Sunday, October 30, 2005

International Crisis Group


The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, with over 110 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.

Crisis Group's approach is grounded in field research. Teams of political analysts are located within or close by countries at risk of outbreak, escalation or recurrence of violent conflict. Based on information and assessments from the field, Crisis Group produces regular analytical reports containing practical recommendations targeted at key international decision-takers. Crisis Group also publishes CrisisWatch, a 12-page monthly bulletin, providing a succinct regular update on the state of play in all the most significant situations of conflict or potential conflict around the world.

Crisis Group's reports and briefing papers are distributed widely by email and printed copy to officials in foreign ministries and international organisations and made generally available at the same time via the organisation’s Internet site, www.crisisgroup.org. Crisis Group works closely with governments and those who influence them, including the media, to highlight its crisis analyses and to generate support for its policy prescriptions.


Sunday, October 16, 2005

handwriting tips

handwriting tips

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You’ve decided you want to improve your handwriting and you’re probably hoping a fountain pen will do the trick -- maybe a friend told you it would. Maybe you’re just adventurous and you want to try your hand at calligraphy (or you might, once your handwriting improves). Good for you!

20 Best License-Free Official Fonts

Vitaly Friedman | Blog: 20 Best License-Free Official Fonts

Recently I’ve been browsing through the Net searching for the best license-free fonts which would fit as a serious heading for a serious online-presentation. Fortunately, I wasn’t the first web-developer, who was trying to find such fonts. One of the best resources I’ve found was Gerrit van Aaken’s essays collection “Freie Schriften im Portrait” (free fonts in a portrait) in German language. Before reading this article any further I strongly suggest you to visit Gerrit’s site and add it to bookmarks, for it is regularly updated and contains great links and a great fonts library. Besides, I’ve found some collections, created by freelancing typo-artists, such as Manfred Klein’s Fonteria, Designer In Action: Fonts, Typemotion.de, Apostrophic

Monday, October 03, 2005

Infinity Testing - Good V-Model

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The V-Model is a proven, industry standard framework that defines the standard development life cycle. It gives equal weight to testing rather than treating it as an afterthought.

 The V-Model requires that each deliverable be verified in an attempt to identify defects as early as possible and ensure that specifications are complete and correct. The V-Model specifies that activities in one stage must be completed before moving on to the next stage.

The V-Model saves time and money in development while increasing the result quality and the delivery reliability.

V-Model-v4

Sunday, October 02, 2005

Grouped Email Addresses in GMail

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Click on Contacts (left-side menu) and choose Add Contact (top right corner). Enter a name for the group in the Name field. Then in the Primary Email field start inputting the addresses of group members. Here is the trick: leave out the first and last brackets.

eyeOS project: Internet based Operating System. Taking your life everywhere

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 EyeOS is a free, cross-platform Personal Content Manager System based upon the style of a Desktop Operating System. The base package includes the whole Operating System structure and ten apps, as a Calendar, a File Manager, a Text Editor, an Internal Messenger, a Browser and a Calculator.

EyeOS's is thought to provide a complete, scalable and free (GPL Licensed) Organization and Work System. It's scalable, so everyone can port an existing PHP app to EyeOS and create a meta-package for installing it.