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九十與十的理論
繼上次 “Discover the 90/10 principle” 之后, 那位香港企業家又分享了他個人關於這方面的真實經歷。我看了之后覺得不錯，也和大家分享一下。
作者： 黃毅力
上星期日， 一個風和日麗的下午， 我懷着愉快的心情， 駕駛着我的新歡Ferarri
430 回家， 把車停泊在我家門前， 確定拉好手掣， 聽到 “咇咇”後 (中央上
鎖的聲音)， 然後斯斯然回家洗澡， 心想好好享受一個悠閒的星期天。 怎想到，
不到半小時後， 收到管理員的通知， 說我的Ferarri 因自動溜後而撞壞了尾
bumper 及尾冚。 我聽到後， 大吃一驚， 為什麼我巳經把手掣拉好， 但它還
是溜後呢? 於是我立刻去看個究竟。 看罷， 心如刀割， 這部Ferarri 本來會展
出於今星期的遊艇展覽， 價值HK$2,890,000， 現在撞花了， 不但不能展出， 而
且還要破財。
如果是你， 你會有甚麼反應呢？ 從前的我必然會憤怒、 自責、 後悔、 甚至
想找人出氣、 或者整晚不能夠睡。 但現在我理解90/10 的原則， 所以反應是
出奇地冷靜。
我冷靜地思考有什麼地方出錯? 令我想到F430 的手掣是不可靠， 因為F1 波箱
停放後並不能鎖死brake， 所以停放在斜坡上是非常危險的。 我冷靜地思考這
次教訓可吸取了甚麼經驗， 我並沒有向家人發脾氣， 反而耐心地向他們述說事
情的來龍去脈及得到了甚麼經驗。 從這個教訓中， 我教導了我的司機、 家人
停車技巧， 以及利用90/10 原則教導我的孩子們和太太; 並且把此事情與其他同
事分享。
90/10 原則的意思指生活有10%是由許多發生在您身上的事情而組成， 這10%，
你是不能控制事情的發生， 其餘90%的生活是決定於你對這些事情有如何的反
應。
我們不能阻止一輛車壞掉， 或是飛機班機延遲而影響你的旅遊行程等。 這種種
發生在10%的事情我們都不能夠控制。 可是你卻能控制其餘的90%， 你有怎樣
反應、 你的情緒、 你是否開心、全部都是由你控制的， 所謂「境由心造」： 要
怎樣？ 全由你的反應。
舉個例子：有一名男子， 他身懷一身好武功。 某日凌晨時分， 他一個人經過
旺角西洋菜街時， 遇到一群坐在欄杆上的 “死飛仔”， 他們咬着香煙， 用着
一些挑釁的眼神望向該名男子， 男子亦往他們方向看， 經眼神接觸後， 這群
“飛仔”用一組組的粗口“交叉”該名男子。 在這個關鍵時刻， 這名男子一怒
之下， 以一打五的身手展開打鬥， 大家“群秋”， 最後重傷“入廠”。 明早
報紙大字標題︰「一名路人甲在路邊與人爭執， 隨即毆鬥， 有人重傷入院。」
然後， 警察會檢控該名男子傷人， 之後監禁六個月， 有刑事案底， 工作沒有
了， 一生也因此改寫了。
但如果故事情節稍稍改變， 當該名男子被人以粗口“交叉”時， 他即時反應，
在心中說︰「你班死飛仔， 睇你幾俾人打死、 俾警察拉， 我彩你都傻。」 然
後行快兩步， 快快趕回家睡吧！
注意到分別了嗎？ 一個情節， 可以有兩個不結局。 為甚麼? 因為你的反應， 你
的情緒控制， 改寫了結局。
試想一下， 當我看到那新款Ferarri 撞毀時， 如果不是冷靜地處理的話， 後果
又會是怎樣呢? 而你也會不會好像我那樣呢?
