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- Barbados Advocate Aug 12 2003 6:23PM ET... |
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- dBusinessNews.com Aug 12 2003 6:40PM ET... |
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- Business Standard India Aug 12 2003 6:41PM ET... |
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- Business Standard India Aug 12 2003 6:41PM ET... |
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- Business Standard India Aug 12 2003 6:41PM ET... |
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- San Francisco Chronicle Aug 12 2003 5:47PM ET... |
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- MSNBC Aug 12 2003 5:51PM ET... |
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- ÿ Blog-worthy visit? The Inky-winged One has blessed me with a couple of visits recently; |
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- Aug. 12 - A new medical device can allow doctors to be in two places at the same time. |
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- Both Katherin Boo's excellent (print only) article in the current New Yorker and even more so this online interview seem weirdly impressed with the Bush administration's various "marriage incentives" schemes to help move people off welfare.... |
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- Most other software from my 5000D failed to install and run. ZTailGunner being one of them. But it is all... |
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- Another American soldier dead. "Mission Accomplished!" --George W. Bush |
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- Another American soldier dead. "Mission Accomplished!" --George W. Bush |
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- Ten Commandments update: The Associated Press reports here that "Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore will announce Thursday whether he plans to obey a federal court order and remove the Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial |
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- IT Matters John Hagel and John Seely Brown wrote a strong rebuttal to Carr’s article in the July issue of Harvard Business Review (part of the Letters column download). We believe this is an important article because it very effectively captures the backlash sweeping through executive suites against IT spending. Certainly much of what Carr writes is spot on: companies have spent too much on IT in the past with only minimal (if any returns) and there is a need to focus on the increasing vulnerabilities we face as we become more dependent on automated operations. But Carr’s article is also dangerous because it endorses the growing view that IT offers only limited potential for strategic differentiation. |
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- Process of security patches does not work. Takes too much time. Nearly impossible to do over a telephone dial up connection. Difficult to get the word out to ordinary consumers. In short - Microsoft's endless sequence of security patches is not working. |
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- Go team! Bush & Co. are on a witch hunt to track down any Air Marshalls who talk to the press. Can't or won't find Osama, but any Air Marshall who let out the news of cutbacks on high-risk flights is in trouble. Especially fun is that they use the vile PATRIOT Act to threaten Air Marshalls. |
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- Go team! Bush & Co. are on a witch hunt to track down any Air Marshalls who talk to the press. Can't or won't find Osama, but any Air Marshall who let out the news of cutbacks on high-risk flights is in trouble. Especially fun is that they use the vile PATRIOT Act to threaten Air Marshalls. |
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- Kudos for 0wnz0red Cory Doctorow reports on Boing Boing that his short story "0wnz0red," which we published here at Salon last year, has qualified for the preliminary ballot for the Nebula Awards. Since he has a better grasp of the functioning of the awards process than I do, I'll let him explain what this means: "That means that in a couple of months, all the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America will have the opportunity to cast their preliminary vote for the piece, and if it gets enough votes, it will appear on the final ballot." Congrats. We're proud here. |
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- I never thought I'd see "diamond-encrusted", "bling-bling", and "bra" all in |
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- (US) 1,300 Pound Steer Fails State Fair Drug Test The Illinois State Fair has disqualified its champion bull because of illegal drug use. Department spokesman Jeff Squibb said he's unaware of another grand champion steer being disqualified for illegal drug use. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(95%), $use_is_abuse(95%), $propaganda_theme4(95%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (UK) Around one in 100 male athletes may suffer from "muscle dysmorphia", a serious body image disorder that can lead to drug abuse and eating problems. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(85%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $use_is_abuse(85%), $gateway(80%), $propaganda_theme4(85%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- If you're a stickler for format and flexibility, and not averse to some tedious manual labour, you can simply maintain TOC's as Stories, one per category, update them once a month, and put them at the top of your Navigator Links. That's what I do. I curse the work every month, but it allows me to display them in any order, create subcategories, edit out posts that have limited shelf life, put in an abstract etc. Here's an example. |
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- Did you ever really feel you skin tingle? You know, that really GOOD feeling of total excitement that you get... |
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- Madison - The state Senate narrowly failed Tuesday to override a Gov. Jim Doyle veto of spending caps on local governments, so Republicans in the state Assembly immediately launched a new drive to control December property tax bills. |
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- Infielder Rickie Weeks, the Milwaukee Brewers' top draft pick, has been promoted to Class A Beloit in time to play a game against the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers at Miller Park on Thursday. |
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- Folkie-turned-sultry-pop-star Jewel will perform at 7 p.m. Oct. 17 at the Riverside Theatre. Tickets for the show are $35. |
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- Walter The problem is that the media on those old foppies starts to shed and it gums up the read/write head on the drive. Then when you put in a new (different) floppy, the gum on the head scratches that floppy and ruins it. When you switch drives the new one gets gummed up too after a few floppies. All you can do is clean the drive after each floppy that reports any error. There is a head cleaning disk that consists of a piece of filter paper in a regular floppy sleeve and you put "cleaning fluid" (rubbing alchohol) on the filter paper, put it in the drive and try to read it. |
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- Is this how you got rid of the others? |
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- NY Times article on Hermes, maker of the (starting at) $5000 Birkin bag, suing the importer of a $150 rubber bag that is referred to as a 'satire,' 'amusement' 'fake rubber Birkin,' 'knock-off' and 'trade dress infringement' in the article. The rubber version is probably the more practical choice on a rainy day. |
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Back (Aug 13 2003 00:34 GMT) - In the saddle and catching up. |
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- A British citizen was arrested tonight in America after apparently attempting to smuggle a Russian surface to air missile into the country, it was reported. |
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- Sounds a little too trendy for me.... |
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pmachine (Aug 13 2003 00:32 GMT) - I'm seriously thinking about switching to pMachine. If I have better luck getting it to work than I did with MT (which is running thanks to Jade). I would really like to have better control over who reads my blog.... |
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- An actual header on the Medicare website that I got from the supplier's email list: Payment Denial For Medicare Services... |
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