Tuesday, March 11, 2003
China the Beautiful
Main Room - China the Beautiful
[Use any Browser (Chinese Software not required)]
There are over 4,000 webpages in China the Beautiful....
...being a really big list of Chinese art...
Main Room - China the Beautiful
[Use any Browser (Chinese Software not required)]
There are over 4,000 webpages in China the Beautiful....
...being a really big list of Chinese art...
Friday, March 07, 2003
World of Ends
What the Internet Is and
How to Stop Mistaking It
for Something Else.
by
Doc Searls and
David Weinberger
These guys are really smart!
What the Internet Is and
How to Stop Mistaking It
for Something Else.
by
Doc Searls and
David Weinberger
These guys are really smart!
Wednesday, March 05, 2003
Lawyer Arrested for Wearing a 'Peace' T-Shirt
Boy, do you think the tourism industry in the US might take a hit from the current hysterical tone? Who would want to visit people like this?
— NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer was arrested late Monday and charged with trespassing at a public mall in the state of New York after refusing to take off a T-shirt advocating peace that he had just purchased at the mall.
According to the criminal complaint filed on Monday, Stephen Downs was wearing a T-shirt bearing the words "Give Peace A Chance" that he had just purchased from a vendor inside the Crossgates Mall in Guilderland, New York, near Albany.
"I was in the food court with my son when I was confronted by two security guards and ordered to either take off the T-shirt or leave the mall," said Downs.
When Downs refused the security officers' orders, police from the town of Guilderland were called and he was arrested and taken away in handcuffs, charged with trespassing "in that he knowingly enter(ed) or remain(ed) unlawfully upon premises," the complaint read.
Downs said police tried to convince him he was wrong in his actions by refusing to remove the T-shirt because the mall "was like a private house and that I was acting poorly.
"I told them the analogy was not good and I was then hauled off to night court where I was arraigned after pleading not guilty and released on my own recognizance," Downs told Reuters in a telephone interview.
Downs is the director of the Albany Office of the state Commission on Judicial Conduct, which investigates complaints of misconduct against judges and can admonish, censure or remove judges found to have engaged in misconduct...
Boy, do you think the tourism industry in the US might take a hit from the current hysterical tone? Who would want to visit people like this?
— NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer was arrested late Monday and charged with trespassing at a public mall in the state of New York after refusing to take off a T-shirt advocating peace that he had just purchased at the mall.
According to the criminal complaint filed on Monday, Stephen Downs was wearing a T-shirt bearing the words "Give Peace A Chance" that he had just purchased from a vendor inside the Crossgates Mall in Guilderland, New York, near Albany.
"I was in the food court with my son when I was confronted by two security guards and ordered to either take off the T-shirt or leave the mall," said Downs.
When Downs refused the security officers' orders, police from the town of Guilderland were called and he was arrested and taken away in handcuffs, charged with trespassing "in that he knowingly enter(ed) or remain(ed) unlawfully upon premises," the complaint read.
Downs said police tried to convince him he was wrong in his actions by refusing to remove the T-shirt because the mall "was like a private house and that I was acting poorly.
"I told them the analogy was not good and I was then hauled off to night court where I was arraigned after pleading not guilty and released on my own recognizance," Downs told Reuters in a telephone interview.
Downs is the director of the Albany Office of the state Commission on Judicial Conduct, which investigates complaints of misconduct against judges and can admonish, censure or remove judges found to have engaged in misconduct...
Tuesday, March 04, 2003
Access Tips: Working with Dates
Access has a number of powerful tools to enable specific dates and date ranges to be specified in criteria. Many tasks can be achieved with simple calculations, and there are a number of date functions to help in performing more complex jobs.
Make sure that any fields you have that contain dates know that their data type is Date/Time. This is vital when it comes to sorting, filtering and calculating dates. If you enter a date into a Text or Memo field it will still look like a date to you, but Access will treat it as a string of text. You won't be able to sort into correct date order, nor will you be able to calculate. If you have any problems with dates, check out the design view of the table in which the dates are stored...
Access has a number of powerful tools to enable specific dates and date ranges to be specified in criteria. Many tasks can be achieved with simple calculations, and there are a number of date functions to help in performing more complex jobs.
Make sure that any fields you have that contain dates know that their data type is Date/Time. This is vital when it comes to sorting, filtering and calculating dates. If you enter a date into a Text or Memo field it will still look like a date to you, but Access will treat it as a string of text. You won't be able to sort into correct date order, nor will you be able to calculate. If you have any problems with dates, check out the design view of the table in which the dates are stored...
Monday, March 03, 2003
An introduction to object prevalence
Object prevalence is a concept that was developed by Klaus Wuestefeld and some colleagues at Objective Solutions. Its first implementation, known as Prevayler, became available in November 2001 as an open-source project. (See Resources.) Today, Prevayler is at version 1.3.0 and has about 350 lines of code. You may think that the code is too small to do anything useful but, based upon my experience on a recent project, I can confirm that Prevayler is several orders of magnitude faster than one of the leading open source relational databases. It is all about simplicity.
Object prevalence is inherently and conceptually simple and can be implemented in any object-oriented programming language that can serialize an object -- a feature in many modern OO languages.
In a prevalent system, everything is kept in RAM, as though you were just using a programming language. Serializable command objects manage all the necessary changes required for persistence. Queries are run against pure Java language objects, giving developers all the flexibility of the Collections API and other APIs, such as the Jakarta Commons Collections and Jutil.org...
Object prevalence is a concept that was developed by Klaus Wuestefeld and some colleagues at Objective Solutions. Its first implementation, known as Prevayler, became available in November 2001 as an open-source project. (See Resources.) Today, Prevayler is at version 1.3.0 and has about 350 lines of code. You may think that the code is too small to do anything useful but, based upon my experience on a recent project, I can confirm that Prevayler is several orders of magnitude faster than one of the leading open source relational databases. It is all about simplicity.
Object prevalence is inherently and conceptually simple and can be implemented in any object-oriented programming language that can serialize an object -- a feature in many modern OO languages.
In a prevalent system, everything is kept in RAM, as though you were just using a programming language. Serializable command objects manage all the necessary changes required for persistence. Queries are run against pure Java language objects, giving developers all the flexibility of the Collections API and other APIs, such as the Jakarta Commons Collections and Jutil.org...
