Welcome to Book Patrol's inaugural list of our favorite books about books of the year. The list is in no particular order; for all of them are worth a read, and as you will see, in the year the e-book took off, books about books were very much alive.

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自作のサーバプログラムに、いちいち setuid とか setsid とかログローテート機能とか実装するのめんどくさいわけで。だから daemontools を使って管理してるわけですが、だったら、いっそ全部のデーモンを daemontools で一括管理したい。

Sound effects are used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media. These trick of sound are mostly achieved by combining technology, ingenuity and creativity. Sound effects are important for digital media because an appropriate sound effect can easily resemble ...

Lately I’ve had a hard time keeping up with what services cross-post to each other.  If I send a status update to Twitter, does it auto-post to Facebook?  If I send a picture to Posterous, does it go to Flickr? What about FriendFeed?  I had I set up so many different tools that I was losing track of things.  I spent some time today ...

As more and more people turn to faster broadband Internet and ever-changing types of wireless networking, the same home networking router you used back in 2001 just isn’t going to cut it anymore.

SAN FRANCISCO — As fires raged downtown after the 1906 earthquake, residents of this city fled to two nearby districts to the south, Bernal Heights and Glen Park. Though part of San Francisco, both areas looked more like countryside then, with open ranchland, vineyards and orchards, dirt roads and wetlands, and a few houses. The windswept ...

A new dish became extremely popular among some Russian bloggers lately. Now it’s not quite clear who was the first one who invented this mod by pinning some uncooked sausage with hard spaghetti sticks and then boiling this alltogether and getting first “haired sausage” ready.

Boeing has announced their much-delayed 787 Dreamliner airplane will finally make its maiden flight later this year. It's still just a test flight, meaning customers who have been patiently waiting for the reported 840 orders to be filled will have to continue waiting. The plane is roughly two years behind schedule.

The CC PDF Converter is a free (open source) application that enables you to create PDF documents from almost any application (Word, Excel, Internet Explorer and more). The CC PDF Converter also allows you to easily embed a creative commons license in your PDF file.

The Future of the Social Web is here today and we’re learning that engagement is not a matter of if or when, but to what extent, how and what value can we deliver and derive from it. The Social Web is much more than a window into information and interaction, it is a completely transformative medium that is changing how we forge relationships, ...

■[批評もどき]「キモい」についてみんなもっと真剣に考えるべきだと思う。 00:25 　たまごまご氏のエントリ創作活動と「晒されたもの負け」の恐怖。 - たまごまごごはんに端を発した「晒し」をめぐる論争がどんどんカオスなことになっていますが、それを�

A card payment service commonly used by customers to avoid high transaction charges when booking flights is being phased out by two major providers. Customers who pay by Visa Electron are not charged transaction fees by airlines such as Ryanair, Aer Lingus, BMIbaby, Easyjet and Flybe.

NEW YORK, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices per barrel ended lower Friday, closing out the short week at $76.05, down $1.91, or 2.4 percent, on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

It happened at least once a year, every year. In a roomful of a dozen Harvard University financial officials, Jack Meyer, the hugely successful head of Harvard’s endowment, and Lawrence Summers, then the school’s president, would face off in a heated debate. The topic: cash and how the university was managing - or mismanaging - its ...

Para quem desenvolve com Hibernate, sem dúvida as exceptions que aparecem mais são a TransientObjectException (TOE), LazyInitializationException (LIE) e a PersistentObjectException (POE). Semana passada tive o prazer de ministrar um treinamento de EJB3 e JSF para o pessoal da Petrobras de 5 cidades diferentes e durante o curso várias TOEs, ...

On April 1 of each year since 2001, ThinkGeek, the online retailer, has devoted its home page to products that don’t exist. The names sound unlikely — Squeez Bacon, Surgestix Inhalable Caffeine Stix, p-Teq’s USB Pregnancy Test Kit, etc. — but they are presented as any item on the site would be: catalog description and list ...

未就職博士 (OD) の問題がついに新聞紙上に姿をあらわした。昨年秋の札幌の学会で、当地の若い人達がOD問題のビラを配っていたが、内容は”われわれをどうしてくれるのだ”ということであった。筆者の大学では、1967年物理系の学科ができたが、教官定員は�

ミルトン・フリードマンの孫にしてGoogleエンジニア、パトリ・フリードマンによるプロジェクト「海上住宅研究所」 2008.08.23

Emcoda is a plug-in for Coda, a web development tool built by Panic. We have always put our clients privacy above anything else, and have tried to make it as difficult as possible for spammer to get hold of any email address. One sure-fire way of getting your mailbox full of spam is posting your email address on your website, this is why we have ...

Gamasutra presents an excerpt from Naughty Dog programmer Jason Gregory's Game Engine Architecture; the book contains a huge amount of data on specifics to consider when developing a game engine. This excerpt, from Chapter 14 in particular, covers how the engine handles objects. For more info, visit the book's official site.

