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Peeu La La (Aug 12 2003 23:03 GMT) - Considering how parsimonious they are with showers and deodorant over there, I wonder what Paris is smelling like in this... |
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- José and I today went to Jupiter, FL to embark on a kayak adventure. I rented him a kayak - his birthday present a few days after the fact - and we set off at about 11am. Our route:Start at the JOC (Jupiter Outdoor Center)Travel to the west, north, east, and north again up the Indian River to a sand bar. |
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- The company's extension of its tender offer for Peoplesoft common stock won't be the last. With billions in the bank, Larry can wait. And wait. And wait. |
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- The auction giant shaves $30M from Q2 results after a patent verdict against it was upheld last week but says it will appeal. |
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- New work in understanding of time Much to the science world's astonishment, the work also appears to provide solutions to Zeno of Elea's famous motion paradoxes, almost 2500 years after they were originally conceived by the ancient Greek philosopher. |
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- Aug. 12 - There is a major auto insurance fraud crackdown on Long Island. Carolyn Gusoff reports. |
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- Aug. 12 - The Westchester community of Montrose is mourning the loss of an elderly couple. The couple was killed when a fire swept through their home. |
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- IT'S BLOGCRITICS' FIRST ANNIVERSARY. I have to say, it's done better than I ever expected, and become a rather respected source of Web reviews. Bravo!... |
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- IT'S BLOGCRITICS' FIRST ANNIVERSARY. I have to say, it's done better than I ever expected, and become a rather respected source of Web reviews. Bravo!... |
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- So that's how they do it For a great laugh, find a short paragraph of normal text (like, from this blog) and paste it into the box on The English-to-12-Year-Old-AOLer Translator. The below blog entry was garbled into the following, which matches pretty well what we frequently see on quite a few message boards: AREBUS AND HON3YWEL AND WORKNG ON A TECHNOLOGY TAHT ALOWS PLAEN AU2PILOTS 2 OVERIED DA PILOT OR RATHER A HIJAKER 2 AVOID FLYNG IN2 OBSTACLES OR CRASHNG IN2 DA GROUND!!!!1 OMG WTF LOL DA SYST3MS HAEV BAN TESTED ON SMALAR ARECRAFT WIT PROMISNG RESULTS11!!!1! |
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- More info on using SMS (via anil) Compilation of SMS email gateways for major US wireless providers, with links to webforms. |
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- a modified version of the original KDE Keramik Style |
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- Emotions ran high inside a Wake County courtroom today over a sexual abuse case involving a Zebulon school teacher and a 12-year-old boy. Christopher Journigan is accused of assaulting one of his students at Zebulon Elementary. Today he made his first appearance before a judge to face the charges against him. And the victim's family was there as well. |
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- Thousands of Orange County students are back in class today, but Chapel Hill and Carrboro kids are not included. They're in separate districts and there's talk the two systems could become one and that’s fueling much debate. |
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- Moore County didn't see any rain today, but folks there are still wading through plenty of high water. |
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- With the threat of West Nile Virus already hanging over our state, there's a new danger lurking in North Carolina. It's a new breed of bloodsuckers, and some are calling it a super mosquito. The worst thing about this breed is it's adding danger to the daylight hours. |
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- There are at least 29 North Carolinians who are poets, and at least one person who knows it. |
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- She's been singing the National Anthem at Duke for nearly 20 years. Frances Redding is a celebrity in her own right at Cameron Indoor Stadium. But after she lost her mother to cancer in 2000, she started growing her hair long, and she didn't even know why. |
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- Telecommunications company BTI plans to eliminate about 300 jobs -- more than half its Raleigh work force -- as it consolidates operations with a rival. |
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- Duane Longstreth and his mother, Jennifer West, enlisted in the Army together in January 2002. |
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- Are you prepared for this year's hurricane season? Progress Energy says they're reay. Today the power giant announced they're better equipped to handle the hurricane season, because of the lessons they learned during the December 2002 ice storm. |
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- Authorities at Emerald Isle are telling people to stay out of the ocean after riptide conditions led to three dozen rescues and the drowning of a local woman. |
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- A former male prostitute took the stand Monday in the Michael Peterson murder trial. The prosecution is trying to prove that the Petersons did not have a storybook marriage. Michael Peterson is accused of beating his wife Kathleen to death. The defense claims she fell to her death down a staircase in the couple's home. |
