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- Olympic boss Jacques Rogge is not worried about the rowing venue for Athens 2004. |
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- Aug. 13 - Four Ft. Lauderdale paramedics may lose their jobs Wednesday for allegedly not following protocol during an emergency. |
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- Aug. 13 - An off-duty deputy and a young boy are both considered heroes after helping to save a family, who's car crashed into a canal and began to sink. |
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- When we first toured the home that we eventually purchased, it was late winter and everything was dormant. There were... |
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- In my inbox this morning... Mensa, spelling nervosa, wrong foods at meal time...you have lots of growing up to do. More aptly put: "Desperate attention seeker in need of constant reassurance. |
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- In my inbox this morning... Mensa, spelling nervosa, wrong foods at meal time...you have lots of growing up to do. More aptly put: "Desperate attention seeker in need of constant reassurance. |
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- Um, so there I was yesterday in the restroom of the doctor's office. I had the dixie cup and vial in my hand. I eyed the toilet nervously. My bladder was so full I thought I was going to die. The floor of the restroom was sprinkled with what I hoped was water [but secretly I knew better. |
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Worth 1000 (Aug 13 2003 14:51 GMT) - Wish I had more time to peruse this today? Worth1000.com is a Photoshop contest site with some pretty amazing work nestled within it?s gallery archives.? |
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Middlebrow (Aug 13 2003 14:51 GMT) - As part of a pair of related posts, Steven Den Beste writes:Cultural products could be produced to appeal to the middle class sensibility, and to the upper classes this was low brow, unsophisticated, something to be scorned.Here I have to... |
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- Drop those steel tariffs like the bad habit they are. Oh, and about that Farm Bill you signed. . .... |
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- Amir Taheri says we're not looking hard enough, or in the right places for Saddam. That's certainly true, because some people are claiming that Saddam Hussein is working as an ambulance man, when everybody knows that Saddam & Osama are... |
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- Plastic::Politics::War: The brave-protestors-slash-traitor who went to Iraq as human shields are facing fines of as much as a million dollars. |
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- [ source, source]Section 38 of the [non-immigrant US visa] application, which is a new addition, asks whether the applicant has... |
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- The contextual advertising ball keeps rolling, as MediaPost reports that Quigo signed a deal with Overture. This may indicate that Overture is planning to pursue the smaller and mid-sized publishers that use the Quigo contextual advertising services. Existing content inventory deals with Overture have been primarily with portals and major sites. MediaPost reports. Kevin Lee comments. |
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- Fix as article under correct capitalisation. |
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- "Judge would be first Latino to sit on U.S. District Court bench": At least in the State of Washington, according to this article from today's issue of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. |
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- Der Link für den deutschen Firebird habe ich bei kurz notiert gefunden und dabei flugs beschlossen, daß ich dem Feuervogel heute eine Chance geben möchte. Für Chat, Mail und News benutze ich eh andere Programme, als den Mozilla, also warum mal nicht ausprobieren? Bisher bin ich wirklich sehr zufrieden damit. Der Browser ist schön flott und auch das gemeinsame Benutzen der Bookmarks mit Mozilla funktioniert wunderbar. Lediglich zwei Dinge vermisse ich noch: |
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- Ken Levy, Product Manager for Microsoft's VS Data Tools division, will be presenting tonight to the Boston Area FoxPro User Group, a last-minute change due to travel re-scheduling. Looking forward to hearing what Ken has to say on the state of Visual FoxPro 8, the recently announced Service Pack for VFP8, and the future version, code-named 'Europa.' In addition, Ken will be talking about Visual Studio .NET and a new XMl/XSL editor he's managing, scheduled to be included in the next version of VS.NET, code-named Whidbey, and possibly available as an add-on for the current version. |
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- Ken Levy, Product Manager for Microsoft's VS Data Tools division, will be presenting tonight to the Boston Area FoxPro User Group, a last-minute change due to travel re-scheduling. Looking forward to hearing what Ken has to say on the state of Visual FoxPro 8, the recently announced Service Pack for VFP8, and the future version, code-named 'Europa.' In addition, Ken will be talking about Visual Studio .NET and a new XMl/XSL editor he's managing, scheduled to be included in the next version of VS.NET, code-named Whidbey, and possibly available as an add-on for the current version. |
