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The Patriot Flag

The Patriot Flag.

Fling to the breeze the patriot flag
Its starry folds unfurl;
Though rebels flaunt their recreant rag,
And fierce defiance hurl,

If brothers must ’gainst brothers fight,
And brothers’ blood must flow,
God, as of yore, will guard the right,
And lay the traitor low!

The flag ’neath which our fathers fell—
’Neath which our braves have bled—
Shall, hallowed in our memory dwell,
Wave ever o’er our head—

As God has set His stars in heaven
Firm on their azure plain,
So shall the stars by Freedom given
Upon that flag remain!

Fling out the patriot flag on high,
In glory it shall wave;
Better a hero’s death to die
Than live a traitor-knave!

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May 2013 Workshops

Teaching with the Multimedia Project Studio (MPS)

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New Titles

New History and Politics Titles in the Library

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They can live in the desert but nowhere else : a history of the Armenian genocideDS195.5 .S79 2015
(T)errorDVD 1227
Afro-Latin America : Black Lives, 1600-2000F1419.N4 A64 2016
Are all the women still white? : rethinking race, expanding feminismsE185.86 .A74 2016
But what if were wrong? : thinking about the present as if it were the pastE169.12 .K5548 2016
Cambridge history of ChinaDS735 .C3145
Canto de bosawasDVD 1884
Captivity beyond prisons : criminalization experiences of Latina (im)migrantsJV6347 .E73 2016
Democracy for realists : why elections do not produce responsive governmentJK1726 .A34 2016
Gender, development, and globalization : economics as if all people matteredHQ1381 .B46 2016
Global Asian American popular culturesE184.A75 G55 2016
God, guns, grits, and gravyE169.12 .H75 2015
Let the people rule : Theodore Roosevelt and the birth of the presidential primaryE765 .C69 2016
Logic of compromise : authoritarianism, betrayal, and revolution in rural Mexico, 1935-1965JL1298.R4 M35 2016
Man enough? : Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the politics of presidential masculinityJK524 .K28 2016
New Arab wars : uprisings and anarchy in the Middle EastDS63.123 .L96 2016
Policing immigrants : local law enforcement on the front linesJV6483 .P77 2016
Political battle of the sexes : exploring the sources of gender gaps in policy preferencesJK1764 .C39 2016
Post-racial or most-racial? : race and politics in the Obama eraE184.A1 T465 2016
Rightful heritage : Franklin D. Roosevelt and the land of AmericaE807 .B76 2016
Rise of a prairie statesman : the life and times of George McGovernE840.8.M34 K58 2016
SPQR : a history of ancient RomeDG231 .B43 2015
Short history of U.S. interventions in Latin America and the CaribbeanF1418 .M37295 2016
Slaves cause : a history of abolitionE441 .S536 2016
What women want : an agenda for the womens movementHQ1155 .R46 2014


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If you stare at a screen all day you're going to go blind. Okay, well maybe that isn't set in stone but you've heard it before and likely experienced eye strain if you spend most of your day looking into a backlit display. ProtectYourVision is a simple (and somehow cute) webapp that helps you take regular screen breaks so you don't ruin your eyesight.

When you get to the site you'll be guided by a little cartoon robot named Evo (pictured above) who will help you set up your break plan. By default you can choose a 20-20-20 plan, which means you take a 20 second screen break where you look at something 20 feet away every 20 minutes, or a 60-5 plan, which means you take a five minute screen break every hour. You can also set a custom plan to take breaks when you want. When break time comes, ProtectYourVision will beep and ask you to take a break. When you choose to do so, it'll black out your screen until the break is over. (Of course, you can override the blackout if you need to.)

ProtectMyVision also offers multiple themes and can give you eye exercises to do during the breaks if you really want to make the best use of your eye fitness time.

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Firefox/Chrome: When government officials seized ownership of a number of domains last month, a lot of people suddenly found their favorite torrent tracker shut down. Many owners of the seized domains simply moved to new URLs. If you're looking for them, the MAFIAA Fire extension uses a crowd-sourced database of alternative domains to connect you.

The MAFIAA Fire extension, once installed, will take you around any seized domain to an alternative operated by the same owner, if one is available. The extension maintains the list of alternatives and IP addresses so you can type in the name you know and be routed around the seized domain until you get to the site you're looking for.

To the extension developer, this is a matter of privacy and censorship, but to law enforcement officials it's an anti-piracy campaign that they've said will continue for years. Have you tried MAFIAA Fire, or miss your old torrent tracker after it was shut down? Let us know your thoughts on the issue in the comments.

Update: The developer's web site, which hosts the Chrome version of the MAFIAA Fire Redirector, has had its hosting suspended this morning. We've linked to the Firefox add-on below, which is still up at

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You could spend a lot of time trying to prepare for every possible job interview question (and there are a ton), but most job interviews really boil down to just five things employers want to know about you.

The Undercover Recruiter says:

The reason you will always struggle to prepare answers to every single question you are asked in an interview is that the interviewer themselves didn't prepare them. They don't really care too much about all the answers you give either. What we do know is that an interviewer has one major objective to fulfill and that is to get the answers to the five basic questions. Based on the answers, he or she will then compare the answers to that of any other interviewer's and they will then rule you in or out.

The five questions are:

  • What brings you to this interview? (Why you're looking for a new job and why you're interested in this company)
  • What value will you add to our company? (How your skills will be directly applicable to the job)
  • Can you work well with the team?
  • What is special about you?
  • What's your salary and when you can start?

The interviewer might not phrase the questions as such (they'll probably phrase them like this), but when you're preparing for your interview, make sure you've got examples to cover all of these bases.

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Jan 6, 2013

Quote of the Day

[The Likud attack on Bayit Yehudi about attitude towards women is] pathetic. they are displaying too much fear. Even if they succeed in getting back a mandate or two, it will leave a lot of bad blood in the political system between the two parties that will need to work together....
They should look in England how they separate between boys and girls, and they should stop blaming our educational system for excluding women. It has already been proven that such separation gives girls the better opportunity to succeed. The problems with the dress code of women in Israeli society is much more troubling on the side of the secular in the Israeli society. I am very disturbed how secular girls are seen today, what messages it embeds in them and in their surroundings.

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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Spikey things

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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

more hallowed antiquity

And by hallowed antiquity I mean meetings.

Monday, January 21, 2008

Apollo pencil

More early work for this years Spectrum piece. As their website reads : "The End is Near."
Work due this Friday.

Friday, January 18, 2008

Illustration Friday: "Plain"

Olaf der Postman. This is just plain exciting for me. A friend of mine, Josh, is taking Olaf, a treasured creation of mine, into 3D. Olaf has some kind of significance for Illustration Friday, kind of, a painting of him was the first post to IF I did two years or so ago.

See here for Olaf's Great Escape and more about Olaf and his involvement in my first IF post and your post. As in the mail service.

Also, click above on "Josh" and see all his 3D work in progress on the Troll that brings you the mail.

Thanks to all, especially Olaf.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

new mole drawings

Yesterday morning beginning around 10AM and ending around 2PM we had a forever long company meeting.

As usual, I took meticulous notes. Here is a sampling:

Chimney sweep.

I lost my shoe.

Poor parents.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Apollo and Python

A detail of a piece I've been working on the past few nights. Yes, that's an arrow piercing its wicked head.

Behold, Python.

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

That last post exhausted me so it's been a little while, but it's time to get back to it.
Here is a piece I did a little before Christmas. A drawing and Photoshop.

It took me a few tries before I found a goat-creature that I liked. The ones before were all too scary looking. Or stupid. I don't think he looks too scary.


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It’s in your court: pedestrian laws

It’s In your court

Judge Steve Halsey
Wright County District Court

Spring is finally here, so we look forward once again to walking, running, jogging and biking. It seems in our state, however, there is far less compliance than in other states with traffic laws intended to protect pedestrians. From past experience, I conclude that in other states, either enforcement is stricter than in Minnesota, or motorists simply have more courtesy and respect for pedestrians than in our state. Since school ends shortly and children will be crossing our streets more frequently, I am going to provide a brief refresher on pedestrian laws:

Where traffic control signals are not in place or in operation, a driver must stop for a pedestrian crossing within a marked crosswalk or at an intersection with no marked crosswalk. A vehicle that is stopped at a crosswalk can proceed once the pedestrian has completely crossed the lane in front of the stopped vehicle.

When a vehicle is stopped at an intersection to allow pedestrians to cross the roadway, drivers of other vehicles approaching from the rear must not pass the other vehicle.

It is unlawful for the driver of a motor vehicle to proceed through a group of school children crossing a street or highway, or past a member of a school safety patrol or adult crossing guard who is directing children across the roadway and who is holding an official signal in the stop position.

Some of you may have stood at the curb in a marked crosswalk and received the universal sign of derision (middle finger) or honking and shouts of profanity from a driver. It is unfortunate that many drivers seem to think that their mission to get to their destination is so much more important than anyone else’s. Others are distracted by their cell phones. Likewise, jaywalkers and bikers who ignore traffic laws put themselves at risk and incur the consternation of drivers.

