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Thu, 04 Sep 2003 03:35:03 GMT

Hyper Text 2003 Papers posted.

The Hyper Text 2003 Conference has posted the Hyper Text 03 Papers online. There are some great reads in the pile, if you enjoy theoretical and future-current uses of hyper text as a tool and theory.

[vanderwal.net Off the Top]

there are some good ones there, i like 4.pdf and 30.pdf, though others are probably worth reading in their own right.

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web services conference

Please find attached the First Call for Papers (following text) for International Workshop onÊWeb Services:Modeling, Architecture and Infrastructure (WSI2004),In conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems – ICEIS 2004Êto be held at Universidade Portucalense, Porto ö Portugal, 14-17, April 2004.Ê Dr Jiankun Hu and Dr Savitri BevinakoppaÊ( Chairs ) and the organising committee invite you to submit a paper (or papers) for review and to attend in April. Further details are given in the Call for Papers. Please circulate this.

i'm not posting the rest cause it was all html email and that's just not my style.

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open letter to eu on software patents

this is something i'm watching, not being a local i can't do much other than that.

here is some protest news too:

http://news.com.com/2100-1008-5069279.html?tag=nl

http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5070092.html?tag=fd_top

and counterspin,

http://vrijschrift.org/swpat/press/final_factsheet1092003.pdf

most of this is from Seth Johnson who is doing great work with C-FIT

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world summit on the information society coverage

the digital opportunity channel is providing coverage of the WSIS, there are alot of good folk working on this and you really should watch, pay attention because for a few years this is going to have very real effects on the international information society.
http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/frontpage/308/4726

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incoming freshman mind-set list

2. They are not familiar with the source of that “giant sucking sound.”

3. Iraq has always been a problem.

24. Underclassmen who would be leaving college early have always been a part of the NBA and NFL drafts.

28.Stores have always had scanners at the checkout.

and there is more! so if you wonder why these everything is different, yet the same, here ya go.

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get me my webpages ruby.

Raggle: a console based aggregator.
As a fan of console-based tools (mytop, for example) in this “web-based everything” age, I was thrilled to see an announcement for Raggle. Raggle is a console RSS aggregator, written in Ruby. Features include customizable keybindings, basic HTML rendering, HTTP proxy support, OPML import/export, themes, support for various versions of RSS, Screen support. browser auto-detection, and more. Raggle has been tested under Linux and OpenBSD, and should work properly under other Unix variants as well…
[Jeremy Zawodny's blog] [Keeping track]

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the best part is that it is written in ruby, there are many scripting choices out there today, but the discerning scripter chooses ruby, why? because it is red and shiny? no, but because it 'worth learning' and thus 'worth using', like lisp, you'll understand why after you've learned it.

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top 5 supercomputer @ vt article

well here is a news article on the apple g5 supercomputer project. it has no technical details, but should answer some people's questions.

and the infoworld article:
here

and the press release:
http://www.vt.edu/news/showitem.php?id=1062601746

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