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- Prosecutors wasted no time painting a picture of Kobe Bryant as a callous rapist who wouldn't take "No" for an answer. Detective recounts the accuser's story. |
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- After Edmonton honored one of its all-time greats, a newcomer started his career with a stellar performance. |
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- The new-look Los Angeles Lakers went from impressive to downright ugly in just 24 hours. |
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- We are about to release a new version of Cincom Smalltalk - both VisualWorks and ObjectStudio. There's a lot of cool new things coming up - there are details on the referenced page, but here are a few tidbits: Opentalk for ObjectStudio - this will allow object level communication between VW and OS applications. That means that OS developers will be able to expose their business objects to all the interfaces supported by VisualWorks New Platforms! We are releasing WinCE support in preview (beta). |
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RSS, HBS (Oct 10 2003 23:46 GMT) - PDF paper: 50 Years of Oxygen-Converter Steelmaking Off to see one of Europe's largest forges (tomorrow morning) and to... (34 words, 0 comment(s).) |
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- A dev at Microsoft working on a large managed code base just suggested this guideline… Our perf team buys it as well.. is should only be used when it's only necessary to test the type of some object. If you're going to use the object if the is condition succeeds, use as instead. This prevents two cast operations which can be expensive. |
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- The Globe And Mail, Centrist daily of Toronto, Canada |
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- Reforma, Independent daily of Mexico City, Mexico |
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Questions (Oct 10 2003 23:45 GMT) - Questions from a book called IF. Q: If you were stranded on a desert island and could only have one... |
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- Some Red Sox fans will try just about anything to break the Curse of the Bambino. |
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- Topless is fine in France, but not a thong. |
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- It wasn't his face that gave the suspect way -- it was his butt. |
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- James Bond Darsteller Pierce Brosnan wird bei dem Actionthriller Mexicali die Hauptrolle übernehmen. Darin soll er in die Rolle eines Geschäftsmannes schlüpfen, der während eines Segeltörns mit seiner... |
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- Old School Darsteller Will Ferrell wird in dem Remake Bewitched die Rolle des Darrin übernehmen. In der Hauptrolle wird vermutlich Nicole Kidman zu sehen sein, die in die Rolle der Samantha schlüpfen... |
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- Brett Cashman, while expressing sympathy for Rush Limbaugh?s addiction to painkillers, has this to say: But what I will say is this: to the extent... |
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- LabourStart headline - Source: West Australian |
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- LabourStart headline - Source: Singleton Argus |
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- Today I continue what's becoming a series of "visceral" reactions to the Democratic presidential debates. Think of the following as an... |
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- Até que a Maria Rita é gata... não? É impressionante como o jovem Thiago parece cada vez mais uma caricatura do Caetano Veloso! |
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- A new Web site store for small businesses launches, LivePerson offers a Webinar on the benefits of real-time e-mail marketing, and Aussies are going online in record numbers, but still don't trust small e-commerce sites. |
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- PayPal has struck a deal to integrate with payment solution provider CyberSource, giving small e-tailers access to more than 31 million PayPal account holders. |
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- The combination of high Internet penetration, an active and tenured population, and high-speed connectivity resulted in a ripe e-commerce and e-banking environment. |
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- Kids' bedrooms are acting as complete entertainment centers, often making it difficult for parents to monitor media activity. |
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- The graphics semiconductor maker's latest offering targets 3D graphics developers with tools to improve its recently released RADEON family of chips. |
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- The software giant announces a dramatic shift in its approach to issuing fixes for security vulnerabilities. |
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- FEATURE: An emerging protocol for voice over IP routing could do for VoIP what HTTP did to standardize the Web. But experts aren't so sure the protocol is ready for its close-up. |
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- Move will create largest affiliate marketing player. |
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- Salon's O'Donnell steps down; Eyeblaster hires an exec to head its new office in San Francisco; Redken 5th Avenue NYC taps Semaphore Partners to build its Web presence. |
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- Tech stocks posted modest gains Friday on analyst upgrades. |
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- But the bigger picture still looks potentially bearish. |
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- Program designed to speed HP Web Services Solutions |
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- The software giant sees nothing but enthusiasm for support of the components of Office 2003.Special Report: Office 2003 |
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- Chief executive Steve Ballmer announces a major revamp of Software Update Services (SUS), a little-known tool that automates the deployment of security patches. No More Weekly Microsoft Patches |
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- Microsoft's latest dabble into business intelligence is manifested in the second beta test release of its SQL Reporting Services. |
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- A slightly extended random link post this week, it's just been building up over the last few days:Cheezwiz, the game - The game where you secretly swap the meaning of two words for some laughs. Read the examples for a better explanation,Mid Pass Filter - A way to target CSS directly at the broken box model of IE 5. Very handy for developers,Shades Of Gray - Aaron Swartz discusses what should be done when you know someone is lying, taking in the always fun Dave Winer and George Bush,Absurd Church claims - Yes, the Catholic Church are claiming that condoms don't stop AIDs, despite various health authorities saying they're wrong. Do the Church fight back with reason and evidence? |
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- I tend to be skeptical of the paranormal, but I can no longer deny that The Queen is psychic. Often, over the course of the week, She'll notice something that needs to be done around the house -- a leaky... |
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- Charles Krauthammer looks at the Kay report on Saddam Hussein's WMD programs: |
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- Travis Griggs explains how to prevent code forks when you have more than one person working on a project. You can merge a published version with what's in your image, and then - via reconciling with what's in the db (i.e., making sure that Store versions your code based on the right published version), you can avoid a code fork. |
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- Brooke Oberwetter has a good post on the case of a woman recently found guilty of complicity in the suicide of her 12-year-old son. |
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- NEWARK, N.J. - The parents of a girl paralyzed in an accident caused by a drunken football fan are suing the National Football League, claiming it promotes the type of behavior that led the fan to drink 14 beers at a New York Giants game and then drive home. |
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- The Senate yesterday cleared its deputy president, Alhaji Ibrahim Mantu, and deputy leader, Dr Jonathan Zwingina, of the allegation of demanding a bribe of N54 million from FCT Minister, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai. |
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