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I used this on Asus EEE 1000H XP with eeebuntu.

First off, as you will notice, ScribeFire takes up the bottom portion of your current window, but its a static frame, so you can continue to browse without ever leaving the ScribeFire tabs. As such:

ScribeFire allows you to update many blogs quickly. You can update most of them all the time, and for Wordpress users, this is an ideal tool. You can easily tag categories, view and edit old entries, and create pages, posts, and drafts. You can even save notes. Also, an interesting feature of ScribeFire is that it has its own tabbing feature, so you can create tabs similiar to Firefox. This easily allows for multitasking.

Just as well, you can easily use the Wordpress categories. The default setup of ScribeFire has a panel on the right hand side with 4 tags: Blogs (manage all blogs form here), Entries (view all entries, notes, and pages of the selected blog), categories (check mark all categories for the post), and Options (standard blog options, in this case, Wordpress options like timestamp, tags, trackback, etc.)

The functionality of ScribeFire is almost, if not better, than using the standard Wordpress writing page. If you are a blogger, this is a great tool for you to fool around and play with.

Voltaire

PUES LA EVY!!!!
I got to see the hugeness that is Greg's son.
I got to talk to Mr. Kory.
I gave them a tour of my apartment.
And then Evy and I realized we talked for two hours on the damn thing.
Such a time waster.
I love it.

Why?

She provoked me not to learn how to use the computer well. The way I remember our classes, she could not explain our lessons very well that I even had to crawl toward our valedictorian's seat during our exam just to let her teach me how to answer the questions about Microsoft Excel and other programs I have now forgotten. Her teaching strategy did not excite me; it bored me to death that I did not realize I was already sleeping in her class. She is the perfect example of teachers that should re-take the teachers' Board Exam and then undergo a one-on-one training on how to effectively teach computer classes inside an airconditioned classroom where high school students tend to fall asleep and dream. And another thing: she is struggling with her grammar. I'm sorry.

That's why I'm way too behind with my peers when it comes to computers. I had developed this weird kind of fear a long time ago whenever I face the computer and then use the mouse and the keyboard. I remember being afraid of using the computer for fear of ruining the programs or worse, deleting them. So, besides Mathematics, cockroaches, snakes, spiders, drunkards, and gangsters on the streets, I was also afraid of computers. It's really embarrassing.

Well, the good thing though is that I'm making up for my loss. I am actually starting to explore more about the newest programs and learning how to use them. It's very difficult for me especially when I'm alone. The thing still scares me though. There's still that fear I couldn't name, couldn't explain. It's just there waiting to prance at me.

I'm writing this because I could not get the feeling off me that I'm such a loser in using this stuff. I wish I could just scream in front of that teacher's face for one minute and then go.

An open source photo gallery viewer in Java

It will have the following features:

• A pure java implementation
• Be able to see photos in a directory without having to open it (I am looking at you stupid Konqueror!)
• Be able to do a slideshow with selected files or directories
• Be able to have the previous features when loading photos from a remote location (using ftp or ssh)

To do this, I wanted to do a few benchmarks. Doing an informal test, I was able to make my MacBook load about 1.5 photos a second using Java. That is pretty slow. I then added another thread (since my MacBook is dual core) and got it to a little less than 3 photos a second. However, Mac OS 10.5 now has Java6 support for all x86_64 Macs. After that upgrade, I was able to get to 6 photos a second which I think is now acceptable. 

I then tested out how much work there is in drawing the photos. Here is an image of the panel that I created using 512 images:

It didn't take long for to load. Assuming that my parents are odd, most people will not have to suffer a long amount of time for the gallery to load (which will of course loading with a background thread). 

1) we had a memorial day bbq. it ended up being incredibly difficult since none of us knew how to bbq b/c josh always was the over possessive grill guy. great at the time, but in retrospect i wish he had taught some of us what to do when he wasn't around.

2) trader joe's korean short ribs are fucking INCREDIBLE. i want to buy 2000000 packs of them and grill them every single day. only one meal a day though. more than that would just be over doing it.

3) dave brought me a bottle of champaigne. yay!

4) people hung out at the house until about 15 minutes ago during which we found the following movies:

utter insanity. josh would jump out of his grave right now if he could see this.

that lead to dominos which lead to the discussion of this, a movie i had seen long ago and can't wait to own:
Der Lauf der Dinge aka The Way Things Go
i found it on youtube!!! woooooo!

5) we also talked about this crazy amazing screen saver called electric sheep. according to wikipedia, the name is in reference to the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Interestingly enough, one of my favorite movies, blade runner, was loosely based on this book.

6) NIGHT.

