The Pageman in Kabul

“Discrimination lies at the root of many of the world’s most pressing
human rights problems. No country is immune from this
scourge. Eliminating discrimination is a duty of the

highest order.”

Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

HUMAN RIGHTS DAY 2009 COUNTDOWN

Embrace Diversity. End Discrimination.

with

Silverfilter
Slowjob
Wagyu
The Late Isabel
Mr. Bones & The Boneyard Circus
and Kelevra

9pm, Wednesday, 9 December 2009
Route 196, Katipunan Ave.

special thanks to Sarah Gaugler of Turbo Goth for the Poster

If you ever tried following the screencast tutorial over rubyonrails.org and FOLLOW EXACTLY the code that was being pasted, you’ll eventually run into this error:

compile error
C:/Documents and Settings/User/testtesttest/app/views/posts/_post.html.erb:1: syntax error, unexpected kDO_BLOCK, expecting tCOLON2 or '[' or '.'
...mplate=true ;  div for post do ; @output_buffer.concat "\n"
                              ^
C:/Documents and Settings/User/testtesttest/app/views/posts/_post.html.erb:5: syntax error, unexpected kENSURE, expecting $end

Remember, Google is your friend! I found this post very helpful:

"Also shouldn't it be 

for post in @posts do
 ...
end

Unless there's some ruby cleverness I've missed. 

HTH 

Matt"

so the correct code for that particular snippet should be to replace the

div for post do

part in the _partial.html.erb with

for post in @posts do

SonicLogo.TV + Dakila presents
A Few More TikToks ’til Copenhagen

Time is running out. Climate Action Now.

with

The Camerawalls
Malay
Turbo Goth
Privado
Good Morning High Fives
Wagyu
FMD

9pm Friday 4 December 2009
Saguijo

—
CLIMATE ACTION NOW

Rich countries must sign a global deal in Copenhagen to cut their carbon emissions and to promise to give $50 billion a year for people to adapt to the effects of climate change.

TCK TCK TCK

Tck Tck Tck is an unprecedented global alliance of non-government organizations, trade unions, faith groups and people like you—all calling for an ambitious, fair and binding climate change agreement.

This global alliance has come together to ensure a fair, ambitious, and binding agreement from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, a meeting of world governments in Copenhagen, Denmark.

On December 7-18, representatives of 192 nations will meet in Copenhagen, Denmark for the United Nations Conference of the Parties. The meeting is expected to draft and ratify a new treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which is due to expire in 2012. The outcome of these talks will determine the future of our planet.

To raise awareness of the importance of this historic meeting—and spell out the kind of treaty the group needs to create—the Tck Tck Tck campaign is uniting the voices of millions across the globe. Our ultimate goal: an fair, ambitious and binding international agreement that reflects the latest science on climate change.

Tck Tck Tck is intended to signal that “time is running out.” The science is clear that if we do not act immediately to drastically reduce the emissions that cause global warming, then we will condemn hundreds of millions of people to a life of misery, homelessness, or worse. Copenhagen stands as our single greatest opportunity to reverse climate change. Reaching agreement on a strong deal in Copenhagen is urgent; the impacts of climate change are already being felt around the world. There is still time to build a greener, safer world but the clock is ticking. We can do it, and we must do it.

TIK TOK TIK TOK

For Asia and the Philippines, the Tck Tck Tck branding was localized into Tik Tok Tik Tok to appeal to the region’s culture and language. Essentially, Tik Tok Tik Tok carries the same message as the international campaign calling for climate action.

posted by Paul <a title=”The Pageman in WordPress” href=”http://paulpajo.com” target=”_self”>”The Pageman”</a> Pajo

crossposted from Bagong Botante:

You’re familiar with F.A.Q.s (Frequently Asked Questions) but rarely do you encounter — R.A.Q.s – (Rarely Asked Questions) – you can find an example of this in Paul Graham’s RAQ. I was browsing COMELEC Spokesperson James Jimenez’ blog post about the alleged vulnerability of AES, to quote:

• Related-key Cryptanalysis of the Full AES-192 and AES-256
• Improved Cryptanalysis of the Reduced GrøstlCompression Function, ECHO Permutation and AES Block Cipher
• Key Recovery Attacks of Practical Complexity on AES Variants With Up To 10 Rounds
• Attacking 9 and 10 Rounds of AES-256
• New criteria for linear maps in AES-like ciphers
• On the Order of Round Components in the AES
• Computational aspects of the expected differential probability of 4-round AES and AES-like ciphers
• New criteria for linear maps in AES-like ciphers
• Enhanced Cryptanalysis of Substitution Cipher Chaining mode (SCC-128)
• Improved Impossible Differential Cryptanalysis of Reduced-Round Camellia
  

hat-tip to insomniamg and Dean Sherwin:

from Iliac Diaz:

“Its time to MOVE on climate change and go beyond PETITIONS. We need to move to 90% local on the ground actions, 10% campaign ad registrations. Addressing climate change requires a mix of mitigation and adaptation. This requires a separation of urgency for more mitigation for industrialized countries and more adaptation for developing countries. The Philippines will not be a significant carbon emitter by a long shot, but as a country we are the top five in the world when it comes to property and human lives lost because we don’t have a plan “b” for when the impact of climate changes HIT us. The day ONDOY (Ketsana) put 80% of the capital city of Manila underwater must not be forgotten and marks the day where climate change became very real for all of us. Song by Boogie Romero and Musical Direction by Mark Laccay. VIDEO direction by Henry Posadas. Thanks to Sony Corp Philippines for initiating the sponsorship of the project (eqpt and studio time) and the support of all the other record labels for the artists. This is only possible through the 47 United Filipino Artists that came to support the cause of awareness of climate adaptation for a country hit by constant typhoons. Please spread the word.”

posted by Paul “The Pageman” Pajo

Appropriating Atwood’s Law which states:

“any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.”

then here’s Pajo’s law:

“any application that can be written in Go, will eventually be written in Go.”

from the looks of it Go is after Javascript. So there. As Jonathan Chauncey notes:

“They are positioning themselves to capture business from the enterprise market who are too afraid to move to languages like Ruby and Python because of existing infrastructure.

They will promise enterprise cloud systems (App Engine) and then give them a language that makes development easy and fast (Go).

I believe it will be a pretty smart move, just wondering what the web framework will be like.”

Click the image for a higher-resolution

All this from NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Satellite.

If you are in these areas – I have two words for you – PRE-EMPTIVE Evacuation.

to confirm these areas: 1. Download the latest Google Earth and install on your computer and 2. Save the .kml files and view via Google Earth

you can go to this links:

• http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications_dir/potential_landslide.html
• http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications_dir/potential_flood.html
• http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/affinity/download_kmz.html

Once you are on the pages, download the .KML files, here’s some:

• http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/trmm_rain/Events/trmm_google_hydro_model_b.kml
• http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/trmm_rain/Events/trmm_google_landslide.kml
• http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/trmm_rain/Events/30_day_anomaly.kml

Click on the pictures for higher resolution!

FLOODING MODELS:

LANDSLIDE MODELS

30 DAY RAIN ANOMALY (BLUE is bad news!)

You can also download the KMZ file from the OndoyManila mappers!