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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Contributing to IBM developerWorks

1. Submit content:
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https://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/secure/myideas.jsp?start=true&domain= ]

2. For Grid Computing:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wishlist/#grid

Grid computing
The Grid computing content area is looking for articles, tools, code, and tutorials to help developers learn about grid computing and the developing grid open standards. We welcome content proposals about topics like these:
OGSA and grid standards
Grid and Web services
Service-oriented architectures
Grid architecture and component models
Developing grid applications
Scheduling and workload management
Sample models and code, solutions, lessons learned
Technology rather than specific products
You can go ahead and
submit your content idea-or-Questions? [ https://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/secure/myideas.jsp?start=true&domain=developerworks ] Contact the Grid content editor [ mailto:mccommon@us.ibm.com ].

3. Autonomic computing
The Autonomic computing content area needs articles, tools, code, and tutorials to help developers learn about autonomic computing and the Autonomic Computing Toolkit. We would especially like content proposals on these topics such as the following:
Articles that show an innovative use of autonomic technology or combining autonomic technologies - something that is not evident from reading the Users' Guide. In particular, creative ways of using components from the Autonomic Computing Toolkit
Step-by-step scenarios that describe how you implemented an autonomic manager to solve a particular problem in your environment
Guidelines for how to target a specific process in your IT services that needs autonomic technology and the steps for implementing a solution
Examples of non-trivial use of IBM products with autonomic features that make a system more self-healing, self-configuring, self-optimizing, or self-protecting
You can go ahead and submit your content idea-or-Questions? Contact the Autonomic computing content editor.


4. SOA and Web services
The developerWorks Web services content area publishes content on open technology Web services standards, implementations, and software. We seek high-quality, well-written articles for all levels of technical expertise so that we can continue to deliver award-winning content. Our primary focus is on J2EE based Web services, and Service-oriented architecture design and implementation. We're looking for technical overview or how-to articles and tutorials to share with our readers, unique perspectives and interesting ideas to further the development of this exciting new technology.
Workflow, Business Processes
Interoperability
Mobile applications, Remoting, Asynchronous operations
Performance measurement, Usage Metering and Service Level Agreements
Directory services
Security - Message delivery
Security - Authentication and Authorization
Software reuse
You can go ahead and submit your content idea-or-Questions? Contact the SOA and Web services content editor.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Youtube and associated tools

1. Youtubex.com -- download youtube movies, save as flv (can play with VLC, but some of the downloads crash or can't be read by VLC).
2. The Amazing YouTube Tools Collection -- very nice collection of tools for youtube http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2006/10/the-amazing-youtube-tools-collection/

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Google GMail Loader (GML)

1. Google GMail Loader (GML)Import your existing email into GMail! http://marklyon.org/gmail/

2. Associated tools http://marklyon.org/gmail/gmailapps.htm

3. Personal Message Store (PST) Export Utility 1.0 http://www.genusa.com/utils/pmseu.htm

Monday, July 16, 2007

Digital cameras

LetsGoDigital.org http://www.letsgodigital.org/nl/index.html .
FujiFilm FinePix S6500fd specs http://www.letsgodigital.org/nl/camera/specification/1300/show.html and review http://www.letsgodigital.org/nl/9198/fujifilm_finepix_s6500fd/ . Ok, ok, it's in Dutch...

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Interviews with Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki, and some animated movie links

