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For December, 2009.The Fall of the Roman Empire
27 Dec 2009 | No Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities
Tag(s): aeneas, alaric, antiquity, augustus, barbarism, brutus, caesar, caligula, carthage, carthaginians, celtic, china, civilisation, classical, classics, claudius, commodus, conquest, consuls, dark ages, decline, economics, economy, edward gibbon, empire, etruscans, europe, european, evolutionary programming, fall of the roman empire, franks, gaul, gauls, geiseric, germania, germanic tribes, gladiator, hannibal, history, hungs, india, indo-european, italia, italian, italian renaissance, italic, italy, julius caesar, kingdom, latin, latium, lazio, marcus aurelius, marcus junius brutus, medieval, mediterranean, middle ages, nero, octavian, palantine, phonecians, pliny, pliny the elder, punic wars, remus, renaissance, republic, roma, roman, roman empire, roman kingdom, roman republic, romans, rome, romulus, society, spqr, the crisis of the first centure, the decline of the roman empire, the fall of the roman empire, the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire, tiberius, trajan, vandals, visigoths
Read-Only Collections in .NET
22 Dec 2009 | 1 Comment »
Category(s): Programming
Tag(s): .net, .net 3.5, .net 4.0, base class library, c#, collections, dictionary, encapsulation, generic collections, hashset, hashtable, icollection, ienumerable, immutable, immutable collections, irc, irc.net, ircdotnet, mapping, microsoft connect, ms connect, read-only, read-only collections, readonlydictionary, readonlyset
The Future of Space Exploration
19 Dec 2009 | No Comments »
Category(s): Maths & Science, Personal, Philosophy
Tag(s): antimatter, antimatter drive, aurora, checmical propulsion, cold war, einstein, ESA, faster than light, future, future of space exploration, general relativity, human spaceflight, ion drive, ion thrusters, manned missions, mars, mars mission, moon, moon mission, NASA, newton, newton's laws, newton's laws of motion, nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, nuclear propulsion, orion, planets, propulsion, reactionless drive, relativity, rocket engines, rockets, solar sails, solar system, space, space craft, space exploration, space flight, space shuttle, spacecraft, spaceflight, special relativity, speed of light, unmanned missions, v-2, warp drive
Leaner CSS
14 Dec 2009 | No Comments »
Category(s): Programming, Software, Web Design
Tag(s): cascading style sheets, compiler, css, css extensions, jquery, leaner css, LESS, web, Web Design
“A witty saying proves nothing”
01 Dec 2009 | No Comments »
Category(s): Arts & Humanities, Fun, Maths & Science, Philosophy
Tag(s): adages, albert einstein, ancient greek philosophers, apophryca, arouet, author, books, common sense, education, einstein, formal education, god, humou, imagination, liberty, life, mark twain, math, mathematician, mathematics, Maths & Science, oscar wilde, philosopher, Philosophy, physicist, plato, playwright, poet, proverbs, quotations, quotes, religion, samuel clemens, sayings, scientist, socrates, understanding, voltaire, wisdom, writer