There are many ways to celebrate Robert Burns’ birthday, but doing it in a virtual world is certainly one of the odder ones. Even if you don’t know what SecondLife is, the pictures are worth looking at.
For myself, I danced the whole evening at New York’s RSCDS branch.
Alex.
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This feels good. Last time I submitted and got accepted to talk at JavaOne (2004), I was working for one of the major sponsors. With all the rumors about too many presenters from Sun and sponsors, it makes one wonder how much of the reason was the presentation quality and how much was some of [...]
I have collected many links to help me learn French with computers. But the resource I have just discovered is really the best.
It is a WikiBook on Autonomous Technology-Assisted Language Learning (ATALL) written by Gary Cziko. It has resources organised by work type and acquisition method. There are language neutral as well as language specific [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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