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 [?]

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."

Printing Chocolates

Well I have been looking at getting a 3D printer for some time now, but the cost is still very high, though I have found a cheaper one - it does not work yet. In the mean time you can use the expensive one to print, of all things, chocolates!

Picture Australia

Well in a way this is a plug as I have been loading my photos here for a while. Picture Australia have been running a flickr group for some time now. They grab photos and upload them to their site as thumbnails linking back to the original. When people search the National Archives, they can now also get photos from this flickr pool.

It is quite a good arrangement and many people, like myself, are only too happy to have our images used in this way.

Calandar on the web

Well I have posted a public calendar on the web using ical. It is better than yahoo - for only 1 reason. It synchronises with my calendar on my computer with no effort. If you use an ical format application (such as apples iCal) then you can link automatically for the calendar. However I will not publish the details here.

The web site is simple and easy to use. Best of all it is free. Once you set up an account it is easy to link the calendar to the site. I have two calendars that I use, one is public, the other private. I actually subscribe to two other calendars, on anther site. One is NSW school holidays and the other, Australian Public Holidays.