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Kyoto

Why are political discussions always debated in abstract terms, or concepts that ordinary people, like myself, don’t understand? Take the Kyoto Protocol for instance. What does it say? How does it work exactly, in laymen’s speak? Hold the big words. How much carbon dioxide emission can the earth really sustain? Isn’t the Kyoto Protocol too [...]

4.06.2004 10:45 am : Bias : No Comments

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Make your own biodiesel: “Anybody can make biodiesel. It’s easy, you can make it in your kitchen — and it’s BETTER than the petro-diesel fuel the big oil companies sell you.”
Feed the Worms Who Write Worms to the Worms - The economic logic of executing computer hackers: “If we execute murderers, why don’t we execute [...]

3.06.2004 12:20 pm : Links : No Comments

Trimming

A caption, when combined with an input control, usually ends with a colon and a space. So, you get “Name: “, “Address: “, etc. Here’s a tip: add them separately during presentation. Especially when you dynamically insert captions from a database or XML-file (e.g. because the application is multilingual). This avoids problems with RTRIM/trimming in [...]

3.06.2004 12:16 pm : Code : No Comments

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