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Reserve Bank Encourages Population to Buy Bonds (Oct 01 2003 13:44 GMT) - Angolan National Bank (BNA) will on Wednesday put for sale Central Bank Bonds (TBC), a document that permits obtaining much more attractive interest rates than deposits on time. |
Niutopia/Jouebs
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tgtg : [273]moissons-9- (Oct 01 2003 13:44 GMT) - Le temps a ses originalités!!! "Un appartement , un joueb! Avant de m'endormir hier, je pensais à mon joueb et je faisais le parallèle entre ce dernier et un appartement qu'on loue. À notre arrivée, on a le choix de tout repeindre ou de garder l'aspect d'origine (mise en page). Si on décide de repeindre, on met des couleurs qui nous plaisent. |
Niutopia/Jouebs
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yamael : Dame de Nuit (Oct 01 2003 13:44 GMT) - Dame de Nuit, qui de ta main m'emporte,Vers quels abîmes obscurs conduis-tu mes pas?Dans ce sombre couloir je ne vois de porteQue celle qui montre l'heure de mon trépas! |
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What should we call this scandal? (Oct 01 2003 13:43 GMT) - Seriously, "Plamegate" sounds so banal to me. I'm sick of scandals tagged with that stupid "-gate" suffix. Can't we come... |
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Plame's former classmate vents (Oct 01 2003 13:43 GMT) - Who is Larry Johnson? A former CIA analyst and classmate of Valerie Plame. He's also a Republicans. And he had... |
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Cubs win game 1 (Oct 01 2003 13:43 GMT) - Good start. Cubs win, their first playoff road victory in 58 years. If that's not a good sign, I don't... |
MacDailyNews
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Florida students patch 360 PCs in marathon session due to Blaster virus; their Macs unaffected (Oct 01 2003 13:43 GMT) - "As the Blaster virus was poised to crash computers and clog networks around the globe, Dillard High School already had matters under control. But it wasn't corporate engineers, private vendors or school district staff safeguarding more than 350 workstations and servers on campus. Students were -- just two of them," Marci Richardson reports for The Sun-Sentinel from Broward County, FL. Richardson then goes on to describe the yeomanlike erroft performed by the students to save... |
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A book??? Like the kind you read??? Surely you jest!!!! (Oct 01 2003 13:42 GMT) - Oh no, I'm serious. I read a book and the only pictures were on the dust jacket. The mighty tomb in question is The Middle Mind: Why American's Don't Think For Themselves" by Curtis White who writes for Context and Harpers. The basic premise of the |
Daisy's Petals
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Feelin' good (Oct 01 2003 13:42 GMT) - You do when you fall asleep at 7:30 p.m. and don't wake up until the morning.... |
World Music Central News
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Carlos Núñez's latest CD released by R2 in Canada (Oct 01 2003 13:42 GMT) - Toronto, Canada - R2 Records of Toronto, Ontario, Canada has announced an agreement with Sony Music (France) to distribute the latest album by Carlos Núñez. Patrick Smyth, President of R2 Records says “Carlos Núñez, of Galicia, in northwestern, Spain is a most remarkable musician who has been described by many as the Jimi Hendrix of the bagpipes and we are very fortunate at R2 records that Sony Music (France) chose R2 as the sole Canadian distributor of Carlos’ newest CD -Finisterre: The End of the Earth.” Finisterre is a cape in northwestern Spain on the coast of La Coruña province; the westernmost point of the Spanish mainland. |
apostropher
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That's the Ticket (Oct 01 2003 13:41 GMT) - Yeah. Billmon has an excellent idea. (Former CIA agent Larry Johnson:) "... if I hear another Republican operative suggesting that well, this was just an analyst fine, let them go undercover. |
Ned Batchelder's blog
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Five best and worst things to say to your kids (Oct 01 2003 13:41 GMT) - From Parents magazine, suggestions for the Best and Worst Things to Say to Your Kids. These are of course debatable (Sue didn't like best #1 and #2, for example). But keep in mind: good parenting skills come in handy when dealing with lots of other people in your life. Not because others act like children, but because good parenting often comes down to honesty and respect, and that's always a good thing. |
Celsius1414
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EPA starts daily air quality alerts (Oct 01 2003 13:41 GMT) - USA TODAY - Beginning [October 1], the government will issue daily forecasts to alert millions of Americans year-round when they can expect to have a bad air day.The new alerts, which the Environmental Protection Agency will announce today, will provide "Air Quality Index" predictions for particle pollution - also called soot - in 141 cities. The agency expects the list to grow to more than 300 cities in the next two years.... |
Celsius1414
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This Date in Baseball - Oct. 1 (AP) (Oct 01 2003 13:41 GMT) - AP - 1903 The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Boston Red Sox 7-3 in the first World Series game ever played. Jimmy Sebring hit the first series home run. Deacon Phillippe was the winning pitcher and Cy Young the loser.1932 Ñ Babe Ruth, as legend has it, called his home run against Chicago's Charlie Root in the fifth inning of Game 3 of the World Series, won by the New York Yankees (news) 7-5 at Wrigley Field. |
Celsius1414
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Webcam Astro-Imaging (Oct 01 2003 13:41 GMT) - OK, this is geek-cool at its finest: Webcam Astro-Imaging. Any time you have an iBot attached to a telescope, you're cooking with gas! I wonder how this would work with an iSight.... |
Celsius1414
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Wings: Obsession Alert (Oct 01 2003 13:41 GMT) - Whilst reading this spiffy MacDevCenter story, What's on Your Dock? (are icons on or in your Dock?), I used the handy-dandy links provided to open up browser tabs on any apps I didn't recognize. After finishing the article, I started going through the handful I hadn't. This one stopped me in my tracks: |
Celsius1414
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NHL Cover Curse Strikes Again (Oct 01 2003 13:41 GMT) - There was a /. discussion last month about the Madden Curse: '...athletes that grace the cover tend to get hurt, really bad, a lot...' Michael Vick, who is on the Madden 2004 cover, had broken his leg that past weekend. |
The Furrygoat Experience
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Recall (Oct 01 2003 13:40 GMT) - [Joe Bork] In case you're wondering why the previous links no longer work, it's because NetCF 1.0 SP2 has been recalled. You can find some additional details on the reason for the recall in the public Microsoft newsgroup. Looks like there's some sort of problem with SqlDateTime in the emulator is SP2. More to follow. |
The Furrygoat Experience
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Wouldn't it be nice (Oct 01 2003 13:40 GMT) - A few weeks back, Scott Hanselman posted his "ultimate utility list". I really enjoyed this list, installed many of the apps, etc. This morning, Scott mentions that 2 of the tools have been updated, and it started me thinking: Wouldn't it be nice if there was an RSS feed for a list of tools, one for utilities, one for apps, one for drivers, etc. so I could easily see when one was updated? |
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