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Comment Re:The conclusion... (Score 1) 7

That looks odd. The entire poem, for context:


        Ozymandias

        I met a traveller from an antique land
        Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
        Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
        Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
        And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
        Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
        Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
        The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
        And on the pedestal these words appear:
        "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
        Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
        Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
        Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
        The lone and level sands stretch far away.

                                -- Percy Bysshe Shelley

It really shows what can be done with the sonnet form.

User Journal

Journal Journal: AT&T Blocking Gmail?

AT&T appears to be blocking inbound mail from gmail, or at least from the server that is sending my mail. I've had bounces from two sbcglobal.net addresses, but one to a yahoo.com address appears to have gone through with no problem.

Anyone else have this problem?

Comment Division? (Score 1) 5

I don't see any references to the 36th Infantry Division among the top hits when I run that query. Most of the hits just say 36th Virginia Infantry, with no designation. From what I recall, most Civil War units identified by number/state are regiments or battalions, while brigades, divisions, and corps tend to be identified by the name of their commander. I could be wrong about that, though - I'm just depending on memory (rather than Google).

Lord of the Rings

Journal Journal: [Music][Beloved] I Will Not Forget You


I remember the nights I watched as you lay sleeping
Your body gripped by some far away dream
Well I was so scared and so in love then
And so lost in all of you that I had seen
But no one ever talked in the darkness
No voice ever added fuel to the fire
No light ever sh

Lord of the Rings

Journal Journal: [Music][Beloved] If I Could Be Where You Are (a trí)


Where are you this moment -
only in my dreams.
You're missing, but you're always
a heartbeat from me.

I'm lost now without you,
I don't know where you are.
I keep watching, I keep hoping,
but time keeps us apart.

Comment [Beloved] She Walks in Beauty (Score 1) 4


        She walks in beauty, like the night
                Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
        And all that's best of dark and bright
                Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
        Thus mellow'd to that tender light
                Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

        One shade the more, one ray the less,
                Had half impair'd the nameless grace
        Which waves in every raven tress,
                Or softly lightens o'er her face;
        Where thoughts serenely sweet express
                How pure, how dear their dwelling place.

        And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
                So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
        The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
                But tell of days in goodness spent,
        A mind at peace with all below,
                A heart whose love is innocent!

                        -- George Gordon, Lord Byron

But I used this one five years ago (3 August 2006). There was a bit more hope, at that juncture.

Lord of the Rings

Journal Journal: [Beloved] Bright Star 4


Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art --
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or ga

Books

Submission + - Indie Bookstore Refuses Amazon Author's Signing (typepad.com)

jaskelling writes: What happens when an author wants to promote his book at the Seattle Mystery Bookstore? He gets shown the door and told "no way." Why? The author's books are published and promoted by Amazon. It seems that Amazon wants to use the independent booksellers advantage of having a physical location to do their own promotion & sales with an author, all while taking away the business of that very same store.

The owner/operator posts his email conversation with the author — and the viewpoints from both sides are insightful.

Windows

Submission + - Microsoft to dump .Net for HTML5/JavaScript? (i-programmer.info)

joelholdsworth writes: Microsoft seem to be set on adopting HTML5 and JavaScript as its main application development tools for Windows 8 — is this the end of .NET?" "Microsoft developers feel left in the dark and very angry at the way they are being treated. You only have to browse the Microsoft forums to discover how strong the feeling is: forum post 1, forum post 2 and an open letter.
Apple

Submission + - Apple Steps Up in Lodsys Lawsuits (blogspot.com)

TwiztidK writes: Nine days after Lodsys sued seven little app developers in the Eastern District of Texas, Apple filed a motion to intervene in the proceedings.

If the court grants Apple's motion to participate as an intervenor, Apple has already submitted its answer to the complaint, and its counterclaim.

Lodsys can oppose Apple's motion to intervene. That may happen, but I believe Apple is fairly likely to be admitted as an intervenor.

Comment Your link is broken (Score 1) 4

Here's a new one: http://www.news10.net/news/article/141207/2/DOE-raids-Stockton-home-as-part-of-fraud-probe.

OIG is a semi-independent branch of the education department that executes warrants for criminal offenses such as student aid fraud, embezzlement of federal aid and bribery, according to Hamilton. The agency serves 30 to 35 search warrants a year.

I really distrust this multiplication of departments with police powers. They tend to be answerable to no one. Not that the local police are a whole lot better, but at least they are local. Any organization exercising police powers should be subject to direct public oversight. Not just Arne Duncan, even though he did play in the NBA Celebrity All-Star game.

That said, I'm not sure that this was actually unlawful. The DOE was executing a legal search warrant. Whether or not that gives them the right to handcuff him and keep him in a squad car for the duration, I do not know. It would probably depend on his behavior.

The way that this happened probably should be unlawful. Whether it actually is, or not, is open to question.

Transportation

Submission + - Los Angeles to Stop Traffic Light Cameras

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The LA Times reports that theLos Angeles Police Commission has voted to kill the city's controversial red-light camera program, rejecting claims that the system makes streets safer while costing the city nothing. The police department says the cameras help reduce accidents, largely by deterring drivers looking to run red lights or make illegal turns while critics of the technology question officials' accident data, saying the cameras instead cause rear-end collisions as drivers slam on their brakes and liken the cameras to Big Brother tactics designed to generate revenues. More than 180,000 motorists have received camera-issued tickets since the program started in 2004 but thecommission estimates that the program costs between $4 million and $5 million each year while bringing in only about $3.5 million annually. Members of the public who attended the meeting urged the commission to do away with the cameras, which trigger seemingly boundless frustration and anger among drivers in traffic-obsessed L.A."It's something that angers me every time I get in my car," says Hollywood resident Christina Heller. "These cameras remove our fundamental right in this country to confront our accuser. And they do not do anything to improve safety.""

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