"A dictionary of common tasks that people (kids especially) love to do with Hpricot."

"Penguicon 7.0 will be May 1 through 3, 2009, at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Romulus, Michigan."

"Think it can't be done? Surprise: What is past is prologue.
Great Britain faced an existential threat back in the 1940s in the form of the overwhelming Nazi military juggernaut that conquered all of continental Europe. Hitler then blockaded and prepared to invade isolated England.
Without enough metal to re-build new airplanes with, England turned to home wood workers and small furniture builders to build a wood-bodied, twin engine light fighter bomber that became known as the de Havilland Mosquito. The resulting plane became the fastest (>400 mph) bomber of the war and contributed in large part to eventual Allied victory. 7,800 wooden planes were made."

"The PHS300 Personal WiFi Hotspot is a true plug ‘n’ play solution that creates a powerful WiFi network almost anywhere. Connect all your WiFi enabled devices by simply plugging in your activated USB data modem* and turning on the PHS300. It’s that easy! No more searching for a hotspot, you are one!"

"These web pages are about a project I've been working on. Put briefly, it's a WWAN (Wireless Wide Area Network) router. In more human terms, it's a compact little box that gets data from cellular towers and re-shares it for multiple computers to use.

To use it all you do is plug it in to the cigarette lighter of a car (or a 12v supply when at home). It automatically boots up and links in to Verizon's "Broadband Access" service, turning itself into an access point. Turn on your laptop, join the network and voila — you're on the net! It's just like using a hotspot (such as they have at Starbucks and airports), but it goes anywhere you car goes."

"To summarize: the world is currently undergoing an economic shock every bit as big as the Great Depression shock of 1929-30. Looking just at the US leads one to overlook how alarming the current situation is even in comparison with 1929-30. The good news, of course, is that the policy response is very different. The question now is whether that policy response will work. For the answer, stay tuned for our next column."

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"I have watched as the language of personal development—the building of inner strength and vision—has taken over in the fashionable process known as ‘management development’. Team building is now the experience of value in the management development tool-shed: an activity based on suffering together to achieve self-discovery and group resourcefulness in the face of artificially created adversity .
The old-fashioned idea that people need supervision to assist them, especially to learn how to do a job when they enter a new work situation, is now rejected. … We are expected to take [people's] assumption of personal competence at face value.
Mastery of a trade or profession through apprenticeship has also been fudged by the theory that all learning can be broken down into a series of unit standards; and that competence means acquiring a pass mark in sufficient units of learning to be awarded a certificate."