Write for you.

This is just too good to miss. Elizabeth Hall Associates looks to be one of those promising startups that boldly tap into the steadily growing market of sleep-deprived, ambitious students.

“We provide a totally secure and confidential customised writing service, copywriting and personal effectiveness skills building.

CUSTOMIZED ACADEMIC WORK CANNOT BE DETECTED BY NATIONAL PLAGIARISM DETECTION TOOLS.

THIS IS RISK FREE. THIS IS UNDETECTABLE CHEATING.”

[Seb's Open Research]

well this isn't new, search for dissertation writing or dissertaiton proposal on the net and you'll get about 80 of these services. to me it is very dissappointing to consider that some of my colleagues may not be producing their own work. I mean this whole deal is about the author, and in that, the project is embodied, but hey…..

Spatial metaphor considered harmful.

Matt Jones, reflecting on the last Information Architecture Summit: “We talk about navigating when we mean understanding.”

(Go read his post if you're wondering about the font size and color.) [Seb's Open Research]

mapping, ie navigating, isn't understanding it is representing. In the map we have the ability to understand an abstraction, not the original, and ftmp, the understanding can never be understood as the whole, in the on the ground totalizing experience.

Sun Certified System Administrator. 3 Apr 2003: Unix Review tells us about the Sun Certified System Administrator.”This month, I will focus on the Sun Certified System Administrator, Part I exam for Solaris 9 (exam CX-310-014). This exam consists of 57 multiple-choice, drag-and-drop, and free response questions that must be answered within 105 minutes, with 64% or more correct to pass. A complete list of the exam objectives can be found here. In this article, the focus will be on what topics you need to know, and where you can find more [RootPrompt.org -- Nothing but Unix]]]

well, i should get this, and then i could teach this sort of thing, cause i do it everyday anyway, solaris9 is pretty simple comparably to early solaris versions, but overall it is still somewhat more complicated than the bsd versions.

When Games Override Calls as Phone Feature. Nokia, Sony Ericsson and their competitors are deploying technology to let callers kick, punch and beat one another up over their mobile handsets. By Matt Richtel. [New York Times: Technology]

zam, bang, smash, god i despise phones, i really do, not the users, but the concept that you may have someone far away that you think deserves more attention than your immediate experience. in fact, I'm writing, mcluhanesqly on the desocialization surrounding the mediation of the radio based phone. think local act global right, or is that the opposite….;)