我家的唐狗小黑今天二十歲生日。從小黑出生的那一天，小黑每大一歲，祖國GDP最少升個八巴仙。不幸的是小黑年事已高，近年多有連累祖國。去年打個噴嚏，來了個雪暴。五月的那個冷顫更是塗炭生靈。由此可見，小黑的健康絕對是興國利民之本。
上述當然是笑話一則。但近來社會上就是有人可以把一個更爛的偽邏輯言之鑿鑿說成事實。「沒有武力清場就沒有新中國」背後的理據，比起「小黑大一歲 = 8% GDP Growth」更站不住腳。假若前者就此成立，我的博士論文還用得著花那麼多時間寫？幸好為此背書的好像沒有經濟學家或統計學家，不然我得為我的專業重新打分了。
朋友，即使您認為當年是有清場的必要，即使您二十年來每年今日都不會去維園，還請您尊重您我他的智商，不要隨便拿祖國今天的成就來正當然化二十年前的那一夜。
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Alright let’s not pretend we couldn’t have guessed how the story would end. Silly politics. Unrealistic travel time. Bullet-speed conversations. And of course, Jack Bauer is always right, particularly when it comes to torturing for information. Still the gunfights are second to none, which is really the only reason why I continue watching the show.
American Idol
I did my part–voted twenty times with 5 different phones for Adam Lambert–but in the end Kris Allen triumphed over Adam. Personally I really like Adam’s final performances more than Kris’, particularly the last song “No Boundaries”. Now on the song, I actually like it somewhat. The lyrics are terrible–e.g. “Just when you’ve almost gave up on your dreams”–but I do enjoy the melody.
CSI:NY
I longer I watch this show I more I adore Gary Sinise, great acting. It is unfortunately that Emmanuelle Vaugier (Jessica Angell) is leaving the show, but at least fans will have the comfort that all the regular cast are staying, for now.
Storm Rider II (風雲II)
Due at the end of the year, this movies feels like one of Frank Miller’s, but made 10 years back. Seriously, these guys need to work more on the keying (aka “blue-screening”).
Recommended: Star Trek
10 times better than The Next Generation series of movies. Finally we see again a Trek movie that doesn’t look like a two-hour TV episode.
No bad, better than Da Vinci Code in my opinion. The story is predictable without reading the novel, but I would say it still makes the cut as an entertaining thriller.
That said, by giving out all these goodies for free no wonder Sun is in trouble financially…
Windows has been so favorable in my sight for the past few days that I have decided to install it on my Fujitsu P1610 Tablet as well, and now I can say they are simply a match. Superbar works great, better tablet input panel (TIP) than Vista, and better still, runs way much faster than Vista. Ever since I went back to XP Tablet edition I mourned of losing all of Vista’s tablet-friendly features, but back then the trade-off on speed was simply too much to bear. Now comes Windows 7, which has all the perks of Vista but runs almost as fast as, if not faster, than XP. Dream come true!
This is what Vista should have been all along. Given the level of favorable opinions out on the street the migration to Windows 7 should be much faster than the one to Vista. And that hasn’t considered Virtual XP on Windows 7 yet.
I pray for thee.
Given all the positive feedback Windows 7 is getting–relative to Vista at least–I decided I should give it a try. So after a 3GB download and a surprisingly speedy installation, here I am blogging on Windows 7 64-bit RC 1!
So how’s it?
–It feel snappier. Now granted Vista 64-bit wasn’t that bad to start with on my desktop, but the difference with Vista 32-bit is night-and-day. Yes I know, I am comparing apples or oranges here.
–Aero overload. The whole glassy interface is a bit too much even for me, so this surely won’t please someone who appreciate simplicity, such as my ex-girlfriend. Aero peek is a nice feature though–it allows you to see small snapshots of all instances of the same application together.
–Smaller Footprint. A vanilla Vista installation with updates takes 20GB. Windows 7 is only taking 15 so far. Now the Beta was even smaller at ~10GB, but well…
–Better Internet Explorer. Finally it no longer takes ages to open a new tab. That said, Microsoft, as much as I thank you on this, I am still sticking with Firefox.
–Artistic/Silly/Un-Microsoft Wallpapers. Pick your word, but it is a break from scenery photos.
A fresh install solved the dreaded “Internal Server Error 500” issue. And hey, I’m now on WordPress 2.7.1! What a big change from what I was using…was it WP 1.5?
Now that Battlestar Galactica is finally over, the cast and crew got to find something to do, right? The latest episode of CSI featured cameos with Ronald Moore, Grace Park and Kate Vernon. Ellen talking about people killing each other over ideology and Moore rejecting a remake of an old sci-fi, that’s amusing.
也夠了，即使我自己還糾纏在回憶中，亦不該成為別人展開新生的障礙。一個人寂寞，總比兩個人都困擾要好。