Ideas and links

Friday, May 09, 2008

Report to City of Laval

Il y a quatre craques importantes d’un coté à l’autre de la piste cyclable la où elle passe sous l’autoroute 15 entre Des prairies et Cartier.
Un arbre très lourd bloque la piste cyclable qui longe la rue Notre Dame vers l’est à l’ouest du boisé à l’ouest d’Armand Frappier.
L’asphalte dangereusement brisée sur boul. de la Concorde direction ouest à la hauteur de l’avenir
Objets tranchants dans la voie de droite du boul. de la Concorde direction ouest, sous le viaduc du train de la gare Concorde.

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Webcam viewer in Windows Vista

Test the operation of a third-party Webcam

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

New toys

http://skrbl.com/sitivi Free. A bit like a blog for drawing. Sample published page.
http://www.abbreviations.com/ worthwhile.
http://www.scribd.com/ publishing your large pdf. groups
Very interesting content, often elaborate.
Sample documents:
How-to-Handle-Difficult-People
Your-Biggest-Source-of-Trouble-and-Anxiety-Part-Two
The-Number-One-Fear-of-Executives
How-to-Break-Bad-Habits
Fine-Motor-Skills-Activity-Book-by-Donnette-E-Davis-St-Aidens-Homeschool-South-Africa
29-books-from-the-gutenberg-project

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http://rulesofthumb.pbwiki.com/ small site with business rules of thumb.
I believe it's a small site that wishes it was big .

Sunday, May 04, 2008

Microcosmos. Discovering the World Through Microscopic Images from 20 X to Over 22 Million X Magnification (Hardcover) by Brandon Broll (Author)
200 beautiful and facinating pictures from the electron microscope. I especially liked the series where they show Viruses attacking a Bacterium then Macrophage attacking a Bacterium. It really puts the whole loop into perspective. The ciliate protozoa with their little mouths are particularly striking in their detail. Never has the microscopic world felt so clear in my mind. Steve

Study Skills Level III. The study group. Elaine Fitzpatrick Ed.D. 1982.
A fine overview of basic skills every student needs. Used at Dawson College. Thanks Caroline.

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, Eckhart Tolle. Dutton, October 11, 2005 ISBN 0-525-94802-3
A very good read. He does a fine job of connecting the evolution of philosophy from Descartes to Sartres to modern thought; as well as showing the basis for many religious beliefs. A fine brain builder. Thanks Oprah.

Tesoro Garfield (en español). Jim Davis. I like the puchy comebacks, they really push my spanish grammar study.

-¡Está bien! No tienen para que recordármelo
-¡Sé que se viene mi cumpleaños!

-¡Alto! ¡No te acerques o salto!
-¡No lo hagas Huey! Tienes tanto por que vivir.
--Soy Yo, Greta. Tu esposa y tus catorce vastagos
-Si esto no fuera tan bobo, seria tagico.

-Debe ser la lata de atún que comí anoche que estaba mala.
-Traje a mi amigo Ricky cucaracha. Si te metes conmigo, tendrás que entenderte con él.

-No se domistica a los gatos, los gatos te domestican ti.

-¿Herb, estas bien? ¡Por favor, di algo!
-Ese seminario de afirmacion personal fue una muy mala idea.

Google services

Saturday, May 03, 2008

Little known google tips and tools

Cheat Sheets:
Google Advanced Operators
Google Calculator
More: Interactive online Google tutorial and references - Google Guide
Try these searches:

for Music: link to find James Taylor
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” mp3 “james taylor”

for a Movie:
-inurl:htm -inurl:html -inurl:php intitle:”index of” (mpg,mov,avi,wmv) “Movie Name”
ebook : 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google pdf

Try these searches from the ebook:

chicken lemon (inurl:allrecipes.com inurl:epicurious inurl:recipesource site:cooking.com inurl:Recipezaar )

answer to life, the universe and everything

10 + 7 * 3 – 12

seconds in a year
(result: 31,556,926 seconds)

15 USD in EUR
(12.74 Euro)

120 pounds * 2000 feet in Calories
(77.77 kilocalories)

furlongs per fortnight
(0.000166309524 m / s)

speed of light in knots
(582,749,918 knots)

Albert Einstein birthday

define:nasa

"love you twice as much * oh love * *."

Cartoon:
Googlepark: Scoble goes to Google

To hack badly protected sites:
(password passcode) (username userid user) filetype:csv

More hacking:
intitle:index-of last-modified private

Finding webcams:
powered by webcamXP
or
ProBroadcast

Google Rhyming
The first line is: “I’m writing a book on love”
So we search for: “* * * * * above”

~gazebo 2000..2005
Synonyms for gazebos (pergolas, etc.) from the year 2000 to 2005

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One mashup, called Housing Maps (http://www.blogger.com/www.housingmaps.com), takes rental
listings from the popular classifieds site Craigslist and adds it to
Google Maps.

a Googlewhack happens whenever you enter two words into
Google and you receive exactly one result.

Spelling Words With Google Images Letters

Google Rotated 180° (blog.outer-court.com/rotated/)

Dig here through the earth: 55fun.com/31.1

Egobot (http://www.blogger.com/www.55fun.com/40) is a tool which uses the web itself as its
brain. For every question you ask Egobot, he’ll try to find answers on
Google within a second or two.