For all of us who share the road and sidewalks, we should consider and take to heart the messages that MnDOT and others have been broadcasting, which discourage aggressive driving, as well as texting while driving. In doing so, we can all contribute to safer highways and byways, thereby lessening the frequency of tragedy on Minnesota streets and roads. You can also avoid a traffic citation that will cost you a minimum of $110.

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MORE Free Christmas Fonts and Graphics

You guys know how much I LOVE cute, free fonts!! I’ve shared many sets over the past few years, and today I’ll be sharing MORE Free Christmas Fonts and Graphics (dingbats). I hope you love them as much as I do. I use them for SO many things and use them in printables, graphics – […]

FREE Back to School Fonts and Graphics

Have your kids all ready gone back to school? I know for some in Arizona, they have! My niece and nephew headed back this week. Craziness, I know! I’m so glad we still ave a good 4-5 weeks before Lily heads to First Grade, and Gav and Evie to preschool. Even though we still have […]

Free Easter and Spring Fonts

I’ve officially switched gears from St. Patrick’s Day to Easter. Yes, I’m done with all the green and mint treats and have been thinking of this great time of year when things start to get warm and thoughts of flowers and playing outside sounds more enjoyable. 😉 With that in mind, I’m sure you could […]

FREE Valentines Fonts and Graphics

If you’re a font addict like me, you’ve often found yourself on sites like or for hours at a time. Maybe you’re not as bad as me and think I’m just plain crazy. 😉 The fact is I need help for my font addiction. PROOF: When a computer or laptop breaks, most people’s […]

Favorite Free Christmas Fonts

Yesterday I shared some of my Favorite Free Ampersands. Today I’m sharing Favorite Free Christmas Fonts (Part 2). I shared some with you last year, but have found some more new and fun ones that are great to use for prints and graphics. The best part about these fonts and dingbats is that they make […]

Favorite Free Ampersands

You guys all know my obsession with FONTS. They are pretty and usually free, and that makes me happy. Well, today I wanted to share with you my Favorite Free Ampersands! I’m usually looking for fun ampersands to use in my prints and have to go through each font which takes forever!! I decided to […]

Favorite Free Halloween Graphics

Last week I shared with you my Favorite Free Halloween Fonts. This week I’m sharing with you my favorite free Halloween Graphics (aka dingbats). These dings are so awesome, and I’ve already used several in past and upcoming Halloween projects and prints. I have to admit that these dingbats have saved my life in my […]

Even MORE Free Frames and Graphics

You guys all know about my slight addiction to fonts. I realized it was pretty bad a few years back when I was driving in the car with my family and we passed a neighborhood and I recognized the font in the signage. I thought “That’s Bleeding Cowboys (a font).” I told the hubby and […]

Favorite St Patricks Day Fonts and Graphics

I know I’ve been sharing with you all my favorite fonts and dingbats (graphics), and today is no different. I figure several of you are probably making printables and other fun graphics with St. Patrick’s Day in mind so I wanted to share with you my favorite St Patrick’s Day Fonts and Graphics today to […]

Free Frames and Graphics

Eek! Today I am so excited to share with you guys something I just found yesterday. So, if you’ve been to my site before you know I have a slight addiction to fonts and dingbats. I LOVE finding great new fonts and dingbats that are free and super cute. Well, yesterday, I was able to […]

Favorite Valentines Fonts and Graphics

You guys all know my obsession with FONTS and DINGBATS… Well, I have another collection to share with you today, but this time they are FREE Valentines Fonts and Dingbats, and I think you’re going to LOVE them. I have scoured the web looking for my favorites and cannot wait to share them with you […]

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I live close to Brighton, within about 20 miles, and I lived there before, during, and for a little while after I attended university at Falmer. I think it’s one of the coolest cities out there, bohemian and packed with style. There is an undercurrent of seediness, but in all the years I lived there I never felt unsafe and it’s a great place to be a student, if you can afford it.

Today was special – a rare morning off and I was determined to make the most of it. You guessed – this involved photography and I find it impossible to leave a camera at home if I have an outing. I always carry something, I never want to miss recording a scene which makes me stop and stare, even if that scene might appear mundane to most. Photography is simply about how you see the world around you.

Today my outing involved a trip to Brighton’s Sea Life Centre, which was pretty amazing (you can see the shots HERE on our dedicated animal photography site) but on the way out I couldn’t resist capturing some shots from the sea front as we walked back to the car.

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  • Jo Blackwell - March 24, 2011 - 11:28 pm

    LOVE your point of view, Lindsay. Especially like the one of the pier.

  • admin - March 25, 2011 - 12:08 am

    Thank you Jo, I think the calm sea and mist helped.

  • Martin - March 26, 2011 - 9:23 pm

    Lindsay, your images just seem to get better and better, you have a wonderful eye, great work

  • Jayne Sacco - April 5, 2011 - 7:52 am

    I ditto that Martin

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Institution: University of Delaware
Program: Department of Linguistics
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2011

Author: Timothy A Mckinnon

Dissertation Title: The Morphophonology and Morphosyntax of Kerinci Word-Shape Alternations

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology

Subject Language(s): Kerinci (kvr)

Dissertation Director:
Peter Cole
Uri Tadmor
Jeffrey N. Heinz
Gabriella Hermon

Dissertation Abstract:

This dissertation examines the grammar of a dialect of Kerinci spoken
in the village of Tanjung Pauh Mudik. Kerinci is a Malayic language
spoken primarily in the Kerinci Regency, in the mountainous western
part of Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia.

In many Kerinci dialects, lexical items exhibit two distinct forms which
differ from one another in the phonological realization of their final
syllable rime. These two morphological forms developed historically
from a phrasal-level phonological alternation, and have been referred
to in the literature as the `absolute' (historically phrase-final) form and
`oblique' (historically phrase-medial) form (Steinhauer and Usman
(1978) inter alia).

The aim of this dissertation is to understand the grammatical factors
which determine the phonological shape and syntactic distribution of
absolute and oblique forms. From a phonological perspective, I
investigate whether the relationship between the phonological shape of
absolute and oblique forms is predictable. From a syntactic
perspective, I attempt to determine whether the properties of the
alternation within the nominal and verbal domain can be explained via
the same grammatical mechanism. In answering this question, I
consider whether the choice between absolute and oblique is purely
syntactic (i.e. structure dependent), or whether it involves a
combination of syntactic and phonological factors (e.g. linear word

In the verbal domain, I argue that the O-form is an incipient marker of
nominal agreement which functions to license null pronouns in certain
contexts. This proposal explains the observation that TPM appears to
permit extraction of non-subject arguments, a fact which runs contrary
to the robust typological generalization that languages with `Philippine-
type' voice systems do not permit extraction of non-subject arguments.

Within the nominal domain, there is evidence to suggest that the
alternation is conditioned by linear word order. Despite this, I argue
that the same underlying mechanism (nominal agreement) accounts for
the alternation within both domains. This unified analysis is possible on
the assumption that both nominal and verbal domains exhibit
Larsonian-type structures in which adjuncts are treated as
complements. Thus, I conclude that the alternation is determined by
purely syntactic factors in both nominal and verbal domains.

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, Volume 7, Issue 4, pp 365–374

Randomized rounding: A technique for provably good algorithms and algorithmic proofs

  • Prabhakar Raghavan
    • Computer Science Division
  • Clark D. Tompson
    • Computer Science Division

DOI: 10.1007/BF02579324

Cite this article as:
Raghavan, P. & Tompson, C.D. Combinatorica (1987) 7: 365. doi:10.1007/BF02579324

We study the relation between a class of 0–1 integer linear programs and their rational relaxations. We give a randomized algorithm for transforming an optimal solution of a relaxed problem into a provably good solution for the 0–1 problem. Our technique can be a of extended to provide bounds on the disparity between the rational and 0–1 optima for a given problem instance.

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Monday, October 25, 2010

Fedora 14 preview

You may have noticed that Fedora 14 makes its release next week. Curious to see what was going to be in the new version, and on a suggestion from pyxie, I grabbed a copy of the beta and installed it on my USB flash drive.

I have been booting into this, off and on, for a few days now. And it runs great! One thing I noticed right away (aside from the new desktop artwork, typical for a new release) is that Nouveau now supports my nVidia graphics card (GT218 / NVS 3100M). I get full features, too, including dual-monitor support. All without having to install the nVidia proprietary driver.

That alone is enough for me to upgrade to Fedora 14 next week.

But there are other new features, too. A quick list of some features that interest me:

Faster JPEG handling
These days, I have a huge collection of personal digital photos. I post some of them to share with friends and family, but I keep the original versions as a sort of digital portfolio. Flipping through the photo albums should be noticeably faster in Fedora 14, with the replacement of libjpeg with libjpeg-turbo. You should get about 25% increased performance when dealing with JPEG photos. And since many applications rely upon libjpeg, this should be a global improvement.