每個人都有七情六慾， 喜怒哀樂。 當人動氣時會較容易犯下佷多嚴重的錯誤，
或在生氣時作出的商業決定， 大多數都是錯的。中醫教： 「小怒傷肝， 大怒
傷腎。」 生氣會傷害你的健康， 會影響你一整天的心情。 要學習了解你的情
緒， 就先要了解甚麼事情會令你生氣或撩撥你的憤怒。 了解90/10 原則， 雖
然你不能夠控制10%所發生的事情， 可是那90%的結果是由你主宰的。 在你生
氣之前學習怎樣去控制你的情緒。 以「思， 安， 定， 靜」的思想去控制自我
的情緒。 這樣， 做事及人事管理會更成功， 最後， 境由心生， 苦與樂在乎
於你如何演繹生活裡所發生的事， 那只是10%而已， 你一定做得到！
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不要把香蕉放進電冰箱！
香蕉含有三種天然糖份：蔗糖、果糖和葡萄糖；再加上纖維質。
香蕉可即時提升人的功能。
研究顯示，兩條香蕉，可以提供足夠能量維持 9 0分鐘劇烈的運動。難怪很多世界知名的運動員都以香蕉為首選生果。
香蕉不單隻提供能量。香蕉還可以幫我們克服或治療好多病症和身體狀況，使我們必需把香蕉加進每天的餐單。
抑鬱症：最近一項調查發現，患抑鬱症的人，在吃過香蕉後，感覺好多。
因為香蕉含胺基酸，會轉化成血清促進素，令人鬆馳、提升情緒。
貧血：香蕉鐵質含量高，能刺激血液內的血色素。
血壓高：香蕉含極高量的鉀，但鹽份低，最理想是降血壓。最近，美國食品及藥物管理局宣佈，允許香蕉業宣傳香蕉能降低血壓高和中風機會。
腦力：在英國 Twickenha就有200 名學生，為了要提升腦力，幫助考試，在學期開始，於早餐、小休和午飯，都吃適量香蕉。研究顯示，含豐富鉀質的香蕉，能提高學生的專注力，對他們讀書有所幫助。
便泌：香蕉的纖維質很高，可幫助回覆腸胃正常活動，消除便泌，無需服用輕瀉劑。
宿醉：香蕉奶色加蜜糖可以即時解酒。香蕉鬆馳胃部，蜜糖提升血糖水平，奶抒緩精神和製做炭水化合物。
心絞痛：香蕉對身體有一種天然的制酸性，有鎮痛作用。
早上無精打彩。早餐後午飯前，吃少量香蕉可保持血糖水平。
蚊釘蟲咬。用香蕉皮內部輕擦患處，可退腫消炎。
緊張：香蕉的維生素 B含量高，可幫助抒緩神經系統。
超重：澳地利心理學學校研究發現，工作壓力大，使員工會不斷進食巧力克和薯片去抒緩情緒。研究員對 5000名醫院的病人做研究，發體型肥胖的，通常都是司職壓力非常大的工作。研究總結認為，要避免引起對抒緩情緒食物的欲念，就應該約每兩小時吃一點高炭水化合物的食物，以降低身體內的血糖水平。
胃潰瘍：香蕉是調理腸胃失調的食方，因為香蕉有著柔軟的纖維而且柔滑。對於長期患者來說，香蕉是唯一可以進食的未煮熟食物，而不會有不良反應。香蕉還可以中和胃酸和減少疼痛。
體溫控制：在不同國家、地區和文化中，都有把香蕉作為一種「降溫」的果物，可以用作降低身、心的熱度。在泰國，孕婦為了使嬰兒出生時有較為涼快的環境，臨盤時就會吃香蕉。
戒菸：香蕉可以幫助戒菸。香蕉含維生素 B6和 B12 ，也含鉀和鎂，可以複元戒菸者因為沒有了尼古丁刺激的影響。
壓力：香蕉所含的鉀，可以調節心跳使之正常化，從而將氧氣順利送到大腦，與及調節身體的水份。當受到壓力緊張時，我們的新陳代謝就會加快，因而使鉀的水平一降。鉀含量高的香蕉，正好作補充。
中風：據著名醫學雜誌 “The New England Journal of Medicine”的研究指出，長期吃香蕉，中風死亡的機會率大大降低 40%。
香蕉的確可以治療許多疾病。如果跟蘋果比較，香蕉多四倍蛋白質、多兩倍碳水化合物、多三倍磷質、多五倍維生素 A 和鐵質、多兩倍其他維生素和礦物質。香蕉也含豐富的鉀，是最有益的食物。所以，應該把那句老句子改為：「一日一香蕉，醫生遠離我。」
PS 猴子經常都情緒高漲和開心，應該是吃得多香蕉的原因。還有，想皮鞋潔亮如新？嘗試用香蕉皮的裡面，直接擦到皮鞋，然後用乾布擦淨，效果立見。真神奇的生果！
香蕉緩解眼睛干澀避免其過早衰老
在電腦前工作的人常常會覺得眼睛乾澀或紅腫、疼痛，要多吃香蕉！
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Discover the 90/10 Principle
A successful entrepreneur in Hong Kong has shared with me this article (because I have attended his seminar). After reading it, I’d also like to share it with you, my friend. It’s totally different from the 80/20 principle, yet it’s still very insightful and could potentially change your life in a lot of ways if you can really apply it.
Here it goes…
Author: Stephen Covey
It will change your life (at least the way you react to situations).
What is this principle? 10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.
What does this mean? We really have no control over 10% of what happens to us.
We cannot stop the car from breaking down. The plane will be late arriving, which throws our whole schedule off. A driver may cut us off in traffic.
