搬家了

這篇文我起草的時候，日曆還只翻到十月二十號。到今天按下Publish的時候已過十一月上旬了，只能說，很忙。

忙什麼？很多，形形「色色」（正字節目中教的），跟裝修工程的「老細」們角力，跟母親東奔西走的看樣版，安排間格睇料設計度尺擺設搬屋執房...，樣樣勞心勞力，很累人。

現下住2216，垃圾房邊的殘破單位租價竟然要五千五，包你生锈熱水爐，會「閃爍」的日光管，漫天「蠅」火，「擦破了一片皮」的浴缸，另附送每天準六時半的倒垃圾碎玻璃morning call，難怪香港的不動產會這麼好賺。

這段艱苦歲月裏的唯一消遺是跟口水看了兩套電影，跟團長定了下一個教察日期,與及到損友處看漫畫。

適逢其會，口水及損友同時請教我讀英文的方法，正好借此機會溫故知新一番。

看完霍金的時間簡史，大作一本，推論大體上都明白，唯獨箇中的量子物理顯然是非我族類，遲下要請教高人指點。

» 誰明阿扁心

Money' Wedding

發記甜品, 唔睇就笨
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慶典，共青，回憶

陳基走了，伴隨而來的那膨脹到極點的氣氛像世界盃完結一樣，一下子冷卻下來，所有因他名而號召的眾多飯局、聚會亦告一段落，下一次的慶典很可能要三五年後。沒有任何失落，因為科技發達。

共青在團長的英明領導下，已經定下了行動的網領及代號。團長意外的積極表現令身為幹部的我十分汗顏，真要多加反省。幹部會議後繼續指定項目，第一局之後我跟口水的表現均不斷下滑，看來桌球相當花精神，埋單的時候連基本的心算都弄得一團糟，認真失敗。

返家的途中，同口水聊到朋友的事情，意猶未盡，大家把初中那段黃金歲月逐一細味。那些被遺忘的一點一滴再一印證重現眼前，笑當年的稚嫩，但無悔青春。

今年紅鑾星動，友好們都好像若即若離，作為真心的朋友，感嘆的同時，為他們送上真摰的祝福。

按:
1. 做得大佬的果然係有charm, 敢怒敢言真漢子，佩服
2. 好有感趣一暏大佬以前的肥仔look
3. 竟然有女王的教室現實版發生在我認識的人身上

馮景:
需要帶面具去維繫的感情, 不會長久
只愛自己的人, 不會是好情人

雖然我了解你, 但同性朋友難言「溫柔體貼」 (我還未想斷背), 所以我只能撐你

閒聊 2

自陳基學成歸來後，飯局一個緊接一個，剛為自己制定的理財三步曲未實行就已被打破，失敗！

長久以來，生日從來不會有慶祝活動，不曾要求收到禮物，不曾希望有生日會、生日蛋糕諸如此類，廿幾年過後的今日早已看淡，但真的要感謝陳基的一片心意，令我深深感受到心意卡中的關切之情。(難怪這麼多人爭做阿斯蘭)

共青行動第一組在毛兄的策劃下已進入最後階段，希望一切順利。

「我」真的「戀愛」了!!!!!

不是by王菀之
請即參考是日例湯38隆重登場

Einstein's Problem

There are a number of variations of this problem, But basically all fall on the same constraint-solving domain. Here is the original version.

Facts:

1. There are 5 houses (along the street) in 5 different colors:
   blue, green, red, white and yellow.
2. In each house lives a person of a different nationality:
   Brit, Dane, German, Norwegian and Swede.
3. These 5 owners drink a certain beverage:
   beer, coffee, milk, tea and water,
4. smoke a certain brand of cigar:
   Blue Master, Dunhill, Pall Mall, Prince and blend,
5. and keep a certain pet:
   cat, bird, dog, fish and horse.
6. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage.

Hints:

1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the left of the white house (next to it).
5. The green house owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes blend lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

The question is:

Who keeps fish?

閒聊

世界盃轉眼又打到決賽，之前看好的阿根廷，可惜一早已經出局。跟老細由四強開始打賭，注碼一個午餐，目前己經穩吃兩頓"白"飯，只差決賽，施丹加油呀!

旅行的相正以十分緩慢的進度處理中，新機未熟手影得差無辨法。另外有幾十張save係陳基部機，要等佢番黎先攞到....

部腦又唔生性，有得聽歌就冇得上網，一係就hang機，唉，打亂哂我原定的升級計劃，拜託頂多半年，至少都要等conroe大賣先，唔該...

Girlfriend 6.0 vs Wife 1.0

Last year a friend of mine upgraded from GirlFriend 6.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that it's a memory hog leaving very little system resources available for other applications. He is now noticing that Wife 1.0 is also spawning Child Processes which are further consuming valuable resources. No mention of this particular phenomena was included in the product brochure or the documentation, though other users have informed him that this is to be expected due to the nature of the application.