Remote desktops
In my role, I may not manage servers anymore. But whenever I see a new remote desktop tool, I have to see what's up. Remmina is a remote desktop client written for GNOME, aiming to be useful for system administrators and travelers, who need to work with lots of remote computers in front of either large monitors or tiny netbooks. Remmina supports multiple network protocols in an integrated and consistant user interface. Currently RDP, VNC, NX, XDMCP and SSH are supported.

Integration with GMail
I've commented previously that I no longer use a desktop email program, such as Thunderbird or Evolution. Both of those applications are great and all, but I've grown very fond of checking my email via a web browser, using GMail. All my email lives on the server, so if I go on vacation, or visit some remote office, I can just hop on a web browser to read my email. And it's all in once place. Now, GNOME can integrate with GMail using Gnome GMail. It allows GMail to be selected as the default mail application for the desktop. Unlike other solutions on the net, Gnome GMail supports "To:", "Subject:", "body", "CC:", and "BCC: fields

Support for Amazon's MP3 Music Store
I'll admit it, I have a Mac Mini at home. It's hooked up to our TV, and we use it to watch videos from the Internet. But mostly it's there to act as a gateway to my iPod, which I also own. And here's another secret: I haven't bought much from Apple's iTunes Store in the last year. I've kind of switched to Amazon's MP3 Music Store. By volume, the vast majority of the content on my iPod is MP3, purchased on CD and ripped, or purchased online through Amazon's Music Store. So I'm excited to see Clamz in Fedora 14, a little command-line program supporting Amazon's Music Store. It is intended to serve as a substitute for Amazon's official MP3 Downloader, which is not free software (and therefore is only available in binary form for a limited set of platforms.) Clamz can be used to download either individual songs or complete albums that you have purchased from Amazon.

Music player
Sure, Fedora has had music players for a while: Amarok, Audacity, etc. But I am interested in the new Clementine music player. It is a multi-platform music player. It is inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music. You can copy songs to your iPod, iPhone, MTP, or USB mass storage device. If it works as advertised, I wonder if I'll need that Mac Mini anymore as an iPod music manager appliance.

  1. iTunes (on Windows, at least) doesn't play well with an ipod managed under Linux. I can do almost everything I want to do with my iPod tOuch under Linux, but a couple times a year there is something I think I want that can only be done in iTunes. The first thing iTunes does is delete all the music that I put on the ipOd with Linux. I have only spent a brief time looking, but I haven't found a way to only sync parts of my iPod, or to only sync one way.

    This is on top of the update dance when you start a rarely-used install of Windows-update the antivirus, Windows updates, and either a reboot, or a nag window every few minutes telling you to reboot.

  2. I finally installed Linux so I could get timings, like I said I might. I decided to go with the KDE version of Fedora 14 (I don't like Gnome). I'll give the times I got for installation of Fedora 14, my time-to-boot for Windows 7 vs Fedora, and time to and from hibernate for each.

    (Sneak preview: the installation was pretty good but not without hitches, Fedora beats Windows's boot time by a hair under 2x, Windows beats Fedora's hibernate time by about slightly less than 3x.)

    Including problem-solving, installation was about 50 minutes installing from CD as I couldn't get the USB drive I made to boot. This broke down as follows:
    1. 5 minutes for the livecd to boot
    2. Just over 10 minutes for question answering
    3. 4 minutes actually installing
    4. 20 minutes updating
    5. Just over 10 minutes making Windows bootable again

    I have reactions for all of these steps.
    1. This took too long IMO. I understand the attraction of the LiveCD, but I'd prefer something in the boot menu to drop right to an installer, even if it's more basic. It's possible you could interrupt the boot sequence and do this, but it certainly didn't afford that.

    2. Most of this was trying to figure out the partitioner; to an extent this was because my hard drive setup is reasonably complicated, but I also don't think the installer was very well done in this regard. I left some unallocated space on the drive I wanted to install to. It was relatively easy to find the "install to unallocated space" option and to choose the drive, but I spent a fairly long time staring at the "this is what your hard drive layout will be" trying to make sure it was correct. It does not indicate what changes it will actually make vs. what will be unchanged. All-in-all it feels like it's two or three generations behind modern GParted for some reason.

    It's possible that the Gnome version of Fedora uses a different installer and is better.

    Finally, a couple minutes here are sort of unfair to count because they were spent basically opening up Konquerer and figuring out what the name of the computer would be. :-p

    3. This was SUPER fast. I'm impressed. I'd say it more than makes up for the length of step 1, but it kinda doesn't because of the attended/unattended thing.

    4. I think there was something going wrong here at the beginning, and I don't know what it was. I opened up KPackageKit and clicked "Check For Updates", and it popped up a progress bar windows that spent about two minutes sitting there saying "waiting for authentication." (The actual KPackageKit window said something like "waiting for service.") I actually wound up closing KPackageKit and restarting it to see if that would help, but no avail -- in fact, it kind of made it worse because the initial windows didn't close when I killed the program. Shortly after I restarted it they finally completed, but by that time I had to restart the "check for updates" and wait another couple minutes.

    The updates required a reboot and I opened KPackageKit after that was done to make sure they didn't pull an MS and give you more, and the update check went fast the second time, so my problems there were probably just the first time it was run or the first boot of the system or something like that.

    5. Fedora guessed my Windows drive wrong so put the wrong partition in the Grub configuration. In contrast to the obnoxious-but-expected case of a Windows installation wiping out Grub, this took a while to figure out what was going wrong because the it was unexpceted and the symptoms didn't really point at that problem.

    So all-in all, it was faster than even the Windows installations I've done once you include updates (which is, of course, only fair), but I didn't like its partitioner at all, I hit a problem with their updater, and I hit a problem with Grub's config.

  3. Oh, and I forgot my other complaint about the Fedora partitioner. Despite the fact that -- with allowance and gift money -- I bought a 40 GB drive over a decade ago and people are buying drives in TB today, it still displays hard drive sizes in MB for some stupid reason. When messing around with partitioners I always like to make absolutely sure that I know what is going on, that I understand the partitioner, and what the situation the partitioner sees agrees with what I know and what to do. And the basic sanity check of this is to make sure that the sizes of partitions match what I expect. I can't be the only one who tends to have trouble figuring out what order of magnitude a number like 199347 is.

    Anyway, rant off.

    Boot times:

    I measured time from me pressing enter at the Grub prompt to the time at which I can type my password/choose a user, then the time from hitting enter there until Firefox loaded and I navigated to CNN's homepage. On the Windows side, I did a little prep: I told Steam to not start on boot, and I moved all the stuff on my desktop to somewhere else. (I have a bad tendency to keep oodles of crap on my desktop, and there's a chance it would slow down boot as it reads all those files to determine what to use as an icon.)

    Times are slightly approximate and just from one run; I didn't do any fancy averaging or anything.

    - 38 seconds to login screen
    - 1:23 from login to CNN
    - Total: 2:00 on the dot

    - 27 seconds to login screen
    - 41 seconds from login to CNN
    - Total: 1:08

    Bottom line: Fedora booted in 57% the time of Windows.

    (My times, particularly for Fedora, are slightly longer than JH's; I suspect a lot of that is a KDE vs Gnome thing. If I were to actually use Linux on my home box (unlikely) I'd switch to a completely different window manager that would likely have almost no startup cost. That'd put the Linux time at about 30 seconds, which would be 1/4 the cost of Windows.)

  4. [Last post, then I'm done. :-)]

    I started with the system in the same state as the end of the previous test (Firefox open with CNN loaded), put the system to sleep, then work it back up. For my uses, these are actually much more important than how long it takes to do a cold boot or shut down (the latter I didn't measure). My desktop gets restarted very rarely (time-from-sleep is what's important there and in my experience is very fast on both; I didn't measure that either), and I almost always hibernate rather than shut down my laptop.

    In some sense these numbers will be a bit skewed, because while the motivation for why I find them important is because of my laptop use, I measured them on my desktop. My desktop HDD is far faster than my laptops. I'm not sure what a slower drive would do to the balance. (And just for the record, I have 6 GB of RAM.)

    We'll start with the less interesting number, time-to-hibernate. For this I measured from when I clicked the mouse on the appropriate button until when I heard the computer turn off.
    - Windows: 17 or 18 seconds
    - Fedora: 36 seconds

    The more interesting number is time-from-hibernate. For this, I woke the machine back up then navigated to Slashdot. For Windows I measured from the Grub menu. Fedora does an obnoxious thing and apparently instructs Grub to not present its menu if it went into hibernate, instead booting straight into Fedora. Because of this, I measured from a place slightly earlier in the boot process; I guessed this added 2 seconds so subtracted 2 seconds to get the time below.

    (I kind of see why they do this, but it doesn't fit my use of my laptop at all. During periods of time when I'm using Linux, hibernating Windows and resuming Linux and vice versa was the norm. (My laptop has Kubuntu, which doesn't do this obnoxious thing.) In fact, I spent a fair bit of time in vein trying to get Windows to not do the same obnoxious thing between Win 7 and XP.)

