Nazis Screwed Up The Swastika For Everyone

I have been watching, quite impressed for a while, the articles that are appearing in Wired Magazine. Generally they have been improving at a great rate. Quite gutsy stuff. Particularly in relation to the shenanigans of the bush administration. For some reason this particular topic has been surfacing again in conversations here in Sydney and Melbourne, so I though I would add this little link here:

The Swastika: an equilateral cross, arms bent at right angles. For a couple thousand years before Hitler, it was used largely as a symbol of luck. And then the Nazis came along, dealing a blow to the swaztika from which the PR department of Swaztika Incorporated might never recover.

"temple entrance" by yewenyi [?]

eix+1

Only a mathematician would write a cheque like this.

new eos X

new-eos
Originally uploaded by monkeyc.net.

A camera that has lots of extra functions.

Patern Langauge

It is not often that I just pick up a computer programming book, leaf through a few pages and think, this is the best thing I have ever seen. Well the book on patterns in programming languages was one of them. What was even more surprising is that it was inspired by a book on architecture. In fact the I purchased the book on architecture (as far as I know, the first one). It is inspirational. Then today, on a Yahoo group about life styles, I also find a link back to the book's new website. Wow.

People liked our book very much. We were surprised though, when we found out computer programmers liked it, because it was about building not programming. But the programmers said, "this is great, it helps think about patterns in programming and how to write reusable code that we can call upon when we need it."

Genealogy Programs for the Mac

Well I am looking at programs:

• iFamily - really nice interface, no web export.
• reunion - cannot test properly, demo only allows 90 familys and no import. We pages are ugly, but can be customised.
• maxFamily - dies when I load 33 thousand people. Cannot cope with the load.
• osk - gedcom import failed. no linkages.
  
• hmux2 - also called Heredis. I am sold. Import worked easily. The web pages look cool.
  
• genealogyJ - runs out of memory
  

The test:

1. Load 33,000 odd people.
2. Generate the web page report.
   

Dolly Photos

Publish Post

This time Dolly's photos. Very good. I love it when people have interesting backgrounds.

Chinese-Australian Historical Images

A site that a few friends of mine have worked producing. (Sophie and Helen) It looks good, but they need to get a more powerful server. Unfortunately none of the Chinese people in my family tree on the Australian side appear in this site.