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- http://www. teleworks. com/blog/ markoehlert/archives/000094. html Mark Oehlert has posted an interesting set of survey questions as a word doc on his site, which he is asking people working in the 'elearning' filed to answer. |
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- I saw this user agent Soup/0.7.10 in my logs accessing my rdf feed. What is unusual about it is that... |
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- The Jim Mullen Foundation offers free computers to persons with disabilities. To learn more about the Jim Mullen Foundation, click here. |
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- Just a reminder that KayBee should be marking (almost) everything down by 30%. As mentioned in our story a couple of weeks back, the sale –likely unmarked and not promoted—is from October 8th-14th. Now would be a good time to clean house, and remember, the more peg warmers purchased, the more space for new stuff to come in! |
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Foodspk (Oct 08 2003 18:59 GMT) - find hundreds of indo-pakistani recipes, as well as chinese, english, italian, american, arabic, and mexican dishes. searchable, or browse by cuisine and type of dish. includes a food glossary, weights and measures conversion table (most recipes use metric measurements), and information on food safety, calories, and nutrition. provides an illustrated list of spices and foods in both english and urdu. |
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Valentines (Oct 08 2003 18:59 GMT) - Scott, Greg, Anvils and Hammers, and, of course, Alice Cooper |
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- "We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it." |
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- The holder of a browser plug-in patent asks a court for a permanent injunction against Microsoft's distribution of Internet Explorer, in the continuation of a patent-infringement case. |
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- Technology company i2 Telecom releases a voice-over-Internet-Protocol product designed for small companies and home offices. |
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- The EJB specification places restrictions on bean providers, and one of these is accessing the filing system. This leads to two questions - why is this and how do we get around it? |
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- Business Week Oct 8 2003 12:35PM ET... |
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- Globe and Mail Oct 8 2003 12:44PM ET... |
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- bCentral Oct 8 2003 1:09PM ET... |
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- eWeek Oct 8 2003 1:13PM ET... |
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- CNET Oct 8 2003 1:19PM ET... |
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- NewsForge has an article, Opportunities for Open Source software in the publishing industry, that looks at how to apply open source tools in the many areas of publishing. Publishing -- by firms that produce newspapers, magazines, books of all kinds, and even corporate documents -- is a very well understood business where the leaders are firms who have cut costs to the absolute minimum and exist on very thin margins, thanks to intense competition from other publishers and other media, including, nowadays, the Internet. "Open Source developers can also find lots of niche opportunities -- publishing is a huge and varied field, and these customers will listen to developers who can save them money. Where Gutenberg failed, an Open Source developer may well succeed." |
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- MySanantonio Reports On A program new to San Antonio will put a free book in the hands of about 7,000 local children this month in hopes of opening a world of joy and opportunity for the future. Children from the Lamar Elementary after-school program listen to a story at the Witte Museum. Jerry Lara/Express-News The national, nonprofit "First Book" program was founded in 1992 to hand out books in lower-income areas in hopes of promoting literacy among economically disadvantaged children. |
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- Associated Press Reports on The 55th Frankfurt Book Fair opened Tuesday with a look at the role of books in today's world, from literature's rebirth in postwar nations such as Afghanistan and Iraq to its new face in post-communist Russia. The Book Fair Web Site is chock full o' bookie goodness. Something a little closer to home, for me at least, is the Southern Festival of Books. They say it boasts a particularly strong local and regional flavor, from Mount Juliet's Will Campbell to Hohenwald's William Gay to North Carolina's Lee Smith. Head on down to Tennessee and check it out. |
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- The Wisconsin Library Association has warned libraries about the new federal Patriot Act, leading some to purge circulation records to protect privacy, and others to begin warning patrons about the law's effects. Mark Corallo, a Justice Department spokesman in Washington, D.C., said last week that to get a search warrant under the Patriot Act, the FBI must show evidence to a federal judge that the records being sought would involve international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities, which would be foreign spying. "The FBI," he said, "is prohibited from conducting investigations of U. |
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- Private security officers recently began strictly enforcing rules against sitting on planters outside the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library in Dallas TX and cracked down on the size of bags brought inside. Library employees have called the police on those who litter. The recent crackdown is the latest in response to long-standing complaints about homeless people bathing in library restrooms, muttering obscenities, panhandling outside, littering and forming a gantlet that makes some patrons uncomfortable. But many see it as another round in an endless cycle of dealing unsuccessfully with homelessness. |