    Time-from-hibernate to Slashdot:
    - Windows: 35 sec
    - Fedora: 1:48, but guess 1:35

    (The guess on Fedora's count was because it took a long time from when Firefox seemed responsive to when the page load; I guess this was DNS delays because I didn't set up Fedora to use Google's DNS. This had a much smaller effect with the CNN number above; only a second or two.)

    Bottom line: Linux did far better than Windows in the boot times, but Windows trounces Linux in the hibernate times; Windows's time-to-hibernate was about 48% of Linux's time, and its time-from-hibernate was 37% of Linux's.

  5. Oh no, I lied: I forgot to say that hibernate doesn't even work completely correctly for me on Fedora.

    The first time I resumed I got a message that the kernel package had two errors. I tried again, but neither the hibernate nor shutdown choices in the menu worked. (They brought up the "would you like to do this" dialog, but after clicking yes did nothing more.)

    I restarted and tried again; the same thing happened, except there was no messages about the kernel problem the second time. (In both cases I used 'halt' to actually shut the machine off.)

  6. Interesting timings, evaned. Thanks.

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Ten Top Tips to Cultivate Great Lists

Make it Useful

Ten Top Tips to Cultivate Great Lists | Make it Useful

It sounds obvious, but it still needs saying. Your list needs to bring people value. Give value, in return for their attention. A great list needs to be useful to the reader.

Great lists also often represent a spread of opinion. They are very rarely solely about you and become more interesting the less they focus on you.

Great lists solve problems and are worth coming back to. So think about utility before you create each list.

Great lists also often represent a spread of opinion. They are very rarely solely about you and probably they become more interesting the less they focus on you.

Great lists solve problems. Great lists are worth coming back to. So think about utility before you create each list.

Not About You

Ten Top Tips to Cultivate Great Lists | Not About You

This is hard for many people to grasp, but don't make your lists about you. Great lists solve problems for the people who you serve.
Don't think about what you do, think about what people do with what you do.
How can you make that process simpler? How can you add value? How can you share your experience and learning?

Make it Spreadable

Ten Top Tips to Cultivate Great Lists | Make it Spreadable

Ask yourself, will someone else want to embed my list on their blog? Sharing is great, but embedding has a much longer term impact on findability.

Not all lists need to be embed-worthy, but if you want your list to spread and generate brand/cause awareness for you, you need to make sure other people want to play a role and can see the utility in embedding your list in their blog. They need to feel their community will benefit.

Leave them room. Give them credit. Let them help.

When people do embed a list it's usually because they can add their own perspective on the content of the list. They are also more likely to want to embed the list if they are included on the list. They obviously think the list is valuable and worth sharing, but being able to add their own opinion in their blog post is essential.

Make lists that are worth commenting on. Create a list that takes a stance or that expresses an opinion. Polarizing your audience is valuable.

People who connect emotionally to your ideas will want to help, share and spread your lists by embedding them.

Choose Evergreen & Ever Changing Topics

Ten Top Tips to Cultivate Great Lists | Choose Evergreen & Ever Changing Topics

A great list will always be current and relevant, but also always be changing. Those changes don't need to be happening daily, just as needed. Some lists are directories of links, some lists contain tips and advice, just like this one.

Great lists are worth bookmarking, worth following, worth coming back to.

When people contribute they connect emotionally to the list and that makes them want to come back to see what's new. Letting a list stagnate is a sure way of losing future participation.

A great list pops into your head when you discover some new gem and you think to yourself, I should add that to that great list.

Good lists become great lists if they evolve over time.

Fun & Emotional

Ten Top Tips to Cultivate Great Lists | Fun & Emotional

Sometimes we just forget that a good list is just fun. Can you make people smile? We all need moments of joy, we all need moments to reflect. Lists are a great way to deliver this experience.

Skimable content lets people find the fun they need.

Sometimes you just need to collect a list of fun quotes, cat photos, silly videos or some emotionally uplifting Ted talks.

Great lists connect with your audience, so how can you find the humour and the emotional angle.
Sometimes you just should run a caption contest. Let other people bring the humour.

Sometimes you just need to leave people room to express their thoughts and feelings.

Great lists should also contain surprises. Don't just include all the obvious ideas. Be willing to package some surprise content in your list. Surprise is utility.

Ten Top Tips to Cultivate Great Lists | Embedded

There are many reasons why embedding enhances your list.

First is demonstrates that lists can be embedded, so if you embed your lists, others may do so too.

Embedding your list in your blog also gives you the chance to provide context and set expectations. You can always do that better in a blog post. Embedding a list puts the content in front or your blog audience, which will be a different audience than the people who discover your list via Listly.

Embedding your list also means your list gets seen more. Embedded lists get featured on Listly's home page every time your list is viewed, so if it's well named you can get more list views.

Leave Gaps

Ten Top Tips to Cultivate Great Lists | Leave Gaps

This is the hardest trick to master. As a writer you want to complete your list and be useful. At the same time you want to ask for help. Those two goals conflict.

If you complete your list, you leave people no room to contribute. If you ask for suggestions to a rich and complete list, the number of people who know your topic well and who can contribute is dramatically reduced.

Leave off some obvious stuff, purely to entice and tease out participation.

So leave gaps. Those gaps will get filled over time, but by that point you have a list with multiple contributors and people feel more willing to participate when they see content that has been sourced from many people.

Social proof is a powerful tool. When you begin a list with no social proof and no contributors, the best tip is to leave gaps.

Encourage Social Participation

Ten Top Tips to Cultivate Great Lists | Encourage Social Participation

To make a great list you really need multiple people to participate. You can make a list by yourself, but in the age of participation, if you involve other people, then more people will want to get involved.

Don't make a list then expect people to participate. Involve people in the making of the list. This list is not a good example of that, but that's because this list is about sharing my accumulated learning.

Getting the first 5-10 people to participate is the hardest. Often you have to reach out and ask in person, but once a list is clearly sourced from multiple people, then more people become willing to follow, vote and contribute.

The people who follow and who help curate a list are also a big part of the value of a list.

Communities form around shared interests. Only people who love the list topic will find it interesting. People share what they care about, and in so doing, tip search engines as to its significance. Sharing makes stuff more findable, so you want to make a list that is worth sharing.

Set Expectations

Ten Top Tips to Cultivate Great Lists | Set Expectations

Great lists tell people what to expect. Great lists lay down expectation of that you want from your audience.

Do you want votes, comments or contributions. Often it's wisest to focus on one.

You can be clear on your list, but you can also be specific in your blog post and give people the rules of engagement. Don't be afraid to be specific. People like simple specific asks. Then people can ask them a simple question - can I help. Not everyone will and you shouldn't want everyone.

You need to focus on the early adopter. Focus on the first people to contribute. IF they join its much more likely others will follow. Keep it simple. Be obvious.

If you want people do embed your list ask and give them instructions. Don't assume people know what Listly is. Don't assume people know that they can contribute.

Be Welcoming / Be Findable

Ten Top Tips to Cultivate Great Lists | Be Welcoming / Be Findable

The name of your list matters. The name of your blog post matters. Make sure your including all the information that will help people find your list.

A headline image is a great way to make your list welcoming, it also helps your get found via image searches.

Lists with great headline images stand out. Keep them simple, visual and welcoming. Ask yourself would I embed this list, make sure your headline image is not off-putting. Make sure it looks professional.

Headline images and cover pages are simply the norm today. Setting a visual stage is important with setting initial expectations.


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[Towertalk] dead grass

To: <>
Subject: [Towertalk] dead grass
From: (David Robbins)
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 17:42:06 -0000
Is there something that leaches off older towers that kills grass?  I
don't remember it happening the first 10 years or so, but now on my
older towers I have been noticing that the grass is being killed off on
the downhill side.  These are all rohn 25/45/55 type towers.  Is there
something to stop it??

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Re: Non-standard MIDI instruments

From: Keith OHara
Subject: Re: Non-standard MIDI instruments
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:17:23 +0000 (UTC)
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Hilary Snaden <hils <at>> writes:

> I've tried adding lines like this
> ("ahh choir" . ,(- 53 1))
> to midi.scm

That works for me.
I can only suspect that you might have multiple installations, and edited the
.scm file of a different installation than you used to compile the .ly

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text: From: Jim Starkey Date: February 16 2009 9:46pm Subject: Re: Patch for bug#42208 List-Archive: Message-Id: <> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Vladislav Vaintroub wrote: > Hi Lars-Erik, > I wonder if adding 0x00 to the (binary) string values that already start > with 0x00 would not be less works that modifying index walker etc. This > looks like huge amount of work you have done (good) but I wonder if there is > a good reason for it. Assuming (binary) strings that start with 0x00 are > really seldom, prepending 0x00 to a key after a check is not going to be an > expensive operation. And that makes NULL *really* different from other index > values. And that allows maybe in some distant future index-only access, so > you can answer "is null/is not null" without extra accessing the record and > this is a real performance advantage. > > Why do you want to do that? Is the following sufficient: 1. A null is represented as either a zero length key or a missing segment in a multi-segment key. This collates lowest. 2. A zero length binary key is represented by a single byte of zero. 3. A binary key with a single zero byte is indistinquishable from a zero length (but non-null) key 4. A binary key with a leading zero byte and a subsequent non-zero byte will collate about #2 and #3. I don't think we really care about the ordering of a non-null, zero length key and and all zero binary key. I don't think anyone else should, either. -- Jim Starkey President, NimbusDB, Inc. 978 526-1376


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[mythtv-users] Speed optimizing for Remote frontend?

