Poem to Wednesday
By Poet Lawyerette

sad wednesday.
you make me so blue.

the pinnacle
of work-week despair,
not able to look ahead,
yet...

not yet clear of my case
of the mondays.

somebody's got a case of the mondays...
on wednesday.

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“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. ”

- Mark Twain

Remember that really old footage of bigfoot in the 70's? Someone has stabilized it and made an animated gif out of it and it's really cool. -Is it real? Who the heck knows, but the image fixing is superior!

Here are audio files related to the Earth magnetospheric activity. They were recorded on ELF or VLF bands where you can hear lightnings whistling and dawn chorus of a great purity.

Some really incredible sounds here - also some great samples to use for sound effects or loops.

If you are using a Wireless Laptop with either Windows 200 or XP you had better enable your firewall.

If you're into checking out Linux Live distros -here is a nice variation...

a secure crypto-heavy operating systems on a bootable CD: a disk that would offer the masses the same level of privacy available to security professionals, but with an easy user interface.

It's a Mouse - it's a phone! Sleek little voip device.

Heres another one for you Apple users - oh and I guess Windows haters as well.

Newest game added to our flash archive in the forums.

Burberry will release Burberry London, a new fragrance for women, in February with an ad campaign featuring actress Rachel Weisz:

The fragrance itself was created by Dominique Ropion of IFF. The elegant and sophisticated floral jus features top notes of rose, clementine and honeysuckle. Heart notes comprise tiaré flower, peony and jasmine with base notes of sandalwood, musk and patchouli.

Look for the men's Burberry London fragrance in the fall. (via cosmeticsinternational)

In the race to acquire mobile assets in the Former Soviet Union, Reuters reports that Vimpelcom (VIP) announced its acquisition of two Uzbek mobile carriers, Buztel and Unitel. Vimpelcom shelled out $60 million for Buztel plus $2.4 million of debt and $200 million plus $13.4 million of debt for Unitel.

Russia’s second largest mobile company, Vimpelcom’s entry into the Uzbek market exposes the company to 25 million additional people with a mobile penetration rate of only 4.5% at the end of 2005 according to Reuters. In a company press release Vimpelcom CEO Alexander Izosimov said:

We are very pleased to announce these acquisitions in Uzbekistan, a large market that we believe has the potential for substantial growth. VimpelCom’s entry into Uzbekistan will bring our licensed population coverage to a total of over 230 million people. This is the fourth market outside of Russia that VimpelCom has entered as the Company continues to execute its CIS growth strategy.

This is Vimpelcom’s second major acquisition in three weeks. On December 29th, Vimpelcom announced that it would acquire 60% of Tacom, a cellular operator in Tajikistan, for $12 million and reached an agreement with the remaining shareholders of Tacom to acquire the outstanding 40% interest in the company.

VIP 1-yr Chart

Which 70's staaa-aaah-umm has been arrested...?

Plus the 'Stones in Australia...

Do you really waant to see MJ Fox back on TV...?

"See you in court bitch..."

Plus PETA's animal cruelty allegations agains MJ...

Patrick Swayze in Australia...

FINALLY Oz iTunes adds music from Sony/BMG....

And Rogue Traders to do D& D balls? WTF...?

SEVENTIES teen idol Leif Garrett has been arrested and jailed for investigation of narcotics possession and not having a subway ticket, officials said.

Garrett, 44, was arrested by sheriff's deputies on the platform of the Pershing Square Red Line station in downtown Los Angeles for allegedly not having a ticket to ride the train. Deputies during a subsequent search allegedly found suspected narcotics on the musician-actor, officials said.

Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, said Garrett was being held without bail because he had allegedly violated the terms of his probation for a previous offence. He pleaded guilty in March to attempted possession of cocaine-based narcotics and was placed on probation, Ms Gibbons said.

A judge last month issued a bench warrant for his arrest for an unspecified reason, she said.

An email sent to a spokeswoman listed on Garrett's website was not immediately returned.

Garrett has appeared in three dozen films, mostly in the 1970s and 1980s, and has released 10 music albums.

THE Rolling Stones could stage the first rock concert at Melbourne's Flemington racetrack.

Promoter Paul Dainty has asked Flemington officials if the rock legends can play to a crowd of 30,000 in April.

A Victoria Racing Club spokesman confirmed talks were being held with Dainty and the Stones.

"We would be guided by them as to what they require," he said.

"Whether or not the Stones opt for Flemington depends on whether we can fulfill what those requirements are."

On their last visit in 2003, the Stones played at Rod Laver Arena but their 1973 tour included shows at Randwick, Kooyong and the WACA.

Stones fan James Young was excited by the choice.

"Racing is the sport of kings and the Rolling Stones are the kings of rock'n'roll, making Flemington a natural choice of venue for these thoroughbred stayers," Mr Young said.

"Flemington racecourse makes sense to me. Jagger loves wearing bright silks, Charlie's an incredible stayer, Ronnie's finally on the straight and Keith's no stranger to a drug test."

While representatives for the VRC and Dainty said venue and dates were in discussion, a Stones tour is not yet confirmed.

But the Stones' authoritative European fansite, iorr.org, yesterday listed Flemington as the rumoured venue for an April show.

That information is said to be confirmed by Stones insiders.

The fansite suggests the Stones will visit Wellington, NZ, on April 8, before stops in Auckland, Sydney and Melbourne.

The tour's Pacific Rim leg opens in Tokyo on March 22.

Flemington's grandstand capacity is 24,000 people.

From news.com.au

Michael J. Fox says that acting for him, these days, is "like being a right-handed painter and being forced to paint with your left hand."

"You go, 'Yeah, I'm artistic, but the lines aren't straight anymore. I have creativity, but I'm not staying within the lines'."

Since quitting acting full-time in 2000 because of the debilitating symptoms of Parkinson's disease, first diagnosed in 1991 but not revealed to the public until 1998, the Family Ties and Spin City star has only occasionally acted on TV.

In 2001 he returned for several guest appearances as Deputy Mayor Michael Flaherty in US ABC's Spin City, and in 2004 guest starred as a surgeon with obsessive-compulsive disorder on two episodes of NBC's Scrubs.

Now the 44-year-old Fox guest stars in three (and a bit) episodes of ABC's Boston Legal. He plays a business tycoon, Daniel Post, a cancer sufferer who hires the notorious legal firm Crane, Poole and Schmidt to defend him. Post's been sued for corrupting a study for a new cancer-fighting drug by using his insider clout to ensure he was given the non-placebo. Amid the court case he becomes romantically entangled with his attorney, Denise Bauer (Julie Bowen.)

Fox's first episode The Cancer Man Can, has just aired. His story arc concludes on February 7.

The producers of Boston Legal knew since last season of Fox's interest in the show, but it wasn't until now that a suitable role came up.

Executive producer Bill D'Elia says the actor was "number one on a list of one," because "the character was someone that had to have irresistible charm."

"It was kismet - a combination of several events occurring to create perfect karma," says D'Elia, delighted that Fox signed on for the David E. Kelley series, which "often creates these spicy roles" for guest stars.

Fox says he is a fan of Boston Legal for a number of reasons, including its "so smart and so funny take" on ethical and moral issues. He also likes the way the show understands the complexities of human nature and that it is not afraid to recognise that "sometimes people are likable and they are corrupted, and sometimes they are incorruptible, but kind of off-putting."

He particularly enjoyed working on Post's brief encounter with Denny Crane, the most notorious of the ethically challenged lawyers, played by William Shatner, a "fellow Canadian."

"I was really pleasantly blown away by him. First of all Denny Crane, is, I think, one of the great creations of television in the 21st century ... and then there's Shatner's artistry, which I think is a lot misunderstood," Fox says, during a phone interview from New York.

Fox - once the cute young Marty McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy of feature films - says, "What I loved was being part of the creative process again. Something as simple as being in a night shoot and smelling the smell of carbon lights in the cold air. 'Wow, the smell of the grease paint!' It was nice, and nice being involved with other actors."

Because of the Parkinson's disease, Fox says he "can't show up with a game plan." He expresses sympathy and understanding for veteran showman, Dick Clark, who, though not fully recovered from a debilitating stroke, had gamely co-hosted ABC's New Year's Rockin' Eve.

"I am not in such a bad position as he, just given the nature of our separate challenges, but I can see what he was going for, and I felt bad for him that he's gotten such a mixed reaction," says Fox.

Because Fox doesn't know how extreme the symptoms of his illness will be on any given day, he had to wing it in suggesting Post's own health problems. "I just show up and do what I can do, and stay true to the emotional arc of the character."

Fox, who won three Emmys for portraying Alex Keaton on Family Ties and a fourth for playing Flaherty on Spin City, says he loved it that Boston Legal provided "the chance to do one those courtroom speeches - a soliloquy in front of the judge - which in my long and assorted career I've never done. It was so much fun."

Fun though it was, he admits it was physically "pretty taxing," and he doesn't plan to return to acting full-time. Instead, he says, he's always "finding better things to do," particularly spending as much time as possible with his four kids and wife, Tracy Pollan.

He also devotes himself to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, founded in 2000, which has already raised millions in hopes of finding a cure.

Additionally, he's working on a book, a "kind of follow-up" to his memoir Lucky Man.

It's theme?

"I'm exploring the idea of optimism in all it's forms ... What is optimism all about? It's kind of something I've been playing with," he said.

X Files creator Chris Carter has sued 20th Century Fox television for breach of contract of his hit show, the Hollywood Reporter reports.

Carter filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court in December, the trade paper said on Tuesday.

The lawsuit claims that 20th Century Fox reneged on previous agreements, refusing to pay Carter an original profit deal or later cable advance.

Carter brought the case through his production company, Ten Thirteen, seeking unspecified damages.

Telephone messages left at his lawyer's Los Angeles office and at 20th Century Fox television were not returned.

Carter said that in 1998 he made an agreement with 20th Century Fox affiliate Fox Broadcasting to give him a "profit guarantee" for a sixth and seventh season of the X Files.

Negotiations for a ninth season led to Carter urging 20th Century Fox to cancel the show's domestic cable deal for repeat rights with the FX network.

Carter's suit claims the agreement with FX was handed over to networks USA and TNT.

The suit also alleges Carter negotiated for a cable advance equal to 25 per cent of the gross licence fee paid to 20th Century Fox in excess of $300,000 an episode.

The Hollywood Reporter wrote that Carter said in 2001 that 20th Century Fox asked him to reduce the cable advance because it would result in a benefit too large for him.

From smh.com.au

Michael Jackson cruelty claims

MICHAEL Jackson is being accused of cruelty.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals told the US Agriculture Department he has been neglecting giraffes, elephants and crocodiles at his Neverland estate.

He has been in Bahrain since being cleared on child-sex charges.

DIRTY Dancing star Patrick Swayze is writing a movie based in Australia.

"I'm looking to shoot a movie in Australia," Swayze said. "You've got to look outside of Hollywood if you want to find people with passion.

"I've actually got an idea for this friendship that happens with a couple of Australian natives and an Australian guy and an American guy."

Swayze, best known for his roles in the blockbuster hits Dirty Dancing and Ghost, has visited Australia many times.

"I love it there. I love all of Australia," he said in an interview to promote his latest film, the black British comedy Keeping Mum.

Swayze, 53, is moving into film production with his own company.

Keeping Mum -- co-starring Rowan Atkinson and Kristin Scott Thomas -- opens in Australia next week.

From heraldsun.com.au

iTunes Ahoy! Sony BMG Catalogue Now Available in Australia...

Yep, that's right - The Sony BMG catalogue has now been added to the iTunes Music Store in Australia, which means that you can now download all your favourite local and international Sony BMG artists from iTunes including Foo Fighters, Rogue Traders, Shannon Noll, Bob Dylan, Franz Ferdinand and Anthony Callea.

