和而不同

I think I spent the whole holiday dedicated to it.

老大說這網誌很久沒有新文章了。
既然他有留意，就該做一點事吧。

I wish there were some video like this before our elections back in September. More than one friend of mine have difficulties recognising their rights. Seriously, voting—what is the point?

Jennifer Aniston, ‘I hear polar bear can swim’.

故事很簡單，就是兩個 best friend 希望有天可以登上報紙的 C1 版，可惜成為明人後卻變成敵人。我的朋友納悶：一個這麼老套的故事要如何作結？

老實說，我看的時候沒有帶腦思考，就只是隨着故事的發展，換句話說就是懶，到完場才知到故事說甚麼。

大概這是黃偉文的意思，最後用上了他填詞的《最佳損友》，這正正是此劇的大綱，帶出了此劇要說的故事。

我以為這就是結尾了。友誼缺裂了，還可以做甚麼？難道要和好如初？這仍會是一個很老套的結局。

最後他們沒有和好，也沒有各走各路，而是繼續互相鬥氣，但鬥氣後又回心微笑，是一段很特別的關係，一時難以介定這是朋友或是敵人。創作人沒有為這段關係下定論，是要留給觀眾思考嗎？

從前共你　促膝把酒　傾通宵都不夠
我有痛快過　你有沒有
很多東西今生只可給你　保守至到永久
別人如何明白透

一段不平凡的關係，何必為它加上一個平凡的標籤。

Last.fm is a social networking website for music. It records what I have been listening and builds my music profile from that. Before I have my iPhone, I use my iPod to listen to music and sync these information to last.fm when I sync my iPod with iTunes. There are major limitations to this method, including that it only counts the last time a track was played.

Now that I have an iPhone (which is basically a computer), and with cellular network connectivity that makes my phone always connected to the Internet, I can forget about syncing—the phone can post the tracks as they are played. This can be done easily by running Scrobbled (which in my opinion should be pronounced ‘Scrobble-d’).

Browse to my last.fm profile page and you should be able to see what I am listening, with a delay of probably a minute or two.

Apple has just announced a new iPod touch. It is not a whole lot different than the previous generation, but clearly Apple is aiming to market it as a gaming device. If NDS is the most popular gaming device to date, iPod touch/iPhone maybe next.

Fellow Hong Kongers and citizens of the World, this is the newly elected legislative councillor of the Hong Kong SAR.

I just bought a D-Link DIR-320 wireless router (802.11g compatible) for HK$325. While some friends might consider it a bit expensive considering 802.11n routers at comparable price point. I bought it because it has 32M memory and it is (relatively) easy to flash it with custom firmware. Yay!

The first thing I do after I bought it from the retail store is to flash it with the dd-wrt standard firmware. The instructions are simple enough, the problem is that it just doesn’t work for me. I need to tftp the image to the firmware when the router is booting up, which is a split of a second after the ethernet link comes up. I never could get the perfect timing at least on the PowerMac I was using.

And then I booted my MacBook Pro into Windows XP (which I rarely do) and try to flash the firmware from there, exactly as described by the instructions. I have thoughtlessly repeated the process many times before the firmware finally get flashed. It seems I have to catch a perfect timing.

A whole new world opens after the router is running with custom firmware. There are a hell of a lot of settings I can manipulate, though I will not change most of them. The most notable improvements include support for VLAN, multiple SSIDs, SSH, etc. In other words, I transformed this $325 router into a $3xxx router. XD

無論計劃得如何周詳
被一個突如其來殺過措手不及
最終事情我控制不了也掌握不了

回想問題的起源早在數星期前種下引旨
就算再聰明，都無可能預測得到這個結果
無論如何當天的判斷力實在太差勁
在大學時期的我無可能作出愚蠢的選擇
要怪天意弄人倒不如怪自己
可能是太累了
一時忘記了本來的行事方式

緣起緣滅
既然無緣就應當放開心情，從容面對
但要再活多少年，才可以達致這個境界？

說回判斷，就只是個二選一的簡單選擇
分別代表着衝突的兩邊
走到這個路口，本來容易選擇
但朋友未必和我走相同的路
跟着走發現這不是我想要的
只好後悔

路上，回想自己走過的路
重新劃定自己的行事方式
寄望下個決定，進退都有所跟據

一個星期前行經沙田連城廣場，看到一張新界東名單的候選人在舉行拉票活動，他們以環保為口號，不派傳單。

我考慮了很久，仍然覺得他們的衣服上印着的是大麻葉，也就是時下潮人衣服印着的流行圖案。「為下一代準備」是甚麼的意思？

數天前無綫電視探討新界西的選情，當中一段數秒的片段可見好氣量的演出者為某候選人打氣。好戲量最近被捱轟，這樣的行徑是否與政黨合作？既自稱藝術的團體但卻與政黨扯上關係，這條路應怎樣行是一個疑問。

我終於收到選舉事務處出版的新界西候選人簡介，當中不乏有趣的地方。在第二十二頁，候選人的政綱寫着「維護兩岸和平」，而且候選人是「馬英九香港民間之友會」執行長。

第十二頁的候選人更有趣，政綱有兩點寫道：「促進中港民主政制」和「推動中、港、台、澳和平統一」，看來這位候選人比泛民、比建制走得更遠。