Poem: Contrast

CONTRAST
by Emily Dickinson:
A door just opened on a street–
I, lost, was passing by–
And instant’s width of warmth disclosed,
And wealth, and company.
The door as sudden shut, and I,
I, lost, was passing by,–
Lost doubly, but by contrast most,
Enlightening misery.

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Photograph: Child’s Curiosity

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How To Backup Google Chrome Profiles

Ever since the launch of Google Chrome at the beginning of the month, users are insistently saying that they would like to see more customization features for this speedy-stripped-down browser. By customization, they mean more Add-ons or extensions, mimicking Mozilla’s Firefox.
While searching the Web, I accidentally found that one company has built a [...]

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Confusion in Cloud Computing Term

Even though we are in the initial stages of cloud computing, there seems to be a confusion in the definition of the term.
I understand that the organizations that are heavily involved in the cloud computing “revolution” are: Google, Amazon, Salesforce and Yahoo. Other traditional vendors like Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel and SAP [...]

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A Covered Bridge

Photograph: Courtesy of Philip Greenspun

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Joke: No One Believe Seniors Anymore

No one believes seniors anymore; everybody thinks they’re senile.  Below is a good example:
An elderly couple was celebrating their sixtieth anniversary.  The couple had married as childhood sweethearts and had moved back to their old neighborhood after they retired.  Holding hands they walked back to their old school. It was not locked, so they [...]

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Man Working in a Rice Paddy

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Avant Browser Upgraded to Version 11.7, Build 15

In an effort to give its users a high-quality and reliable Web browser, Avant Force unveiled a new version for its snappy web browser. The version of this latest security and stability release is 11.7, Build 15.
What is new in this latest version released on September 26, 2008?

Fixed the bug which kept you from [...]

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The Fusion Man Flew Across the English Channel

Man has been trying to fly like a bird for more than 2,400 years, yet has only begun to master the process in the last century.
One man who made up his mind to become the man first to fly like a bird—horizontally—is Yves Rossy, nicknamed “The Jet Man”. The former military pilot, [...]

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Mozilla Unveiled Thunderbird Security Patch 2.0.0.17

Yesterday Mozilla announced a new security patch for Thunderbird e-mail client identified as 2.0.0.17.  This security patch crushed two critical and five moderate vulnerabilities, as follows:

Heap overflow when canceling newsgroup message. (Critical)
Resource: traversal vulnerabilities. (Moderate)
BOM characters stripped from JavaScript before execution. (Moderate)
Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17). (Moderate)
Privilege escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution. (Moderate)
nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() same-origin [...]

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