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- compat.lua usage for Lua 5.0 |
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- Dennis schrijft "Adformatie heeft nu zelf ook een rss feed." Alleen jammer dattie het niet doet...... |
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- Microsoft has already started to dig in its heels in the customer relationship management (CRM) market, and has signed Alcatel ISV subsidiary Genesys to help it push into the SME call centre market. David du Toit, solutions director at call centre integrator Datapoint, said this was an interesting move from the software giant. |
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- Two British soldiers are amongst a group of people kidnapped by Maoist rebels in Nepal, officials say. |
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- 0.2% drop in Sept. indicators, after rising since March, portends 'bumpy' road ahead, Conference Board says |
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- Jim Lobe on Lew Rockwell's Blog Jubilance among the bushies over the passage in UN Securty Council of the Iraq Resolution last week was tempered by a few other irritating facts, all negative: First, US Post-War Casualties Pass 100 Amid Disarray, a |
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- A pirate radio station run by Israeli settlers stopped transmissions Monday after its senior personnel were convicted in a Jerusalem court of broadcasting illegally from Israeli territorial waters and the West Bank. |
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- Glanz writes "Digital Rights Management or DRM is an umbrella term being used to describe a number of technologies that place limits on what can be done with digital information. DRM prevents you from copying data unless you have the right key and the right software to unlock the data. DRM is strongly advocated by the corporations behind the various DRM programs, focusing on its benefits but purposefully sidestepping DRM's downside. This piece will highlight how steep the downside can be by focusing on three threats posed by DRM technologies." |
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- This just in from the Young Dubliners' Keith Roberts........ Yo Dubsters, we have made it back to sunny Cali in one piece and have decided that it just wouldn't be right if we didn't play at least one surprise show while we are here.With that in mind the perfect opportunity has presented itself for Oct 24th. Many of you will remember our previous drummer Jon Mattox. |
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- This is not a review of the book Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP, because I haven't read it. But it is a review of a review. Or a response to a review. Or some comments on a review. |
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- This is not a review of the book Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP, because I haven't read it. But it is a review of a review. Or a response to a review. Or some comments on a review. |
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- Lee Smith: The Last GirlsFinished it on the plane - pretty darn good. |
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- Sunday ReadingTwo non-political books I've got to get ahold of: According to the Rolling Stones and Cosmopolitan: A Bartender's Life. Both are reviewed in the New York Times today. A good review should tell you something interesting about the book, the author, the subject, or all of those things. |
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- The best (both good and short) explanation that I've seen of the speed of light/relativity business is in Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man on pages 245-256 -- good illustrations, too. The book was published as an accompaniment to Bronowski's superb multipart television series of the same name. (Boston: Little Brown, c1973). |
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- From time to time, I am going to go out on a limb and recommend books that are both interesting and useful. While initially they will be about photography, I promise to research books that will interest designers and writers as well. If you are reading this and want to send in your suggestion, I would love to hear from you. Send in your suggestions to me at: seshu[at]pipalproductions[dot] Here is the first of what I hope will be many books you can use: |
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- Associated with the exhibit is a symposium that promises to discuss the political weight images carry (in the context of the British Raj, of course). Hot topic, in my opinion. How are South Asians perceived now has much to do with how we were photographed in the past. I am sure Vijay Prashad of The Karma of Brown Folk fame has something to say about this. |
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- THE JAUNT IN BRIEF: Zuppa's: Buttery filet mignon, delish! Understated decor, hoorah! No prosecco, boo! |
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- This morning, between scribbling ideas for our farmhouse and stretching in the morning sunshine, I've bounced between the libertarianism forum, an article I found on the The People-Centered Development Forum called "ASSAULT OF THE CORPORATE LIBERTARIANS", and a chapter about commerce and capital in the book The Tao of Abundance: Eight Ancient Principles for Abundant Living by Laurence G. Boldt. Here's a quote from each:emagill wrote, "This is kind of the sticking point for libertarianism. |
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- At last! Its the long-awaited debut of Youre a Bad Man, Arent You?, a short story collection of sordidly sexual tales by Susannah Breslin from Future Tense Books. |
