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我說，不是在意，是它美麗。

他說，我能理解。美麗的東西，人們都想和它在一起。好吧，即使我不能來，我也會派司機，開著這輛車來。

我和範一先生的女兒交了朋友，她的膽子漸漸大起來。嘴一敢張開，成績就突飛猛進。

校門口每天准時出現的紅色跑車，讓我大出風頭。有時候下午有課，我就編謊話請假，總之從未誤了範一那邊。期末，那女孩的英語成績提高了二十五分，範一遞給了我二千五百塊錢。

我就接過來了。心安理得。

後來，他開始給我買衣服，我不要，他說，我是不忍暴殄天物啊。我就收了……直到有一天，他很神秘地拿出一個紙袋，說是托人特地從國外帶回來的時裝，送給我。那套衣服漂亮得讓人心酸，讓人覺得自己以前穿過的都是垃圾。

你能今天在我家就把這套衣服穿起來，讓我看看嗎？你知道，我也很愛美麗的東西啊。範一說。

我本不想答應，但我怕範一不高興。工錢和獎金，都是我必需的，還有這套華貴的衣服。

我把衛生間裏面的門上的小疙瘩按死了，開始換衣服。正當我把舊衣服脫下，新衣服還沒上身的時候，門無聲無息地開了。

我想看看自己的眼光，對你的三圍的估計准不准？範一說。

我呼救反抗……偌大的房間裏，只有我們兩人，女孩到同學家裏去了。暴行之後，範一扔下一筆錢，說，我是很公平的。你們做家教，是按小時收錢，明碼標價。我也是。你的每一公分胸圍，我付一筆錢。你的腰圍比臀圍每少一公分，我付一筆錢。我可以告訴你，我從來沒有給過任何一個小姐這麽多錢。你真是魔鬼身材啊。

我很想到公安局告他，可我怕舆論。每天招搖的紅跑車，讓我氣餒。我也很想把錢扔到他臉上，然後揚長而去。那是電影裏常常出現的鏡頭，但是，我做不到。我缺錢。我已經付出了高昂的代價，我要為自己保存一點物質補償。

我想，一個人是不是記住那些慘痛的教訓，不在於片刻的決絕，更在於深刻的反省吧。

我再也沒見過範一。有時候，在鏡子面前欣賞自己優美的身材的時候，我會想起範一的話。我承認這是一種資源，但是，所有的資源，都需要保護。越是美好的資源，越要珍惜。女人，最該捍衛的，不就是我們的尊嚴嗎？

在明月的照耀下，我看到她臉上的清淚。

校門口的紅色跑車（一）

校門口的紅色跑車（二）

Ever since I got my first digital camera back in 1998, I’ve made it a point to snap pictures of my workspace on a regular basis. The nature of my work has meant that I’ve rearranged or changed office desks about every six months since I joined the workforce full-time back in ‘95, so I’m glad that I have some sort of record.

I’ve posted the most recent picture of my desk at TSOT’s temporary office below. Until we move to the permanent space in January, we’re all working on folding tables covered in the kind of tempoarary tablecloth you can get from a party supply store. We got decent chairs and great computers from the get-go, so it’s not too bad. The spartan arrangements give me a feeling of deja vu — it takes me back to that time at Open Cola’s first office in San Francisco, a large warehouse space near Potrero Hill, where all the desks were unfinished doors set on two sawhorses. 

I should gather up the photos of my previous office desk and put them into a post — I think it would be an interesting study. I guess it’d make very different office office desk.

    A few months ago I had a few minutes of free time on my hands and so I made a stop at Best Buy to browse for some networking equipment. As I walked toward the hardware section, a software package caught my eye that I hadn’t heard of office partition before. Realizing the need for a good partitioning tool in many environments that use GNU/Linux, I made a mental note to contact Acronis when I got back to the office.

     After receiving a copy of office partition for review, we fired up one of OfB Lab’s testing systems — one that actually still has a copy of Windows on it — and got ready to install the package. While, frustratingly, you must have a copy of Windows on your system to get partition installed, the install process can create a boot disk or CD that will allow you to accomplish partitioning tasks without any operating system requirements. Acronis’s Stephen Lawton reports that the CD in the retail box version (as opposed to the downloaded version) can be used as a boot disc as well, meaning that those who purchase a boxed copy will not have to bother with Windows.

    One thing we appreciated in partition, over similar products such as partition magic, was that we weren’t immediately bombarded by all of the possible functionality available. Rather, Partition Expert can run in an “automated mode” that makes it a snap to create partitions for Windows and Linux (from free space or from free space in an existing partition) and delete partitions. For example, when we wanted to create a new partition on the drive, the wizard interface offered the option of using free space or resizing any of the existing partitions to create the new partition.