There are teachers who never make mistakes. … For me, so much of what I wanted to communicate was the passion for the subject and not the details. dear elena
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I was reading about the “I’m feeling lucky” pseudo-protocol on fish.cx, which suggests the idea of having Google show us search terms for results as they are shown. Here are some ways the extra information might be labeled or explained: “What you should have entered to find this page”; “Alternate searches that return these results”; “You might also try…” (I believe Yahoo already does the last one).
I spent almost an hour trying to do this one thing alone, and I still couldn’t get it to work right. All I want to do is put HTML code in my WordPress posts and have it stay there and be presented to viewers unmodified by the silly WordPress code-precessing functions.
It is not an intelligence-boosting formula likely to impress an Oxbridge don: watching Countdown, playing Sudoku, remembering telephone numbers and taking a shower with your eyes closed. guardian uk
According to Reuters, Google’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, made a cryptic comment in his presentation that one goal of Google was to “store 100 percent” of consumer information. zdnet uk
Werdna was the name of the evil wizard nemesis in Wizardry — anyone remember Wizardry? — Apple ][ game with vector graphics for dungeon hallways? /. comment
“This is almost certainly the year of the OS X exploit,” said Jay Beale, a senior security consultant for Intelguardians and an expert in hardening Linux and Mac OS X systems. “The OS X platform may be based on a Unix platform, but Apple seems to be making mistakes that Unix made, and corrected, long ago.” securityfocus
