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In Andernach, Germany in the year 1920, on the 16th of August Charles Bukowski was born. He was the only kid of a US soldier and a German mother. At the age of three, he moved with his family to the USA and grew up in the city of Los Angeles. From 1939 to 1941 Charles attended the Los Angeles City College, then he decided to finish school and went to New York City try to become a writer. His lack of publishing success at this time caused him to give up writing in 1946 and spurred a ten-year stint of heavy drinking. After he developed a bleeding ulcer, he decided to take up writing again. He worked a wide range of jobs to support his writing, including dishwasher, truck driver and loader, mail carrier, guard, gas station attendant, stock boy, warehouse worker, shipping clerk, post office clerk, parking lot attendant, Red Cross orderly, and elevator operator. He also worked in a dog biscuit factory, a slaughterhouse, a cake and cookie factory, and he hung posters in New York City subways.

Bukowski published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. His writing often featured a depraved metropolitan environment, downtrodden members of American society, direct language, violence, and sexual imagery, and many of his works center around a roughly autobiographical figure named Henry Chinaski. His first book of poetry was published in 1959; he went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose, including Pulp (Black Sparrow, 1994), Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 (1993), and The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992). He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9, 1994.

The movie Barfly, which was directed by Barbet Schroeder was largely based on certain parts of Bukowski’s life. Mickey Rourke plays the role of Henry Chinaski and Charles was often at the set to give Rourke advice about how he should act. Faye Dunaway plays Chinaski’s alcoholic girlfriend. Both actors performed very well and this movie deserved much more attention than it did get at the time it was released.

Rourke as Henry Chinaski in Barfly

This website provides much more information about the controversial writer, Charles Bukowski. 

It has been labeled as mind altering, and even been the blame of murder back in 1905. It’s a strong liquor and some even label it as a dangerous drug. It’s called Absinthe, the Green Fairy.

Absinthe started out as a medicinal tonic invented by Dr. Pierre Ordinaire to administer to his patients. The concoction was made by distilling alcohol similar to moonshine in a plethora of herbs. Some of the herbs commonly used were anise, fennel, Angelica, Hyssop, Licorice, and peppermint, but the most notorious of them all was the grand wormwood. Wormwood was the herb that caused Absinthe it’s biggest controversy due to the thujone content. Thujone is a terpene found in wormwood and is blamed for absinthe’s secondary effects, which were hallucinations, convulsions and madness. All unfounded might I add.

Absinthe has a very sordid history due to the prohibitionists of France during the 1800’s. It also has a huge presence in art over the years. Many of the artists, poets and writers living or visiting Paris and living in London in the late 1800’s were absinthe drinkers. With a over 21,000,000 liters annual consumption, absinthe was a very popular drink among the aristocrats down to the poorest working man.

Absinthe was the subject of many art works by very famous artists over the years, but not always correlating to their personal consumption. Jean Francois Rafaelli was a heavy drinker of absinthe, and was used as a theme in many of his paintings. Henri de Toulouse Lautrec was also a heavy drinker of absinthe but devoted very few of his works to the Green Goddess.

Some people claimed that Absinthe Liquor was an aphrodisiac, Ernest Christopher Dowson claimed in his writings that “Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder”. To some artists of the period, hallucinations caused by the Green Fairy claimed to be mind stimulating and essential to produce the works of art they created.

Two of the most famous paintings with Absinthe Alcohol being the subject matter is “At the cafe by Paul Gauguin and “The Absinthe Drinker” by Pablo Picasso. Both of the paintings were similar and featured a blue seltzer water siphon near glasses of absinthe.

Other notable artists associated with Absinthe liquor: Ernest Hemingway was probably one of the most recent artists who partook of Absinthe Green Fairy. Hemingway drank absinthe way after it was banned in most parts of the world. Some works he did that mentioned of Absinthe was Death In The Afternoon and For Whom The Bell Tolls.

Arthur Rimbaud was a poet arriving in Paris at the young age of sixteen, he fell in love with Paul Verlaine and the two would drink absinthe together and play cruel games with each other. After a falling out with Verlaine he joined the Dutch army and became a gun runner. Although he gave up poetry early he still became known as one of France’s greatest poets.

Alfred Jarry was famous for his scandalous play Ubu Roi. He was known to drink absinthe straight and was very eccentric. He is most famous for creating the monstrous character Pere Ubu, a grotesquerie who drove audiences to anger. Jarry admitted using absinthe to fuse together the story.