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- A teacher at Zebulon Elementary School is facing charges for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a former student. |
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- A man identified with an advanced form of West Nile virus died Monday in what is believed to be the first fatality caused by the mosquito-borne illness in North Carolina. |
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- High water has engulfed several homes in Moore County. The Little River jumped its banks last night, and flood waters cover the area around it. At least a dozen homes have been evacuated near Vass. |
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- A burglar whom police think has been hitting Raleigh homes jumped into police custody while trying to escape from officers by hiding in an attic. But he fell through the ceiling and into the hands of the law. It happened at an apartment complex on Orchard Hollow in southwest Raleigh. |
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- Thanks for all the nice comments! (I'm laughing about the photos |
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- Looks like it's indeed set for release at the end of the month. |
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- Aug. 12 - The FBI has made multiple terror related arrests in New York and New Jersey. |
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- Aug. 12 - There were some tense moments outside a Williamsburg Brooklyn firehouse on Tuesday. Vivian Lee reports. |
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- "I love European history, and American history does not measure up to a full stop of European history. There is... |
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- Mainichi Daily News, Centrist daily of Tokyo, Japan |
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- Xinhua News Agency, Government-owned news agency of Beijing, China |
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- The Daily Telegraph, Conservative daily of London, England |
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- The Moscow Times, Independent, English-language daily of Moscow, Russia |
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- Turkish leaders on Tuesday began discussing a U.S. request to send thousands of peacekeepers to Iraq, where Ankara would like to see its influence increase. |
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- Ottawa announces $1-billion plan to fight climate change OTTAWA (AP) - Jean Chretien painted a vision of a green future Tuesday as he presented a $1-billion plan to cut Canada's greenhouse emissions, but the hardest part of achieving that vision will fall to his successor. |
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- I don't know why at the moment, but my comments have gone away. It may be related to this whole BlasterWorm nightmare that is afflicting everybody and their dog. More on that later. UPDATE: I'm sure you're all very worried, but my comments service, Haloscan, reports that they've moved to a new server. |
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- SCO Execs dumping stock I wonder why! Application updater component Microsoft Claims .net usage has surpassed java! What about mac, linux, my phone? What you should know about the blaster worm VB6 Migration. |
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- People might wonder what those two things have in common: an almost four-year-old child and the ongoing Middle East peace... |
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- Wanted: Scheming but loyal Grand Vizier to join fledgling technological dictatorship. You will be alert enough to foil attempts against the incumbent government, but sufficiently satisified or disinterested not to attempt insurrection. Must have experience of security camera systems; must have own weblog. |
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- It is I, Hewligan, returned to impart upon you my good wisdom (good wisdom not guaranteed!)Today was Tuesday, which, sequentially, is correct. Unfortunately I wasn't in a Tuesday mood. I think I heavily overdosed on caffeine and sugar on Monday, and the result was a demolished young twerp by Tuesday morning. My skin decided to select some point of that evening to get all oily and erupt in a fine tripology (made up word alert) of magnificent plukes (also known as spots to those of you not in well versed in the Scottish lingo). |
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- I'm only linking this because my friend Tom Cotes was mentioned on MSNBC's weblog central in a para about him... |
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Devil stick (Aug 12 2003 23:00 GMT) - emphasize subject |
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- I have created an experimental RSS 2.0 feed for the Picky Picky Game. It shows comments added to the pictures, plus an entry whenever the game ‘clocks’ (that is, when a new panel is completed). Seems ... |
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- The WS-I Basic Profile v1.0 has been officially approved and released on the world: Starting today, every Web service developer and provider will have a common framework for implementing interoperable solutions, and buyers will have a common reference point for purchasing decisions. The Basic Profile 1.0 will significantly simplify the task of implementing interoperable Web services solutions within and across enterprise boundaries. |
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