2010-04-17

My Facebook Friends' Profile

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My original aim to us Facebook is to make reunion to my old school-mates and friends. It works (though I find some of my friends are very r...
2010-04-07

Creating Scrolling Banner using Gimp

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This is my second Gimp script. (The first is 'Gimp Polaroid Filter' published in Dec 2009 Why I write this second script is trigge...

IT consumer or IT producer

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Sometime ago, I read an article on notebook PC product positioning. The product manager mentioned something like they have a series of note...
2010-04-05

Scrolling Banner using CSS

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I used to create animated GIF for scrolling web banners. However, this is very time-consuming. Yes, I know there are the following alternat...
2010-04-03

大師，點解我每次感冒…我都會咳？

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這個成藥廣告，是繼《你值得擁有》（ 見我另一編Blog ）我最覺得反感的！由於主角引用宿命論云云，所以每次在電視看到這個廣告，我都會自己加插以下旁白： 大師，點解我每天吃飽飯後，都要上廁所？ 點解我心情緊張，都會手心出汗？ 點解我每次消化不良，都要放屁？ 等等… 大師，這是不是宿...
2010-02-25

密底算盤

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見２０１０年２月２５日的都市日報
2010-02-15

塔勒布 在 【黑天鵝】的名句

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舊年（２００９）在深圳書城買了本"THE BLACK SWAN: The Impact of the Highly Improbable"中譯本，發覺題材非常新鮮，有很多發人心醒的內容。但由於是中譯本，始終不知原著的語句。 上星期，終於在圖書館借到原英文本（２...
2010-01-28

不是小兒科的數字

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近期在新聞報導常常聽到一些很大的數字，如多少百億興建高鐵，金融海嘯有關的天文數字等，令我覺得其實有多少人知道其真正「份量」？ 有次在街上，聽到一母親教她的兒子數十進制：個、十、百、千、萬、十萬、百萬、千萬、 億萬 ...我覺得愕然，為何會由千萬特跳到億萬呢？難怪現在的小孩不識理財...
2009-12-20

Gimp Polaroid Filter

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To make my photo posting on my blog more interesting, I have usually resorted to use Gimp's "Round Corner" Script-Fu. I like ...
2009-11-06

Using LINQ to retrieve XML data

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Although it is like "to use a cannon to kill a mosquito", I find using LINQ to read XML has a clear advantage - to read the node...