January 2010

Italian for English Speakers – in 1611

January 24, 2010

A fascinating old dictionary.

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Itlish: English Words in “Common” Use in Italian

January 24, 2010

Italian, like English and many others, accretes words from other languages. Often these are modern terms which have no easy equivalent in antique Latin or Greek roots. For example: Ten years ago, Italians didn’t know how to refer to the process of scanning (a page, a photograph) using a scanner. The correct word – digitalizzare [...]

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Italian Satirical Poetry

January 24, 2010

Monument to the poet Trilusso, in Roman dialect. Piazza Trilusso, Rome For some fun political puns, look here In the Shade While I read my usual paper, Sprawled in the shade of a [tree] I see a pig and I say to him: “Goodbye, swine!” I see a donkey and I say to him: “Goodbye, [...]

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Learn Italian in Song: Donne

January 24, 2010

Recorded by Neri per Caso. Donne Women Donne in cerca di guai Women in search of trouble(s) Donne a un telefono che non suona mai Women at a telephone that never rings Donne in mezzo a una via Women in the middle of a street Donne allo sbando senza compagnia Women out of control without [...]

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Notes: Videoblogging Session at CLS West

January 22, 2010

Problems video is slow (text can be skimmed/absorbed more quickly) Flash is not portable hosting curation and findability video quality language transcription/search indexing legal releases (someone was going to send us an example to use?) Want More Info About What makes good video? screencasting/capturing softare demos streaming filming presentations video on the web post-production covering [...]

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A New Dawn

January 21, 2010

Colorado sunrise this morning (yes, I was up very early).

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Managing Grid Engine Clusters

January 19, 2010

Dan Templeton leads a master class in Managing Grid Engine Clusters. Filmed in May, 2008, at the Open Source Grid & Cluster Conference. download for iPod: part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 part 6 part 7

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The Twitter Diaries: 2010-01-18: SF, CO

January 18, 2010

used to own and love this poster, pretty sure I didn’t pay this much for it at the zoo itself http://bit.ly/65BfFK @KathySierra the trick is to look like you’re sharing all, while actually concealing much. @nonstick that was more like Not Safe for Human Eyeball Consumption @vdotw hey, mine came with a warning. Back at [...]

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On Love

January 18, 2010

Lately I’ve been doing a lot of research about love, relationships, marriage, and divorce. I’m still mystified  – and so are the experts. But new technology (fMRI) allows us to look inside the brain in new ways, so perhaps we are finally on the road to explaining the great “mystery of love” which has puzzled [...]

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Fibre Channel Concepts

January 12, 2010

Sit in on a Sun training session on "Fibre Channel Concepts," by Sumit Gupta. download part 1a for iPod download part 1b for iPod download part 2a for iPod download part 2b for iPod

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Open Storage Party

January 11, 2010

After the OpenSolaris Storage Summit (Sept 2008), we had a great party! Open Storage Party iPod version

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Coffee Art

January 10, 2010

A cappuccino at Blue Bottle Coffee, San Francisco Ferry Terminal. Beautiful, and authentically Italian in flavor. These folks know what they’re doing.

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The Twitter Diaries: 2010-01-10 – Tulsa, CO, SF

January 10, 2010

added lots of photos to The Twitter Diaries: 2010-01-03: Arkansas & Louisiana http://bit.ly/4ZzGno # enjoying a lazy morning in bed with the laptop, fiddling with my site. Because for the next six days I’ll be getting up hellishly early. # geotagging 2009′s Twitter posts on my site. I wasn’t home much. # RT @adi535: Wow, [...]

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Gallery: Delhi Street Scenes, 2004

January 4, 2010
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The Twitter Diaries: 2010-01-03: Arkansas & Louisiana

January 3, 2010

^ sunset driving into Louisiana @MissExpatria I’ll be really evil here and say “screaming toddler” in reply to MissExpatria # [her question was: what could we try to get banned by TSA to make flying actually pleasanter?] Hitting the road again tomorrow, so it’s time to do homework today # @webmink what are your sugestions [...]

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Front Page Photo Bin

January 1, 2010
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