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- I am very pleased to say that ecademy's very own Angus Clacher has kindly agreed to speak at the next ecademy East Midlands event on 21 October here in Nottingham . For those who don't know Angus, he is Co-Founder of I Want One Of Those a brilliant web site I have used myself, and a true "dot com success story". here's some PR: Angus was recognised as an e-commerce innovator by the UK government in 2003. He co-foundered IWOOT. |
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- Lisa is off on a 2 week vacation. I just got back from taking her to the airport. That means I get to rule the house with wild and reckless abandon. Of course, it also means I have to walk the dog more often, and make sure all animals have constant supplies of food and water. Grocery shop by myself. |
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- THERE'S LOTS OF GOOD STUFF over at Gregg Easterbrook's Easterblogg -- and his discussion of Mel Gibson's Christ movie, and in particular his mention of Simon of Cyrene, reminds me of my high-school summer spent acting in the Smoky Mountain Passion Play, in which I sometimes played Simon (in blackface;... |
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- You'll perhaps recall the last episode? Via the Fictionwise store, Jerry Justianto gave me an e-book of Wired: A Romance as a gift. He did so out of friendship. Along the way, however, Mr. |
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- WHAT’S the most inspiring place in Britain? According to the Poetry Society, it is Keats’s home in London, where he... |
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Qt (Oct 09 2003 14:10 GMT) |
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- I was using the Terminal to ssh into a linux server. The backspace key worked fine inside the shell, but when I entered vim to edit text files, the backspace key started behaving like a delete key -- it was deleting the char... |
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ZODB3 3.2 (Oct 09 2003 14:09 GMT) - Zope Object Database: object database and persistence |
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- Take two sends players "Back to Baghdad." |
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- Je n aime pas beaucoup le foot. Au niveau professionnel, ce sport ne me semble plus tellement « propre » et je dirais même que tous les scandales qui tournent autour m indisposent plutôt. Je me contente donc de prêter une oreille distraite aux résultats du championnat en cours afin de pouvoir comprendre quelque chose quand le hasard me porte à faire partie d un cercle qui en parle. Par contre, l histoire qui suit est loin de me laisser indifférente. |
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- Un univers tout simplement...dingue. |
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- Je ne suis pas communiste |
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- Je ne suis pas communiste |
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- Pare che la Russia stia prendendo seriamente in considerazione l’idea di adottare l’euro per le vendite di petrolio. Sarebbe un brutto colpo per l’economia americana: |
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- ‘Let me tell you about torture," says Ghazi Hussein, softly and matter of factly. Lifting his arms above his shoulders,... |
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Impotent (Oct 09 2003 14:09 GMT) - The Donks seethe and whine. Misha enjoys it.... |
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- Tender care of ripe and tender flesh, the burgeoning life inside. Care for need, experimental touch, so as not to... |
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- It's the hottest ticket in town. The last time a program was put on, five time slots filled up in one hour. Over 1,100 people participated in one program, but other kids and parents were left disappointed because they couldn't get in on one of Pleasant Grove Library's children's programs... Local Utah Public Library News, New Utah, October 9, 2003 |
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- Suspicious package disrupts day at SCC A mysterious package left Tuesday in an employee bathroom at Solano Community College sparked a bomb scare that closed part of the campus for more than four hours. |
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- Rush Ranch now part of national reserve FAIRFIELD -- Rush Ranch in Suisun Marsh is becoming part of the new San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. That designation will bring money to the open space area owned by the Solano Land Trust, though how much is unclear. |
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- Vocational instructor is teacher of the year FAIRFIELD -- Last spring, when one of David George's supervisors took him aside for a talk, the welding instructor for the Regional Occupational Program thought he was in trouble. |
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- Students get living history experience Cordelia Waterman, played by Leslie Batson, visits third graders at K.I. Jones FAIRFIELD -- Cordelia Waterman traveled hundreds of years to visit K.I. Jones Elementary School Wednesday. |
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- Tech leaders say governor-elect's priority is education The advice of the Silicon Valley business community to Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger can be summed up briefly: Improve the schools and make the state more business friendly, and California will take care of itself. |
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- Education Department promotes high school reforms The Education Department on Wednesday launched a campaign to improve the nation's public high schools, prodding states to expand their rigorous course offerings and to demand more of students before they head to college or work. |
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- New test combo detects Down syndrome better, sooner A new combination of blood tests and ultrasound can detect fetuses with Down syndrome sooner and more accurately than standard U.S. screening tests, offering mothers-to-be more peace of mind and more time to decide whether to end a pregnancy, researchers say. |
