The Harper government is supposed to announce plans on Friday to spend $16-billion – yes, $16-billion! – for a plane Canada doesn’t need.
via Just what we need: a $16-billion fighter jet – The Globe and Mail.
Yikes.
Archive forJuly, 2010
Very simple tool I have found useful at work.. surprisingly hard to find a windows 7 gadget that just gives you a simple countdown timer on your desktop that works as well as this one:
I was really inspired by http://tomatoi.st/ web service which provides an easy to use web interface for Pomodoro time management technique.
But unfortunately, tomatoi.st is down due to overload too often, so I spent 20 minutes and prepared a simple Windows 7 pomodoro gadget. It does just what’s needed – showing timers:
Especially good if u just want a 25, 15, 5 minute timer and don’t need anything more than that.
Edit: I actually found this one to be more useful because you can pause and configure it.
This is very cool:
Ever since we launched Google Scholar, people have asked us to help them keep up with current research. Over the years, we’ve made several improvements to help find recently published articles, including the “Recent articles” mode, a simple interface to limit search to recent years, and, of course, more frequent index updates. As the next step in this endeavor, we have recently added email alerts. Now you can create alerts for queries of your interest. When new articles that match your alert query are added to Google Scholar, we’ll send you an email update with links to these articles.