Interviews:
  1. Discussion Miyazaki and Moebius, 1988 http://www.angelfire.com/anime/NVOW/Interview2.html .
  2. "Avant Porco Rosso", 1991-interview, http://www.animint.com/encyclopedie/auteurs/miya_interview92.html (in French). On the same web site, an interview after Nausicaa (1994) http://www.animint.com/encyclopedie/auteurs/miya_interview94.html , and 'Miyazaki n'est pas un dieu' by Mamoru Oshii (May 1995) http://www.animint.com/encyclopedie/auteurs/ghibli_oshii.html .
  3. . Sylvain Rheault, An Interview with Miyazaki at Studio Ghibli, Protoculture Addicts 19, 1992, http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/interviews/m_pa_interview.html and several other interviews with Hayao Miyazaki and the Ghibli Studio crew http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/interviews/ .
  4. Animerica interview, Takashi Oshiguchi, 1993, http://www.angelfire.com/anime/NVOW/Interview1.html .
  5. . Now, after Nausicaa has finished(Yom special story) Yom, Issue June 1994 http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/interviews/afternausicaa.html .
  6. I Understand NAUSICAA a Bit More than I Did a Little While Ago : a long interview of Hayao Miyazaki by Ryo Saitani, from the January 1995 issue of the Comic Box fanzine. January 1995, http://www.comicbox.co.jp/e-nau/e-nau.html .
  7. . Masaaki Nomura, The Animation of Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata and Studio GhibliKinema Junpo Special Issue, Number 1166; July 16th, 1995 http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/interviews/m_and_t.html .
  8. Manuel Merlet's transcripts of a press conference held at the Forum des Images, Paris, December 2001, http://www.fluctuat.net/57-Hayao-Miyazaki . (in French)
  9. . MidnightEye, January 2002, http://www.midnighteye.com/interviews/hayao_miyazaki.shtml .
  10. Cinema.nl boasts a short interview with H.M., by Jan Pieter Ekker. http://www.cinema.nl/cinema/magazines/news/index.jsp?portals=3142294&magazines=5268514&news=24029535 . Read also 'Animatie voor beginners' http://www.cinema.nl/cinema/magazines/news/index.jsp?portals=3142294&magazines=5268514&news=11309130 .
  11. CombustibleCelluloid.com interview, September 17, 2002, http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/interviews/miyazaki.shtml .
  12. IGN, Steven Horn, Interview with Hayao Miyazaki, September 20, 2002, http://movies.ign.com/articles/371/371579p1.html .
  13. NihonSun, interview with Philip Brophy, http://www.electric-rain.net/NihonSun/Black&White/Interview.html . Also a short history of Miyazaki http://www.electric-rain.net/NihonSun/Black&White/Profile.html .
  14. Premiere.com interview, by Glenn Kenny, http://www.premiere.com/features/2175/our-exclusive-interview-with-hayao-miyazaki.html .
  15. The New York Times's A.O. Scott review (not interview!), June 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/12/movies/12scot.html?ex=1276228800&en=ae85cb0218924e46&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss .
  16. OutNow.ch, September 2005, http://outnow.ch/specials/2005/HowlsMovingCastle/Interview-Miyazaki.E/ .
  17. . The Guardian, September 14, 2005, http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,6737,1569689,00.html .
  18. . The New Yorker, January 17, 2005, Margaret Talbot. Abstract: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/01/17/050117fa_fact_talbot Could not find the full piece online Margaret Talbot, "The Auteur of Anime," The New Yorker, January 17, 2005, p. 64. An interview with ... the interviewer is also available online http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/01/17/050117on_onlineonly01 , and it Daniel Cappello, "The Animated Life", The New Yorker, January 17, 2005; it should give you the gist of Margaret's article. The same is available from http://pgaijin.blogspot.com/2005/01/miyazaki-in-new-yorker.html . The full Margaret Talbot's article is available from http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2005/the_auteur_of_anime . One more link http://shey.net/reblog/2006/09/miyazaki_new_yo.html .
  19. . Yomiuri Online, December 2005. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/entertainment/ghibli/cnt_interview_20051226.htm . http://www.ghibliworld.com/news.html proposes a translation (search the page for the word 'Yomiuri'). http://nausicaa.net proposes another http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/interviews/yomiuri_suzuki.html . A full translation by "Nanashi": http://rose-rote.hp.infoseek.co.jp/miya/gedo/interview01e-1.htm , http://rose-rote.hp.infoseek.co.jp/miya/gedo/interview01e-2.htm .
  20. . NewsWeek, June 12/20, 2005. A 'Positive Pessimist', Devin Gordon, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8184320/site/newsweek/ .
  21. 2007, Video Inteview "The Day I Harvested a Star", http://www.dailymotion.com/tag/television/video/x2hm4j_hayo-miyazaki-interview-ghibli-cour . (no Eglish sub-titles, anybody has some clue?) Same on YouTube, http://youtube.com/watch?v=CZCp3ZpEFf0 .
  22. A video interview with Hayao Miyazaki, from the Venice International Film Festival, in online at Shigesato Itoi's website.The interview is broken up into 9 parts, which are being posted daily, the first two parts are now online. The interview is in Japanese only, with no subtitles. Transcripts (also in Japanese): http://www.1101.com/howl/2005-10-03.html , http://www.1101.com/howl/2005-10-04.html , http://www.1101.com/howl/2005-10-05.html .
  23. Another interview in Japanese, Yomiuri Shimbun, January 2006: http://youtube.com/watch?v=rFdWveljoWw . Translation from one of the comments: "Miyazaki says, he made three short films for the people who come Ghibli Museum. You can watch one of three for free, when you visit there.He enjoyed making these films, paying less attention whether audiences will be interested and making much fun or not, much more experimentally. He says, he pays a lot of attentions to make people enjoy and to be excited on his film, usually, especially for children. But this time, he put all those matters aside and discussed the films with the staffs. ". Full translation http://rose-rote.hp.infoseek.co.jp/miya/short/miya-interview20060106e.htm . For more of the same: http://youtube.com/results?search_query=miyazaki .
  24. Video interview with Miyazaki (transl. in French) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS82GM7D6d0 .
  25. DVDAnime runs an interview with HM, http://www.dvdanime.net/articleview.php?id=20 and http://www.dvdanime.net/articleview.php?id=21 (French).
  26. Why Goro (to succeed Miyazaki)? http://www.mutantfrog.com/2006/04/10/interview-with-producer-toshio-suzuki-of-ged-war-journal-suzuki-finally-tells-tells-us-why-goro/ . And a bit more on this topic: http://www.evene.fr/cinema/actualite/interview-goro-miyazaki-contes-terremer-ghibli-747.php .

Links:
1. Studio Ghibli on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Ghibli
2. Hayao Miyazaki on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki and on IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594503/bio
3. Goro Miyazaki Blog Translation (the son's blog, mostly about the production of EarthSea) http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/blog/
4. Best animation movies chart at IMDB http://www.imdb.com/chart/animation
5. The Flight of the Dragons, on e of the best non-Japanese animation movies [see ratings at ref 4.] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flight_of_Dragons
6. A museum in Paris comparing the works of Miyazaki with those of Moebius http://www.miyazaki-moebius.com/ .
7. Hayao Miyazaki at Answers.com http://www.answers.com/topic/hayao-miyazaki?cat=biz-fin .

Sunday, July 08, 2007

The Simpsons -- Marge and Bart playing a MMORPG


The Simpsons in their own MMORPG. Marge and Bart playing alongside the other well-known characters. [ http://youtube.com/watch?v=XuIOwy65kTs ]