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I’m impressed. Jeff Weiner, Senior Vice President, Search and Marketplace for Yahoo now has a blog. And it’s no ordinary PR blog either. In fact its quite good.
Yahoo’s blog is called http://www.ysearchblog.com/.
This follows Google, www.google.com/googleblog
Those two Rovers are at it again. No, not that. They are finding more and more evident of a history of liquid water on Mars. Fascinating stuff.
“I would say that this is the most powerful evidence [of water] in the rocks at Gusev Crater,” said Steven Squyres, the rovers’ principal investigator from Cornell University. “We had evidence that a little bit of water percolated through the plains there.”
Good news for the Irish economy. How does it happen that it’s good PR to tell a country’s citizens that the government has succeeded in taking more money off them than it expected, and that the citizens think thats a good thing?
Surely we should be up in arms that the government is getting all these taxes? Hehe.
The BBC is reporting that physicists have carried out successful teleportation with particles of light over a distance of 600m across the River Danube. Here’s kind of how it works:
Researchers from the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Science used an 800m-long optical fibre fed through a public sewer system tunnel to connect labs on opposite sides of the River Danube.
The link establishes a channel between the labs, dubbed Alice and Bob. This enables the properties, or “quantum states”, of light particles to be transferred between the sender (Alice) and the receiver (Bob).
In the computers of tomorrow, this information would form the qubits (the quantum form of the digital bits 1 and 0) of data processing through the machines.
The Austrian team encoded their qubits using a property of light particles, also called photons, known as polarisation. This property describes the direction in which they oscillate.
Quantum teleportation relies on an aspect of physics known as “entanglement”; whereby the properties of two particles can be tied together even when they are far apart. Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance”.
So now you know.
Looks like Georgia may be getting cold feet, as the prospect of more conflict looms. But it appears that this might not be the end of things:
Mr Saakashvili called his offer “the last chance for peace” in South Ossetia. A ceasefire deal reached last Friday has now been violated for five nights in a row, as pro-Russian South Ossetian separatists battle Georgian troops.
The report continues with a quote from Saakashvili:
“We are ready to hand over control of these positions to the tripartite peacekeeping contingent, which also includes Georgians, and leave 500 of our select fighters under our peacekeeping force quota to protect Georgian villages against attacks and possible acts of provocation,” he said.
“We are also ready to withdraw from all other positions and redeploy our forces outside the conflict zone in Gori.”
Mr Saakashvili said Georgia had sent extra troops to South Ossetia to combat smuggling, and this had “prompted vicious attacks on this contingent”.
The Georgian authorities say their troops killed eight South Ossetian fighters in the latest overnight fighting. The claim has not been confirmed.
Mr Saakashvili has said the international community should play an active role in peace talks. He called on world leaders to hold a conference on the future of South Ossetia and send Western peacekeepers to the region.
As readers may know the town of Gori is the home of a man that went by the name of Stalin. Saakashvili is playing a dangerous game here, the situation is becoming more and more fragile. Georgian troops on Ossetian land, even under the tripartite agreement could further enrage Ossetians. All of this comes on the back of reported heaving shelling in and around Tskhinvali last night.
Samizdata have the story: Theodore Dalrymple, sometime writer in the Spectator, is now blogging over at the Social Affairs Unit Weblog. The blog is another Perry De Havilland production. Nice work Perry.
Dalrymple blogs under his real name, Dr Anthony Daniels.
I missed this article by Dan Gillmor on Wired.com. As always Dan knows exactly what he is talking about here. A good interview and sounds like a good book.
Dan Drezner congratulates Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn on his 1 year blog anniversary. I never even realised the Chicago Tribune did blogs, so there you go. However Zorn’s blog appears not to have permalinks, which really annoys me.
Zorn writes a column [Reg reqd] about his one year as a blogger, showing how blogging can benefit a writer.
Oh yeah my blog was two years old in July, and I forgot to blog about it. Happy birthday to me.
Lots of stuff to catch up on here guys, so hold onto your hats.
The Star Magazine recently published an article informing the public about Kim Mathers detention time in jail.
After two months of detention, Kim is feeling down. Shes been deprived of Marshall and Hailies visits. She feels abandoned and all alone.
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