I just read Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s “Le Petit Prince” (The Little Prince). It’s very different from what I got from it when I was a child.
This is so deep!
Here’s the one I read (in french, he also has a spanish translation).
And here’s Wikipedia’s entry about the book, it includes a short synopsis of the story.
Upgrading Ubuntu is extremely simple, click, click …
I have been playing with imified, it’s an IM bot platform that allows integration with many online apps, I’m using it right now to post to this blog.
Clay Shirky talks about all the wasted time watching tv and doing “nothing” … youtube shows it as a multipart video, so I link to the site where I saw it on, blip.tv, I hate their embedded player, it seems to mess up my wordpress theme (cannot seem to keep the closing embed and object html tags)..
Google just launched a preview release of App Engine, I was lucky to be able to try it.
As Google describe it, “Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications, Google App Engine makes it easy to build scalable applications that grow from one user to millions of users without infrastructure headaches..”
I’ve been learning Python the last few months, so I followed the tutorial and created an application. It’s currently limited to 3 applications, and I used-up one (you currently cannot delete applications).
I just added my books to librarything, I already had a CSV file created with a barcode scanner, so I Just imported it…
Larry Cannell says “I Hate Files“, and I agree with almost every point.
Files are a major nuisance, and until another practical solution is universally accepted, we will have to live with them.
Online-only solutions cannot work until connectivity is not an issue, until it becomes an extremely cheap commodity.
Until then, maybe a hybrid solution that uses client-side software with network-based distributed storage that does not rely on folder structures and filenames could be acceptable.
If you don’t understand French, Google’s translation tools could be helpful.
“Le Monde 2″ : Les catastrophes climatiques de 2007 en images
Google’s newly added translation bots are amazing, I’ve been using them for a few days now, and they’re much faster, simpler, and easier to use than opening language tools in your browser.
Supported language pairs are: ar2en, bg2en, de2en, de2fr, el2en, en2ar, en2de, en2el, en2es, en2fr, en2it, en2ja, en2ko, en2nl, en2ru, es2en, fi2en, fr2de, fr2en, hi2en, hr2en, it2en, ja2en, ko2en, nl2en, ru2en, uk2en, ur2en, zh2en. Always append @bot.talk.google.com to get the bot’s address.
Google’s statistical machine translation is getting better … it currently gives better translations than when I first tried it, still not perfect but usable.