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- I've been leafing through old boxes of photographs finding forgotten versions of myself. 1992: My second year at university and I'd chopped off my hair, as I do now and then, though inside me I always have long, chestnut hair... |
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- Joshua gets a leisure-suited no-prize for this exceedingly screwball flash animation involving none other than GW himself. I'm almost... |
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- Superman (well, white stick-figure superman) meets Donkey Kong in this simple but surprisingly challenging flash game.... |
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- "Thus, the only disputed issue in this litigation was the cause of the 3.5 million oyster deaths, and the jury was ultimately presented with a murder mystery worthy of Hercule Poirot himself: who, or what, killed the oysters?" Circuit Judge Diarmuid F. O |
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- You know how I've said that data from surveys is vastly less trustworthy than data from revealed preference? This is... |
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- In the interests of creating employment opportunities in the Java programming field, I am passing on these tips from the masters on how to write code that is so difficult to maintain, that the people who come after you will take years to make even the simplest changes. Further, if you follow all these rules religiously, you will even guarantee yourself a lifetime of employment, since no one but you has a hope in hell of maintaining the code. Then again, if you followed all these rules religiously, even you wouldn't be able to maintain the code! |
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- You can apply for and use an International Standard Serial Number for your Weblog. Your blog will then officially exist in the worldwide standardized encyclopedia of periodicals. |
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- Because of a design flaw in Internet Explorer, Notepad popup windows can be displayed from an HTML email message or Web page regardless of browser security settings. |
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- "The HIV/AIDS crisis is the greatest challenge ever faced by business inAfrica," Jay Pryor, managing director of Chevron Nigeria, Limited, of Lagos,told a session dedicated to health at the Leon H. Sullivan Summit in Abuja,Nigeria July 14. "Business, therefore, must take the lead position in thefight against HIV-AIDS because it's the right thing to do -- and goodbusiness." |
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- Chronicle Investigations can reveal that the glib-tongued ex-Education Minister, Mr. Spio Garbrah, has landed a top job as the Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization (CTO), by outclassing about 100 contenders around the world to grab the 70,000 job. |
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- TWO EX-EMPLOYEES of Ghana Oil Company (GOIL) have been jailed a total of 56years for stealing over ¢1 billion cedis belonging to the company. |
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- Wednesday, July 30, 2003: Front-page picture in the 'Daily Graphic' shows four people, including two children, walking over an exposed high-tension electrical cable. The picture is captioned "Waiting for Tragedy to Happen"? Thursday, July 31, 2003: 'Chronicle' editorial entitled "Fix these traffic lights now", draws attention to the traffic lights at the Opeibea House intersection that has not been functioning for some months. |
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- A revolutionary new credit card processing and cheque guarantee service using cellular technology has been launched. |
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- Home owners could be disappointed when the Reserve Bank announces how much it will cut interest rates later this week, if economist's predictions are correct. |
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- After numerous complaints from their customers, supermarket chain Pick 'n Pay has decided to cut the price of its 24l plastic bags from 46c to 17c and its 12l plastic bags from 31c to 12c. |
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- Transport minister Dullah Omar has made "miraculous recovery" and is easing his way back into office. |
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- Manufacturers say spiralling interest rates are slowing business growth. |
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- LEARNING while seated on the floor is no more at St. Mary's Primary School, Kamengo in Mpigi district, thanks to MTN Uganda. The telecoms company last week donated furniture to the 46 year old school, reports Catherine Ntabadde. |
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- THE Bank of Uganda (BOU) has given foreign exchange bureaus operators new guidelines on how to tackle money laundering. These include reporting any suspicious transactions to BOU. |
