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| 這個地方即將關閉, 原因很簡單, 就是其實我一直都很不喜歡 xanga.
這裏給我的感覺很怪, 完全不似一個寫 blog 的地方.
第一次接觸 xanga 是五年前, 那時候, 大家還在 showhappy 中寫交換日記, xanga, 是我一個去了加拿大的朋友告訴我的, 他說, 這裏很多好玩的東西......
在這裏寫了一年, 好玩就不覺得了, 只是 xanga 這個系統卻老實不穩定. 排錯了日期也算了, 刪了我的文事大.
blog 我還會繼續寫, 至於會在那裏, 留意小弟的網站, 或直接問我吧. 
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| 臨收工收到中大圖書館系統0既電話. 話叫我 interview.....
我最後一次出 job application 都已經係三個月前0既事, 佢0地0既工作效率..... um.......
或者係我排得後, 有人唔做先搵返疊 job application 出0黎搵人見啦. XD
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| 今天一開那個 secure log 一看, 大吃一跳......
國內的同胞的確勁.....
上線一星期的新 server 已經被發現, 不停嘗試硬闖..... (ssh brute force attack)
用了大半個小時上 google 查一查, 同一個 ip address 原來已經不少網站列為黑名單.....
看來以後要加倍小心........
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| 幫一個 professor 將0的錄影帶轉做 DVD, 搵到呢一條廣告片....
當年0既香港電訊.... 應該都係一間好搵得錢0既公司.....
有邊個諗到.......
條廣告片0係個 professor 珍藏0既一餅九七回歸錄影帶度搵到.....
當年0既香港人.... 對回歸應該都滿懷希望....
又有邊個會諗到.....
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| 咁先合理0架嘛....
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/08/24/pluto_spa.html?category=space&guid=20060824093000&dcitc=w19-506-ak-0008
It's Official: Pluto Is Not a Planet
Associated Press
Aug. 24, 2006 — Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight.
After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930. The new definition of what is — and isn't — a planet fills a centuries-old black hole for scientists who have labored since Copernicus without one.
Although astronomers applauded after the vote, Jocelyn Bell Burnell — a specialist in neutron stars from Northern Ireland who oversaw the proceedings — urged those who might be "quite disappointed" to look on the bright side.
"It could be argued that we are creating an umbrella called 'planet' under which the dwarf planets exist," she said, drawing laughter by waving a stuffed Pluto of Walt Disney fame beneath a real umbrella.
The decision by the prestigious international group spells out the basic tests that celestial objects will have to meet before they can be considered for admission to the elite cosmic club.
For now, membership will be restricted to the eight "classical" planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Much-maligned Pluto doesn't make the grade under the new rules for a planet: "a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a ... nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit."
Pluto is automatically disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune's.
Instead, it will be reclassified in a new category of "dwarf planets," similar to what long have been termed "minor planets." The definition also lays out a third class of lesser objects that orbit the sun — "small solar system bodies," a term that will apply to numerous asteroids, comets and other natural satellites.
It was unclear how Pluto's demotion might affect the mission of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which earlier this year began a 9 1/2-year journey to the oddball object to unearth more of its secrets.
The decision at a conference of 2,500 astronomers from 75 countries was a dramatic shift from just a week ago, when the group's leaders floated a proposal that would have reaffirmed Pluto's planetary status and made planets of its largest moon and two other objects.
That plan proved highly unpopular, splitting astronomers into factions and triggering days of sometimes combative debate that led to Pluto's undoing.
Now, two of the objects that at one point were cruising toward possible full-fledged planethood will join Pluto as dwarfs: the asteroid Ceres, which was a planet in the 1800s before it got demoted, and 2003 UB313, an icy object slightly larger than Pluto whose discoverer, Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena has nicknamed Xena.
Charon, the largest of Pluto's three moons, is no longer under consideration for any special designation.
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