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Today (Apr 05 2003 23:59 GMT) - Yeah, so I just realized... |
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- Well, yup, I hit 200 laps today. 202 in 56 minutes. About 6 weeks ahead of schedule (which probably means that I overestimated it too much). I started swimming again in early February. It was hard to do 40 laps in the beginning days. |
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- Yup, the never ending theme creation continues although this is my first theme. Looks good but there's probably a few bugs left.Made it by making some heavy changes to the Springtime theme from http://ackbarr. |
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- Jim enjoyed Signs. I couldn't bear the predictability and how it was talking down to the viewer by again and again hammering in the moral points about loss and regaining of faith. Hello, we got it already! Well done craftmanship? Yes. |
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- Jim enjoyed Signs. I couldn't bear the predictability and how it was talking down to the viewer by again and again hammering in the moral points about loss and regaining of faith. Hello, we got it already! Well done craftmanship? Yes. |
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- My buddy Jake sent me this 404 page. It is the funniest one I have read in a while. You... |
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voegel (Apr 05 2003 23:57 GMT) - finde ich gut. zb die aldabra-ralle von den seychellen, der einzig flugunfaehige vogel dort. voegel, die nicht fliegen koennen(ja, auch pinguine, frau irene) sind meine speziellen freunde, auch solche, die fast nur fliegen(albatrosse zb) und sehr kleine voegel(siehe meine berichte ueber den heimischen garten). eigentlich gibt es nur einen vogel, den ich nicht mag, den kukuk, elender mistfink. aber wahrscheinlich hat der auch irgendeine aufgabe in der logik der natur. |
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- A LETTER Dear Mr. Chirac: |
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- It's been a while since we've talked about the "Sniper" case. It's in the news because of leaks about juvenile... |
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Hung Jury (Apr 05 2003 23:56 GMT) - Does anyone know if Dick Smothers, Jr. is well hung? I just got a comment on a rather old post... |
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- China Miéville, “The Scar” Dan Simmons, “The fall of Hyperion” |
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- Weil ich gerade mal wieder umziehe. How many houses/apartments have you lived in throughout your life? 25, wenn ich mich nicht verzählt habe. Which was your favorite and why? |
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- House Republicans, fiercely loyal to President Bush, want to pass the full tax cut proposed by the White House, which would cost $1.4 trillion over 10 years. Fiscal moderates in the Senate, who foresee a return of destructive federal deficits, would reduce the tax cut by about one-third. If the Republican negotiators who control this process want to retain any claim as fiscal conservatives or stewards of the nation's long-term prosperity, they should make the Senate's number a ceiling, not a floor. Star Tribune Proposed budget creates frenzy Lobbyists for hospitals and community health providers said they would be forced to cover more of the costs of caring for poor people. |
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- The number of new cancer cases worldwide is expected to increase by 50 percent over the next 20 years, partly because poor nations are adopting unhealthy Western habits, the World Health Organization said Thursday. Worldwide, about 10 million people are diagnosed with cancer every year, and 6 million people die from it. The report projects that the annual number of diagnoses will reach 15 million by 2020, based on current trends in smoking, diet, and exercise. Full story: WHO: |
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- Washington Post Whatever the outcome of the war in Iraq, Christians in that country are fearful about their future. They worry that if Saddam Hussein's government is ousted quickly and new leadership put into place, the new government will follow the model of many Muslim countries and outlaw all forms of non-Islamic worship. The country's half-million or more Christians have been allowed to worship freely under Hussein and for generations have worked and lived comfortably with Muslims (more...) |
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- Frederic Brown (1906-72): Fredric Brown was a man who hated to write, but absolutely loved putting words together. It's a paradox he would have probably enjoyed. Bibliography, collections and anthologies, and the complete text of his short-short The End. There are no rules. |
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- First Casualty Of War It must suck only a lot to be an Iraqi living in Baghdad right about now. Especially if you're a gullible Iraqi. You turn on the TV |
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- When space is filled with satellites, all the world becomes a proscenium arch, the narrator of the Marshall McLuhan movie... |
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- If you're a smoker with a specific genetic variant, you may be more susceptible to cigarette cravings and relapse when you try to quit smoking. Researchers at the Tobacco Use Research Center of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that smokers with a decreased activity variant of the CYP2B6 gene reported greater increases in cigarette cravings after they quit and were about 1.5 times more likely to start smoking again during the treatment phase of the study. Full story: Quitting smoking may be all in genes. |
