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- Cleaning out my bookmarks, I came across this blast from the past. Me, Lefty, and a skinny-ass Whit, chillin' the... |
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New hatrack (Apr 11 2003 01:59 GMT) - Languagehat has moved to new MT premises. Nice title block.... |
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- Pyramid Asks, What Happens When Pricing Drops?. John Yunker of Pyramid Research notes that even optimistic projections of venue revenue today for hot spots relies on pricing staying constant over time: The latest free Wi-Fi newsletter from Pyramid covers some of the latest news, but leads off with Yunker's analysis of dropping prices from the venue's standpoint. He says, Current revenue share models value the network far greater than the location. I say, the hot spot business is about real estate and software, not about the technology.... |
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- CNN>> The United States, not Syria, is responsible for making sure Saddam Hussein and other top leaders of his regime don't escape Iraq by crossing the border into Syria, a top Syrian diplomat said Thursday.... |
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- Boingo Affects Hotel Stay for One Man. New York Times featured traveler makes plans based on Boingo availability: Strong words, indeed: The service has become so essential, he said, that it dictates which cities he visits and which hotels he chooses.... [Wi-Fi Networking News] |
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- Last night on CBS TV's 60 Minutes II, they aired what Iraqi TV had been showing for most of the previous day (as of yesterday, it was mentioned, Iraq TV had not been broadcast). The broadcasts consisted of various singers, in various locations, singing songs of praise to - you guessed it- Saddam Hussein. Cruel dictator indeed. The Iraqis got only 4 channels to begin with, were allowed no satellite dishes, and then had to listen to a bunch of "Robert Goulet look-alikes," as 60 Minutes II put it, sing songs about Saddam. |
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- Tidy it Up for Free. (Via Bryan Bell) A tool for cleaning and checking source coding, will clean HTML coding errors and make them legible. [educatorasylum News] Yup its a winner. |
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- Three more photos below.... |
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- Alias|Wavefront Announces Maya 5 it will be capable to export flash MX movies url: http://www. tenlinks. com/NEWS/PR/ali... |
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- The vision of a democratic oasis in the desert of Muslim despotism is appearing more and more a mirage. [More] |
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- AP via Anchorage Daily News >> Roundup of today's events in Iraq.... |
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- Don XML - in his From The What Were They Thinking Department post - wrote about what a poor idea Fawcette's Enterprise Architect Summit was. Robert Scoble and bunch of other "MS'ers" (apparently, .NET developers) climbed on saying yeah, how can it possibly compete with the PDC, they're idiots, won't they ever learn, blah, blah, blah. Really? Do these "MS'ers" seriously believe that someone interested in (guessing here) "De-compiling MSIL" would also be interested in Fawcette's "Best Practice: |
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- Number of Iraqi Dead May Be Unknowable. The effort to number the dead on the Iraqi side in the war begins with a conundrum: who is a civilian and who is a soldier? By John M. Broder. |
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- Bruce, "Blog Wars II" would be good, it would give us the chance of a trilogy ;-) |
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Downtime (Apr 11 2003 01:55 GMT) - A quick post: yesterday the site was down, due to problems at my ISP. Actually it was not down (I could ftp to it, and it was accessable through jillesoldenbeuving.nl). So now it is back up... |
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Revit (Apr 11 2003 01:55 GMT) - Okay, I’ve now seen Revit in action, and I’m both impressed and disappointed. I am impressed with the way that it reduces cross-referencing tedium. It’ |
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- A Utah man teaching English in China died of severe acute respiratory syndrome on his way to a Hong Kong hospital on Wednesday, leaving a 6-year-old son who lived with him. By Michael Janofsky. |
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- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the first guidelines for school officials in determining what to do if a student has SARS. By Lawrence K. Altman. |
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- NETWORK ASSOCIATES POSTS LOSS; GTECH POSTS BIG EARNINGS INCREASE; ARIBA RESTATES RESULTS;. |
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- EMS EXPECTS BREAK-EVEN QUARTER; ITXC REJECTS UNSOLICITED BID FROM IDT;. |
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- JAPAN: Trade Surplus Grows; SINGAPORE: Economic Growth Slows; SOUTH KOREA: |
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- BRITAIN: Rate Unchanged; BRITAIN: Brewer Names Executive; SPAIN: |
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- AUSTRALIA: Air Alliance Rejected;. |
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- That a shortage should happen in a country with some of the world's most ample oil reserves speaks loudly about all that ails Nigeria. By Somini Sengupta. |
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- In a move reflecting continued tough times in the telecommunications industry, Nokia plans to cut 1,800 jobs. By Christine Whitehouse. |
