Creative my . It's a good algorithm, I will concede. But very short on vocabulary. Even the poorest sports writer is read before he is paid. Comparing this with stuff I would read 1. The vocabulary is tiny 2. The writer sounds disinterested and random. 3. Too much appeal to odds, without any courage, zeal, endurance, skill, fighting spirit

It's not an electronic whatsit he wants to play with, it's you! There is not a substitute for a person teaching him and loving him at that age. As for toys, the simple things work best. I was given 2 x $60 'activity sets' on the birth of my first. I put him down with them one night, and watched him crawl past them as if they didn't exist to an old wine bottle, which he played with for 2 hours.. Biggest reaction is in having a human talk to him.

IMHO the best thing you can do is build their hope in the ressurection as promised by the Bible. Some very heartwarming promises are there for people to read. It is not actually a good idea to keep memories of a dead loved one in front of people, as it stops them moving on. People who leave a dead one's slippers on the hearth, for instance, find it very difficult to ever get on with life. Revisiting those times will mean recalling the anxious years Mother was dying, and the pain, and will not be a good place for young daughters to go. Photograph a special moment, and have it painted, or give them lockets with her photo there. Snap her while she still can smile. They can open the lockets, or close them.

This is not a comment on the wisdom or otherwise of your suggestion, but of practical value. I have a (rooted) HTC dream and if you go that route, replace the battery with one of the double size 2200 mAh ones you can buy on ebay. Also check sensitivity. As a GPS device, my phone is disappointing, because, for instance, it showed me on the wrong one of two parallel roads while I was trying to navigate with it. Other devices receive a poor signal better. But I can't talk into my Garmin. The phone has that extra advantage of an SOS call, and 'Latitude' which allows geolocation if he breaks his backside in some remote area. Also useful is the software to locate from mobile towers, if you can get it.

I got some Dutch thing back plugged into a laptop in the day, Only 8 bit digital, which is crap. (Picoscope's big brother?) It was slow to work right, but they kept asking for it back to add more pullup resistors. I scoped the parallel port with a real 'scope to find nothing was going anywhere near 0V, told them, and they fixed it. Then I had it on a 380V dc Drive, the fuse blew, the inductor peaked, and blew scope, probe & laptop. Burned tracks accross the boards! The small print said something about 500v max, which is also crap :-(. I used a cheap 20Mhz, because if you were anywhere out in industry you could believe so little of what you saw anyhow, because the leads picked up noise. I never bought Tektronix, and never regretted it. Unless you know you're going to be in low noise environments, keep your money in your pocket. Then you put it back in your car, and bounce it around until the next time you want a 'scope. Buy a well specified meter - not one of these 'scope jobs, but frequency, capacitance, etc. The fact is if you're doing component repair on site (like I was), you're a loser these days. You're doing Yes/No tests and swapping boards. The clever stuff is done back in the lab, and leave the good 'scope there.

It strikes me that a goodly number of Industrial companies would need support for older software. The cycle is this: A company buys a machine ($0.5M) and runs it for 5 years. During that time, the developers move on, work for the opposition or generally become obnoxious and if you ring up looking for support on a 7-8 year old machine nobody remembers any of it! As for the approach, if you know C, C++ isn't that bad, but wherever you go you need the ability to keep up to date with many languages, and learn what's coming out. I would do an open source project. Adopt a redundant one needing maintainers, or do your own. Then you'll have something to be hired on. People won't hire cobwebs, they need current skills.

That's it. Get that and google them. I am business_kid. You will see in a second where I hang out, what sort of interests & knowledge I have. Certs are no certainty - they show a professional. But I knew a mechanical engineer with a good degree who was in reality only a 'biro engineer'. He could talk a good job, but niot do it.Previous work measures flair. A short test is going to have to be be too short.

My guess is someone who mattered in google got seriously fed up with the idea of having their servers hacked. That isn't an everyday occurrence in a linux box, whereas it can happen every day and you wouldn't notice in M$ software. It certainly isn't regular for google to be hacked. Now the strength of various password systems are known, and they all can be broken in time. If they are going to have this level of effort directed against them, what can they do? Even if they do they best, they will continue to have trouble..

Report is true, or at least carried on Irish news today. The Irish police were informed by a telex :-/. They seem to forget that not so long ago, there was a list of 44 illegal organisations or cover names for same (about a dozen at ir's worst) in the business of _using_ explosives here. Nearly all have disarmed, but a few new ones have started. Then there's gangs, drug barons, etc. How did they know it was law abiding people they had on board?

Minimum pay here is €8.65 (=$10-$12) per hour. It's a bit like a football apprentice. Hundreds start, but few make the top team. Use whatever chances you get to shine, and learn stuff. Some come through, most go away. Learn to lick ass. Try not to have the breakdown before you're 30. Keep your eye on job ads.

There is a known and common enough mutation of fruit flies that gives them 4 wings. They then cannot fly, because muscles only go to 2 wings, and the movement of them is blocked by the other two. If evolutionists actually found in the wild what they told us there were billions of (= a Mutation), you would expect them to misunderstand it. Did they tell us how many flight muscles there were?

Yeah. We don't need your wife. There's plenty of good people to send: Bill Gates, Richard Dawkins, George Bush, to name but three. We should award people the privilege by popular consent.