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Hello world... again! Am I Ugly in Grey, or what ??

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On the radio - 08/10/2005

StoryCorps is a national project to instruct and inspire people to record each others' stories in sound. NPR in the morning is broadcasting some of the stories. I really liked Monica's story (MP3, 1:41 min. - 600 Kb) about her dad forcing her 2 sisters and her to understand how hard physical work can be and how, by studying, you can have a different life:
(around 0:57) Dad, we don't think it's fair we have to work this hard And I just remember him saying "Is that right ? Well, do you think I like working hard like this everyday ? No !!!" He says "You know your mother says you girls don't like school and you're not doing very well and we decided you're going to come out here and work like this so your hoydens (??) will get use to how your life's going to be when you get older". So I said "Well, if we got good grades, do we have to come out here and work this hard ?" he said "No. That's the deal"
The conclusion NPR added: the bigger sister is now a physician and the two others are working in nursing and in social services. The StoryCorps website has more stories like these
I might have made a transcription error above, but the dictionary says hoy·den: A high-spirited, boisterous, or saucy girl.
Also on NPR This I Believe which invites people to talk about their core values.
To save a real stream to disk, you can use the option -dumpstream of mPlayer.
E.g.mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile storycorps.rm rtsp://real.npr.na-central.speedera.net:80/real.npr.na-central/me/20051007_me_16.rm
Donna Summer: On the Radio
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And I tried the new Google Reader and they use the following keyboard shortcuts: j - next, k - prev, n - page down, p - page up, h - top, r - refresh, s - star, which have really weird finger placements. They reminded me the type of Apple //c where there was no arrows on the keyboards and all the game used ijkm for the four directions. Problem is, I had an azerty keyboard... I'm more a river of news kind of guy, so the UI kind of please me, if only ALL the feeds would be in the same flow all the time: it's a bit confusing. And adding 10 new feeds in a row is a bit annoying. Yeah, I know about OPML bulk import, but I'm not going to create an OPML feed just for that... And why do I have to Preview the feeds (MyYahoo does the same: if I cut and paste the full url feed, could the software understands that YES I want to subscribe to that feed and YES I'm sure). But it's just a standard feedreader, for what I can see, and apart from Google monitoring what I'm reading, not sure what it brings me... And it's quite slow!!!
Originally published as jemisa.editthispage.com/discuss/msgReader$513
08 octobre 2005 Clés: