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- This is from the September 24, 2003 program. Alabama is facing its worst budget crisis since the great depression. When faced with a modest tax hike or the utter decimation of its state government, Alabama voters voted for the utter decimation of the government. This will result in the closing of 52 driver's examination sites, 2 Field offices, the creation of a 4 day work week for State Troopers, hundreds of employees and prosecutor's offices being laid off, and 5,000 - 6,000 inmates being released early (among other things). As usual, I received all of this detailed information from The... |
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- Things going too well? Life got you up? Pathologically happy? If so, my simple program for ruining your day can bring back that negative self-talk and restore your neuroses to their proper level of despondency in just 10 easy steps:... |
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- Things going too well? Life got you up? Pathologically happy? If so, my simple program for ruining your day can bring back that negative self-talk and restore your neuroses to their proper level of despondency in just 10 easy steps:... |
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- Globalization, which once swept the manufacturing field, is transforming the services sector. Decentralized production of information-intensive services for global markets -- coupled with the international integration of labor markets via the Internet -- mean that work is moving to countries where it can be done efficiently. As a global supply-chain of expertise emerges, stretching fromManhattantoMadrasvia places likeMauritiusandManila, these trends pose several questions. In an attempt to answer them, Wharton professor Ravi Aron assembled a panel of experts representing different perspectives on the BPO phenomenon. |
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- Retail customers have been trained to search for price, and to expect outstanding service. Those are difficult expectations for banks to meet. But Scotiabank has a plan. |
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- Yesterday's federal appeals court ruling on the Do Not Call Registry made suddenly real the possibility of penalties to financial services companies for failure to comply. |
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- Analysis of the Gomez Q3 2003 Internet Carrier Scorecard reveals an increased pace of site enhancements by many carriers, with more to come in the future, which could pose a stiff challenge to Progressive's continued dominance (eight consecutive number-one finishes). |
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- One of the main difficulties in complying with the U.S.A. Patriot Act is sifting through the huge amount of information firms process every day. |
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- The Democratic National Committee's presidental debate in Phoenix starts in 15 minutes (8 eastern). CNN is airing it live this time (so you don't have to search for CSpan on your cable guide). Too bad for you on the east coast and midwest--over half the population. What were they thinking, putting it on up against Survivor? |
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- Sun Microsystems' version of Unix will become the third operating system to take advantage of Advanced Micro Device's 64-bit Opteron chip, Sun software chief Jonathan Schwartz says. |
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- The Democratic National Committee's presidental debate in Phoenix starts in 15 minutes (8 eastern). CNN is airing it live this time (so you don't have to search for CSpan on your cable guide). Too bad for you on the east coast and midwest--over half the population. What were they thinking, putting it on up against Survivor? |
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- US lawmakers demand Pentagon release of critical Iraq report |
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- JI bombs 'will strike again' |
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- IDF Forces Arrest 15 Wanted Palestinians in the West Bank |
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- Friends of the late Johnny Cash will pay tribute to the... |
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- Cool Cubit Cases from michaelw (who consistently points to interesting things). I am baffled that all desktop pcs have not moved to the mini-itx formfactor. |
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hit one (Oct 09 2003 23:52 GMT) - rewrite. rewrite. shuffle. get lucky. rewrite. |
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- Some old Rolleflex pictures, scanned from 6X6 film negatives: Film, of course, doesn't have digital noise. So I can only assume that's a fingerprint in the sky on the last one. Keep yer hands off the screen, ok? |
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- MT Hacking Continues. Another random MT question - my media player (no, it's neither Windows Media Player nor WinAmp - it's J River's Media Center, which I dig quite a lot) has a plugin that can write the currently playing song to a... [Andrew Bayer is Dreaming of China] (And let me report that the Andrew Bayer is Dreaming of China feed has transparently crossed over for me -- at least I don't remember doing anything to make it that I read the feed from the new site in my aggregator.) |
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- Michael Schwern explains how to use refactoring techniques to make code faster. |
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- CNN Oct 9 2003 5:16PM ET... |
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- eWeek Oct 9 2003 5:08PM ET... |
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- Council of the European Union Oct 9 2003 5:13PM ET... |
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- IHT Oct 9 2003 5:21PM ET... |
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- news.com.au Oct 9 2003 5:24PM ET... |
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- NZCity Oct 9 2003 5:33PM ET... |
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- MSNBC Oct 9 2003 5:09PM ET... |
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- Federal Trade Commission Oct 9 2003 4:21PM ET... |
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- InternetRetailer.com Oct 9 2003 5:11PM ET... |
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- ZDNet Oct 9 2003 5:46PM ET... |
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- ConsoleWire Oct 9 2003 5:32PM ET... |
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- ShareCast Oct 9 2003 4:54PM ET... |
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- CNEWS Oct 9 2003 4:52PM ET... |
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- Miami Herald Oct 9 2003 4:55PM ET... |
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- Iphtashu Fitz writes "Both news.com and Wired are reporting that an Illinois school district is being sued by parents over their use of a Wi-Fi network at a ... |
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