Scale free networks in immunisation programmes

'Six Degrees of Immunization' Strategy Proposed article on Scientific American. What a great idea.

pydiction

Some developers in Propylon will probably be interested in pydiction for the VIM editor. As an Emacs bigot, I will have to pass. BTW, what's with the 22/7 rating? PI in the sky?

Comment capability added - gingerly

I have added comments capability to this blog using haloscan. If it slows down page rendition or gets spammed or otherwise ill-used I'll be taking it down again PDQ. Hopefully, that won't happen.

On the Internet, nobody knows you are a process

The non-distinction between 'actions' and 'things' on the Web/Internet is the chewy stuff in the center of this tidbit ITWorld, e-Business in the Enterprise article.

The Point and Click Preservation Society - a festive ITWorld article

Is the simplicity of the point and click web interface threatened by the growth in non-browser based web applications? Is the simplicity worth the cost in terms of inefficiency/lack of power UI features? Santa answers "yes" and "no" respectively in this ITWorld, e-Business in the Enterprise article.

OpenOffice in Government

OpenOffice is a very, very capable office suite on Windows and Linux. This article talks about a couple of government users in Israel and Texas.

Python 2.3.3 (final)

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