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939 days ago
Friday ( 4/27 ) - Apparently, everyone was smiling, heading for his lovely home. Not exceptional for me. Did a bit of cleanup, rearranging and transferring of Emule files. Add some Yoga, WestWing files. Saturday The first special day of the first public holiday was adorned by my sleepy little eye. It was due to spending extra 2-3 hours on watching fancy drame, Sex and the City the night before. I did a little study before set off for shinjuku. Instead of taking train from takadanobaba, i took a walk. To my surprise, it is much nearer compared to the last time. Well, actually i sprinted a bit from time to time. Sweating all in the back of my shirts, i was totally obsessed with digging out the best frame i could, in a korean shop in shinokubo. While waiting for the glasses to be ready, as planned before last night, i headed towards the nearest "Bookoff", a local book recycle shop. Fortuitously, i managed to grab a good one. The first shopping in 2 months! Tokyo ...
946 days ago
The first special day of the first public holiday was adorned by my sleepy little eye. It was due to spending extra 2-3 hours on watching fancy drame, Sex and the City the night before. I did a little study before set off for shinjuku. Instead of taking train from takadanobaba, i took a walk. To my surprise, it is much nearer compared to the last time. Well, actually i sprinted a bit from time to time. Sweating all in the back of my shirts, i was totally obsessed with digging out the best frame i could, in a korean shop in shinokubo. While waiting for the glasses to be ready, as planned before last night, i headed towards the nearest "Bookoff", a local book recycle shop. Fortuitously, i managed to grab a good one. The first shopping in 2 months! Tokyo weather is not unpredictable as the notorious London ones. The weather forecast was totally out of shot. The rain came down in buckets out of sudden. Everyone was so totally caught inside the subway station. It was a bit ...
1186 days ago
A startup venture, EndGame Technologies , has designed novel computer modeling software to assist National Football League coaches with critical play-calling decisions--the kind that often determine the outcome of the game. Should a team punt on fourth down--or go for it? Or attempt a two-point conversion after a touchdown? The software, called ZEUS, is designed to answer such questions by calculating the consequences of each decision in a matter of seconds. Head ZEUS researchers Chuck Bower and Frank Frigo want to revolutionize football by changing the way plays are called. Already, their statistics on past NFL games have revealed that teams consistently lose approximately one game per season by making the wrong play calls in critical situations. And with only 16 games in an NFL season, each win or loss is of paramount importance. Football is a game of strategy and risk management. Each coach goes into a game with a plan, explains Dwight Smith, head football coach ...
1199 days ago
PRINCE KLEMENS VON METTERNICH, foreign minister of the Austrian Empire during the Napoleonic era and its aftermath, would have no trouble recognising Google. To him, the world's most popular web-search engine would closely resemble the Napoleonic France that in his youth humiliated Austria and Europe's other powers. Its rivals—Yahoo!, the largest of the traditional web gateways, eBay, the biggest online auction and trading site, and Microsoft, a software empire that owns MSN , a struggling web portal—would look a lot like Russia, Prussia, and Austria. Metternich responded by forging an alliance among those three monarchies to create a “balance of power” against France. Google's enemies, he might say, ought now to do the same thing. Google announced two new conquests on August 7th. It struck a deal with Viacom, an “old” media firm, under which it will syndicate video clips from Viacom brands such as MTV and Nickelodeon to other websites, and integrate advertisements into them. ...