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- Ken Levy, Product Manager for Microsoft's VS Data Tools division, will be presenting tonight to the Boston Area FoxPro User Group, a last-minute change due to travel re-scheduling. Looking forward to hearing what Ken has to say on the state of Visual FoxPro 8, the recently announced Service Pack for VFP8, and the future version, code-named 'Europa.' In addition, Ken will be talking about Visual Studio .NET and a new XMl/XSL editor he's managing, scheduled to be included in the next version of VS.NET, code-named Whidbey, and possibly available as an add-on for the current version. |
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- Ken Levy, Product Manager for Microsoft's VS Data Tools division, will be presenting tonight to the Boston Area FoxPro User Group, a last-minute change due to travel re-scheduling. Looking forward to hearing what Ken has to say on the state of Visual FoxPro 8, the recently announced Service Pack for VFP8, and the future version, code-named 'Europa.' In addition, Ken will be talking about Visual Studio .NET and a new XMl/XSL editor he's managing, scheduled to be included in the next version of VS.NET, code-named Whidbey, and possibly available as an add-on for the current version. |
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- Ken Levy, Product Manager for Microsoft's VS Data Tools division, will be presenting tonight to the Boston Area FoxPro User Group, a last-minute change due to travel re-scheduling. Looking forward to hearing what Ken has to say on the state of Visual FoxPro 8, the recently announced Service Pack for VFP8, and the future version, code-named 'Europa.' In addition, Ken will be talking about Visual Studio .NET and a new XMl/XSL editor he's managing, scheduled to be included in the next version of VS.NET, code-named Whidbey, and possibly available as an add-on for the current version. |
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- Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Aug. 10 The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, on the Republican-majority Congress: |
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- The United States introduced a resolution Wednesday that would establish a U.N. mission in Iraq and welcome the Iraqi Governing Council as "an important step" toward the formation of a true government. |
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- Analysts say the PC maker will at least meet second-quarter expectations for earnings, but they add that rising memory costs may prevent the company from beating their predictions. |
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Kawaii (Aug 13 2003 14:48 GMT) - Experience design: "Any self-respecting Japanese woman will tell you that it is an affront to her sensibilities to consume sweets... |
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- Utah governor Mike Leavitt nicely fits the profile of most Bush appointments: Extreme anti-regulation types presented to the public as... |
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- E.J. Dionne, Jr. takes on the double-standard of presidential respect. The hypocrisy of those who openly reviled President Clinton five... |
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- Does anyone in academe wonder what happens to Ph.D.'s who don't become an assistant professor at Midwestern Research University or at one of its lesser competitors? The standard answer is that they carve out a niche in an alternative career.... |
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- IBM's WebFountain. ResourceShelf writes about an exciting web search technology, described by IBM's Paul Horn as "Google on steroids." The company has high hopes for Web Fountain, which was originally developed for a record company. The technology reads and understands text, and uses natural language to make correlations between words. Unlike traditional search, Web Fountain searches everything on the Web, including chat rooms, when set to that parameter. |
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- THANKS ... VERY helpful!!ted |
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- Williamsburg loses a fire truck to budget cuts. Fireman blames hipsters. |
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- It's time for Freedom Software says Robin 'Roblimo' Miller. Heh... |
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- It's time for Freedom Software says Robin 'Roblimo' Miller. Heh... |
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- CircuitCity.com once again offers the Apex AD-1200 DVD/MP3 Player for $46.99 before a $7 mail-in rebate, $39.99 after. It's still the lowest price we... |
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- Meritline.com offers its MWL-311FA Wireless PCMCIA Adapter for $21. It's one of the best no-rebate prices we've seen for an 802.11b PC Card adapter....(more) |
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- I'm going to use a good thing to make a point about a bad thing, so just bear with me.... |
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Mosh Pit (Aug 13 2003 14:47 GMT) - I'm very much enjoying reading Chuq Von Roshpach chew his cud on the issues around running online groups. He is saying a lot of things that people who do this know. But which I don't think are written down much. This is the kind of social knowledge that Phil Agre complains that smart people are often sadly entirely unaware of. For example I like this peice about a technique he's tried for drawing forth the folks on the long tail of the power-curve. |
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- This is the last post for some time since I'm getting married this weekend! We're not going on the big... |
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