30th Jul 2010 
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Everyone knows the law of diminish of return from high school economics textbook. How come the writer sounds like they have discover something now. The more money you have, you will need even more money to give you the same happiness. It’s… [...]
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I am using WordPress for my blog. WordPress just released 3.0 Last month. I have been putting the upgrade on hold for a while since I was too busy at work and at home. I finally have some time to backup the database, the blog installation directory… [...] 
讀書時代我是標準的電腦遊戲迷﹐可以通宵達旦不眠打機﹐連續曉課兩星期只為求過關爆機。現在年人老了時間越來越少﹐加上家中的電腦己多年前買的古舊機﹐聽歌看戲上網還勉強可以﹐但應付不對最新遊戲的硬件需求﹐讓我早已遠離電腦遊戲的世界。想不到最近我卻沉迷上《植物大戰喪屍》這個小遊戲﹐讓我重拾當年打機打到天昏地暗的樂趣。… [...] Inspired by my friend’s blog, I joined chess.com in Facebook. I played a few blitz games with random people online. I found playing live human is more fun than playing computer because computer does not make blunder moves. My record is… [...] 
《殺手沒有假期》是英國獨立製作的小本電影﹐榮獲多個歐洲電影節的最佳原創劇本獎項。兩個殺手去了比利時風光如畫的小鎮Bruges渡假﹐發生一齣荒謬絕倫的黑色幽默喜劇。看慣荷里活殺手片的朋友﹐看這套另類殺手電影時﹐請先調節心情﹐不要期望激裂戰槍的動作場面。殺手只不過是主角的身份﹐因殺手時常要面對死亡﹐正好藉著他們來看生與死。電影劇本的安排十分巧妙﹐下文會透露劇情﹐未看而打算看的朋友﹐為免影響欣賞電影時的驚喜﹐自行決定是否讀下去。… [...] 
從一九九五年《反斗奇兵》第一集開始﹐不知不覺間Pixar的電腦動畫﹐已經陪伴著我十五個年頭。當年在大學看第一集時﹐電腦動畫還是高科技的新奇事物﹐現在連3D也泛濫到成行成市。我可以說是Pixar的忠實擁躉﹐每次有新電腦動畫上映﹐我也必定到電影院先睹為快。對於一個早在十幾年前已習慣任何東西也上網下載的人﹐值得讓我付出真金白銀購票入場欣賞﹐無疑是我對這齣電影的肯定。… [...] 
想不到一個週末內﹐連氣看了兩套3D動畫電影。原本打算看《反斗奇兵3》﹐可惜同行的友人已經看過了﹐他們想看新上畫的《壞蛋獎門人》﹐反正我也很久沒有入戲院﹐便隨大伙兒高興看了這套電影。結果第二天還是心思思﹐與老婆回去看《反斗奇兵3》才安樂。… [...] China is reaching the turning-point, India is probably not far behind. Where the outsourcing will go next? Africa or Middle East?… [...] The minimum wage legislation marks the last straw for Hong Kong’s death. The city is still there, but it is no longer the city once famous for its economy freedom. In 20 years, we will see whose economical policy is right, Cowperthwaite… [...] I challenged the PMP exam without having any project management training. I just studied the exam questions like I studied for any other public exams. When I got my PMP credential, I joked that I don’t have any practical knowledge of a… [...] 
無線的劇集絕大部份都是垃圾師奶劇﹐可是也會偶有佳作。年中播映的《飛女正傳》﹐是無線近年極少數的創意典範。很難得我完全不需要用快速跳播﹐飛過沉悶的婆媽劇情﹐反而全程聚精會神觀看﹐恐怕錯過了任何精警的對白。我甚至即時重播一些搞笑場面﹐仔細咀嚼回味不一樣的出位橋段。… [...] 
每年夏天我也會去教會的退修活動﹐過去我一直參加加西生活營﹐前前後後去了也差不多十年。不過加西營是給青年人的活動﹐近幾年我入營已覺得自己有代溝﹐特別是結婚後更加有隔漠﹐與還在讀中學大學的小朋友沒有什麼共同話題可以分享。於是今年老婆經朋友介紹下﹐帶我參加普世博愛運動(Focolare… [...] 
去年《葉問》捧紅了全宇宙最好打的甄子丹﹐第一集票房豐收很自然開拍續集。這次《葉問2》還是以打戲為主﹐還加碼加入另一好打之人洪金寶﹐上演一齣雙龍會。上集講八年抗戰打日本仔﹐今集地點移師戰後香港﹐便順理成章打鬼佬。老實說我對《葉問2》的故事內容不太關心﹐總之大致通順便滿意收貨﹐反正看這齣電影也不會是為了看戲情。… [...] Offshore levy sounds like an economical suicide. Protectionism is never the solution. I do agree Andy Grove’s opinion about off source is long term problem as we are losing our technical expertise. My solution is two folds. On technology… [...] 進化論的其中一個很多爭議的問題﹐是達爾文提出物競天擇適者生者這個大自然定律﹐不能解釋物種如何進化出某些基因特質。例如生物學家用進化論﹐如何能推論出人類的姆指是從何進化而來呢。哲學家Sober提出一種說法﹐認為進化論根本不能解釋物種如何進化出某些基因特質。進化論應該要反過來解讀﹐去解釋沒有某些基因特質的其他物種為什麼絕種。物種從基因突變產生新的基因特質﹐大自然定律淘汰了不適合生存的基因﹐剩下來的基因便是能夠存活並繁殖後代。另一哲學家Neander則提出相反說法﹐說因為基因轉變有累積性﹐進化論可以解釋物種基因特質的變化。其實這個爭議有點無聊﹐在我看來不過是雙方在咬文嚼字﹐大家對進化論中因果關係的定義沒有共識﹐才會有這個有點牛頭不對馬嘴的辯論。… [...] 
張五常是我經濟學的啟蒙老師﹐我中學唸理科班﹐會考沒有修讀經濟科﹐本與經濟學無緣。某年在家父的書房中﹐找到張五常的舊作《賣桔者言》﹐讀畢驚為天人﹐方知很多日常事物可以用經濟學去解釋。讀大學時更一口氣買了差不多張五常所有藉作﹐他那三卷《經濟解釋》深入淺出地講解經濟學﹐可謂中文經學讀物之寶。可惜近年他的文章了無新意﹐不斷重覆地自吹自擂﹐講風雪月講他玩書法玩攝影多﹐正正經經講經濟學的少﹐於是我漸漸便對他失去興趣。… [...] I ran into a computer scientist in DAC and he is one of those doomsayer of multicore computing. He said according to Amdahl’s law, multicore will reach the diminish of return at around 4x speedup. Throwing more core at a sequential program… [...] |
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