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Using a syndication feed

2006-03-28T14:26:00.000+03:30

What is a feed?
A Web feed is a quick and simple way of delivering website content to the world. Instead of starting up a web browser and laboriously navigating to a site, you install a small program called a feed reader which automatically collects the headlines and downloads them to your computer, rather like email messages.
Every time a new story is posted on the site, its headline appears in your reader, and you can then decide whether you want to click on the headline and read the whole story or skim to the next piece of news.
Each list of headlines is called a feed, and you can sign up to many different feeds from different websites and keep them all stored in a single place for instant access. Being able to skim read a large number of web site headlines like this can significantly reduce the time it takes to access all your favourite sites.
It’s like having a very efficient butler who cuts out all the headlines from your favourite newspapers and serves them to you nicely arranged on a tray, and you don’t even have to pay holiday benefits! The most popular type of feed technology is called RSS (Really Simple Syndication), but you may also come across Atom or RDF feeds which operate in much the same way. There are now also a number of online services which offer feed reading functionality (see below).
How to use a feed. In order to use a feed you need to download and install a feed reader program or sign up to an online reader service. There are lots of different types available and many of them are free of charge. Here is a selection of the most useful and popular ones:
FeedReader – a free Windows program which is simple to use and install.Sauce Reader– a free Windows program with a familiar MS Office-style interface.Fastbuzz – free service collects feeds and delivers them via email.AmphetaDesk – a free Windows and Apple Mac program with unusual scrolling page interface.
You can find a comprehensive list of feed readers at this page of Google search results and at this page also.
Once you have installed the software, navigate to the site of your choice and click on the RSS feed icon, which may be orange in colour and/or have XML or RSS written on it. A page will load with ugly text on it, ignore that and simply copy the web address from the address bar of the browser, and paste it into the ‘create new feed’ section of your feed reader.
Ferret feedsTo make life easy peasy for eager Ferret readers, not only have we provided an RSS link for use as above, but also automatic link icons to six of the most popular online feed reading services. To use the latter, simply click on the icon of the service you want - Yahoo! MSN, Bloglines, Feedburner, Feedster or Newsgator - and join up and/or subscribe as necessary. That’s it. Then you can read to your heart’s content every time we post some new goodness!
More information on RSS and feed usage.
Slate. How to Speed-Read the Net.
The Times Online. RSS, Bringing the worldwide web to you.
The Guardian. Working the web: Newsreaders.
The Telegraph. Bootcamp 299: RSS - a better way to surf?
The BBC. RSS Feeds.

Your Birthday Star

2006-03-28T13:34:00.000+03:30

Light travelling in empty space is the fastest thing in the universe. It travels at 186,000 miles per second!
The stars are so far away from us that their light still takes a long time to reach Earth. One light year is the distance light travels in a year: 5,878,499,812,499 miles. The closest star apart from the Sun is 4.2 light years away, so its light takes 4.2 years to reach Earth.
Tell the Birthday Stars computer when you were born, and it will look for a star that is your age in light years away from Earth. This means that the light we're seeing from that star today actually left the star around when you were born, and has taken your entire life to reach Earth.
From month to month you may see your birthday star changing. This is because as you get older the light from more and more distant stars has had the time to travel to Earth in during your life.
You can find your Birthday Star by entering your birthday here: ttp://outreach.jach.hawaii.edu/birthstars/year.php
Here is my birthday star's name, image and information:

It is in the constellation Pavo. It has the name δ (Delta) Pavonis in Johann Bayer's Uranometria star catalog. It is called NS 2008-6610 in the NStars database.

It has visual magnitude 3.55 meaning that you could see this star with the naked eye in good viewing conditions. It is marked in the center of this star chart, at celestial coordinates (J2000 equinox): Right ascension20:8:43.6 , Declination -66:10:55.5

This star is 19.9 light years away, which means that the light we see from it today set off on its journey at about the same time that you were born. Come back in a month or two and your birthday star may change, as the light from more distant stars reaches Earth.

Happy new Iranian Year (Nowruz)

2006-03-25T15:55:00.000+03:30

Nowruz is a celebration that reaffirms our ties to nature and fellow man.
Oh, it's Haji Firuz, and bright new coins, and visits to the grandparents, and jumping over fires, and much, much more.
But all these are but the concrete manifestations of the heart of Now Ruz which is to tell us that people and nature are what matter in this life.
Now Ruz also stems from and attitude toward time that is in many ways out of date.
To the ancients, time was cyclical. In the modern world, we have developed the idea some say the god-of progress. With time our may of life should advance, we say . New inventions will make life easier and open new opportunities. Time is a progression to things new and different, not a cycle that repeats itself.
But, to the ancients, progress was an unknown concept. Time to them was cyclical. For example, there is the 12-year cycle still used from Iran to Japan-the year of the horse, the year of the snake, etc. In the New World, the ancient Aztecs had a 52-year cycle.
But the most important cycle in the ancient world was the yearly seasonal cycle. That cycle of birth, blossoming, fading and wintry death represented life itself.
Now Ruz marks the beginning of that cycle on the first day of spring. But it is more than just a spring holiday. Now Ruz speaks of the past remembered, the future hoped for, and the present recognized as the foundation of hope.
And, as such, Now ruz is far more than a mere holiday marked on a solitary day. It is really an entire season that stretches for a month.
The festivities begin about two weeks before Now Ruz day itself. It starts with housecleaning-or what Americans now call spring cleaning. Rooms are swept and washed, fresh flowers brought into the home, and new dresses tailored.
Most significantly, traditional greens-commonly wheat or lentils-are prepared in a dish for sprouting. The ultimate symbol of rebirth and renewal, they will be watched every day for the next few weeks as the seeds turn to small sprouts and then flourish into a tight nest of greenery.
The rites of Now Ruz have grown into a vast tangle of ritual in the millennia over which Now Ruz has been central to the Persian being.

The season that is Now Ruz finally comes to a formal end on Sizdeh Bedar, the 13th day of the New year, which falls on April 1 this year.
The number 13 is unlucky and the best way to avoid the ill omen of this day is to remain outside. Parks, forests, country roads abound with families enjoying the open air, picnicking, strolling, hiking. Or just sitting in the shade and maybe enjoying a snooze beside a trickling stream.
It is a day for renewing our ties with nature and mankind. In fact, all of Now Ruz is a time for renewing our bonds with the people with whom we live and the planet on which we thrive.
As the holiday season began with the planting of greens in a plate, so it thrived as the shoots grew and flourished. Now the season ends as the shoots are returned to the earth on Sizdeh Bedar.
The new year has begun.
Life continues its cycle of renewal.
Happy Nowruz everyone.

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2005-12-12T23:22:00.000+03:30

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2005-12-03T12:35:00.000+03:30

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