Google Groups search Usenet back to May 11 1981. Sometimes funny.

video.google.com sometimes funny. Lookup:
overworked
drunk
blue man

~home -home
Since Google now can’t show you results with “home,” it must show
you synonyms of home only.

Exploring the new guitar / synthesizer

Looking forward to hearing some mean compositions - congratulations Luc

My Favourites:

VOICE PAD
5 Choir Aahs Soft
26 en Ré
28 Digi Saw Pad
BASS:
21 Heavy
WIND:
3 Moody Sax
28 Bassoon
STRINGS:
14 Pizzicato
ETHNIC 3 Sitar+Tampura
6 Sitar & Tabla
9 Banjo
10 5str Banjo
11 Fiddle
12 Flat Mandolin
13 Flat Mandolin Tremolo
14 Guitar & Morocco Phrase
15 Koto
17 Shamisen
28 Didgeridoo & Ocarina
29 India Flute
30 Andes
31 Pan Pipes
RHYTHM/PERC
3 Xylophone
4 Marimba
5 Steel Drum
7 Impact
9 Philly Hit
10 Kalimba
RYTHMIC:
50 Oxygen

Friday, May 02, 2008

What's your water footprint?

The production of one kilogram of beef requires 16 thousand litres of water.
To produce one cup of coffee we need 140 litres of water.
*Slice of white bread: 40 litres
*Burger: 2,400 litres
*Kilogram of cheddar: 5,000 litres
*Cotton shirt: 2,700 litres
*Pint of beer: 160 litres
*125ml glass of wine: 120 litres
*Pint of milk: 1,760 litres

Synonyms: Virtual water, embedded water, embodied water, or hidden water

Key shortcomings of ‘Water footprint’ measures are that the concept:

1. Relies on an assumption that all sources of water, whether in the form of rainfall or provided through an irrigation system, are of equal value.[12]

2. Implicitly assumes that water that would be released by reducing a high water use activity would necessarily be available for use in a less water-intensive activity. For example, the implicit assumption is that water used in rangeland beef production would be available to be used to produce an alternative, less water-intensive activity. As a practical matter this may not be the case, nor might the alternatives be economic.[12]

3. Fails as an indicator of environmental harm nor does it provide any indication of whether water resources are being used within sustainable extraction limits. The use of virtual water estimates therefore offer no guidance for policy makers seeking to ensure that environmental objectives are being met.[12]

The deficiencies with the concept of virtual water mean that there is a significant risk in relying on these measures to guide policy conclusions.

Other limitations more specific to the MENA (Middle East & North Africa) region include:

1. In MENA rural societies, farmers are by tradition politically influential and would prohibit new policies for water allocation. Reallocating the water resources adds a huge burden on the farmers especially when a large portion of those farmers use their land for their own food consumption which happens to be their only source of food supply.[13]

2. Importing food could pose the risk of further political dependence. The notion of "Self Sufficiency" has always been the pride of the MENA region.[14]

3. The use of virtual water lies in the religious regulations for charging for water. According to Al-Bukhari, Prophet Mohammad’s teachings, The Profit said: “People are partners in three: Water,Herbs and Fire” (referring to basic energy resources). Therefore, and because farmers are generally poor and rain water, rivers and lakes are like a gift from God,the MENA countries might find it difficult to charge the farmers the full cost for water.[14]

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Home computer "lending library" PC Thèque

Merci Nicolas

Effect of home computers on training
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3666/is_/ai_n8722774
Start a lending program at your school PPT
Think "lending library"; how one school did it

DRAMATIC RESULTS:
Within a few short months after P.S. 234 launched its policy of allowing portable computers to be signed out for overnight use, some dramatic results could be seen. For example:
* Computer use by everyone increased; the powerbooks were almost always signed out in advance for days at a time. More people using the computers simply more interest and more knowledge.
* There was much more integration between the computer lab and the classrooms. The computer teacher began to have a significant role in facilitating work in the classrooms.
* Teachers began to ask the computer teacher for more help with software and hardware. There was much more interaction between staff members about technology. Even the solitary computers in classrooms were used more.
* Some of our parents began to work with their children's classes on projects that were tied to technology.

LESSONS LEARNED:
Here are some things P.S. 234 learned about keeping their computers secure and in working order.
* Security is essential. Locking computers up and keeping track of them is not easy, but it has to be done. Make sure your system works. (At P.S. 234, the system had to be re-evaluated after one computer was stolen.)
* Devise a way to transport hardware from room to room and from school to home. P.S. 234 used a cart with deep sides and lined it with bubble wrap.
* Have a speedy system inplace for repairing broken computers.
* No food or drink allowed near computers. P.S. 234 learned that the hard way when a staff member spilled his coffee on a computer.
Copyright Early Years, Inc. Oct 1995
Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved

Keywords: PCthèque PCtheque PC theque

Google - Microsoft - synchronization software nobody wants?

I find it difficult to imagine my data "living" entirely on the net; with all my files up there, not on my USB, not on my hard drive. Maybe the problem is with the notion of files in the first place. Files are just containers for ideas. Could a new "containerless" cyberworld be more appropriate? What will it feel like? Where will it be?

If we are living the information equivalent of the transition to the power grid from water wheels by Thomas Edison, what will the information equivalent of Hydro Quebec in 20 years?

Steve

Joel on software rant on Groove