In a hair under two minutes time, Pennington sophomore Doug McCord set a new school record yesterday in the 200-yard IM. The odd thing was he didn’t take the top prize in the event.
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SWIMMING: Hopewell Valley claims first in crosstown war with Pennington (Pennington Post)
Worldlabel: “Alan Jackson’s PostScript::MailLabels is a Perl utility to automate production of high-quality label layouts. it is designed to be useful to Perl scripters, who can easily incorporate high-quality PostScript output into their scripts, but the scripts included in the base package are, themselves, an easy-to-use set of command-line tools for label printing.”
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Labels with PostScript::MailLabels Getting Started (Linux Today)
CANBERRA (Reuters) – A collision involving a Japanese security ship and anti-whaling activists on Wednesday has reignited debate over Tokyo’s annual whaling campaign. Japan continues to hunt whales despite pressure to stop from anti-whaling nations.
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FACTBOX – Japanese Southern Ocean whaling (The Star)
Toblach, Italy – Peter Northug (NOR) won his third stage of the 2010 Tour de Ski, outsprinting Dario Cologna (SUI) and Marcus Hellner (SWE) in the 35km freestyle pursuit. Cologna leads Northug and Hellner into the stadium For the first time in the four year history of Tour, the event stopped in the Cortina-Toblach region of Italy.
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Northug Wins Tour Stage 5 in Final Sprint (FasterSkier.com)
SAN MATEO, Calif.—-Global Vision Group – a worldwide consulting company focused on the electronic payments industry, announced today that Marc Perl, a veteran in the Payments industry, will join GVGroup as Senior Consultant in the Business and Risk Strategy Practice.
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Marc Perl Joins Global Vision Group, as Senior Consultant in Risk Strategy Practice (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
If you caught “InfoWorld’s top 10 emerging enterprise technologies” in November, you had a running head start on our 2010 Technology of the Year Awards. MapReduce, desktop virtualization, I/O virtualization, NoSQL databases, cross-platform mobile application development, and application whitelisting topped our list of high-impact technologies, and not surprisingly, all are represented in our …
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InfoWorld’s 2010 Technology of the Year Awards (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News)
As we enter 2010, enterprises are including more forms of diverse data into their business intelligence (BI) activities. They’re also diversifying the types of analysis that they expect from these investments.
As we enter 2010, enterprises are including more forms of diverse data into their business intelligence BI activities. They’re also diversifying the types of analysis that they expect from these investments. These new approaches support massive data sets to produce powerful insights and analysis — yet with unprecedented price-performance.
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Architectural shift joins app logic with massive data sets to take advanced BI analytics to real-time performance (ZDNet)
Back in August The New York Times reported that the word ’statistics’ had replaced the word ‘plastics’ in the famous career guidance given in the film The Graduate. And more recently the same paper reported that data and its analysis are the future of science. And it’s not just in business and ivory towers that statistical analysis of masses of data is becoming important: just understanding the …
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Decoding Climate Change with Perl, gnuplot and Google Earth (O’Reilly Media)
Sure, OnLive has already done live demos of its “cloud gaming” service, but it never hurts to get another comprehensive 48-minute video on the subject. In a presentation at Columbia University, CEO Steve Perlman goes over the nitty gritty of how game streaming works, the OnLive user interface (11:53), an inevitable Crysis Wars demo (16:35), Brag Clips (17:49), and of course the iPhone app (19:31). Though cellphone integration is still limited to primarily spectating and social networking functions, PCs and Macs can get gaming via a 1MB browser plugin, or you can grab the microconsole streaming box for your TV, which Steve suggests might be given away for free with OnLive subscriptions
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OnLive shows off UI and iPhone use in marathon tech demo (video)
I ran into a few strange IMs over the weekend. When I was not shoveling out my driveway from the 15 inches of snow that covered it I was logged into Facebook telling people about it…. It was then that I started receiving some VERY interesting IMs from a friend extolling the virtues of a clean colon (yep – you read that right): This lead to the following questionable site, which had some very interesting comments on our SiteAdvisor site: In short order I also received two more IMs
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Check Your Friends! Facebook IMs May Lead To Trouble
In a previous post I argued against the “One Internet” . I claimed that for video conferencing to work all access options to the network must be supported and the network itself has to be media-aware. That being said, one might get the impression that I believe that only a dedicated video conferencing network, one that connects (at least) the entire enterprise and offers a “clean” environment for our precious means of communication, can provide a worthy quality of experience.
