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Cat Spray (Aug 13 2003 00:59 GMT) - I've been thinking about how many animals I've known in my life. And I've been thinking that it isn't the... |
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- Mod_perl installations: 4.6 million hostnames, 460k unique ips. Java Servlet engine installations: 295k hostnames, 37k unique ips Different data point, the security space module report (for java look for "mod_jk", "Resin" and "ApacheJServ"). |
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- Mod_perl installations: 4.6 million hostnames, 460k unique ips. Java Servlet engine installations: 295k hostnames, 37k unique ips Different data point, the security space module report (for java look for "mod_jk", "Resin" and "ApacheJServ"). |
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- "At 9 p.m., an electrical transformer blew up, plunging the neighborhood into darkness. American soldiers, apparently fearing a bomb attack, went on alert. Within 45 minutes, six Iraqis trying to get home before the 11 p. |
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- "The government's attempts to bolster its case for the war against Iraq suffered a heavy blow on the first day of the Hutton inquiry yesterday when it was revealed that unease about the dossier on Saddam Hussein's weapons programme ran much deeper than Downing Street has claimed. ... In a further undermining of Tony Blair's case, the inquiry heard that Dr Kelly's status was much more significant than the government has admitted, a direct rebuttal of last week's description of the dead scientist |
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- "They failed to get the attention of the invading U.S. military, but the civilians who traveled to Iraq as 'human shields' to stop the war last winter have since attracted the attention of the Bush administration's Treasury Department. ... Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control has been contacting an undisclosed number of protesters ... |
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- "American troops swooped into a remote Iraqi village aboard Black Hawk helicopters Monday in search of a member of Saddam Hussein's inner circle. They couldn't find him, but rounded up about 70 suspects. North of Baghdad, meanwhile, three American soldiers were wounded in a grenade attack, a day after a U.S. military policeman was killed in a bombing. |
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- "Heavily-armed teenage gunmen from Liberia's rebel and government sides partied together today on a Monrovia bridge where only days before they had taken aim at one another, as the city celebrated the resignation of president Charles Taylor. Brightly-painted jeeps roared up to the New Bridge, which up until last week was the focus on fierce daily gun battles, while drunken soldiers on the bridge continued to tip back bottles and blast music from tape decks." (08/12/03) |
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- From the BBC:Arab countries cannot recognise the legitimacy of the US-appointed Interim Governing Council (IGC) in Iraq, Egyptian Foreign minister Ahmed Maher has said. Mr Maher's remarks followed a meeting in Cairo with the Saudi and Syrian foreign ministers. But... |
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- I am totALLY FUCKED.... |
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Green idiot (Aug 13 2003 00:57 GMT) - Aargh. I feel like a cross between the Hulk and Forrest Gump. (A rash statement given I've seen neither film.) Grumpy and stupid. Probably because of this. |
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- From 9/11 to Terror War book author Doug Kellner talks about 9/11 in a recent e-mail interview - www.nyc.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- A Stockmarket on the movies. see HSX. |
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- Gentoo Package Accused of Violating DMCA [Slashdot] Yet another example of how the government took a wrong turn. Help out. |
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- Morons in the News: A Fair And Balanced Look At Stupid Lawsuits. Clear the runways, the idiocy plane just blew up. Fox News is suing Al Franken because his new book violates their trademark on the phrase "fair and balanced"... [Morons Dot Org] |
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- Morons in the News: Bitter Priest Uses Bishop Elevation for Power Grab. In a pathetic sort of way, it's almost amusing to watch the religious people fight against themselves... [Morons Dot Org] |
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- Random: Queer Eye for Pat Buchanan. The guys from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" will be giving style tips to Pat Buchanan on MSNBC tonight. [Morons Dot Org] |
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- News.Com: Is ZIP coming undone? [Scripting News] Use Rar. |
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- EFF: "You could spend up to five years in prison, pay a $250,000 fine and lose your right to vote for trading a single copyrighted song if the Author, Consumer and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act is passed by Congress." [Scripting News] Isn't this a bit extreme? |
