marientina

in Baltimore!

I am working on the site for a friend of a friend (how very greek of us) and was wondering if anyone has seen these films yet. I am going to try to see some in a month while in Athens and then see if I can buy or rent some. We should have some of them for the USC CNTV collection.

When I was growing up, the production of good greek film was in deep recession (along with the rest of the country) and there was maybe one good film every couple of years. In the past five years, Greece has put out some beautiful films. Of course now I live here and I CAN'T SEE THEM easily. Argh.

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"Adobe to Buy Macromedia in $3.4 Billion Stock Deal"

Now this is serious news... I wonder if our licensing cost will go down or up but it may make things easier. Can you however say...m@#$%^&y?

Maybe the next package will be Adobe UberSuite 2006?

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One of my favorite authors in Greece (Nikos Dimou) posts a variety of fragments as he feels like it on his site in Greek and English. Melancoly seems to be the theme of the week, as he posts a greek translation of a Paul Celan poem. It is a dark poem yet somehow feels sweet on the soul.

An English translation lies below:
http://www.celan-projekt.de/todesfuge-englisch.html

About Nikos Dimou: If Noam Chomsky and Gore Vidal have a Greek analog, it is Nikos Dimou. One of his generation's most fertile minds, a legendary advertising man and a prolific writer, Dimou is best known as the author of The Misfortune of Being Greek-the book that earned him the label of an "anti-Hellene."

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1. Everything China
This month, I have noticed that most of my magazines and journals from cooking to tech writing to science all focus on doing business in China. If you don't subscribe to IEEE, ACM or STC, or even Wired, you can borrow some of these issues to read up on the trend if you have interests in the far east.

2. Shifting funding needs: the gravy train ride is over on agencies that previously funded lots of innovation in the field. An overview of the current state of affairs (DoD, NSF, DARPA, NSA, NIH and others) is reviewed in several articles falling in my lap this month, including the NY Times discussing the Pentagon's shifting gears.

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