US forces had Osama Bin Laden "within their grasp" in Afghanistan in late 2001, a US Senate report says. It says calls for US reinforcements were rejected, allowing the al-Qaeda leader to "walk unmolested" into Pakistan's unregulated tribal areas.

(CNN) -- As many as 10,000 albinos are in hiding in east Africa over fears that they will be dismembered and their body parts sold to witchdoctors, the Red Cross said in a recent report.

Two things that always seem to be in surplus around the holidays are empty wine bottles and strands of Christmas lights. Turn the two into a novel lamp with this simple hack.

One common use of URL Rewrite is redirecting http://domain.com to http://www.domain.com. Many people are doing this for search engine optimization (SEO) so that search engines only see the one site, rather than two sites. The goal is to set a permanent 301 redirect.

Todos los logos y marcas registradas son propiedad de sus propietarios respectivos. Los comentarios son responsabilidad única de sus autores. Esta web ha sido creada con PostNuke, un sistema escrito en lenguaje PHP. PostNuke is Software Libre realizado gracias a la licencia GNU/GPL .

　朝日新聞によると、開始から１年を迎えるNHKオンデマンドが「今年度の収入は予算で見込んだ額の半分もいかない」とのことらしいです。 　NHKの番組コンテンツはお金もかかっているし、相当に質も高いと思うので、このビジネスモデル自体がそもそも成り�

Katie Kyser, with her daughter Kayle. Lacking health insurance, Ms. Kyser used a price-listing Web site to find a gynecologist who charged less than half the usual rate for an office visit.

La lecture et l’écoute d’échanges à propos des ENT de la part des enseignants-documentalistes posent la question du devenir du métier d’enseignant documentaliste dans un tel contexte. Au delà des déplorations habituelles et bien réelles des difficultés des élèves (et on pourrait largement ajouté aussi celles de ...

Great article. One area where we frequently have to have in depth client consulting is the relationship of competitor keyword research for PPC vs. SEO purposes. We’ve had clients want their SEO driven at PPC terms, where they find their competitors, and we have to explain that SEO should be geared for terms that PROSPECTS use and PPC terms ...

Version 1 of Backupify was built with less than $10,000. A friend of mine had suggested that an automated Flickr backup tool might be useful, and a few others agreed. But rather than raise a bunch of money and waste it on something that we was unproven, we chose to launch with the smallest possible feature set and just see what happened. The ...

Just LOVE this! We have the ’schoolyard kitchen to home kitchen’ philosophy in Australia, promoted by, among many others, Stephanie Alexander , restauranteur, chef, author, etc. and these basic things like food, shelter, social gatherings with family and friends, are what make our lives meaningful…NOT the latest car, toy, ...

In digital media, as in fortune-telling, the future is pretty much treated as part of the present. "What is the next big thing?" is a question everyone who works with the internet asks continually. But after several years of boom, the question of what comes after social platforms is no longer so remote.

Thanksgiving has come and gone and in many locales the frost and snow are settling in. It's that winter wonderland time of year again and we've rounded up some pictures to help celebrate it.

“I HAVE heard rumors of visitors who were disappointed,” J. B. Priestley once said of the Grand Canyon. “The same people will be disappointed at the Day of Judgment.”

A GROWING NEED FOR A PROGRAM ONCE SCORNED Greg Dawson and his wife, Sheila, of Martinsville, Ohio, help feed their family of seven with a $300 monthly food stamp benefit. Center and right, the food pantry in Lebanon, Ohio, where residents can also enroll in what is formally called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. More Photos >

Eric Miraglia (@miraglia) is an engineering manager for the YUI project at Yahoo. Eric has been at Yahoo since 2003, working on projects ranging from Yahoo Sports to YUI. For the past several years, Eric and his colleagues on the YUI team have worked to establish YUI as the foundation for Yahoo’s frontend engineering work while open- ...

We live in a web centric world right now, and if you haven't already, you'll most likely be facing website related dilemma(s). For example, maybe you need an email template to send out your company newsletter(s) but you don't have the first clue as to how to create one let alone create one that works with all major clients, looks outstanding and ...

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It’s hard to resist the rich buttery goodness of toasted pecans, especially during the holidays. These cookies are my idea of a cozy pillow of pure pecan luxury nestled inside a light and crumbly cookie. I stick with a few simple natural ingredients so the cookie isn’t too rich or gooey. I think they have just the right measure of ...

BLDGBLOG is written by Geoff Manaugh. The opinions expressed on BLDGBLOG are my own; they do not reflect the views of my employers, publishers, editors, or colleagues, with whom this blog is not affiliated.

It’s Thanksgiving day here in the U.S., and I want to wish all our U.S. readers a happy holiday. Since Thanksgiving falls on a Thursday, which is also a Mac Gems day on the Macworld calendar, I thought I’d mention a few Gems I’m thankful for—the inexpensive apps and utilities that I use every day to increase my productivity and generally ...

