Sunday, August 30, 2009

Let the classics remain as classics

The world's smallest deer discovered in the Himalayas, says AP.

"I do not like to track metrics like the number of comments as a quality measure. Anything you track is likely to cause some change in behavior," says Richard L. Hamilton, author of Managing Writers: A Real World Guide to Managing Technical Documentation, in an interview. He also says that DocBook is used more than DITA. Interesting.

What kinds of documents do Agile software development require? Read this blog post by Eelco Gravendeel.

Making a strong case to let sci-fi movie classics to remain as classics is the article, Top 10 Sci-fi movies that should never be remade

2.6 million viewers tuned in to the final episode of the most recent series of Ladette to Lady, a TV serial that is related to reviving the debate, Why can't a woman be more like a lady?

Interview with Ian Rankin, one of my favourite crime fiction writers.

Oxford University faces flak over land use. Oxford University dragged into Indian land-grab row.

Too much frenzy over diets and fitness damages your health, says Extreme celebrity workouts can damage you.

Noted ecologist, Vandana Shiva, says there are more hungry people in India than in sub-Saharan Africa.

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