"We're delighted to join the iTunes Music Store in Australia," said Denis Handlin, Chairman and CEO, Sony BMG Australia and New Zealand. "There is a great opportunity for digital music to explode in 2006 and we look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with iTunes." The addition of the Sony BMG catalogue to iTunes equals lots more music for fans! You'll be able to download the latest stuff from local stars like Shannon Noll, Anthony Callea and Human Nature, international artists such as Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and Avril Lavigne, and music videos from the likes of Anastacia, John Mayer and Alicia Keys. Additional Sony BMG local favourites coming to iTunes include Pete Murray, John Farnham, Alex Lloyd and Delta Goodrem, and international artists like Destiny's Child, Franz Ferdinand, Oasis, The Strokes, Kelly Clarkson, Bruce Springsteen, Jamiroquai, Eurythmics and Shakira. The iTunes Music Store will be featuring the exclusive video catalogue of Foo Fighters, a Celebrity Playlist from Delta Goodrem and exclusive tracks from Eurythmics and Rogue Traders. Stay tuned for lots more exciting Sony BMG exclusives hitting iTunes soon!         Rogue Traders - Desperate And Dateless? Wanna get your freak on with Rogue Traders? The so-hot-it-hurts electro rockers are hitting the road for some shows, including d&d balls in Hobart, Perth and the Gold Coast, so you can get out there and watch them! Grab all the details here... Get ready to rock big time with the Rogues! The drums are coming to a town near you, along with Nat, James and the Trader boys. If you're one of the lucky people who caught the Rogues supporting Kelly Clarkson on her national tour or at Homebake, then you'll know that this is one band that seriously kicks it live. Tickets to all shows are on sale now, so grab yourself one and start preparing for one helluva night! Rogue Traders Live Shows January 26 - Seagulls Club, Tweed Heads Tix: 07 5536 3433 January 27 - Great Western Hotel, Rockhampton Tix: 07 4922 3888 January 28 - Brothers Leagues Club, Cairns Tix: 07 4053 1053 or www.brotherscairns.com.au March 4 - d&d ball, Derwent Entertainment Centre, Hobart Tix: www.ddball.com.au March 18 - d&d ball, Dreamworld, Gold Coast Tix: www.ddball.com.au March 25 - d&d ball, Challenge Stadium, Perth Tix: www.ddball.com.au

From sonybmg.com.au

iTunes Pause.

Say I have a website
and I turn it into a weblog
and I decide to let Blogger host it for me
and Blogger offers me commenting and trackback and a feed
posting every day, I start writing in Ecto
my digital snaps are on Flickr, but also on my site
Flickr offers feeds of many aspects of their site
I combine it with that from my site with Feedburner
and I use Uploader to get images to Flickr
but sometimes also my phone
the resulting RSS feed may be viewed in a newsreader
or on Bloglines
and oh, IÂ’ve started using del.icio.us

Perhaps a question: do I still have a website, or do I maintain a series of flows, in an ecology of services?

More…

Estava eu andando pela rua, quando me deparo com isso:

Sim, sim, é verdade, não é montagem!
Agora me responda se uma pessoa que escreve "DAR-se aula" tem condições de ensinar alguém?
E nem adianta dizer que a culpa é do carinha que fez a placa, porque se eu estou pagando, eu exigo um trabalho perfeito!

Nessas horas eu amo mais ainda a minha cam.

Será que essa cara tem sorte?

Clica aqui

Tenho certeza que depois disso o cara virou protetor e criador de árvores!

Ambas compañías presentarán el nuevo dispositivo en la feria Consumer Electronics Show (CES) que se inaugura en Las Vegas.

DIARIO TI: Netgear y Skype anuncian su acuerdo de colaboración para crear una nueva e innovadora familia de productos que incluye el primer teléfono móvil Skype que irá acompañado de un router que optimizará el uso de la tecnología Skype.

El teléfono Wi-Fi de Netgear, hará realidad la telefonía móvil a través de Internet para los usuarios de Skype, el teléfono Wi-Fi de Netgear funcionará en cualquier lugar en el que el usuario pueda conectarse a un punto inalámbrico de acceso a Internet, ya sea en casa, en la oficina, en un cibercafé, en un hotspot público o en cualquier acceso wireless abierto disponible.

“Ahora los usuarios de Skype pueden llamar de forma gratuita, a otros usuarios de Skype, en cualquier lugar del mundo, en cualquier momento, con tan sólo estar conectados a una red wireless. Estamos muy orgullosos de haber creado el primer teléfono móvil que permite a los usuarios disfrutar de todos los beneficios de Skype” afirma Patrick Lo, Presidente y CEO de Netgear.

Además del anuncio del lanzamiento de este teléfono Wi-Fi para Skype, ambas compañías colaboran para que el Router inalámbrico RangeMax de Netgear WPN824, esté totalmente equipado para optimizar el rendimiento de Skype.

APPEAL ON BEHALF OF THE MARI PEOPLE

We the representatives and friends of the Finno-Ugric peoples of the world call on the Russian authorities at all levels to take immediate steps to end the attacks on members of the democratic opposition in the Republic of Mari El. We urge international human rights organizations to join us in this cause.

In recent months, the local government of Mari El has done nothing to stop the rising tide of discrimination and attacks against the Mari people, thus creating the impression that it supports or may even be behind them. We note with regret that the authorities have done nothing to identify those who earlier this month attacked Vladimir Kozlov, editor-in-chief of the Finno-Ugric newspaper Kudo+Kodu and head of the all-Russian movement of the Mari people, Mer Kanash, beating him nearly to death.

The Mari people are an important part of the Finno-Ugric world, and this summer they are scheduled to host the next world congress of Finno-Ugric studies. Consequently, it is especially important now that the Russian authorities in Moscow and in Mari El do everything possible to end the abuse of the rights of the Maris.

http://www.ugri.info/mari/

A new mass mailing worm is spreading fast.  This is called Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi  and it has been written in Visual Basic.

Update your virus definitions and be careful with email attachments!

In an interesting synopsis, Tagsonomy reports on “The Year in Tags” with a review of the expansion and development of tags in blogs, search engines, and more.

2005 has proven that tags are both big (in the financial sense) and useful. Whether or not tagging is a game-changer will, I think, depend on what Yahoo, Amazon and Google do with tags in 2006. But with three big players in the tagging game there’s a lot of opporunity for innovation.

Highlights of tags over the past year:

Technorati introduces tags (January)…Yahoo buys Flickr (March)…Yahoo launches My Web 2.0 (June). Yahoo integrated search, social networks and tags in its My Web 2.0 product…Flickr adds interestingness and clustering (August)…Hurricane Katrina (September). Tags not only helped keep people connected during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, they tethered together many disparate pieces of content so we could make sense of complex, evolving, intertwingled events…Google adds tagging. Kind of. (October)…Amazon launches tags (November)…Google Base launches with tagging. Kind of. (November)…Yahoo buys del.icio.us (December)…Folksonomy makes the NY Times Magazine “Year in Ideas” list (Decemember).

Tags have come a long way in the past 12 months. Rumors were flying around early in the year that Yahoo was after Technorati, which created quite the backlash, so it was surprising that the announcement of the purchase of del.icio.us by Yahoo, rumored to be USD $30 million, a hefty chunk of change for a brand new concept, was a minor upset in the blogging world now accustomed to tags and buyouts.

So tags are with us and I’ll be having a series of articles about tagging to help you understand more about how it works and how to use them better. To help get you started, here is a review of recent posts I’ve written on tagging:

• A Tagging Bookmarklet for WordPress and Wordpress.com Users
• Adding Technorati Tags to WordPressMU Blogs
• Digging Into Digg - What’s Behind the Curtain
• Playing Tag with WordPress
• The Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugins
• The Problems with Tags and Tagging
• Categories versus Tags What is the difference and which one to choose

Site Search Tags: tag, tagging, tags, technorati, del.icio.us, taxsonomy
Copyright Lorelle VanFossen

Want to make money with your blogs? Want to have the public racing to your blog to find out what you are going to say next? Want to live in a big home with lots of electronic toys and know that you don’t have to worry about your kid’s college bills? Want fame and popparatzi standing outside of your home? Want to ring the bell on Wall Street?

If you become a successful entrepreneur and go freelance, there may be no end to all you can do, accomplish, create, and make. You can make the world a better place, make yourself happier, or just make yourself richer.

Are you up to it? Do you have what it takes? Are you willing to jump off that cliff?

In an interesting and very well described position, Business Pundit describes “Why I Quit Entrepreneurship and Got a Real Job and what I learned from the experience” in a way that should help you determine whether or not you want to go freelance and entrepreneurial and try to get rich quick.

Entrepreneurship is difficult. No matter how smart you are, how well you plan, or how hard you work, there is still lots of luck and timing involved. If you ever consider making the jump, here are some things to think about.

Money Matters - Lots of people will say you don’t need money to start a business. That’s true, for some businesses you don’t. But it helps… A LOT!…I’ve learned that more than anything else, money gets you a chance to play the startup game…

…Nobody cares that you are smart or knowledgeable (and you need to know if you really are) - Why not? Because everyone thinks they are smart and knowledgeable. Everyone is convinced they are good at business. Everyone thinks they can hire a talented team. Everyone thinks they can sell. Everyone thinks there is something special and different about them that will make them successful. But accruate self-evaluation skills are critical to entrepreneurial success. You have to know what you are good at, what you aren’t good at but can learn, and what you will probably never be good at. I think this is a major reason businesses fail…

…Short-term thinking can kill your company…It’s even more true for startups. Sometimes you will accept a customer on which you will barely break even, just to get some money in the bank to meet payroll. All you do is push your problem off another month, in hopes you can find a solution, or that business picks up…

…Know how you make money. Ideas are great, and I’m all for doing cool things, but cash is still king. How do you get cash?

Your estimates are wrong - Yes, even your worst case estimates.

You aren’t your own boss - Your customers are way more demanding than any corporate boss could ever be…

You don’t have any free time - If you want to start a business for a certain lifestyle, save your money and buy your way into it. Otherwise, face the fact that it will be a long time before you can step away…At a corporate job, things can usually wait until tomorrow. At a startup, you are perpetually behind, so they can’t…

…Acknowledge your mistakes - A startup is no place for silly issues of pride. When you do something wrong, and you will, admit it and fix it…

Keep your integrity - It’s easy to be a good honest person when you have a steady paycheck. It’s much more tempting to let it slide when a customer overpays and you need the money for rent. You have to stay honest, as hard as it may be. Honest failure is more noble than dishonest winning.

Deal with the possible consequences - If you fail, what will you do next? Can you deal with starting over?…Come to terms with what will happen if you fail.

A very critical point also brought up is that if you want to be successful in an industry, make sure you know people in the industry. And not just any old someone in the industry, the key buyers, movers, and shakers that you can use to help you make your business a success.

A couple point snot brought up that I think is important is mentoring and listening. If you are new to freelancing and entrepreneurship, then you need to have one or more advisers you can consult for advice, opinion, and friendship. These need to be people you look up to and respect, the kind of business people and personalities you want to emulate. Follow their examples and leads to help you stay on the right track, and if they take you to task because you screwed up, shut up and listen.

Listening is very important. A lot of get-rich-quick wannabes think they are the expert and so they do all the talking, trying to prove the world that they are indeed the experts, whether or not this is reality. Get humble and learn to listen. Listen to what others are saying in the industry, listen to your customers, listen to your competitors, listen and learn from what you hear as it may help you make the next decision better and stronger than blindly going forth uninformed.

And remember, no business, blogging or otherwise, is a success without a strong plan and road map. Without a clear path, you will stumble around, and success, if it comes, will be by sheer luck more than determination, and the odds are that it won’t last.

If you do want to get rich quick by becoming an entrepreneurial freelancer, read this article to get a much better and realistic perspective on what it really takes. Then bring your parachute with you when you jump of the cliff.

