Thunderbird 的未來

最近 Mozilla 的 CEO, Mitchell Baker 在自己的部落格中，提到將來會放棄 Thunderbird 開發團隊，並提出3個 Thunderbird 死亡的方法。我看了很失望，一個 CEO 竟然想借刀殺鳥！我開了新的Blog - mozillathunderbird.blogspot.com/，紀錄 Thunderbird 接下來的討論與發展。

Well, I don't get the point why Mitchell Baker wanna open this discussion to the public in her blog, but I am rather sad to hear that through my RSS reader. Yesterday, I just suggested my girlfriend to use Mozilla Thunderbird as an email client in her office since she complained about her company SquirrelMail was a bad one.

After spending lots of time reading replies on her blog, I still cannot figure out WHY she as a CEO of the Mozilla Corporation wanna discuss this publicly. Shouldn't she discuss it with people of Mozilla Corporation and come out with better solutions?

"However, the Thunderbird effort is dwarfed by the enormous energy and community focused on the web, Firefox and the ecosystem around it" says Mitchell in her blog, what those she mean enormous energy? I do not understand all that, there is too much of imaginations. Then she says "As a result, Mozilla doesn't focus on Thunderbird as much as we do browsing and Firefox and we don't expect this to change in the foreseeable future. We are convinced that our current focus - delivering the web, mostly through browsing and related services - is the correct priority." ah ha, now I got you, you said you convinced that Mozilla doesn't focus on Thunderbird as much as Firefox, and you still won't expect this to change in the future! Firefox is the ONLY priority!

So WHY she ask us to choose Thunderbird's destiny instead of killing the pity bird herself? Maybe she should said: "We I have concluded that we should find a new, separate organizational setting for Thunderbird; one that allows the Thunderbird community to determine its own destiny".

http://mozillathunderbird.blogspot.com/

閱讀

最近看到三篇關於「閱讀」的文章，先來看看吧。

《洞口的原始人》
我很擔心台灣現在這個趨勢，過去大學生在閒談中，如果別人知道而自己不知道會覺得慚愧，覺得自己知識太少了，水準太不夠了，現在不同了，不知道也不引為恥，反而覺得沒有必要知道，知識一斤值多少？怎麼樣？

一個朋友回國講學，說起有一天接到他母校系所辦公室的助教打來的電話，告知某某教授要出國開會，師母擔心教授年紀大轉機不方便想找學生幫忙照顧一下，她從校友通訊錄中查到他在加州，問他可否幫忙接機，他覺得義不容辭，就滿口答應下來，請助教小姐把行程傳真過來以便安排。

想 不到一看行程，他傻眼了，他住舊金山，教授在洛杉磯轉機，中間隔著五百英里，這怎麼接機？他再打電話去系裡，問助教知不知道舊金山與洛杉磯隔著很遠？ 助教反問道：不是都在加州嗎？ 他一時氣結，答不上話來。他說不敢要求那位小姐知道加州很長，從南到北得開上兩天兩夜的車子，但是舊金山與洛杉磯都是中國人很多的大城，有許多自己的同胞 住在那裡，並不是毫不相干的外國城巿，不應該這麼離譜。

我聽了想起天下雜誌去年年底「台灣人的國際觀」的調查， 許多人都只知道台灣本土，對外面的事情一概不知，也不關心，更不認為自己不知道有什麼羞恥，這種態度令我很憂心，因為不了解會產生偏見，世界上許多悲劇的 發生都是由於無知和偏見，有了解才會產生同情，有同情才會有包容，無知會造成冷漠，冷漠會自絕於人。

無獨有偶，有一位經商的朋友也 告訴我，他的女秘書請產假，代班的小姐替他訂去美國聖地牙哥的機票時，竟然訂到智利的聖地牙哥去了，那位小姐顯然不知道這兩個聖地牙哥有什麼不同，也不知 道一個在北美洲，一個在南美洲，更不會去推想公司的業務在北美洲，不應該是南美的聖地牙哥。

他責怪我們教書的沒有把學生教好，「沒有遠見，沒有世界觀也還罷了，」他氣憤的說：「還不會推想，不會思考，只會強辯，說你沒有告訴我是哪一個聖地牙哥！」

這兩件事都是小事，但是點出台灣目前教育的危機，幾十年來考試掛帥的結果是培養出一批 只關心自己，不關心世界，目光如豆的年輕人，凡是不考的都不必念，更不必知道，反正在國內生活也用不到外面世界的知識，光是島內自己的八卦都應接不暇了。