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- AOL Time Warner must drop AOL name, says AOL. Now you see it... [The Register] Just Wierd |
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- Wish You Were Here, Send Brains. The two NASA probes winging toward Mars have some problems when it comes to software: Even in space, there's never enough space. So engineers will delete some code and send new instructions on the fly. By Erik Baard. |
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- E-Vote Machines Face Audit. The state of Maryland adds 11,000 Diebold touch-screen voting terminals to its existing stock just as a university report charges the systems with bad programming and lax security. An independent audit of the software is called for as other states stand poised to purchase the systems. By Kim Zetter. [Wired News] This is a good thing. |
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- Well Hello Sorry its been a while since I posted, I had a bit of trouble with my box and decided to rebuild. |
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- My big fat mea culpa. I haven't decided to vote for Howard Dean, but after 10 days watching his campaign, I promise never to say he's unelectable again. [Salon.com] Plus: As Campaign Tightens, Kerry Sharpens Message |
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- Silver Bulletin Comics Reviews Fray #8 |
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Slow (Aug 13 2003 00:56 GMT) - Wow, windowsupdate.microsoft.com is really slow tonight for some reason... |
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The Frames (Aug 13 2003 00:56 GMT) - I'm just back from The Frames gig in Lisburn's Island Arts Centre. The gig was great and the venue was... |
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- Raluca kindly emailed me with a link to the computer addict camp that I mentioned yesterday. She located the site at http://www. wichernhaus. m-vp. |
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- DEVONtechnologies releases a new version 1.7 of its revolutionary information manager and freeform database DEVONthink Personal Edition. |
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- Clear the runways, the idiocy plane just blew up. Fox News is suing Al Franken because his new book violates their trademark on the phrase "fair and balanced"... |
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- Remember the song Crystal Blue Persuasion? Or Crimson and Clover? This is the official site of Tommy James of Tommy James and the Shondells. |
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- SF images redux Apparently a side-effect of my rapid-fire blogosphere catch-up scanning is that only images are sticking. If you'd seen this even ten years ago, wouldn't it have been on a science fiction book cover? The cool thing is it's Burt Rutan's spaceship and launcher, and it flies. Space Race II, here we go! Via Ole Eichhorn. |
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- So anyone out there interested in redesigning my blog? I am rather tired of the look, but don't have the motivation, nor the skills, to change the design. Are you up to it? If so, I will link to you.... |
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- I come to the close of a second summer with a grandparent having a joint replaced. (Thankfully, this one looks to be leaving the facility in a vertical state.) Two... |
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- Are they tired of seeing the face of an evangelical fanatic with an agenda above or what? Question is why are they leaving Ashcroft's office in dr... - www.indymedia.org: |
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- Dismal corporate earnings--S&P P/E ratios sit at 32, meaning that stocks are selling at 32 times their earnings (good stocks are considered to have... - www.indymedia.org: |
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- At the end of the tour When the road disappears If there's any more people around When the tour runs... |
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- By now, I'm sure everyone is aware of the lawsuit against Al Franken. For those few who haven't heard about it, Al Franken is being sued over his new book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. apparently, |
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- PastHagall - Slow, steady pace, no disruptions, asking for a hand from fate within a situation you do not control.PresentBerkana... |
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- News on Google Yesterday I started in on a discussion of Kottke's passing remark and fifteen examples that show, according to Kottke, "The clearest evidence yet that Google is busted." IN my previous article I outlined that there are at least three variables not considered by Mr Kottke in his rather hasty and off-the-mark statement: first, that there maybe something wrong with each of the queries Kottke uses, second that there may be no documents that are better than the Kottke documents that are brought up by such queries, or third, that sorting of the documents may be a problem due to other factors outside the control of Google Inc. |
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