Site Search Tags: rich, money, success, freelance, entrepreneur, business, successful
Copyright Lorelle VanFossen

Lots of cities have events that they can never, rightly or wrongly, completely live down. Cleveland's river caught on fire, JFK was assassinated in Dallas, and Philadelphia had the MOVE bombing and they booed Santa Claus. The District's great shame happened sixteen years ago tonight:

Mayor Marion Barry's arrest for smoking crack (The Post) and subsequent prison sentence reflect the lowest point in the modern history of the city. Despite that, Barry has been elected to public office three times since then. He is currently the Ward 8 councilman, but continues to have personal problems.

When will Barry or his constituents say enough is enough?

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War es tatsächlich die Nachtigall und nicht die Lerche? Für manche Menschen ist es fast unmöglich, Vogelstimmen eindeutig zuzuordnen. Gänzlich scheitern aber würden wohl die meisten, wenn es um das Quaken von Fröschen geht. Dabei verrät auch der Frosch durch sein Rufen, zu welcher Art er gehört. Wissenschaftler beweisen dies jetzt eindrücklich mit einem Soundguide: Auf drei Audio-CDs sind die Rufe von rund 250 Arten madagassischer Frösche aufgezeichnet.

Eine Kostprobe des Soundguides und Bilder finden sich unter:
http://www.fonozoo.com
Wer es gerne komplett hätte, bemühe die Fernleihe: Soundguide:Vences, M., F. Glaw & R. Marquez (2006) (Hrsg.): The Calls of the Frogs of Madagascar. Soundguide, 3 Audio-CD. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid & Alosa, Barcelona. ISBN 84-609-8402-8
Quelle: Volkswagenstiftung

34.4MB 64kbps Stereo MP3 1h 15m 09s (Courtesy of Nitevilla.net.)

This is the 24th Brutal Deluxe football podcast of the 2005/2006 season. Scott and I review the NFL divisional playoff games and look at the conference championship matchups. We rant and rave about the most exciting and most horribly officiated game of the season so far, the Steelers' win over the Colts. We also take a look at the BDFL Top 100, which accurately predicted the NFL MVP again this year. And you BDFL owners should definitely tune in; Scott has a great scoring idea for getting more WR's in the top 20.

Links:

• My Odeo Channel (odeo/7d2ff8e710040137)
• Want a free iPod? Help Scott out!
• SportPodcasts.com
• Email us text or audio comments!: BrutalDeluxe at gmail.com.
• Sponsored in part by Manolas Handmade Soaps

Credits:

• Mixed, recorded, edited and mastered by me.
• Music: "One Big Holiday" by My Morning Jacket from the Wired CD.

I may have missed this last week but Brighthand have written down their predictions for the year ahead. "A new year is starting, and Brighthand is going to carry out its long-running tradition of making some predictions for what's going to come down the pipe in the next twelve months.

Just like last year, contributing writer Shawn Barnett has chimed in with some of his thoughts.
The Penguin Is Coming At You

There's no doubt that the big news in the Palm OS world will be the version of this operating system based on Linux which will be released around the middle of this year. " [SAMMY] Personally I think it's going to be a great year for Palm especially with the new Treo range of handhelds.

Continuing on the religious tip, you can now Chat with God at iGod

Chen, Y-S, Kao, T-C, Yu, G-J and Sheu, J-P (2004). A mobile butterfly-watching learning system for supporting independent learning. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education. JungLi, Taiwan: IEEE Computer Society, 11-18

It’s a butterfly-watching system implemented and tested at an elementary school in Taiwan aimed at being used to teach the different kinds of butterflies in the region.

The proposed BWL system was designed using a wireless mobile ad-hoc learning environment. In our designed system, each individual learner has a wireless handheld device, which is a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) with an IEEE 802.11 wireless network card and a small-sized CCD camera. One instructor has a notebook computer with a Wi-Fi wireless LAN card which serves as the local server. The notebook has a complete butterfly database. All learners’ wireless handheld devices and the notebook constitute a mobile ad-hoc learning environment. During the butterfly-watching activity, each learner takes a distinct butterfly picture, and wirelessly transmits the picture to the local server. A content-based butterfly-image retrieval technique is applied
herein to search for the most closely matching butterfly information, which is returned in real time to the learner’s wireless handheld device. To illustrate the effect of the BWL system, an outdoor BWL activity was actually performed at elementary school in Taiwan.

Why do I blog this? I am looking for references about mobile learning applications for a paper I am currently writing.

Ok, so I’ve finished the design (at least the preview) but, I’m not sure if it looks fine now or I should change some stuff or start all over again. This is the real hold up. I want to release it so that I’m 100% happy with it and would love your feedback on this. Here’s the design preview (with stolen text from an [unnameable] blog for preview — don’t sue me :)):

As you can see, I’m confused. The design is 101% original (e.g. mine) but yet I feel like its a 2nd class WordPress theme based on something from a content management system. I can assure you it’s not. But, to make it look anti-theme, I have some changes in the works. So, feedback is much appreciated (sid@rev2.org) and as always, comments are open.

It's ironic that the popular DivX codec has all but obliterated the identity of the ill-fated DIVX pay-per-view rental system.

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So what was DIVX?

DIVX (Digital Video Express) was a rental format variation on the DVD player in which a customer would buy a DIVX disc -- physically similar to a DVD -- at a low cost, which would be able to be freely viewed up to 48 hours from its initial viewing. After this period, the disc could be viewed by paying a continuation fee, typically $3.25. DIVX discs could only be played on special DIVX/DVD combo players that needed to be connected to a phone line. DIVX Viewers had to set up an account that additional viewing fees could be charged to. The player would call an account server over the phone line to charge for viewing fees similar to the way DirecTV and Dish Network satellite systems handle pay-per-view. Viewers who wanted unlimited viewing of a particular disc could pay to convert the disc to "Silver" status for a special fee. The physical disc was not altered in any way. The viewer's account kept track of the status of each disc. The Silver disc could be kept for future viewing, resold, given away, or discarded.

This particular bad idea was intensely unpopular online. In 1998 and early 1999, it felt like you couldn't visit a website without seeing an anti-DIVX banner plastered on it somewhere.

The format barely lasted a year.

The DivX codec was introduced in 1998 and intentionally named to parody the besieged DIVX format:

Early versions of DivX included only a codec, and were named "DivX ;-)", where the winking emoticon was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the failed DIVX system.

The DivX codec has a rather storied history itself:

1998	3.11 Alpha	Codec created from an illegally hacked MPEG-4 video codec
2001	4.0	DivX corporation formed; clean room codec "created" from OpenDivx project*
2002	5.0	Codec improvements
2005	6.0	Codec expanded to full media container format (eg, *.divx)

The name replacement is so complete that the divx domain has been subsumed as well. You can watch it change hands via the internet archive wayback machine. The last DIVX snapshot is in October 1999; the site goes dark throughout 2000, and reappears in February 2001 as DivX.

It sure is funny when a little hacked codec name joke turns into a multi-million dollar business under the same exact name.

* The ethically questionable 2001 commercial DivX fork of the OpenDivx project is where the open source XviD codec originates from. It's DivX backwards, naturally.

"* The early founders of Christianity seem wholly unaware of the idea of a human Jesus * The Jesus of the Gospels bears a striking resemblance to other ancient heroes and the figureheads of pagan savior cults * Contemporary Christians are largely ignorant of the origins of their religion * Fundamentalism is as strong today as it ever has been, with an alarming 44% of Americans believing Jesus will return to earth in their lifetimes * And God simply isn't there

"The Yes Men, a movie, follows a couple of anti-corporate activist-pranksters as they impersonate World Trade Organization spokesmen on TV and at business conferences around the world. The story follows Andy and Mike from their beginnings with GWBush.com, and on to their tasteless parody of the WTO's website. Some visitors donÂ’t notice the site is a fake, and send speaking invitations meant for the real WTO. Mike and Andy play along with the ruse and soon find themselves attending important functions as WTO representatives. Delighted to speak for the organization they oppose, Andy and Mike don thrift-store suits and set out to shock their unwitting audiences with darkly comic satires on global free trade. Weirdly, the experts donÂ’t notice the joke and seem to agree with every terrible idea the two can come up with. Exhausted by their failed attempts to shock, Mike and Andy take a whole new approach for one final lecture.

" In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Eric Mack has been living the paperless life for a number of weeks and he is ready to present his findings about the challenge on his blog. In typical Eric fashion he is going to podcast about the experience and is looking for a co-host to help him do so. He is also taking questions from his readers about the experience that he will answer on the podcast. Head over to his blog to post a question or to apply for the co-host position. There is a picture of Eric on his blog with his Tecra M4 that made the paperless challenge possible. He is wearing a jacket and tie and I must ask Eric to forego that for the podcast- we don't want him to set the bar too high.

Que el nuevo periodismo se beneficiará de la colaboración entre lectores y redactores es algo que Dan Gillmor o Juan Varela llevan tiempo pregonando. Yo también lo creo. Por esa y otras razones me complace anunciar que la editorial VNU ha lanzado en nuestro país su plataforma de blogs: VNUBlogs España.

«¿Quieres crear contenidos con tu propio enfoque y compartirlos con los demás usuarios de la web? VNUnet te plantea la posibilidad de asumir la inciativa escribiendo sobre temas tecnológicos, creando tu propio blog de forma gratuita. No podría ser más fácil de utilizar, se puede publicar desde Internet, desde el correo electrónico o incluso desde un teléfono móvil».

VNU es principalmente conocida por ser la casa madre de las revistas PC Actual y Computer!dea que desde hace un tiempo también tienen sus blogs. Por eso es un orgullo que VNU haya confiado en Six Apart para utilizar TypePad como motor -no solo en España, sino también en otros países europeos.

Cualquier persona puede abrir blogs gratis en vnublogs.es,  y si se les queda pequeños hay varios niveles de pago. También han puesto en marcha un blog de ayuda en el que irán explicando cómo sacar el máximo jugo a los blogs. ¿Todavía no tienes uno? ¿A qué esperas?

• proces registracije je relativno lak i pregledan, ali se na odobravanje čeka 1 radni dan
  
• postupak kreiranja-definisanja reklame je nejasan, jer nema jasnog izbora CPC/CPM programa, ili tačnije, generiÅ¡e se uvek CPC kod (gde je CPM deo programa?)
  
• kada ste definisali reklamu i generisali, re postavili kod u stranice, opet ćete morati malo sačekati
  
• sledeći problem, server koji opslužuje pojavljivanje reklama je vrlo često van funkcije tako da se na stranicama ne pojavljuju definisane reklame (i u trenutku kada piÅ¡em ove retke, reklame se ne pojavljuju)
  
• na postavljenja pitanja "Servis klijenata" daje nedovoljno promptan i neadekvatan odgovor (čekate na njega 1 ili viÅ¡e dana)
  

Digital pens are an alternative for taking digital notes in ink for those who do not have a Tablet PC. There are a number of pens to choose from but the Pegasus One NoteTaker is the only one I have seen that imports the notes directly into Microsoft OneNote. The Pegasus uses a scanner that tracks the pen on regular paper and translates the text and sketches taken on the page into digital notes for OneNote. The scanner connects to a PC via USB and the whole package is small and light. The One NoteTaker will work on any paper up to A4 size and the scanner resolution is 100 dpi. The Pegasus comes with software to bring the notes into OneNote on the PC which is localized in the following languages:

• English
• German
• French
• Italian
• Spanish
• Swedish

The Pegasus web site lists the One NoteTaker for just $59 so this might be an economic alternative for those interested in digital pen technology for taking notes.

Teany, a favorite tea spot of mine (pun so intended), is going back to its roots. I went to the spot two days ago and discovered unfortunately that it was closed. Baffled, I had to know what was going on - so I went to the site.