大 部分人不關心台灣島外的事，連金門、馬祖自己的領土都被忽略：官員在說話時常把他們忘記，教育部在制定母語時就把馬祖的福州話給忘了。外面不論發生什麼 事，報紙永遠只有一版的版面在報導，幾張圖片一登，剩下的文字空間有限，所以現在年輕人除了切身有關的時尚流行之外， 其餘國外大事連正眼都不瞄一下。

前 幾天我們大樓住進來了一位瑞士的訪問學生，與他交談之下，發現他對任何題目都幾乎可以侃侃而談，知識很豐富，我問他怎麼懂得這麼多，他說瑞士一直是歐洲會 議的中心，國際很多會議都在瑞士舉行，因此，他們從小就從報紙上讀到這些會議的主題：非洲飢饉、南非種族隔離、南美熱帶雨林的砍伐及中國人權的問題，他們 老師也時常帶他們去看這些國際開會的情形，要他們聽正反兩方的意見，他們每學期都得寫一篇與國際問題有關的申論文，他雖然才高中，但是他的世界知識遠超過 我們的大學生，令我感慨。

現在很多人振振有詞的說：本土優先，先台灣後天下，這固然沒有錯，但本土優先只是個順序，不應該因此而加 重本土考試內容的比重，不考外國史地，使我們學生連雅典這個世界文明發源地之一在那裡都不知道。我們是生活在世界之中，並不是我們就是全世界，當我們對外 面的情勢一概不知時，我們會誤判，會夜郎自大，會自我陶醉在國內情勢一片大好聲中，而頹廢下去。關起門做皇帝的結果，是有一天老本吃完需要開門上街買糧 時，發現糧食店已經被別人包下，不跟你做生意了。

我曾經看過一個寓言：有一個洞裡的原始人都是背對著洞口坐，當太陽出來照在經過洞口的 動物身上時，牠們所投射出來的影子變得比實物還大，原始人嚇壞了，更往洞裡擠，更不敢看洞外，更互相告誡洞外的可怕。最後，有一個原始人大膽的面朝外偷看 一下，發現洞外春光明媚、鳥語花香，那些可怕的動物不過是被影子放大的貓狗兔子而已，如果他們選擇面朝外坐，他們就不會被自己嚇到， 因為他們永遠背對著世界就不知道世界發生了什麼事，他們的愚昧無知使他們把世界排除在他們生活之外，不久世界也把他們排除在世界之外，他們就像透明人一 樣，不存在了。

我很擔心台灣現在這個趨勢，過去大學生在閒談中，如果別人知道而自己不知道會覺得慚愧，覺得自己知識太少了，水準太不夠 了，現在不同了，不知道也不引為恥，反而覺得沒有必要知道，知識一斤值多少？怎麼樣？老子就是大字不識幾個，還不是照樣當上立法委員？草根性才是當紅炸子 雞，說話越粗俗，上的報紙越多，飽學之士不再受尊重，年輕人崇拜的是敢罵敢脫的人。加上現在高中課本對古文部份的減少，孩子古文看不懂了，沒有辦法去接受 古人的智慧，文化的傳承斷了，我覺得這是非常可惜之事，讀歷史不只是以古鑑今，它主要還是品格的薰陶，讓我們知道什麼樣的行為是留芳萬古，什麼樣的又是遺 臭萬年，缺少了這些楷模，就演變成只要我喜歡，有什麼不可以。

不讀書使得現在的人無視，沒有眼光，不能從古人的經驗中擷取智慧，無膽， 不敢面對問題，像洞中的原始人一樣，永遠背對著世界，最糟的是無知，不能解決問題，所有的問題都用「拖」，一個校長的資格可以拖九個月不解決，一個老兵的 薪俸拖93天不核發，就如同一位前輩對我說精神病很難治癒，好在拖到病人過世，病也就沒了。

我很擔心現在大家都不願意去正視台灣的競爭力，只用拖的去敷衍，一旦拖到台灣沒有了，一切的意識型態、族群對立也就沒有了，大家同歸於盡。「孫子兵法」三千年前就說「知己知彼，百戰不殆」，如今不知彼，也不知自己有多少斤兩， 我們國家的前途究竟在那裡呢？

文 / 洪蘭(2007/7/3)

Students: Reading is Irrelevant

An interesting commentary from H. Bernard Wechsler which can be found at this link.

