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get there (Aug 09 2003 17:13 GMT) - Some of you may recall that at the end of the trip to PNNL there remained one performance improvement on the list. Last week was spent constructing said improvement, and this one was devoted largely to wrangling for cluster time to test it. We delivered that drop to the customer today, after Matt was unable to break it overnight, and things seem to be going pretty smoothly. Not bad for, well, me. My grand plans for our anniversary were to rent a steam cleaner, clean all the upholstery, and generally improve the living room to a state of excellent repair. |
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- My intention, you see, had been to not write this entry until I had delivered unto my lovely wife — whose vague terror of my anniversary plans grows with the passing of every minute — the gift with which I plan to commemorate the fourth anniversary of our marriage. But my plans are being laid to waste by the swift and sure hand of Cruel Fate, so I thought I'd vent a little bit. More detail later, but I wanted to get that off my chest. |
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- A group of divorced veterans has hired a legal team headed by Constitutional attorney Jonathan L. Katz of Silver Spring, Maryland, to protect their retirement pay from property division in divorce court. [PRWEB Aug 9, 2003] |
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- An article in today's NY Times discusses the deterioration of the wrecked Titanic since its discovery in 1985. Although the headline implies that this is the result of too much human attention, it seems that |
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- Via Outside the Beltway I see that Howard Dean is now admitting that his flip-flop on raising the social security retirement age was, indeed, a flip-flop thus abandonning his previous strategy of changing his mind and lying about it. I... |
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- Reuters AlertNet: One person was killed and two injured in a shootout among ethnic Albanians in a village near Pec in south-western Kosovo on Saturday, United Nations police in charge of the province said. The shooting was the latest in a series of violent incidents across the province over the past few weeks, including Sunday's killing of a U.N. officer, the first in four years. |
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Ouch. (Aug 09 2003 17:12 GMT) - As I headed for the door, my bottle of rum in one hand, black markings made with a marker with... |
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- Michael J. Groetken, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota wrote this beautiful personal reflection in the blog comments last night. I thought I'd share it: I don't have anywhere else to put this so here goes...my very personal reflections on where... |
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- It's been a while since I've written, but I have big news: We're moving to Philadelphia. I've known that it was a possibility for a while, but I didn't know for sure that it would really happen until a... |
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- Det er en hån mod de ældre, når kommunerne ikke informerer ordentligt om retten til at vælge mellem privat og offentlig hjemmehjælp, siger socialminister Henriette Kjær (K) til bladet 'Ældre Sagen'. |
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- Danmarks næststørste medicinalkoncern, Lundbeck, der står bag et af verdens mest solgte antidepressive præparater, beskyldes for at bedrive industrispionage.Den tyske koncern Alfred E. |
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- Amerikanske forskere klager over, at de mangler aber til forsøg i så alvorlig grad, at det bla. |
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- I Aserbajdsjans hovedstad Baku har omkring 10.000 oppositionstilhængere protesteret over, at landets præsident har udpeget sin søn som sin efterfølger. |
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- "AN EXECUTIVE ORDER can be a surreptitious way of making policy. It often makes an end-run around Congress and frequently escapes the media's attention as well. It is, in short, a way of making policy by fiat." "President Bush has signed a slew of executive orders that have gone unreported for weeks or months -- most notably, changes to environmental regulations and restricted access to former presidential papers and Freedom of Information Act information." "Now, a potentially explosive executive order has just been discovered by SEEN, the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network. |
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- I like all well-cut diamond shapes, but my LEAST favorite are |
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- I'm sure some people sleep in on the weekends. That would be people without kids. As for me, I've been up and fighting with recalcitrant mail servers for a few hours. Time to take a break and deal with a few bookmarks. |
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- Good news -- I've been asked to read at Kitchener's Word on the Street, which is coming up on September... |
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- Good news -- I've been asked to read at Kitchener's Word on the Street, which is coming up on September... |
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- I just woke up and heard on the radio that in about an hour's time there will be a big parade of cars from the Canad Inns Stadium to Downtown, at which time many blocks of downtown will be blocked off for Cruz in Winnipeg show. There is likely to be a show of some of the best classic and newer model cars this city has to show, along with vendors for everything from food and Ice Cream to car parts and accessories. I haven't heard of this before, but I do look forward to checking out, and photographing some of the most amazing cars this city has had in one place. I am not sure how long I will be able to drag Cody away from the PC, as it is sure that he will need to get out of the sun and all, though rain is on the forecast sometime today. I will report, and post, ASAP. |