We have no control over this 10%. The other 90% is different. You determine the other 90%.
How? ……….By your reaction.
You cannot control a red light. but you can control your reaction. Don’t let people fool you; YOU can control how you react.
Let’s use an example.
You are eating breakfast with your family. Your daughter knocks over a cup of coffee onto your business shirt. You have no control over what just happened.
What happens next will be determined by how you react.
You curse.
You harshly scold your daughter for knocking the cup over. She breaks down in tears. After scolding her, you turn to your spouse and criticize her for placing the cup too close to the edge of the table. A short verbal battle follows. You storm upstairs and change your shirt. Back downstairs, you find your daughter has been too busy crying to finish breakfast and get ready for school. She misses the bus.
Your spouse must leave immediately for work. You rush to the car and drive your daughter to school. Because you are late, you drive 40 miles an hour in a 30 mph speed limit.
After a 15-minute delay and throwing $60 traffic fine away, you arrive at school. Your daughter runs into the building without saying goodbye. After arriving at the office 20 minutes late, you find you forgot your briefcase. Your day has started terrible. As it continues, it seems to get worse and worse. You look forward to coming home.
When you arrive home, you find small wedge in your relationship with your spouse and daughter.
Why? …. Because of how you reacted in the morning.
Why did you have a bad day?
A) Did the coffee cause it?
B) Did your daughter cause it?
C) Did the policeman cause it?
D) Did you cause it?
The answer is “D”.
You had no control over what happened with the coffee. How you reacted in those 5 seconds is what caused your bad day.
Here is what could have and should have happened.
Coffee splashes over you. Your daughter is about to cry. You gently say, “Its ok honey, you just need to be more careful next time”. Grabbing a towel you rush upstairs. After grabbing a new shirt and your briefcase, you come back down in time to look through the window and see your child getting on the bus. She turns and waves. You arrive 5 minutes early and cheerfully greet the staff. Your boss comments on how good the day you are having.
Notice the difference?
Two different scenarios. Both started the same. Both ended different.
Why?
Because of how you REACTED.
You really do not have any control over 10% of what happens. The other 90% was determined by your reaction.