Here's what Kelly - one of the co-owners (along with artist Moby) had to say about the situation:

dear teany customers and teany fans,

firstly, teany is not closing, and secondly, moby will still be involved with teany.

we've had to do some serious restructuring of teany, and we've decided to make it more of a teahouse (yes, that means less food, sorry!!!) and have myself (kelly) be the lone "decision-maker" on all teany teahouse matters. moby will basically be loving teany, and coming in regularly to enjoy his gyokuro (#41) and vegan turkey club, while playing scrabble or rummy.

i will be present during all operating hours (which are now only going to be fridays and saturdays from 10am - 2am, and sundays, 10am - 8pm), the way it was in the beginning.

thanks,
kelly

No - thank you Kelly. Kelly is really nice at Teany. Once, a group of 5 of us went and there was a 40 minute wait. As a thank you for us waiting, she let us pick any music that we wanted and of course, I spoke up and demanded some hot and bothered Ladytron action. My only concern is what every other patron's will be who has been there before. If we waited 40 minutes before, how long will the wait be now?!

I have to find a new coffee spot. I know there are a lot of coffee houses downtown, but it really takes a while to pick one and settle in and make it your own. Any suggestions?

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When it's finished, the Kalahari on 115th St. is going to have a look "inspired by nomadic and tribal cultures of Africa." For now, though, it still looks like a big empty lot. Not to worry, says blogger Joe Schumacher, who snapped the photo above: "The site has been entirely excavated and I think a couple of test holes were drilled. Most importantly, a pile driver has been driving piles into the soil for the past several weeks."
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Renewable Energy Access just put out a pretty interesting report on the future of "ocean energy" - that combination of often forgotten ways of generating electricity that includes wave and tidal power. Despite the obvious enormity of the ocean's energy, it's been very difficult to capture economically. However, according to the report, 2006 is likely to be a landmark year in terms of new technologies and developments that may make it economically feasable in the very near future.

One can't forget, however, that real energy progress is more likely to be made by a combination of "green" generation techniques and a more widespread adoption of efficiency as a priority. Continuing to be gluttons in one way or another will still have negative consequences.

(Story via The Future is Green)

If you've ever thought about picking up a Toyota hybrid (either a Prius or Highlander, with Camry coming soon), we suggest you make haste and do it soon. According to The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT), signed into law last August and effective January 1, the tax credit buyers receive for purchasing a hybrid car begins to phase out after an automaker sells 60,000 of the eligible vehicles between the beginning of 2006 and the end of 2010. The one-year credit “phase out” begins after the next complete calendar quarter; 50% of the credit will be available for that manufacturer’s hybrids in the first two quarters of the phaseout period and 25% in the final two quarters. According to the Detroit News, after selling 146,533 hybrids last year, Toyota is on track to hit the 60,000 mark in the first half of 2006; the sun is definitely setting on the automaker's ability to offer full tax credits.

Hugh Macleod at GapingVoid has invented a new field of study and a new term for it:

“A-Listology”. The study of “A-Listers”, and the social dynamics that go with them.
Who is the first A-Listologist, if there’s any?

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I’m currently working on a PHP script that is facing some performance issue : I’m dealing with a number of text files (about 7000 of them) that I need to process before I can inject some data in MySQL, and I want the job done before hitting the Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded.

Of course, I’m processing files by chunks, but I’m also hunting potential speed improvements in each line of my script. For instance, I know that manipulating substrings is faster than messing with regular expressions, but how faster exactly ? Those of you interested in a scoopless yet interesting benchmark of substr() vs preg_something() can continue their reading :)

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Should, for some reason, you find yourself away from a source of electricity—thus, unable to charge your essential survival items such as an iPod, DS, or PSP—this little number will surely be of use. From Sundance, the PowerFilm 10-Watt solar battery charger promises to harness the power of HUITZILOPOCHTLI for all your battery needs. Once available only to the military, the PowerFilm is only 10.3 inches long and 3.5 inches wide when folded. Unlimited energy is yours to own (provided HUITZILOPOCHTLI's not angry or obscured or anything) for a mere $299.

PowerFilm Foldable Solar Battery Charge [Cool Hunting]

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Once you get past the issue of explaining what a blogger is and does, then comes the question, “What do you blog about?”

Do you know? Do you really know what you blog about? You might think you know but do you really know? There’s a way to check.

If you are using a tag cloud or keyword heat map plugin or feature on your blog, your most popular tags will be the largest in your tag cloud. If you use a tag frequently, the odds are that you blog about that topic.

The above graphic is from my main site, Taking Your Camera on the Road. The largest tag words are:

• business of nature photography
• photography
• camera
• doing
• going
• learning
• nature photography
• nature
• photography techniques
• planning for the road
• telling
• travel
• traveling
• web pages
• WordPress
• website development
• israel

From this list, it looks like I write a lot about nature photography and the business of nature photography along with travel and website development including WordPress and web pages, and about Israel. Then there are those large Doing and Going tags. It looks like I write about way too many confusing topics, right?

A tag list is a good reflection of what you are blogging about, but you also need to understand how it works and why it says what it does. With this information, you can cull the facts about what you blog about.

Let’s sift through the tags for information about what I blog about.

Doing, Going, Learning, Planning for the Road, Business of Nature Photography, Photography Techniques, Web Pages, Website Development, Telling, and Israel are categories. WordPress automatically turns categories into tags. Yes, these are topics I blog about, but a few months ago I decided to start this blog, Lorelle on WordPress, to hold all my website development and blogging topics, including WordPress topics. So I can explain to someone that I do blog about website development, blogging and WordPress on one of my blogs.

Over time, these category tags will reduce in size comparatively. It also means I need to go through and do a better job tagging my posts from among the photography and travel educational material. So tagging can help to remind you of administration tasks left undone.

Israel is a strange one in the list, but that is part of our personal blog category called Telling. We have just returned to the United States after living in Israel for the past 5 years, so you can imagine I had a few things to say about life there over the past few years. This, too, like the website material, will reduce in size now that I won’t be talking about living in Israel.

This is another good example of how to monitor what you are blogging about. If you find a specific topic tag growing in size and it isn’t really reflective of what you blog about, let it serve as a warning to get back on topic, or make an overall change in your blogging topic.

Take away the web stuff, and what I write about is nature photography and travel and topics related to those subjects. Bingo, I have just summed up what I write about on that site.

Now it is easy to explain to people that I have two blogs. On one I blog about WordPress and blogging and the other I blog about nature photography and travel.

That pretty much sums up the topics. I still have to work on explaining blogging to people over 60 years old, but I’m getting better at that. If they don’t understand, I just tell them that I’m a writer and I write about nature photography, travel, and web stuff. That pretty much covers it.

If you need more help explaining what you do to others, I’ve written a series of articles called “Ten Words or Less” about how to convey your job description to others to help improve your networking and business contacts.

• Networking - Casting Your Net-work
• Networking - Ten Words or Less - Form
• It’s What You Do, Not Just Who You Are

Site Search Tags: blog, topic, description, describe, network, networking, business, explain, tags, ultimate+tag+warrior, tagging, help, tips
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1) Celebrity hair guy and heiress dater Frederic Fekkai has purchased the interesting space shown at right, as well as the eight other rooms in this 3,500sf Fifth Avenue duplex that was featured in an Architectural Digest pictorial last year. The $7.95 million he paid is way down from the original $10.5 million asking price, but it's still nearly $2 million for every gas fireplace. [S.Jhoanna Robledo/NYMag]
2) They already have a townhouse in the West Village, but actress Julianne Moore and her husband Bart Freundlich are adding to their portfoloio with a $395,000 studio apartment on Bethune Street. They were approved by the co-op board this month. A studio for a starlet? Maybe it's strictly to house her awards. [William Neuman/Big Deal]
3) We all remember the hubbub over Heath Ledger's move to Boerum Hill, but somehow we think there will be less attention paid to writer/director Peter S. Hedges' move to the neighborhood, into a townhouse on Bergen Street (sorry, Pete). The What's Eating Gilbert Grape? writer and novelist moved from Brooklyn Heights after selling his two-bedroom co-op for around $975,000. The townhouse ran him $1.975 million. [William Neuman/Big Deal]
4) Not really celeb-ish but we're sure these places will be filled with them. In today's Page 6, The Hotel on Rivington's Thor will be joined by an "unnamed, members-only lounge that features a bar made of Swarovski crystals," and Ian Schrager is bringing in a knight to be his chef at the Gramercy Park Hotel. [Page 6]

Most older readers will know I've tried most blogging software over time, but the one I wuld really like to use is Moveable Type. But except once I have never been able to configure it. But are having another go. And this time are not worried about deleting my blog because it exists on another web domain so that will always be there. So if this blog disappears it can still be accessed via my other Crazy Calvinist Site Tho with Bob's brain I not confident of getting movable type working. But who knows. Sometimes I hate puters!! At least when they become a struggle to do the things I used to find simple.

Last week ThinkEquity analysts Michael Zhang and Mike Burton published a research note on Sohu.com (ticker: SOHU). Extracts (courtesy of Barron’s):

WE ARE UPGRADING Sohu.com to Accumulate from Source of Funds and raising our 12-month price target to $22 from $16.

We are lowering our earnings estimate for 2006 to 86 cents from 90 cents mostly due to the slight margin pressure on the company’s Wireless Value-Added Services (WVAS) business and increased sales and marketing expenses.

The company is the Internet content sponsor for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and started amortizing the cash payment for the sponsorship (as part of sales and marketing expenses) in fourth quarter of 2005 for a period of 38 months. For the same reason, we are trimming our fourth-quarter earnings-per-share estimate to 20 cents from 21 cents.

We are projecting a 24% revenue growth in 2007 to $161.6 million. Due to the higher tax rate we assumed in 2007, the company’s earnings-per-share growth is 22%, reaching $1.04.

We believe the market may have overly discounted the value of the stock due to its problematic WVAS business. The company’s overall organic revenue growth has been higher than its arch rival’s in the past three quarters based on our estimate, and its latest 12-month return on equity ranked No. 2 (at 25%) in our universe for the third quarter of 2005. If management could focus on what is already [at] hand and execution, substantial value could be unleashed from the assets (both tangible and intangible) it possesses, in our opinion.

SOHU 1-Yr Chart

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From Joystiq comes a link to the Ultimate Showdown!

Irritierend selten im Fernsehen zu sehen ist dieser Spot von Renault (Flash), in dem wissenschaftlich einwandfrei nachgewiesen wird, dass französische Automobile sicherer sind. Zugegeben, wer ehedem jemals das Vergnügen hatte, in einem R4 oder einem 2CV zu sitzen, wird den Komfort und den Fahrspaß, aber nicht unbedingt das Sicherheitsgefühl genossen haben.
Die musikalische Untermalung ist übrigens nicht von Edith Piaf, sondern von Rina Ketty mit dem Ohrwurm J’attendrai (vielleicht habe ich mich auch verhört, und es ist eine Neuinterpretation). Die süßen Klänge kann man sich hier (WMA) auf den Rechner holen – auf der zugehörigen Seite gibt es noch mehr nette Musik, jedoch nur für pädagogische Zwecke, bitte.

Nebenbei bemerkt: in der Encarta hat Rina Ketty ein falsches Sterbejahr, wie sich auch an diesem Artikel aus der Humanité sehr leicht ablesen lässt. Peinlich für Microsoft.

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Irritierend selten im Fernsehen zu sehen ist dieser Spot von Renault (Flash), in dem wissenschaftlich einwandfrei nachgewiesen wird, dass französische Automobile sicherer sind. Zugegeben, wer ehedem jemals das Vergnügen hatte, in einem R4 oder einem 2CV zu sitzen, wird den Komfort und den Fahrspaß, aber nicht unbedingt das Sicherheitsgefühl genossen haben.
Die musikalische Untermalung ist übrigens nicht von Edith Piaf, sondern von Rina Ketty mit dem Ohrwurm J’attendrai (vielleicht habe ich mich auch verhört, und es ist eine Neuinterpretation). Die süßen Klänge kann man sich hier (WMA) auf den Rechner holen – auf der zugehörigen Seite gibt es noch mehr nette Musik, jedoch nur für pädagogische Zwecke, bitte.

