http://blog.dyck.org/ Tim Miller Dyck's blog: faith, technology, culture, science en-us Copyright 2010 Sun, 09 May 2010 09:52:57 -0500 Sun, 09 May 2010 09:53:45 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.12 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss When it was gone; the oak forests of England were on the floor. Four thousand had fallen in the New Forest alone; another 3,000 in the Forest of Dean. And John Evelyn, the Fellow of the Royal Society, whose great... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2010/05/bbc_news_the_tr.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2010/05/bbc_news_the_tr.html History Sun, 09 May 2010 09:52:57 -0500 Saying that the kernel should have no protocol understanding because you might wish to decode the signals from the remote to your 1976 airconditioner using a diode hooked to the mic connector on your soundcard sound to me like saying... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/12/kernel_support.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/12/kernel_support.html Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:49:19 -0500 A new study confirms that the reaction time of cell phone users slows dramatically, increasing the risk of accidents and tying up traffic in general, and when young adults use cell phones while driving, they're as bad as sleepy septuagenarians.... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/12/drivers_on_cell.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/12/drivers_on_cell.html Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:39:16 -0500 According to the report, qualities such as application, self-regulation and empathy were more likely to be developed in children whose parents employed a "tough love" approach. It found that these qualities made "a vital contribution to life chances, mobility and... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/11/bbc_news_uk_tou.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/11/bbc_news_uk_tou.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:32:19 -0500 http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/10/bbc_news_scienc_3.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/10/bbc_news_scienc_3.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:15:38 -0500 Professor Kaare Christensen, of the Danish Ageing Research Centre at the University of Southern Denmark, who led the study, said life expectancy had been increasing since 1840 and there was no sign of this trend slowing down. bq.. He said:... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/10/bbc_news_health_3.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/10/bbc_news_health_3.html Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:29:24 -0500 Before his unit went in to Gaza, Rabbi Kaufman said their commander told him to blow the ram's horn: "Like (biblical) Joshua when he conquered the land of Israel. It makes the war holier." Rabbis handed out hundreds of religious... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/09/bbc_news_progra.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/09/bbc_news_progra.html Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:25:33 -0500 As for the top executives, they are the glamour superstars. They move around town with long convoys of so-called security cars. They are by far the heaviest donors to Pentecostal Churches, with attendant privileges. Pleading innocence Many of them travel... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/08/bbc_news_africa_1.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/08/bbc_news_africa_1.html Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:59:02 -0500 The fiction created a romanticism around spies which attracted many people to work for the service. Among them was Daphne Park, who joined in the 1940s and rose to become a controller at MI6. "I suppose it did start with... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/07/bbc_news_uk_mag_3.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/07/bbc_news_uk_mag_3.html Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:36:46 -0500 Researcher Dr Arlan Richardson, of the Barshop Institute, said: "I've been in aging research for 35 years and there have been many so-called 'anti-ageing' interventions over those years that were never successful. "I never thought we would find an anti-ageing... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/07/bbc_news_health_2.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/07/bbc_news_health_2.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:52:11 -0500 Supporter Clayton Grassick echoed those sentiments and said that bringing Abdelrazik home is an important victory for the nation's democratic rights. "If we would let a Canadian citizen be tortured and then permanently exiled, without any charges, without any court,... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/06/abdelrazik_reun.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/06/abdelrazik_reun.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:48:29 -0500 It was a story buried in the middle of the Indian newspapers. Two star-crossed lovers committed suicide after the local village council, or panchayat, ordered them to annul their marriage or face death. Amreen was Muslim and her husband, Lokesh,... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/06/indias_romeo_an.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/06/indias_romeo_an.html Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:46:55 -0500 I think we're all guilty of retribution at some point in our lives, even if we're not proud of it. I'd be lying if I said that I didn't implement firewall rules at an ISP in direct response to user... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/03/a_sysadmins_gui.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/03/a_sysadmins_gui.html Computer Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:48:10 -0500 There still are details (and even complete subsystems) to be documented more thoroughly, but this is the workbook I presented at MySQL Conference. I've heard comments that the book has 'hypothetical' situations, but generally every bit is there represents real... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/03/wikipedia_site.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/03/wikipedia_site.html Computer Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:26:05 -0500 TCA methodology can be used to measure the cost of individual shopper operations, such as registering on the site, browsing, searching, adding an item to the shopping cart, checking out, and so on. You determine the capacity of a site... http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/03/microsoft_techn.html http://blog.dyck.org/archives/2009/03/microsoft_techn.html Computer Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:01:42 -0500