Mellow Motif

Mellow Motif is a collaboration of Natasha (vox), Eugene (piano), and friends. We arrange and perform Jazz standards repertoire and selected Brazilian music :) Mellow Motif's album was launched in Thailand in February 2009 under Warner Music and we are currently in the process of making our second album to be released in January 2010.

Life's trade-offs in 10 easy principles

Life's trade-offs in 10 easy principles: "The first four of Mankiw's 10 principles concern the way people make decisions, and the first is: people face trade-offs. That is, to get one thing we like we usually have to give up another thing we like.

Economics is about the trade-offs people - and societies - have to make, and about helping people improve the trade-offs they're making."

cigar box guitar refs

boing boing
songs inside the box

Use rsync to deploy your website

Use rsync to deploy your website:

"rsync -arvuz /home/user/brecksblog breck32@breckyunits.com:/var/www/html/ --exclude '.git' --exclude 'deploy' --exclude 'README' --exclude 'posts.php'"

Walking Randomly � The rise and rise of Python in computational science

Walking Randomly � The rise and rise of Python in computational science: "One of my plans for next year is to start giving short talks and tutorials about scientific Python to various groups around the University of Manchester. Ever since I attended EuroSciPy in Leipzig earlier this year I have been excited about the possibilities offered by Python for students, researchers and teachers. I genuinely believe that Python and SAGE will do for MATLAB and Mathematica users what R has done for users of SPSS and Stata. It’s the future…I’ve tasted it! Here are a few links to others who agree with me.

* Scientific Python tools use rising in education – a blog post from Fernando Perez
* A hands-on 2-day workshop at UC Berkeley – includes videotaped lectures
* Python for High Performance Computing (HPC)
* Should I switch to Python – Are you a MATLAB user considering the switch?
* Python in the Scientific World – From Guido van Rossum – Pythons benevolent dictator"

C Craft - Chapter�1.�Introduction

C Craft - Chapter�1.�Introduction: "C is the desert island language.

This is my favourite statement from a talk Rob Pike gave in 2001. Despite its age, despite many flaws, C is still the de facto standard, the lingua franca. Why? As with other older languages, inertia is partly to blame, but this cannot be the only reason. C must possess a near-perfect balance of vital language features."

Science Friday Newsbriefs: Dr. Rebecca Lancefield's Eggnog Recipe

Science Friday Newsbriefs: Dr. Rebecca Lancefield's Eggnog Recipe:

"Dr. Rebecca Lancefield's Eggnog Recipe

Friday, December 19th, 2008--

Ingredients

1 dozen eggs
1 quart heavy cream
1 quart light cream
1 pint bourbon
1 quart rum
nutmeg
sugar to taste (1/2 - 3/4 lb)

Beat eggs, add bourbon and rum slowly with stirring to prevent precipitation of egg proteins. Beat heavy cream separately until it peaks and add to the egg/bourbon/rum mix.
Add the light cream with stirring. Add the sugar to taste with mixing (1 pound/batch), then add nutmeg to taste.
Leave standing at least overnight with lid slightly ajar in refrigerator. Serve after 2-3 weeks in the cold."

Photobucket | surreal art Pictures, surreal art Images, surreal art Photos

Photobucket | surreal art Pictures, surreal art Images, surreal art Photos: "Find Stuff on Photobucket"

The C Programming Language: 4.10

The C Programming Language: 4.10: "Recursion may provide no salvation of storage, nor of human souls; somewhere, a stack of the values being processed must be maintained. But recursive code is more compact, perhaps more easily understood– and more evil and hideous than the darkest nightmares the human brain can endure."

Some Debt-Laden Graduates Wonder Why They Bothered With College - ABC News

Some Debt-Laden Graduates Wonder Why They Bothered With College - ABC News: "Like most students, Kris Alfred was repeatedly told in high school that everyone goes to college.

Alfred said he owes more than $125,000 for his degrees in theater when he's not even working in that field.
Photo: College students at graduation.
Some experts say students might be better off getting a job after high school, rather than getting a college degree.

'I work at a call center, and I make $10 an hour,' he said. 'It's surreal. I feel like a loser.'"

The Heart of Dartness

The Heart of Dartness: "Darts is a popular game, played both in the pub and at a professional level. Yet most players aim for the highest scoring region of the board (triple 20), regardless of their skill level. It turns out that this is not always the optimal strategy! We describe a method for a player to obtain a customized heatmap of the dartboard. In this heatmap, the bright regions correspond to aiming locations which yield high (expected) scores. We also investigate alternate arrangements of the numbers 1 through 20, in an attempt to make scoring more difficult."

Toy-A-Day

Toy-A-Day

shell tools online - xml formatter

shell tools online - xml formatter: handy.

ColoRotate: Home

ColoRotate: Home
"Colors come to life in 3D!"

Chengdu Restaurants, Chengdu Restaurants Listings - Chengdu Travel Guide

Chengdu Restaurants, Chengdu Restaurants Listings - Chengdu Travel Guide:

"Marco Polo
Add: #18 Zongfu St. Chengdu
Tel: 86711446
Description: A fast food pizza restaurant.
Type of Cuisine: Italian Cuisine
Opening Hours: 10:00-23:00
Average Cost: $$
Credit Cards: Not Accepted
Menu: Chinese, English
Language Spoken: Mandarin, English"

Bung Droppers

Bung Droppers

Did you ever have one of those days?

