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"The Vanishing: Altered Landscapes and Displaced Lives on the Yangtze River". A coming photofusion (photo exhibition I guess) here in London. I can't find if this exhibition has a webpage of information but I found out about it from BBCs News In Pictures page

I should go to see more things like this. Let's start with finding where it's held.

BFI (British Film Institute) is running a Chinese Martial Arts month. From their calendar of films by date I only recognised the name of one film, and I thought I had seen so many of these films.

The premise, as I've understood it, is to uncover that there is such much more than just Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. One film I'd like to see is Return to the 36th Chamber

As I was browsing their website I also found this that I want see: S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

Here are directions to NFT

I proudly admit that I am a computer nerd. There's nothing wrong with that.

But these guys are light years ahead of me on the nerd-look :)

Plone is an add-on to Zope that is growing very popular in the Zope community developers. Actually, on could say that Zope is the platform and Plone is its killer app.

I'm personally not happy with the default design of a Plone site. I think it's not user-friendly. However, it's relatively easy to change because it's skinnable.

Here's one such site that I must admit looks great: Andy McKay's website for his company ClearWind. Lovely!

Have you ever seen any of these films: Kids, Gummo, Ken Park? They're all by the same director (Harmony Korine).

It's Dogma 95 certified but doesn't "jump" like films like The Idiots (Lars von Trier) or The Celebration (Fredrik Vinterberg). In Julien Donkey-Boy there are long scenes, but sometimes it's like a rapid slideshow of images with deliberate out-of-sync sound. A central theme of the film is schizophrenia, and the film really succeeds in depicting this.

This is not the kind of film you have dinner to whilst watching. It's revolting and disturbing but you can't stop watching and it really gets your brain going. Not like The Usual Suspects or Groundhog Day, where you think back at the details.

This nut decided to go on an all-MacDonalds diet for one month and doing his he made it a documentary. I would love to see that documentary one day.

"His mission: To eat three meals a day for 30 days at McDonald's and document the impact on his health."

In Kung Fu there is often talk about Yin and Yang, and with time I've started to appreciate the notation more and more. First I thought it was "humbug" just like I think about many other medicine disciplines, but now I understand more about it.

It's not rocket science, it's actually a very simple concept. All things are in harmony of two opposite sides. No side is more "important" than the other and one side can't exist without the presence of the other. For example, there can't be a front if there isn't a back.

This site explains it very well. I read all of it. What shocked me though was the on the "Supreme Ultimate" symbol, Yang is the white part and Yin is the black part. I've always imagined that it was the other way around. Damn!

"Yin and Yang may be the most important theory in Chinese Medicine"

I also found this nice page about Qi Gong which I will read now.

In an article called Who Bankrolls Bush and his Democratic Rivals? The Center For Public Integrity writes about who adds to President Bush's presidential campaign. The winner is Enron. Remember them?

"While he was governor of Texas, Bush relied on Enron and its then-chairman and CEO Kenneth Lay for more than just campaign contributions. When Bush needed help launching his education plan, Lay, through the auspices of a quasi-official advisory group called the Governor's Business Council, pledged his support. When Bush wanted to start an internship program in the governor's office, Lay followed through with the funding. And when Lay wanted changes to tort, tax or environmental law, Bush returned the favours."

Raise your hand if you're an American and are going to vote for a bloke who is in cahoot with fraudsters.

What I really miss about Jed (my favourite editor by far) is to be able to search many files with one single simple command. Currently, I have to exit Jed every time and use grep to do the search, then enter Jed again to redo the search on the file I found out about from grep.

Anyway, now I found this jed mode file. I haven't installed it yet but will shortly. It sets out to integrate the two.

"A jed fronted to the grep command. Start a search from within jed or from the command line and display the result nicely in a jed buffer. Jump to the findings pressing Enter or with double click. Copy, move or delete files. Replace text across the grep results."

In the basic setup of jed when you press ALT-F (i.e. Alt key at the same time as letter "f") it opens the File menu. I didn't want that. I wanted it to be like in Emacs where ALT-F means skip-word.

The README said to set ALT_CHAR = 27; like this FAQ said. Well, that didn't work. After some more google searching I found out how to do it!:

() = evalfile("emacs");           % Emacs-like bindings

Now it works like I think it should. I write it here because I'll probably forget for the next time.

Jed is the editor I use the most when not working in a graphical environment. Almost all of the code to this website has been developed using jed.