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Square root of a negative number is imaginary. I.e. it doesn't exist in reality. A Möbius stripe is a geometric plane that only has one side.

Check out this Dilbert in LEGO page too.

Downloaded Best in Show yesterday and saw it today.

It's a fake documentary (like The Idiots and The Office) about a couple of totally mental american citizens. They're crazy about their dogs and the documentary is all about how they're getting prepared for the big Mayflower Dog Show in Philadelphia.

Made me laugh many times. I kept wondering: all the expertise they must have had must have been from the very same people they mock.

"Semco has no receptionists, secretaries, or personal assistants. All employees, Semler included, receive their own guests, make their own copies, and draft and send their own correspondence. There are no private offices, workers set their own hours, and office attire is at the discretion of each employee. Job titles carry little formal status since all workers are actively encouraged to question and constructively criticize their peers and managers."

This is a nice little 12 paged summary about Ricardo Semler and his Semco S.A. company.

Didn't know that in 1999 Semco provided over 2000 different products. If you don't want to buy the books mentioned in my review of the Seven-day Weekend you should at least read this PDF.

You might have noticed that this site now has a search feature. It uses Zope's excellent ZCatalog.

I've tried to make it as googleish as possible with the statistics of how long the search took and spelling corrections. Please do try for example Search on ballon. I am working on getting more spelling correction alternatives but haven't yet figured out a good algorithm.

If you're having any idea behaviour with the search please let me know by posting a comment here.

Last week I went to (finally) see City of God at Prince Charles Cinema and it was great. The reviews about the film was all promising and I had my hopes up high; a bit afraid that would ruin it, but it didn't.

This film really takes you "into the picture". I.e. it feels like you're there with them. How they do that I don't know but you feel scarily close to the violence and guns that appear a lot in the film.

A little piece of advise is to stay for the credits after because they show a little extra bit from the real true story.

Official site (shit, but has trailer link)
Pictures

This is fun. Someone has calculated/modelled the perfect S-shaped turn for parking your car.

You'll need to measure a few things first: the width of your car, your turn radius at a paricular rotation of the steering wheel and exactly where your midpoint is between the front and rear wheels.

The author of this 1 page long paper is Dr Rebecca Hoyle

If I ever need to write a game using Python I need to read this article. Besides it looks like a really good article.

This is cool: You can now use Google as a calculator.

Look at this example

I'm back from my training camp and with me I have some nice photos

Enjoy and give feedback here or on the private kungfu-taichi.com private forum.

Today I'm going to Cornwall (Wales, west coast of GB) for a weeks traning camp Kung Fu

I'll be back again on the 30th of August.

See this clip for what it was like two years ago. That was before my time.