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games (Oct 08 2003 17:59 GMT) - Nokia's N-Gage Hits the Streets. Nokia launches its N-Gage game phone, seeking to gain a foothold in the portable gaming market now controlled by Nintendo's Game Boy line. Consumers and game enthusiasts give mixed reviews. [Wired News] |
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- Twelve people were arrested in Burkina Faso yesterday on the allegationof plotting to overthrow the government of President Blaise Compaore. |
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- Nigeria once again, was placed second among the most corrupt countriesby anti-corruption group Transparency International (TI), a position it alsooccupied last year. Prior to last year's rating the country occupied theunenviable position of the most corrupt. |
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- The main Liberian rebel group, Liberians United for Reconciliation andDemocracy (LURD), on Tuesday asked the United Nations to deploy peacekeepersin territories under its control after the country's transitional governmenttakes office on 14 October. |
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- Rain fed agriculture in the Builsa District of the Upper East Region hasbecome a high-risk venture for investment, Mr. Cletus Achaab, Board Chairmanof the Builsa Community Bank (BUCOBANK), has said. |
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- THE Zimbabwean team at the 8th All-Africa Games in Abuja, Nigeria arestill searching for the first medal, three days after the Games burst intolife. |
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- UNICEF has decided to focus on improving supply of clean water,environmental sanitation and hygiene education throughout Nigeria to combatwater-borne diseases. |
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- The Chief coach of Mighty Warriors of Zimbabwe, Benedict Moyo haspredicted that his team will upset Cameroon when they meet in their lastmatch billed for Kaduna tomorrow. |
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- Caf boss Issa Hayatou has so far got the backing of as many as 36countries in his bid to win re-election next year at the football governingbody's general assembly in Tunis. |
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- The Nigeria Football Association (NFA) will today officially announceformer England skipper, Bryan Robson as the new Super Eagles technicaladviser. |
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- Mantu: It's a tissue of lies |
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- Minister of Health, Professor Eyitayo Lambo, said yesterday that Nigerialoses over N132 billion due to absenteeism from work, farm and cost oftreatment as a result of malaria. |
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- And so it came to pass on Monday, September 29, that Nigeria'sAmbassador and Permanent Delegate to the United Nations EducationalScientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Prof. Michael Abiola Omolewa,was elected president of the 32nd Session of the General Conference of theorganisation, which runs through to the 17th of next month. Bukola Olatunji,who is covering the conference reports |
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- I just had a rather delightful breakfast with a good friend of mine. We haven't talked one on one for months so we had a lot of catching up to do. She's a very perceptive and wise person; I think... |
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content (Oct 08 2003 17:58 GMT) - Music Label Cashes in by Sharing. Magnatune is trying to turn the music industry on its ear by encouraging file sharing and giving artists a large chunk of the proceeds. It seems to be working. By Chris Ulbrich. [Wired News] a move from producers to agents is a move in the right direction for artists especially lessor known artists who would not be eligible for front end support anyway. |
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- From: "Cissy" Please pray for my brother as he is currently in jail awaiting a pre-trial on rape charges his girlfriend of 11 years has filed against him. He is innocent of this crime and does not deserve to lose... |
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- Today, a unanimous three-judge panel of the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that the fundamental right to marry "does not encompass the right to marry a same-sex partner." The court further held that because the prohibition against same-sex marriage "rati |
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- Soll ich nach Hause gehen und Shadow of the Vampire schauen, oder versuchen über den Film und dessen Remake Implikationen aus dem Gedächtnis zu schreiben? |
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- Things never fail to go soap opera on me, but in the end, it doesn't matter. I've finally learned to... |
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EdPoor (Oct 08 2003 17:56 GMT) |
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- ESPN The Magazine is now offering readers a joint subscription with Maxim, calling it A PERFECT MATCH. Cross-posted at SportsBlog... |