A 5-year study of the reading habits of 1,050 students (high school and college) and 875 executives reveals reading books is last on their hierarchy of values. It is an old-fashioned knowledge technology.

These results mirror the past twenty years of information technology. Public access to the Internet is a form of neuroplasticity. The computer changes not just our learning habits, but the function and structure of the brain of Homo sapiens.

Students
a) "Reading, there are better things to do with my time."
b) "I spend four-hours messaging my friends on MySpace."
c) "I rather listen to music, fire-off video games, or surf YouTube."
d) "Reading books is a school thing, not what I choose."

Executives
Surfing the Internet for news, CNBC for stock price listings, and Googling games and porno, occupies up to 40% of executives. The book publishing industry confirms the typical executive(college graduate) reads only one (1) book annually.

A recurring complaint by executives is based on their Cost-Benefit-Analysis of the reading experience. There is too limited a payoff for the time invested in book reading. Audio (Podcasts), Video, and the Internet, offers greater cognitive rewards than three hours in reading text. Is reading a book as cool as using their laptop?

So What
Educators labeling students and executives learning-challenged or folks with limited attention span, is a refusal to accept the attraction of new technology. Today students and executives demand immediate gratification for their learning experience regardless of their learning curve. Produce or be deleted.

So This

Reading by the majority of people in a society is a recent event. Reading and writing is about 6,200 years old, and attributed to the Sumerians in Mesopotamia (Iraq).
The original purpose of writing was for scribes to keep track of the wealth of Kings.

The system was simple, using wedge-shaped symbols on clay and baked and called Cuneiform. Reading and writing remained limited to Priests and the Nobility.

Not until Johannes Gutenberg, German printer in 1455, were books made available for the wealthy. He is credited with inventing movable type, a process of printing multiple pages simultaneously. Popular books, cheap and available, did not reach the public until the late 19th century.

Stress

Imagine curling up with a good book. Your mental pictures immediate change from stress, anxiety, depression and alienation, to deep relaxation and peace.

Information processing by reading or using your computer appears to be identical. Both are cognitive experiences, yet reading appears to elicit more personal emotions and improved learning skills. Only through reading does comprehension advance and vocabulary evolves into long-term memory knowledge.

Research indicates reading improves human attention span and learning motivation. Learning through listening (lecture) or by observation (visual) does not measurably improve concentration skills.

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洪蘭說的我想不只是情緒話，台灣確實有給我這樣的感覺，大馬我想也差不多是一樣，或許更糟糕的狀況也說不定。不過我不太喜歡洪蘭寫的這篇，覺得太悲觀，雖然也許比較貼近現實。第二篇是 H. Bernard Wechsler 寫的，講的東西比較是目前大家閱讀與學習的狀態，覺得他說得很明白，科技改變了我們的學習。我們現代的學習靠的是什麼？Internet 或許是一個比較貼切的答案，洪蘭說我們忘了古文，古人的智慧。如果把時間拉到早一點，洪蘭的求學時代，或更早至書籍普遍的90年代，他們靠什麼學習？靠書籍。

可是如果想想那個沒有書籍的時代，或許他們那些人的智慧也早已被遺忘得更乾淨。我們保留了他們的什麼智慧？金字塔對我們這些「人」而言，不過是沙漠中神秘的大石頭？文字的發明改變了世界一次，印刷術改變了世界一次，網際網路改變了世界一次... 衛生棉改變了女人一次，胸罩改變了女人一次...

H. Bernard Wechsler 寫的另一篇也不錯... 學習也是一種 fight or flight...

Have They Civilized You?

Can you remember the first time you got on a two-wheel bike? Can you mentally visualize your parent holding you upright? Did he/she yell at you for not learning fast enough? Did you fall and scare hell out of yourself? And finally, did you succeed or fail in learning to ride your two-wheeler? You are still a great learner.

Did you fall and scare hell out of yourself? And finally, did you succeed or fail in learning to ride your two-wheeler? You are still a great learner.

Your Inner Child was watching it all and had a mental camcorder; he/she and filed the bike experienceaway in your amygdala and hippocampal brain archives. It is still there decades later for future reference when attempting new learning experiences.

