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Testing

Je mange, donc je existent

I had very little rest time on Tue & Wed and got a very bad headache after meetings yesterday (Thu).

Managed to go to bed on 12:30am+ and got up at 8:30am... :)

It was around 10am+ when I reached QB and I thought I ought to have a big breakfast today, at McD, despite a grand dinner with ES tonite.

I walked back office at 10:30am+ and a colleague told me not to go up as a scheduled fire drill was upcming.

I completely forgot.

So I went to "ready to eat" to have another coffee and saw some colleagues there.

I went back to my desk at 11:15am+.

And Tiger appeared and he was looking for someone.

We talked about a couple of things, incl. repair at CWB, etc.

I didn't plan to join him for lunch as I was full.

It's now around 2:20pm and I feel hungry.

Sometimes we need some feelings to remind ourselves that we exist.

Pain and hunger could be good candidates.

Of course, if one could derive that I think, therefore I exist, then the person could elevate the self-assurance of existence to a level that few like Descartes can reach. I am not there yet, and I will never be.

Having said that, I am looking forward to a quick bite, before leaving for work, having big dinner, and possibly enjoying an ordinary weekend.

Going out now...

I eat, therefore I exist.

E-mail posting not working

it has been a while since i logged on blogger.com last time

in fact, i found it too convenient to post using e-mail

i first noticed it on friday and it seems that it hasn't been fixed yet

and i just checked blogger.com and there is no way to "report problem" except that there are some forums that you can "discuss"

anyway, given it's a free service, i think we just need to manage our expectation, and fall back to the more traditional way of blogging without e-mail... :)

it's good to remind ourselves that we shouldn't take things for granted...

(well... not just "things", perhaps "people"?)

2008.08.24
12:44am

天上无不水 ？

应该是太累了吧，原来题目是：

天下无不散之水

辣妹子

http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2005/12/blog-post_113609503460170125.html

空虚

《门徒》说：毒品不可怕，空虚才可怕。

举一反三，来个 induction，把 X 设定为一名词，我们可以将这句子变成：

X 不可怕，空虚才可怕。

好，大家来试一下。

酒肉朋友一马当先，把 X 定义为 美色，bingo!，可以算是对吧。

再来。

酒肉朋友不想有小孩子，我就把 X 定义为 小孩子，当然，对与错是颇个人的。

再来。

听说，有朋友想转到国外工作，X 就可以变成 国外工作。

等等。

其实，很多事和情都跟空虚有关，信不信由你...

重出江湖

看來大陸對 blogger.com 等解禁，在上海的酒肉朋友可以再 blog，江湖從此多事。

The Economist

I am writing this while I am waiting for Tiger for lunch. It's 12:15am
when I polled him and he asked for 15 min. Let's see when he will show up.

Since then, I went back and cleaned my inbox and come across the weekly
newsletter from The Economist.
_____

I miss the newspaper.

I started the subscription in 1993-1994 for academic reason. My
lecturer of International Political Economy recommended 2 to us: The
Economist and The Far East Economic Journal. I picked the former
because (a) it's more international, and (b) it's less American.

I have been a regular subscriber and reader since then, and I dropped
the subscription around 2 years ago for (1) it's quite heavy in content
and I didn't have time, and (2) I came across better offer for new
subscription. I was very upset about #2 given that I had been a long
time subscriber. I decided not to renew. And at one time, one of the
staff in Asia office did call me, reminded me of the expiry and asked me
for reason of non-renewal. I gave my reason #2 and he said there's
nothing he could do. But indeed, I didn't need him to do anything.

I am still on his weekly newsletter. I will click and read those get my
attention. Not a lot, nor too frequent though.

And this time I saw the article on Heathrow Airport =>

http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=10923778

I don't know the airport enough but I must say that I enjoy reading it
in terms of writing style, facts, logic etc. I am not sure if one will
agree with everything (and there's no need) but it's a real pleasure,
particularly when you are hungry and have no other urgent/important
enough matters to attend... :) Or in a more exaggerated way, 15 minutes
of solitude... :P

It's not the end of this post because (i) I haven't finished, and (ii)
Tiger hasn't showed up yet... smile...

Out of curiosity, I clicked and tried to find out comments (5) on the
articles =>

http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=10923778&mode=comment

Well... they are very different from the comments we typically see in
forums, newsgroups, blogs, etc. I am not sure if they have been
filtered and edited (I believe not, as I think I can add one). The
quality of the comments is very high, in terms of writing, and points of
views.

_____

It's now 12:44pm and Tiger hasn't showed up yet. Will give him 10 more
minutes.

