2005-10-27

Beltway

米国Washington, D.C.とMaryland, Virginia両州を囲む首都環状高速道路
inside the B~  ワシントン政界で.
The conventional wisdom inside the Beltway and beyond is that, this week, at least one and possibly two senior White House officials will be indicted for crimes related to the Valerie Plame affair.
"SELF ANALYSIS" より

2005-10-26

rudimentary

根本の, 基本の
Scatter enough nodes on rooftops citywide, and then if the phone system collapses, there will probably be a surviving mesh strong enough to serve as a rudimentary backup.

pandemonium

大混乱
Everyone else staggered around in blind ignorance -- which helped produce horrifying pandemonium.

ensue

続いて起こる
Katrina had disrupted the city's communications grid, and residents and emergency responders were grappling with the chaos that ensued.
Talking in the Dark
より

anthropomorphize

擬人化する
we humans are good at anthropomorphizing very crudely-drawn figures
Get your game face onより

molder

(徐々に)朽ちる
they've fallen down on the job, with the vast majority of works that they claim to be seeking to protect their rights in actually left to molder in the trash heaps of memory.

prerogative

特権, 大権的権能
I believe they're just jealous of their prerogatives as gatekeepers of content.
It seems to be working for Jesusより

frothy

あわの(ような), 実質のない
In this early frothy period, some of these projects are going to get funded

deluge

殺到する
I've been deluged with pitches for what will at best be features of next generation products.
VC Pitches in the Web 2.0 eraより

2005-10-25

別のバックリンクのテスト

表題ではなく、本文でリンクしてみる。

バックリンクのテスト

ちょっとテスト。

2005-10-21

lupus

狼瘡(ろうそう):皮膚結核の一種
2006-08-26追記:
Any of several diseases, especially systemic lupus erythematosus, that principally affect the skin and joints but often also involve other systems of the body.

2005-10-18

grapple

(レスリングなどで)つかみ合う《 with... 》
ABC Affiliates Grapple With TV-Show Downloads

2005-10-17

invigilate

《英》試験監督をする(《米》proctor)
I need to invigilate a mid-term exam in school next Monday morning.

Debussy

ドビュッシーなんだけど、聞いたときは全然分からなかった。最後の音節にアクセントがあったから。フランス人の名前だから当然なのだけれど。
Debussy's 'La Mer' Marks 100th Birthday

2005-10-15

putative

推定上の, 架空の
This incident seems to combine elements of two putative crises in the Linux world: the SCO lawsuits and the BitKeeper incident.

platitude

陳腐な言葉,ありきたりの発言.
MySQL declares "business as usual" and various other platitudes.
from Your Money or Your MySQL

2005-10-10

irk

いらつかせる。
Taiwan Irked at Google's Version of Earth

2005-10-09

2005-10-07

zing

元気, 活気
The Zing in Zimbra

adverse, finicky

adverse: (効果などが)マイナスの
finicky: (食べ物・服装などに)やかましい,凝り性の
The Ad-Averse: Finicky and Opinionated

2005-10-02

eponym

A person whose name is or is thought to be the source of the name of something, such as a city, country, or era. For example, Romulus is the eponym of Rome.
O'Reilly himself has operated for years under the radar. Most nontechies, if they know him at all, know him by the eponymous name of his publishing company.
from Slashdot.