Now, I would like to turn your attention to an accounting information system and explain what it is. So, accounting information system is database which emits bookkeeper to meet his engagements. Bookkeeper’s engagements means record keeping in accordance with the legislation. Legislation, unfortunately, compels Ukrainian bookkeeper to conduct accounts of two types: tax, book-keeping.

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Yes, on the Third Monday of Pascha yesterday morning - May 12 (NS)! - some snow stuck to the ground in higher elevations of southwestern Pennsylvania (link may break), the Commonwealth where I and alot of other Orthodox live!

This discussion goes back to my recent post occasioned by the (Western) Good Friday Blizzard in the U.S. Midwest,* pointing out that the (small-T) traditional Western association of Easter with Spring is actually more likely to be fulfilled by Orthodox Pascha - for the next few thousand years anyway, if the Lord doesn't return in Glory first - because at this time it's usually one, two, or five weeks later than Easter, and will gradually get later vis a vis the seasons, over time, until of course it reaches Northern Autumn, at which point it will start moving back behind the other way, so to speak, toward Northern Spring.  Anyway, that means it's alot less likely to snow in the Northern Hemisphere, or be wintry-cold; not impossible, just less likely!

I've been prevented by circumstances from replying to A Simple Sinner's challenge there until now, among them my own continued study of the Calendar situation within Orthodoxy, and between Orthodoxy and Catholicism / Protestantism.  What I've learned is that Old Calendar Christianity - ie, most of Christendom before 1582 - essentially knowingly sacrificed, and continues to sacrifice, a little bit of astrological** accuracy in favor of perfect Liturgical convenience.  (As one calendar expert opines [quoted here], "However accurate we might try to make them, calendars should be judged not by their scientific sophistication, but by how well they serve social needs."  Or as Another putteth it, "The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.")

As a result of the determination of the Orthodox Paschalion or scheduling of Easter during the first Christian millennium (pursuant to the decision of the First Ecumenical Synod, the Council of Nicea, in AD 325), Western and Byzantine Christian worship services fell into a 532-year cycle discussed briefly and relatively simply here with relatively little polemic.  NB: Father Alexander, with the staunchly Old-Calendar Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, misspoke at one point: the 19-year cycle is lunar, and the 28-year cycle is solar, not the other way around.  Vis a vis the Julian calendar of dates and leap years, the dates of the moon phases calculated for planning purposes - approximate to the observed phases - follow a sequence that repeats every 19 Julian years.  And as the same linked paragraph also notes, Julian dates recur on the same days of the week every 28 years.  28 times 19 equals 532, the two cycles resynchronizing together every 532 years.

It wasn't just about Easter / Pascha.  For medieval Byzantine Christians, nearly every day of the year was - and for all Orthodox still is - describable in relation to Pascha, whether it's a day of a week of the Triodion (pre-Lent), the Great Fast (Lent), Holy Week, the actual Pascha Season, or weeks after Pentecost for the rest of the year and early the following year until the Triodion comes around again.  Most people don't make this connection - it took me a while - but literally every day is a Moveable Feast!  For medieval Western Christians, only the Season(s) of Advent / Christmas / Epiphany were taken out of the relationship to Easter, days of these weeks being defined specially.  (Byzantine Christians didn't have such a liturgical Advent [just our Nativity Fast], nor an Epiphany / Theophany 'season' really.)  When I was going through Catholic schools and seminaries, even "Ordinary Time" was discussed Pentecostally in terms of "the life of the Spirit in the Church," even if the name "Ordinary Time" seems like "generic/not exciting"!

Therefore, for Byzantine and High-Church Western Christians then and today still, any given day has two aspects.  Easterners characterize these as the Menaion and the Paschalion, ie, the Fixed and the Moveable - the commemoration of the numerical calendar date, and that of the relation to Pascha.  (This is why some of us consider it imprecise to call the Old Calendar as used in most of the Orthodox Church "the Julian Calendar."  Caesar didn't know about the Resurrection of Christ, because JC - the earlier one who only thought he was god - died too soon!  OC Orthodox' Menaion is Julian, but the Paschalion is Hebrew.)  Westerners traditionally thought of them a little differently, the Liturgical Season (Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Pentecost) or "Temporal Cycle," and the saint's feast of the numerical calendar date otherwise, the "Sanctoral Cycle."