Diagrammr

Diagrammr: "Create and share diagrams by writing sentences!"

Ask Tom "iPhone optimized AskTom"

Ask Tom "iPhone optimized AskTom":

"you can download the asktom software (ask the expert software).

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/packaged_apps/packa
ged_apps.html#ASK"

Ask E.T.: The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Not relevant for design

Ask E.T.: The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Not relevant for design: "These studies on memorizing nonsense then led some interface designers to conclude that only 7 items belong on a list or a slide, a conclusion which can be sustained only by not reading the paper. In fact Miller's paper neither states nor implies rules for the amount of information to be shown in a presentation (except possibly for slides that consist of nonsense syllables that the audience must memorize and repeat back to a psychologist). Indeed, the deep point of Miller's paper is to suggest strategies, such as placing information within a context, that extend the reach of memory beyond tiny clumps of data."

BarcodeContents - zxing - A rough guide to standard encoding of information in barcodes - Project Hosting on Google Code

BarcodeContents - zxing - A rough guide to standard encoding of information in barcodes - Project Hosting on Google Code: "There are some standards -- de facto and otherwise -- already in use. This wiki attempts to catalog some possible standards for encoding various types of information, and suggest a standard action associated to them. It is not necessarily complete and contributions are welcome."

QR Code on a Business Card but how?

QR Code on a Business Card but how?: "How many different ways can you think of to get a working QR Code on your business card?

Here are two to start the ball rolling and when you think of others please add them in a comment."

vCardMaker: Make electronic business cards quickly and easily

vCardMaker: Make electronic business cards quickly and easily: "Address"

QR-Code Generator

QR-Code Generator: "Save this code to add it to your blog
or your documents.

You can also use the code's permalink,
or copy-paste the following HTML code:"

Travel by Cargo Ship Around the World

Travel by Cargo Ship Around the World

Travel by Cargo Ship Around the World

Travel by Cargo Ship Around the World: "A far more intimate and relaxed experience than you might imagine, the experience on board is a sharp contrast to the rough and industrial outward appearance a container ship tends to project. You will be one of a handful of passengers amongst a crew that is unlikely to number more than a few dozen. There will be no organized games of bingo or evening cabaret show. You might, however, be invited to karaoke with the sailors and you will almost always dine alongside the captain, who is far more likely to turn up in shorts and a t-shirt than full uniform."

Travel by Cargo Ship Around the World

Travel by Cargo Ship Around the World: "A far more intimate and relaxed experience than you might imagine, the experience on board is a sharp contrast to the rough and industrial outward appearance a container ship tends to project. You will be one of a handful of passengers amongst a crew that is unlikely to number more than a few dozen. There will be no organized games of bingo or evening cabaret show. You might, however, be invited to karaoke with the sailors and you will almost always dine alongside the captain, who is far more likely to turn up in shorts and a t-shirt than full uniform."

Travel by Cargo Ship Around the World

Travel by Cargo Ship Around the World: "A far more intimate and relaxed experience than you might imagine, the experience on board is a sharp contrast to the rough and industrial outward appearance a container ship tends to project. You will be one of a handful of passengers amongst a crew that is unlikely to number more than a few dozen. There will be no organized games of bingo or evening cabaret show. You might, however, be invited to karaoke with the sailors and you will almost always dine alongside the captain, who is far more likely to turn up in shorts and a t-shirt than full uniform."

Wii.com - Iwata Asks: New Super Mario Bros. Wii

Wii.com - Iwata Asks: New Super Mario Bros. Wii: "In this interview, we're going to talk about New Super Mario Bros. Wii, but rather than diving straight into a discussion of the new title, I'd like to begin by talking about Mario's roots. There will of course be a lot of readers who know all about this, but I think there are also people who are completely in the dark about how Mario began."

Wii.com - Iwata Asks: New Super Mario Bros. Wii

Wii.com - Iwata Asks: New Super Mario Bros. Wii: "In this interview, we're going to talk about New Super Mario Bros. Wii, but rather than diving straight into a discussion of the new title, I'd like to begin by talking about Mario's roots. There will of course be a lot of readers who know all about this, but I think there are also people who are completely in the dark about how Mario began."

Bones Theory

Bones Theory: "Soldiers are entitled to the best leadership possible, said Command Sgt. Maj. Michele Jones, command sergeant major of the Army Reserve. She said she follows the Bones Theory, which entails having

a backbone (courage),
a wishbone (a belief that things will get better),
a funny bone (laughter) and
a tailbone (“You can’t be the best if you don’t get off your tailbone and make things better.”)."

The Pomodoro Technique™

The Pomodoro Technique™:

"The basic unit of work in the Pomodoro Technique™ can be split in five simple steps:

1. Choose a task to be accomplished
2. Set the Pomodoro to 25 minutes (the Pomodoro is the timer)
3. Work on the task until the Pomodoro rings, then put a check on your sheet of paper
4. Take a short break (5 minutes is OK)
5. Every 4 Pomodoros take a longer break"