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- Those of you not using 7 or 7.1 yet (upgrade!) should look here - we have updated engines, which may be used with VW 5i.2 and up. |
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- Would you like to sponsor Geekzone? |
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- British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Friday he has "absolutely no doubt" that concrete evidence will be found of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, urging critics to "have a little patience." |
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- From the Independent:"For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on," Mr Wolfowitz tells the magazine. The comments suggest that, even for the US administration, the logic... |
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- Slashdot brings us this interview with San Mehat:I think that Web Services are a great way to do transaction-oriented tasks. I think that it just needs a little bit more maturity before we can actually use this before its full potential. You know what it needs? It needs one person to step up and be loud and say, "We are doing it this way. |
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- welcome to the desert. where nothing lives for more than a day.where no ideas blossom. where no thoughts breed.welcome, for i am your king. |
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- I ran 3 miles earlier this evening. It's nothing special except that I ran with a girl. The concept itself is mundane, notwithstanding the fact that I realized I *never* ran with a girl before. Well, yes, I've jogged with bunchs of girls before, but I am talking about properly run non stop for half an hour or more. Stopping every five minutes in one hour run is not running. |
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- Economics 101 and the Evils of Fiat Currency John Hammer editor of the Rhino Times, and chronic GOP's disease patient, is sure that the Bush tax cut, slashed in half as it was, is going to be good news for our economy. The logic: |
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oops! (May 30 2003 04:56 GMT) - Well, isn't that disturbing... my blog went completely blank. Oops! Got all my gaming moves finally caught up to date,... |
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- Scientist floats $10B proposal to probe coreAn ambitious scientist wants to crack open the Earth and send a grapefruit-sized probe on a seven-day journey to the core, a plan that would require US$10-billion, a copious amount of iron and perhaps even a nuclear explosion. |
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Burma shave (May 30 2003 04:56 GMT) - Rob Schaap has generated some discussion on the desirability of beards after he observed that fewer and fewer Australian men... |
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- I spent all day yesterday and most of today packing and preparing books for shipment. It's so much fun, sitting... |
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- Steve Trachsel combined with two relievers to shut out the Philadelphia Phillies 5-to-0. |
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- Lindows.com and its users are safe from the legal tentacles of the SCO Group, at least according to Lindows.com. The company, maker of a Linux-based operating system, has announced that a pre-existing agreement with SCO Group will keep it out of the fight between SCO and Linux vendors. |
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- A study that targets the latest cultural phenomenon suggests playing action-packed video games, such as last year's blockbuster, "Grand Theft Auto 3," enhances certain visual skills, with marked improvements noted in as few as 10 hours at the computer controls. |
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- Suddenly, embedded-Linux applications have gotten a lot sexier. Long a bastion of roll-your-own operating systems, robot brains -- and the applications that run them --increasingly are being handed over to Linux, and a new market is burgeoning. |
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- HP last week launched wireless LAN security appliances, and Cisco introduced a range of security management, virtual private network and intrusion-detection products for corporate networks. HP's ProCurve secure access 700wl devices are WLAN security gateways that support up to 12 802.11b/a access points via three modular slots. |
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- IBM has brought together Linux, blade technology, supercomputer cluster management and storage software to produce what it says is a low-cost supercomputing environment. Big Blue has re-designed its eServer Cluster 1350, introduced last September, to accommodate 84 two-way blade servers (168 processors) per rack in the six-rack cabinet. |
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- Sprint has launched a major technology upgrade, becoming the first big telecommunications operator in the U.S. to convert from a traditional circuit-switched telephone network to a next-generation packet network. |
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- Benito Santiago showed all last season he can have success batting behind Barry Bonds. |
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- Not much separates the Minnesota Twins and Oakland Athletics. In fact, the last four games between them have been decided by one run. |