Not only that, Wife 1.0 installs itself such that it is always launched at system initialization, where it can monitor all other system activity. He's finding that some applications such as PokerNight 10.3, BeerBash 2.5, and PubNight 7.0 are no longer able to run in the system at all, crashing the system when selected (even though they always worked fine before). During installation, Wife 1.0 provides no option as to the installation of undesired Plug-Ins such as MotherInLaw 55.8 and BrotherInLaw Beta release. Also, system performance seems to diminish with each passing day.

Some features he'd like to see in the upcoming wife 2.0.

1. a "Don't remind me again" button
2. a Minimize button
3. An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 be installed with the option to uninstall at any time without the loss of cache and other system resources
4. An option to run the network driver in promiscuous mode which would allow the system's hardware probe feature to be much more useful.

I myself decided to avoid the headaches associated with Wife 1.0 by sticking with Girlfriend 7.0. Even here, however, I found many problems. Apparently you cannot install Girlfriend 7.0 on top of Girlfriend 6.0. You must uninstall Girlfriend 6.0 first. Other users say this is a long standing bug that I should have known about. Apparently the versions of Girlfriend have conficts over shared use of the I/O port. You think they would have fixed such a stupid bug by now. To make matters worse, The uninstall program for Girlfriend 6.0 doesn't work very well leaving undesirable traces of the application in the system. Another thing -- all versions of Girlfriend continually popup little annoying messages about the advantages of upgrading to Wife 1.0.
Bug Warning

Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug. If you try to install Mistress 1.1 before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before doing the uninstall itself. Then Mistress 1.1 will refuse to install, claiming insufficient resources.

Bug work-arounds: To avoid this bug, try installing Mistress 1.1 on a different system and never run any file transfer applications such as Laplink 6.0. Also, beware of similar shareware applications that have been known to carry viruses that may affect Wife 1.0. Another solution would be to run Mistress 1.1 via a UseNet provider under an anonymous name. Here again, beware of the viruses which can accidently be downloaded from the UseNet.
Tech Support Suggestions

These are very common problem men complain about, but is mostly due to a primary misconception. Many people upgrade from Girlfriend 6.0 to Wife 1.0 with the idea that Wife 1.0 is merely a Utilities & Entertainment program. Wife 1.0 is indeed an operating system and designed by its creator to run everything.

It is unlikely you would be able to purge Wife 1.0 and still convert back to Girlfriend 6.0. Hidden operating files within your system would cause Girlfriend 6.0 to emulate Wife 1.0 so nothing is gained. It is impossible to uninstall, delete, or purge the program files from the system once installed. You cannot go back to Girlfriend 6.0 because Wife 1.0 is not designed to do this.

Some have tried to install Girlfriend 7.0 or Wife 2.0 but end up with more problems than the original system. Look in your manual under "Warnings - Alimony/Child support". I recommend you keep Wife 1.0 and deal with the situation.

I suggest installing background application program C:\YES DEAR to alleviate software augmentation. Having installed Wife 1.0 myself, I might also suggest you read the entire section regarding General Partnership Faults (GPFs). You must assume all responsibility for faults and problems that might occur, regardless of their cause. The best course of action will be to enter the command C:\APOLOGIZE. In any case avoid excessive use of C:\YES DEAR because ultimately you may have to give the APOLOGIZE command before the operating system will return to normal. The system will run smoothly as long as you take the blame for all the GPFs.

Wife 1.0 is a great program, but very high-maintenance. Consider buying additional software to improve the performance of Wife 1.0. I recommend Flowers 3.1 and Diamonds 2K. Do not, under any circumstances, install Secretary with Short Skirt 3.3. This is not a supported application for Wife 1.0 and is likely to cause irreversible damage to the operating system.

Best of Luck,
Tech Support


Source: http://www.math.unipd.it/~favero/varie/ragazzauk.html

囍

朋友的日誌中忍忍約約地流露出令人可喜的消息，雖然未經證實，但以我看柯南多年所得的推理能力，想必十不離二啦，哈哈。

這絕對是一件大事啊，遙想當年他房間的那張四句「格言」(亦可作目標X戲言，理想X廢話等)，真的不知是要誇他還是要笑他。總之我這個密探可以不負陳基托負的重任了。

我不其然地想象他另一面的情境：關注的眼神、溫柔的言語、體貼的服務、豪邁的點菜......撐不下了，放過我吧，太噁心了，嘻。

看到的話，你都是自己招吧，免得吾等用刑。

看看自己，唉......。神呀，救救我吧。(拜託質素好一點 :p)