Not all Victorian artists were fans of absinthe. Novelist Marie Corelli was so concerned about the growing number of absinthe drinkers in England and Europe that she wrote a novel on the subject entitled Wormwood, published in 1890. The main character, Gaston Beauvois, is addicted to absinthe, and frequently refers to the drink as the “fairy with the green eyes.” He states, “Let me be mad . . . mad with the madness of absinthe, the wildest most luxurious madness in the world.”

Banned at the beginning of the 20th century in the West, absinthe is once again available in many European countries as well as Great Britain, Canada and even Israel. Some are attracted to it by its threat of danger but more seem to find it appealing because of its association with the bohemians of the early to mid 20th century, and still others find romance in it because Manet, Degas, Picasso all painted pictures of people sipping it. Celebrities such as Johnny Depp, Eminem and Marilyn Manson praise it and only further the interest in the Absinthe drink.

Giles Turnbull, a freelance writer’s website.

Thousands of bloggers coming from 45 countries, all join a cyber protest against the cruel Burmese junta by placing a

 ’Free Burma’ banner on their blogs.  

Various sources reported that at least 200 citizens and monks were killed and thousands of people have been arrested.

The country’s fascist rulers already have cut off the internet as they do not want the world to know what’s really going on in Burma.

The internet protest was a German idea and by now has spread out to countries such as the US, Brazil, Russia, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Indonesia and China. The text of the anti-junta cyber protest appeared already in eight languages on the net. You also can join and place the banner below on your blog. Visit the Free Burma website for more info.

Unless you have a scholarship and your parents have provided you with more than adequate college funds, you will need to earn some money while studying. Getting a descent and good paying job off campus isn’t really easy when you are a student and sometimes, your work schedule will come in conflict with your studies. In most cases, you end up cramming for exams and burning your midnight candles just to get through the semester. It’s not really a pretty situation isn’t it? Fortunately, there is a way out of the vicious cycle of running across town from school to the workplace.

The advancement of technology now allows students to work from home and have a more flexible schedule. If you are looking for work from home business opportunity, look no further than your computer. There are a number of online home businesses that are suitable for students. The good news about some of these online work-from-home business opportunities is that they offer possibilities of big income. In fact, if you are really good at what you do, you can easily earn a full time income while working in the comforts of your home.

Working as a freelance writer online will give you a lot of flexibility. You can work anywhere and anytime you want if you are freelance writer. At first, the pay may not really be so good but once you are able to establish a good reputation as a writer, you will soon be earning enough money to see you through college. Note that there are many students all over the country who were able to finish a degree while working as freelance writers.

If you are a medical student with good writing skills, medical transcription will suit you well. The good thing about doing medical transcription is that you get to work well within your areas of expertise. Since you are already very much familiar with the terms and jargons used in the medical profession, you can easily understand and transcribe medical records. Another advantage of doing medical transcription is that you get to learn something while you listen to the audio files that you are transcribing. Most of the audio files that you will transcribe contain information that is valuable to the medical profession. On the other hand, if you are a political science or a law student, legal transcription is best for you.

What if you are not a good writer? Can you still work online? Yes of course you can still work online even if you are not a good writer. The internet offers unlimited opportunities for entrepreneurs and students. If you are resourceful and creative, you are bound to find a good work from home business opportunity online.

A computer network is a collection of two or more computers with communication between them through a medium. The communication medium can be through radio waves, wires, infrared, optical fibers etc.

Computer network is an integral part of our daily lives, with the most important reason being that of communication. The use of computer networking is to share resources like fax machines, printers, modems, files etc., and its other uses are database server, computer server, email, chat, internet etc. The computer to which the resources are attached is called the server and the other computers that access the resource are called clients. In peer-to-peer computer networks there are no servers.

The sharing of fax machines, printers, and modems amongst many computers and users reduce the operational cost. A database on a computer network is a very important application as it stores and runs many important data and jobs. Emails and chats can be used for instantaneous communication and sending of files on a computer network.

The computer networks are classified, depending upon the size, as Local Area Networks (LAN), Wide Area Networks (WAN), Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN) and Personal Area Networks (PAN). The topology (topology is the way the computer networks and network resources are connected) of the networking can be classified as Bus Network, Ring Network and Star Network.

The networking hardware basically consists of wiring, network cards and a hub. Computer network cards are required so that one computer can understand what the other computer is “talking”. Network cards have a unique MAC address to identify computers on a computer network. Hubs connect all the computers in the network. Hubs can also be used to connect to other hubs to increase the size of the computer network. Two computers can be connected using Ethernet cards or phone lines or power lines for communication, with hardware kits available at roughly a cost of $100.

As the number of computers in an office or a home increases, so do the number of cables, so wireless networking is a viable solution. In wireless networking radio transreceivers or infrared signals are used to communicate between computers and devices. Examples of wireless networking include Wi-fi and Bluetooth technology, though there may be security issues involved in wireless networking. However there definitely is a stronger preference towards wireless networking nowadays among consumers.