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- ITLnet Themes Easter EggWednesday, October 08, 2003 12:56:36 PMWhile building the color theme settings for ITLnet, I used my own page's color scheme as a template. Its still in there, but you can't select it. The only way to see the Program Witch Pages theme is to click on this secret theme link. |
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- Zwar hat die Debatte über die europäische Verfassung auf der Ebene der Staats- und Regierungschefs erst begonnen, aber die Unruhe im politischen Brüssel wächst bereits: Wie wird der große Schlagabtausch ausgehen? |
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- LinkPage031008 - The dubyah blog, Microsoft server market share, Philips and TSMC, Chinese manned orbit, the bitflux mozilla xml editor http//news.com.com/2100-7344 3-5088233.html ... |
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- Das Psycho-Mädchen ist wieder aufgetaucht. Sie war vier Tage weg, ohne jemandem etwas zu sagen. (Ich habe mir Sorgen gemacht.) Sie hat jetzt keine Dreadlocks mehr, eine Freundin hat ihr einen Iro geschnitten, S. |
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- Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band wrapped up the second most lucrative North American tour ever last weekend. But... |
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- The Aeffability of Knowledge Management - Stephen Downes, Ubiquity. The challenge of knowledge management, and hence of online learning, is to make it work with the complexity and richness of actual human communication.... The challenge of knowledge management, and hence of online learning, therefore consists in this: [Online Learning Update] |
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- Een kennelijk groeiend probleem is 'comment spam', spamberichten in reactieformulieren op weblogs. Adam Kalsey vergelijkt spam met geklieder op muren en treinen. Een simpele zoekopdracht levert al aardig wat spambare posjes op. Spambots hoeven bij Movable Type enkel te zoeken naar het bestand mt-comments.cgi. |
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- Hab ich selbstverständlich gleich bestellt. Man muss ja mit der Zeit gehen. Zusätzlich freue ich mich auf den neuen Finder und was ich bisher von Mike gehört habe, scheint's ja definitiv noch ein wenig zügiger zu gehen. Nimmt mich wunder! |
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- Last night on the House floor, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) stated that the President's Emergency Supplemental shows that the United States has forgotten about the war on terrorism in Afghanistan. |
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- On Monday, the United States Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of Regina McKnight. |
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- House Republicans called for a $1.7 billion cut in President Bush's emergency supplemental request for the reconstruction funding for Iraq and only a $400 million increase in reconstruction aid for Afghanistan. |
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- Looks like my comment spam fix isn't foolproof, since I have just got some pharmaceutical spam posted to one entry. But a quick analysis of my Apache server log revealed an interesting trend... (172 words, 2 comments) |
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- Und weiter gehts: Apple bereitet nach Informationen von ThinkSecret neue eMacs und iBooks vor. Die Geräte seien bereits fertig, Apple warte möglicherweise nur auf die Leerung... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - ZDNet Oct 8 2003 12:09PM ET... |
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- Et oui depuis ce midi et c'est très bien !!!! |
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- Le titre n'as rien à voir : |
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- La nouvelle du jour, comme tout le monde le sait, je suis élu Governator d'un Etat qui pèse son poids sur l'échiquier politico-économique de mon pays et du monde par ricochet. Dehors Hollywood, à bas Bollywood et vive White House, je vous assure, c'est certainement pour bientôt. D'autre y a réussi, pourquoi pas moi? Et Robocop alors, qu'est-ce qu'il va devenir? Il n'a qu'a assumer une vieillesse anticipée, et prendre sa retraite , il était temps, d'ailleurs si j'étais Terminator je ferais pareil. |
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- [je reste plantée là à vouloir écrire quelque chose. envie de supprimer un peu, mais pas envie de perdre des morceaux de vies. envie de supprimer quand même. pas savoir. rester plantée là. |
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- Je n'ai plus trop envie de reparler du sujet précédent , c'est à dire du divorce de mes parents , parce que voilà... ça c'est passé il y a un peu moins d'un mois mais depuis les choses ont évolués... |
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by hand (Oct 08 2003 17:54 GMT) - Well, something went horribly wrong with a recent upgrade to the software at my hosting company, but until it's fixed, you, yes, you, my single reader, may notice that it's not possible to view comments. Just as well, it's not... |
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