Nebenbei bemerkt: in der Encarta hat Rina Ketty ein falsches Sterbejahr, wie sich auch an diesem Artikel aus der Humanité sehr leicht ablesen lässt. Peinlich für Microsoft.

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today my gf come to sg to sign the offer letter, finally she got her dream job, as a research assistant and wow.. her salary give me a shock, its almost 20% more then me ..

i think this might be a new challenge for us, so far we go through some challenge

• character challenge - both of us having quite different character , it take  quite some time for  us to  break this
• distance challenge - spending about 1 and half year for long distance relationship after we start the relationship for few month

and now .. financial challenge is coming, lets hope both of us can get through this

While I don’t agree with everything said, Brave New Word’s article, “Web Developers, Speed Up Your Web Pages”, does offer some excellent tips on optimizing for web pages for speed.

Excellent points for everyone to follow include cleaning out unnecessary spaces, tabs, and code; using medium to high compression and small file sizes on images; keep javascripts and cookies small and avoid them if you can; dump table layouts; and cleaning up anything in your Theme or page code that makes too many requests on the database.

I’ve talked about this before, and I offer my own tips in the following articles. Just remember, if you are using WordPress, other than cleaning up the excessive use of spaces and tabs in the Themes, WordPress comes pretty optimized right out of the box. Just make sure that your blog’s code is error free and the Theme is not making too many requests on the database, which does slow things down while loading.

• Site Optimization: Optimizing Bandwidth and Cleaning Out the Code Closet
• DYI - Search Engine Optimization
• Conquering Site Validation Errors
• Blog Maintenance - Check For 404 Page Not Found Errors
• Site Optimization - Checking Loose Links
• Boycott Ugly Table Designed Blogs and Websites

Site Search Tags: site, optimization, blog, code, clean, load, fast, errors
Copyright Lorelle VanFossen

The new Safari web inspector (available in nightly Webkit downloads) looks very, very nice. Hopefully this makes it into a stable release of the browser itself, or someone hacks it in.

The Web Inspector lets you browse the live DOM hierarchy in a compact HUD style window, catering to the needs of web developers and WebKit hackers alike. The Web Inspector highlights the node on the page as it is selected in the hierarchy. You can also search for nodes by node name, id and CSS class name.

(from Surfin’ Safari)

Screenshot (click to enlarge):

Instead of just listing the “Top Search This Hour”, Technorati is now offering the list of Top Search and Hot Tag at its front page. It’s a minor step forward by Technorati. But it’d sure slowly changing blogger’s habit, pay more attention to Tag, Tag and Tag. With more accurate tagging and your blog posts got more attention.

What’d be my wished feature on Technorati? I hope it’d separate tagging by different language and providing search based on different languages, this should have boost blogging to the other level world wide.

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web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank).

With 2006 upon everyone is offering their predictions for the year so I figured I would throw my hat in the ring, especially as it comes to the future digital audio and video. Paul Colligan and Alex Mandossian over at MarketingOnlineLive.com got me thinking about this yesterday during one of their podcasts and 24 hours later I've got a list of what I think will transpire in the next 12 months. Enjoy!

1. Device convergence will happen more quickly than anyone realizes. When you're walking down the street carrying both a cell phone and iPod (or other mobile player) and you bump into your friend who has a killer cell phone will all the same mobile media functionality as your iPod you're going to want to switch...soon. The number of people who carry a combination cell phone/media player will grow significantly through 2006 and explode in 2007. Here's a recent quote from Sun CEO Scott McNealy, "It's going to be hard to sell a lot of iPods five years from now when every cell phone is going to be able to automatically access your library wherever you are." I don't think that's going to take five years. Verizon has a phone with a 4 Gig chip on the horizon. The convergence trend will happen quickly. And when it does it's likely going to mean...

2. The iPod could become the next TiVo. TiVo is a superior product to any other DVR on the market. It has a great interface and does pretty much everything very well. Yet the general consensus is that unless something changes soon the TiVo will go the way of the dodo bird. The problem? Distribution. Requiring a consumer to buy an extra box and an extra service means asking them to jump through two more hoops than they have to when they get a DVR from their cable company. Apple will face the same challenge with the iPod. As device convergence emerges people will begin to wonder why they need to purchase a separate device and load content on it when they can just do everything through their cell phone. So unless Apple makes significant strides in the mobile phone space their domainance in the mobile media market will quickly fade.

3. Google Video will be bigger than anyone realizes. Google Video appears to be able on the cusp of doing something that no one has really done to date: Allowing individuals a significant opportunity for monetization of video content. Their current video store leaves a lot to be desired but I trust that they will figure this out...after all, they are Google. And when they give people an incentive to produce quality video content and get paid 70 cents on the dollar for their efforts the game changes significantly. They'll be empowering the little guy to sell video content much the same way that a certain little company called eBay empowered the little guy to sell products a decade ago. And we all know how well that worked out for eBay...

4. Satellite video will arrive...courtesy of the satellite radio guys. Two themes seem to be emerging in video: The ability of companies like Google Video and Netflix to meet the demand for long-tail content and the ability of Apple and others to provide space-shifted content (see Prediction #12). Space-shifting allows people to view video content whereever they are. I can watch content on the train on the way to work, when I'm at the gym, at home on my new HD TV (I wish...), etc. Who is best positioned to provide this? It just might be XM and Sirius, the satellite radio companies. Their mobile players offer a ton of potential and Sirius already has announced plans for video in 2006. It's very likely the day will soon come when people consider ditching their cable or DirecTV subs for an XM or Sirius-powered satellite video service.

5. Real Rhapsody for the spoken word will surface. I love Real Rhapsody. And their new Rhapsody-To-Go service is killer and would be a huge hit if only Apple would take down the walled garden and let Real license its DRM. But enough about music...let's talk about the spoken word. It seems to me like a huge opportunity exists to do for the spoken word what Real/Yahoo!/Napster have done for music. Don't limit someone to just a couple of audio books a month (a la Audible.com). Instead give someone the ability to listen to whatever they want, whenever they want. If you're an hour into an audio book and it sucks, fine, just jump to something better. There are a few companies right now vying for the non-Apple/Audible/iPod spoken word throne: Sounds Good, Jiggerbug and Simply Audiobooks. A tremendous opportunity exists for one of them to attempt to create a Rhapsody-like service for audio books. I'd be one of their first subscribers.

6. Audible will hit an unexpected snag with WordCast. Audible recently launched WordCast, their podcasting service to enable advertising and/or premium content. There's just one slight problem. If I'm an author and want to get an audio book up on Audible's website I'm looking at a royalty somewhere in the neighborhood of 15%. But if I take that same audio book and sell it through WordCast (complete with DRM if I wish) my take jumps to 80%. Does something seem strange here? I think at some point there has to be an acknowledgement that all of the "services" that traditional publishers and companies like Audible provide lose a lot of their luster in a world in which it's increasingly easy to go directly to the consumer with your products. Somehow the gap between 15% and 80% will have to close and that could be a bit painful for Audible.

7. Podshow will focus on music and Odeo will focus on personalized communication. The two podcast-related companies that received major chunks of funding in 2005 will find themselves in a bit of a tough spot in 2006. The big boys like iTunes and Yahoo! have the directory game pretty well sown up and the market for podcast production software is becoming increasingly commoditized. But all hope is certainly not lost for these companies. The most sensible thing appears to be for Podshow to focus on the music side of podcasting, the area in which Adam Curry and Ron Bloom have the most knowledge. Becoming anything and everything to musicians looking to market themselves via podcasts seems to offer an incredible opportunity for the company and I hope that's what their focus becomes. As for Odeo, Evan Williams has expressed a desire to be closely involved with facilitating personal communication via RSS. He's a visionary in that regard and to the best of my knowledge, one of the few people talking about it. To the extent that Odeo makes it incredibly easy for people to send and receive podcasts to and from friends and family I think they have a tremendous business. Like Podshow, they'll fail only to the extent that they try to dominate podcasting as a whole rather than focusing on a specific niche of what is rapidly becoming a huge industry.

8. OPML matching will arrive on the scene. This prediction strikes me as somewhat obvious but suprisingly absent from the current dialogue. If you and I each subscribe to 20 podcasts and it just so happens that 17 of them are the same then I want to know the three you've subscribed to that I haven't and you would likely want to know the same thing. I'm not certain but this doesn't seem like rocket science. To the extent that someone launches a service that allows for this and it reaches critical mass you'll have an amazing discovery service for podcasts, something that will become even more important as tens of thousands of new podcasts come online this year. I'm not sure exactly what AmigoFish and Loomia are doing with their recommendation services but if they haven't incorporated OPML matching yet it would be a great idea. And get Netflix to do this for movie queues while you're at it... :)

9. Many "mini" multimedia portals will be launched. Music artists have fans. Many fans will buy whatever the artist is selling (hence, $40 concert T-shirts). Artists set up fan clubs. Fan pay annual fees for "goodies." Everyone is happy. Now why not do this for authors, gurus, etc. Why shouldn't a Tony Robbins or Tom Peters have their own multimedia portal? You could pay $20 a month and have access to exclusive audio and video content, RSS feeds and other stuff that fans of these individuals would eat up. A lot of big names could literally bring on thousands or tens of thousands of subscribers overnight. Do the math and consider that almost all of this revenue falls directly to the bottom line and you can see that we're talking about a huge opportunity here. Companies like iAmplify, What is Enlightenment?, Integral Naked, The Great Lecture Library and many others are already doing something of this nature for collections of content. Multimedia portals around individuals are next.

10. Podcast prioritzation will become a reality. I want to be able to communicate to my media player that I have a 45 minute drive ahead of me and have the media player automatically figure out the best content to deliver to me based on the amount of time I have, the latest content that's been loaded to my player and the preferences that I've given it ahead of time. Sound farfetched? It's not. In fact, Taldia is offering something very close to this right now. The only problem with their system is that they haven't incorporated prioritization into podcast feeds yet, just for the news feeds they offer. If they (or someone else) offers the ability to give me a "custom commute" I'll sign up in a heartbeat. When that happens manually locating which podcasts you've recently put on your iPod, which you've listened to, calculating how much time you have to listen and how long each episode is...all that will seem so 2005.

11. Live event content will start to tap its true potential. Every day, around the U.S. and around the world many thousands of people say things worth listening to in classrooms, seminars, conferences and other forums. A very small percentage of that content is recorded. An even smaller percentage is distributed to a wide audience via the Internet. Why? You tell me. I haven't been able to figure it out yet. If this content wasn't worth listening to or watching people wouldn't pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to attend these events. And while there are some benefits of attending a live event there are also some significant drawbacks. I think the market for the recording and distribution of live events is an incredibly huge one and hope that 2006 is the year when many people wake up to this. We're hoping that efforts like Doug Kaye's Conversations Network and our soon-to-be launched LearnDirect service will help provide the match that starts the fire.

12. New words will be coined and gain widespread adoption. This list of predictions wouldn't be complete without a prediction for a few new words that will enter the lexicon in 2006. Here are some that I think will enter the dialogue this year as well as a couple that I'm definitely hoping will. :)

Space-shifting - As previously mentioned, this is the ability of content to be with you whereever you are. To the extent that content can be consumed anywhere it's value increases tremendously. That's incredibly important for those providing content and distribution channels to understand.

Dead-time Learning - Thanks to Paul and Alex who've used this term on their show for a while. Dead-time learning refers to turning time that is normally thought of as intellectually unproductive (e.g., commuting, exercising, etc.) into prime learning time. It's taking your hour commute and using it to learn a new foreign language, study for a certification exam or stay on top of trends in your industry. By doing so you'll free up more time to spend with your friends and family, devote to your hobbies and do the things that you previously thought you didn't have time for.

