Last night (12 June), the Australian national soccer team – known as the Socceroos – created history at the FIFA World Cup 2006. In retrospect, it was not so much what happened but rather the manner the victory was achieved. After all, to put it into the correct perspective, this was only the first game during the preliminary round of the competition. It is still a long way, and a long shot, come to think of it, before the Finals. There is Croatia and Brazil to conquer.
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Socrates: ‘Know thyself.’
Emerson: ‘Trust thyself.’
In my mind, those four words come close to a complete philosophy on how to live.
According to Wikipedia, typography is
“is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type using a combination of fonts, font size, line length, leading (line spacing) and individual and overall letter spacing.”
Quite a mouthful. And having written many technical papers and reports as well as writing online, I can personally say that it is no mean feat.
With the release of the new The Da Vinci Code movie, the interest in Dan Brown’s novel of the same title is simply phenomenal.
As another nice example of what is possible with Web 2.0, some creative minds has actually created a Da Vinci Tour and Da Vinci Code Map, both based on Google Maps. This is what is known as a mashup (of Web 2.0 technologies, that is) in Geek-speak. This means from now on you can actually navigate to all the key locations mentioned in the novel. Cool!
ps. For more examples of mashups using Google Map, there is always the Google Maps Mania.
Let’s face it, once you started to blog, as I did almost 4 years ago, you are creating an online persona which sooner or later can be traced back to the you in the real world. In places where free speech is heavily discouraged (whether openly or subtly in so-called democratic countries, but let’s not go there just yet…), this is just asking for trouble. Well, it seems that now there are in fact resources for people looking to post online without fear of having their identity exposed: Anoniblog.