Bush’s WMD

June 7, 2004, 6:27 pm

This must be what Bush’s means of the WMD (Weapon of Mumbrella Destruction) :-D .



U.S. President George W. Bush negotiates his umbrella in the wind during a rainstorm while being escorted by U.S. Air Force Col. John R. Ranck Jr. after stepping off Marine One at Andrews Air Force Base, June 1, 2004. The president boarded Air Force One and departed for Colorado. (China Daily/Reuters Photo)

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Maturity of Brain?

June 2, 2004, 8:37 pm

Picking the brains of teenagers shows how we ‘mature’
By ROWAN HOOPER
What an age we live in. Science is progressing in ever greater leaps and bounds. The way things are going, we might one day even understand that most enigmatic and mysterious of natural phenomena, the teenager.

“If youth knew; if age could.” Such was the lament of the French publisher Henri Estienne in the 16th century. But youth doesn’t know and age can’t: Such is the tragedy, as Estienne saw it, of human life. Young people don’t know — but good luck to them. It is the prerogative of the young to be different and inscrutable to their elders.

And now we know why. A 10-year study of people ages 4 to 21 has revealed that the higher centers of the brain — those involved in reasoning and problem solving — are among the last to mature. The prefrontal cortex, the site of the higher centers, is the last to come “on line.” It might explain why some teenagers lack the ability to be reasonable (though it doesn’t explain why the same is true of many adults).
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Hmmm.. this explains why my childish behaviour is still dominating, that is because I must still have a large amount of undiminished grey cells in my brain :)


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Tilde (~) on Japanese Keyboard

June 1, 2004, 2:31 pm

He.. he.. it’s been a month since I was here, and just today I found the following page http://sonobe.s5.xrea.com/knowhow/computer/homekey_eng.html very useful. To type a ~, what you have to press is the key located two keys to the right of the 0 (in where the character ~ is really printed in the keyboard). Strange … :-)

Before I found this, I have to open the Character Map, then copy the tilde character from the list before pasting it to the place I wanted (how incovenient!).


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