Computer networks have added a new dimension to the 21st century. Today the cyber world is much faster and wider than the real world. This has all been made possible due to computer networks. Computer networks have revolutionized business, communication, travel, research, defense, society and almost all human endeavors. The evolution of computer networks has helped the technological revolution take a big leap forward.
Networking and communications hardware

Before writing an article, have you ever felt overwhelmed by a blank sensation, not knowing where to start? I’ll bet you have!

This useful list below should help you eliminate some common problems in writing articles:

1. Have a specific purpose in mind.

Always have a specific purpose in mind before you begin writing: you should be crystal clear about what are you hoping to accomplish by writing your article. Is it an article clarifying an issue for your customers, to attract prospects, to improve the link popularity for your website?

2. Know your target population.

Before writing an article, conduct research on the target population. What are their experience, their interest, and their wants in the chosen topic? What pain or problem do they try to avoid?

3. Develop a detailed outline first, stressing on the benefits.

Now that you have a purpose and a target, organize your article so that scanning it quickly will show immediately to your reader how he will benefit from it and what are the most important points.

4. Stop your reader in his tracks with your title.

Your title should grab the reader’s attention and ‘force’ him to read your first paragraph. Using your most important benefit usually does it.

5. Start your article with the most important information

Again, do not keep your most important information for the conclusion! Give it immediately and develop on it in the following paragraphs.

6. Keep jargon to a minimum.

If possible, avoid jargon as well as prejudices and insinuations. Write your article so that even a child can understand it.

7. Make your article warm and personal.

Speak direct to the reader. Use a lot of ‘you’. Reading your article, the reader should feel warmth and empathy, knowing that you have the same problems and goals than him.

8. Keep sentences short and simple.

Using short and simple sentences will allow a fluid and easy reading, preventing your reader to get bored.

9. Have someone from the target population critique your article.

Who can give you a better feedback than someone from your target population? It will help you

10. Spend more time rewriting than writing.

Besides formatting your article for easy reading and nice presentation, be sure to use tools or an external editor to carefully proofread your writing for grammatical and spelling errors.

Remember that the more writing you do, the better you will get. After sometimes, when you are in the habit of writing, article writing will not seem as difficult as now!

Facts you should know about your web content

Writing web content is not as easy as it seems to be. Along with descriptiveness and relevancy, a good content writer must bear in mind that the article matter is essential for the SEO (search engine optimization) process. Therefore, he also needs to include pivotal keywords without producing an unreadable and boring article.Writing web content is a growing business with regards to the internet marketing sphere. But still, because not willing to invest a lot of time and money, numerous web companies are increasingly making use of software programs to obtain suitable content for their web pages. This software isn’t really expensive and might function endlessly according your specific needs.

But, is such a program really the solution for your highly important content writing? Mentioned below are some of the software’s benefits:
-It assists in researching on the writing topic.
-It is very easy to operate – just enter some phrases or main keywords that are applicable to your topic, and the program will gather the relevant info, which is available on the net
-If hiring writers is financially not possible, the software can simply churn pages on end.
-It is cheap, and therefore affordable by all kinds of web companies.
-It saves you a considerable amount of precious time that otherwise would have been spent on sorting and researching.
-Submitting such content to various article directories and generate reciprocal links for your webpages might be another benefit.

However, all these benefits cannot replace the human brain’s competence. A web content writer can create quality text that will be different as well as fresh. Software easily can get repetitive, while a human writer has the capacity, presenting ideas in various ways.

Another important issue, writers’ content guarantees much higher quality. If your company has a proficient and experienced writer at disposal, your website will contain quality pages, which easily can be optimised and reach a top spot with regards to the most popular search engines. When necessary, a writer is also able to make alterations, while the program will find it hard to change already written content.

It has been discovered that a number of web pages using software-generated content have been left out of the indexing loop because of their inappropriate use of keywords. It is quite evident that machines cannot substitute for humans. As a web business owner, do not shy away from hiring a writer just to save some money. The results will definitely be better in this case. Are you looking for attractively priced, efficient and interesting web content. 

Google’s done it again. With the announcement of its online Labs project, it showed that as a commercial and a technological operation, it is way ahead of its competitors.

The Lab is a digital playground where Google can put stuff that is still under development. The first four offerings are a search-by-telephone system (not much use unless you live in the USA), a dictionary and thesaurus (an obvious addition to Google’s existing services), a system of keyboard shortcuts so you can navigate Google search results without using the mouse (if you’re using Internet Explorer), and most interesting of the lot, Google sets.