Comfort Zone

You still check with your Inner Child before attempting a new learning experience to determine if it is life threatening. There is a thin line between satisfying your curiosity to learn and fear for your survival. It is called your comfort-zone, being in in-the-zone, in-the-flow, and your status-quo.

All your emotional experiences after age three reside in the mind of your Inner Child for quick comparison and association. You print a face-to-face mental picture between childhood success or failure, and your present decision.

Cool or Not

Should I jump off this cliff and bungee jump 250 feet? Is doing 110 mph on this new motorcycle cool? Go to school out-of-state or stay in my own room and go to university locally? Your brain flashed back to your Inner Child experiences before making a decision.

You can excite them to life anytime you choose through your creative-imagery; they occur spontaneously when you get frightened. Google: fight-or-flight.

See the research at Johns-Hopkins University, by Chih-hao Yank et al. appearing in the journal Neuron, May 24, 2007. New Adult Brain Cells Rediscover

Their Inner Child.

Adult Brain Cells

This new research indicates newly born adult nerves (neurons) are like those of a developing child for one-month. So what? The adult cells are excited and powerful (like an infant) for learning and memory.

So What

When Homo sapiens ages, we get more hardwired than children; learning new skills and knowledge, including long-term memory, becomes inhibited with the years. Aha, but there is a window of opportunity for 30 days for all newly minted adult neurons.

What is wrong with desiring instant gratification, improved attention span and a shorter learning curve?

You can add these tools to your mind with Synaptic Plasticity; kick your brain into high gear by knowledge seeking activity. It is a choice.

Use It or … ..

Here's how. Use-it-or-lose-it means letting your Inner Child play games requiring cognitive involvement like chess and bridge. Watch Jeopardy, the History and Discovery channels, and permit your child-like curiosity to fulfill itself. Your adult may not need dialogue with others; your child within is still learning to socialize and empathize. You need to exercise it.

We suggest you take courses to enlarge your knowledge and skill base; scuba diving, how to knit, and speed learning, learning to read and remember three books, articles and reports in the time others can hardly finish one.

Alzheimer

Most adults stifle their Inner Child and his/her need to be on the go, spontaneous, and find answers for your life purpose and meaning. What's it all about, Alfie?

After college we stop reading non-fiction for supplemental knowledge. The average U. S. college graduate reads only one book annually: American Publishing Industry, 2007.

Ten recent scientific publications offer evidence your potential for Alzheimer Disease can be reduced up to 50% by adding daily cognitive experiences to your life. We live in an aging society and you will likely live into your nineties.

If you become a life-long learner, you help avoid Alzheimer by creating a fire-wall around your brain. Exercising your neurons, synapses, and neural circuitry through brain work, just as you do push-ups for your muscles, tendons and ligaments, will permit you to enjoy your senior years and be useful to others.

Google: Dr. David Snowdon, University of Kentucky, The Nuns Experiment.

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財團法人台灣閱讀文化基金會
Reading is Irrelevant??!!
Have They Civilized You?

What is a Teacher?

What is a teacher?
A guide, not a guard.
What is learning?
A journey, not a destination.
What is discovery?
Questioning the answers,
Not answering the questions.
What is the process?
Discovering ideas
Not covering content.
What is the goal?
Open minds, not closed issues.
What is the test?
Being and becoming.
Not remembering and reviewing.
What is learning?
Not just doing things differently,
But doing different things.
What is teaching?
Not just showing them what to learn,
But showing them how to learn.
What is school?
Whatever we choose to make it.

Allan Glatthorn

覺得句句到位又令人深思。身邊很多朋友都開始工作了，什麼是工作？做別人要我們做的事？出賣勞力、腦力，滿足上司的「私慾」？為公司？賺錢養自己？養家？沒有人叫我們不停的工作，但我們都必須工作，他們說那是社會責任，他們說我們需要三餐溫飽，還要有多餘的錢滿足自己的欲望...

一天一天的過去，工作的日子30年很快過，你換了7份工，比你年輕的換了15份，因為其他的8份工你從來沒有聽過，也不知道要做什麼，你要學，他們說你學好了再來吧... 他們剝削你的時間，從來也不說對不起，晚年也只能一句 sorry。我們忘了什麼是生活...