DRM-free - People already use the term "DRM-free" but I'm hoping/predicting that it will become thought of as more of a feature in 2006. People will start to actively seek out DRM-free sources of content and show an increasing willingness to pay more for content that hasn't had DRM applied to it. It won't be because they're looking to illegally share such content but rather because they want to have the versatility to share content they legally purchased across the increasing number of devices they own.

Learning Out Loud - My wish for 2006 is that people increasingly talk about their desire to "learn out loud" which I define as using audio or video content for personal and professional development. Part of this is a selfish desire as the CEO of LearnOutLoud.com and part of this is (hopefully) a very altruistic desire to see everyone become more educated this year. I truly feel that education represents the rising tide with the potential to lift all boats. And I also feel that in an era of globalization and increasing competition "lifelong learning" becomes less of an option and more of a requirement if you want to stay ahead of the curve and possibly even keep your job.

So we'll see how this all shakes out. At the end of the day I'm more excited than 2006 than I've ever been excited about an upcoming year and many of the people I've talked to lately have expressed the same sense of hope and optimism. There are so many cool technologies coming down the pipe and the opportunity to effect positive and lasting change in the world is more real than it's ever been.

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■CLEVER SLEAZOID [ビーキューパンクモード]
Dir en greyの同曲の空耳作品です。

■RO BEBOP [LEARN TO FLY] (掲示板)
カウボーイビバップOP風にアレンジされたRO作品です。

■ラグナロクオンラインの良くわからないFlash [初心者支援会]
ラグナロクオンラインのプロモーション作品です。

â– 3Dtest [murmurous stream]
3D系Flash試作品です。

■煙草 [ムギチョコ★]
喫煙者へ向けたメッセージです。

■ストレートガール　第10話 [JUMP DIGITAL MANGA]
暴走気味な2人の女子中学生が送るシリーズ第10弾です。

■疑問と僕 [夢夜 カラメロ 本舗] (ホタテプロダクツ)
「自分の作ったｼﾅﾘｵで他人にFLASHを作ってもらうスレ」から生まれた作品です。

■金正日の涙 第18話　脱獄 [236enter]
クックル脱獄に協力した兵隊に粛清を加える将軍様です。

■日本戦６ [小田急快速急行]
まずます戦況激しくなるシリーズ第6話です。

■召還 [darkflavor]
一人しゃべりに飽きた主人公が謎のキャラを召還します。

■【旅】預告 (敵はほんのり塩味)
緑生い茂る森に住む小動物の描写が細かくジブリ的演出を感じさせる作品です。

â– Kogent Knight
カーソルキー操作のアクションゲームです。

Petit cours de conduite : apprenez à vous garer !

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In the last poll I asked:

Are you happy with the security measures (antivirus, antispyware, firewalls, etc) that you have installed on your computer?

The results were as follows:

Are you finding that you have so many applications open at a single time that your Windows Taskbar becomes impossible to navigate because of the crazy number of items it contains?

Windows XP has a way to help you.  It’s called Grouping.  This is a feature that allows the buttons to be collapsed into a single button and you find the application that you need by clicking on the button that represents the collapsed button and the choose the application or document that you want to see.

You can easily enable grouping.  Right-click on an empty portion of the Taskbar and choose Properties.  This brings up the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties box.  From here check the Group similar taskbar buttons option.

Here’s how grouping looks on the Taskbar:

However, if you have the TweakUI PowerToy (download from here ) installed you can take more control over the Taskbar by setting preferences for how the grouping occurs.

This will give you far more space on the Taskbar and make applications and documents a lot easier to spot.

Na Techblogu vyšel zajímavý článek o pohledu z Hubbleova teleskopu do mlhoviny Orionu. Je to opravdu čistá krása. Já jsem neodolal, stáhnul si obrázek v celém rozlišení a rozÅ™ezal ho na šest pozadí pro svůj – a teď i váš – desktop. SmÄ›le stahujte!

(Pokračování...)

I recently found a great picture of the Orion Nebula by the Hubble Telescope. It’s simply beautiful, you will see. I couldn’t help myself, downloaded hi-res image and cropped it to six desktop wallpapers for my (and now even for your) desktop. Let’s download!

(Pokračování...)

New week, new challenge - are we up for it ladies?? You'd better believe we are!!!

Kerri.

George Ou  has reported a problem with Skype 2.0 which causes it to generate a DEP (Data Execution Prevention) warning on Windows XP SP 2 systems.

DEP is a technology built into AMD and Intel processors to prevent malicious code from running on systems when an application tries to insert or run code from non-executable memory locations (much more on that here ).

There are workarounds for these issues  but adding a program to the exception list makes it vulnerable to exploits itself, and since Skype is a communication program that uses the Internet it is a possible vector for hackers to try to get into systems.

Skype need to fix this and fix it quick.  It’s probably nothing more than a coding bug but the workaround makes the Skype application a serious target for hackers now.

la domanda del giorno. ma sono il primo a cui sembra di essere stato catapultato nel 1997, quando guardo certi myspace? (ad esempio - senza offesa - questo di alcuni miei concittadini). ogni tanto mi aspetto di vedere comparire il gif con l’omino nero su sfondo giallo che spala.

(non si lascia invece mancare niente questo fantastico sito di un bimbo indiano giunto agli onori della cronaca quando repubblica ha ritenuto, con soli tre anni e due mesi di ritardo, di riferire del suo incontro con bill gates - ma dimenticando chissà perché di riferire dell’incontro con bill gates, a cui il toccante gif qui accanto si riferisce: grazie alla sfuggente zazie per la delazione).

Exclusively, for the first time to the general public, to the amazement of dozens;
Paul and The Incident With The Muffins (1.6mb playable in Quicktime (Higher quality iTunes version suitable for iPods can be found here) )

May I thoroughly recommend you watch it all the way through many many times? I have!

And now for the future generations of teenagers who are going to have to write essays about this legendary piece of early 21st Century comedy, here's a play by play break down of it all.

Synopsis:

This movie has two key characters; Paul, a young man with a fine taste in clothes, is who the movie is obviously centred on. The camera rarely leaves Paul and the action clearly happens around him. The second key character is the director of the movie. This man is often heard but is never seen, he exists to drive the film along and provide someone with whom Paul can interact and bounce of with. As well as this, three other characters exist, Paul's two older siblings and a mutual friend of Paul and the director, who, for some inexplicable reason, is ginger.

The plot is deceptively simple, the director and the ginger friend turn up at the end of a party to pick up Paul and his siblings and take them home. Paul takes a plate of muffins home with him and causes much mischief with them.

Play by Play Break Down

• 0:02 Immediately the director shows us all four key elements of the movie; Paul, muffins, the director and Paul's stupidity.
• 0:07 The director decides that he does in fact, want a muffin. While at this stage a seemingly meaningless expression of hunger later on the true impact of this statement will become clear.
• 0:12 "Yeah, I want a plate of them". In an unexpected twist we realise that actually it was the director's greed who encouraged Paul to take the muffins in the first place. This serves three purposes, firstly it makes Paul seem that much more endearing in the eyes of the public (a feat already somewhat accomplished by picking such a rogueishly handsome young man to play Paul). Secondly it makes the director that much more evil, something which is otherwise only suggested at by his crude manner and uncouth accent. Finally it makes the muffin violence at the end of this play feel that much more deserved. It leaves us wanting to applaud Paul as well as cheer the downfall of the director, justice has been served, if only by a muffin in the face.
• 0:17 Paul takes the muffins. Nothing can add to the horror of this moment
  
• 0:25 "I hope you don't post this on flickr". Paul here is worried that his reputation as an upstanding gentlemen will be compromised by having these images uploaded to the image sharing site http://flickr.com. No chance of that then.
• 0:27 Here we get the first proper view of the ginger friend. As you can see, she's ginger.
• 0:25 "Ssssh Get in, Get in the house!". At first glance it seems that Paul is eager for the director to get inside so as not to cause a disturbance. Later on though we realise that the only person Paul care's about disturbing is his parents. This makes Paul's words encouraging everyone inside very suspicious. Was Paul planning something?
• 0:27 Here we see Paul huss the first of three muffins over the director's head and at the foot of his brother. It's a very technical shot, perhaps hinting at a level of training and skill that Paul never admits too.
• 0:46 Muffin two hits the director of the head and bounces off. Paul manages to keep his nonchalant appearance up despite obvious guilt. This is in obvious contrast to the rest of the cast, who are variously in hysterics, confusion and anger. As the video heads towards it's climax we can see the director artfully weaving an atmosphere of chaos together.
• 0:53 The director slows it down here, giving the viewer time to pause and giving himself time to build up the tension. Something's going to happen here. Although Paul taking off his coat is fairly exciting.
• 0:58 "He just threw a muffin in my eye". This phrase serves two purposes. Both of them are too much effort to report upon here though. Needless to say, directing genius!
• 1:00 KABLAM! That's how to pull of a money shot! An argument could be made that the director didn't actually go down to the muffin in the eye, as a muffin in the eye doesn't really hurt that much, but rather he went down because of the fits of laughter he was in. This is a very valid argument, but it misses the heart of the movie; someone getting hit in the face by a muffin. Pure comic genius.

Viendo que la entrada en la que ofrecía invitaciones para usar la nueva versión del Messenger de Microsoft, Windows Live Messenger, ha levantado cierto interés (por favor, dejad de mandarme emails porque por ahora no tengo más, gracias) no queda más remedio que hacerme eco de cómo usar Windows Live Messenger sin necesidad de invitaciones. Lo cual probablemente no sea muy legal, pero allá cada uno con su conciencia.

Como sabreis Windows Live Messenger se encuentra en estos momentos en fase beta y está disponible solo mediante invitación.

Nada nos impide descargar la última versión de Windows Live Mesenger e instalarla, pero al intentar conectarnos con nuestra cuenta nos encontraremos con un mensaje de error informándonos de que nuestro Id. de Passport no está autorizada para acceder a la beta.

Aún así, existen varios programas que nos permiten burlar la comprobación de Microsoft. Uno de ellos es MSNP13 Downgrader de Mess.be, un proxy que permite emular la versión 13 del protocolo de MSN que utiliza el servidor de la beta en cualquiera de los otros servidores, que aún utilizan la versión 12 del protocolo. No tenemos más que ejecutar el programa antes de conectarnos al servidor de Microsoft para poder utilizar la nueva versión.

this should be really good -- i know i'll learn a lot. marc mauer of the sentencing project and race to incarcerate will be speaking on racial disparities. i'm especially eager to meet rep. keith ellison, who has introduced legislation to reenfranchise probationers and parolees. other speakers include catherine weiss of the brennan center, art eisenberg of the nyclu, and gary dickey, counsel and advisor to iowa governor tom vilsack. i'll be doing an overview in the morning session, which will overlap with my department talk. events will be held at the minnesota law school from 9-3, but i don't have the specific rooms yet. here's the tentative schedule:

9:00 a.m. to 9:10 a.m.
Welcome and brief description of the facts and procedural posture of Johnson v. Governor of State of Florida, 405 F. 3d 1214 (11th Cir. 2005).

9:10 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.
Overview: Felon Disenfranchisement and Democracy. Prof. Christopher Uggen, Associate Chair, University of Minnesota, Department of Sociology.