Mailing Lists mlists at dressler.ca
Tue Sep 4 15:22:28 UTC 2007

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:49:09 -0400
  "John Drescher" <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/4/07, Mailing Lists <mlists at dressler.ca> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I have a great system running at home on a fast
>>  I also have a second 'home' in another city where I
>> commute for work.  I have established a vpn between both
>> places and I can see the myth backend, web etc.  I would
>> like to be able to watch live or delayed live tv over
>> link but its rather jumpy.  The links are both on 8mb
>> cable modems with 'some' delay but its fairly stable.
> This is the download speed. It would be great if you had
>8mb/8mb but I
> bet that is not your connection speed. What do you have
>as an upload
> speed?
> John

You are correct -- I have 768 upload.

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Could you please clarify your opinion on BT audio issues on GTA01

Paul Fertser fercerpav at
Wed Mar 11 08:36:35 CET 2009

In the message[1] you say that "bluetooth audio on the gta01 will
never work, even with that bluetooth alsa state".

Could you please explain what exactly did you mean and what is the
actual problem? Were you talking about A2DP or SCO? If SCO, was it SCO
over PCM or HCI? If A2DP, what is the difference between gta01 and
gta02 in this regard, should it work correctly on gta02 in your

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[psas-software] Re: [PSAS Avionics] More flight computer thoughts

Hugo Vincent hugo.vincent at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 14:16:37 PDT 2005

On 12/10/2005, at 10:43 PM, Andrew Greenberg wrote:
>> OTOH, some of the MTD documentation states that SmartMedia cards are
>> just NAND flash, and may be accessible.

> SmartMedia uses a SPI interface. Blech. Possible, but at only 5 Mbps, that's way slow.

No, SmartMedia and xD cards are raw NAND flash (i.e. the same signals as bare NAND chips). Its reasonably fast (for us it was *very* fast because we had a FPGA-based controller).

MMC (and to an extent, SD) use a (fast) SPI connection.

We have used xD on a few projects at my work (http://www.bluewatersys.com), where we needed very specific control over things like wear leveling (which you can't get access to with MMD, Compact Flash etc.), with good success.

Hugo Vincent.

P.S. I have been lurking on these lists for a while and this is my first post.
Congratulations on your recent launch!

Check out the project I have been working on:
(served from a home computer, so its slow, and often down - if so, try again later)

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[racket-dev] Why is there no `stream' macro which functions analogously to the `list' macro?

From: Daniel King (danking at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 5 16:23:09 EST 2011

I initiated a pull request [1] to add a `stream' macro which produces
streams in much the same way the `list' macro does; however, after
speaking with Vincent and Stevie, I'm not sure this is the right

I understand that `list' can be used to construct things which can be
used as streams, but I think it's confusing for the user to require
racket/stream and not receive a `stream' macro which functions like

[1] https://github.com/plt/racket/pull/62

Dan King
College of Computer and Information Science
Northeastern University

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[plt-scheme] shadowing initial imports (

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 19 09:46:53 EDT 2008

Version implements Jos's suggestion:

This change means, for example, that you can write

  #lang scheme
  (require srfi/1)

in which case the body of the module uses `map', `third', and several
other names from `srfi/1' instead of from `scheme'.

This shadowing rule applies only to the initial import (a.k.a.
"language" of the module). For example,

  #lang scheme
  (require scheme srfi/1)

still reports a syntax error, since `scheme' is (also) `require'd in
the module body, and `scheme' and `srfi/1' provide many of the same
names with different bindings.

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From: Greg Hendershott (greghendershott at gmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 9 18:12:39 EDT 2012

P.S. With my "wffi" markdown thing, and also today experimenting with
the Google API discovery format, I've been circling around a basic
question. I'm curious what other people think.

With both wffi and G-API, it's (fairly) easy enough to have some
Racket code cough up a collection of lambdas wrappers corresponding to
to web service functions.

Great. But: What to do with these? In what form to present them for
normal use by real people?

1. So far I've been using the approach of generating these wrapper
functions on the fly.  As a result, the IDL-ish file (markdown, or,
Google JSON) gets parsed *at runtime*. It's not a huge cost, but it's
_a_ cost. Plus it's a runtime file dependency. Bug or feature?

I've spent some brain cells pondering whether a macro should do a
(begin (define ...)), so that an API could be entirely mechanically
generated at runtime. But I'm at the edge of my macro comfort level.
Even to the point where I'm not even confident that a compile-time
macro should do this (??).

2. Part of me is starting to suspect seduction by the sirens of
runtime dynamism and macros. Instead, maybe real users want a library
that works, don't care how, but do want good docs and checks. Instead
of a runtime/macro proposition, a tool could emit a literal .rkt file,
plus maybe some head-start markdown and/or Scribble docs. To which a
package developer would apply some spit and polish, and push to PLaneT
and/or GitHub.

Re this second approach, note that the Google JSON API format appears
to have enough info to generate contracts for untyped Racket, as well
as Typed Racket interfaces.

I'm not sure if I'm explaining the choice clearly, but, any feelings
or suggestions about this?

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Greg Hendershott
<greghendershott at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is really neat! One thing I wonder is if there's a way to have
>> tighter integration with the module system.  Say, a #lang-based
>> Markdown-API language.
> Thanks for the idea. That had flitted through my mind and it may even
> be in the TODO file. It would be a great way for me to learn about
> making a #lang.
> I also noticed that the wiki for Sunday's HacketThon has an item about
> the Google API Discovery service and JSON format. I didn't know about
> that. There's a lot of overlap. Now I wonder if I should split this
> into two parts:
> 1. A web service "FFI" that uses Google's JSON format (i.e. the
> Hackathon project).
> 2. A markdown -> API JSON format tool, to make quick work of other web services.

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Re: ORG and reuse of vCard Ontology

From: Renato Iannella <ri@semanticidentity.com>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 12:50:40 +1000
Message-Id: <44B123A6-383A-43B9-81B8-6E537A0081F0@semanticidentity.com>
To: Dave Reynolds <dave.e.reynolds@gmail.com>, "public-gld-wg@w3.org" <public-gld-wg@w3.org>
Dave, et al....

As I am not a member of the GLD-WG, then I can only provide my views for this WG to make decisions...I would also hope technical/semantic architectural  issues take precedence over "deadlines".

First, I was going to make comments by the LC Date, but due to our own semantic issues with the new vCard WD, we missed your dates.

Second, I was a little mislead (my mistake) with the vcard:VCard box in the diagram in Section 1.0, and VCARD appearing in the Normative References in the C.1. I assume the latter should be moved to C.2 (and [FOAF] should be moved from C.2 to C.1 as it is actually Normative?). And perhaps the vcard:VCard box in the diagram should be empty.

Third, and here comes my stronger view, reuse of ontologies is very rare, as it is "so easy" to create your own semantics. I would like to see W3C reuse more, and I note your Charter does the right thing:

"The group will have to determine whether it is better to reuse existing widely-deployed terms such as foaf:name and dc:temporal, in their existing name space, or mint new URIs in a w3.org name space. Even if the group decides to mint new URIs, it should link them to equivalent concepts (using, for example, owl:equivalentProperty links) unless there are strong reasons not to."

Will you be adding equivalent properties?

Fourth (semantic comment), I note that foaf:Agent is specifically used for "persons" in your ontology - I assume you are aware that the semantics of foaf:Agent is much broader; "An agent (eg. person, group, software or physical artifact)".

Fifth (and here comes the vCard plug to consider), the updated vCard now provides much more cleaner semantics when it comes to people, orgs, locations, and groups. So, for example, v:Individual would be a good candidate for a "person", and v:Organization = org:Organisation, and v:Location for org:Site.

Renato Iannella
Semantic Identity
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Re: HTML Action Item 54 - ...draft text for HTML 5 spec to require producers/authors to include @alt on img elements.

From: Ben Boyle <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 11:28:29 +1000
Message-ID: <5f37426b0805111828l52c9f098jb0984b38c39a7eb0@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
Cc: "Justin James" <j_james@mindspring.com>, public-html@w3.org

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
>
Pepper is ampersand low-gravity hair bumper.

> ...is not accessible at all, to anyone.

I'd contend it's highly accessible (plain text in a div), but nobody
will comprehend the meaning behind it. This probably seems a useless
distinction, but if the above were authored as an image without alt
text then it would not be 'accessible' to all.

