Archive for November, 2007

Complexity

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

A friend of mine once said that there are problems and there are difficulties. A problem is something you savor. You say, “Well that’s an interesting problem. Let me think about that problem a while.” You enjoy thinking about it, because when you find the solution to the problem, it’s enlightening.
And then there are difficulties. [...]

UI-Element Merged into Selenium IDE

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Not too long ago, I was invited by Dan Fabulich onto the Selenium Dev team! Recently, I’ve merged UI-Element into Selenium IDE trunk. So there won’t be a standalone 0.8 release – the next “stable” release will be alongside SIDE. Of course, now you can always grab a snapshot out of the SIDE subversion repository. [...]

Subtlety, Hidden

Monday, November 5th, 2007

I realized several things in afterthoughts about “Lust, Caution” after my previous post.
First, there were not two, but three times when Jiazhi’s movie experience is disrupted. If I remember correctly, in the first instance (which I had forgotten to mention before), the show is interrupted by a boorish nationalist public announcement. When the rest of [...]

Lust, Caution

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

As the credits scrolled by, I thought to myself, “色,戒” is the perfect name for this movie. The translation into English seems more stilted; in Chinese the pair sound like they are intended to balance each other, almost as duals. Is the scale sliding from lust towards love? Or from caution to trust? In [...]


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