Turkey Abolishes Death Penalty

The EU made abolishing the death penalty a condition for Turkey to join the group, while international groups have long lobbied for an end to restrictions on Kurdish education and language-use.

One of the arguments brought against both the European Union and the European Monetary Union is that such organizations ( Read more... )

Whenever I start Windows Explorer, it takes some time to scan my hard drives. Then it takes even more time to open up a tree on the C: Drive. I hate this! All of my interesting data is on the external drive mounted at E:. How can I avoid the time spent opening the C: tree?

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The internet is simply a medium.

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In 1992, the internet was email and ftp. As trivial and limited as these applications now seem, they represented sufficient difference from the free and local bulletin board systems that a few people began to pay for shell accounts on unix systems connected to the interent. It was possible to download files from servers with the ftp program and ( Read more... )

Steps of the Metropolitan

It is ten years since 1992, and this is my first Animated GIF ( Read more... )

Some People in Manhattan

One of the subtle difference between digital cameras and film cameras is that some optical effects are harder to achieve with digital equipment than with film. I've applied photoshop's gaussian blur to an otherwise anonymous photograph, producing this image. The original image was captured with a Canon S30 near the ( Read more... )

self organizing systems are valid.

What is self?

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