Here are some ways to apply the 90/10 principle. If someone says something negative about you, don’t be a sponge. Let the attack roll off like water on glass. You don’t have to let the negative comment affect you!
React properly and it will not ruin your day. A wrong reaction could result in losing a friend, being fired, getting stressed out etc.
How do you react if someone cuts you off in traffic? Do you lose your temper? Pound on the steering wheel? A friend of mine had the steering wheel fall off) Do you curse? Does your blood pressure skyrocket? Do you try and bump them?
WHO CARES if you arrive ten seconds later at work? Why let the cars ruin your drive?
Remember the 90/10 principle, and do not worry about it.
You are told you lost your job.
Why lose sleep and get irritated? It will work out. Use your worrying energy and time into finding another job.
The plane is late; it is going to mangle your schedule for the day. Why take outpour frustration on the flight attendant? She has no control over what is going on.
Use your time to study, get to know the other passenger. Why get stressed out? It will just make things worse.
Now you know the 90-10 principle. Apply it and you will be amazed at the results. You will lose nothing if you try it. The 90-10 principle is incredible. Very few know and apply this principle.
The result?
Millions of people are suffering from undeserved stress, trials, problems and heartache. We all must understand and apply the 90/10 principle.
It CAN change your life!!!
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Do check this out if you haven’t already
This is really a very good speech delivered by a true visionary — Steve Jobs. I have read the article twice, first in Chinese - “求知若飢，虛心若愚” (very good translation), then the original English version - Stay hungry. Stay foolish. I have listened to the podcast twice, first a few weeks ago. Then last night before I go to sleep.
The speech was given in 2005. I know many many people have read it or listened to it a long time ago. But just in case, if you haven’t checked it out already. I have to recommend it whole heartedly because it’s too good to miss.
The streaming might not be smooth, if that’s the case, please get the original mp3 from Odeo.com by downloading it here.
‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.
This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960’s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
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IT上海滩 - 2006/12/02
最近参加了12月2日在上海举行的一次比较大型的IT聚会活动 - IT上海滩。
给我个人的感受要用一个词语来形容的话，就是 - 真实。 ^^
那天起床吃了点东西之后，就动身前往会场。我算是比较早到的，抵达的时候大概只有十来个人在场。和他们打过招呼之后，就在观众席的第一排找了个位子坐下。还算走运，因为之后陆陆续续来的人还算是挺多的，晚到的人只能坐在后面了。拿出准备好的名片，和前来参加聚会的朋友们互相交换一下，做一个自我介绍，闲聊几句。一会儿人逐渐多了起来，我反正是尽量地和到场的人打招呼吧，大家还都客气，一圈下来也收集了大概二三十张名片。虽然实际情况是：之后也搞不清楚谁是谁了，不过总体感觉还不错。这两天，MSN上面新加了几个朋友，看了他们的照片，这回记住了。这也更让我体会到，不管是在真实的或是虚拟的世界里，大家交往得要有一个过程。所以，“一回生，二回熟”这句俗语概括得非常好。
聊着聊着，差不多接近一点半了，嘉宾们也陆续到场。虽然有几位身在外地不能出席，可到场的嘉宾还是表现得很好，现场时不时还爆发出一阵阵的笑声，令到整个聚会的气氛欢乐指数还比较高。
本来拿了个本子还想做一下笔记的，可听着听着也就没记。一来确实自己也比较懒，二来因为整个聚会感觉上很informal，那种抱着学习的态度前来听讲的初衷也就逐渐烟消云散了。这样一来，嘉宾们讲的东西我也基本上记不太清楚了。略谈一下对各位嘉宾发言的感受，这个还是有一点印象。
王晨昀 - 大会司仪。讲普通话好像有一点点平舌音，翘舌音咬不太准（纯属个人感觉）。有点少年老成的感觉，81年生人，比我小一年，但论互联网经验，绝对是我的前辈。
张国华 - 简单明了，right to the point.
