My girlfriend was in Paris recently so here's a foto.
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Don't you think it's time there's more investment in researching new materials that can enable humanity to build things like the space elevator? I don't think of it as a hype thing (I'm even a bit frightened, what would happen if one of those things fell, prospects like those in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy are not that bright...) but imagine things that could be build with this kind of stuff... Like those trains appended on a single "rope" above Manhattan, or even objects that were never imagined before. Things that will improve traveling, lifestyle, bring better energy efficiency etc. Perhaps it's something worth investigating.
Even though writing itself is a catharsis process, if it wasn't for YOU and your visits who knows if I'd still be writing this blog. Every now and then I look at my stats and wonder, are you just a statistical noise, a search spider or a real breathing omnivore. Anyways here are the stats for this blog that I've gathered with time.
I've found this ajax tag library framework. It's very simple in philosophy. You select a zone on your jsp, you send a get or post using the ajax javascript, it goes to the server passing through a filter, your servlets recreate the page, the filter filters returning only the zones that were invalidated. It's very easy and I recommend it even though it's visible there are some quirks to be resolved. It doesn't try to introduce new tags like ajaxtags but that I think is it's simplicity and flexibility. Another prominent library is the DWR but I found it a bit more intrusive although I haven't tried it yet.
I became an avid fan of the TV show "Lost" last year after my friends gave me a run of all the first season. It was something rather amasing as it sucks you right in just to know more and more and the bastards that are writing the show are always putting in more and more mistery so it's very very freaky by now. I could swear that the computer used in "Man of Science, Man of Faith" was an Apple II but I'm not really sure so if you can confirm please comment. AppleII had floppies so why would it use tape reels right? :). My conspiracy theory tells me that the Island is a secret goverment run fascility that hides either nuclear or biological stuff or something else all together but I'll be wrong anyways.
I wanted to post a screenshot of Eve. I found out that the best part of it is actually the people that you bump into. The first day was really something. I started with a drone, I passed the tutorial missions, made some 2,4 mil and then zap, I get wasted. So I make some rash mistakes like spending money on equipment I couldn't even use or buying ships that aren't good for what I wanted. So... I being down on budget accept a job to currier putting some 1,2 mil for collateral and I discover that it's 16 jumps away, I go there and find out that the cargo is like 8200 m^3 and my cargo holds 300! And you know what happens? A guy helps me by towing the cargo for me, plus later I get to know even more people on the channels. It sure helps break down my prejudice of MMOG's.