“We do not censor the internet” says China. On the contrary, Harvard Law School researchers say there are 19,032 Web sites that were inaccessible inside China.
October, 2006
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Oct 06
Lightweight PDF Reader from Adobe
Adobe Labs announced a lightweight PDF reader which they called Adobe Digital Editions (beta). A lightweight PDF reader is a very desired utility given the widespread use of the PDF format and the resource intensiveness of the Adobe Reader. I had written about my choice of alternative lightweight PDF reader called Foxit before. So, I went ahead and immediately downloaded and installed the application which was only 2.5 MB including the Flash Player 9. As the inclusion of the flash player hints, we are talking about a flash application from Adobe. The reader comes up definitely faster than the Adobe Reader and it looks sleek with its all black interface.
Adobe brings a notion of Library with the PDF files and lists them pretty neatly inside the application in different views. Clicking on an item quickly brings up the reading view. It is possible to Fit the Width, Fit Single Page or Fit Double Pages. I have to say the reading view looks pretty sleek as well. Zooming is possible with Closer Look where different parts of a PDF file can be zoomed in.
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Oct 06
Tune of The Week: The Raconteurs
I missed the last week’s tune of the week post due to my area paper defense preparation but this week I am back on track with The Raconteurs.
The band is a band of old friends who got together. Jack White who is know from The White Stripes is doing the vocals and playing the guitar as well as the keys. Their debut album Broken Boy Soldiers has 10 of the bands new songs. They have MySpace page here. They also have a very interesting website. They have been touring England and now they seem to be back in the states. They are going to be in Nashville on November 19th. I am thinking this may fill in for the postponed Guns N’ Roses concert.
The song I chose from them for this week’s Tune of the Week is no other than Steady as She Goes. Instead of linking to an mp3 file I decided to post their video that I found on YouTube. There are also some live performances of them on YouTube. Enjoy!
Technorati tags: tune of the week, music, mp3, the raconteurs, steady as she goes
[tags] tune of the week, music, mp3, the raconteurs, steady as she goes[/tags]
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Oct 06
Area Paper Defense
Last Wednesday, October 25th, marked they day that all the work that I have put in to writing my area paper gave its fruit. After a successful presentation (more about that later) and defense, my committee agreed that I could keep on working what I proposed. This is a big relief because the amount of stress that was associated with the process was very high and I was working on this constantly for quite a while. I have to relax a bit now, and concentrate on finishing the work that I proposed to do. I will also start looking for a job as soon as possible.
Now, as my adviser humorously put it right after the defense, the bad news is, I have to do it now.
[tags] phd, personal[/tags]
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Oct 06
Guns N’ Roses Concert Postponed
As I excitedly blogged here, we were supposed to be at the Guns N’ Roses concert at the moment. However, it turns out that the event was postponed and has not been rescheduled yet.
Oh well, this is actually kind of good because I am still not done preparing for my area paper defense.
[tags]guns n’ roses, concert, personal [/tags]
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Oct 06
Internet Explorer 7 is Released
Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer 7 to the public. It will be interesting to see if the security improvements will be effective. I am also expecting that RSS will see more adaptation as it is now integrated with the browser.
Edit: IE Blog has the announcement as well.
[tags] microsoft, IE[/tags]