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02 28th, 2007| 
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Parkinson’s Law states that “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
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“Finally, the W3C should divorce itself from all efforts that further the technological needs of the enterprise at the expense of the world.”
Today Eva and me finally followed the advice of Mike Cannon-Brookes to invest in micro loans on Kiva. I’m a big fan of all ways of helping people in developing countries or environmental projects in a way that still follows the market economy laws. Specifically I think that micro loans are a brilliant way of doing this and was thrilled when last year’s Nobel peace prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank, the real pioneers of micro loans.
My friend Anders (no blog) and I have been discussing this lately. Anders has, in a similar fashion, invested in a company (can remember the name) that works on developing more environmentally adapted energy sources. As this is risky business, he might well loose the money but if it turns out that they succeed the payoff for the environment will be that much higher.
You can follow our loan status here and like Mike I challenge you all to lend money on your own. We’ll try, but no guarantees as long as I’m living on paternity leave money, to match your loans. Leave a comment if you do.
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“Conceptual graphs (CGs) are a system of logic based on the existential graphs of Charles Sanders Peirce and the semantic networks of artificial intelligence. They express meaning in a form that is logically precise, humanly readable, and computationally
