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Thursday, March 11, 2004
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A Tale Of Two Laptops: "Two different states, two different outcomes. When it comes to state-wide laptop adoption programs, one state did it right, the other is still floundering. Find out why." (District Administration via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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Why blogs are useful -- Comment()
Yesterday I posted a link to the paper paper titled "Blogging thoughts: personal publication as an online research tool". Today I had time the read this article. It is an excellent review of what blogs are and why they are useful!
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How To Lose An Argument In Eight Simple Words: "Two-hour phone conversation tonight with Stanislau, a Double Platinum Diamond Rewards cardholder in the Close Personal Friends Of Andy Ihnatko organization. We were having one of those intense and satisfying arguments that can only take place between two good friends over the phone or by two total strangers via an Internet message forum." [Andy Ihnatko's YellowText]
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Social networking: LinkedIn, Orkut, ICQ Universe, ... -- Comment()
As I wrote here earlier, a colleague referred me to the LinkedIn service. This concept shows some promise: Who knows whom knows whom? It seems that there are also other similar services starting up. Google has set up Orkut, which I know nothing about. Also, there is ICQ Universe starting up. Are there any other such networking services? Update: Apparently Friendster is another social networking service. Are there still others? Ok, here is one more: WordofMouthResearch.com. This site sounds a bit suspicious to me, but in any case they try to do something with social networking.
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Modeling an elastic linear plate with Elmer -- Comment()
The following picture shows Elmer solving a problem of (small) deflection of plates. (Theory of Reissner and Mindlin.) The case depicts an L-shaped steel plate under pressure. The displacements are exaggerated 50 times.
I have to say that Elmer contains much more useful features than I previously thought. Inside the ElmerPost visualization tool there is a matrix-language which makes it possible to process the result data like with Matlab.
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