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- Just got back from the preview and party of Olafur Eliasson's absolutely breathtaking installation at the Tate Modern in London. The Turbine Hall is something like 450 feet long, the full length and height of the building. I can tell you that Ola |
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- Scare away everything from a mouse to a moose with our Sonic Warning device. This device emits a high pitched, loud, audible, sonic blast which is an excellent Deer Repellent and will ward off any intruder. Comes complete with one 9 volt battery. This ... |
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- New MS Security Bulletins issued today: (more) |
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- Oct. 15 - A Coast Guard official talks about the Staten Island crash Wednesday afternoon. At least 10 people are confirmed dead. (taped earlier) |
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- Oct. 15 - China launched its first manned space mission on Wednesday, four decades after the former Soviet Union and the United States. |
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- Oct. 15 - Up by three runs with five outs left in the game, the Cubs let the Marlins back in it, yielding 8 runs in the 8th. And one fan is taking the brunt of the blame. |
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- Torre makes the move. Jose Contreras comes in to start the sixth inning. I have to agree with the move. As a former starter, you would think Jose can go as many innings as needed to get to Mariano Rivera.... |
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- Oct. 15 - At least 10 people were killed and many others injured Wednesday when a Staten Island ferry crashed into its terminal in New York City. (recorded earlier) |
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- Oct. 15 - As the investigation into the Staten Island ferry crash got underway, Mayor Michael Bloomberg offered condolences to the victim's families and the injured. |
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bored (Oct 15 2003 23:24 GMT) - Last post by flamingkitties on 17:40 15/Oct/03 - help meim bored! is this what uni lifes meant to be like?! |
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- Oct. 14 - Sens. Dick Lugar, R-IN, and Joe Biden, D-De, joined Tim Russert to talk about the cost of continuing the war in Iraq. |
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- Oct. 14 - David Broder, Roger Simon, Gloria Borger, and Paul Gigot joined Tim Russert on Sunday to discuss California's recall and the presidential race. |
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- My editor tells me I€™m not offending enough of my audience, so today I€™m going to attack the left. While…... |
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- Finally got in and settled in my hotel room. It's 4am. Makes me wonder what the opposite of "getting" sleep is. |
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DIgitopia (Oct 15 2003 23:23 GMT) - Marc, Phil, Simon, Denise (who's on a roll, as usual) and others are blogging away here at Digital ID World. They've got the place set up right, with wi-fi and power strips — the two essentials. Here's the gang-blog.Justin Taylor of Novell is up front now. |
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- AKMA just walked by, pausing to share his unwillingness to attend a session without wi-fi. |
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- I have a Sony DCR-PC120 Camcorder/Camera. It has Bluetooth. My laptop has Bluetooth. My laptop sees the ID of the camera. Now what? |
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- Download Oracle8i on Linux, the leading Internet database with over 285,000 downloads in July. Start building and deploying applications on Linux using the award winning Oracle Forms Developer6i and Server. Need to provide your services over the wireless Internet, let Oracle Portal-To-Go for Linux make it easier for you. |
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- B2B with XML sample application simulates Web-based business-to-business interaction. Learn how to use Oracle8i's XML and Advanced Queuing (AQ)capabilities to exchange data and process messages via the Internet. |
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- Oracle Internet Platform includes various globalization technologies to help you build multilingual Internet applications. The technical white paper "Building Multilingual Internet Applications on Oracle8i" describes how to build global Internet application using Oracle8i and iAS. |
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- Congratulations to Denver Shuckins, our one-millionth member. OTN has experienced phenomenal growth over the past year. Welcome to all our newest members and thanks to all of you who have been with us through the years. |
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- The Dynamic News sample application delivers Web pages customized per user preferences. Java servlets use the Oracle XML-SQL Utility to pull content from the database and build personalized XML documents. |
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- Learn about the benefits of logging and analyzing user activity in a database-backed web site, and see how the developers at oracle.com built an activity tracking system based on Oracle8i. |
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- PARIS AP) - An appeals court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of a former nurse in the deaths of six patients between 1997 and 1998, and increased her original sentence from 10 years in prison to 12. The prosecutor had sought a 15- to 18-year prison term. The three lawyers defending Christine Malevre had asked the court to acquit her. |
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- Spring 2004 VON: March 29th to April 1st. Spring 2004 VON will be taking place March 29th to April 1st in Santa Clara. This is represents the shifting of the first one day of when we had thought the event would be taking place. The exhibit hall will... |
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- Oct. 15 - As the investigation into the Staten Island ferry crash got underway, Mayor Michael Bloomberg offered condolences to the victim's families and the injured. |
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Curiosità (Oct 15 2003 23:22 GMT) - Mi piacerebbe sapere da quale carrozziere va Claudio Baglioni a farsi riverniciare i capelli in quella tonalità grigio metallizzato. |
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- Web Design Practices is a site devoted to helping designers understand what design practices are currently in use on the Web—and aims to gather research about the usability of commonly-employed design practices |
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- It’s possible to use the Apache web server built right into OS X to fake a slow connection on your local machine that will provide a very realistic test environment for your Flash apps. Here’s how. |
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- I'd better link this before someone starts a rumor that libertarians are no longer obsessed with pot smoking: the Supremes have decided not to revisit a lower court ruling that the federal government can't strip doctors of their licenses for recommending medical marijuana to patients. |
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- In Life, the Universe and Everything Douglas Adams postulated the existence of Bistromath. I don't remember the details but it involved dithering over restaurant bills, working out who had what and still ending up short. Well I've just come back from Dinner with friends at Luigi Malone's. There were 11 of us (I think). We got an itemised receipt; |
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- Public Enemy rapper Chuck D is more forthright in his view. "Hip hop," he says, "is sucking the nipples of Uncle Sam harder than ever before." |
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- Rules for dealing with men/Rules for dealing with women. |
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Transit (Oct 15 2003 23:21 GMT) - It had been a long day. The grey Vancouver sky dripped a soporific rhythm on the Sky Train window. Just as I was about to nod off a fragment of conversation filtered into my foggy consciousness. "You saw how his... |
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- Oct. 15 - As the investigation into the Staten Island ferry crash got underway, Mayor Michael Bloomberg offered condolences to the victim's families and the injured. |
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- Software leader tells how products will connect PCs and the wireless world. |
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- I am not going to harp on the subject, mostly because it is preseason. However, the Magic have got to start leaving a little more on the court each night. I finally saw a few bright moments from Steven Hunter, though there were plenty of times he stood around waiting. If Hunter could put the energy into each possession that Drew Gooden does - he could be one heck of a player. Donnell Harvey. |
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- We have a 90 minute ASP.NET panel on Thursday at the PDC. Full details at: |
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- The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport reached a multimillion dollar settlement involving more than 30 claims of sexual abuse against priests, a church spokesman told The Associated Press Wednesday. Details are expected to be announced Thursday by Bishop William Lori. |
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- VCs and valuations Peripatetic VC blogger Kevin Laws has a good post on some of the problems in assigning valuations to startups over at VentureBlog. Check it out. [Due Diligence] |
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- VCs and valuations Peripatetic VC blogger Kevin Laws has a good post on some of the problems in assigning valuations to startups over at VentureBlog. Check it out. [Due Diligence] |
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- Borges: Unlike Martinez, true aces demand ball in key games |
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- The talk-show host and his wife had a baby girl on Tuesday |
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