身影

上班的時候，看到一個熟悉的身影，感覺是疲憊而沉重的。朋友的身邊帶著女朋友的孩子，穿著黃士心的運動服外加一臉不肖的樣子，如傳言一樣正好一個小霸王格。

朋友雖然一身穩重的白領裝束，但跟依然稚氣的臉孔，其實不太相襯。看見我的時候，他擺了個不知是難堪還是無奈的笑容，他大概沒預計會碰到我吧，但可以肯定，這並不是我以前曾看到的。

我無法把這個畫面與每天在公司樓下幼兒園看到的情境相連。到底，這可不是我們這群乳臭未乾的傢伙所能模仿的。背後所代表的，有著終生的承諾，有著不能推卸的責任。

朋友生性太順和了，不會拒絕人，怕他日會後悔。

女人真的會對男人產生很巨大的影響力喔，
那個背影簡直和上一次見倒他的時候完全不一樣的，
不是肉體上的，是精神上的。

同感。

「愛」經常被歌頌、被神性化、被喧染；那，他做對了嗎？設身處地，我又會如何？

下一站廣州

四月上旬，跟口水兩人上廣州玩了二日，用了不到半天的時間準備，但節目依然豐富。原定計劃是有三個人的，但某人染上了放鴿子的習慣，所以起行時少了一個。

因為只留宿一晚，所以狠下心腸選了白天鵝做下榻的酒店，當是見識一下五星級的威力。國家級的果然不同，酒店的老外比港燦多之餘，服務水準跟接持員的相貎一樣好。酒店每層專為你按電梯的人會跟老外們聊天(不是老外用普通話喔)、出入酒店還有人拉門、免費升級面向珠江的豪華房絕對值回票價。

文化景點叫做中規中矩，一貫很中國的模式，不著重保養卻有收取入場費、缺少展品的介紹、工作人員態度散慢，加起來就是中國文化遊總叫人失望的原因。剩下能吸引人的就只有物價低廉，以及地方小吃兩項。

「吃在廣州」一點不假，兩天的行程橫掃了幾家百年老店，菜色一流絕無欺場，50多塊結賬足以成為全場中的豪客，飽肚之餘又能充面子。大同酒家的蒜香肉酥而不膩、南信的雙皮奶味濃且醇，值得一試再試。遺憾的是找不到中森明菜，見識不到傳說中整個商場大的樓面，以及消化能力不足以一天吃六餐。我之所以堅持景點若相近則步行，其中莫大原因就是為了能多吃一點，可惜今倘戰利品太重而實在走不動。

戰利品全部是書，因為書城太平太多而差點把金庸的幾部長篇搬回來，後來考慮到家裡沒地方擺放而最終放棄了。

行程中的一段小插曲是晚上被一位我打九十分的服務員問要不要「開夜床」而嚇了一跳，事後十分後悔沒跟她合照及要手機號碼。

加國之行 - 序章

早幾天的時候為了兌現到加拿大的承諾，弄得非常繁忙。本以為早三個月訂機票應該卓卓有餘，到了旅行社查詢之下才大嚇一跳: 日航、星航未有價錢；聯合、西北機位全滿；加航、國泰沒有優惠推廣，最低消費九千大圓...在預算有限而中六合彩遙遙無期的情況，唯有改時間就機票。

因此出發日期由1號改為2號，回程由10號攺為11號，誰知正在跟陳基作最後確認之際，旅行社職員又說機位沒了，無奈之下只能嘆一句：「頂」。

天無絕人之路，行程一改再改之下，最後找到了途經美國的機票，唯有先出機票後補簽證。此行所費不菲，單機票就要五千大圓，外加簽證八百，不知要節衣縮食多夠才能補回...

《孔雀森林》

無意中發現蔡智恆有新書出版: 《孔雀森林》
今次的主題是心理學，寫得不錯，淺白易懂不造作。

2005年的Reading List

成績還可以，大部份都是小說，調劑一下生活

閒書類

1. 瓊瑤 - 窗外
2. 瓊瑤 - 心有千千結
3. 瓊瑤 - 一簾幽夢
4. 瓊瑤 - 梅花烙
5. 瓊瑤 - 鬼丈夫
6. 瓊瑤 - 水雲間
7. 瓊瑤 - 幾度夕陽紅
8. 瓊瑤 - 寒煙翠
9. 瓊瑤 - 船
10. 梁羽生 - 七劍下青山
11. 村上春樹 - 舞舞舞吧!
12. 村上春樹 - 尋羊冒險記
13. 片山恭一 - 在世界中心呼喚愛
14. 黃霑 - 不文集
15. Da Vinci's Code

參考書類

1. Understanding Windows Registry
2. Java Game Design and Programming
3. Design Pattern for Java

今年應該會多看一點跟Design Pattern, CICS及經濟學有關的作品，有值得看的書不妨介紹一下。