Les historiens du Moyen Age nous disent que l'habitant d'un village pouvait très bien ne jamais se rendre dans le patelin ou la ville d'à côté, à quelques dizaines de kilomètres de chez lui, mais qu'il était possible qu'il s'en aille visiter, en tant que pèlerin, Saint-Jacques- de-Compostelle ou Jérusalem. Mais s'il connaissait ...

La rimozione dei torrent illegali da Mininova e le vicissitudini di ThePirateBay hanno portato un po’ di sconquasso nell’ambito del peer-to-peer, non solo per i pirati ma anche per chi sostiene il libero scambio di opere non necessariamente protette da copyright.

Thanksgiving has come and gone and in many locales the frost and snow are settling in. It's that winter wonderland time of year again and we've rounded up some pictures to help celebrate it.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) plays a vital role in making your blog popular. If your blog is designed optimal then there is a bright chance that your post might appear in the top 10 in Google search engine. Design issues are a very important factor in achieving the very top rankings. The following article discusses about the design ...

Urban planning has led to shoddiness, squalor and ugliness in our cities. Let’s throw away the rulebook and allow people to build where they want

Over the last few days, Facebook has apparently been rolling out some UI changes to a small number of users, moving many of the navigation elements that currently rest at the bottom of the screen back to the left sidebar. The changes are subtle enough that they probably won’t spark yet another user rebellion against Facebook — aside from ...

When developing web sites for clients, a simple yet powerful value added proposition is to allow your customers the ability to easily change text on their web site, such as updating contact details, news items, or promotions.

Windowsのみ: プリンタやMP3プレーヤなど、他のハードウェアとPCをつないでくれるデバイスドライバ。不具合の解消や機能追加などでときどきアップデートされているようですが、その状況をリアルタイムでウォッチし、都度ダウンロードするというのはなかなか

I love the wreath. It is adorable. There is no way I can wait till after Christmas to find the deals on cranberries to make the wreath cuz I want the wreath now. Thanks for sharing.

你从网站上可以得到Boost发行版的所有的库和其他文档。他们被打包为ZIP, TAR.GZ, and TAR.BZ2 文件格式。 （在这里）既可以得到老的版本。

When Paul Graham wrote that the “list of n things” is a degenerate case of the essay, our first thought was “Wow! That’s for us!” And we’re going one step farther: we’re recycling an old “list of n things” essay from last year.

We live in a web centric world right now, and if you haven't already, you'll most likely be facing website related dilemma(s). For example, maybe you need an email template to send out your company newsletter(s) but you don't have the first clue as to how to create one let alone create one that works with all major clients, looks outstanding and ...

Mark Chu-Carroll (aka MarkCC) is a PhD Computer Scientist, who works for Google as a Software Engineer. My professional interests center on programming languages and tools, and how to improve the languages and tools that are used for building complex software systems.

这些路线，看起来很清晰明了。但对大部分26 – 32岁的程序员来说，如何发展，究竟该走哪条路，内心可能都存在彷徨与纠结。技术和管理，有如鱼和熊掌，不可兼得，这是寓言里的警示。但在现实工作中，鱼和熊掌往往必须兼顾。上面的4条路线中，不少职位可

「iStand」は、iPhoneやiPodの裏面に貼り付けて使うスタンド。吸盤式なので自由な位置に取り付けられ、画面角度の傾き加減を微調整することができる。ヨコ置きとタテ置きの両方に対応しており、動画や写真のスライドショーを観賞する場合に便利に使うことが�

As you probably know, the California-based company Apple makes a portable communication device — a device that an acquaintance of mine whose first language is not English distinguishes as a “self” phone. Though proper nouns conventionally begin with a capital letter, Apple spells the device’s trademark with an initial ...

You know what is quite amazing? My first day as a teacher back in 2004, I failed miserably trying to get the DVD player to play a recorded TV program. I swear I turned it on, I put in the disc correctly and that I had the right channel picked on the TV. Still nothing happened. A student of mine offered his help and seconds later we could enjoy ...

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Drop your bags, grab a drink, and grab the XP CD—it's time for the holiday ritual of fixing up your relatives' computer. Here are some tips and downloads to keep handy while you're cursing all the auto-starting crapware.

Whether your important data lives in the cloud, on your laptop, or on a different operating system, you shouldn't have to use sub-par tools to get at it. These downloads work with every major operating system, along with some not-so-major (mobile) ones.

Palestinian children hold a poster of jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti. Photograph: Nayef Hashlamoun /Reuters From the tree-ringed campus of Birzeit University, a narrow road leads deep inside the rocky valleys of the West Bank to the small, unexceptional Palestinian village of Kobar. It is home to a few thousand people, dotted with a handful ...

If you’re fortunate enough to have a Wii, you certainly know by now that it’s a really fun and flexible system. But no matter what you’ve done so far, there’s a good chance that you’ve only found the tip of the iceberg. Follow this list to find even more awesome things to do with the Wii. Internet Channel The Wii&# ...

Technically, 3 Dimensions refers to objects that are constructed on three plans (X, Y and Z). The process of creating 3D graphics can be divided into three basic phases: 3D modeling, 3D animation and 3D rendering.