( 原刊 AV Magazine 13-08-2010 )
人生音像城
萬子
萬梓良是我的偶像，很多朋友都知道。
《人生音像城》改版時，編輯叫我新寫一段新的自我介紹，我是個很舊的人，實在沒有新的自我介紹，終於還是寫了，最後突然心血來潮
Why I change font sizes
A commentator on my recent entry on how programs should make it easyto change the font size asked me toexplain why I'd do this and said that they didn't even change the fontsize in Firefox, which boggles me quite a lot. When I boil it downenough, there are two reasons.
The first reason is the reason that I keep changing font sizesin Firefox: because (web) designers are crazily in love with not merely small font sizes, but absurdlysmall font sizes. I
萬子
講心和講金
若干年前，美國一個非牟利機構發信給一些律師，說機構需要法律服務，卻付不起昂貴的律師費，問他們肯不肯只收每小時三十美元的服務費。美國的律師動輒收每小時二、三百美元，你說他們肯不肯只收一折的價錢？你猜對了
What I want in a caching nameserver
What the world needs is a good caching nameserver. What brought this onis that I am currently flirting with yet another caching nameserver,which is something that I do from time to time because every cachingnameserver I've ever found sucks in its own way. This is actuallysomewhat surprising to me, because at one level the job is not allthat difficult so you'd think that someone would have written a saneimplementation by now.
(Possibly the DNS system actually is sufficiently difficult that itdrives every implementer
事不關己
最近讀到某位文化名人被一位所謂前輩作者「修理」了，那篇修理文章，我讀了很不喜歡，因為的確是為修理而修理，為了否定一個人而努力找出他文章的疏漏之處，並且把幾個錯誤組合起來，加以發揮，竭力證明對方因為受歡
無紙袋日與我的痴線心態
我覺得自己有點痴線。
平常儘量環保，外出時，手袋總掛上Perigot的桃紅小熊環保袋，不理乾濕買了甚麼都扔進去。
甚至試過，將在7仔買的哈根大師雪糕杯放入Chanel手袋內。
不是為了慳五毫，而是不想浪費
不過，生活。
好友說，她的男友對於她與我作伴吃飯逛街，有點保留。
因為，他對我的印象，總是停留於一星期四晚跳舞至天明，周末約會要分上半場下半場，連gals' gathering也硬生生帶幾個男性朋友出席的那些年。
聽了，不覺無辜，只是嘆氣。
那
被詛咒的才子 Ritwik Ghatak
上半年認識了Guru Dutt, 有網友詢問其他值得推薦的印度導演, 當時找到幾個名字: Bimal Roy (1909-1966) , Mrinal Sen (1923-) , Ritwik Ghatak (1925-1976) , Shyam Benegal (1934-) , 無獨有偶, 他們都是印度孟加拉電影 (
可憐的猶大
早陣子，兒子忽然說他想讀但丁《神曲》的《地獄篇》（當然是英譯），我覺得奇怪，問他為何有興趣，他說「地獄」這概念很抽象，想看一看但丁怎樣描寫地獄（我後來才知道，原來有個電腦遊戲叫 Dante’s Inferno ，兒子看來是想比
PPP over ssh: solving problems with indirection
There is an old aphorism in Computer Science that any problem canbe solved by another level of indirection (Wikipedia credits it to David Wheeler ). TodayI have an illustration of this.
I mentioned that I was having problemswith USB serial ports on my just upgraded to Fedora 13 machine.Specifically, starting up PPP on such a port would hang the pppd process (and then any other process that touched the serial port).Since my DSL link is still down, this is a problem.It turns out