Why is all this important?  Because as I said, the sequence of services - not just Eucharistic Liturgy, but also the Hours and some other Church services - repeated every 532 years.  Each day's services were also complicated by multiple commemorations on many days of the year, and because of the Menaion and Paschalion (to use the Eastern terms) seeming to jump with regard to each other yearly, a priest needed help putting together any given day's services.  He didn't invent them himself eventually, but had the accumulated Holy Tradition in this regard to guide him.  As Fr. Alexander said in the linked article, for Orthodox the key to this (big-T) Tradition is called the Typikon (or Typicon), a big book that describes all the possible combinations of feasts and fasts for the 532-year cycle.  ISTM the Church of Rome had something similar whose most common name seems to have been the Ordinarius, the basis of the Ordo, although as this (old) Catholic Encyclopedia article emphasizes, it varied a bit with the addition of local, regional, or national feasts, or those pertaining to a particular religous or monastic order, and their interaction with the universal (Latin) feasts; this is also true in Orthodoxy, without vitiating the reliance on the Typicon as a whole.  Examples of Orthodox versions of the annual extracts from the Ordinarius that were eventually printed by dioceses, provinces, nations, and orders of the Church of Rome (as the CE discusses) include these from the (Old Calendar) Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), and the "2008 Tipic" currently available on the homepage of the OCA's (New Calendar) Romanian diocese.  (I don't know if all the OCA's dioceses do their own Orders of Divine Services; the Romanian diocese's commemorations might vary from those of the rest of the OCA due to their Romanian traditions, most of the rest of the OCA being of Russian or Carpatho-Russian heritage.  And Alaska is their only remaining OC diocese, so its Menaion would differ from most of the rest of that jurisdiction [though they also have a few dozen OC parishes in other dioceses].)

So what?  I believe Fr. Alexander exaggerates when he complains that parishes and jurisdictions on the Orthodox New Calendar "throw the Typicon in the trash."  IIUC, they will only gradually, over the centuries, accumulate combinations of feast-days not currently covered by the Traditional Orthodox Typikon.  But most usage of the Typicon t/Traditionally didn't consist of the 'dartboard' approach he and others often employ - impressively - to prove its usefulness, but instead just marching through it day by day, week by week.  The Typikon in a sense was the calendar, covering both Menaion and Paschalion.  The same for the Ordinarius in the West.  I can't find discussion of the impact of the Gregorian Calendar reform on the Ordinarius and the Ordo, but since the Western Church went from a 532-year cycle to a nearly 6-million-year one, it has had to require increasing intervention by Rome to account for unaccounted-for combinations of universal (Latin) and other feasts, a significant departure from Tradition.  Or massive depletion of feasts from the calendar, as has happend in the last few generations, with the liturgical "reform's" increased focus on the Seasons, and the 'lay-off' of certain well-known but ancient Saints now questioned, such as Christopher and Philomena, and the Great-Martyr George for God's sake!  (Sorry, I almost never take God's Name in vain; but here, is it?!  In any case, Orthodox often include prayers and especially hymns from more than one saint-of-the-day, as well as from the season, in Liturgy, similar to what the Tridentine Mass did.)  As Dr. Roman points out in the linked article, this approach too is highly not-Orthodox - and he's an Eastern Catholic!  Or even a dramatic simplification of the calendar and approach to feasts: for instance, I have no idea what most of this even means, since I have no memory of the Latin Liturgy before Vatican II.  "Semi-double of the Second Class"?!!  Today Latin observances are in order of increasing importance: Commemorations (ie, de-emphasized Optional Memorials during Lent), Optional Memorials, Obligatory Memorials, Feasts, and Solemnities ... period.  In fairness, I don't know what most of the Orthodox Orders of Services I linked to above are talking about either, since I haven't had a chance to study the finer points of Orthodox Liturgy yet.  But I've probably seen or heard it in church, and I know it's all hugely valued by Orthodox Holy Tradition, so much that if you touch the Liturgy, there's rioting in the streets of Greece, even deaths ... or (successful) mass resistance to Communist-backed "renovationism" in the USSR in the '20s.  (I never heard that in "History of the Soviet Union" in college!)  And again in fairness, as Fr. Alexander points out, in the Orthodox New Calendar aka Revised Julian, there's no cycle, it's completely open-ended, so that it will require updating at the beginning of just about every century by dioceses or jurisdictions or synods.

