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“A whole life, a deeply satisfying life, has many dimensions. Sometimes these dimensions need attention. Perhaps it is because of a desire to grow; or perhaps?a life event may provide a wake-up call. Perhaps we want or need to focus on finding a meaning
Archive for February, 2007
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February 15, 2007-
“(also referred to as C. diff or C-diff) is a species of bacteria of the genus Clostridium which are gram-positive, anaerobic, spore-forming rods. C. difficile is the most significant cause of pseudomembranous colitis[1] , a severe infection of the colon,
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I use this tag on pages that work well on my Palm T|X Blazer Browser (as of 20070214)
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February 14, 2007-
Armadillo Aerospace is a small research and development team working on computer-controlled LOX/ethanol rocket vehicles, with an eye towards manned suborbital vehicle development in the coming years. The team currently consists of a bunch of guys, a girl
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I will, of course, leave out the simple stuff which you can do with any RSS mixer, and focus on remixing that can only be done with Pipes. Without further ado, here are five cool ways to use Pipes.
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“Concurrently, a 750hp twin-turbo 2.0 L version made big news in the longtail Aerotech (HRM, Mar. ’87), a full-bodied aerodynamic wonder on a March Indycar chassis that A.J. Foyt piloted to 266-plus mph and the American closed-course speed record at For
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“When it was introduced in the waning days of the ’80s, the Quad 4 represented a massive step forward for GM. Oldsmobile (along with Batten Engineering and Feuling Engineering) developed the 2.3-liter iron-block, four-valve DOHC aluminum-head powerhouse
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“In 1988 he received the “Outstanding Technical Achievement Award” from the National Engineering Societies for his “clean sheet” design, development and manufacture of the 2.0L Oldsmobile “BE” Quad-4 racing engine used in the Oldsmobile Aerotech Research
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“Concentrating initially on Ferraris, Norwood built a Ferrari V-12, Ferrari speed record cars and authentic Ferrari P-4 replicas. The first Ferrari replica was a 59/TR (Testarossa) built in 1981. Creation of four replicas began the same year. The year 198
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“The IRL Aurora V8 went from the drawing board to the winner’s circle in record time. One year and 21 days after the program was announced, Oldsmobile scored its first Indy car victory in Orlando, Fla., on January 25, 1997. Smaller, lighter and more power
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“This paper describes the design and development of the IRL Aurora V8 racing engine for Indy Racing League competition. It addresses the technical and organizational issues which were involved in producing a competitive racing engine in a compressed time
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“One advantage we had was that we were able to incorporate the latest design and analysis tools for computational fluid dynamics (CFD), computer simulation of the entire engine, and finite element analysis (FEA). A lot has changed since 1996, and many of
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“Replica Engines recreates notable internal combustion engines in 1/4 scale that are fully operational. All of our engines are four cycle, spark ignition and are equipped with all of the functional components of their full size counterpart such as the oil
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“Radio Waves and Electromagnetic Fields: Broadcast radio waves from KPhET. Wiggle the transmitter electron manually or have it oscillate automatically. Display the field as a curve or vectors. The strip chart shows the electron positions at the transmitte
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“A key component of an XForms processor is the dependency-engine. The idea is pretty straightforward, and will be familiar to anyone who has used a spreadsheet; if some item has its value set by a calculated expression that contains references to other it
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“Anyone who cares at all about taking advantage of these nasty new microprocessors that still follow Moore’s law but sideways not just straight up ought to go and read The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkeley. As the title sugg
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February 13, 2007-
“Many of us are becoming publishers nowadays, and we’d like to imagine that all our stuff could enjoy that level of consistency and durability. Few of us are prepared to make the necessary investment, but it’s interesting to hear from someone who has.
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“a simple project to define and convert train schedules into a common XML format. This format enables the information to be used more easily by many other applications.
If you are looking for a ready to use schedule for the TrainSched palm application,
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“This paper describes a system for integrating generalized RDF metadata into the standard Palm™ databases.”
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“A program to show you a XML tree on your Pilot. Get your data from the internet or from your memopad.”
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“XSL stylesheets are not generally used to perform transforms where the input and output are as structurally dissimilar as the application project file and C source code. However, we have found them to be very effective for generating pervasive applicatio
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“Using DB2 Everyplace, you have successfully created, deployed, and tested a sample application. This application build can now be transferred onto Palm devices.”
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“explains how the British global-led economy was structured in the 19th century, its weaknesses and how it unraveled in the 1920s and 1930s. He reviews monetary policies, banking instability in the pre- and Depression era, trade and its collapse, the risi
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“This places me in possession of some hard-won, rare and very odd motes of Stephensonian trivia.
