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- Wir verlangen, das Leben müsse einen Sinn haben, aber es hat nur genau so viel Sinn, als wir selber ihm zu geben imstande sind. |
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- “The biggest barrier to machine-to-machine integration’s adoption and integration into our daily work lives will probably be human reluctance to relinquish decision-making to automated systems. In fact, in some large buildings controlled by a building-management system, individual offices still have thermostats. Often those thermostats aren’ |
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- You like archeology? 10 may 1994 12:03:35 GMT - it's the oldest trace of me I could find on Internet. Lot of stuff has been lost, and... |
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- “True to its title of ’fastest book in the world’, a quick-fire anthology of short essays on the topic of speed sold out within minutes as it arrived at German bookshops Wednesday evening. The book was conceived, written, printed and shipped in little more than 10 hours in a project to celebrate World Book Day and German publishing skills. |
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- Chancen sind wie Sonnenaufgänge. Wer zu lange wartet, verpasst sie. |
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- Le fournisseur d'accès Verizon a perdu en appel le procès qui l'opposait à l'industrie du disque américaine. L'an dernier, la Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) avait demandé à Verizon qu'il lui indique l'identité de deux abonnés suspectés de piratage... |
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- Drudge links a Daily Telegraph report that recently discovered Iraqi intelligence documents prove that Saddam worked with bin Laden, possibly on planning for the bombing... |
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- Seattle Times: Travel editor blogging travels in Northern California. Seattle Times travel editor Terry Tazioli is about a week into his new travel weblog as he tours Northern California. His first stop was Half Moon Bay and now he's in the Napa Valley. [Scott Loftesness] |
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- The Daily Rocord reports that some of the props from the set of the third Harry Potter film, The Prisoner of Azkaban. Read the full article in Movie. |
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- Weekly Wrap-Up #52 - Jobs 1. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? I always thought I'd be a teacher. Both of my parents taught during most of my life and it made sense to me. I also figured I'd be a mom at some point. |
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- Taken in 24th April 2003 - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- Now, if you've talked to me even a little this past week, then you know what it is I've been raving about: Office 2003. |
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- Die Jugend ist meist so allwissend, dass sie alles weiß, bis auf eines: dass auch einmal die Alten allwissend waren, bis sie wirklich etwas wussten. |
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- The Heineken Cup final with be an all-French affair after Leinster went down to Perpigan 21-14 in the semi-final at Lansdowne Road. |
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- Leinster have a mountain to climb as Perpignan have gone over for their second try in the Heineken Cup semi-final at Lansdowne Road. |
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- Pascal Bomati has levelled matters for Perpignan against Leinster in the Heineken Cup semi-final at Lansdowne Road. |
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- Freddie Kanoute grabbed a Premiership lifeline for West Ham with his 80th-minute winner against Manchester City at Maine Road. |
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- Gordon D'Arcy has gone over for a Leinster try in the Heineken Cup semi-final against Perpignan at Lansdowne Road. |
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Anthrax (Apr 27 2003 15:56 GMT) - Leading Iraqi Scientist Says He Lied to U.N. Inspectors....In addition, he said, Iraq was never able to make dried anthrax, a medium that would have made the lethal spores far more durable and easier to disseminate. He thought he had... |
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- Musuem Theft Done by ExpertsExperts now see clear evidence that looters who stormed into Iraq's national museum during the siege of Baghdad knew what they wanted, and got it. Missing are famed artifacts such as the Golden Harp from Ur,... |
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Busy Day (Apr 27 2003 15:56 GMT) - Blogging may be erratic today, as I have places to go and things to do. However, I will try to have a few words later about Matt Welch's ill-timed economium to the French, in light of yesterday's London Sunday Times... |
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- Download a componentversion of my implementation of Moock's MovieClipLoader. |
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Headed Home (Apr 27 2003 15:55 GMT) - On United Flight #5436 headed back to Taunton, MA, via Chicago and Providence's T.F. Green Airport. A good vacation, got some sun, saw Cirque de Soleil, family, "big" Texas stuff, bought some yard art in Wimberly, what more does one want? Tonight, tons of email to go through and finalize budget information prior to tomorrow. |
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- US troops seized a shipment of arms bound for ethnic Turkmen in the Kirkuk area. The NY Times has this report. |
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- Nineteen roosters and more than $17,000 were seized in the Saturday night raid on a Bronx building, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said today. By The Associated Press. |
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- Deadly Ammo Dump Explosion in Baghdad [NPR News (Audio)] |
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- An excellent entry point to the ongoing discussions surrounding music copyright at Matt Rolls a Hoover. Regarding compulsory licensing: So here's the problem. The music industry has developed a business model that's in danger of being made obsolete. Compulsory licensing does not change that. |
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- (the estate of) Diane Arbus © 1963 |
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- Seek Systems has announced the EXCHANGE EDITION of the FasFile Xcelerator and FasFile RAID systems that have been tuned for Exchange Servers. Without any software changes in the Exchange application, the FasFile systems generate signicant gains in disk performance. [PRWEB Apr 27, 2003] |
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- Powerful Software Supports Most Critical Phase of Selling Process—Presenting to the Customer [PRWEB Apr 27, 2003] |
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- A fetus in a plastic grocery bag was discovered by two 13-year-olds on a walk in Allentown, police said. |
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- 'Deep Throat' Identity Revealed? [NPR News (Audio)] |
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- I'm basking in the glow of "Standing In The Shadows Of Mowtown." If you're a fan of 60's and 70's Soul, this will bring you joy. |
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- A Taut, Last-Minute Stretch to Save an Airline. What happened at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas last Wednesday ultimately pulled American back from the brink of bankruptcy. By Edward Wong and Micheline Maynard. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] |
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- "All governments pursue a disinformation policy under the rubric of communciation..Governments spread unverified rumors, half-truths and lies..War ... - uk.indymedia. |
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- "The people are against this war..Engendering the union of the Islamic masses and Arab nationalists with a war would be the worst outcome. Such a d... - uk.indymedia. |
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- The immensely popular evangelical professor Helmut Gollwitzer (1908-1998) was active in the underground Confessing Church in Germany and in partisa... - uk.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- I was doing a little tweaking on the comment style, and wanted to post a few test comments before heading in for the night. Then out of nowhere I got this: An error occurred: Unmatched right curly bracket at lib/MT/App/Comments.pm line 23, at end of line syntax error at lib/MT/App/Comments. |
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- Six in the morning is way too early to wake up on the weekend, regardless of the activities planned for later in the day. Sorry, but even visiting one's brother should be planned for later in the day. That being said, visiting Todd for Maryland Day was pretty cool. Maryland Day is this big bash that the University has been doing for the past couple of years. It's a face painting and cotton candy type of thing, you know the deal. |
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