9:50 a.m. to Noon. Silenced Voices
Panelists will examine the legal, constitutional, societal and policy-making implications of felon disenfranchisement provisions; measures that have been taken to address them, e.g. executive orders, legislation; and litigation that has challenged them, e.g. Johnson v. Governor of State of Florida; ­Muntaqim v. Coombe­­, 366 F. 3d 102 (2nd Cir. 2004) and Farrakhan v. Washington, 338 F. 3d 1009 (9th Cir. 2003). The panel will consist of:

• Catherine Weiss, Associate Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. The Brennan Center represents the plaintiff’s class in the Johnson v. Governor of State of Florida;
• Art Eisenberg Litigation Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union. The NYCLU submitted an Amicus brief in support of the Plaintiff’s position in ­Muntaqim v. Coombe­­;
• Rep. Keith Ellison of the Minnesota House of Representatives. The author of legislation to restore the voting rights of people who have been convicted of felonies and who are on probation or parole;
• Gary Dickey, Jr., General Counsel and Policy Advisor to Governor Tom Vilsack of Iowa who by executive order restored the voting rights of ex-felons in Iowa;
• Marc Mauer, Executive Director, Sentencing Project, Washington DC; and
• Clinical Prof. Carl M. Warren, faculty advisor to the University of Minnesota Law School’s Wm. E. McGee National Civil Rights Moot Court Competition, will moderate the panel.

	記念日	・初閻魔／念仏の口開け・・・正月の神様が念仏が嫌いであるということから、12月16日「念仏の口止め」よりこの日までの間は念仏は唱えないこととされています。そのため、年が明けてはじめて仏様を祀り、念仏をする日となります。
	誕生花	・満作・・・閃き
	出来事	・ペリー再来航(1854)／米で禁酒法施行(1920)／日本初の国際大会、スピードスケート大会が開催(1954)／石油危機で都市のネオンが消える(1974)／Ｊリーグ初代王座にヴェルディ川崎(1994)
	誕生日	・伊藤整(詩人･1905)／池上季実子(女優･1959)／シャーデー(歌手･1960)／田村英里子(タレント･1973)／賀集利樹（タレント・1979年）

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This tutorial describes how to set up database replication in MySQL. MySQL replication allows you to have an exact copy of a database from a master server on another server (slave), and all updates to the database on the master server are immediately replicated to the database on the slave server so that both databases are in sync. This is not a backup policy because an accidentally issued DELETE command will also be carried out on the slave; but replication can help protect against hardware failures though

Somehow I think this wont increase the uptime of this website

You may have caught my penguin stumblings in this post: "And speaking of penguin’s flying"

Not for the faint of heart, nor should you play this at work or school, but here is the extreme penguin baseball version.

Homelessness on the Rise in Iowa, Families Affected Most

Click here to read the Full Report

http://www.iowapolicyproject.org/

Kurt Wulff (McDep Associates) submits: China beat India again in the race for energy resources with buy-recommended CNOOC Limited(CEO)’s $2.3 billion purchase offshore Nigeria. Apparently an Indian company had bid more for the property, but was overruled by the Indian government. Still in the early stages of development, the project must overcome water depth of a thousand feet or more and the seller is a private company connected to a former military person, according to press reports. The operator, buy-recommended Total (TOT), confers economic, technological, and political credibility.

While the Government of China, 71% owner of CEO, may understand the need to be competitive in buying oil reserves, it appears to be lagging in recognizing comparable value in natural gas. To underscore the latter point, six-year futures of natural gas settled at a new high of $9.05 a million btu in our weekly series. Both CEO and buy-recommended PetroChina (PTR) have long-life natural gas production priced recently at less than a third of current six-year futures.

Kurt Wulff’s McDep Associates offers realtime, independent research services for investors in the energy and utilities sectors. For more information, go to www.mcdep.com or email Mr. Wulff at kurt@mcdep.com.

As promissed, here’s a multi-color sIFR… Feel free to send your kind words of gratitude over to Pepa. And BTW, have a nice day!

Living on the Boundaries: Evangelical Women, Feminism And the Theological Academy (Paperback)
by Nicola Hoggard Creegan, Christine D. Pohl
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I'm going to try to read this book and join in the blog discussion/book club that the authors are taking part in over at generousorthodoxy.net. Take a look and maybe join in.

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affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially-transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more

UK - £6.99
USA - $12.21

An amazing book. I am looking forward to reading this in full.
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Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
In their eye-opening, soul-prodding look at the excess of American society, the authors of Affluenza include two quotations that encapsulate much of the book: T.S. Eliot's line "We are the hollow men / We are the stuffed men," which opens one of this book's chapters, and a quote from a newspaper article that notes "We are a nation that shouts at a microwave oven to hurry up." If these observations make you grimace at your own ruthless consumption or sigh at the hurried pace of your life, you may already be ill. Read on.
The definition of affluenza, according to de Graaf, Wann, and Naylor, is something akin to "a painful, contagious, socially-transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more." It's a powerful virus running rampant in our society, infecting our souls, affecting our wallets and financial well-being, and threatening to destroy not only the environment but also our families and communities. Having begun life as two PBS programs coproduced by de Graaf, this book takes a hard look at the symptoms of affluenza, the history of its development into an epidemic, and the options for treatment. In examining this pervasive disease in an age when "the urge to splurge continues to surge," the first section is the book's most provocative. According to figures the authors quote and expound upon, Americans each spend more than $21,000 per year on consumer goods, our average rate of saving has fallen from about 10 percent of our income in 1980 to zero in 2000, our credit card indebtedness tripled in the 1990s, more people are filing for bankruptcy each year than graduate from college, and we spend more for trash bags than 90 of the world's 210 countries spend for everything. "To live, we buy," explain the authors--everything from food and good sex to religion and recreation--all the while squelching our intrinsic curiosity, self-motivation, and creativity. They offer historical, political, and socioeconomic reasons that affluenza has taken such strong root in our society, and in the final section, offer practical ideas for change. These use the intriguing stories of those who have already opted for simpler living and who are creatively combating the disease, from making simple habit alterations to taking more in-depth environmental considerations, and from living lightly to managing wealth responsibly.

Many books make you think the author has crammed everything he or she knows into it. The feeling you get reading Affluenza is quite different; the authors appear well-read, well-rounded, and intelligent, knowledgeable beyond the content of their book but smart enough to realize that we need a short, sharp jolt to recognize our current ailment. It's a well-worn cliché that money can't buy happiness, but this book will strike a chord with anyone who realizes that more time is more valuable than toys, and that our relentless quest for the latest stuff is breeding sick individuals and sick societies. Affluenza is, in fact, a clarion call for those interested in being part of the solution. --S. Ketchum --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

I really need your help, not to mention your prayers.

OK, here I am getting ready to sign contracts to write two books, and the thing I am struggling with most, is a title for each, to put on the initial contracts. Thankfully they can be changed, but just to get started, I am scratching my head. I know they need to be catchy and intriguing but not so ambiguous that people can't get some idea of what the books are about.

So maybe if post the book concepts here and my very very bad title ideas, some of you creative types can suggest some better ones, and I'll acknowledge the best one if I get to use it. I also want to involve people in the writing process of these books as much as I can, and incorporate it into the books, with support from the publishers.

The Middle Way: This comes out of my doctoral dissertation, which was titled 'Via Media', and explores the wisdom of a middle way for doing church between the extremes of stiff conservativism on one hand and the reactionary ultra fluidity and pragmatism on the other, and how theology can steer us through both. It's a book for pastors and leaders, who still love and believe in church, who are open to issues of culture and change, not wanting to react defensively to emerging culture and context, but don't want to go down the 'lets be post-church route', and want some help.

The Life You Already Have This is a general, non leadership book on spiritual formation. It would take the experiences, stories, teaching, and practices from my church community, for content, but is specifically about my church. It's more a how can people find, develop, grow in faith in community in an emerging context. I'm hoping it will be a book that ordinary people can read, and again help them avoid the two extremes of conservative reaction, and post-church pragmatism, and get into issues of emerging church through a middle way.

So what on earth would be intriguing and at the same time give and idea of what these book are about? Don't be shy post some suggestions please! And if you are up for it, please link to this and help me get as many suggestions as possible.

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This week’s tips are a little different to previous weeks.  This week I’m going to quickly introduce the five programs that I simply couldn’t live without (work wise that it).  These are programs that I turn to many times a day and literally have become old friends.  All the programs that I will be looking at have a free trial so you can try them out for yourself - who knows, they might be just what you are looking for!

The first is the program I’m typing this message into right now - BlogJet . 

BlogJet tools has become my “must have”tool for blogging.  Yes, I know that I can just log in to WordPress and compose a post from there but that seems far too slow and cumbersome.  With BlogJet I can compose a post offline, format the text, add images and even save a copy of the post and come back to it later.  It also has a pretty cool spellchecker!

I use WordPress here but BlogJet supports a huge array of blogging platforms.

BlogJet is one cool tool!

For more information visit http://www.blogjet.com .

Certains d’entre vous auront sûrement remarqué que le site a connu quelques coupures dans la journée d’hier : cela a dû à quelques soucis avec Pan, le serveur qui héberge SkyMinds.Net. Les problèmes ont commencé vers 15h hier lorsque j’ai constaté que les témoins de fonctionnement des services clignotaient comme un sapin de Noël :

Mon hébergeur a immédiatement réagi mais visiblement il existe quelques soucis de communication entre le service technique et le Data Center :

Pan is currently off-line whilst we deal with an issue with the Data Center. They are currently not responding to our urgent requests for updates which has lengthened the delay, and we are in contact with them by every means in order to resolve this situation.

Finalement, je trouve cela incroyable qu’il me soit encore possible d’accéder au site et de poster avec de tels chiffres. J’ai commencé à faire mes sauvegardes au cas où. Tout cela pour dire que si vous avez du mal à afficher certaines pages ou que le site semble avoir disparu, ne vous inquiétez pas cela est temporaire et ne devrait pas durer.

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Caris & Co. analyst Susan Calla upgraded Sirius Satellite Radio on Friday to ‘Buy’, on expectations that the company will exceed its subscription guidance for the quarter. Toward establishing a valuation model for Sirius, Calla makes a particularly interesting comparison to leading software companies:

In our view, the stock’s pullback in anticipation of potential dilution from [Howard] Stern’s sale of shares represents a buying opportunity. The issuance of Stern’s shares has created an overhang on the stock…

Sirius’ valuation may be high on an absolute basis, but it is in-line on a relative basis. One could argue that Sirius should trade like software companies that also have recurring revenue akin to Sirius’ subscription revenues. Also, like software companies, Sirius has high fixed costs for product production and distribution, but low variable costs so it gains operating leverage from scale. Clearly, management understands the calculus and is focused on amassing subscribers.

On an enterprise value/revenue basis, the stock currently trades at a multiple of 7 times 2007 estimates, which is in line with software companies Microsoft and Qualcomm. Going forward, we believe Sirius should trade at a premium to its software peers since its growth rate is higher.

Sirius revenue could double in 2007 compared with revenue growth about 20% to 30% for its peers. If Sirius stock were to hold its 2006 EV/revenue multiple of 13 times and expand in line with revenue, the stock would double. In 2008, Sirius revenue growth could be 60% year-over-year, indicating a continued buoyant stock.

[Excerpted from Barron’s. Emphasis added.]

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Nonviolence is not servile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. Sooner or later, all people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

That's the leading quote for Vernon Clark's story in yesterday's Inquirer ("King Day brings call for recommitment"). Philly.com also has video from a 1967 speech to Philadelphia school students, which is fairly short and well worth watching.

Yes, it's Martin Luther King Day here in Philly. And what are we doing to observe the occasion? The 11th Annual Day of Service is one great way to honor the spirit of the day. Meanwhile, there will also be a King Day Celebration at Longwood Gardens.

Have you written a post about it (perhaps taking Jane's suggestion)? Have you planned something special to honor Rev. King's legacy? Is there some special recollection or inspiration you gather from the occasion or from King's message? What does this day mean to you? Do you have any thoughts on these AP poll results touting the progress of American race relations?

If you want to share thoughts along those lines, please feel free to trackback to this post from your related blog post, or simply leave a comment here with your thoughts.