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- Come to the 2003 Black and Green Gathering! - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- The Bilderberg mingles central bankers, defense experts, press barons, government ministers, prime ministers, royalty, international financiers and... - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- The global economy is working. The rich may be acquiring an ever greater share of the world's wealth, the ecosystem may be collapsing, but - or so ... - www.indymedia.org: |
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- Thirty years ago it was plausible to analyse world politics in terms of relations between states, as dictated by the then-dominant realist school o... - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- Robert Zoellick, the US Trade Representative, is a man with a mission backed by a sense of history. Writing in the 7 - 13 December edition of The E... - www.indymedia.org: |
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- Is it college football season yet? I don't want to rush summer, but I can't wait for college football season... |
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- What an interesting day to be working at Microsoft. I learned, along with all of you, that Microsoft paid AOL $750 million to settle the Netscape lawsuit. Here's the conference call where Bill Gates and Richard Parsons (Microsoft's and AOL's top execs) explain the deal. |
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- What an interesting day to be working at Microsoft. I learned, along with all of you, that Microsoft paid AOL $750 million to settle the Netscape lawsuit. Here's the conference call where Bill Gates and Richard Parsons (Microsoft's and AOL's top execs) explain the deal. |
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- Forty-one percent of Ingersoll-Rand shareholders voted to bring the company's headquarters back from the tax haven of Bermuda. By Patrick Mcgeehan. |
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- After a century, comedian Bob Hope gets recognition for his movies, his comedies and the memories. By Charlie Leduff. |
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- Scientists said that they had cloned a mule for the first time, raising the prospect that it will soon be possible to produce genetic carbon copies of related animals. By Andrew Pollack. |
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- Erika Fromm was an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Chicago and an expert on the use of hypnosis in therapy. By Stuart Lavietes. |
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- Steve Trachsel gave up five hits in six and two-thirds innings to beat Philadelphia and win his fourth straight start for the Mets. By Dave Caldwell. |
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- Martin Brodeur became the first goaltender since 1952 to record consecutive shutouts in the Stanley Cup finals as New Jersey again defeated Anaheim by 3-0. By Jason Diamos. |
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- Long before "My Fair Lady," there was "Peg o' My Heart," which has returned as a musical that does not do justice to its original version. By Lawrence Van Gelder. |
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- Pixar's wonderful aquatic fable tells the story of a nervous clown fish (Albert Brooks) searching the big, wide ocean for his rebellious young son. By Stephen Holden. |
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- This show at National Museum of the American Indian depicts native peoples as ranchers, cowboys and entertainers in their own right. By Grace Glueck. |
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- As proven in the three Isamu Noguchi shows now on view in New York, his early training in portraiture led to his mastery of sculpture. By Grace Glueck. |
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- Showtime's "Thirtysomething"-ish pilot about a marriage of two pampered screenwriters is full of the clichés that have driven sitcoms off the air. By Alessandra Stanley. |
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- Give or take a few inconsequential rooftop pools, Manhattan keeps its aquatic treasures hidden, but I know where most of them are. By Joanne Kaufman. |
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- Although initially perceived as mere objects of beauty, the nine principal women of "Nine" are willful, complex, sympathetic individuals. By Robin Pogrebin. |
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- Some of the city's best noncommercial spaces are in the 57th Street area and above. So are some of this spring's more interesting shows. By Holland Cotter. |
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- Fantagraphics Books, better known for underground classics like the Hernandez Bros. LOVE AND ROCKETS and Peter Bagge's HATE, are... |
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- Whiskey Bar has a great timeline of quotes from the Bush administration showing how the assured presence of weapons of... |
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- The Memory Hole has copies of documents describing the Phoenix Program - a Vietnam-era program "aimed at 'neutralizing'—through assassination, kidnapping,... |
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Hiatus (May 30 2003 04:53 GMT) - I'll be on hiatus for the next 3-4 days, as we are surprising my father with a trip to an as-yet unknown locale. This is a regular occurance each year, as my stepmother likes to surprise him. I'm assuming he's not reading this page, but I'll not disclose the location until I get back. Just in case. My personal present to him was a Handspring Visor Edge... |
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