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16 July, 2005

有關新科林

新「科林」的初步發展計劃已定,特點是:

  1. 會採用最新的伺服器,包括雙 Xeon 和 64-bit 操作系統,為用戶提供最高的速度
  2. 以免費、高容量相簿作號召
  3. 會採用較為嚴謹管理手法,所有留言必需切合討論區不同的主題

現時暫定九月初正式啟用,目標是在三年內,能成為全港最「實用」的討論區。


而最後亦是最重要一點,就是占博士不會做新討論區的網主!占博士本來是計劃自資設立一個新討論區的,但碰巧有「老細」亦有興趣嘗做討論區的網主,找占博士提供技術支援(當然是有酬的)。一樣是虧本和吃力不討好的工作,而另一樣則是酬勞和興趣兼得的工作,你會選哪一樣?

01 July, 2005

The Purpose of Life

I am on a business trip now with my decent IBM ThinkPad X41, which is a perfect machine with the exception of the lack of a numeric keypad, which makes me incapable to enter Chinese with Q9 input method.

Everything when I am aboard, I always try to finish reading a book to kill the travel time. This time, I have just completed one called The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom.

The book is all about an old guy who is going to die (or already dead?), has met several persons waiting for him in "Heaven", and each of them represents an important part of the old guy's past life, and thus brings out the main theme that each person, no matter being big or small, important or trivial, will always has his/her own meaning of life.

You can treat this book as a novel for light reading. On the other hand, it could be a very "heavy" book, which is about serious subjects like the meaning or the purpose of life.

Among all the people from different nations that I have met, I often have the impression that people from Hong Kong, including myself, have the least sense of developing a "meaningful" life.

It is true that we all study, play and work extremely hard but what's the purpose behind such a hard-working life? We always strive to achieve higher marks in exams, to score higher or kill more rivials in online games, and to make more bucks to afford luxury items like latest DCs, PCs, cars or even apartments. However, after all, are we happier than before?

Should we slow down our pace a bit to enjoy life? Should we spend more time with our relatives, good friends or on community works, rather than chasing those never-ending achievements?

In the end, I don't want to meet nobody or just the pop-stars in my after death.

I don't have a clue yet, do you?