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- Study: Early-onset asthma onset likely to recur The earlier asthma begins in youngsters, the less likely they are to outgrow it by adulthood, according to a 17-year New Zealand study. |
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- Fussy child may know best Children who drive their parents mad by refusing to eat up their fruit and vegetables could be demonstrating an evolutionary fussiness trait which is designed to protect them from harm, research has claimed. |
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- Sleep May Help Restore Memories Studies Say a Good Night's Sleep May Restore and Enhance Memories Oct. 8 — In a finding that backs up motherly advice to get a good night's sleep, scientists have found that peaceful slumber apparently restores memories that were lost during a hectic day. |
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- New York to Lower the Bar for High School Graduation New York State plans to loosen the demanding testing requirements it has imposed for graduation, including the standards used to judge math proficiency. From the New York Times |
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- How Do You Grade Behavior? Sarah A. Rainsberger, a Toronto-based tutor who specializes in math, remembers her education school professor's interesting experiment. He asked each member of the class to list the qualities of an ideal student. |
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- Paige Unveils Series of Measures to Close High School Achievement Gap Declaring America's high schools are spawning an achievement gap that poses "an unrecognized educational crisis in this country," U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige today unveiled a package of steps to help promote educational excellence in secondary education. From the US Department of Education |
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- Schools call for free meals Families struggling to feed their children may get a break at school. The Mt. Diablo Unified School District board voted in favor of Congress eliminating reduced-price meals and replacing them with free meals. |
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- eSN Analysis: State laws unlikely to stop spam From eSchool News staff and wire service reports California schools and other recipients of unsolicited bulk eMails in the Golden State would be able to sue spammers for up to $1,000 per message under a bill signed last month by outgoing Gov. Gray Davis. But experts say this latest anti-spam law and similar measures across the country stand little chance of reducing the number of junk messages clogging eMail in-boxes. |
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- Paul Festa of C|Net News.com put out a good, thorough overview of the conflict between Web standards advocates, development tool makers and alternative browser makers on one side, and Microsoft's Internet Explorer team on the other, regarding CSS support in IE. |
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- Una felicitación sincera a Deli Ramírez y a todo su equipo y a Sicom Radio en FM 105.9 Barra infantil por obtener el TERCER lugar a nivel nacional - compitió entre 32 programas de Radio Cultural a nivel Nacional y... |
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- Det ser något bättre ut för byggandet i Sverige. Det uppförs allt fler småhus utanför Stockholm. Men de dåliga tiderna i huvudstaden kommer ändå att tynga det svenska byggandet framöver, spår branschorganisationen Byggindustrierna. |
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- A former FBI agent who handled high-profile mob informants in Boston was arrested Thursday and charged with the 1981 mob-related murder of a Tulsa, Okla., businessman, his lawyer said. |
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- Developers gripe about IE standards inaction: Now that Microsoft has abandoned Internet Explorer, it looks like that browser's bugs are here to stay. "Web developers want to light a fire under Microsoft to get better standards support in the company's... |
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- Leftover lasagne noodles and chicken pieces in a tomato-based soup garnished with bell peppers, carrots and sweet peas. |
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- More of the same:Participants in illegal markets lack the property rights enjoyed by participants in regular markets. As a result, explicit contracts are impossible to make and implicit contracts impossible to enforce. Disputes with suppliers, employees, and other firms cannot... |
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- Got milk? Then you’re likely to have a few other things, too—such as gas, pimples, excess fat, and a throat full of phlegm! As our "Milk Suckers" trading cards explain, drinking milk can cause an array of unpleasant side effects, as well as more serious health problems, including heart disease and cancer. |
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- I will flesh out this weblog later. Suffice to say it covers my visit in August to the Knocknarea peninsula in Sligo. I've never really "connected" with an area in Ireland before, having no ancestors at all that I am aware of from the place. |
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- Yeah yeah yeah, I know it's a little late, but anything Jay Farrar is newsworthy to lil' ol' me.... |
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- I've noticed that my Montana readership has increased markedly in the past couple of months, but it seems that most... |
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- While doing research on Java implementations of the XMLStorageSystem API, the backbone of Radio UserLand web hosting, I found something unusual: Full support for the API in a commercial server product. As shown in the documentation, the OpenLink Virtuoso "universal server" supports the XML Storage System, MetaWeblog, Blogger, and Moveable Type APIs, which enables it to host weblogs created with Radio and other weblogging tools. This is my first exposure to Virtuoso, but in an article for InfoWorld, Jon Udell makes it sound like Radio's big brother: At the core, it's a SQL engine that not only supports ODBC but can attach foreign databases through ODBC. |
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