张涛 - 平铺直叙，来者不拒（那天在与嘉宾互动环节中，张先生大概是被提问最多的一位。面对某些有点刁钻的问题，不紧不慢，有问必答，基本上没有保留）。我只记得他说，刚开始创业的时候，他和太太分工，他创业，太太打工，最初的资金就来自他太太的工资。这样看来，大众点评网干到今天的成绩，真不容易啊。
张泽锐 - 给我一种态度诚恳的感觉。虽然发言的时候略显紧张，一只手一直插在裤袋里。
刘小光 - 声音最为洪亮的一位，豪迈激情。三个关键词：与时俱进，坚持不懈，（好像是）搜索引擎。
庞升东 - 面带微笑，“现在都流行八零后。我觉得倒是六零后创业比较大机会成功。” （嘿嘿，可谓一语中的）
任向晖 - 了解到他原来和杨伟庆是长期的合作伙伴。据杨描述，过去曾经多次向杨拍拍脖头，每拍一次都令杨的人工翻倍。于是杨的工资由最初的每月七百一路跳到每月一万五。
路金波（李寻欢）- 文人果然是文人。所有嘉宾的发言当中当属路先生的发言最具有文学气息（幽默，也是发言时间最长的一位）。向我们描述了他目前所从事的出版事业，及青少年人群当中所蕴含的巨大图书市场。
杨伟庆 - 据他说，他开始创业（艾瑞市场咨询）的其中一个很大原因就是因为再没有人能出到一万五的月薪请他了。哈哈，不知道是不是真的。不过说到网络经济，头头是道。感觉像一个邻家大男孩形象。
发言完毕就进入到互动环节，台下的观众问了好些问题，整个过程没有冷场，这一点很好。会后与嘉宾们简短交流一下，要一要名片。大概接近五点走人。结束。
以我个人来讲，这次的聚会还是增长了一些见识。之前只是在网上面读过一些关于嘉宾们的文章，这次见到真人，觉得他们还是非常友善及平易近人。（问张涛先生要名片的时候，他说不好意思名片用完了。问他要一个联络方法并递上一张名片。回到香港，check email，张先生还发了一个邮件过来留了联络信息，看来他还是挺认真的。虽是小事，也反映了一些个人特质。）
第一次参加类似的行业聚会，收获颇丰。希望今后有多一点机会参与此类活动，能多认识一些朋友，也不断地开阔眼界。感受最深的是它的一种真实性，和我之前看过的一本书《Getting Real》所描述的关于Web Development 有着相似的感触（一个对人，一个对事）。而“真的”通常和“想象的”不一样，“想象的”通常比较美好，而“真的”却比较平淡，一点一滴甚至有时候令人失望，but that’s the only thing that counts. 尽量争取“真实”，看来是我需要努力的方向。
虽然坐在前排，可由于相机和自身技术的原因，拍得照片效果非常不好。全部曝光不足加焦距不对，没能捕捉到嘉宾们的神采，对此感到抱歉。
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EditGrid, a nice web2.0 style spreadsheet
EditGrid is an online spreadsheet made by a Hong Kong based startup called TnC. The web app looks pretty cool. And honestly speaking, this kind of startup is rare to find in hk. (or maybe it’s just I don’t know)
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Ubuntu看上去不错^^
到目前为止，我还是主要以Windows XP作为我的“工作平台”。Windows XP出了有六年多时间了吧，除了有两个Service Pack之外，这么长时间基本上没什么变化。这真有点不可思议，微软就依靠着视窗作业系统继续垄断着这世界上绝大多数个人电脑的“桌面”。有人说得真一点不错：”You just have to do one thing right.” 就这么一道”板斧”,已经足够风光好些年。“一白遮三丑，一力降十会” 在商业竞争中，要是把关键一步棋走对，看来是在相当一段时间可以占据有利地位。而在这个素以innovation见称的IT软件行业，微软竟然可以走到今天的地步，或多或少反映出市场经济市场经济，光靠创新还是不够的，因为这玩意儿还是有很大一部分“经济”的原因在里面。要是用经济学的角度去观察这个现象，我个人以为，就是和“世界不是完美的”有比较大的关系。当然，我的观点可以不用理会。