Long story short, nearly all the world's Orthodox keep the Traditional Orthodox Paschalion,*** and the overwhelming majority of the world's Orthodox keep the Traditional Orthodox Calendar aka Julian (though a minority in the Western world), among many, many other reasons, because this Menaion and Paschalion are, mathematically speaking, internally perfect.  They trade one day every 134 years vis a vis the sun and stars and climatic seasons, for the convenience of continuing to follow the Services sanctified by centuries of Orthodox Fathers and Mothers of the Church, Saints, and the All-Holy Spirit of God, without requiring any more novel Hierarchical intervention than necessary (eg, when new Saints are added to the calendar), or the gutting of the calendar or its feasts and Saints (most of the world's Orthodox treat their Saint's name-day more importantly than their "birthday according to the flesh"), or of the Liturgical Tradition itself.  And it's not rare among Orthodox to express doubt that the Lord will delay His Return in Glory long enough to let us seriously worry about Pascha in Northern Autumn - though if He does, there's always the Southern Hemisphere!  (I guess then they'll trade kielbasa at the parish Pascha bash after late-night Liturgy, for "shrimps on the barbie"!  Or wait, they're shellfish and not part of the Fast.  You get what I mean though....)

Think of it computerwise: The raw data are (1) the universal calendar, (2) the elements of the Liturgies (Eucharist, Hours, etc.), (3) a national or regional calendar, and (4) a local calendar.  The Typikon or Ordinarius is/was the database assembled from these raw data.  Holy Tradition is/was the software.  And the annual Ordo's or other printouts are the output.  Michael Purcell (Orthodox) says his Menologion 3.0 software (both calendars) is ready for download and use on your computer, but generally speaking, the Typikon is in some ways similar to that, and in other ways different, as you could see sampled at the Alaskan and Romanian links above.  To really see it computerwise, a Melkite Catholic priest (Gregorian Calendar) has computerized (5.6 MB) an unofficial software version of his diocese's typicon for the next 1,000 years(!), and although he says the Hours will be added in a software update expected at the end of next year, the list of options just for Eucharist is more than the Menologion provides, because the Menologion isn't intended to provide those things.

(*--As well as part of a long-term ongoing attempt to get my head around Orthodox calendar stuff for the sake of explaining it here.)

(**--As they called it a long time ago.)

(***--Metropolitan KALLISTOS [Ware] in The Orthodox Church says Finland's Orthodox are required by the government to follow the Gregorian Calendar, ie, not even the Revised Julian.  I don't know why Constantinople's Estonians do, representing one in eight Orthodox in that country.)

You can keep it on a USB and use it to go. Picture Resizer 3.0 is also free and works on Windows.

http://www2.informs.org/Resources/Computer_Programs/Noncommercial_Software_Packages_and_Descriptions/

As an educator I think that you must be creative and have strong organizational skills in order for the use of power point to be beneficial. I feel if power point is used properly it is a great way to reach all different learning styles.

Imagine remixing a classic Beatles song, but changing the harmonies and chords to minor, and altering it rhythmically.  And that is just one example, this revolutionizes the recording industry!

I guess you could say I'm not use to this. I always find the need to be extremely witty to make this worth while, but then again that just makes me waste all the more time. And time my friends, is definitely something I don't have the luxury of having lots of.

Never mind that, I'm writing now, mostly for my enjoyment and at the request of an AWESOME friend. Actually, rarely speak my mind in front of people, I think it would frighten a lot of people away. But I guess writing it wouldn't be too bad, just don't me too seriously if I say something compeletey outrageous. I'm hoping the fact that its written will give people to time to absorb and react... hmm...now I'm just saying nothing.. again.

Whatever. Today was great! I went to the Asian Art Museum in San Fransisco, and thankfully my friends and I were able to go together (oh, it was for a class assignment). We started the day super early and met at the BART around 9:30am (Just a side note: we're all architecture students, which means we rarely go to sleep before 2 or 3 am and every hour we rest is HEAVEN! ) Of course everyone was a bit late, but that was okay, our spirits were surprisingly high for meeting on a weekend the same time we have class on the weekdays. I always appreciate outings with friends--I mean I do have friends, but few close ones, and only a couple I feel I'm pretty honest with--so today was exciting just because I got to know people better, and on top of that I met someone new.

Funny side story: this "new person" is someone I felt I kind of knew just because everyone else knew him as the "hot freshman," but he didn't have an actual name and personality until today.

Moving on. I guess we were all pretty excited to be seeing each other outside of school, and more specifically studio, because we were all hyped up and social. I'm sure that people in a bad mood would have wanted to shoot us all for our display of happiness-- I know I've felt that way loads of times ("People souldn't be so happy when life is this horrible. I'm angry so you should be too!" I know it makes no sense.) The point is, I was having fun. Its probabSince we're arch. majors we're all pretty quirky--i take pride in that--so I think our personalities have a good mix:

there's the asshole who takes every opportunity to say something mean, which usually doen't apply to anything we're saying anyways, but I find hilarious

the always hyper giggly girl who finds something funny in everything we see, do , say (she's optimism in a group of pessimistic people)

the new couple--they always give us something to talk about

the sweet realistic one who brings attention to every weird thing that we do when we're together

and the "hot freshman" well he's a funny guy, who apparently gets stocked in art museums by really nervous old men (I'm not kidding!)

and me.. not sure what I bring to the table, I can't really judge myself, but I guess ... my random comments and ability to relate to all my Asian friends, and sometimes out-Asian them! mwahahaha!

