是公司的客戶，數個月前，我們的Technical Team同事早已有一部HTC的Windows Phone 7(以下簡稱WP7）在手進行測試，當時的初步感覺，對於其多點觸控的順暢程度，好得實在令我有點喜出望外。
身邊的口痕友同事K便說，好了好了，Microsoft今
不怕死
我熱愛生命，活得開心，卻不怕死。為何不怕？我也不很清楚，就是不怕。有些人跟我相反，活得不怎麼開心，卻非常怕死；這也不一定有道理可言，怕就是怕了。
我不怕死，不是因為有一個有力的哲學論證，說服我死亡並不可
我不怕死，不是因為有一個有力的哲學論證，說服我死亡並不可
My reaction to The World God Only Knows
Prompted by Author's entry :
A story like TWGOK generally livesor dies based on how interesting you find the character of the week (orcouple of weeks) whose story is being explored, and so my initialinterest was because the first girl that Keima hadto deal with had an interesting story. The second character lookedpromising, but I dropped the show shortly into the third episode when Iwound up feeling that she was an unsympathetic idiot and I didn't carewhat her story was or what happened to