Google sets asks you to input several keywords. The search engine then looks for related items and brings you a set of ready-to-click searches. Type “Britney Spears”, “Robbie Williams” and “Kylie Minogue” in and you’ll see how it works. (Oddly, though, it can’t find anything if you just enter “Britney”, “Robbie” and “Kylie”.)

The beauty of the Google labs is that they are experimental, and clearly labelled as such. The experiments might become new Google features, or might be taken away never to return.

But it says a lot for Google that it is willing to make its internal product development open like this. The internet is the kind of medium with which this sort of thing ought to be happening all the time, but Google is the first major web site to do it. Can you imagine Microsoft or Yahoo releasing beta-versions of web services?

Google’s bosses say their mission is to open up the world’s information to the people. So far, so (very) good.

This thought has been churning round my head for a few weeks now.

It started when I went to the Apple Macworld press conference in London, and Steve Jobs announced Sherlock 3, which is as near as dammit a clone of established shareware application Watson.

Having got the story of the similarity between the two apps out of my system, I started to think about what Sherlock 3 (and Watson before it, and the original Sherlock before that) represented - tools for finding information on the web, without having to use a browser.

And that appealed to me, as it must appeal to lots of people, because _browsers are such a pain in the arse_.

Which probably explains why syndication feeds have suddenly become so hot. (Odd, the recent interest, given that syndication has been around for some time - what seemed to bring it about was the release of a decent feed reader for Mac OS X, NetNewsWire Lite, and subsequent mention of it on a myriad of weblogs, especially those run by Mac users.)

With syndication, you can publish stuff that people can read quickly and easily without having to fire up a browser. And, perhaps more importantly, you can *read* stuff without all that hassle too.

So what can we expect next from the browserless web?

Can browserless activity be extended into a two-way operation, whereby it is not only used for publishing but for, say, personal shopping? How about if you could create a personalised Amazon RSS feed, as an offshoot to your wishlist? Amazon would automatically check it and be able to make you offers based on what you wanted - but perhaps you could create a wider personal RSS shopping feed that you could submit to multiple shopping sites.

Maybe you could create a temporary feed with all your holiday requirements, and seed a few travel services with it. Wait 24 hours, check your email, and see which companies have matched your requirements and at which prices.

Where else could the browserless web go?

Interaction and community building. Quicktopic discussions can be turned into syndication feeds by just adding “.rss” to their URL, meaning you can read dozens of discussions without opening a browser. And the neat thing with Quicktopic is that you can post by email, too, so there’s yet another reason not to click that Mozilla icon.

In time, this might (just *might*) encourage web developers to build smaller, faster pages. After all, if large numbers of people abandon the web for their news readers, there will be some unhappy advertisers. And so far, I have not yet seen *any* advertising in a syndication feed.

I foresee advertisers trying to get in on the action. Going to all sorts of lengths to get people to subscribe to “personalised marketing messages” in the hope of bombarding them with advertising via RSS.

Another thing that might (just *might*) happen is software developers making smaller, faster browsers. If people could access the real web just as fast as they can syndication feeds, perhaps they might stick with it instead of resorting to their newsreader for good.

The more semantic the web gets, the less need there will be for a browser as we are accustomed to it. “Information-agent”-style apps will become more common.

For this week’s internet column, I chatted to Richard Clark of jpeg.org about the jpeg issue - he does think some people *do* need to worry about it, if they have large collections of images. Museums with web sites, photo libraries, all sorts. I’ve got about 2,000 images on gilest.org. Does that count as a large number, I wonder?

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Richard Clark, chairman of the UK committee of the Joint Photographic Experts Group (www.jpeg.org) said that much of the blame lay with the way patents are handled in the US.

“The patent situation is a US generated problem - they allowed much more to be patented in the US but up until now, this sort of patent is much more difficult to enforce in Europe,” he said.

“Sadly, the UK seems to be one of the countries trying to push for a European regime which is closer to that in the US than at present.

“Initially, I am sure patent owners will try and get large payouts from the major suppliers - digital camera manuafacturers or browser software producers (such as Microsoft with Internet Explorer). Indirectly of course, these costs will eventually be passed on to the end consumer.”

But should ordinary people, who post jpeg images on their web sites, worry for the time being?

Richard Clark thinks not.

“I suppose users with very large collections of images - for example, training organisations or museums, may need to be concerned.

“Legal cases to enforce patents are very expensive, and at least in Europe, used generally a last resort. However unless the public express their concern over the increasing effect of, and greed by, patent holding companies, I cannot see the situation changing for the better.

“In my opinion very unlikely to be directly affected, except by an increase in cost of products using jpegs.”