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10 Great Rock And Roll Lyricists
Published December 4, 2008, 4:11 pm, IGN Music
Poets, documentarians, and silver tongued foxes all. What's remarkable about rock's greatest lyricists is how little they have in common. Some are verbose and prosaic; others are succinct and poetic.
More of the Brit-Yank divide
Published December 4, 2008, 3:33 pm, The Star
IN MY Aug 8 article, I touched on the differences between British English (BrE) and American English (AmE) in respect of words – how the same words are pronounced differently, how the same words are spelt differently, how the same words have different meanings, and how different words may have the same meanings.
A Hobbled Sun Limps to the RIA Starting Gate
Published December 4, 2008, 1:42 pm, SYS-CON Media
It's a wonder it has the entry fee, but Sun Thursday showed up for the RIA race against Adobe’s Flex, Flash, and AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight – and for that matter the open source AJAX – riding JavaFX 1.0. According to Sun it's one of the most significant advances ever to come out of its stable. Once called JavaFX Desktop 1.0, it was at least two years in the making. read more
Installing Ruby on Rails in Linux
Published December 4, 2008, 8:14 am, NewsForge
Ruby on Rails is garnering a lot of praise as an easy-to-use, database-driven Web framework for developing Web applications. Most of the documentation for Ruby on Rails centers on Macintosh, with the remainder seemingly only for Windows machines, but RoR is perfectly usable on Linux computers too. This article explains how to install and begin developing with RoR in Linux.
Zeitgeist: Auf wiedersehen for now, WMU
Published December 3, 2008, 10:48 pm, Western Herald
So I’m back from Thanksgiving break, and I’m really unhappy about it. I am unhappy for a few reasons: 1.) I got to play with an insanely adorable golden retriever and dachshund puppies over break. There are no puppies in my dorm room and that makes school significantly lamer than break. 2.) I got to eat delicious, [...]
From AVA to Vintage: How to read wine labels
Published December 3, 2008, 12:41 pm, Creative Loafing Tampa
By Taylor Eason Holiday parties present a plethora of "impress people" possibilities. Wine knowledge delivered with confidence can bring out your "inner coolness," as well as shut down that verbose braggadocio trying to abscond with your date. Armed with a wine label, take over the scene with these urbane tidbits, both useful and trivial.VintageMost wines carry a vintage date, meaning at least ...
Robbo Robson blog
Published December 3, 2008, 6:33 am, BBC News
The Tees Mouth praises Ronaldo but laughs at handball excuses
Sink or Swim | With a new, fine-tuned album, Dead Sea Choir keeps afloat with tenacity and adaptability
Published December 3, 2008, 1:27 am, Urban Tulsa
A certain amount of audacity is expected from all musicians. Everyone anticipates arrogance, childishness and delusions of grandeur out of even the most talentless and obscure performers. There's a running joke (or observation) that most musicians are good at only one thing, and most of the time the... By Josh Kline.
10 tips for writing more maintainable embedded software code
Published December 2, 2008, 10:04 pm, Embedded Systems Design
Here are a few common sense rules for writing reliable and maintainable code
On a wing and a prayer
Published December 1, 2008, 7:11 pm, Mail and Guardian
As a head of state, to end up in a slick French hospital on your deathbed has to be the ultimate vote of no confidence in your own country's healthcare system. Zambia's Levy Mwanawasa was shipped off to Paris after his stroke in June this year.
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