February 29 is International RSI Awareness Day
(because it is the least repetitive day in the calendar.) see also <a href = "http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/02/29/rsi/index.html">Salon : It hurts so bad</a>
The Emacs Babel mode
"You give it a word or paragraph to translate and select the source and destination languages, and it connects to the translation server, retrieves the data, and presents it in a special *babel* buffer." mmmmm...emacs.
news.com : AOL Time Warner will open cable lines to ISPs
A word about Amazon
I have so far refrained from signing any of
the growing number of boycott Amazon petitions circulating on the net. Not because I like Amazon, but rather because I have *never* liked Amazon and make a point of only buying stuff from them when there is no other alternative. Adding my name to the list of former customers would be sort of moot. I have never thought that that Amazon was looking out for anyone but themselves. I find their software and data-mining invasive and the friendly spam they've sent me annoying and saccharine. To those who are suddenly surprised that Amazon is acting like a big greedy company, I can can only say this : Duh. Meanwhile, the
Public Radio Music Source finally has an (not very elegant) online ordering system in place.
Parand Tony Daruger : Manipulating XML documents with Perl and other scripting languages
