This snippet from Le Sabot Post-Moderne explained for me why many people in Russia, Ukraine, and other post-soviet states continue to support, even elect, strongman (read near-dictatorial) leaders like Putin and Yanukovych:
Archive for December 2004
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Random Idea: distributed computing for the third world
A random idea I had the other day: create a distributed client system like SETI, where the processing time is being donated to third world or developing countries where processing power is hard to get. I don't know what the data sets would be, nor how it would all be setup, but it's an idea.
Life Update
Hello out there! Sorry for the lack of updates lately - a deadline at work is fast approaching, and I've been putting me energies there, as well as our adoption. But, so as to not leave all you folks in interweb-land in the dark, some highlights:
Microsoft can so bite me
You can't use DHTML to change the contents of <table> or <tr> elements in IE6.
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