Zemanta. Bibliography for your Blog

Posted Sun, 06/07/2009 - 13:10 by eow

I started using Zemanta a few months back and I really like it.

Zementa's goal is to "Improve the way you blog & write e-mails", by providing a simple interface for "enriching" your blog or email with related images, articles and hyper links. The contents is pulled from all over the internet, and you can include your own content, and your friends content as well. It makes it really simple to link to web sites like Wikipedia and Flickr. As you write Zemanta pullis in related stuff that you can include in your blog with a simple click.

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FileMaker Include Script script step

Posted Fri, 06/05/2009 - 08:55 by eow
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I would really love to have a FileMaker Include Script Step. Ideally, it would function just like php's Include function. "Why?", You might ask. "We already have a perfectly good Perform Script Script step. That lets me break up my code into smaller chunks".

Yes that is true, but when you call Perform Script, you get a brand new script, with its own variable scope. I would love to be able to have the option to "include" a script in the current one. That included script would run in the exact same Variable scope as its parent.

It would solve this common problem.

A script declares several variables at the top of the script, then it calls a subscript.  If that subscript needs any of those variables you have to make sure to pass them explicitly.  That is easy enough if there is one or two, but if there is a lot of them it gets tedious.

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Why I Support the Constitution Restoration Initiative

Posted Wed, 06/03/2009 - 18:13 by eow
United States Constitution

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The Constitution Restoration Initiative  (CRI) is an organization that is trying to reign in what it sees as a an all too powerful federal government. It's main objective is to try to get the states to call for a constitutional convention, where new amendments that supported states rights could be proposed and then hopefully ratified. 

This sort of a movement is typically associated with a conservatives and even ultra-conservatives. Often these movements are portrayed as just another another attempt by conservatives to cut taxes and cut federal programs that help those less fortunate then themselves.

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The Fallacy of Efficiency

Posted Thu, 05/28/2009 - 08:48 by eow

This is a response to Brian Dunnings post THE FALLACY OF LOCALLY GROWN PRODUCE, in which makes an argument that local produce is not very efficient. A comment from Jeff brought up Polyface farm. I continued from there.

The descriptions of Polyface farm in Michael Pollen's the Omnivore's Dilema, practically made me cry. The contrast between how Joel Salitin manages his farm and how most of our food is produced is so dramatic that it borders on the insane. How did we ever get so far off base?

I would suggest that we did because of a focus on efficiency at all costs.

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