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One Network, Not “One Internet” [Video Over Enterprise]
Download source code – 5.54 KB Introduction As we know, an input file element allows you to select only one file at a time, i.e., you can upload only one file at a time using an input file element. If you want to upload multiple files at a time, then you have to add as many file input elements as the number of files you want to upload.
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Multiple File Upload User Control
It’s been a year now since I was first properly introduced to WordPress and started using it to create an online archive of my work. Over the last 12 months I have grown to appreciate the power and flexibility of this piece of online blogging software and feel the need today to go in to a little more detail. WordPress is a free and open source publishing application which gives home users the ability to quickly and easily create an online blog using their own domain name. Blogging, the term used to describe the maintenance of a website used to chronicle information has become incredibly popular in recent years as more users realise that the Internet provides a global platform which can be used to broadcast their ideas or opinions. For most, the prospect of coding a website from scratch is not just a daunting but potentially impossible task, and so it is down to worthy applications such as WordPress to make blogging accessible to the masses. Undeniably a small amount of technical knowhow is required however the process of the initial installation couldn’t really have been made any simpler.
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WordPress 2.8.5
All the recent talk about the future of tr.im and giving up control over our links on Twitter to third parties made us look into alternative solutions for shortening our links over the last few weeks. While there aren’t too many alternatives to using hosted services for short links, we did come across two self-hosted solutions that you can install on your own hosting account: z.ips.me and Shorty
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You Don’t Need Bit.ly, Tr.im & Co.: Just Host Your Own URL Shortener
You don’t have to be able to pick a Romulan out of a crowd of Vulcans to be intrigued by the idea of cloaking, and indeed many non-trekkers have tried to hide things in plain sight using electromagnetism , accoustic superlenses , or light-bending materials . The latest attempt relies on devices that emit cancelling waves of the sort anyone who’s ever seen a Bose commercial should quite familiar with, combining to negate any external, incoming waves. What’s different here is that they also recombine on the other side of the object being cloaked, as shown in the video below, meaning that incoming surge is then re-generated and continues on undisturbed — potentially even reflecting back through the object again should it hit something on the far side
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Video: simulated ‘quiet zone’ cloaking hides an object in 2-D
A research team from Norfolk State University and Purdue has built on the work of Mark Stockman of Georgia State and David Bergman of Tel Aviv University to create a laser on the nanoscale. Though light can’t be focused past around half its wavelengths, plasmons (quantum of plasma oscillations) can exist at much smaller scale while having the frequency of light. By stimulating gold nanoparticles to emit surface plasmons, the Norfolk State researchers were able to amplify them and in effect create a nano laser.
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World’s Smallest Laser, The Spaser, Unveiled
Due to Nokia’s continued dismissal of the ripe-for-the-picking E81 model number , the diligent folks at “Nokla” (fresh off their E97 design win ) have seen it fit to issue a second handset under that fake moniker. Surprisingly, this one actually boasts a rather unique swivel design, a QWERTY keyboard and some decent specs. There’s even a mirror on the swivel-up back (we hear that women love mirrors ), along with a hole at the swivel hinge for working a lanyard through.
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Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXXII: Nokla strikes again with E81 rehash
This could be one of the last links in a completely paperless existence: depositing a paper check with your iPhone. Stepping up to do its part in the paperless revolution is the USAA bank , rolling out an iPhone app this week that lets you snap a pic of each side of a check and e-send it into the bank for deposit. After that, you can just tear up and toss that check if you’re as paper-averse as we are, or you might just want to scribble “void” on it and stow it away for your records.
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Depositing checks via iPhone: Last link in paperless revolution
Allen and Sheryl Hill of Mound, Minn., today announced the official settlement of their civil action for wrongful death of their 16-year-old son, Tyler Hill; invasion of privacy; and fraud against Ambassadors Group Inc., People to People International, docleaf Ltd. and other individuals.
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Wrongful Death Lawsuit for Tyler R. Hill Against Ambassadors Group, docleaf, et al., Officially Settled (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)