Windows Vista听说是要到明年才能推出，现在买新电脑好像是有点“尴尬”的情况，等，还有好几个月，不等，就要用一个已经用了很久的OS。我其实有兴趣想转用苹果的Mac，不过坦白地讲，Mac机好像不太划算，和Dell比较，同等的硬件，价格还是差了一截。不过，最近了解到有一个声称是最人性化的Linux系统–Ubuntu，就先学学看再说。
“Ubuntu: Linux for human beings. ” 是一款基于Debian的Linux系统。我之前试过Red Hat 9和Fedora Core的一些版本，坦白的讲，很多方面当一个Desktop用的话，对于“非技术人员”是比较困难的。也就是因为这样，尽管大多数的Linux的操作系统是免费的，可对于大多数人来说，还是愿意给钱用视窗。（当然，这里面可能还有各种各样的原因。）
我刚试装了Ubuntu 6.06的Desktop版，只是试用了里面的Firefox，和Windows XP版的几乎一样，不错。还有一个的确是方便了许多的地方就是在Ubuntu里面可以直接access Windows的NTFS partition。目前尚在摸索当中，不过看上去似乎是像他们所说的：“更像个人了 ”
不要钱的东西这么好（当然，如果会用的话），要钱的反而不怎么的，现实世界就是这样，我也不知道怎么说，哈哈。
不过，无意当中，去Wikipedia查看了一下关于Ubuntu的资料，发现它的赞助商原来大有来头 — Canonical Ltd是一家私人公司，创办人是一位年轻的南非企业家–Mark Shuttleworth。记得好几年前，有一次看报纸有一篇报道说一位南非的富商花了两千万美元进行了一次太空旅行，想不到后来竟然和Linux这么有渊源。再仔细一看，那位南非富豪出生在1973年（和陈天桥同岁吧^^)，1999年的时候（就相当于我现在的年龄）把他之前创办的一间公司 Thawte以$575 million美元卖给了VeriSign。听起来真是觉得像是在听天方夜谭，不过却是真人真事。
顺带提一句，原来Ubuntu在南非语中，是这么一个意思：”a person is a person through other people.”
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
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不一样还是不一样
回想起我写第一个 “Hello World!” 的程序的时候，感觉还是挺兴奋的。虽然从完全不懂编程到现在可以靠编程吃饭已经经历了六年多的光阴，但坦诚地问自己的所谓“技术水平”，真的不敢说：“这个，我很行”。最多只能说：“这个，我还行”，可能还差不多。 
如同任何其他的技能， “To be a great programmer, you’ve gotta have to have some talent.” 比如像郎朗，李云迪和其他一些天才艺术家们，当绝大多数人在他们的年龄还最多称得上是专业演奏家的时候，他们就已经达到了大师的级别。而大师的级别，也是绝大多数人穷其一生也无法到达的境界。艺术如是，其他的行业，专业，领域基本上也如是。编程，对于某些人来说，的的确确就是他们的生活艺术。
有一位讲波兰语的博友Stiff，他准备了十个问题，问了世界上一些伟大的程序员。而那些程序员的的回答，让人读后，多多少少感觉到他们的与众不同，而与众不同不一定表现在他们是如何的技术高超，而是他们对于那些问题的回答让我感觉到：我敢说这个世界上绝大多数的程序员肯定不是这样和电脑打交道的。
全文读来还是挺幽默风趣的，这又让我感觉到伟大的程序员还是比较“人性化”，有他们普通人的一面，有兴趣的朋友，可以一读，全文按此。
