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15 ans / Eurostar / Pozzo Di Borgo
Ah quel plaisir que de "cruiser" (comme on dit chez les jeunes à lunettes de soleil nocturnes) dans les salons de Pozzo Di Borgo hier soir pour les 15 ans d'Eurostar. Mister Bouthier aux manettes, juste une évidence, Archive au menu (copieux) et une réception qui met le paquet. On attribue une mention spéciale à l'utilisation pertinente du 1er étage en chill out et à la qualité du service, avec mets et bulles qui vous atterrissent directement dans les mimines. Niveau exploitation de l'espace, mon stagiaire scénographe du cocktail a pensé à la soirée JPG Madame...(Ré)jouissances en série hier soir avec aussi la soirée Canal et l'event Reebok...Pump (it up, désolé...comme dirait notre Denisot national).
Book of Cats and Dogs, and other friends, For Little Folks - Published 1888
Read Here: http://www.archive.org/stream/bookcatsanddogs00johogoog
Neighborhood Ale House
In honor of San Diego Beer Week, here are shots from my collection of
Neighborhood Ale House - my neighborhood pub.
777 G St
San Diego CA 92101
Niederlassung in Asien: Artec IT Solutions setzt internationale Expansion fort
Karben - Der Business-Continuity-Spezialist Artec setzt seinen internationalen Ausbau fort und ist nun auch mit einer Niederlassung in Asien vertreten. Von Seoul aus wird Artec die Region Asien-Pazifik betreuen, die im Gesamtkonzept der Marktentwicklung eine wichtige Rolle einnimmt. Oberste Priorität hat es dabei natürlich, weitere Marktanteile für die EMA Archive Appliance in Asien zu gewinnen und bestehende Installationen besser zu unterstützen. Die Wahl fiel dabei auf Südkorea, weil das Land zentral in der Zielregion liegt. Zudem ist der technologische Fortschritt in Südkorea unverkennbar. Neben der Niederlassung in Seoul und der Zentrale in Karben bei Frankfurt am Main bereitet...
Niederlassung in Asien: Artec IT Solutions setzt internationale Expansion fort bei Pressehof komplett lesenvia Pressehof
Berlin 1989-2009 : le New York Times offre une comparaison en images
- A Division Through Time : très belle présentation du journal américain qui propose de passer d'une époque à l'autre afin de comparer un même lieu photographié à 20 ans d'intervalle.
- The View from the Wall : des photos prises par des Berlinois en novembre 1989.
Google launches Google Dashboard, allows users to see stored private data
Google just announced the launch of Google Dashboard yesterday on their blog. The key messages were, "to provide you with greater transparency and control over their (your) own data." Right. That's another way of telling the politicians and privacy-watchgroups, "see, we're not evil."
Anyway, what Google Dashboard does is provide you with a summary of everything Google knows about you; search results, photos (on picasa), Google Docs, GMail, YouTube and so on. Users can review the information and interactions they have on every Google site, AND delete Google searches. What? You didn't know Google tracks your search habits? ;) Now, Google Dashboard doesn't change a thing about how Google treats and keeps your information; all it does, is make you aware of it.
Mashable gave the best description, "Sure, it's nice to have all these in one place... Unfortunately, it's also an unpleasant reminder of just how much data you're giving out to Google."
Curious now? Peek here: http://www.google.com/dashboard/
From the Guardian archive: Outrages in Kent (1830)
The fact is, that the labouring classes have been long borne down, oppressed in every way by their superiors, and by the political system upheld by their superiors. They have been gradually thrust down, and trampled on, despised, driven to starvation, misery, and despair. The tendency of the whole social arrangement in England for many years has been to foster and protect the great properties at the expense of the poor and industrious. The labourer has been literally ground down to the very dust. Every law, every tax, every consequent change in manners, has been prejudicial to him. Consolidation of estates, destruction of small farms, enclosure of common lands, heavy impositions on the necessaries of life, the accursed game laws, the vexatious tyranny exercised by the rural magistracy, the canting, hypocritic interference with his few remaining pleasures under the pretence of teaching him religion and morality, form part of the list of those "unfavourable circumstances" which have made him what he is.
via guardian.co.uk
A timely reminder from this day in 1830 about the devastation the agricultural revolution caused to ordinary people (and the land). Ah, how times have changed...
Looking for chords to worship songs?
if you're looking for them to download, chances are, S.O.A.R. Worship has what you're looking for. Jackson, the moderator, has an ever growing library of PDFs and word docs of both chords and lyrics of most of the International House of Prayer worship leaders, but also other artists. See the archive for a comprehensive list.
Keep on worshiping!
rg
Forgive and Forget
For the human condition, forgetting is at least as important as remembering - sometimes more so. Without it, we are all bound to lead the miserable life of A. R. Luria's patient Solomon Shereshevsky, who was crippled by his boundless, indelible memory, or his fictional counterpart, Jorge Luis Borges's Funes. No forgetting implies no generalisation, no real present time, no amelioration of trauma, and no weaving of meaningful life narratives.
via newscientist.com
More on the nature of memory in the digital era with a review of two books. Total Recall is a utopian view of a not-too-future world where nothing is forgotten, thus fulfilling a desire for eternal life, according to the reviewer.
Delete (the subject of the quotation) suggests that we need to build technologies that will put 'expiration dates' on past data, to allow us to better grow as human beings.
I find it interesting that both books, and the reviewer, imagine that we, as individuals, will be empowered one way or the other. A less optimistic view, one I've mentioned earlier, is that it will be third parties - governments and corporations - that make the decisions regarding our memorabilia, and consequently, our memories.