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- I just woke up and heard on the radio that in about an hour's time there will be a big parade of cars from the Canad Inns Stadium to Downtown, at which time many blocks of downtown will be blocked off for Cruz in Winnipeg show. There is likely to be a show of some of the best classic and newer model cars this city has to show, along with vendors for everything from food and Ice Cream to car parts and accessories. I haven't heard of this before, but I do look forward to checking out, and photographing some of the most amazing cars this city has had in one place. I am not sure how long I will be able to drag Cody away from the PC, as it is sure that he will need to get out of the sun and all, though rain is on the forecast sometime today. I will report, and post, ASAP. |
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- Adult film actress Mary Carey gives the thumbs up while collecting signatures for her application to be a candidate in the California's gubernatori... - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- "The Less-Lethal Weapons (LLW) Conference 2003 has been developed specifically for today's police and military leaders who must apply force to mana... - www.indymedia.org: |
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- The NSF recently hosted a workshop on Post Digital Library Futures or what some participants called "Ubiquitous Knowledge Environments" (Chatham, Massachusetts, June 15-17, 2003). The proceedings are not yet online, but each participant was asked to write a background paper, and the collection of background papers is now online. (Thanks to Clifford Lynch.) |
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- Taken from an FT Article (19th March 2003) on where IT departments will spend there scarce budgets today. Does this view match what you are seeing in the IT market today? |
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Sailing! (Aug 09 2003 17:09 GMT) - As you know I'm sailing in the Westlake Sail-a-Thon today with my kids and their friends. What follows will be the live chronology. Stay tuned! By the way, any of you which wish to make a pledge during the sail-a-thon, please do so. |
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- I have a feeling this has to do with your system's locale. Can you contact me privately at support@newsgator.com? I'd like to send you some test code to verify some assumptions about this. Thanks! |
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- Das ist die Standardantwort von BMG, wenn man sich über eine kopiergeschützte CD, welche auf dem PC nicht abspielbar ist,... |
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- NNTP posting - yeah, there's some missing information that will make a posting plug-in hard. The next version of NewsGator will send additional information to enable lots of other scenarios, which should hopefully make this easier. For now, though, you're on the right track. You're got the server/group/message ID (the way you're doing it is the only way for the moment). The rest of the headers are not accessible right now. |
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- Outkast are trying to fit 400 words per second in their new single, Ghetto Musick. It's great and wonderful and... |
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- While on the one hadm I understand the visceral reaction to this: Meetings With Iran-Contra Arms Dealer Confirmed, on the other, fighting the War on Terror does require dealing with unsavory (and often untrustworthy) individuals. Isn't that part of what... |
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- Bill Simmons, the master of all list makers, has finally confirmed my notion that his taste in entertainment is, well, tasteless. It's Underrated Week over at ESPN's Page 2, where Bill resides. Today, he tackles underrated movies. He's got a... |
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- You may be wondering why non US Comanines, Countries, and gorups are adopting OpenSource at a faster pace than groups in the US. There are some valid reasosn for this trend that we should explore.One, developing ocuntries have figured out that if infastructure costs is lowered more can be spent on technology. What is infrastructure in the internet world? Infrastructure in an internet world is the Operating System that runs the router and server, runs the telecommunications server/gateway, and etc. |
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"Average" (Aug 09 2003 17:06 GMT) - so gefällt mir das: heute gehetzt und überhitzt im "Zentrum für Gesundheitssport" eingetroffen, dort bestanden Software-Probleme an den Computer-gesteuerten Maschinen, deshalb "Einweisung in die Trainigsgerä |
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- PHOENIX - A document about an investigation into polygamy in Colorado City that was circulated during last year's gubernatorial campaign was a fake, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety. |
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- PHOENIX - A preliminary report on the death of a wildland firefighter says that at least one official recommended against starting the prescribed burn that ultimately killed the firefighter. |
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- Ueberroth, who successfully organized the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, said that although he is a registered Republican, he will run an independent campaign. He pledged to serve only the remainder of Demo-cratic Gov. Gray Davis' term. |
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Lightning (Aug 09 2003 17:06 GMT) - Finally some break in the heat wave here. Clouds started forming, suddenly there was a weird dust storm, and then thunder and lightning and it started raining. I hope it continues.And then I had a hit of lightning myself today. A rather unwanted economic one. |
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- SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California will trim one in every 12 state jobs, the single most important step so far to eventually return state government to long-term fiscal balance, officials say. |
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