空白的慰藉

如果你有讀過《哲學的慰藉》,就能夠明白原來理性是可以安慰心靈,即使這個世界充滿荒謬,而你正遭遇挫折、被人厭棄、失戀、人生不成功等,卻可以透過理性,去了解事情的本質,堅定自己的信念,甚至豁達面對逆境,因

支持考慮負所得稅(Negative Income Tax)

轉載自今日《信報》社評

考慮負所得稅解決「在職貧窮」

由 最低工資立法引起勞資爭拗和矛盾加劇,昨天到政府總部遊行的工人,要求政府盡快立法,並把最低工資水平訂於時薪三十三元,但這訴求顯然會遭受僱主一方反 對。事

Lab Series Water Lotion,保濕控油雙管齊下。

我用了不同牌子的3-Step護膚產品近廿年,護膚常識依然貧乏,若非最近在Lab Series做皮膚測試時人家告訴我,我還真的懵然不知,原來爽膚水的作用是為何。

從前,因為用其他牌子的爽膚水時,看見化妝棉總能抹出很多污垢(嘩,

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鳥、魚、限制、自由

我從前愛鳥,尤愛鷹,愛牠在天空翱翔的姿態,每見之必昂首而望,認為自由者莫過於此矣。籠中鳥,那就是失去自由的最佳象徵。

我現在則更愛魚。魚,被限制於水中,出水必死,而且沒有手腳,限制大得似乎連縛手縛腳也不

The power of 'I like this' in social applications

One of the things that turns plain applications into social applicationsis the ability to get feedback from other people ,the ability to know that other people are appreciating your stuff. Ithink it follows as a corollary that if you want to build a popularsocial application, getting the feedback right matters a lot; the morefeedback people get, the more likely they are to continue using yoursocial application.

To be specific for a bit, let's talk about Flickr (partly because I haveexperience with it as a


信靠神,何罪之有?

最近俄勒岡州有對夫婦因宗教理由拒絕替生病的兒子找醫生治理,結果兒子病死了,他們被控疏忽引致他人死亡,罪名成立,法官判他們入獄十六個月。

這對夫婦所屬的教會叫" Followers of Christ ",是基督教的基要派教會,主張有病時只

Updated Front Page Images...

After a few months without seeing an update, I finally took the time to process a few more photos for the front page of Lifeisaprayer.com - you can visit the front page and take a look for yourself. You can always click on one of the images to see them all for yourself, in a timeline of sorts.


Web analytics versus GET parameter security

I have recently run into an interesting collision between typicalweb analytics practices (and applying this to random URLs) and goodsecurity and robustness. The straightforward manifestation is that linksto WanderingThoughts entries from the Planet Sysadmin Twitter feed don't work; trying to follow one getsyou remarkably terse error messages from DWiki (the software behind WanderingThoughts ).

DWiki is very cautious. One of the ways that this manifests is that itdoesn't accept random query parameters on requests; it knows what queryparameters each URL accepts,


如果狄娜是我的媽媽

如果狄娜是我的媽媽,大概很多男人想問候我的媽媽。For God's sake!王迪詩,你就不能正經一點嗎?Well,我笑嘻嘻可不代表我不認真啊,做人又何必那麼沉重呢?都是一場遊戲嘛。等我伸個懶腰先……好啦,繼續寫。

總而言之,

你有什麼資格死﹖

上星期寫了〈教養〉,換來一個「奇景」。

話說那篇文章提到,部分中學和大學生讀者給我寄來的電郵莽撞無禮,慘不忍睹。文章刊出後,我的電郵信箱一下子逼爆「80後」和「90後」的來信,to my surprise,竟然全部用「您」!