Demonoid.com is probably the best torrent download site out there in the internet. It is very resouceful, it has lots of latest music, movies, TV eposides, books and especially audio books. Unlike other open to all torrent sites, demonoid.com keep tracks of the download/upload ratio of the user. It will enforce the sharing rule that you have to give back your bandwidth to the torrent community. As a result, they limit the number of users to avoid infrastruture overloaded Thereforethe site does not open to registration most of the time. Unregistered users only allow to download the torrent files from the past few days. Like the early days of gmail, new registration is allow only by invitation. Although the website policy forbid selling of invitation code, but the code is selling $15 a piece on ebay, and they are sold fast. Today, I am so lucky that I came across the rare occassion that demonoid.com opens for registration. I seize this chance at once, create an account and start downloading. It is like entering a gold mine of digital information. Probably they will close the registration in a few hours once the quota is used up. If you like downloading torrents, go there and register before it is too later.
It seems photography is becoming the default hobbies of many guys as well as some girls. Tonight I met with three old friends, all of them got digital SLR cameras and all quite into taking pictures. Digital SLR turns photography from an expensive hobbies into an hobbies affordable to the mass. You don’t need to spend hundreds dollars on films and developing the negative. An entry level SLR and a decent computer with a large harddisk can get you a long way. Photo sharing website let people show off their pictures, which satisfy man’s desire to express himself. There are some skills involved in photography, but most of it are just experience and a spark of creative talent. Since the judgement of a good photo is subjective, everyone can please themselve by self proclaim to be a master photographer. You can always pick an aspect that makes your photos better in comparison. Photography is a convineint way to satisfy ones ego.
My question is that out of the thousands and thousands of photos taken, how many of them will never see the light again? If most pictures are just sitting in the hard disk without any purpose, what’s the point of taking all those pictures? A picture may worth a thousand words, however a man can cognitively receive so much information at a time. Overload the visual senses of your viewers with hundreds of pictures not as efficient as a few dozens quality pictures each with their own stories.
千萬不要給這齣電影的預告片騙了﹐這齣電影不是「魔戒」﹐ 不是「哈利波特」﹐更加不是Narnia。「尋找仙境之橋」並不是魔幻冒險的故事﹐而是一齣講述兩個小孩子純真友誼﹐以及探討死亡與生命意義的感人故事。這齣電影改篇自Katherine Paterson的兒童小說。這本小說的評價很兩極化﹐在外國有些學校這書是英文科指定讀物﹐但在另一些保守地方的學校局﹐則把它與「哈利波特」同例為禁書。當然今次迪士尼製作的電影版﹐目標是家庭觀眾市場﹐己儘量淡化具爭議性的內容﹐取而代之是用先進電腦特技﹐讓小孩子幻想出來的仙境世界呈現觀眾眼前。