Last night Rob and I headed out to Round Table for dinner. I've learned that by piling every meat known to man onto a pizza, that I can tolerate it and still get a target number. I'm rather happy about that because I'm pretty sure I could not go a long time without some sort of pizza. I'm still twitching about the Krispy Kreme situation. Gives me something to look forward to after delivering the baby though.

After dinner we went to the ATM and picked up a few things at the grocery store. We then came home, did some cleaning (with the amount of things we shredded it was like we were playing Enron), gamed a little, and then went to bed. Once again, sleep eluded me for a good part of the night. I got a few hours this morning - just enough to be functional today but not enough to be fully awake.

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Last night after about a two month span, we finally had D&D again. It's getting harder and harder to be able to get the group together as people's schedules are getting crazy. Game rocked. One of our cities was under attack by paladins and the forces of good so we went in there and whooped some ass. Grell (Krynn's cohort) managed to send some Pelorites and a special box that they had into the negative energy plane. Narcissius (Pita's character) managed to assassinate a great wyrm gold dragon with one shot. It was a very fun game and I'm looking forward to the next one, whenever that may be.

As usual, I got very little sleep last night so getting up this morning sucked. But, I managed to do it and Rob and I headed to Carmen's house for our last class. Today was baby care. Wow. This is going to be crazy. There are so many things we need to get before he's born and so many things to do when he's here. *eeps* The class went well and when we were done we headed back home. Just thought I'd get in a quick posting before heading out tonight.

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After my last entry Rob and I headed out to Ontario and made a stop by the Babies R Us out there. We picked up some things we're going to need before Gabriel gets here. No clothes or toys this time, just practical stuff we have to have. We still have a decent amount to get before he arrives. One of the things we were looking for was a baby carrier, but the people who worked in the store said that only carried the car seat kind (which we don't need because we already have a car seat for him). So... that's one of the things we need to find. Something to carry him in because he won't be able to be in a kangaroo pouch or a stroller until he can hold his head up.

After Babies R Us we headed to Montclair for Chinese food at Golden China. It's been awhile since we've eaten there and both Rob and I were craving Chinese food (and it gives me low numbers as long as I don't eat any rice). That's the main reason we headed out to that area in the first place. Dinner was great and when we were done we headed home. Tonight we worked on leveling up Krynn's cohort Grell and had JTV on in the background. Now I'm just getting some online things done since I probably won't be on again until Monday.

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You scored as Oogie Boogie. You are Oogie Boogie. You like to have control over everything and everyone, you love bugs (because you are filled with them) and you love to eat them, you love evil weapons, for you are evil yourself, and you have a strange obsession with rolling dice...i dont know what your problem is Oogie Boogie 65% The Mayor 60% Lock, Shock, and Barrel 45% Jack Skelington 40% Sally 30% Evil Scientist 20% Santa 15% Which Nightmare Before Christmas character are u? created with QuizFarm.com

For those of you who are still wondering why Rob and I would want to leave Los Angeles for Milwaukee, I believe these two things should make things clear. Granted, if we weren't having a baby we'd probably stay here because an apartment would be just fine. But now that we want a house, well, see for yourself:

What we can afford in Los Angeles.

What we can afford in the Milwaukee area (Waukesha to be exact).

So, um, yeah. Let's hope one of us can find a job out there rather quickly after my 6 week post-partum checkup.

Jeremy Zawodny : Gather Blather - Gather Blather: Agreed. This all sounds stupid.

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Remember the Honda Accord commercial “Cog”?

Honda has another neat commercial, this time for the Civic:

Civic Choir

Lets start with a nice little flash game called Slow Motion

Then a crazy video of a christian woman gone mad on Trading Spouses, America's version of Wife Swap.

Hows about some Cows with holes in them?

Or perhaps a Hans Solo in Carbonite, made from Grey Lego

A prejudice map of the world, showing what countries are known for

A cool flash game where you have to surf through a tunnel

A list of some of the stupidest criminal antics

A list of the worst 100 rated movies on imdb

EyeMaze's answer to the classic Whack-A-Mole Game

Some amazing high definintion wallpapers for your computer. There are some really nice ones

Get yourself reminders to goto the gym or whatever, mailed to you every few days

Some images of astounding biuldings in China, some of them are mind boggling

The ideal mouse if you use your laptop a lot and dont like touchpads

A handy device if you keep forgetting about parking meters

Anyone who does any kind of design work should bookmark this collection of 6,500 free TTF fonts

This game had me addicted for a good hour or two this morning, well worth a play. It has a certain Zool feel to it as well with all the bouncing off walls and sliding down them etc. Go play it now

This is one crazy sofa, you know you would spend hours trying to get the kids and or pets out of it

Some crazy Japanese guy makes a water power jetpack, and it actually works

Some excellent and strange furniture on this site, take a look around

One of those infuritating little puzzle games that soon becomes less about fun, and more about not letting it beat you

How to make pants and a shirt out of two dollar bills

Can you imagine how long it took to make this huge animated gif. Wherever you look there are blue balls.

5 of the best freeware games of 2005, some of them look pretty good

Garfield generation tool, make your own strips!

You've probably seen this before, but just incase, the effects of drugs on spiders making webs

The top 20 science mthys collected for you to have a glace through

Some really funny cartoon sketches, at least they appealed to my strange sense of humour

A site that encourages people to stick F**K sticks on signs with some great results. To browse, click the 'this way' link just under the giant F. Now go f**k yourself

A collection of dseigns and signs that are just quite simply broken

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Many things came out of my fitness instruction days. A few include lost paychecks, cancelled classes with no notice, worthless interaction wtih the baselessly pompus Mr. Super Tan Manager Man, and a man forcing me to impulsively dance the Salsa with him.

Of these things, few (actually none,) are what I would consider wholly positive…although I guess the Salsa guy was ok. One actual good thing that I can credit to Zumba, besides weight loss, is a friendship with fellow instructor Tara. She co-instructed with me after we finished our training course. She was upbeat, very kind and indesputiably a MA native. In July, she and her boyfriend, Hal (who is Norwegian,) went to Norway for a month, and then on to live in Italy. Specifically, they found an apartment in Florence.

I only saw her for a short visit over Thanksgiving, but soon we'll really have the chance to catch up because I'M GOING TO ITALY! Impulsive nature + excellent fare sale to Rome = that's amore. The Polish Princess and I spent two weeks in Italy post-graudation but I haven't been back since, and without her I have to navigate the trains by myself. This idea is a bit scary to me, but come on, it's not like I have no sense of direction or something.

[crickets]

Hey – that was supposed to be a JOKE! Anyone? Hellloooo...

Dopo aver indegnamente e per lungo tempo navigato per strutture periferiche, lunedì varco il portone della mega sede centrale: il Palazzo d’inferno, come lo chiamano i sopravvissuti.
Sarà l’ansia, ma qui è tutto mega: la scalinata, il portone, il corridoio, persino la barbuta guardia giurata che mi blocca con un ghigno: ccà nun se trase!

Mostro timidamente il mio sfigato tesserino da parvenue (quelli del Palazzo ce l’hanno magnetico!), lo guarda con sospetto, lo annusa, lo mordicchia con un dente d’oro come a verificarne la consistenza, mi fa passare con un cenno sbrigativo.
Mentre compio la traversata del corridoio cisposi e orribili gargoyle ammoniscono gravemente: ccà si fatica!, e sempre più prostrato arrivo finalmente al terribile girello: una reliquia trovata nella piramide di Cheope - a suo tempo usata dagli schiavi egizi per divertire lo sciagurato figlio di Imenoteph, la preferita del faraone - oggi rivisitato in chiave ipermoderna per controllare l’andirivieni dei dipendenti del Palazzo.

Ovviamente il mio tesserino non riconosce il girello - anzi, fa finta di niente - e devo implorare la giunonica signora in divisa da SS che, pur essendo poliglotta, biascica qualche jastemma in tedesco e lo mette in azione.
Il girello - modello Giochi senza frontiere - è del tipo a rotazione continua a lame flottanti.
Ho solo pochi secondi per passare. Ho le mani e la fronte sudate, anche se fuori fa un freddo boia.
Concentrazione. Il girello è partito; tra il passaggio di una pala e l’altra contano esattamente tre secondi… ce la faccio, ce la fa… CRACK! Noo, si è incastrata la borsa con la colazione - doppio yoghurtino e 230 grammi di frutta - e non viene, non viene!
Nel frattempo la virago in divisa - schnell! schnell! - chiama a raccolta le guardie giurate, i carabinieri, la polizia municipale e le guardie forestali della Calabria.
Si fanno sempre più vicini. Sono accerchiato. Un ultimo strappo alla borsa e un rapidissimo scatto verso l’ascensore parlante mi mettono in salvo.
Non si salva la mia colazione, sbranata dai cani antidroga mentre le arance rotolano per le scale con effetto Ejzenštejn.

continua… (?)
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Mirror neurons (Wikipedia) are magical brain cells that fire both when performing some act and watching someone else perform it.

In this sense, they can be viewed as the key to learning and sharing behavior, tying the acts we perform to those of others and vice versa. Scholars such as M. Arbib have even proposed that they lie at the heart of language.

Now the NYT, in a Jan. 10 article entitled Cells That Read Minds, has given us a competent, if brief, overview of the field. This has been quite widely blogged.

What’s the neurotheology connection? Normally we think of mirror neurons as being activated via everyday motions such as reaching for a cup, or sticking out your tongue—something even one-day-old babies can imitate.

But what about religious behaviors? Such as bowing, prostrating yourself, or placing your hands together in prayer? If such motions stimulate mirror neurons, especially in young children, there may be grounds to argue that these are hard-wired physical behaviors.

... Allez voir cet article du Monde, c'est assez édifiant ... tout." et Sarkozy... euh, ben reste égal à lui-même. Au final, on cumule un problème de sans-papiers ...

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... La milice militantePermis, sauf-conduit et self-défense L’augmentation inquiétante des interpellations de conducteurs sans permis est peut-être une des conséquences inattendues de la répression accrue en matière de sécurité routière. Après un petit détour bien arrosé en Pologne, le DJ Jung reviendra également sur une des annonces de Sarkopak ...

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Tengo 3 invitaciones para probar la versión beta de la nueva versión del MSN Messenger de Microsoft: Windows Live Messenger.

Si estás interesado, deja un comentario (Y rellena el apartado de correo, evidentemente )

A couple of curiosities have come up recently concerning national identity and how it distorts (rightly or wrongly) one's view of things.

First was a map of national stereotypes based on Google searches for e.g. "what the English are known for". [via Mike]

Not sure what "aristocratic kitchens" are - kitchens that the owners never enter? - and I really didn't know the Swedes still carve Viking longboats at the weekend. Anyway, thought it was interesting as an emergent view of national stereotypes, and how easy it is to recognize rather than agree with them.

Second (and loosely connected) was a letter to the Times published last Friday title "Truth Exchange". Commenting on an initiative between Agincourt and an English school, one Dr Kerry Bluglass of Warwick wrote

Not long ago, a charming French acquaintance of mine asked me, in all seriousness, about the British habit of naming landmarks after French victories.

"Which ones?", I inquired.

"Trafalgar Square and Waterloo Station," he replied. I was completely unable to convince him of the true outcome of these battles, and I later discovered that this view is not unusual in France."

... Interview de Nicolas Sarkozy Ministre d’Etat, de l’Intérieur et de l’Aménagement du Territoire Président de l’UMP Le Point – jeudi 8 décembre 2005 Propos recueillis par Catherine Pégard Quelles ...

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Some more information from Emergent UK with regards to Brian Mclaren's european trip with us in May. First off, here is details and registration info for those of you wanting to be involved with us in the NE of England, May 11th, hosted by Galilee.

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I just got the books for this, any of you out there taken your community through this? We're thinking of using it with ours. What's been your experience?

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