Topic of the day: pretty model and mini-Weiqi

Teen models have made a big fuss in Hong Kong recently because they were planning to appear in a signing event for their photo collections at the largest book exhibition in Hong Kong. Some HK netizens have organized protests since their appearance would attract a big crowd of guys (many with cameras and related equipments) and cause a big scene, which annoyed attendees who only care about books quite a bit.

Oh well, it seems that models have a different image and ways of promotion in Korea. According to this article (in Chinese), two Korean models are invited to be trained and to participate in the preliminary rounds of World Mini-Weiqi competition.

Tech of the day: Zile Is Lossy Emacs

Among the sea of vi-ers here, I'm the sole emacs-er. Naturally no one bothers to install emacs on the Solaris boxes here (except for an old box.) I have been using that lone box forever until it was taken away. So I've finally decided to do it myself. After all, I did it with 1 line (pacman) on Arch. I'm probably 1 pkgadd away from having it on Solaris. WRONG! This monster has so much dependencies! I have installed 5 of them and when I failed to download the jpeg library from Sunfreeware.com , I gave up and install Zile instead. It turns out all of its dependencies have been installed already. We'll see if it will make me forget about emacs completely.

每週一噏：再談封神榜，商紂王

早幾個星期提過的劇集封神榜終於大結局，我雖然喜歡該小說，但對書中（及劇中）一味强調商紂王為奸，周武王為忠，十分有保留。早一陣子讀的歴史書指那個時代所謂天子並非直接統治全國，實應視為各部落的共主，商周之爭其實是一個集團取代另一個的地位，並非那麼忠奸分明。

再上網搜一搜，找到更多有趣的文章，原來毛主席也曾為紂王平反，指出紂王伐大國東夷，從此以後東夷與商不斷朝聘往來，商文化源源不絕地傳播到東夷，而東夷的一些農作物的種植技術和一些手工業的生產技術也傳入中原地區，經濟與文化得到了廣泛的交流，紂王把東夷和中原的統一鞏固起來，在歷史上是有功的。

但也因為伐東夷大大消耗國力，主力部隊難以調回，被想取而代之的周武王有機可乘，紂王以70萬東夷戰俘及奴隸臨時武裝起來應戰，最後兵敗自焚。

紂王被指控的罪行，如施酷刑炮烙，如闢酒池肉林，與夏桀的罪行同出一轍；西諺有云："History is written by the victor" 周朝史家有心抹黑，砌紂王生豬肉，大有可能！