http://blog.apoctrack.com Technology, politics, metal, geography, space, time... Life. Sun, 04 May 2008 01:12:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Seadragon (the underlying technology): "It's an environment in which you can, either locally or remotely, interact with immense amounts of visual data." Photosynth (the product): "So what this is really doing is, discovering, it's creating hyperlinks, if you will, between images. And it's doing that based on the content of the ... http://blog.apoctrack.com/2008/05/03/blaise-aguera-y-arcas-on-photosynth-and-seadragon/ >He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. -William Blake and >Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will ... http://blog.apoctrack.com/2008/04/21/quoteness/ The best article about ADHD I've read to date is "Running from Ritalin" by Malcolm Gladwell, from the New Yorker, 15 Feb 1999 (p80). >"Is the hectic pace of contemporary life really to blame for A.D.D.? Not so fast." Read it here. http://blog.apoctrack.com/2008/04/10/malcom-gladwell-debunking-adhd-skeptics-since-1999/ Site: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=12033281&SrchMode=1&sid=3&Fmt=6&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1205792003&clientId=28381 Problem Type: Plugin not shown Description: Not sure exactly what's going on here... but when I try to view a "formatted document" from ProQuest in Firefox, it shows a page with two frames. A small frame at the top with a header, and a blank white frame below, which seems to be ... http://blog.apoctrack.com/2008/03/17/firefox-proquest-pdf-bug/   Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to your readers effectively, sometimes ... http://blog.apoctrack.com/2008/03/16/data-visualization-modern-approaches-graphics-smashing-magazine/ From an article by Gualtieri CT, Johnson LG published in J Atten Disord. 2008 Jan;11(4):459-69. Epub 2007 (pubmed) OBJECTIVE: Although ADHD medications are effective for the behavioral components of the disorder, little information exists concerning their effects on cognition, especially in community samples. RESULTS: Significant differences were detected between normals and ... http://blog.apoctrack.com/2008/03/01/medications-do-not-necessarily-normalize-cognition-in-adhd-patients/ Synergy Advance is still in the early stages of its roll out so it does not yet feature all the features of Synergy (although it does feature some things that Synergy does not and never will have because of its architecture). By the time the roll out is complete Synergy ... http://blog.apoctrack.com/2008/02/18/advancing-synergy-classic-and-the-stagnancy-of-synergy-advance/