The Striated Caracara, (Phalcoboenus australis) is a bird of prey of the Falconidae family. In the Falkland Islands it is known as Johnny Rook.
The adults plumage is almost black in colour, while the legs and lores are orange and the neck is flecked with grey. The first year juveniles have an orange or light red down, which they lose after their first moult. Full adult plumage is acquired only in the fifth year. Read more ›
Esref Armagan is a Turkish painter who has been blind since birth. His paintings are amazingly realistic, incorporating color, perspective, and great detail. To determine how this may be possible, Harvard neurologists Alvaro Pascual-Leone Amir Amedi are scanning Armagan’s brain. Read more ›
Recently I had to dive into the secrets of digitally signing and verifying xml documents, it took me awhile to figure out how to sign an xml document with a certificate and to verify the same document with its public key. Now it seems simple, but the MSDN documentation kind of put me in the wrong direction.
Here is small C# class that lets you determine the time the sun rises or sets. I found the original code somewhere on the web as a Javascript and translated it to C# to create a little windows desktop program that calculates the sunrise and sunset for a given period. Read more ›
Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions. And the actions which speak louder than the words. It is making the time when there is none. Coming through time after time after time, year after year after year. Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism. – Abraham Lincoln Read more ›
