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- I'm not into karting or carting (the weight differential rule is rarely in effect), but I came across this video... |
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- I'm not into karting or carting (the weight differential rule is rarely in effect), but I came across this video... |
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- "The race for this year's Academy Awards has been thrown off stride by a move by the major Hollywood studios to curb movie piracy. The studios hope to halt the distribution of thousands of DVD and VHS copies of Oscar-contending films to those whose votes decide the winners." (Kevin Christley) |
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- Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, opened a major conferenceMonday in Tokyo on development in Africa, with a billion dollar pledge ingrant aid for the poorest continent in the world. |
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- A CONSORTIUM of Zimbabwean businessmen has teamed up with otherinvestors from Botswana to acquire the Botswana Insurance Company Limitedfrom St Pauls Inc, in what is dubbed as one of the biggest transactions inthe insurance sector within the Southern African Development Community thisyear. |
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- Aid groups in Angola have called for the emergency repair and de-miningof roads and bridges if the country is to avert a "new humanitarianemergency". |
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- Mozambican poultry farmers are complaining of unfair competition fromproducts imported from countries such as South Africa, Brazil and Argentina,which are seriously prejudicing the national industry. |
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- President Thabo Mbeki has called on big business in Japan to seize tradeopportunities opening up in Africa by investing in the continent. |
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- THE industrial index was drifting sideways last week in the absence ofcorporate news to give it direction, brokers reported. |
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- THE bearer cheques, an unprecedented move by the Reserve Bank ofZimbabwe (RBZ) last week to deal with a crippling cash crisis, havereportedly eased the bank notes shortage but economists warn these have agreater chance of being forged. |
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- WEAK sales figures at Express stores have increased worry amongZimbabwe's retail companies, heading into the traditionally strong lastquarter of the year with little assurance that months of cash shortages arenear an end. |
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- For more than three decades, thousands of people from Southern Africa,mostly Zimbabweans, have trekked down to South Africa in search of adream. |
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- KENYA and Uganda on Friday formally jointly agreed to extend a petroleumpipeline from Eldoret to Uganda at a cost of just over Ksh78m (aboutsh1.9b). |
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- A coalition of NGOs in the Republic of Congo has called upon petroleumcompanies operating in the country to make public the amount of revenue theyprovide to the Congolese government. |
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- SA's trade with Africa, particularly exports, has surged dramatically inthe post-isolation years, with average annual export growth greater thanwith traditional trading partners. |
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- WEEK AHEAD Numbers will give indication of strength of inflationarypressure |
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- Reserve Bank governor also warns that inflationary expectations andglobal oil price hike may affect downward trend |
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- SOUTH African companies exporting products to Europe have been urged toregister trademarks before November 1 to protect themselves againstopposition from new European Union (EU) member states. |
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- Downside is pressure on export margins, Seardel says |
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- CLIMATE, nature's relentless engine of change, underlines the urgency ofan accommodation between the developed world, especially Europe, anddeveloping countries on agriculture. |
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- The National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) isconcerned about the lack of implementation of agreements reached at theGrowth and Development Summit three months ago and has announced theformation of a task team to monitor and speed up the process. |
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- THE rand's rally to R7 to the dollar may be causing anxiety amonginvestors, but SA Tourism head Cheryl Carolus remains confident that thetourism industry will sustain its "gravity-defying" growth in the comingpeak season. |
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- US can only blame itself for spiralling deficits, but in a globalisedeconomy it will sop up much of savings pool |
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- Exporters of organic-grown foods fear that the introduction ofgenetically modified organisms to Uganda could endanger their business. |
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- Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has justified recent depreciation of theshilling against major currencies, saying it indicated renewed activities inthe economy. |
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- To read a news article posted on the Los Angeles Times website today, one would get the impression that the... |
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- I cherish these moments: QUESTION: Scott, the President came into office promising public integrity would be restored to this office... |
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- Shit. Looks like Ahnold is surging in the last days of the CA recall campaign, as is support for the... |
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- Los Angeles: Thesp union leaders endorse ad pact Leaders of SAG and AFTRA have given an 81% endorsement to the new commercials deal, setting up a ratification vote by the unions' 140,000 members amid an uncertain outlook for passage. |
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- Los Angeles: Just for Variety |
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- Los Angeles: Duds outnumber winners in o'seas market In a forgettable frame overseas, the duds outnumbered the successful new releases last weekend, and there were no serious challengers to "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," which ruled for the seventh straight weekend -- the longest reign since "Titanic's" marathon in 1998. |
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- Los Angeles: Bodybuilder, actor Obituary |
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- "Download, print, cut the pieces out and build! Nearly everyone has made paper airplanes or tried origami when they were children. Take these memories further when you download dozens of 3D-Papercraft projects for free." (Kevin Christley) |
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- Though I can report that it has a very familiar flavor and texture, before yesterday I had never partaken of that classical mountaineering treat, the Kendal Mint Cake. So, after lunch at the presumed turn-around point of yesterday's hike to... |
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- Quote: "Federal agents are actively working on leads and anticipating their own indictments." Wow! Sounds like the White House to me! But no--it's just another... |
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- U.S.-British Differences Show Iraq Intelligence Gap In the buildup to the Iraq war last fall, the intelligence agencies of Britain and the United States raised questions about each other's most dramatic claims concerning Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, according to newly released British documents and recent interviews with U.S. congressional and administration officials. |
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- Dear memphisluvr: Thanks for the advise. This was a diamond that |
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- Thank you guys! This forum is great and a huge help for |
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- "A FIRM on the show floor here in Taipei is offering the chance to buy an Xbox that uses a Celeron 1.4GHz/256K cache chip rather than the feeble 733MHz Pentium III that ships with the console. Friendtech is also offering a mod for the Xbox which provides S-Video and A/V output, 5.1 surround sound and a hard disk upgrade." (Kevin Christley) |
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Bye WS_FTP (Sep 30 2003 02:47 GMT) - I've been using WS_FTP for a while now; I used it freely with the educational free license since I wrote tutorials. I'm not sure if it's this old system I'm using (main pc died, so having to use an antique Dell till we're able to purchase whatever's needed for my main system), but WS_FTP's been giving me fits! I'd get errors from most of my servers, but a few got a LOT. I searched the error message that WS_FTP gave me, and found that it's an WS_FTP error caused by something to do with Windows TCP/IP. |
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Validation (Sep 30 2003 02:46 GMT) - While "Packers Suck" is perfectly valid it appears there is only one word which can be made using the board in my last post so here's one that is more functional, demonstrating the puzzleblog puzzle of the day: |
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