For instance, I am now cognizant that in both “Cryptonomicon” and “The System of the World,” Stephenson devotes perhaps more attention than is proper to a
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“Antonio Damasio, who’s a friend of mine. He’s written a few books about the brain, and the one that’s most relevant to this discussion is “Descartes’ Error.” The error he’s complaining about is the idea that reason and emotion are different things. He te
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University of IowaEmotion, Feeling, and Social Behavior: The Brain Perspective
“Neither anguish nor the elation that love or art can bring about are devalued by understanding some of the myriad biological processes that make them what th -
“We should expect to be able to reach into the various repositories and assemble coherent views by issue and by candidate, and Yahoo Pipes would be a great way to do that. But not until and unless the video has been sliced and diced and tagged appropriate
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” I started thinking, “How does a database make grouping and sorting fast?” Well, it does that by creating indexes. Then it dawned on me that creating an XSLT key like:
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links for 2007-02-12
February 12, 2007-
This PDF reader will work with PDFs downloaded directly to the Palm which Adobe’s reader won’t do.
“The first real PDF Viewer for all Palm OS 5.x devices. PalmPDF is a port based on Xpdf (copyright 1996-2005 Glyph & Cog, LLC). Please have a look into the -
“”Notate is a web-based tool for annotating and tagging words and phrases within documents. It creates a searchable index of all the annotations you make and displays the annotations against the text they refer to when you revisit a site. Annotations can
links for 2007-02-11
February 11, 2007-
“Javascript really is a pleasant language once separated from the DOM mess, and the canvas provides a nice, light, and increasingly cross platfrom space. I predict this sort of browser based work will soon be the dominant medium for dynamic graphics code.
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A good discussion of a wide variety of issues surrounding social software web sites.
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“39 I want a Freeware Utility to … 300+ common problems solved : eConsultant 8805
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“Anyone who cares at all about taking advantage of these nasty new microprocessors that still follow Moore’s law but sideways not just straight up ought to go and read The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkeley. As the title sugg
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“What does Mark Murrell do? I create interactive strategies that communicate effectively and generate results. Understanding and delivering an effective message to an audience takes time and experience. From streaming media, to complex branding initiative
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“Here’s a list of the interviews I did at the Fast Forward user conference, along with the little blurbs describing them. I’ve appended an occasional editorial comment. Most are around 5 minutes, although a few run considerably longer. (I’m writing this i
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“This hack puts a WorldCat button on Amazon book pages. Clicking on the button will show you libraries in your area that carry the book. I use Amazon wishlists to keep track of my books-to-read list, so this is very handy.”
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“Back when I was in graduate school thinking about AI and Minsky’s Society of Mind, I had vague notions that this stuff would be useful for practical psychology — it could actually help people to make them aware that they are a collection of disparate ag
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“LinkBack is a browser extension that will automatically display incoming links for any web page you visit. Linkbacks show up in an overlay window. Here we see what it looks like when browsing this very page — revealing that at the time of writing, I’m b
links for 2007-02-10
February 10, 2007-
“But Origen and Eusebius, two scholars of late Roman Caesarea, did far more. Both produced new kinds of books, in which parallel columns made possible critical comparisons previously unenvisioned, whether between biblical texts or between national histori
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“A Computational Logic for Applicative Common Lisp, ACL2[ACL2] is a logical system with a number of industrial applications in hardware design and reliable software systems.”
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“Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.”
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“I am a Professor and Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. I specialize in research related to the nature and economics of distributed and open innovation. I also develop and teach about practical method
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Craig Barrett of Intel, instigator of
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“A management tool that features monitoring and reporting features for your API.”
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“”Caterina Fake is a symbolic figure of Web 2.0 and has made her name as co-founder of the photo-sharing platform Flickr. With over 3 million users and more than 300 million photos flickr.com is one of the biggest photo communities in the world”, said t
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“Schultz thinks at least part of the solution to health care is
universal coverage. I think Starbucks-style management, with
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“This is the home page for Esther Dyson.
Right now it’s a placeholder, with links to other sources of information.Here is a link to my blog and to my pictures.
You can join me, February 16th through the 19th in Aspen at this seminar.
Or you can
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“CoreObjects cares and knows about both. We believe business drives technology, not the other way around. Bringing products to market and building companies requires the right people and infrastructure. We’ve built a sophisticated product development plat
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” And even unrepresented claimants who win their claims may not obtain the most favorable onset date for the commencement of their benefits. The date of onset and the date of entitlement, of course, will determine how much an ssd or ssdi claimant will rec
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February 8, 2007-
“Among the appreciators is Charles K. Alawan of Farmington Hills. “I think it’s a great program,” says Alawan, 76, a property management consultant and one of the founders of the Islamic Center of Detroit.”
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“The FDA gave its approval of MammaPrint based on data itsmanufacturer — Agendia, of Amsterdam, the Netherlands — submittedfrom a study using tumor samples and clinical data from 302patients at five European centers. The test has been available inEurope
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“When you plot the amount of activity for each user, the result is a Zipf curve, which shows as a straight line in a log-log diagram.
User participation often more or less follows a 90-9-1 rule: “
links for 2007-02-07
February 7, 2007-
“Playing Wii Sports Tennis for the first time was the most revelatory, breakthrough gaming experience I’ve had since I first saw Myst in the mid 90s. It’s truly one of those transformations where you immediately think: this whole medium is capable of some
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“I’ll illustrate the basic concept using a simple grocery-shopping list containing XML that you can create yourself. Remember, with XML, you can make up your own element names, and they’ll work just fine, as long as you use them consistently and nest
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