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Update (Mar 19 2003 23:56 GMT) - Do you know that sort of block you get when you haven't posted in a while and you just can't... |
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- Try breaking out of nested while loops without it. In Python, we use exceptions: class Done: |
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- We're headed to London (and Brighton) for a wedding and then Carcassonne in the south of France for a few days of recreation on a barge. The barge isn't actually going anywhere--our friends operate take rich Americans up and down the canal in the summer. So, this site won't be updated until April 1 or so, when I'm back in the Great White North. Cheers from Piers: We don't actually know him... |
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- Mark A. R. Kleiman When our leader tells us we are going to war, we should be paying attention to... |
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- This just in: Holmes Rolston III, Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University, whose 30 years of research, writing and lecturing on the religious imperative to respect nature have established the field of environmental ethics, has been named the 2003 Templeton Prize laureate. The prize, valued at more than one million dollars, was announced today at a news conference at the Church Center for the United Nations in New York. Rolston, also University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State and a Presbyterian minister, is one of the world's leading advocates for protecting the Earth's biodiversity and ecology in recognition of the intrinsic value of creation, including the ongoing evolutionary genesis in the natural world. In philosophical circles, he is widely known as the "father of environmental ethics. |
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BdG (Mar 19 2003 23:51 GMT) - Blogger di guerra. In questo articolo pubblicato su Zeus News, Pier Luigi Tolardo parla di Blogger di Guerra. Dell'iniziativa hanno parlato anche Dot-coma e Massimo Mantellini. |
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- I just finished talking to CMU's Associate Dean of Admissions for Computer Science on the phone. |
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- Kimberly Allers reports on the unique approach that Washington Mutual brings to retail banking. While banking behemoths like Citigroup and Chase were investing millions to steer customers out of their branches and to faceless ATMs and the Internet during the past several years, Washington Mutual courted customers in underserved urban markets by offering free checking and other wallet-targeted incentives. With its customer-oriented appeal to the mass market and its own version of everyday low pricing, the bank known as WaMu (pronounced "WAH-moo") has earned comparisons to retail giant Wal-Mart. |
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- Is this the week of failed hardware or what? I have just entered the ritual, and should emerge in about a day. Thank God for Groove and a second machine. |
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- During the past four years, Utah and about half the other states have cooperatively developed State Government Information Locater Services. Within this group of states, about eight, with the assistance of the State of Washington State Library, have developed search engines using Microsoft Site Server technology. I noticed today that Rhode Island has joined Oregon, Utah, and New Mexico in having their state portal powered by their State Library's Find-It search. Rhode Island, in fact, pioneered the use of MS Find-It. It was their Secretary of State's Office and State Library that sponsored the original Find-It programming that was later shared with us and other states. |
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- During the past four years, Utah and about half the other states have cooperatively developed State Government Information Locater Services.... |
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- Brazilian magazine Veja has become a good source of articles which are critical of Chavez, here is the spanish version of one called "The name of the problem is Chavez", the original in Portuguese is here. I love the following description (not really, it is actually quite depressing): "The Brazilians who celebrated in the Sao Paulo Social Forum, last January, perhaps did not know that left-wing parties were the first to abandon Chavez. |
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- A real time-saver when tinkering with your styles. |
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- From Findlaw: Findlaw reports that Justice Scalia, in the context... |
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- What is sad is how funny this was to me.... |
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Mombo Codo (Mar 19 2003 23:34 GMT) - I checked in the basic code at Source Forge. Here's a brief description of what's there so far: (83 words) |
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- I had to bug out of the conference early to catch my flight. I was afraid that security at Reagan would be a nightmare, but it was a breeze. My closing thoughts on the conference: |
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- Simon Brown: As authors, many of us are now in the situation where our work may never be published, or at least published in the form that we expected. Of course this isn't good, but don't forget about those staff at Wrox that have lost their jobs - they are in a much worse position than ourselves. I wish them all the luck for future. |
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- If you use NewsDesk, now you can show your appreciation and support customer service and development by sending us a donation: http://www. wildgrape. net/donate. |
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War (Mar 19 2003 23:27 GMT) - "It's unlikely President Bush will speak publicly until after he makes a decision to strike Iraq." "President Bush will be... |
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- It's such a beautiful day out! I saw in <a href="http://www. cynthiacedergre... |
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- Ein Ami. Ist das zur jetztigen Zeit pc den als seinen favorite guitarist zu nennen? ...mehr |
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War (Mar 19 2003 23:24 GMT) - Ben Coverston writes: [snip]Nobody wants to avoid war like a soldier does, but when war happens, a soldier wants to be there. I salute them.[/snip] I know what you mean. |
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War (Mar 19 2003 23:24 GMT) - Ben Coverston writes: [snip]Nobody wants to avoid war like a soldier does, but when war happens, a soldier wants to be there. I salute them.[/snip] I know what you mean. |
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- The Mayor of the Baruta municipality of Caracas denounced today that a number of high Government officials have failed to pay their home real state taxes to that municipality in the last few years. The list was quite long, but I love the fact that the Head of the Tax Office is on the list as not having paid his taxes for two years and the fact that the Foreign Minister Roy Chaderton, who is always pontificating about the poor and being a good citizens, has not paid his for "only" eight years. Another prominent name is none other than the Attorney General Isaias Rodriguez who is supposed to uphold the law, but we knew he has never done that anyway. |
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The Girls (Mar 19 2003 23:16 GMT) - I LOVE THE GOLDEN GIRLS!... |
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- from the mailbag today, Chris wrote: Hello there Susannah, I enjoyed looking over your web site, and the links on it. I try to watch you every new sexcetera episode as well, and have always wondered, when is your birthday? |
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An Exercise (Mar 19 2003 23:12 GMT) - If you are one of the many Americans who support our war on Iraq, I'd like to propose you try the following exercise at home: Step 1. Read this weblog now. If nothing else, read the following rant. Bonus points if you troll through the archives and notice how much in common that the author has with most young people who write on the web these days. |
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- D. and I have separate desktops using XP. I tell him this is because I want him to have his... |
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- I went to a seminar this afternoon given by Marissa Mayer at Google. She is a fantastic speaker, very intelligent, and eloquent. She gave a solid talk that focused mainly on the Google interface, whcih we are so familiar with (the minimalistic design, use of white space, etc.). I asked a few questions during the talk and spoke with her a bit afterwards. |
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- I love the consistency of French foreign policy, after opposing the war they now say they will join the fray if Saddam uses biological or chemical weapons. I also love how they toasted with champagne with Mugabe last month in Paris. Note that I have made no judgement on the war in Iraq, it would take another blog to explain my position on it, let me just say I don't oppose it, I just think it was incredibly stupid not to finish off the job in '91 and somehow it seems to me Colin Powell had a lot to do with it, no? As to the U.N. |
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- Most of these protestors have no life anyway, so it doesn't really matter.... |
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- Amazon.co.uk temporarily closed for a while today after accidently selling $299 Pocket PC's for £7. They also had £500 computers... |
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División... (Mar 19 2003 23:04 GMT) - A veces siento que estoy dividido en dos personas. Dos seres diferentes dentro de un cuerpo. Hay veces que son |
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- You Are an EXPERT in Bed You know precisely what you’re doing when the sheets are pulled down and... |
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- Hvem siger at børnerim kun er for børn? Jakob Martin Strid har med Mustafas Kiosk kreeret en lille genistreg, der taler til det uskyldige, fantasifulde barn inden i os alle. |
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