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[Jason Prini .com] So check out this brand new “lifestyle” laptop… Have I seen this somewhere before?

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[Red Star Coven] The Pain behind the beauty of flowers: etc.), the ICFTU (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions) affliliate that deals with the sector, and deals especially with the appalling working conditions on flower farms in South Africa. I spent a few days travelling around, speaking to farm workers and trade unionists, and found not only appalling wages, but also stories of workers being forced to leave the farms they'd lived on for 36 years after they became to old to work. Also, the cut flower industry uses loads of pesiticides (flowers have to look perfect), and this isn't really carefully monitored as people don't eat flowers and so there's little danger of consumers being poisoned. But of course it is the poor peasnats in the rural areas who get poisoned, as they spray crops often without even rudimentary safety equipment.

[Pregnant Without Intercourse] Song for Norman: When Norman said he and my aunt Jean - who was his life for fifty years - were “goin’ down th’Margaree” it was understood that at the end of the day there’d be trout; speckled and shining, peeking out a shallow bath of milk like something precious glinting through the murky soup of a prospector’s pan. To understand the importance of “goin’ down th’Margaree,” you’d have to do more than listen to my uncle. In a sense, you would have to feel the rhythms of the language he used. You’d have to know him, and Cape Breton, well enough to fill in the spaces between the words.

[Tulipmag.blogspot.com] tulip... is for women about women!: "One of contemporary R&B's vital voices makes a triumphant return," said Billboard in a review of the first single, "Again," and early album reviews have also been glowing. "Channeling pleasure and pain, authority and vulnerability, old-school spirit and up-to-date sass, Evans is one woman who doesn't have to roar to be heard," said USA Today, and Newsweek observed "The songs on The First Lady live somewhere between hip-hop and R&B, with a '70s bump, and her vocals are soulful, uninhibited and seem to shimmer with light."

[Kmi.open.ac.uk] My Dog II - Marc Eisenstadt's Home Page Blog at The Open University UK: I’ve objected to these proposed boycotts in the national press and in a BBC Newsnight feature in the past, when an earlier and more contentious version of the motion was proposed. This time, most of my earlier objections were in fact specifically addressed — and yes, for those wondering about blogging/hosting policies, it’s OK to discuss this political issue on this university-hosted blog/site, since the issue is well-and-truly on the academic table already, as will be self-evident from the AUT motion and the history behind it, discussed at length on many sites and forums. Moreover, these are my own personal opinions and in no way reflect nor imply any official policy of The Open University [especially important to note given that it was an Open University AUT motion proposed from the floor, also not official policy of The Open University… further details at the very end].

[Edibletulip.typepad.com] Edible Tulip: I mostly bought in-season produce - too many enormous lettuces for one girl to eat, some incredible thyme and blossoming chives, baby potatoes, Ontario asparagus and some lamb sausages and rainbow trout from Stonehenge Farms blurb from the website: "not certified, but local: Ute Zell and Tom Greenall raise English game birds, chickens, guniea fowl, pheasants, Pekin and Muscovy ducks, wild boar, goats, lambs, and deer at her farm near Guelph, using methods based partly on organic practices, partly on bio-dynamics, but using conventional feed when the birds and animals are not grazing off the land."

[Blogs.msdn.com] Jay's WebLog :: Mike Hall recently blogged about me building a digital picture frame. It is true :). I'm going to post some images and some text about it once I write something up - I downloaded BlogJet for that very purpose. It's written in .netCF, running on a custom Windows CE OS. The reason I used Windows CE is that I wanted something compact that could operate without a hard drive - no noise!

[Blogs.msdn.com] Jay's WebLog: So, as I said, I added USB support for Mass Storage. For the platforms, I added a CEPC and Emulator platform. There were two custom modifications I had to make: Change the taskbar to be auto-hide and not on top, and launch my app (called "pictureframe.exe" for you creative types). To set the taskbar state, I added these .reg keys to %_PROJECTOAKROOT%\files\project.reg     [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell]     ; If your browser doesn't display it, there is an 0x01 ASCII below     [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\AutoHide]       @=""     [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\OnTop]       @="" I got these reg keys by manually setting them in the emulator, and using Platform Builder's remote registry editor to see what changes in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell. The second task - to boot up my app, I first added this line to my project.bib file:     pictureframe.exe pictureframe.exe NK S to include the application in the image. Then I added these lines to project.reg to have the OS automatically boot up my app:     [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\init]     ; @CESYSGEN IF CE_MODULES_SHELL          "Launch99"="pictureframe.exe"          "Depend99"=hex:32,00 The first value specifies that pictureframe.exe is to be launched, and the second line says to wait for Launch50 (hex 32) to be executed before launching pictureframe.  Launch50 is explorer.exe (you can find this in shell.reg in the release directory). That's pretty much it. Next is the: CD Preparation I took a standard CEPC boot floppy disk (there is none in the final version), and modified it so that it will mount the CD-ROM drive as drive R:, and execute:     loadcepc /L:800x600x16 r:\nk.bin The image is nk.bin, and the /L flag is the resolution to run the OS at (the Thinkpad could only do 800x600, the Dell could do 1024x768).  After I created the CEPC boot disk, I booted up Nero, selected CD-ROM (boot) as the CD type, and had designated the floppy drive to be the source of the boot image.  I was surprised at how complicated this was, actually.

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