All in all, there really isn't ever a time when our weird/akwardness stops. I guess today the best example would be the following: We all know each other relatively well, I mean we're in studio all the time, but even so we decided to start our tour in a pretty conventional way...for strangers. Yeah, we all introduced ourselves; we covered the basic four questions: name, grade, majors/minors, and where you come from. Now remember that we were a group of 8, so we continued this for about five minutes; really, I don't know how we decided to do this, but we all circled up and introduced ourselves like it was the first day of class two years ago! Just to add on to the awkwardness of the day the exhibit we went to see was called "Dreams and Desires", you can imagine... lots of graphic paintings on scrolls(but I do have to cut myself off and say that the colors and artistic mastery were incredible! Yay Japanese artists!). Other than that, we took lots of interesting photos together, most of them show our reactions to some of the art work/ carvings/ sculptures/etc. Once I get it from the multiple cameras that came along with us today I'll share.

Mkay, I think its time to install Adobe CS3 collection! I'm so excited! I've dedicated the last couple days to freeing up at least 18 gigs of hard drive to get it all on my laptop. It was a painful processes of deleting movies, music, pictures, and computer programs, but i keep thinking that it will all be worth it! Oh yeah, I just finished installing AutoCAD 2007 too; I know I'm so computer savvy!

so I'll leave you with that.

How does this relate to genealogy? Well, iBook, PowerBook, and MacBook are all relatives. 42 and Excalibur are cousins, noting that they are G4's... Alright, enough with the frivolous talk. When I acquire a new laptop, I intend to purchase a genealogy program. In my links, I have a growing list of computer programs that I am considering.

Source: Pixel's programming languages study page

Frets on Fire

"Frets on Fire is a game of musical skill and fast fingers. The aim of the game is to play guitar with the keyboard as accurately as possible." - Source

Frets on Fire is an amazing program that allows you to play a Guitar Hero like game on your computer without spending $80-100 on the guitar and game. This game is free and guess what! You can put ANY songs you want on it! I have found a good collection of songs you can download for it and the link is below. As for the game, a Free download can be found below as well.

FoF Download

A Good Collection of Songs to use with FoF

Enjoy rocking out on your keyboard!

~Musicmasteria

ClearType Tuner: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/Step1.aspx

Think.

If one were to, at a point in time, glimpse into the future, they would be seeing a result of the current path they were on prior to that point in time.  Being that the mere act of glimpsing into the future has now altered that current path you will inadvertently and invariably change the path you were just on making the future you are glimpsing now impossible.

In accordance with this thinking it is possible that someone might get confused and believe that the future which they glimpsed came true.  This would happen primarily because the act of glimpsing the future happened to not change the current path significantly enough to change the end result however, due to the addition of glimpsing the future into the path, minute details such as the exact timing of events will be altered if only by the amount of time it took to glimpse the future and thus no glimpsed future will be 100% accurate although it may appear to be.  In the same respect, glimpsing the future could cause someone to change their path so drastically that no part of the glimpsed future will ever come true and the person may never realize they were actually glimpsing the future.

Ponder.

Someone is able to tap into the supercomputer of G-d in which all knowledge of the goings on of the universe and all its people and creatures and possibilities are logged into it.  They are able to develop a program which takes all this data and is able to predict all possible futures by locking in a person’s current path of action and accounting for all possible directions they might take and all possible people, places, and things they might come into contact with and all of the possible interactions this person could have with each.  The program can then select the top ten options which will yield the best outcomes.  A person walks up to the supercomputer of G-d and opens the future predicting program.  This person wants the program to determine the ten best possible outcomes from moving forward from the current path they are on.

The program locked into the supercomputer of G-d containing all the knowledge and possibilities of and in the universe will give this person the same top 10 results every single time regardless of the path they are on.  Every result will display the person still standing in front of the computer waiting for an answer.  The logic behind this: The person was currently on the path of going to the computer to have it make a decision on what would be the next course of action which would yield the best result.  The person is waiting for the computer program to make a decision for it, so the current path is waiting for the computer to make a decision of the possible outcomes of the person’s current path, so this is all the computer will see, so no paths are different and can’t move beyond the computer so all 10 options will be the same and be the same for every person.  Thus, creating a future glimpsing program would be impossible.

Note.

Well.  It made sense in my head.  I was stoned.