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23-Jul-08 CalConnect XIII Registration is now open:
Registration is now open for Roundtable XII and the associated CalConnect
Interoperability Test Event, October 6-10, 2008 in Sunnyvale, California,
hosted by Yahoo! Inc..
Please see CalConnect XIII...
Inspired by the launch of the Apple iPhone application store, I've spent the past few days studying and practicing at iPhone program development.
Somewhat oddly, I've been an Apple computer user since 2002 (not counting a few years with an Apple...
To conduct a successful job search, it's imperative to develop a
well-formed strategy aimed at getting the right message to the right
decision makers-before they have announced job openings. The career
services company Lee Hecht Harrison has helped...
One of the most comprehensive handbooks for the modern gold miner Fully illustrated, covers all facets of gold mining to include panning, sluicing, dry washing, electronic prospecting and much more. This book will teach you the art of basic gold placer...
While spending the memorable summer of 2003 in lovely Ithaca, New York as part of my first academic research experience at Cornell University, I was introduced to the works of the renowned American writer Kurt Vonnegut during a physics colloquium on carbon...
Just came back from Graz, Austria this Thursday. The 2008 Traffic Simulation Workshop went quite well, IMO. Some presentations are quite interesting (and I hope mine is among one of them). Moreover, I have also got a few good comments, which should...
It might seem hard to imagine Cedar Rapids, Iowa being a popular tourist destination for foreign visitors in the United States. But for Czech and Slovak people, it is.
Cedar Rapids is home to the only professional museum of Czech and Slovak history...
On Friday, June 27, the fourteen MISTI-Israel participants convened in Haifa for the first of only two times this summer. As far as I know, this weekend rendezvous was the brainchild of Mish. Part of the rationale behind the convention was to promote...
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My friend David just set up a new site, BulkTix.com, selling discount movie tickets and cheap movie passes that are good at major movie theater chains.I encourage you to check it out, and hopefully tell some friends! They carry passes for AMC, Cinemark,...
Agence France-Presse announced Friday the launch of a new service providing mobile phone users with access to its global news coverage and incorporating multimedia and messaging options.
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The latest version of the Firefox Web browser, launched Tuesday, was
downloaded more than 8 million times in the first 24 hours it was
available, according to its developers. Firefox is the No. 2 Web
browser behind Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer...
6/21 - 7/1: London, Paris and Frankfurt....
As we say in Course 6: Hello, World! I'm Mish Madsen, the other
MISTI reporter who will be covering Israel this summer, traveling around to get
the other interns' perspectives on their work and their time here. At MIT, I've
just finished...
20-Jun-08 Report on CalConnect XII: A brief report on
CalConnect XII, hosted by the University of
Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, Wisconsin, June 2-6, 2008, has been
posted to the website....
The proposed merger of the nation's two satellite radio broadcasters
-- bogged down in the regulatory process for over a year -- has cleared
a major hurdle: The Federal Communications Commission chief is
recommending approval of the $3.8 billion deal.FCC...
An enlightening discussion with a friend today on the issue of the spread of democracy in the world helped me to clarify some of my thoughts on the matter and to come to a few (as yet, not fully developed) conclusions. Of course, we had to begin with...
There is a fascinating Nature podcast interview this week with the noted Harvard (formerly of MIT) cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker on the origins of modern swear words. Pinker, celebrated author of the influential book The Language Instinct (on my...
My name is Elijah and I am one of two MISTI-Israel reporters this summer. Even though I have only finished my first year at MIT, I am already delving in to an experience abroad. Israel is new for me (and I'm not Jewish either), so this should be – and...
Click here for my summer blog!...
I just got a collection of the Boondocks (Seasons 1 & 2). So so good. My website is going OK. I don't have a screenshot to show right now. I'm trying to keep it all sorts of standards compliant (XHTML 1.0 Transitional/Strict, CSS2, WAI/Section 508...
Performance Software, headquartered in Phoenix, recently selected Pinellas
County to expand with a new branch of operations. The expansion will add 30
new jobs over three years, each paying 200% of the average annual wage in
unincorporated Pinellas...
Escalating the world's largest computer chip maker's legal woes, the
Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal probe into Intel Corp.'s
sales tactics.The move is a victory for its much smaller rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.Intel
disclosed Friday...
I removed this blog from my FB Note import thingy so people will actually have to come to this site or check their RSS feeds rather than seeing it on FB. I guess I want a smaller audience? No, I just want people who actually read this to come.
In other...
In order to return to MIT, I need to take 2-3 courses and get at least a "B" in each. It's not 100% that I can return in Fall 2008 on this basis, but seemed fairly likely, and the worst case is Spring 2009.I'm going to attend University of California...