I've probably got less than a month in the UK now. This is basically the first time I've written about it on my site. Hum. Probably makes it real then.
One of my favourite books applied to the web by Richard Rutter and Steve Marshall. I feel like I ought to help them out in some way, it's such a good idea.
I wonder if someone would always try to get a run on the next generation of technology by creating something future-facing. Could be all commodity stuff in the end - buy a new console because existing games look better on it?
It's easier if you think of URLs in two types - either referring to a specific first order data object (in which case it doesn't need much nesting) and then lists, where the cuts and stuff make much more sense. Calcify the common paths, leave the rest.
Earlier this month, crushing rains left 20 people dead and over 20,000 stranded when overwhelming rainfall left five feet of standing water in the low-lying areas. This is on top of already taxed landscapes that flooded when melting Himalayan glaciers burst the 200 rivers that web across the country last year. Bangladesh under water is seeming like a real and permanent possibility.
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — whose claims are usually conservative — said that Bangladesh is heading to lose 17 percent of its land and 30 percent of its food production by 2050. That's like California and New York drowning, and the whole Midwest ceasing production of food.
If this happens, more than 20 million Bangladeshis will be without a patch of land to stand on. Though hardship in the country isn't entirely recent: since 1971, Bangladesh has endured over 200 disasters that have left a total of 500,000 dead and affected a total of 500 million people.
And I haven't even said anything about the plague of rats that's consuming all of their food. A plague of rats. I wish, wish there was more room for stories like this in the general consciousness — shouldn't we be hearing about this every night? Not to dwell on the gloomy, but just knowing about this makes the answer to this question pretty clear to me.
Reuters - The Polish prosecutor's office is
investigating allegations that there was a CIA prison in Poland
where al Qaeda suspects were questioned and guards might have
used methods close to torture, the prime minister's top adviser
said on Friday.