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- I saw a very interesting hard disk the other day...it was like this huge 3 foot across 5 foot tall metal drum that had a dozen huge thick 3 foot long platters. the metal drum was full of helium to keep out debris...and the entire thing was equal to 10Mb! very interesting drive. |
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- Prima Fini se ne esce con la proposta del voto agli immigrati e viene bocciato da Bossi. Ora leggo da Repubblica.it/News che Forza Italia ha una proposta per il riconoscimento delle coppie gay e pronta arriva la risposta (no secco) da AN. Stanno semplicemente giocando? Un patto di solidarietà tra due persone, anche dello stesso sesso, rescindibile in qualunque momento ma con possibilità di reversibilità della pensione. |
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- Death of the Red Sox, huh? |
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- A few months ago, I wrote about the tragic inaccessibility of audio and video content on the web. Today, while trying to summarize one of the key insights that came out of the BloggerCon conference I attended this past weekend, I was again reminded of this problem. The issue I want to highlight is the gap between what technically proficient users of the blogging medium (or indeed any kind of web authoring) can achieve, and what average users can achieve. Ironically the best way for me to make that point -- by citing portions of the webcast -- is yet another illustration of the problem. In several different sessions, people made compelling pleas for simplicity. |
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- Lao Believer Killed; Police Complicity Suspected - Mission InsiderThe war against Christians is not limited to Hmong. Christian Aid has just learned of the August 4 death of a Lao believer in southern Laos under suspicious circumstances. Here is what is known:Sompong, unmarried son of Mr. |
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- By DHinMI It doesn’t look like inferior voting technology effected the result of yesterday’s election in California, but it could... |
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- We found two delicate plants last week in our quest to have more foliage in the house. One is a "cobra lily" which lives in peat moss and eats flies and spiders. We like spiders so for now it is under glass to keep humid and warm and away from tasty spiders. The other is a pretty fern, Evergeminiensis Pteris ensiformis, with leaves that look like they were painted with white. |
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- AUSTIN - As part of the annual Red River rivalry weekend, Texas Gov. Rick Perry today joined with Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry to stress highway traffic safety for fans heading to Dallas on Saturday when the University of Texas Longhorns battle the Un... |
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- Iraq's top gym is "Arnold Classic" (Reuters). Reuters - Iraq's top gym has changed its name to "The Arnold Classic" to honour ex-bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger's win in the California governor's race. |
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- Oh sure, just when you think you have a good idea, you read a PDC blog about somebody else doing the same thing |
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- New York City is proposing a stricter law regarding bullying. If passed, it would overhaul how all city schools handle when a student is harrassed. |
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- Thousands of kids now qualify for free tutoring, but most families don't know it and time to sign up is running out. |
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Dad's Okay (Oct 08 2003 18:57 GMT) - I got a call from my Dad last night. He'd been scheduled for followup tests due to the irregular rhythm of his heart. They checked him out, and found that all chambers look healthy. Then they applied a shock designed to resynch his heartbeat. Apparently it worked the first time. |
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- Insanely busy--working on Fungi Folio stuff (you know, those projects that start out fairly straightforward and just seem to mushroom), but we actually are almost done with the "deadline - was - yesterday" projects and... |
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- Pioneer is coming out with a new AV receiver called the VSA-AX10Ai-N that has support for Microsoft's new Windows Meda Audio 9 Professional format built-in. This means it can stream WMA 9 Pro files from a PC, including audio files in 5.1 channel surround sound. Combined with the recent news that Microsoft is trying to get its Windows Media Video 9 format accepted as an industry standard for video compression, this gives a pretty good indication that the next big push for Microsoft will be to get their software running on as many stereos and DVD players as possible. Read... |
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- Pioneer is coming out with a new AV receiver called the VSA-AX10Ai-N that has support for Microsoft's new Windows Meda Audio 9 Professional format built-in. This means it can stream WMA 9 Pro files from a PC, including audio files in 5.1 channel surround sound. Combined with the recent news that Microsoft is trying to get its Windows Media Video 9 format accepted as an industry standard for video compression, this gives a pretty good indication that the next big push for Microsoft will be to get their software running on as many stereos and DVD players as possible. Read... |
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Disgust (Oct 08 2003 18:57 GMT) - Couldn't have put it better. |
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