就算真的是這樣，他們安慰你不用難過，因為大家都一樣... 再加一句：「講完啦，回去做工啦！」

Cashback

得獎無數的電影，但是剛剛看完後覺得還好，還好的意思不是不好看，只是沒有意外驚喜。這部片裸體鏡頭太多，大馬應該不會上映了。「Sometimes love is hiding between the seconds in your life」是這部片要交代的主題，蠻認同的。另外就是... 只會把女人的身體和性欲聯想在一起的男性朋友們，注定被潑水... :P

After a painful break up with his first girlfriend Suzy, Ben, an aspiring artist, develops insomnia. To take his mind off his problem he spends his nights working at a local supermarket, where he meets colorful characters. He falls in love with his colleague Sharon.

He lets his imagination run wild. In particular, he imagines that he can stop time for others, so that he can walk around in a world that is "frozen" like in pause mode of a film. He imagines Sharon and female clients standing naked in the supermarket, so that he can watch and draw them.

We see in flashback, with Ben's voice-over explaining how he always has been impressed by the beauty of the female body, how he, as a young boy, could see a Swedish boarder naked while she was going to and coming from the shower; being Swedish she did not believe this situation required modesty. Also we see little Ben's friend Sean Higgins showing Ben his parents' adult magazines. Furthermore we see Ben paying a girl for showing him her genitals.

Sharon is Ben's date when they go the birthday party of their boss. Ben meets Suzy who wants to continue their relationship. Ben refuses, but Sharon gets a negative impression seeing Ben with Suzy for a moment, and gets angry.

As a practical joke colleagues Barry and Matt phone him, one of them pretending to be an art gallery owner who is interested in his drawings, and an appointment is made. It turns out well: the gallery owner, seeing Ben's work, is interested, and an exhibition follows. Sharon also visits it and is impressed not only by Ben's success, but also by the many paintings portraying her; she is not angry anymore.

http://www.cashbackthemovie.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashback_(film)

Mr.Bean's Holiday

我覺得這部算是他最好的電影了！劇情舖成沒話說，非常 happy ending 的電影。如果你有看過他的上一部片《Bean》，這部片一定會讓你覺得值回票價，對他的片另眼相看；如果你沒有看過，就請你千萬不要借來看！ 非常喜歡他在黃花海中的畫面！:)

Mr. Bean enters a church raffle and wins a vacation trip to France as well as a camcorder. After boarding a Eurostar train and arriving in Paris, the French language proves a barrier for Bean, as he struggles to get across the city to catch a train to the south of France from the Gare de Lyon. Taking time to order a meal, he finds the consumption of a seafood platter to be a challenge. Just before catching his train, he asks Emil, a Russian film director on his way to be a judge at the Cannes Film festival to use his camcorder to record his boarding, but accidentally causes Emil being left behind at the station. Bean attempts to cheer up the director's son Stepan as the train continues south but matters are made more hectic by the fact that Emil has reported his son to have been kidnapped and Bean losing his wallet and essential travel documents at a pay phone where he and Stepan attempt to contact Emil. Heading in the direction of Cannes, Bean finds himself in the cast and disrupting the flow of a commercial being shot by the egotistical director Carson Clay. He and Stepan finally hitch a ride with the young and vivacious actress Sabine who is heading to Cannes to attend the premiere of Clay's film, in which she appears. After Bean sneaks into the showing, his camcorder images are destined to enliven the proceedings. Written by Brian Greenhalgh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bean's_Holiday
http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/mrbeansholiday/
http://www.beansholiday.com/flash.html

水瓶座AB型

呂老師說他以前的老闆堅決不錄用AB血型的人，然後老師問班上誰是AB型，就只有我... 老師還補上一句：「我就知道你是！」... ... AB型有那麼衰嗎？到底為什麼？知道的人請告訴我。

AB型水瓶座的你，就像一部井然有序的電腦，在十二星座中，堪稱是"智多星"。 "理性"是你個性上的特徵，任何時候都保持著冷靜及客觀的態度，你的生活原則是對周圍的事情保持敏銳的感覺，但同時也確立超然的立場。 不斷變換角度，對複雜問題加以巧妙地分析，並做出準備的判斷，是你的專長。 這樣的你，自然而然會因腦筋優秀而成為別人羨慕及求助的對象。同時，由於你具有自由的思想，以及獨特的見解，經常會使周圍的人大吃一驚。 你的性格經常帶有與眾不同的傾向，所思考的方法，往往超越一般的範圍，而所從事的事業，也往往具備了創造的精神。 你通常被視為不平凡的人，又因為個性中的理性質，AB型水瓶座在想法及做法上總是比別人早個一、兩步，走在時代的前端。 你常利用合理的推斷能力去預測未來，同時要求別人相信自己的看法，可說是屬於"先知"型的人。在別人之前，早已看清某個事件的脈絡。

