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	<title>Balafon &#187; Gordon</title>
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		<title>Neurocognitive Linguistics Lab v1.0.2 Released</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have released a new version (1.0.2) of the Neurocognitive Linguistics Laboratory software. The program is available for download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. This update contains mostly user interface improvements, including: Added some sample files to the distribution. Cut and paste: you can now cut, copy and paste network items. You can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have released a new version (1.0.2) of the <a href="http://bitbucket.org/kulibali/neurocogling/wiki/Home">Neurocognitive Linguistics Laboratory</a> software.</p>
<p>The program is available for <a href="http://bitbucket.org/kulibali/neurocogling/downloads">download</a> for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.</p>
<p>This update contains mostly user interface improvements, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added some sample files to the distribution.</li>
<li>Cut and paste: you can now cut, copy and paste network items.</li>
<li>You can now zoom in and out of the network view.</li>
<li>Printing support: you can print network diagrams or export them to a variety of graphics formats.</li>
<li>Implemented node threshold learning similar to that in <a href="http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/19501">Colin Harrison&#8217;s dissertation</a>.</li>
<li>Added a network item type for text labels.</li>
<li>Added some nice icons from the <a href="http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/">Silk icon set</a>.</li>
<li>You can now edit common properties when more than one item is selected.</li>
</ul>
<p>Please see the <a href="http://bitbucket.org/kulibali/neurocogling/wiki/Changelog">changelog </a>for further details.</p>
<p>Neurocognitive Linguistics Lab (&#8220;NeuroLab&#8221; for short) is a program that allows you to experiment with the relational networks of <a href="http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lamb/">Sydney Lamb</a>&#8216;s <a href="http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lngbrain/main.htm">neurocognitive linguistics model</a> using a convenient GUI, and record the results of your experiments in tabular form.</p>
<p>The Neurocognitive Linguistics Lab is Copyright (C) 2010 Gordon Tisher, and available under the terms of the <a href="http://bitbucket.org/kulibali/neurocogling/wiki/BSDLicense">BSD License</a>.</p>
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		<title>Aux armes, citoyens!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charlie Stross waxes sycophantic about France. One of his reasons is that France refused to go to war with Iraq. Oh so principled. Meanwhile, the French were: Getting cheap conflict hardwood from civil-war-ravaged Liberia. Bombing the crap out of Cote d&#8217;Ivoire. Slaughtering peaceful protesters, also in Cote d&#8217;Ivoire.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Charlie Stross <a href="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/07/five-reasons-to-envy-the-frenc.html">waxes sycophantic</a> about France.  One of his reasons is that France refused to go to war with Iraq.  Oh so principled.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the French were:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.globalwitness.org/media_library_detail.php/881/en/international_timber_company_dlh_accused_of_fundin">Getting cheap conflict hardwood from civil-war-ravaged Liberia</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2004/11/9/french_forces_destroy_ivory_coast_airforce">Bombing the crap out of Cote d&#8217;Ivoire</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/11/9/140522.shtml">Slaughtering peaceful protesters, also in Cote d&#8217;Ivoire</a>.</li>
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		<title>Sending Outlook Meeting invitations from C#</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In case anyone needs to send Outlook meeting invitations from C# (or VB.NET, etc.), I have found the following resources useful: http://chuckdotnet.blogspot.com/2007/10/send-outlook-meeting-requests-with.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/461889/sending-outlook-meeting-requests-without-outlook http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2654743/cancel-outlook-meeting-requests-via-mailmessage-in-c It turned out that adapting none of the code in these links worked correctly (the goal is to have Outlook add the &#8220;Attend&#8221;, etc. buttons) the only way that worked for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In case anyone needs to send Outlook meeting invitations from C# (or VB.NET, etc.), I have found the following resources useful:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://chuckdotnet.blogspot.com/2007/10/send-outlook-meeting-requests-with.html">http://chuckdotnet.blogspot.com/2007/10/send-outlook-meeting-requests-with.html</a></li>
<li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/461889/sending-outlook-meeting-requests-without-outlook">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/461889/sending-outlook-meeting-requests-without-outlook</a></li>
<li><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2654743/cancel-outlook-meeting-requests-via-mailmessage-in-c">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2654743/cancel-outlook-meeting-requests-via-mailmessage-in-c</a></li>
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<p>It turned out that adapting none of the code in these links worked correctly (the goal is to have Outlook add the &#8220;Attend&#8221;, etc. buttons) the only way that worked for me was to send a request, and then cut-n-paste the resulting ICAL file, filling the relevant fields with my data.</p>
<p>It seems Outlook is incredibly finicky in what it accepts, and incredibly liberal in what it generates.</p>
