CSS is assembly language

I was struck by a thought today: CSS is an assembly language. Thisexplains a lot of its issues, because (like other assembly languages)it suffers from the problem that you can't communicate your high-levelintentions, only your low-level actions.

The whole rat's nest of columnar layout issues and the ensuing irritations are where CSS's true colours show through most clearly.But it's not the only area; almost everywhere you look, CSS is about thelow-level


Link: HTML Doctype declarations inventoried

Activating the Right Layout Mode Using the Doctype Declaration is pretty much summarized by itstitle. As a bonus, it includes a handy chart of how various browsersreact to various specific DOCTYPE declarations (or did, as of when thechart was made; browser DOCTYPE behavior is an ever-changing target, andthe chart is a good illustration of how much variety there can be).

(From Anne van Kesteren .)


An Amanda gotcha with dumps to disk

One of the configurations that Amanda supportsthese days is dumping to disk instead of to tape. The leading way to dothis is to use your disk space as virtual tapes, using the 'file' outputdriver (per here ).

When you do this, it is vital to remember that to Amanda, these aretapes . Very fast tapes, but tapes. And they have all of the limitationsof tape. Such as that only one thing can be written to them at once.

So if you do not


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一次過一次過一次過

糊口糊口糊口!(尖叫)

文明單位

1. 手製雜誌
嘉賓:關夢南

2. 施政報告.文化藝術(遠景?)
嘉賓:黎健強

延伸閱讀: 柔光優影 (連續幾篇)


Xanga :花園.部落 .籠子

有中學揚言要禁止學生寫 blog ,以防學生在網上散播對學校不
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Why have an MX record to yourself?

In a recent entry ,Russell Coker brings up an issue:

One issue that has been the topic of some pointless discussion iswhether a mail server should have an A record or an MX record.

It's harmless not to have an MX record that points to yourself,but having one can save people a DNS query in many situations.

Answers to DNS queries have three sections: answer records, authorityrecords, and additional records. Authority records are the NS records ofthe authoritative nameservers (and SOA records for negative


我回來了



一連十幾日的工作
好像在地獄一般
不過我還是回來了
而且活著

今晚跟同事去了酒吧
其實我沒有喝酒的心情
回到家中已是一點
發現自己很久沒有寫這個blog
這裡也好像有點死寂了

明天開始要好好組織如何把這個blog起死回生
還有ctm那邊

On the various meanings of <tag />

With the growth of XHTML, some HTML documents have started sproutingthings of the form ' ' or ' ', intended to representempty tags. Sometimes this is due to attempts at XHTML to HTMLcompatibility , andsometimes it's just due to HTML superstitions. (Most people who writeHTML are not experts and have not read the W3C specifications , so superstitions arenot uncommon.)

These people and documents are making a mistake. Unfortunately, thereare three entirely


皮草

我打算從炎熱的巴林回來後,

再送自己一件皮草。

我知道一切不肯穿羽絨只穿皮草的年輕女孩子,

在男人眼中,

有多目中無人有多不受歡迎。

尤其是一個會將皮草當雨樓穿的女孩子。

然而,

我不寵愛自己,

誰來寵愛我?

你們有男

她一個人

每一個在outport的晚上,

都是說不出的寂寥。

房間太舒適,

光線溫柔。

但永遠只有我一人蜷縮在沙發上,

喝著茶聽著音樂看著《紅樓夢》。



因為,

我不再需要打電話給任何人,

也不再期待電話鈴聲的響起。

伴著我的,

是那隻走到哪裡
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