Archive for March, 2008

Crane collapsed while I was in NYC

A crane collapse in the East side on the weekend I was visiting. It was a Saturday.
4 people died and others were injured.
Close shave. Imagine. Me. Tourist. Crane collapse. If I had been more adventurous and wanted to cover the East side before noon, I would have been there. There is that chance.

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“Into The Wild”

Very good soundtrack.
Very good art direction.
Graphics tell a lot. Subtle.
Dialogue minimal. And some I don’t understand…
Very good use of transition, by music and pictures.
A lot of music notes from guitar strings.
Inspired from a book adaption of a true story–Christopher McCandless.
The kind of movie that can keep me glued once it starts playing, at whichever [...]

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“They kicked Pluto out.”

During Informatics class this morning… classmates updated my very dusty library of solar system info.

I talk in pictures too.
Resources taken from nineplanets.org/

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World’s First Webpage, by Tim Berners-Lee

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Pastor Joseph Prince – See the Father’s Love for you

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The Right to Publicize Self-Gossip

I have always wondered why do people like to gossip about themselves. Is that really important to them? Do I really want to hear this? What can I respond with?
This is important to me because it affects the way I respond to their topics “of interests”, and my behavior towards them and it leads all [...]

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Summary of How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social – Not Electronic

By Noah Shachtman.
This article discusses about winning a war, comparing techniques using technology versus communities. Both techniques uses networks, but in a slightly different way.
WARNING: DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU’RE A GEEK, MALE, MILITARIST OR ANY COMBINATION. OR WANT THE ARTICLE SUMMARIZED IN A VERY LAYMAN WAY

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