DeeKnow’s Grotto

Happiness is a relative thing - Life, to many, is the burden of birth; a timeline that never quite offers enough. However, less at times can be a whole lot more. Material possessions are considered the luxuries of life. In reality, however, the greatest global luxury of all is the state of relative contentment -- one few have managed to reach

5:28:07 PM  

Starship dream moves closer - In a privately sponsored venture, the Planetary Society in the United States wants to send a solar sailing ship into orbit around the Earth.
The experiment could pioneer a new generation of space travel using spacecraft that are propelled by the our star's energy in the same way that ships on the sea are pushed by the wind.

5:26:29 PM  

Fish Filled With Mercury - According to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one of 10 American women of childbearing age is at risk for having a baby born with neurological problems due to in utero mercury exposure.

5:23:01 PM  

Overview of XML Namespaces - this is a post to SlashDot which itself is a copy of a page at MSDN and is a useful introduction to the topic - "This article explores the ins and outs of XML namespaces and their ramifications on a number of XML technologies that support namespaces".

5:19:38 PM  

Learning Zope - in a post to Zope-CMF this week someone asks "I have been reading the Zope site and the CMF Dogbowl site and I am still looking to find the best place to START learning this beast.".  Jeeeze that sounds familiar. There are some helpful suggestions from others, but the whole where-to-start thing is a real issue for those new to Zope.

4:44:27 PM