Thursday, December 12, 2002 TOC poets posted by Sam at 5:05 PM Persian Post The Persian Post reflects multi-lingual/ media expressions on culture (arts, literature, technology, and politics). It covers past, present, and future of the subjects in/ about the Iranian Plateau. The culture is composed of the penda'r, gofta'r, kerda'r of the nationalities in the Plateau (language, behaviour, religion, food, dress, rugs, architecture, arts, literature, technology, and politics). The language includes dialects, comparison, dictionaries, linguistics, grammar. and changes. The arts are music, painting, fashion, drama, films, tapes, cd, Web sites, photos, and tv programs. The technology is narrowed down to those empowering the youth in their entrepreneurial, creative, and dissimantion skills. The precursor of democracy and civil society is employment/ economics. The Plateau has a long history and was a component in the Craddle of Civilization. At present, it has natural resources; in the future, it places a large segment of world educated population. The Latin transliteration of Iranian terms are with the 28 consonents/ vowels (a, b, p, t, s, j, c, h, x, d, z, r, z, z~, s, s~, s, z, t, z, ', q, f, q, k, g, l, m, n, v, h, y/ a~, e, o, i, u). The Armenian, Ashurian, Hebrew, Turkic, Kurdic, Arabic, and other alphabets have their Latin equivalents. posted by Sam at 4:32 PM Wednesday, December 11, 2002 I need to work on the blogs template and content. The pictures can be on the photos.yahoo .com and linked on the blog. It needs to be tested in terms of comaptibility and retrieval speed. The template needs to be customized to have links to other blogs. On the Farsi side, the Alkaatib 1.3 files need to be converted to Unicode. The PPC Mac7.5.5 needs to be checked for the followings: StuffIt, utilities, and tools. The Alkaatib files need to save as text, converted to a format to be converted to Unicode for Win2k/98/Word2k editing and upload. Also the downloads from Win2k/IE5 of files > 1.38MB on the Zip100 is another problem. The Mac does not have Zip100. There is a Zip100 on another Mac. But PPC Mac does not have openning in the front to install the Zip100. Mac design is very poor in terms expandability and interoperablity with other platforms. I do research on all these subjects, the prints are 3 " thick stack of papers. I sort them into posted by Sam at 8:14 AM It is wednesday with snow on the ground from last week. It is raining at a temprature of lower thirties. The tree braches are sheathed with ice and so are the roads. It looks like a Russian movie with scenaries around Moscow. The sun is behind a thick blanket of clouds. The trees are ice skeletons against a grey horizon. Marsina asked me to disappear a chocolate coin in her ears, which I did and she believed it. I'll be going to work at 12 noon. So many things to do these days. I have to go OH to vacate the duplex this weekend. Saed said he shot 2 deers last week and wants to make deer kabab in his big house. It has a lake and is on Olentangi river bank. It has a long deck with a breath taking view of the lake, trees, and now and then a blue herrin. There are several tortles and fish. His energy and creativity are commendable. He got a huge chandelier customize it himself, hanging from the living room. The house is a very laarge treetop house! It has light, view and air due to a wall to wall Anderson windows facing the East. He also has a large TV with the blind Italian opera singer humming classical tunes. posted by Sam at 7:58 AM