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		<title>La Fundamenta Krestomatio</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linguistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[esperanto]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Memori vortojn kaj gramatikajn leĝojn estas la plej malgranda parto da lingva lernado. Estas ĉiam multaj manieroj esprimi tiun, kiun oni volas diri. Sed kutime estas plej populara vojo paroli, kies uzo distingas inter flua kaj malflua uzantaj. Do kial neniam ajn rekomendiĝis la Fundamenta Krestomatio al mi? Estas granda ekzemplaro de stilo kaj kutimoj [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Memori vortojn kaj gramatikajn leĝojn estas la plej malgranda parto da lingva lernado.</p>
<p>Estas ĉiam multaj manieroj esprimi tiun, kiun oni volas diri.  Sed kutime estas plej populara vojo paroli, kies uzo distingas inter flua kaj malflua uzantaj.</p>
<p>Do kial neniam ajn rekomendiĝis la <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8224">Fundamenta Krestomatio</a> al mi?  Estas granda ekzemplaro de stilo kaj kutimoj de Esperanta uzado.</p>
<p>Ĝies stilo estas kompreneble klasika, sed ĝi estas solida bazo sur kio kreskigi onies esperantan sperton.</p>
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		<title>Vat-Grown Organs: Faster, Please!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Space & Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A research team at Yale has successfully grown rat lungs in a vat, and implanted them in rats which then used them to breathe.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A research team at Yale has <a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/06/rats-breathe-with-lab-grown-lung.html">successfully grown rat lungs</a> in a vat, and implanted them in rats which then used them to breathe.</p>
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		<title>People are Idiots</title>
		<link>http://balafon.net/archives/1200</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A beluga calf at the Vancouver aquarium died last night because its airway was blocked with rocks and pennies!?!?!?!?!! What kind of fucking morons stand there and throw debris and spare change into a baby whale&#8217;s airway? Or let their kids do same? Ooh, let&#8217;s make a wish! How would you like a few loonies [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A beluga calf at the Vancouver aquarium died last night because its airway was blocked with <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/06/22/bc-beluga-nala-dies-vancouver-aquarium.html">rocks and <b><i>pennies</i></b></a>!?!?!?!?!!</p>
<p>What kind of fucking morons stand there and throw debris and spare change into a baby whale&#8217;s airway?  Or let their kids do same?  Ooh, let&#8217;s make a wish!</p>
<p>How would you like a few loonies shoved down your own throats, you retards?</p>
<p>I sincerely hope there&#8217;s some good security camera footage that will put them away for good and all.</p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Alive</title>
		<link>http://balafon.net/archives/1198</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first self-replicating pattern has been developed in Conway&#8217;s Game of Life.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627653.800-first-replicating-creature-spawned-in-life-simulator.html">first self-replicating pattern</a> has been developed in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_life">Conway&#8217;s Game of Life</a>.</p>
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		<title>Matter, Energy and Wonder</title>
		<link>http://balafon.net/archives/1195</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You know, life is mostly ordinary. But sometimes something shines through the veil of mere matter and energy to make you marvel. Watch.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know, life is mostly ordinary.  But sometimes something shines through the veil of mere matter and energy to make you marvel.</p>
<p><a href="http://vodpod.com/watch/3764367-brian-gaynor-fireflies-audition-so-you-think-you-can-dance">Watch</a>.</p>
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		<title>The dreaded &#8220;Application failed to initialize properly&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://balafon.net/archives/1191</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Developing in Visual C++, I came across the dreaded &#8220;Application failed to initialize properly&#8221; error. This is usually caused by a missing DLL, but in this case all the DLLs were there. I finally realized that a static variable in one of the DLLs was throwing an exception in its constructor, causing the load to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Developing in Visual C++, I came across the dreaded &#8220;Application failed to initialize properly&#8221; error.  This is usually caused by a missing DLL, but in this case all the DLLs were there.</p>
<p>I finally realized that a static variable in one of the DLLs was throwing an exception in its constructor, causing the load to fail.</p>
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		<title>VS 2005 &amp; IE 8 Debugging Tip</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 21:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran into the strangest problem today. After upgrading to IE8, my Visual Studio 2005 (this is for work on a legacy system) debugger would detach all by itself soon I hit F5 to debug an ASP.NET page via IIS. Turns out this is due to IE8&#8242;s use of separate processes for tabs. To disable [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I ran into the strangest problem today.  After upgrading to IE8, my Visual Studio 2005 (this is for work on a legacy system) debugger would detach all by itself soon I hit F5 to debug an ASP.NET page via IIS.</p>
<p>Turns out this is due to IE8&#8242;s use of <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsdebug/thread/e2c795cd-b7a0-4fad-b7c9-b1ca40d7302e/">separate processes for tabs</a>.  To disable this behavior, set a DWORD value of 0 in the key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\TabProcGrowth.</p>
<p>Of course this negates the benefit of running tabs in separate processes, but the debugger will not automatically detach.</p>
<p>Update: make sure you set the registry value in the 32-bit hive.</p>
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