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LVT (Aug 12 2003 17:59 GMT) - Zoek je een Leuk Voor Thuis hobby? Wellicht is dit wat. Vul van al je bankbiljetten het serienummer in op deze site en bekijk welke route je geld door Europa af gaat leggen. |
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- The United States may send small numbers of additional Marines ashore from ships off Liberia's coast if U.S. commanders decide they are needed to start humanitarian aid flowing, a senior defense official said Tuesday. |
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- view my results on google as a slideshow. |
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- E-books may yet meet great expectations Globe and Mail 2003-07-07 via OpeneBook.org |
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- locationlongitude:139.32.6.19 latitude: |
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- 84,038 Meetup Volunteers! Check out the photo gallery when you get a chance -- there's a bunch of new photos from the August Meetup, as well as some great ones from Philadelphia and Iowa.... |
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- In her surprise best seller, 'The Dogs of Babel,' Carolyn Parkhurst explores loss through the strong bond between people and pets. |
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- Back to the plains in search of a hit |
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- Vor einem möglichen Einsatz deutscher Soldaten und Helfer im afghanischen Kundus soll ein Sonderteam die Lage vor Ort erkunden. Das kündigte Verteidigungsminister Struck an. Zahlreiche Politiker stehen einem erweiterten Afghanistan-Einsatz der Bundeswehr weiter skeptisch gegenüber. |
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- Shirley blogged about The Blogging Process. As a process analyst, I had to click on it. To me, the process is simple, but Dave Pollard shares a few insights and... |
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- elastiC. Quite an interesting language; Pythonic in many ways. At first glance, it seems to combine some good stuff from Python, Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp and C. ... |
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Aristetris (Aug 12 2003 17:57 GMT) - This is an applet clone of the ever popular Tetris. A very clean, efficient version all yours for free. |
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- I'd just like to note that a certain book about a certain boy at a certain wizard's school has had the top spot of the Weblog Bookwatch since that book was released. Today, after months (seemingly years) of reigning supreme,... |
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- A friend of mine just got bitch-slapped by this pretty damn hard. The attacks were coming so frequently that he couldn't stay online for more than 20 seconds without getting bounced. He's on dial-up, so that prevented him from grabbing the fix. There IS a temporary workaround though! You can go to the Component Services admin dialog in XP (start from the command line with "dcomcnfg"), drill down into component services -> Computers -> My Computer. |
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ich (Aug 12 2003 17:57 GMT) - halte ja eher wenig von all diesen blödsinnigen selbstfindungstests auf dem netz, aber genau, wie ich auch immer die dümmsten horoskope lese, vertreibe ich mir mit sowas in der sommerhitze schon mal die ohnehin unproduktive arbeitszeit. ein allseits beliebtes thema: wie schwul bist du? |
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- MacResQ.com - Weekly Specials. Weekly specials for 8/11-8/18/03. Product #124010 InkResQ Replacement Toner with NEW Print Drum for Apple LaserWriter 16/600, Pro 600/630, HP 5/5M/5N/5SE, 4/4M/4M+, Canon Fileprint300, LBP 8 IV, LBP 860, LBP 1260, LBP 1260+, LBP 1260C, LBP EX, LBP EX II, LBP 2X, P270, P430 Was $69.99, now $49. |
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- According to a Harvard magazine article, Egyptologist Mark Lehner "has found the city of the pyramid builders. They were not slaves." The pyramids and the Great Sphinx rise inexplicably from the desert at Giza, relics of a vanished culture. |
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- CNET reports that a California legislator is calling for hearings about the privacy implications of RFID tags. I've met Senator Bowen and found her to be one of the most well-informed, politically savvy, and articulate legislators anywhere in regard to technology issues |
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- 30 Billion crashes a year! Thats nearly 1 crash per dollar that Gates has!!! Brings a whole new meaning to " if i had a dollar every time ...."... |
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- Click here for a glimpse of the new home of PDF for Lawyers site. I plan to make this a multi-author blog and invite my lawyer friends who know a lot about PDF to share their insights here as well. Check it out. |
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- Spirit of St. Louis, Cahokia/St. Louis airport control towers among 69 nationwide on White House Chopping Block |
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