I know WAI - for good reasons - has a very broad definition of
'accessibility' that includes the 'understand' angle [1]. I just think
that degree of 'accessibility' is largely beyond the scope of HTML,
and in this WG we should focus on ensuring that HTML itself, and the
content it marks up, are accessible (as in "available" to user agents
and assistive technology). Which I think we are doing ...

[1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility.php
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Neurocomputing Special Issue on Subspace Learning(B

From: Dacheng Tao(B <dacheng.tao@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:16:10 +0800
Message-ID: <d71c7ca10904202316p5147de5fv1d8af7ca3a68e319@mail.gmail.com>
To: dacheng.tao@gmail.com (B
Neurocomputing Special Issue on Subspace Learning

Subspace learning, a typical neurocomputing technique, sheds light on
various tasks from computer vision to data mining. A subspace learning
algorithm projects the original high dimensional feature space to a low
dimensional subspace, wherein specific statistical properties can be well
preserved. For example, Fisher$B!G(Bs linear discriminant analysis preserves the
classification structure in the low dimensional projected subspace by
assuming samples are drawn from homoscedastic unimodal Gaussians.

The past years witnessed very significant contributions of subspace learning
for various applications, e.g., face identification and authentication,
human gait analysis, video tracking, document classification, scene
understanding, object categorization, and multimedia information retrieval.
Subspace learning has been furthered from relevant research fields, e.g.,
nonparametric Bayesian analysis, manifold learning, spectral analysis,
kernel machine, tensor machine, and incremental learning. As a consequence,
subspace learning is a never$B!>(Bending resilience field and attracts growing
efforts from different fields.

Elsevier Neurocomputing hunts for original research results for a Special
Issue on Subspace Learning. The goals of this special issue are twofold: 1)
developing subspace learning algorithms to target specific applications and
2) defining applications, which can be cleared up by subspace learning

Manuscripts are solicited to address a wide range of topics in subspace
learning, but not limit to the following:
- Extensions of Fisher$B!G(Bs linear discriminant analysis and other traditional
subspace learning algorithms, e.g., principal component analysis.
- Spectral analysis
- Probabilistic graphical models
- Manifold learning
- Kernel machines and tensor machines
- Supervised, semi$B!>(Bsupervised and unsupervised subspace analysis
- Sparse analysis
- Subspace learning for biometrics, e.g., face.
- Subspace learning for multimedia information retrieval, e.g., relevance
feedback and active sample selection.
- Subspace learning for video surveillance, e.g., video tracking, motion
analysis and background modeling.

Manuscripts (6$B!>(B15 pages in the Neurocomputing publishing format) should be
submitted via the Electronic Editorial System, Elsevier:

Important: when submitting your manuscript, at the step of $B!H(BSelecting an
Article Type is Required for Submission$B!I(B, please indicate: $B!H(BSpecial Issue:
Subspace Learning$B!I(B

Important Dates
Manuscript submission: 10 May 2009
Preliminary results: 10 July 2009
Revised version: 10 August 2009
Notification: 10 October 2009
Final manuscripts due: 10 November 2009
Anticipated publication: Spring 2010

Guest editors:
Xuelong Li
Birkbeck College, University of London

Dacheng Tao
Nanyang Technological University
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Re: numbering

From: Frederick Hirsch <frederick.hirsch@nokia.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:59:46 -0500
Cc: Frederick Hirsch <frederick.hirsch@nokia.com>, WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-Id: <D5A7A9B1-2663-468B-84D9-74F24CF9ED46@nokia.com>
To: "timeless@gmail.com" <timeless@gmail.com>

This does not seem quite right since it requires 10 or more signatures?

e.g. disallows signature01.xml, signature02.xml etc
and requires signature10.xml etc

I propose the following alternative in section 5.3

Naming convention for a distributor signature:"signature" [0-9]* ".xml"

Every distributor signature MUST have the same number of digits in the
file name and use leading zeros for numbers less than the maximum
numeric value. This is to enable consistent sorting.

To give an example, if nine distributor signatures are expected the
numbers should range from 01 to 09, e.g. signature01.xml to

Does this make sense?

regards, Frederick

Frederick Hirsch

On Mar 5, 2009, at 9:15 AM, ext timeless wrote:

> http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-digsig/#locating-signatures
> 4.3
>> If the signatures list is not empty, sort the list of signatures by
>> the file name field in descending order (e.g. signature001.xml
>> followed by signature9.xml followed by signature.xml).
> How do you sort signature009.xml and signature9.xml?
> The proposal is to only allow [1-9][0-9]*, which should solve this.
> And validators should complain about archives containing files of the
> form "signature" [0][0-9]* ".xml"
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Re: URIs in HTML5 and issues arising

From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:21:26 -0700
Message-ID: <517bf110806301221p4f6f4797qdac14597c9b732f9@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi>
Cc: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, uri@w3.org, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>

> On Jun 30, 2008, at 18:16, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> I personally dislike the idea of intermediates recoding, but that doesn't
>> mean it doesn't happen...

I have heard anecdotes of some Japanese portals transcoding various
things to Shift-JIS, but only at about third hand, and I've never
actually encountered this.  -Tim
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Cross-references in guidelines

From: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:28:48 +1100 (EST)
To: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10001271218250.12962-100000@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
In last week's teleconference, I undertook to elaborate my concern
regarding cross-references in the WCAG document. Although the editors
have, with admirable thoroughness, included cross-references (usually in
notes attached to specific checkpoints) in the text, some have not been
made as explicit as might be desirable. A case in point is the
relationship between checkpoints 3.3 and 5.3: the latter qualifies the
effect of the former, but only in so far and until such time as user agent
support for style sheets is fragmentary and inconsistent among

There may well be other internal dependencies in the document which were
recognised when the checkpoints were drafted, but did not find their way
into the explicit cross-references. Thus I would propose:

1. a careful review of the document, perhaps by the editors, for
dependencies among the various checkpoints, together a classification of
these dependencies (some cross-references are simply informative, in that
they indicate the mutual relevance of different checkpoints; others
however are normative, in the sense that one checkpoint qualifies the
effect of another).

2. the establishment of consistent language in which to express
cross-references so that the reader is always aware of their purpose, and
of their effect upon the application of the checkpoint currently under

The results of this analysis would then be incorporated into a revised
version of the document.

This may not be an immediate priority, as the working group is chartered
to concentrate on techniques, rather than the guidelines, in the first
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Re: alt to text

From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@erols.com>
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 17:48:52 -0400
Message-Id: <>
To: Adam Victor Reed <areed2@calstatela.edu>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org

    Your explanation of three ways to style an alt tag is very good, and
better than I've gotten elsewhere. But, a while back it was decided that
because there was no good way to put alt text to a graphic that contained
text so that it could be used by low vision folks, and because SVG exists,
using pixel images to display text was an improper use of graphics. So, I
wonder if we should be considering these types of graphics as more frequent
than real graphics and illustrations.

When I read in the guidelines that the text equivalent (alt tag) is to be
used to describe the function of a graphic, I'm inclined to use such alt
tags as "Picture of George Washington" or "illustration of a ideal web
page", etc. But doing so raised a fuss that the page was incomprehensible
to non-visual users. On my page the kids use, I used alt tags such as "Cat
in the Hat", "World Map", "Happy Star of David", etc. I was told that page
is "inaccessible" ... Perhaps my problem is trying to listen to too many
diverse view points and take them all seriously, but I am getting more
instead of less confused about what should be put in alt tags. If I am
confused, and I've been in this accessibility game for a long time, what do
you think is happening with well-intentioned folks who are trying to
understand and are outside this group, or new to the subject?

Judging from the comments made today about the alt tags on the icons, I
suspect I am not the only member of this group who is confused by what is
wanted and needed.

I'm almost at the point of playing J. Nielson, and dismiss all alt tags by
saying I don't do them well anyway, so it's best to omit them .... (as
Nielson does about graphics on his pages). <grin>

At 10:22 AM 5/2/01 -0700, Adam Victor Reed wrote:
>On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 07:00:33AM -0400, Anne Pemberton wrote:
>> Adam,
>>     I haven't looked at something in lynx for a long time, but I thought I
>> remembered that lynx put the alt tag in brackets < > .... If this is no
>> longer (or never was) the case, then it would be more sensible to change
>> the browsers so that punctuation is added to set off the image text when it
>> is presented visually. That way it will always be there whether the page
>> author has heard of accessibility or not.
>> 			Anne
>Actually, punctuation of alt text is often NOT a good idea, which
>why browsers (lynx etc) ought not to do it. Frequently the IMG is just
>a picture of text (showing the text in a fancy font or faux freehand),
>in which case alt text that is NOT set off from other text is easier
>to understand. Sometimes the IMG is just a fancy capital at the start
>of a word, the rest of which is presented as text, so having the
>browser put all ALTs "in brackets < >" would definitely interfere with
>screen readers.
>Alt text should always be the contextually appropriate text
>replacement for the IMG. If the IMG shows text, the replacement should
>be nothing other than the text in the IMG. If the IMG serves to
>explain or elaborate the regular text, then the ALT should be
>parenthesiszed, just like text that serves the same function. And if
>it is something distinct, like an icon or button, then it should be
>set apart in brackets.
>				Adam Reed
>				areed2@calstatela.edu
>Context matters. Seldom does *anything* have only one cause.
Anne Pemberton

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RE: Commercial Realities and Accessibility (was: Are Small Text butto ns level 2 compliant)

From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 12:34:41 -0700
Message-Id: <>
To: "Ben Morris" <bmorris@activematter.com>, "Dave J Woolley" <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>, "'WAI'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 02:26 PM 9/26/00 -0400, Ben Morris wrote:
>So with one set of content, you can have versions of the site for slow
>modems, screen readers, large print, or printer-friendly pages.

