I have always wanted to read through the classics of the Western literature. But the life is too short and too busy to try slogging through the volumnous writings. Now, the “Squashed Philosophers” website (via StingyScholar) offers condenced versions of materials where only the important points are kept - in the original language - and the long rambles are excised.
And for those who don’t like reading from the screen, they have a printed version.
I have a lay interest in the field of computational linguistics. So I want to read the current thoughts of the people in the people. But where are they all? You would think they would blog, after all they are good with computers and they are good with languages.
But no! I can find teachers blog, I can find doctors blog, I can find CEOs blog. But I cannot find any computational linguists blog.
Are you a programmer, mathematician or like. Tried Scottish Country Dancing yet?
The rumour has it, that SCD (as taught by RSCDS) has more than its normal share of people who like structural thinking. When I started dancing (with some probing from my wife), I could not see how it would be true. I did feel that West Coast Swing - which was my favourite style before SCD - was more structured that various other Swing and latin styles, but I did not think it would be something statistically significant.
Andrew C. Oliver muses on the need for violence when getting Java stack traces embedded in the MS Word docs. I call his bluff.
A day, when your MS Word document arrives and you open it to discover an image of the DOS window where part of the stack trace is seen at 50% zoom, then you can contemplate violence.
Until then….
BlogicBlogger Over and Out
AJAX has grown up! People starting to wonder what impact AJAX style applications have as compared to the older logic. Some impacts are obviously positive, some not so.
From the support point of view, AJAX style application may cause more hidden problems due to the granularity of the communications. Specifically, where a single user previously might have made one new server request every 30 seconds after initial load, with AJAX, the same user might be generating a new request every couple of seconds.