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- After 27 years of supersonic travel, British Airways and Air France said that they would retire the Concorde this year. By Alan Cowell. |
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- Rupert Murdoch gains control of two big satellite TV operators in Latin America and a virtual monopoly in Brazil. By Tony Smith. |
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- USA Interactive to acquire the 32 percent of Hotels.com it did not already own for about $1.1 billion in stock. By Bloomberg News. |
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- Sony Hires Agency For Aiwa Division. |
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- The mood was somber at an annual meeting of advertising executives as Madison Avenue struggles to emerge from its worst downturn in decades. By Stuart Elliott. |
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- There is plenty of pessimism about the economy. In fact, the economy has not been all that bad. By Floyd Norris. |
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- The Illinois Senate adjourned without reconsidering a bill to reduce a $12 billion bond Philip Morris USA was told to post if it wanted to appeal a state court ruling. By Bloomberg News. |
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- The U.S. trade deficit tightened by 2.2 percent in February as prewar jitters crimped Americans' demand for foreign-made goods. By The Associated Press. |
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- Tech stocks got a boost from better-than-expected results by Yahoo Inc. while blue chips rose only slightly as investors worried about the weak U.S. economy. By Reuters. |
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- Department stores struggled the most as shoppers were fixated on war news and concerned about their jobs. By The Associated Press. |
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- The German police raided some 80 buildings throughout the country as part of a continuing crackdown against a miltant Islamic group that was banned after the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S. By Richard Bernstein. |
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- Prime Ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Bertie Ahern of Ireland had to cancel a joint appearance because of last-minute objections by Sinn Fein. By The New York Times. |
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- AP>> "It's a little ironic," said one U.N. inspector. "We could find them but they wouldn't talk. Now they might talk but who is going to find them? |
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Toronto (Apr 11 2003 01:54 GMT) - I'm at the Holiday Inn, in Toronto right across from the airport. Much to my surprise they have free wifi here, very nice. The restaurant here is called the Metro Bar & Grill, i think. I just had the Sea Bass and it was excellent, possibly the best I've ever had. There are a few things that i've not noticed about Canada in my previous trips here. |
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A new home (Apr 11 2003 01:54 GMT) - hoarfrost has a new home: http://hoarfrost. greenashstudios. com I know I've been promising more frequent updates for months now, so I don't really expect anyone to believe me if I say it again. |
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- Arab Volunteers Returning Home From Iraq, excerpt:CAIRO, Egypt - It was a phenomenon of Arab brotherhood: From across the Mideast and even farther afield, hundreds of young men made their way to Iraq to fight the U.S. and British "invaders. |
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- Bookending the liberation of Baghdad are two summits -- Bush and Blair in Belfast on Monday, Chirac and Schroeder and Putin in Moscow on Friday. It's nice to have the... |
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- Oh, this is delightful. A couple of days ago, I posted about the singularly awful science errors in the sci-fi movie The Core. Apparently, the film's science has been so viciously lambasted that the producer recently freaked out -- and wrote a letter to the North County Times, attacking their review of The Core, and defending his creation. To quote, in part: When I read that "The Core" suffers from "a preposterous plot, cliched characters, and silly special effects," I realized Pack didn't do his homework. |
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- British Airways and Air France have announced that the Concorde will be grounded for good at the end of October... In a statement, BA said Concorde would cease flying in the autumn because of "commercial reasons, with passenger revenue falling steadily against a backdrop of rising maintenance costs for the aircraft". Shame to see them go, would have loved to fly on one.... |
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- Cheney dice que "habría que ser idiota" para pensar que la acción fue deliberada. Soy idiota !. |
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- Sam's job has pretty much been an absolute hell and misery since this time (A year and a half ago... |
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- Is it just me or does the general that will oversee the reconstruction of Southern Iraq, Buck Walters, have a... |
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- Name: Ganesan Sethuraman Email: ganesan. sethuraman@abcSTOPSPAM. com Company Name: |
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- With stunning speed and barely a fight, Kirkuk and its oil fields changed hands Thursday. By sundown, Kurdish fighters roamed unchallenged through the streets, looters had emptied government buildings down to the bathroom fixtures and statues of Saddam Hussein lay broken in the dust. |
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