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- Air-India interpreter approved [The Globe And Mail - National] |
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- Brad Abrams posted about the use BCL types vs. language specific type names (in sample code) today, which just happens to be a topic I've had to think about myself when writing sample code for my own articles, so I thought I would make a comment. I'm with Morty on this one... |
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Simplicity (Apr 05 2003 23:49 GMT) - Lance Cpl. Brian Cole, 20, of Kansas City, Kan., was bowled over by the 7-year-old girl who handed him a Christmas card with this painstakingly written text: "Thank you for liberate us. And thank you for help us. |
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Simplicity (Apr 05 2003 23:49 GMT) - Lance Cpl. Brian Cole, 20, of Kansas City, Kan., was bowled over by the 7-year-old girl who handed him a Christmas card with this painstakingly written text: "Thank you for liberate us. And thank you for help us. |
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- I don't know if it had to do with my observation about Oprah posing nude yesterday, but when I went out to rent The Bourne Identity today I also rented Apocalypse Now. Go figure. I know, three posts in rapid succession. It must be the fever talking. |
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- LOS DIABLOS GUAPOS are making midwestern bowling a whole new experience. Very scary. STRIKE!!... |
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- Probably not new to anyone except me, but I love this variation of style sheet for the media you are... |
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- Probably not new to anyone except me, but I love this variation of style sheet for the media you are... |
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- Poll: More Say War Justified Without Finding Weapons A growing majority of Americans believe the war in Iraq is justified... |
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- Carbon the exposition features some great art. Be sure to click on the images, the thumbnails don't do it justice.... |
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Mmmm! (Apr 05 2003 23:45 GMT) - I love tacos! Yummy! :lick:... |
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- WASHINGTON, April 5 — How and when, it seems worth asking, will the United States and its allies know... |
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- RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The top Palestinian religious authority on Saturday banned Muslims from aiding the U.S.-led war in Iraq. "All Muslim scholars in Palestine declare a fatwa (edict) forbidding any Muslim to participate in that aggressive war, or... |
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- The Quasar DV codec (libdv) is a software codec for DV video, the encoding format used by most digital camcorders, typically those that support the IEEE 1394 (a.k.a. FireWire or i.Link) interface. |
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- I was just reading all my rants over the past 24 hours and I realize that I have a perception about my writing that I need to correct. I'm NOT anti Open Source. I'm anti the political movement that says that if you buy commercial software -- open or closed -- you're a bad person. I AM anti the proposed Oregon law, which I see as anti-competitive and unneeded. I often use Open Source software and appreciate the time folks spend to bring that to me (and, I even pay for services/devices, like my Tivo, written with Open Source software). |
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- I was just reading all my rants over the past 24 hours and I realize that I have a perception about my writing that I need to correct. I'm NOT anti Open Source. I'm anti the political movement that says that if you buy commercial software -- open or closed -- you're a bad person. I AM anti the proposed Oregon law, which I see as anti-competitive and unneeded. I often use Open Source software and appreciate the time folks spend to bring that to me (and, I even pay for services/devices, like my Tivo, written with Open Source software). |
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Lucky (Apr 05 2003 23:42 GMT) - There are a few things in life that bring my pleasure. Above note, there are six egg yolks. Yet, I only cracked five eggs. How can this be? Double yolks. |
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- I don't even know where... |
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- Ever since it was released I've been using Safari as my default web browser on my PowerBook. It's faster than any of the browsers I've used on my WinTel machine at home, including Opera and Mozilla. It also blocks popups, one of the reasons why I prefer Mozilla 1.3 over Internet Explorer 6.0 on my home machine. |
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- Unfortunately, Photoshop crashes an awful lot on me, usually smack dab in the design I've been too busy with... |
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- Army Chaplain Josh Llano is quite the spiritual entrepreneur. The Miami Herald's Meg Laughlin reports: In this dry desert world... |
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- A bootleg copy of her bomb-throwing "American Life" video proves provocative -- but not nearly as disturbing as her decision to yank it. ¬> Real Media |
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