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- I am not normally one to aggravate my Aggie readers out there, but I heard this one on the radio this morning, and I could hardly pass it up: Aggie Bubba hit his knees one night to say his prayers before drifting off to sleep. Imagine his surprise when... |
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- Low fares airline Ryanair is to add three new European routes from its British service from October. |
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- Wireless access spots will be used by 456,000 people in the UK this year, and should grow to E1.5m by 2005, according to a Garter report quoted by the Financial Times. |
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- German national carrier Deutsche Lufthansa AG has posted a second-quarter operating profit of E65m, up from a loss of E415m in the first quarter, but said it still expects a full-year operating loss. |
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- Labyrinth, has awarded a contract by the Department of Foreign Affairs to design, build and manage the website for Ireland's Presidency of the EU. |
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- London shares are struggling for momentum as a positive finish to trading in New York failed to push the FTSE 100 Index above the 4200 barrier. |
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DBI/DBD API (Aug 13 2003 11:45 GMT) - Depending on your browser, this might be difficult to read (in Galeon, everything shows up centered, everything!). Regardless, it contains valuable info if you program with Perl and MySQL.... |
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DBI/DBD API (Aug 13 2003 11:45 GMT) - Depending on your browser, this might be difficult to read (in Galeon, everything shows up centered, everything!). Regardless, it contains valuable info if you program with Perl and MySQL.... |
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RSA (Aug 13 2003 11:45 GMT) - there are lots of RSA's. I've added another |
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- Joined by Mayor Shirley Franklin as prominent members of the local community and media, Paul Breslin, Managing Director of the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel, announced plans to add an additional 33,000 sq. ft. conference center to its current 50,000 sq. ft. of meeting and event space. |
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- A 14-year-old girl and a half-ton steer named Mongo were dethroned as Illinois State Fair champions for using a banned drug. The steer, the grand champion in the division for animals raised by teenagers, was disqualified Tuesday. Officials said it was the first time the fair has disqualified a grand champion because of a drug violation. |
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- an eccentric childhood in early 20th century Reykjavik |
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- Three thousand years ago in India and Egypt, dung from animals thought to possess mystical powers, such as crocodiles and elephants, were inserted into the woman’s vagina prior to intercourse to prevent pregnancies. Toronto museum explores history of contraceptives... |
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- Denver Charter Changes for the November 2003 Ballot A poll by Ciruli and Associates indicates good support for Mayor Hickenlooper's proposal to overhaul the Career Service Authority, according to the Rocky Mountain News [August 13, 2003, "Poll shows support for city worker pay changes"]. From the article, "About two-thirds of those polled support changes to salary and benefit packages for city workers, according to the Denver-based polling firm Ciruli Associates." Here's a story from the Denver Post [August 13, 2003, "Council tinkering with city pay plan"] about the proposed Charter amendment. From the article, "The basic proposed changes: Eliminate a requirement for annual audits of the survey methods used to set pay levels. |
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- Die Kassette feiert ihren 40. Geburtstag. Interessant ist, dass sich die Musikindustrie bereits kurz nach Einführung gegen das Mitschneiden von Musik gewehrt hat: "Home taping is killing music", war auf den LP-Hüllen zu lesen. Also bereits lange vor Internet-Tauschbörsen und CD-Rekordern hat die Musikindustrie schon die gleichen Sprüche von sich gegeben, wie heute. |
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- Oberursel ist nicht nur ein schöner Ort zum Wohnen, es ist auch ein guter Ausgangspunkt für Fahrrad oder Mountainbike-Touren. Ziele sind zahlreich vorhanden: Altkönig, Herzberg, Roßkopf, Saalburg, Kleiner und Großer Feldberg. Zumindest letzterer sollte jedem ein Begriff sein. Heute möchte ich Euch einfach mal auf eine Tour zum Großen Feldberg mitnehmen, die ich am Montag Abend gefahren bin. |
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- Okay it seems that I now have most of the emulators for J2ME except for these:Sharp, non PalmOS handsetsLG InfoCommLG Electronics Panasonic, other than i-mode handsetsWith SmartPhones powered by MS SmartPhoneOS I will be using the emulation environment from MS and loading into that the correct KVM to enable J2ME testing. |
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- Integrity (Exploring the Character and Mission of the Catholic Laity) has a new address. More importantly, it is up and running after a short leave of absence. Karl at St. Stephen's Musings takes a look at the homosexuality church/politics issue... |
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- Following up on yesterday's blog entry, are SCO executives dumping stock? Via Slashdot, this from the Salt Lake Tribune: SCO Group executives have sold about 119,000 shares of their company since it filed a lawsuit against IBM in March and the stock price increased more than fourfold. Chief Financial Officer Robert Bench began the $1.2 million in executive share sales four days after Lindon -based SCO filed its lawsuit against Armonk, N. |
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- The proponents of building a major league baseball stadium in Portland (which I support) have been doing some maneuvering down in Salem. The old financing bill, HB 3606, has apparently been abandoned, and the new bill is Senate Bill 5.... |
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- My new cell phone has a melody composer. This is bad news. I've already spent an hour playing with it, and I have plans for more. Unfortunately, there are only two spaces to save songs, so some of my better... |
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- I have been struggling the past day or so, trying to get the background color of a tabcontrol to have a different color than the default of System.Drawing.Color.Control. Specifically, I am referring to the area that is underneath and to the right of the tabs, assuming the tabs are positioned at the top-left of the control. |
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- when javascript works however, it rules.bugfixing is crap though. javascript should find a more detailed error reporting option. |
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- The Wild Geese were that generation of young Irish Catholic men who fled the island for the continent following its conquest by William of the Orange. |
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- Staying at 1% is seen as way to help economy; Recovery gaining, experts say; Poll shows uncertainty may pose risk for Bush |
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- Lending practices hit, Household International will remit $100 to $12,000 |
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- Gouging: A campaign gets under way to educate poor people about alternatives to predatory financial services. |
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- It targets Windows flaw, appears on 4 continents |
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- 9-year tenure concludes at governor's request |
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- 7,782 effectively endorse form of Medicare for all |
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- Operation was launched only five months ago |
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- Big Easy to get Chef Mac's, described as 'upscale, quick gourmet casual' |
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- Hilton's Kalia Tower gets $55 million cleanup |
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- Magnolia students subject to drug testing: No pass, no play for athletics, academics The latest trend in education seems to be assuming that all children are on drugs, and we just haven't caught them yet. Because of this, the Magnolia school district north of Houston will begin requiring random drug... |
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- Canicule, plage, canicule, plage, canicule, village |
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- lao tseu a dit un jour "merde ou c'est que j'ai encore fourré mes saloperies de tongs?" car le brave homme lui aussi avait ses petits passages a vide, tu crois que c'est facile de balancer du "Sous le ciel, ils savent tous ce qui fait bien et ils font ce qui fait bien.C'est probablement le mal.Ils connaissent tous la bonté et pratiquent la bonté.Ce n'est probablement pas de la bonté. |
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- Nagita Karunaratne (OpenACS Q&A) (Aug 13 2003 20:49:23) |
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- Oscar Bonilla (OpenACS Development) (Aug 13 2003 19:52:03) |
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- GartnerG2 and The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School released a study, Copyright and Digital Media... |
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