I don't mean this sarcastically but "Duh!" This has been what Universal
Design advocates have been trying to get across for a very long time. The
idea that "retrofitting's a bitch" and its corollary "programmers are
cheaper than lawyers" are beginning to take hold and I hope your firm has
the good sense to in fact charge extra if accessibility concerns are not
addressed as a defense against future complicity negligence lawsuits. There
is a legal theory that if you know you're likely to be advising (or
agreeing to) breaking the law, you are liable for whatever occurs. Since
most everybody in this trade can be shown to either know about these issues
or should know, this could become a big factor.

At next week's "Device Independent Authoring Workshop" in Bristol we will
be studying these issues in (I hope) great depth. We don't need a bunch of
"separate but equal" Webs or Web pages. I hope we can reach agreement on
the basic principles to achieve device independence - starting with the
idea that a human user is a "device" in the sense we are speaking of.

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Re: Font sizing; titles on <area>

From: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 18:23:39 -0000
Message-ID: <000a01c163cb$7e876d40$33907bd5@btopenworld.com>
To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Not sure but believe issue seems to relate to links which have a URI and a
title NATO does not have a link, so the title is displayed, in my example
the link had a URI as well and thus only this is displayed with l.

jonathan chetwynd
IT teacher (LDD)
http://www.peepo.com         "The first and still the best picture directory
on the web"
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text:
Re: Deaf Community - Great Web Sites

From: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 08:54:39 -0000
Message-ID: <00ac01c1c67e$e205e2a0$046227d9@btopenworld.com>
To: <goliver@accease.com>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
one suggestion I've received is
 The Federation of Deaf People

jonathan chetwynd

http://www.peepo.com         "The first and still the best picture directory
on the web"
http://www.learningdifficulty.org.uk "Our guide to helping people with a
learning difficulty get the most from the web"
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Re: ARIA as stop-gap (was Re: Next steps for the ARIA syntax discussion)

From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 08:16:24 -0700
Message-ID: <48401A48.6000402@metalab.unc.edu>
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Cc: public-html@w3.org, wai-xtech@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org

Anne van Kesteren wrote:

> I don't really see why only this is plausible. class, style, and id work
> in HTML, SVG, and MathML. Why can't the same go for ARIA?

Sure, if you place the same attributes into each one of those specs, and
update all three specs to support ARIA.

Of course, the effort in doing this is (and consequent inconsistencies)
is exactly why we modularize things.

Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@metalab.unc.edu
Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published!
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Re: xsl transformation and special characters

From: Paul Libbrecht <paul@activemath.org>
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 15:26:31 +0200
Message-ID: <3F058087.1090904@activemath.org>
To: www-math@w3.org

David Carlisle wrote:
>>we have observed that most browsers do honour always the encoding
>>given in the file even though the server gives a different header
> touchy subject that. The XML spec states _explictly_ that a browser
> should ignore the file and believe the server if they differ, lots of
> people think this is wrong as it's easy (say for XSLT) to put the right
> xml declaration in the file, but it's a lot harder for people to make
> sure when they upload to a server that it is served with the correct
> header. So many browsers ignore the spec and try to use the "right
> encoding". It's not at all clear that the spec is sensible here, but
> telling browser makers (one in particular:-) that ignoring the spec is
> OK sets a dangerous precedent,

In general, however, I think and hope the servers just DON'T send such
If this spec is correct, I know no browser that is applying it (perheaps
iCab) among the seven or eight I've met...

>>Maybe one of the reasons is that Emacs 20 was still widespread these
>>last years...
> what other editors are there:-)

jEdit !
(and that's UTF-8 aware!)
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Re: Technical reasons for some options taken on design of MathML

From: <juanrgonzaleza@canonicalscience.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 08:10:38 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <3970.>
To: <www-math@w3.org>

Mikko Rantalainen wrote:

> Okay, could you point us to correct basis for over and under scripts?

Well, in the ASCII rendering the base for over is "base" and in your
MathML example the base for over is ("base" + "sub" + "sup").

> If you render the above MathML example by e.g. Gecko rendering
> engine you end up something fairly similar to above ASCII presentation.

And in some cases <msub><msup> can render similar to <msubsup> but we need
the latter, ok?

> If you want to transfer more semantics you have to give us more
> information but just the ASCII rendering of the end result.

As already explained I used an ASCII art contained in a *standard* for
math. Any case the point is not possible misunderstanding about above
ASCII art did mean. The important question is that MathML 2.0 cannot
encode that (like cannot encode other things).

> Are you asking for a way to markup a multiscript where you have
> scripts at N, NE, SE and S locations (compass directions)? Would you
> be happy with a multiscript construct that allowed 8 positions (N,
> NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW)? Or would there be need for more script
> positions?

No! I was not asking for. That IS already solved by available *standards*
previous to MathML.

Today, I do not know of needing for more script positions, but if tomorrow
more were needed would be relatively easy extend SGML model because solid
markup design. In MathML you would need of dozens of new tags and novel
content/processing models.

> Multiscript rendering vs. actual logic
> I believe that there's always some logic for multiscript rendering
> that would result from some kind of nested elements. If you have
> rendering such as
>         sup
>     BASE
>         sub
> then it's always logically either "(BASE_sub)^sup" or
> "(BASE^sup)_sub. Usually the former.

are three different things!

Only BASE_sub^sup corresponds to ASCII

This is reason of MathML difference between

<msup><msub>BASE sub</msub> sup</msup>

<msub><msup>BASE sup</msup> sub</msub>

<msubsup>BASE sub sup</msubsup>

Others markups also differentiate (including TeX and, of course, ISO
12083). The PROBLEM with MathML is the poor design model for scripts,
which is not easily extensible except by complicating a lot of the DTD and
the parsing. Previous standards did a better work.

> Likewise, if you have markup like
>     ____
>     BASE
>         sub
> it's either "(BASE with overline)_sub" or "(BASE_sub) with
> overline". I've yet to see a construct where you *logically* have
> "BASE with both overline and subscript".

Your example would be interpreted like "(BASE with overline)_sub". The
render of

"(BASE_sub) with overline" would be more close to

Now, I cannot remember of any construction special kind you are requiring,
which, of course, does not mean can it be useful in some discipline.
Simply I do not know.

> There's, of course, the
> rendering. I understand the need to render
>         sup
>     BASE
>         sub
> instead of
>            sup
>     BASE
>         sub
> where the superscript would be leftwards from "BASE_sub"
> combination. However, it's only rendering detail, the logic still
> applies that it's (usually) "BASE_sub" to power of "sup".
> --
> Mikko

You are saying is not compatible with both computational and notational
issues. One does not render your first example _instead of_ second. That
is not true. Two ASCIIs are usually different things! Already in pure

 i ,

are (usually) three different mathematical objects, *none* of them meaning
"BASE_sub" to power of "sup" you wrote. Therefore, you are forced to
render them in three different ways.

Juan R.

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Re: a simple question

From: Drew McDermott <drew.mcdermott@yale.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 14:00:48 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200312031900.hB3J0mL29682@pantheon-po02.its.yale.edu>
To: www-rdf-rules@w3.org

   >The NAF approach is likely to be much more efficient, much easier to
   >implement, and much more likely to yield a useful conclusion than the
   >heavy-duty theorem prover.

   [Pat Hayes]
   All true. It is also likely to be wrong,
   unfortunately. The fact that you can't think of a
   closer airport doesn't usually qualify as a good
   reason to conclude that there isn't one, unless
   you also know for sure that you know all the
   airport locations, so that if you don't know it,
   then its not there. Like, for example, if you
   have a  list of all the airports. If you make
   this explicit, as you should, then you are back
   doing 'heavy-duty' reasoning.

I was trying to stay within the vocabulary of the example, and I was
assuming a plausible context that I didn't state, namely that someone
was planning a trip.  If you replace "nearest airport" by "nearest
airport reasonable to travel someplace from here," then negation as
failure is a reasonable strategy, assuming you know all the airports
in the vicinity.

   BTW, calling it 'heavy-duty' is misleading. In
   the first case you have made all the equality
   reasoning explicit. In a prolog-style
   implementation this is all buried in the
   backtracking done by the interpreter: but it
   still needs to be done. The same actual
   *reasoning* is involved in both cases.

