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This is just to see whether bloglines is picking up changes properly

I have tried adding some javascript (based on stuff by Alex King) to expand and collapse the groups of subcategories.

This article by Charles T. Rubin in The New Atlantis (which I got to through Arts&Letters Daily) revisits a 1923 ‘debate’ via duelling essays between J.B.S. Haldane and Bertrand Russell regarding the impact of science and technology on human “progress”. … Continue reading →

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LRB | David Runciman : Tax Breaks for Rich Murderers is an article about inheritance tax

Arts&Letters Daily on June 17 linked to this review of a book by physicist turned anglican theologian John Polkinghorne. According to the review: < < Polkinghorne does not wish to be in “unthinking thrall to the past” or to authority, … Continue reading →

Google’s War on Hierarchy, and the Death of Hierarchical Folders – – Microcontent News, a Corante.com Microblog

Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) in Java

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Can Java CMS match the PHP ones? – JAVA J2EE PORTAL

Thanks to Dean Coder for passing this this on to the BCAMT listserv.

So here’s Alan’s ptWiki. It’s made with PhpTiddlyWiki, which may or may not be a “real” Wiki but seems to work ok for what it is. The uses I can imagine for such a thing include a course dictionary or … Continue reading →

Must check out this Java(TM) tutorial on ‘Inversion of Control’ (which came in through the Jars Newsletter) – to see if it’s related to what I deal with in my listener-aware items that are used for variables etc in gex.

Google Earth – Temporarily Closed

Looks like a good article on JPSartre by Paul Lichfield in the Independent – via Arts&Letters Daily

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Patent absurdity

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Michael Geist is an Ottawa law professor with the right attitude towards copyright issues. Bill C-60 makes it illegal for consumers to make personal copies of material for which they have already paid for that right by means of the … Continue reading →