AB型水瓶座的你，具有強烈的理性傾向及科學化的處事習慣。當別人領教你的處事原則時，剛開始往往會極不習慣，一般人總是難以接受太合理化、太冷靜、而又苛求完美的人，因此，你經常遭到誤解，被視為缺乏感性的人。不過，所幸在一段時間的相處之後，AB型普遍具有和藹可親的，及水瓶座天生的友善和人緣會幫助你克服困難，逐漸打破別人跟你之間的誤解及隔閡。到最後反而會著迷於你特殊的智慧，而成為你的好朋友呢！

在付諸實際行動之際，往往會有突破一般慣例的獨創性做法，這是你與生俱來的優點，但也有可能成為後天的缺點。 值得注意的是，千萬別太強調自己的意見的重要性，而忽略了別人可能不如你的建議，適當表現自己的優雅及寬容，善用活絡的人際關係及充滿親和力的公眾形象，會使你無往不利，事事如意成為理所當然之事，再強調一次，你是個不折不扣的智慧型人物。

忠告：力求創新固然值得讚許，但有時難免變成苛求過多的人，多一點感性，會使你更具有親和力。

愛與性的傾向

你的戀愛過程也有別於一般人的感情發展，可以說是理智而冷靜的愛情。例如，有些人的戀愛是起因於一見鍾情，有些人的戀愛充滿了山盟海誓，更有的人是一場又一場的愛情追逐，而你和他們完全不同，陷入一個分不清是愛情或是友情的漩渦裡。開始時往往是不自覺的，你們兩人原本是很好的朋友，彼此經常交換人生的看法，談論自己的抱負和理想，或甚至是工作間的合作，而後才發覺彼此都無法找到更投緣的對象，彼此展開一段安靜但基礎穩固的戀情。你並不欣賞把一切愛意表現出來的浪漫情懷，但這並不表示你不重視愛情，也不是拒絕別人的愛意，相反地，你是個把愛情看得十分神聖的人，因此不輕易墜入河罷了。

AB型水瓶座的前衛思想及知性想法，在戀愛觀中最能表露遺。所謂的異性相愛，對你來說是奠基於廣大友愛精神的一部分，不會造成愛情犧牲的轟轟烈烈劇情，但是一旦決定了對象，卻會發展出彼此相信及相依的忠貞情。你不會過於在意社會標准或關於擇偶條件的勸告，你認為愛情最重要的是彼此間心靈的契合及愉快，因此也不期望對方能同樣享受相處時若有似無的朦朧美感。對於性，你的看法甚為開明，不會被性慾的衝動所支配，也不會追求感官及肉體上的歡愉。對你來說，這種事是自然而然的奉獻，不能有絲毫勉強或人為的設計。對於一味注重獸性享受的人，你會嗤之以鼻，但也不會拘泥於道德或古老的社會想法，故意裝作是個君子。AB型水瓶座的你，擁有遠遠超越一般愛情遊戲水準的愛情，愛情是雙方在仔細分析及考慮之後的抉擇，不會有所謂的犧牲配合或是痛苦折磨。這樣開始的愛情極為自然，加上你獨特的個人魅力，以及時給予對方可以信任的安全感，即使沒有高潮起伏的過程，如膠似漆的熱戀，或月下燭光的羅曼蒂克，仍然有很大的機率可以獲得圓滿的結局。

忠告：把握愛情，不妨加些浪漫情懷，盡情陶醉在愛情裡。

婚姻及家庭

由於你的戀愛觀傾於向自由開明，所以靠相親、親母催促，以及有太多附加條件的婚姻，你一概不會接受。你的婚姻是男女雙方共同分享自由的結合，不需要任何形式。個人意志在你的婚姻中佔有極重要的部分，你絕不會找一個看不對眼的人做為終身伴侶，也不會因為需要一個人做伴，草率地走向紅毯的另一端。你的對象，必定是個使你敬重、喜愛，而彼此相處時不會感到一點不耐煩的人。

