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Tuesday, December 10, 2002
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Fink 0.5.0a Released: "Fink 0.5.0a is the final release of the popular open source package installer for Mac OS X 10.2." [MacMegasite]
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Spammer using my email address: "Earlier tonight I received a piece of spam, and I'm now receiving many bounces containing the same spam which looks as if it was sent from my email address." [MacMegasite]
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MetaFilter points to Beautiful galleries of alchemical imagery selected and complemented with watercolor by Adam McLean: "This is a fascinating collection of bizarre medieval illustration, as well as an interesting window on the proto-scientific worldview. His website features more images and even complete alchemical texts, for those inclined to explore further."
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IBM claims world's smallest silicon transistor: "Just 6nm in length, the new transistor is less than one-tenth the size of state-of-the-art transistors now in production." [Computerworld News]
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This week is busy. There are several articles to be written, fortunately short ones. One of the writing tasks is a vision article for an IT magazine: what will happen in 2003. I'm almost finished with this one, and I must say the task was not at all unpleasant. I wrote some extra text, which did not fit the 6000 characters limit of the magazine. Perhaps I'll have some time to polish the additional pieces for publication some time early next year.
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Two years of Research.fi -- Comment()
The Research.fi information service contains key statistics and other data on Finnish science and technology. There are also links for more in-depth information: statistical and other publications, documents and databases.
This two-year project has designed and implemented a compact web site on Finnish science and technology. The Finnish Ministry of Education coordinated the project. The most time-consuming part of the project was the gathering and processing of data, and updating the data when new information became available. The Research.fi service is based on XML-formatted data and templates, which are used with XSLT transformations to generate the HTML pages. There are also features for updating the news page, maitaining outside links, and other functionality not visible for the end user.
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