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13 Labs Garden
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Winter rye (Oct 01 2003 18:53 GMT) - A couple of days ago I placed an order for some winter rye which I will be planting in the garden beds after I clean them out next weekend. It should fix some nitrogen back into the soil and prevent winter erosion and maybe even neaten up the place. I wonder if it will make seeds for the birds? |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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The Philosophy of Ruby (Oct 01 2003 18:53 GMT) - Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of the Ruby programming language, talks with Bill Venners about Ruby's design philosophy, including design imperfection, the danger of orthogonality, and the importance of the human in computer endeavors. |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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Wireless Hacks by Rob Flickenger (Oct 01 2003 18:53 GMT) - Wireless Hacks hits the stands: teaches you exciting new tips: Rob Flickenger's latest book, Wireless Hacks, has been out for a few weeks and I wanted to share my delight with the title. I have the privilege of having been asked to write the foreword, and so read the book completely a few weeks ago. Here's what I wrote: |
Naked Ownership
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Bar Results Released (Oct 01 2003 18:52 GMT) - Results from the July 2003 Bar Examination were released by the Louisiana Supreme Court last Friday. A summary follows: SchoolStudentsPassedCond. Failed LSU175131 (75%)34 (19%)10 (6%) Loyola13681 (60%)37 (27%)18 (13%) Southern12348 (39%)32 (26%)43 (35%) Tulane8560 (71%)20 (24%)5 (5%) Other9958 (59%)21 (21%)20 (20%) Total618378 (61%)144 (23%)96 (16%) Statistics are also available from February 2003. |
NewsFactor Network
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File-Sharing Drops as Industry Battles Rage (Oct 01 2003 18:52 GMT) - Judging from reports of falling P2P site usage, the recording industry's legal tactics are working. Since this spring, when the record industry began suing college students who were high volume file-sharers, traffic at leading P2P site Kazaa has fallen 41 percent, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. |
NewsFactor Network
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Palm Delivers 3 New PDAs (Oct 01 2003 18:52 GMT) - Palm took the wraps off three new PDAs today as it strives to maintain its top-dog status in a slumping market. The most noteworthy of the latest additions is the Tunsten T3, a color-screen, wireless PDA that is the first to feature a display that works both in landscape, or horizontal, mode and in the typical portrait mode. |
NewsFactor Network
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Does CRM Need a Lawyer? (Oct 01 2003 18:52 GMT) - What does Primerica, a financial-services marketing organization in North America, have in common with, JetBlue, a New York-based discount airline? Executives at both companies have been scratching their heads over how to ensure their customer-data management policies comply with confusing new regulatory guidelines in their respective industries. |
NewsFactor Network
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OneSource Launches Siebel eBusiness Support Tools (Oct 01 2003 18:52 GMT) - Just offering the lowest price or the highest-quality products and services is not always a winning corporate strategy. Understanding each customer's requirements and crafting offerings that match is at the heart of effective sales and CRM processes. |
sofa. rites de passage
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Bei Salon (day pass required) ... (Oct 01 2003 18:52 GMT) - Bei Salon (day pass required) ein recht konfuses, aber in seiner konfusion, kommt mir vor, ziemlich interessantes lamento über alles mögliche: die neue sexlosigkeit, die selbstenterotisierung von guterzogenen, sensiblen, an amerikanischen universitäten studierenden mä |
Warblogs:CC
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Under cover for "three decades" (Oct 01 2003 18:51 GMT) - Newsday has been told by "intelligence officials" that Valerie Plame does in fact "work at the agency on weapons of mass destruction issues in an undercover capacity — at least she was undercover until last week when she was named by columnist Robert Novak." |
bloggerApiTest News
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Blogger News Item (Oct 01 2003 18:51 GMT) - After years of speculation, the truth can finally be told: Elvis Presley not only faked his death in 1977, he's alive today -- and we've got the photograph to prove it. [More] |
bloggerApiTest News
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Blogger News Item (Oct 01 2003 18:51 GMT) - An Internet worm that disabled networks across the U.S. Monday and Tuesday temporarily thrust the nation into its most severe maelstrom of productivity since 1992. [More] |
WGN FeedRoom
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Garbage Workers On Strike (Oct 01 2003 18:50 GMT) - Oct. 1 - The garbage in the area's suburbs will begin piling up as haulers have decided to go on strike. And there is no word on when negotiations will resume. |
WGN FeedRoom
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Save Karyn! (Oct 01 2003 18:50 GMT) - Oct. 1 - Say you're $20,000 in debt, what steps would you take to get out of it? One woman went to the internet and begged, and begged, and then begged some more. |
Ted's Radio Weblog
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LinkSys WiFi VPN Cable Router with VPM for $229 (Oct 01 2003 18:50 GMT) - Some cool hardware. Definitely a candidate for the next home office upgrade... Linksys Ships VPN Server. "Linksys ships the WRV54G, which offers up to 50 VPN connections in an office: This $230 device could replace much more expensive equipment for managing VPNs. |
Radio UserLand Messages
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Enclosures (Oct 01 2003 18:50 GMT) - I'm curious about how the Enclosures feature is going to work. After 2 nights I have 500 megs of interesting material in my Radio folder. Somehow the program kept track of what it sent me the first night and didn't duplicate it. Who's keeping track? Will it send it again if I delete? |
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