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- Personal note to Mary Jo Foley: Fresh Meat for your Microsoft blogger list! Yeah, that blog belongs to Matt Carter, who's now running developer books for MSPress. At least he was as of 5 p.m. |
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- Personal note to Mary Jo Foley: Fresh Meat for your Microsoft blogger list! Yeah, that blog belongs to Matt Carter, who's now running developer books for MSPress. At least he was as of 5 p.m. |
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- On Thursday a strangely surreal evening; the kid had his first-ever public performance; a thousand people came, terabytes were burnt, and the evening progressed through sushi to Stephen King in the twilight, and now I can't get this Steely Dan tune out of my head.... |
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- i found this link in my logfiles : the World as a Blog... |
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- infested area (shelf paper may also need to be removed) and clean ... |
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- They do not deposit eggs until the plant begins to blossom, about ... |
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- Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County is a not-for-profit agency dedicated to helping the residents of Suffolk County through informal educational programs that help family, school and local businesses. We target our resources to foster ... |
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- The flowers and herbs listed were selected for hardiness, ease in growing and productivity. All air-dry easily and some double as cut flowers or ornamentals in the landscape. Most herbs dry well and are attractive as well. Those listed were found most ... |
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- Cooler temperatures, 55-77^F, and high relative humidity (RH) and/or moisture favor development. The Botrytis fungus can infect senescing bloom tissue, then usually remains latent until ripening in August (this period is called veraison). More common ... |
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- A month or so before the seed is to be used, you should run a germination test to determine the percentage of seed which have the capacity to grow. The easiest way to do this is to moisten two or three layers of paper towels. Place 25 to 50 seeds on ... |
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True Color (May 31 2003 06:57 GMT) - We've made some major improvements to our system for generating the thumbnail images in the Photos section tonight. Due to a server software update, the thumbnails have been rendering really poorly for about a week. This evening's upgrades make the thumbnails look sharper than ever. |
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- Over the last year, we have seen a shift away from traditional box systems and toward mobile computers. Weve responded to your shift in interest as quickly as possible and as new products develop. We thought you early adopters might appreciate the fact that, at least for ESC, youre part of an even larger and growing trend. In our last breakdown of ESC Technologies' processor sales, "A Quick Update On Processor Sales: AMD versus Intel" (Oct. |
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- Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore observed that computer power doubles about every two years. Intel chief executive Craig Barrett: "The only people I hear who suggest Moore's law is dead . . |
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- "Annotate diagrams Visio 2003 provides a new and intuitive way to annotate diagrams. The integration of digital ink supports natural markup of existing drawings and free-sketch creation with the pen on the Tablet PC. Enhancements to simplify input with the pen and provide support for the higher resolution display environment in the Tablet PC can help bring true mobility to scenarios." Microsoft.com on Office Visio 2003 Microsoft is looking for beta testers, Tablet PC as well as traditional computer users. |
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- There used to be this shoe store in central Illinois that was run like a circus. Flaming hoops were above the racks and aisles and a barker stood by the cash registers shouting out that moments specials. One moment you could buy a pair of shoes at the low, low price of $25 and 20 minutes later that same pair would be recently reduced to $35. It was a gimmick that apparently worked for that company. Computer prices dont always go down in price, but there are times when prices do fluctuate and the deflationary cycle does appear to predominate. |
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- Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and 19 members of her party were taken into "protective custody" following a fight between her supporters and opponents in northern Myanmar, an official said Saturday. The conflict late Friday left four people dead and 50 injured, Brig. Than Tun said. He said that Suu Kyi was unharmed in the incident. |
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- It started in 1993, just a domain name (STARDOT2-DOM, stardot.net) registered by Hui-Hui; in 1995 Captain Jim moved there, where it would remain for six years. I've mentioned it here before, and tonight is my very last broadcast from Stardot Net... |
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- the internet needs a cleaning |
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- Martha Scott created the role of Emily in the original Broadway production of "Our Town" and was nominated for an Oscar for the film version. By Douglas Martin. |
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- Geoffrey Bawa was an architect whose blend of traditional forms and contemporary styles produced buildings in harmony with their Asian landscapes. By Barbara Crossette. |
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- Janet Collins was prima ballerina of the Metropolitan Opera House in the early 1950's and one of a few black women to become prominent in American classical ballet. By Jennifer Dunning. |
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- Peter Lasko was director of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London from 1974 to 1985. By Carol Vogel. |
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- Rob Schmidt's lazy would-be horror film manages to achieve a couple of good, unexpected scares. By Anita Gates. |
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- Guest conductors have been leading the New York Philharmonic for the last few weeks, but Lorin Maazel has reclaimed the podium. By Allan Kozinn. |
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- The Showtime movie "Soldier's Girl" is — like "Boys Don't Cry," "The Matthew Shepard Story" and "The Laramie Project" — based on a true and terrible story. By Margo Jefferson. |
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- Kenneth MacMillan's "Romeo and Juliet" returned in blazing glory to American Ballet Theater on Thursday night. By Anna Kisselgoff. |
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- David E. Nye shows in "America as Second Creation" how every great invention that helped create an American Eden also helped construct an American hell. By by Edward Rothstein. |
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- A new book chronicling the creation of the atom bomb includes more than 30 uncredited passages nearly identical to those found in books by four other authors. By Jacques Steinberg. |
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- When Mitchell Borden opened Smalls, a basement club in the West Village, he ignored the common model for a jazz club. What happened was extraordinary. By Ben Ratliff. |
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- Drafting a constitution is often the first step in transforming a country to democracy, but the questions seem to be endless. By Felicia R. Lee. |
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- Is religious sentiment, long considered the prime enemy of nationalism, actually one of its founding elements? By Alexander Stille. |
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- The pregnant woman hit by a stool thrown from a window of a Manhattan school said that she did not want anything bad to happen to the two students charged in the case. By N. R. Kleinfield. |
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- On a family trip across the country, the wide open spaces gain dimension. By John and Sasha Rockwell. |
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- Each of the dozen towns along the 30-mile strand of the New Jersey Shore has its own feel. By Robert Strauss. |
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- Sydney's Taronga Zoo has a collection of some of the strangest animals on earth. By Roxana Robinson. |
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- The Schönbrunn Zoo and the Natural History Museum are two much-appreciated Hapsburg legacies. By Jill Knight Weinberger. |
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- A new generation lets kids have a vote in deciding the destination. By Marcy Webster. |
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- For Maine fishermen, "ice-out," the time of year when the frozen surface of the lake turns back to water, has an almost mythic appeal. By James Prosek. |
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- During the weeks before Memorial Day, Martha's Vineyard hustles to get that relaxed island aesthetic up and running for another summer. By Paul Schneider. |
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- This time of year, many ski resorts morph into warm-weather playgrounds. By Martha Stevenson Olson. |
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- Summer is prime time for active outdoor vacations - and for values on such trips. By Joseph Siano. |
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- The Bush administration is learning a simple if unwelcome lesson: it will take more troops to police and secure Iraq than it did to destroy the Saddam Hussein regime. By Michael R. Gordon. |
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