{"id":2027,"date":"2009-08-01T09:20:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T23:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2009-08-01T09:20:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T23:20:04","slug":"the-week-gone-by-1-aug-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=2027","title":{"rendered":"The week gone by &#8211; 1 Aug 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Probably a very sporadic set of things that happened in the last week.<\/p>\n<p><figure style=\"width: 67px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Go to the photo page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/3110527075\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3232\/3110527075_6a228de170_t.jpg\" alt=\"Main Range National Park\" width=\"67\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">qld<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 87px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Go to the photo page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yewenyi\/266832314\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/93\/266832314_714f521999_t.jpg\" alt=\"Prayers\" width=\"87\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">korea<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: justify\">A man using some dodgy maths but a generally sound idea, came up with the quote: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/blog\/arxiv\/23832\/?nlid=2232\"><em>Of course, we may not have discovered the evidence yet. And when we finally find the black obelisk on the Moon, the paradox will be resolved<\/em><\/a>. But why go to the moon, there are many obelisks here on earth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: justify\"><!--more-->Kate has some commentary on friendship in facebook.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: justify\">And a bit of math on how killing off the weak cancer cells only leaves the better ones and hence you are more likely to have virulent relapses. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ext\/share.php?sid=109155821875&amp;h=pS6RI&amp;u=b8eU9&amp;ref=mf\"><em>As Brutovsky and Horvath put it: &#8220;A paradoxical consequence of the optimization facet of carcinogenesis is that applied anti-cancer therapy can be, in fact, the causative factor of its acceleration on longer time scales.&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: justify\">An American clearly does not understand that the primary musical instruments of thier army are the flute and the drum to play yankee doodle. <em>The U.S. military probably has more trombonists in uniform than the entire New Zealand army has soldiers. The country\u2019s military expenditure for 2008 was around $1.2 billion, a sum that would cover perhaps five or six F-22 Raptors. (I lost the link, but it is on Wired magazine)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: justify\">And a bit about Nanog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ext\/share.php?sid=111415685613&amp;h=660a9&amp;u=Q-DFY&amp;ref=mf\"><em>Unsung heroes save net from chaos<\/em><\/a>. This is very strange.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;text-align: justify\">Billy is in South East Asia and being the taunting man that he is, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atablefortwo.com.au\/2009\/08\/01\/durian-truly-the-king-of-fruit\/\">wrote on purchasing fresh durian from the road side<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably a very sporadic set of things that happened in the last week. 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