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- China is about to launch a manned, food service module atop a LongMarch 2 rocket. It will thus become the first spacefaring country to offer Chinese takeout in space. [More] |
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Oops (Oct 15 2003 20:23 GMT) - Hmm, well I don't know what went wrong, but I somehow managed to screw up my commenting templates (Thanks to Kristine for letting me know! *hugs*). Oops. Hopefully it should be working now though. I was wondering why nobody was... |
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- si caliméro devait avoir un chef de file, je pense être une des personnes qui le représenterais le mieux. Je veux dire par là, quand substence j'ai tout pour être heureuse. Il y a peut-être le fait que Jérôme soit si loin... mais et ceux qui n'ont pas trouvé le VRAI GRAND AMOUR, ne sont-ils pas plus légitimes dans une complainte contre la vie? C'est vrai apres tout, n'ai-je pas le feu au corps, un coeur chamboulé par une vague d'amour impressionnante.. |
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- A la suite de la lourde défaite à Kilmarnock, le capitaine Win Aung Soe Lwin, surnommé "Zorn Gottes" (la Colère de Dieu), a subit plusieurs opérations chirurgicales dont dépendaient sa survie. |
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- En ce moment, c'est la déferlante Janis et John sur les écrans, petits comme grands. On parle de film émouvant, poignant, etc. Les journalistes n'ont jamais aussi été prolifiques niveau qualificatifs mélioratifs. Une question me trotte dans la tête depuis un moment : est-ce qu'ils auraient tout autant aimé ce film sans les évènements de cet été ? |
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- Le plus gros transfert de l'histoire à été réalisé cette semaine: les Ost-Berlin Richter ont acheté pour 86 000 euros la star poitevine, Paolo "Hierro" Correia, retraité à la fin de la saison. |
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- Man who deflected foul ball is center of unwanted attention day after fateful play; 'I would have done the same thing' |
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- 'Change-up' back aids Ravens rushing attack |
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- After what seems like many a year, the W3C has announced the release of the "recommendation" for XForms 1.0. This represents " |
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- FirstSQL Inc, announced the availability of FirstSQL/J Enterprise Server version 2.60. The new version has enhanced the support for J2EE standards, such as the J2EE Connector Architecture and Distributed Transactions (XA) with JTA. Other improvements with this release include database and XA pooling, full application control of failover to standby servers, remote logging, and more.l... |
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- The developer of open-source Net software unveils the latest version of its Web applications package and announces fee-based services, a step back to its Netscape roots. |
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- Seven new vulnerabilities patched, five of them were labeled 'critical.' |
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- The Internet media company puts a new face on its enterprise platform by adding WebEx's audio, video, and voice tools. |
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- Software giant anoints IMLogic, Facetime and other IM partners at Instant Messaging Planet Fall 2003 Conference. |
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- Dave - RFC:myHierarchicSubscriptions. opml Quite interesting. I have tried doing a myHierarchicPublicFeeds.opml file for our k-collector server: |
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- The Booker prize has been won by DBC Pierre. However the most interesting thing about the BBC 2 awards show was the 20 minute long video diary film from the judges. The 5 judges each had to read 150 books in 4.5 months. That's almost 1 a day! |
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CLARK (Oct 15 2003 20:22 GMT) - Steven Taylor has a rather interesting statement from a Wes Clark staffer: [S]pokeswoman Kym Spell said Clark had no position on the $87 billion request.... |
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- I'm back from Oberlin, which looks like a really great school. Not much else to report exceptthere was a heartening Capital Times editorial in favor of Kucinich definitely worth reading. By the way, I should right now make the disclosure (following Kos's lead), of involvement in a presidential... |
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- Hi everyone I just wanted to sing the praises of a new |
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- I have a diamond for sale, and am posting it on |
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Lecture (Oct 15 2003 20:21 GMT) - I have science talks with the Little Fayoumis when we're walking home. I had class today, Sandstrom and then Lit, and I boiled down some stuff for the Little Fayoumis. He was learning a little about operating systems today. Different kinds of operating systems, and what they do. (Basically, you can turn a computer on, and you can see what files and programs you have. |
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- WHO/WHAT: The American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) 2003 Annual Meeting and TXPO will bring experts from the blood banking and transfusion medicine community together to discuss the latest developments impacting the field. |
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- In a Los Angeles Times op-ed, Tamar Jacoby, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, asserts that amnesty for current illegal aliens and a generous guest worker program should be implemented. |
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- Upset with the loss of U.S. jobs to India, Russia and beyond, a group of unemployed white-collar Atlantans vowed this week to target Georgia politicians. |
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- A Peruvian nanny is facing child abuse charges after being caught on tape violently shaking her charge and slamming the baby to the ground. |
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- Montecore, tiger that attacked Siegfried & Roy's Roy Horn, released from quarantine and returned home |
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- Just prior to the FOCS conference, Avrim Blum gave a tutorial on machine learning and Dana Randall gave a tutorial on mixing. As the talks were computerized, even if you, like me, missed the conference, you can view Blum's slides here and Randall's slides here. Randall also has a companion paper that appeared in the proceedings. Eli Upfal also gave a tutorial on Performance Analysis of Dynamic Network Processes which I haven't found online yet. |
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- Argh... I stood up to do something on the Dell and now I cannot remember what I was going to do!... |
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- Economic activity was accelerating in early fall with consumer spending strong in most parts of the country and even the nation’s beleaguered manufacturing sector showing signs of life, the Federal Reserve reported Wednesday. |
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- From Space.com: A high-profile research group is proposing a mission by 2015 to test a space tugboat that could push hazardous asteroids out of the way. |
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- Overweight children appear to be especially susceptible to the lure of fast food, a study found. They stuff themselves even more ravenously than other youngsters do and are less able to compensate by eating sparingly the rest of the day. |
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- Chipmakers show off their latest innovations. The processors may be in different shapes and sizes but two themes fit all--security and low power consumption. A ZDNet News Focus. ARM grabs for security, power savings Coming soon--computer on a chip Intel crams more memory into cell phones |
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- as mentioned, fotolog.net although you are limited to 1 post per day, which in actual fact isn't that bad unless you are truly prolific |
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- Thank you for both compliments and ideas, I'll have a look and sort something out. |
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- I use Mozilla on my Linux box at home; under Windows, I actually use AvantBrowser, which gets me all the nice bits of Mozilla (tabbed browsing, popup blocking, etc) without the occasional page-not-rendering-right bits (it uses the IE rendering engine, but provides its own UI). And I paid for Opera to use on my phone, too. So I've got all bases covered :) |
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- Mozilla is the way forward, Chris. Join us... joiiinnnn ussss..... |
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- I can't get half of the Yahoo! albums to display, either - it gets as far as loading the top half of the page and then hangs without loading any images. I suspect this may be more IE's fault than anything else, but it' |
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- ... And then there's fotolog.net which is free and doesn't (I don't think) involve installing it on a server. Nice photos, btw, Castleton is very spooky indeed and the cats are fab! |
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