读 blog 学中文 - 曲高和寡

给阿虎的：

黄昏时段与阿虎到爱因斯坦喝酒，席间谈到 xxx 公司的 G&RM campaign，我觉得非常好，但市场反应不甚了了，我说真是"曲高和寡"，阿虎竟然听不懂。

这是一个很好的解释和资源：

http://baike.baidu.com/view/45293.htm

引用：成语、文化、词语、典故、词汇

曲高和寡

开放分类：

曲高和寡 Songs of high-brow type will find very few people to join in the chorus( qǔ gāo hè guǎ ) 原文： 客有歌于郢中者，其始曰《下里巴人》，国中属而和者数千人。其为《阳阿》、《薤露》，国中属而和者数百人。其为《阳春白雪》，国中属而和者不过数十人。 引商刻羽，杂以流徵，国中属而和者不过数人而已。是其曲弥高，其和弥寡。 解 释 曲调高雅，能跟着唱的人就少。用来比喻知音难得。又被用来比喻说话、写文章不通俗，能理解的人很少。比喻言论或作品不通俗，难于为人接受。 出 处 战国·楚·宋玉《对楚王问》："引商刻羽，杂以流征，国中属而和者不过数十人而已。是其曲弥高，其和弥寡。" 用 法 复句式；作谓语、定语、分句；含讽刺意味 示 例 《老残游记续集遗稿》第五回："我在省城只听人称赞靓云，从没有人说起逸云，可知道～呢！" 近义词 阳春白雪 反义词 下里巴人 歇后语 毛驴嗓门大 灯 谜 一钩新月伴新主 故 事 宋玉是战国时楚国著名的文学家，在楚襄王手下做事。有一次，楚襄王问他；"先生最近有行为失检的地方吗?为什么有人对 你有许多不好的议论呢?" 宋玉若无其事地回答说："喂，是的，有这回事。请大王宽恕我，听我讲个故事：最近，有位客人来到我们郢都唱歌。他开始唱的，是非常通俗的《下里》和《巴 人》，城里跟着他唱的有好几千人。接着，他唱起了还算通俗的《阳阿》和《薤露》，城里跟他唱的要比开始的少多了，但还有好几百人。后来他唱格调比较高难的 《阳春》和《白雪》，城里跟他唱的只有几十个人了。最后，他唱出格调高雅的商音、羽音，又杂以流利的徵音，城里跟着唱的人更少，只有几个人了。"说到这 里，宋玉对楚王说："由此可见，唱的曲子格调越是高雅， 能跟着唱的也就越少。圣人有奇伟的思想和表现，所以超出常人。一般人又怎能理解 我的所作所为呢?" 楚王听了，说："哦!我明白了！" 出处《宋玉·答楚王问》

答客問

親愛的 mo：

http://amoozing.blogspot.com/2008/03/blog-post_24.html

一、大隱隱於市，小隱隱於野。
二、昂平360有牛肉買？

讀 blog 學中文

性價比

性 = 性能 （非 sex 也）
價 = 價格
比 = 比例

還有，原來很多人在網上問到性價比的種種問題，如英文翻譯等等，也有很認真的解釋，如百度的，琳琅滿目...

疑似千年蛋的蛋跡 => http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10411278&postID=987924293104507570&isPopup=true

Testing - posting 2 pics at a time by e-mail

See if it works...

Post blog/pic by e-mail

It's a bit surprising.

I have been posting to blogger.com via e-mail. It works fine. And I
enabled a couple of people using it... :)

And then I moved to using gmail with mail client (mozilla in my case).
And I enabled a couple of people using it... :P

And then it just happened. By chance, I found that I could use my
mozilla to post to blogger.com, and surprisingly, e-mail attachment can
be accepted and it shows up in my blog. This means posting pics becomes
much easier...

Earlier, we could use Hello to upload in more or less more automated
version and then it broke when new blogger came (integrating the a/c
with gmail). Then we need to upload one by one.

Now life is a bit easier.

答客问

Got a question on how to add a video clip from youtube to blogspot. Here is how it works.

(1) Identify your video clip. Let's use 一個人兩個人 as an example. The URL of the clip in youtube is http://youtube.com/watch?v=btzxprdx5tc

(2) Go to the clip in youtube. The following screen capture is what you see. On the RHS, you can find the code to embed. Just highlight it and do a Ctrl-C. This is the code you need to include in a blog (well... this can be done other than blogspot). 一理通...



(3) I typically paste the wordy code in a notepad, just to avoid losing it. Of course, this is not a real issue as you can always go back and copy from youtube again.



(4) Go to blogger.com and create a new post. Choose "Edit Html" (instead of "Compose" mode) and just paste the code there. Here is a sample screen shot:



(5) Go back to "Compose" mode if you are not familiar with the "Edit Html" mode. Edit whateve needed and PUBLISH POST.

Your youtube clip will look something like this one:



That's all... Have a try...

P.S. Adding youtube clip to Facebook is easier.

几时再 blog?

女姐的 blog 早建于 2005年11月6日，但阿姐已经有一段时间没有 update。

Pom 说...

http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=10411278&postID=7200886835601143707&isPopup=true


已更新
http://shallwetalk.blogspot.com/2007/11/blog-post_8889.html

《穿衣话题》

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http://lifetea.org/article/1822/#评论

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Disneyland

from my friend's blog:

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We had this interesting experience by calling the Hong Kong Disneyland hotline at (852) 35504000 lately.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN52G-zKfr8

《再见，故宫的星巴客——胖星儿来回答周末版》

http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/5919b50e01000cbq