Yes.  But the NAF version is stylized in a way that permits efficient
implementation.  If you could be sure that the alternative always
involved iterating through a list and doing a set of equality
substitutions, you could probably find an equally efficient
implementation.  (I've often wondered why no one has worked on this.)
In the general case, though, you have to have a system that does
general-purpose reasoning about equality, which can involve a lot of

   >  I hope the people who deprecate it realize
   >that the heavy-duty theorem prover is the only alternative.

   Its not a matter of alternatives. If you want to
   draw checkable valid conclusions, then you need
   to do this kind of reasoning.

I don't want to draw checkable valid conclusions.

   If you want to
   make random guesses and hope for the best then
   you can of course work faster, but don't expect
   others to believe in your conclusions.

At least I'll _have_ conclusions.

   Negation-as-failure is NOT a good general
   reasoning strategy: 99.99% of the time it will
   immediately produce childishly ludicrous
   conclusions: I don't know anyone called Jose, so
   there isn't anyone called Jose; I never heard of
   SARS, ...

Where have you been?

Of course negation-as-failure is not the way to handle "not" in
general; it's the way to handle it when you don't care about possible
nearby secret airports and the like.

   industrial uses of Prolog-style rules all are
   designed within controlled environments,
   typically using databases, where such special
   conditions can be assumed.

To repeat what I said above, if you use NAF as an efficient way to
draw valid conclusions, you're right.  I prefer to think of it as a
way to draw conclusions that may well be wrong, in situations where
the wrongness of a probably correct conclusion is not fatal.  The
burden is on someone who finds this distasteful to show that pure
deductive techniques will suffice for real-world applications.

                                             -- Drew

                                             -- Drew McDermott
                                                Yale University CS Dept.
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Re: SVG12: #text traits

From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 11:31:44 +0900
Message-ID: <42929210.90008@expway.fr>
To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Cc: www-svg@w3.org

Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> org.w3c.dom.svg is owned by W3C and formally defined in W3C Technical
> Reports. JSR-226's extensions to org.w3c.dom.svg are proprietary until
> there is W3C consensus about these extensions.

They are not extensions as they have been ratified by the SVG WG after a
lengthy process of discussion and cooperation with the JSR 226 EG.

> It's also clear that the expert group and the SVG WG
> did not coordinate very well as JSR-226 is not a subset of and not
> binary compatible with the current Last Call Working Draft.

An editorial oversight has caused a small backwards compatibility issue
which is being fixed, but to infer from that that there was poor
coordination between the groups is very much mistaken, bordering on bad

> Now, depending on whether and how the draft is changed to resolve all
> these problems it might make sense to keep the #text trait as depre-
> cated "backwards"-compatibility feature that must not be implemented
> for anything but <text>, where it behaves exactly as defined in JSR-
> 226 (and I do not think this is exactly like textContent).

As someone who fought long and hard against #text in many of the joint
SVG WG/JSR 226 EG telcons (alas, without result) I can only support the
limitation of its inclusion in SVG Tiny. However it would certainly not
make any sense to remove it and break compatibility with JSR 226, which
is already a finalized specification and already has shipping

> I would like to point out though that I've registered my concerns
> regarding #text and legacy interfaces in the SVG DOM subset long ago,
>   http://www.w3.org/mid/41e46161.181259968@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de
>   http://www.w3.org/mid/4216ac75.23952484@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de
> It seems, by formally addressing my comments and regular publication
> of Working Drafts such incompatibilities could have been avoided.

Given that they were discussed in the WG and had an impact on the
specification I doubt that formally replying to them would have made any
difference. Also, at the time you made your comments JSR-226 had already
a frozen specification for over half a year.

Robin Berjon
   Research Scientist
   Expway, http://expway.com/
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text:
hi! Why are our sites doesn't work with XHTML?

From: Natasha Makeeva <natasha@makeeva.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:18:24 +0500
Message-ID: <16424794796.20041117151824@makeeva.com>
To: www-validator@w3.org

Good afternoon!

I have 3 sites with XML, XHTML, XSLT scripts.
But it works only on my USA server site, not on Russian sites.

Why? What can spol the work?

USA site: www.topwaps.com/bitel/
Russian mirrors: www.iWAP.net.ru/bitel/   www.Luboe.info/bitel/

Must the hosting providers be Your members?
I can't understand how to be.
Beacuse the all PHP setting are similar with USA server.

Please help.

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Subject: Re: Zeller ( Lopko)
Date: 11 Apr 2003 16:40:45 -0600

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Surnames: Mihalik, Lopko, Hornyak, Zeller, Hlopko, Stott, Ceip, Christian, McConnell, O'Donnell
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Hi Josh! It's me - "cousin" Mary! Your posting to Zeller is actually my Aunt Lois' maiden name. What a hoot. Aunt Lois is married to Ray Lopko - my mom's brother. Your grandparents - Ambrose and Millie - are Ray's and my mom's second cousin.

I'm working on mapping all this out and we'll send what I have over to you shortly. I'm also going to check for old family photos. Let's see what I can come up with.

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Amazing fish and it looks like a great time out on the water! Glad you guys had a good day...
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When I am visiting up there the first day is generally one of the pancake log cabins for a country ham breakfast....when time is an issue I am partial to McDonald's country ham biscuit...not bad for fast food...and something they don't serve here in Florida
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Something New: ICICI/American Express Altitude Lounge Delhi Terminal 3

After a leisurely few days in Delhi, it was time to go back to Mumbai. I’m usually trying to look away from early morning flights, because I do my fair share on work travel, but this time, I was a little bit greedy to spend some more time at home with the family, so I booked up an early morning flight back. I arrived at the airport in good time, and proceeded to the Air India counters to collect my boarding pass at Terminal 3. Like you’d notice, there was a very long queue at one bank of counters for Monday Morning traffic (Row E), which was the economy counters. On the other side, there was no queue. These were the Golden Edge FFP member and business class queues. Guess where did I go to collect my boarding pass? Winking smile

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Air India Business Class Check-in DEL T3

Security checks were quick, and once I was airside, I had to decide where I wanted to go for about the 45 minutes I ended up having to wait at the airport instead of the 15 I had planned for. Anyhow, I’d been to the Plaza Premiere Lounge multiple times, tried out the Amex Platinum Lounge as well, and there was the new Starbucks at Delhi T3 and the Altitude Lounge right across from the Amex Platinum Lounge which were the places I had not been to.

Fresh from my experience at the Altitude Lounge Mumbai T1A, I decided I’ll try out the Delhi Lounge as well so that I could figure out it Mumbai was a flash in the pan or the lounges had a particular brand standard which all of them would adhere to in terms of look and feel.

When I arrived, as usual, there were only two attendants at the lounge, and no passengers inside. They had a big iMac sitting at the reception, only to check-in passengers into the lounge, however, one of the attendants was catching up on morning news sitting there. I presented them with my ICICI Bank/Jet Airways American Express Sapphiro credit card and my boarding pass, and I was invited inside.

Delhi Altitude Lounge entrance T3

The Lounge seemed to have the same look and feel like the Mumbai one, however, I think it was bigger and maybe had some more seats. There were white bar stools and a white bar and a  lot of lounge chairs.

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Even the Delhi lounge had a television lounge with a couch, which is what I chose to park myself with again. Immediately they brought me a drink of water, and asked me if I wanted juice or another beverage to start the morning.

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I asked for some apple juice, which was served with potato chips and peanuts (beats me when you do that early in the morning!)

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I was presented with the menu, which had quite some options. Since I was up early and hungry, I decided to call for a chicken sandwich, which actually was a pre-made sandwich which was grilled in their kitchen before serving. For breakfast, there was also the option to have cereal or toast.

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While they were preparing the sandwich, i stepped out and took some more pictures.

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A small business centre

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Self serve drinks and snacks

Overall, an enjoyable experience to be here, because food is made to order and there are hot food options, and the lounge is not crowded at all, not unless ICICI/Amex build a critical mass of their jointly-issued premium credit cards.

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  1. I will be travelling from Hyderabad to Kolkata this time and am going to access a lounge for the first time. One silly question, do you need to tip the attendants in the lounge?

  2. Well presented. Can’t wait for the return leg TR in AI biz. You don’t see AI domestic reports upfront that often.

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Tuesday, March 01, 2011

CFS Column in Huffington Post

A friend (Thanks, Martine!) sent me a link to a new column in the Huffington Post written by a columnist "coming out of the closet"with his ME/CFS.  It's an excellent column and it has inspired lots of comments, too.  You can read the column here.

I really intended to finally write a post about my beta blockers today, but I just can't manage it.  Both boys were still home sick today.  Looks like maybe a virus, since Craig has a fever (he actually lost his appetite for a while, which is amazing), though this is 3 weeks in a row for Jamie.  Later this week, I promise!

  1. I read that, too! It was a good article. I love seeing more light shining on CFS in the media.

  2. I'm glad people are finally coming out of the closet with regard to this illness. As soon as my legal stuff is over I'll probably come out myself.

  3. I liked the article. I have to admit, I got so sick so fast that hiding it never occured to me. I was just too ill.

    Glad there are more people writing about this.