鬼打鬼

究竟係賣x 粉嘅惡D定係阿爺惡D呢:
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/050421/12/1bs2i.html

又係時侯睇下所有專欄總動員嘅盛況，例如:
http://the-sun.com.hk/channels/news/20050424/20050424015627_0001_3.html

被迫害妄想症又發作了，不過今次唔敢話係阿爺迫害啦掛...

WMSCI 2005

I first know of this incident from a local Chinese newspaper. Well, fantastic! I can now write as many paper as I want. Something that most interests me:

(1) The response of the conference organizer (btw, why is it always the same person?): Oh he must be an expert in the theory of peer review. He quotes so many journal articles to support accepting "non-reviewed" papers. Even more, when authors asked for rejection reasons, he also cites so many literature to support him not providing reviewer comments. This sets the standard so high; I suppose I can never be a conference organizer if I need so much knowledge about this.

(2) Although I can generate as many papers as I wish, I probably couldn't get them into this prestigious conference, because as stated in their conference website:

Acceptance decisions related to the submitted papers will be based on their respective content review and/or on the respective author’s CV.

Given that I have such a poor CV, I must have no hope of getting them accepted.

(3) Could someone tell me whether the "get me off the fxxking mailing list" paper is accepted or not?

(4) They accepted 2904 papers last year. Wow! Can I also know how many papers are submitted?

(5) I generated several papers for myself. One is titled "Internet considered harmful", and another cites my own "paper" co-authored with D. Johnson (D S Johnson?) titled "Contrasting IPv6 and vacuum tubes"...

google talk

http://douweosinga.com/projects/googletalk looks very interesting in first sight, but very often it only gives "did did did did DID..." or simply stucks somewhere.
For someone, be sure to try it with "obsession with xxxxxx".
I've also tried "bill gates is"...

homepage visitors, yet again

I only realize by now that people from countries as diverse as Singapore, Spain, Austria etc. looked into my page about research. But more interestingly, the "403 Forbidden" page has a new usage (other than cheating people away): someone googled "forbidden" and landed on my page...

CityU (2): the office and the PC

Now the office. I'm in a room with 5 other people. This office is designed by a genius, with a 3-feet-in-diameter "pillar" (I hope this is the right word, you know how bad my English is) standing right inside the (small) room, and it is right behind me.
Beside it is a pile of unused "Legend" PCs, monitors, etc. I thought I'm in the department of computer recycling. But one thing I like is that it is very difficult for others to look at my screen.

And the PC. Actually they have plenty of PCs around, just that my boss has some PCs of his own (project grant??) and somehow his students can't dig it out without using several hours. And the network card is so special that it can't be automatically detected and used. The technical support gives me another network card. By the way, while they put almost all departments in the same building, they put the CS technical staff in another building.

CityU (1): the job

Ok, so I have finally got a PC and a network connection, and I can write something here. Um... when should I start?

The very first question: why am I here? That's because my old boss want to kick me out, and in order to kick me out quickly he has to find another place to put me in. I am staying here for maybe a short period of time only, depending on whether my boss succeeds in kicking me over the Pacific Ocean... or maybe not.

Originally, my job title here is "research fellow". But in the very last day before I took up the job they realized I have not obtained my PhD yet, and they immediately demoted me to be a "senior research assistant". (Yep, I think so, but I'm not really sure...)

April 1

This is not an April Fool's joke, and I'm now working in City University of Hong Kong.

There are too many "interesting" things happening these days, but I may have to write about them only in the coming days.

This is because this "computer" science department is too busy preparing April Fool's jokes, and can give me a computer only by 5pm in my first day, and then I still cannot get it to the web. So this post is made in my home computer, my first network connection today. And I cannot do my usual office-hour activities like watching stock prices and deleting junk mail...

worst thesis

So I didn't post for 2 weeks. That's because I'm writing the thesis. Definitely the worst thesis I have ever written. So don't bother me for 2 more days...

COCOON 05

I am, once again, reviewing papers for COCOON. This year, we have a record-breaking ~300 submissions. We all know Kunming is a beautiful place, but I never know people really like it so much. Fortunately I didn't submit anything there. On the other hand, there is another theory conference that is extending its deadline for a week...

咁橋...

[03年3月] 香港爆發沙士，德福花園QTUNG五座有人感染

[05年2月] 大埔林村許願樹折斷，董生隨即辭職

[05年3月] 董生成為國家領導人，華東華中隨即暴風雪 :
南京下大雪一夜跌20度，千名兒童發燒感冒入院 ;
上海氣溫驟降十七度，並下起暴雨，刮起八級強風 ;
武漢市下了十多年來最大的一場雪 ;
雲南怒江暴風雪，十五死十失蹤 ;
江西五十五個縣市出現積雪 ;
台灣中部及北部地區都在攝氏六至八度，今天部份山區會下雪 ;
香港十七年來首次於三月僅得九度;
...

