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Its been a long time since my last post. Suffice to say that I have been extremely busy after reaching an inflection point in my life and am working on very exciting and promising projects.

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La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on the novel La dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, published in 1848. The title “La traviata” means literally The Woman Who Strayed, or perhaps more figuratively, The Fallen One.

Piave and Verdi wanted to follow Dumas in giving the opera a contemporary setting, but the authorities at La Fenice insisted that it be set in the past, “c. 1700″. It was not until the 1880s that the composer’s and librettist’s original wishes were carried out and “realistic” productions were staged. ^[1]

After some revisions between 1853 and May 1854, mostly affecting Acts 2 and 3, the opera was presented again in Venice, this time at the teatro di San Benedetto.

Source: Wikipedia

L’épreuve des seins dans fort boyard.

The latest in women lingerie from Brazil, permits men to “locate” their partners thanks to a GPS (Global Positioning System) embedded in sexy lingerie.

The financial crisis does not seem to scare off Lucia Iorio, owner of the brand and designer, whose selling price for the corset, thong and garter are far from cheap.

The prices vary between $800 for a simple GPS to over $1100 for a more complex GPS. A discrete GPS is place in a pocket of the corset.
The collection “Find Me If You Can”, lets the man “prepare a surprise encounter” according to the company, who added that only women could buy the lingerie.

“This collection… is a wink to women and a challenge to men because, even if she gives him the password to her GPS, she can always turn it off,” Iorio told AFP.

“She can be found only if she wants to.”

“It’s not a modern chastity belt. Some men think they can keep tabs on their girlfriends with it, but they’re wrong,” she added.

So how many has she sold?

Iorio admits to selling only a few so far, but is full of optimism for the future.

“Some women are now interested in buying it for protection,” she said, adding that in a violence-prone country like Brazil her GPS lingerie should soon be selling briskly.

Source: Yahoo News.

Its inevitable when you have kids to learn to deal with them making mistakes.

Confronted with this dilemma we basically have two options to choose from and unfortunately all too many of us make the wrong selection, probably based on how we were brought up and/or what the other 95% of society does.

Out of love and not wanting our kids to make mistakes, we punish them when they do, with the idea that this will deter them from making further mistakes.

The problem with this rationale is that what we are in fact doing is hindering a learning environment while promoting defensiveness and lies. Kids who fear punishment or loss of love for making mistakes, learn to hide those mistakes.

On the other hand we can make choices that help our kids learn from their mistakes and improve upon them, by accepting the notion that they are doing their best and that they’ll learn faster in an environment that does not punish mistakes; by providing structured learning environments were you can minimize the mistakes they can make; and by being a model in how we react to making mistakes, owning up to them and learning from them.

So after lending my camera to my daughter for a trip and getting it back in 3 days later with the lens assembly not working; I now have two issues to deal with: the learning opportunity and fixing the camera.

Google to the rescue after getting an E18 error code on my Canon SD300, which I love for its size and convenience. Greg Toews put together an excellent repair guide for this particular problem, which I found through a Wikipedia entry.

Now to get some sleep and ponder on how to approach the learning opportunity.

http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~lee/deanimator.html

Here it goes….. I’ve planning to blog for a while but haven’t gotten aound to it. Many things I am working on right now, so I’ll start on the main topics the blog will hold. VoIP & Telecom, security, politics, general and open-source.

I am writing here just to see how this will display on my first post.