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- Here's the latest entry from the increasing awareness of anime and manga in maninstream American culture: an article on Japanese comics in Business Week.In Japan, manga sales run into the billions of dollars annually. In the U.S. |
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- Courtney pointed me in the direction of The Observer's article and accompanying list of the 100 Best Novels of All Time. Oh my GOD, I cannot believe that anyone would put the totally heinous, painful and just plain irritating Tristram Shandy on a list of readable books, much less "the best novels of all time." And ahead of Jude the Obscure, a book that actually made me drop my cigarette in shock when I got to the [censored for spoilers] scene! (And, also, what is with including Jude but not T ... |
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- Courtney pointed me in the direction of The Observer's article and accompanying list of the 100 Best Novels of All Time. Oh my GOD, I cannot believe that anyone would put the totally heinous, painful and just plain irritating Tristram Shandy on a list of readable books, much less "the best novels of all time." And ahead of Jude the Obscure, a book that actually made me drop my cigarette in shock when I got to the [censored for spoilers] scene! (And, also, what is with including Jude but not T ... |
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- Courtney pointed me in the direction of The Observer's article and accompanying list of the 100 Best Novels of All Time. Oh my GOD, I cannot believe that anyone would put the totally heinous, painful and just plain irritating Tristram Shandy on a list of readable books, much less "the best novels of all time." And ahead of Jude the Obscure, a book that actually made me drop my cigarette in shock when I got to the [censored for spoilers] scene! (And, also, what is with including Jude but not T ... |
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- Courtney pointed me in the direction of The Observer's article and accompanying list of the 100 Best Novels of All Time. Oh my GOD, I cannot believe that anyone would put the totally heinous, painful and just plain irritating Tristram Shandy on a list of readable books, much less "the best novels of all time." And ahead of Jude the Obscure, a book that actually made me drop my cigarette in shock when I got to the [censored for spoilers] scene! (And, also, what is with including Jude but not T ... |
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- Same thing as last year. Months preceding I get a buzz about it, looking forward, writing down ideas, sounding out names, places, and plots. I hope this year near the end of November my brain doesn't again act like a well-squeezed sponge where I have to wring all the harder to get that last 5,000 words out.I need to finish Stand on Zanzibar before November comes, too... I borrowed Innis Mode last year, and those were the fun chapters to write. |
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- So it's been a little over a month now since I got my DVR. Or, more accurately, my Explorer 8000 Home Entertainment Server.And I'm enjoying it, but Im also kinda terrified of it. Doesn't that name sound like a joke from Futurama? I mean, I love tech toys, but there's also a point where I start to get a little creeped out in a Maximum Overdrive sort of way. |
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- The Buffalo is back in the kitchen. For today's lunch, I ventured across the Pacific and went with a Vietnamese recipe taken from the book Vietnamese Cooking by Paulette Do Van. This one is for you vegans and contrary to popular perception of meatless food, it's quite tasty.Ingredients*1 tbsp. vegetable oil*1 onion, finely chopped*4 cloves of garlic - finely chopped*3 large green chiles, slicedy thinly - the recipes says to seed them but if you do that you lose the kick. |
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- This limitation of human cognition holds true to some degree for all large number constructions. Grand concepts are easier to comprehend when scaled. For instance it is difficult to understand the real meaning of the fact that 60 percent of the 6 billion people on the Earth are undernourished. Sure, it sounds like a big bad number, but it doesn't resonate in a way that is personal and palpable. Scale the world population down to an imaginary village of 100 as David J. |
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- The idea is perhaps best explained in an analogy of driving the freeways in Los Angeles. You move mono-directionally, hopefully - please don't try to back up while driving on the freeway. You drive in one lane at any given moment - once again, hopefully. You can choose to remain in a single lane as you move forward. But who ever does that? |
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- Now Im listening to Lord of the Flies by William Golding, as read by Golding. A benefit to listening to LOF is that there arent any female characters for Golding to mimic. |
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- Let me have the honour of introducing to you Mr David Fowler of Groove Workspace. Mr Fowler is VP of Marketing and Sales for Groove Networks, a fast-growing real-time collaboration company with a strong financial backing from Microsoft. Nonetheless Mr Fowler, who I have never met or discussed with before, answers my questions in the true spirit of an official corporate officer of Groove Inc., a lot of valuable insight can be distilled from this new interview. I was impressed in particular with Mr. |
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- Ik doe mee aan de Nationale Krakercompetitie. Dan weet u dat...... |
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