結婚對你來說只是一種形式，因此你不會在意彼此共同生活的束縛，婚姻中重要的是精神上的自願及共鳴，彼此會以很開放的態度坦誠相待。當然，這並不代表你是個不負責的人，相反地在走出結婚禮堂之後，你的理智會立刻提醒自己身為丈夫或妻子的責任，除了極度的個人自由之外，你會很誠懇地擔負起自己應盡的本分，做一個理想的伴侶。

擁有婚姻關係的生活不會有巨大的轉變，對待對方仍和婚前一樣保持彼此平等的夫妻地位，不會成為大男人主義的丈夫或撒嬌依賴的妻子，更不會有"原形畢露"的毛病。 你的婚姻不會影響彼此的社交生活及交友圈子，特別是此型的女性，更不會因此放棄職業成家庭的主婦，平日的生活仍能保持不斷的進步及追求夢想。至於事業跟家庭生活的矛盾，大部分可以靠你的聰明才智一一解決，唯一的問題，是必須隨時提醒自己不可對副業過於熱衷，而使婚姻關係趨於冷淡。AB型水瓶座的婚姻大部分是成功的，即使不幸釀成家庭悲劇，夫妻失和，此時想強迫自己忍耐或做很大的讓步是不太可能的事，你的理智會使你勇敢地面對現實，而你的自由原則會使你和對方平和地分手。 要預防這樣的結局，最好的辦法便是夫妻擁有共同的朋友及社交圈子，遇到問題可以共同面對，才能預防因為個人自由而導致婚姻問題。

忠告：夫妻應建立彼此共同的朋友及社交圈，共同面對婚姻的問題，勿過分強調個人自由。

事業及成功

你對金錢的報酬往往不十分計較，唯一的要求是能夠自由施展抱負，不受組織或團體的過分束縛，但是在埋頭事業之後，金錢、名聲及頭街自然伴隨而來，只要能夠持之以恆，獲得成功並非難事。

一般職業對你都很適合，因為你會利用時機，創造成功的機會，同時，在熟悉工作之後，往往更能發揮獨特的個人風格，為事業帶來意想不到的發展。最適合你的職業，也是唯一能夠長久持續下去的職業，便是能夠自由發揮才能的工作，通常是富有藝術氣息或是不受太多約束的自由業。作家、記者、大眾傳播及處理流行諮詢的工作，是你最能全力發揮才能的職業，切記，你是個無法輕易委屈自己的人，如果找不到符合興趣的工作，不必太留戀一時的安定及收入，即使是不斷轉業，只要能在最後成功，暫時的付出及等待仍是值得的。

忠告：不要輕易委屈自己做不感興趣的工作。

金錢及財運

良好而且廣闊的人際關係，往往為你帶來意想不到的財富，所以儘管你不是個勤於積蓄的人，地不至於陷於貧窮，並且，你對於賺錢也有獨特的方法，能夠依照個人的才能及獨創力化解金錢方面的危機，例如，靠發明或事業上的成績得到金錢資助等。

你不太可能因事業成功而成為富翁，也絕不會成為守財奴。你的收入會高過一般人，但是，相形之下，為了享受生活，支出也會隨之增加。因為你不重視金錢，所以財富得到容易，失去也很容易。AB型的人一向只求衣食不缺，能夠溫飽即可，加上水瓶座的人金錢最沒有概念，花起錢來毫不節制，因此大筆的財富在手中很快就會消失，解決之道是必須有一筆救急存款，以備不時之需。所幸，你從不會因為金錢而煩惱，有錢沒錢對你的生活並沒有太大的影響，是個生活上的樂天派。

忠告：加強你的金錢概念，擁有一定的儲蓄，以藉急需只用。

AB型人格

# 個性表現：神秘性、稚氣、神經質
# 魅力表現：沈思的時候
# 幸運場所：座談會、藝術館
# 幸運數字：0及3
# 幸運花卉：紫羅蘭

AB型人格自小認識人的能力很強，反而大來變為複雜，太認真的誠實型，言行精而敏且含有幽默，雖與O型相反的他，但是正義感是高人一籌，凡受了委託從不推辭，親切是AB血型獨有的長處。

# 感情分析

要與AB血型人親近的妙訣，就是委由他做事，然後誠懇地表示謝意，凡是為人效勞是AB血型最感光榮而興趣的事，不過雖能親近他，也難得其赤的心，須要有恆，長期與他共處為上策，他厭惡偽善及雙面人格的人，所以須要誠實相對，拖泥滯水的交往，萬萬使不得。