Mo-ing 毛語錄

人要承認自己不會什麼，遠比承認自己會什麼困難許多。永遠只抓住自己能力所及的東西來做，這樣怎麼會有成長呢?(我又開始說教了)。

有一句話說：「計畫永遠趕不上變化」，現實生活中的確如此，但若因此不去做任何計畫，這應該就只是自己利用它去逃避的一個藉口，或者是因為自己根本不會、心裡打死不想做任何事前規劃的事情，寧願迫在眉睫再來趕鴨子上架，這樣搞死自己，生活真的會比較輕鬆嗎？

昨天早上剛上班，同事就丟過來一個 link: google.pchome.com.tw，但…. 這東西是怎麼回事啊？我講的不是 Google 跟 PCHome, Yam, 新浪 等國內公司合作這件事，而是 Google 似乎一再違反自己當初的原則: Don’t be evil / Search, no Ads. 難道真的是 IPO 以後，把理想跟口號隨著股價起起落落來做「階段性調整」嗎？ 於是，我為您獻上一篇: Why Google Is Like Wal-Mart ，或許看完以後，也能會心一笑。

Through Photo Matt, here are two auth plugins which are interesting:

• HTTP auth
• IMAP auth

ps: Norman sent me a note to update his new site, thanks!

我家昨天來了一個新客人：一隻小米格魯。據說是被撿到的，然後還在原地等了好久沒人來認領才帶回家，這隻米格魯相當活潑好動，而且前一位主人教的很好，丟球會咬回來領賞，叫他坐下握手都聽得懂，帶去外面散步就會大小便了，真乖。相形之下，荳荳馬上就遜掉了啊！ 過兩天帶去動物醫院，掃瞄看看身上有沒有晶片，真的都沒有人來認領的話，小米格魯就真的得在家裡呆下來了。

From CNN: E-mails ‘hurt IQ more than pot’, this is true.

我發現上班時間花越多時間在檢查新到信件，就越少時間可以做事，因為進行到一半的事情總是被信件的內容打斷，包括自己的專心程度也會降低，所以我的 thunderbird 取消自動檢查新到信件的功能，然後，通常我都是在工作到一個段落後才開始收信。

比較好玩的調查結果有: * 接受調查的人裡，有一半的人花了平均60分鐘的時間去回一封信, 這會不會太久了點？如果是討論專業領域的方面，花這麼久的時間打一封信，不是你在跟對方做無謂的爭論，就是在於兩方都沒有辦法取得共識。如果是一般雜物的信件，省省吧！花這麼多時間搞出來的信，八成那內容過於花俏、繁複，如果我自己收到，連看都不必看，省得浪費自己時間。 * 超過九成的人認為，在會議上直接回覆別人一個在 email 裡提到的問題，這是不禮貌的行為。WTF!!

最糟的是，調查結果顯示，不管讀或寫 email 都會讓你在工作時的IQ降低！所以以後只要一天開兩次 thunderbird, 收上午跟下午的信就足夠了.

From Seth’s post: Things that change, I confirmed that Gmail quota has been increased up to 2115MB, see my screenshots taken by now.

It’s too late to launch 1Giga free mail for Yahoo!. I think it’s not really important to race this storage size game. Seth made a good point: Things always change is more attractive, if Y! wanna win this game, at least don’t follow the game rule. Try something new, special first.

From Seth’s post: Playing by (and losing by) the rules:

Market leaders make up the rules. They establish the systems and the covenants and the benchmarks that a market plays by. (and yes, a market leader can be a church, a political party or a non-profit) If you play by those rules, you will almost certainly lose.

so, once we have Gmail why we need another Y! 1GB Mail? It’ s not about competition or PR issue or brand image or whatever marketing guys/gals called. Leaders make rule, and No. 2 just follow.

Seems that I lost my cell phone tonight, cannot figure it out where my Nokia 6230 is. Also cannot dial through my phone number: “No response of this number at the moment” blah…..

I have a problem to see wp-blogtimes’ link in support forum. So I’m going to host this plugin for a while: wp-blogtimes.tar.gz and wp-blogtimes.zip

This is the same version as wp-plugins wiki. Please read the README and go through it.

From Anil Dash’es blog: Inequality. I list the interesting ineqality lists below:

* Being a geek growing up != Sociology or anthropology degree
* Coming up with an idea != Inventing something
* Knows a programming language != Understands politics
* Loud != Persuasive
* Gets other people to stop talking != Persuasive
* Coding Skill != Talent in Management, Business Development, Marketing, or the practice of Law
* Writes a lot != Writes well
* Funny != Correct
* Similar to me != Correct
* Well known != Respected
* Rude != Honest
* Polite != Honest
* Fast != Smart

I have Paul Graham’s book “Hacks & Painters” on my desktop too(only read first few sections though), I cannot tell which opinion is correct or not. But it’s valuable to go through Maciej’s argument and Paul’s original article about “Hackers & Painters” and see two-side thinking. Don’t get me wrong, I am not those “wannabies” to be a hacker or a painter. Mostly I intend NOT to be a hacker, at least not too famous. I know the correct way to use this word “hacker” before it becomes too popular. But, how many people do you see(or meet) from Internet whose just match exactly into the list? Too many I think.

Oh yeah, after one and half years my home ADSL speed is upgraded to 8M(U/L) / 640k(D/L) now. Hinet is the biggest ISP in Taiwan, but it is NEVER the best …. even not include in the top three of “better” one. As a customer, I can only complain a bit and keep using it because we have not-so-many choices in Taiwan, it’s sad.