奇文共賞(三)

幄帳無人用岳飛 - 梁立人

太陽報 08/03/2005
http://the-sun.com.hk/channels/news/20050308/20050308021826_0001_4.html

今天所有人都將注意力放在董之後的繼任人選身上，其實所有人都心
知肚明，此位已非曾蔭權莫屬[*]，所以，現在更重要的事情，莫過
於曾日後內閣人選的變化。

很多人以為，為穩定起見，曾應以不變應萬變。這種看法是非常短視
的，因為董的下台，目的正是求變，若不變的話，那他為何不完成兩
屆任期後才名正言順地求去？所以曾一定要變，而且應該大刀闊斧地
變，將董留下的飯桶奴才一掃而光，如民望最低的林瑞麟、能力最低
的梁愛詩、最無原則的王永平等就完全沒有留下的理由。

至於政務司司長的繼任人選，很多人都認為應在孫明揚和曾俊華中選
一人，但以在下之見，這兩人都並非戰將，孫公太過陰柔，沒有殺氣
；曾俊華資歷不足，難孚眾望，最佳人選是因二十三條立法中箭下馬
的葉劉淑儀，一來葉劉淑儀在二十三條立法中赤膊上陣，為曾蔭權擋
了致命的一擊，用自己的血染紅了曾的頂戴，簡直可以說是有救命之
恩；第二，葉劉淑儀在公務員隊伍中威望高，她的舊日幕僚現高踞政
府要職者不少，由她統領三軍恰當不過；第三，葉劉淑儀向以強勢稱
著，由她擔起特區的掃雷工作，實在不作第二人想。詩云：「公卿有
黨排宗澤，幄帳無人用岳飛。」葉劉淑儀直可說是今日香港的岳飛也
。

或許，曾劉之間過去曾有間隙，然而，成大事者，當有容人之量，若
曾能不計前嫌，重新召葉劉淑儀歸隊，相信她必感恩圖報。曾有王者
之風[*]，葉太是大將之才，兩人若合作無間，當是香港之福、市民
之福，相信中央政府亦會樂見曾劉聯手，重振香港聲威這一幕！

Comments:
[*] 你轉軚都轉得好快喎...

奇文共賞(二)

曾蔭權無緣當特首 - 梁立人

太陽報 (26/02/2005)
http://the-sun.com.hk/channels/news/20050226/20050226022725_0001_4.html


最近，曾蔭權人氣突升，不少人吹捧曾蔭權當第三屆特首，惟在下不
以為然，甚至可以斷言曾蔭權絕對無緣當特首。

很多人認為曾當殖民地長官多年，行事頗有分寸，深得為政之道，由
他主政，可得各方人和，殊不知道這正是當特首大忌之一，因為香港
回歸以來，殖民地味道揮之不去，港人對國家認同不高，所以，去殖
民地化正是第三任特首要做的事，若用曾蔭權為特首，豈不是衰多兩
錢重？

第二，中央對曾蔭權的賞識和顧忌同樣多，賞識他是由於他辦事穩重
，民望高，但所顧忌的也是一樣，若曾蔭權不聽指揮，必然也會得到
人民支持[1]，由於投鼠忌器，到時必不敢對曾痛下殺手，惟有委曲
求全，相信這絕不是中央政府所希望看到的現象。再者，只要我們看
看曾蔭權的弟弟曾蔭培以壯年退休，未獲挽留，便知道中央政府對曾
氏兄弟懷有戒心。

第三，不但曾蔭權，所有的殖民地政府高官和英國關係甚深，他們之
間有沒有其他默契是沒有人知道，也無法根查的。英國特工的策反工
作可以做到新華社高官頭上，他們引退之前又豈會不做手腳，在特區
政府內種下幾顆釘呢？[2]所以，所有前港英政府高官都不可能擔任
特首，否則到時被引爆，這個責任誰負？中央政府如何向十三億人民
交代？其他不必說，光是這一點，曾蔭權就沒有當第三任特首的緣分
。這點在下敢和任何人打賭！[3]

誰可當特首現在言之尚早，但甚麼人不可當特首卻可以一言蔽之，那
就是對外關係複雜的人、前殖民地高官（中國的臥底除外）[4]，以
及聰明如在下者[5]！

Comments:
[1] 不你咁坦白承認特首係要聽指揮的? "若曾蔭權不聽指揮，必然
也會得到人民支持", 你真係一針見血呀!
[2] 既然"英國特工的策反工作可以做到新華社高官頭上", 咁一樣
可以做到"愛國人士"身上, 不單止前港英政府高官喎... 咁邊個做
特首?
[3] 請問你而家仲受唔受注?
[4] 不原來有"中國的臥底"...國家機密喎...
[5] 真係聰明到冇得頂...

Tung in Wikipedia

How come people can update things so quickly even when it is not officially announced yet?

And how come even resignation can be so 議而不決?

And why all HK people are so calm and there is no celebration?

恭喜恭喜

恭喜恭喜 ! (雖然過左咁多日先記得講)「麥兜菠蘿油王子」獲香港電影評論學會 「最佳電影 」獎 !

weather

So when can we stop having this either cold or humid (inclusive-or) weather?

homepage visitors again

I now believe there are strong connections among HKU people in US: people from 3 different universities in US visit my updated page within half an hour...

mahjong at Chinese new year

在新年的例牌活動之後與情人節的例牌沒有活動之前...
在一羣雞糊愛好者圍攻下，我竟然食出一鋪四番！

conference spam

Many of us have received a lot of (almost) spams for conference call for papers and participations, and it is very interesting that someone responded by submitting such kind of "paper" (see also this blog entry).

By the way, I'm receiving maybe the 4th cfp from COCOON. Every time the bulk of their email is not the cfp but the 400+ recipient on the mailing list. You have to scroll down 150 lines if you really want to look at the cfp. I never know COCOON is approaching the status of some Multi-conferences...

SODA'05

After making the fine decision of rejecting my SODA submissions for two consecutive years, this year they accepted two papers citing my rejected papers, including a 2-page paper that cites both rejected papers.

Hmm, anyone recruit people by counting citations?

mindstorms

I just bought a second-hand lego mindstorms Robotics Invention System 1.5. Not the newest version 2.0 but the difference is not that significant. This comes at a fairly low price, particularly when considering that the previous owner didn't play with it much; bricks are like new and some are even in their sealed bags. The RCX (the microprocessor) works, although I didn't have time to test it fully yet.

So at last I can say I'm not playing, collecting, or "frying" lego, but doing research in robotics. Except the same old problem - no time...