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- Onomichi's views are the best. |
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- Opponents of same-sex marriage have declared this Marriage Protection Week, but a major gay-rights group is putting a different spin on the occasion - recruiting long-term gay couples to offer online relationship advice to married heterosexuals. |
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- The company introduces a security component for its database and application server products to provide single sign-on access to corporate networks and Web sites. |
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- http://whitepapers. informationweek. com/data/detail?id=1066238594_ DESCRIPTION: |
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- Charles Davis writes "from story at The Guardian. Philip Larkin has survived his brief exile from literary fashion as a middle-aged misanthrope with too pronounced a taste for pornography, to emerge unreservedly as the poetry buff's favourite poet of the past 50 years. He has triumphantly kicked his rival Ted Hughes, who was appointed poet laureate when Larkin refused the post, into second place. Hughes's wife, Sylvia Plath, came equal second with her husband. These were among the results yesterday of a poll of several thousand poetry readers held jointly by the Poetry Book Society and the Poetry Library to mark their 50th anniversaries" |
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- News Out Of Pennsylvania, where libraries have not received any funds this year, and now they may face a 50-percent funding cut. They say some local libraries demonstrated just how much that cut could affect services. There were black decorations everywhere. Half of the computers were covered, and many of the bookcases have been taped off. "Once you know how many resources you don't have to work with, then you have to look at all the things you provide and decide where to make those cuts," said Susan Hauer, with Lancaster County Libraries. |
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- Bibliofuture writes "Good article on data mining at NYT. Software is used to analyze a greater number of text than a human can read. This software can increase the value of a collection of documents. Here's The Full Story" |
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- A Little AP Piece says The former vice provost and director of libraries at the University of Pennsylvania pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges that he downloaded child pornography on his computer. Paul Mosher, 66, pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of children and unlawful use of a communication facility. He is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 21. Each charge carries a maximum seven years in prison. |
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- Finally fixed my Panther timezone problem... I have no idea why before that I cannot seem to select Singapore (SGT)... |
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- Don't forget to be especially nice to the person who torments you all year long. A card would be particularly nice if you can find one that has the correct sentiment, perhaps something along the lines of "Who the fuck do you think you are, you mean-spirited, uncouth bastard [or bitch, if your boss is female]? Don't you understand I have a family and things to do that aren't connected to your quarterly and annual plans? You would if you had a heart instead of that coal-stoked furnace in your chest!" |
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- Very interest comment from the NME on their SMS services: "More specific services attract and retain more users...so band specific news was much more popular. One thing we learned is that we need to check news/events/trends in the new arena and become more responsive to a trend." Once again, this harks back to the idea that addressing lots of small niches can be more worthwhile than paying disproportionate amounts for big-name deals. |
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- The Irish Navy has detained an Irish-registered fishing vessel for allegedly breaching regulations relating to the employment of non-EU nationals. |
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- Five men appeared in a Northern Ireland court today charged with membership of the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force, possession of equipment for carrying out acts of terrorism, and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm. |
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- A Dublin man described as "a leading light" of the Continuity IRA was today refused bail at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin. |
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- The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has hit back at critics of the benchmarking scheme for public servants, accusing them of opposing a process that will bring significant benefits to Irish society. |
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- Sinn Fein TDs Aengus O'Snodaigh and Arthur Morgan are due to visit campaigners against the bin tax in Dublin's Mountjoy Prison later today. |
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- Dean's World: Family Fun If you want kids safe from guns, you need to take them out to the gun... |
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- ABCNEWS.com reports that EU leaders have begun a two-day meeting in Brussels to focus on their draft Constitution [PDF] and sagging economy. The debate over Iraq's future is also on the agenda; a teleconference with Russian President Vladimir Putin on th |
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- Scott Kirsner of FastCompany says what a lot of people are probably feeling and what execs at Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Samsung really don't want to hear: that he doesn't need a fancy new cellphone and that he's perfectly happy with the handset he has now:Want to tick off the CEO of Nokia? Tell him how much you love your no-frills, bottom-of-the-line cell phone. Last year, when I ran into Jorma Ollila, chief executive of the world's largest cell-phone maker, I did just that. |
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- Scott Kirsner of FastCompany says what a lot of people are probably feeling and what execs at Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Samsung really don't want to hear: that he doesn't need a fancy new cellphone and that he's perfectly happy with the handset he has now:Want to tick off the CEO of Nokia? Tell him how much you love your no-frills, bottom-of-the-line cell phone. Last year, when I ran into Jorma Ollila, chief executive of the world's largest cell-phone maker, I did just that. |
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- Unfortunately, The Atlantic didn't post the article by William Langewiesche on the last flight of the shuttle Columbia. But you... |
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- The name "The Passion" already has an owner, Mel has to rename his film. Mel Gibson has been forced to re-title his new movie because another film has already claimed the title. The film, which was originally called The Passion,... |
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- CNN.com - Mahathir: Jews rule the world - Oct. 16, 2003 It's been weeks since Mahathir Mohammed said anything insane... |
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- CHEF'S offers free shipping with no minimum via coupon code "OCTSHIP". (Shipping is always free on orders of $99 or more.) CHEF'S Catalog...(more) |
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- AP: Chinese astronaut lands safely. China's first astronaut in space returned safely to Earth on Thursday when his craft touched... |
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panic over (Oct 16 2003 14:57 GMT) - I found it!!!! Behind the tv, in amongst various 'things' that I won't describe. You don't want to know, really.... |
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panic over (Oct 16 2003 14:57 GMT) - I found it!!!! Behind the tv, in amongst various 'things' that I won't describe. You don't want to know, really.... |
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Your Deal (Oct 16 2003 14:56 GMT) - The Deal, a business deal news provider, is protesting the use of The Real Deal for a real estate deal news provider, via the NY Post. |
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- Apple shares fell more than 8 percent early Thursday amid "concerns over fourth-quarter education and consumer sales and hints of less-than-inspiring gross margins ahead," CBS Marketwatch reports... |
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- Voor diegene die nu ineens gek is van die vorige illusie... O-)> |
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- Voor diegene die nu ineens gek is van die vorige illusie... O-) |
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- Public mailing lists: sushiwiki-devel |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Tech Support Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Patch Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Feature Request Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics (13 Oct 2003): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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- A grand jury lambasted the Houston Police Department's DNA lab as incompetent and mismanaged but closed out its six-month investigation Thursday without indicting anyone. |
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- Project description: SushiWiki is a WikiWikiWeb like Web application running on .NET platforms. It is written in C#, uses ASP.NET features and stores data in SQL databases or flat XML files. |
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- Project administrators: egroise |
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- Most recent daily statistics (13 Oct 2003): Ranking: 4284, Activity percentile: 69.07%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (13 Oct 2003): Download count: 12 |
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- There's nothing like receiving 512 MB of new RAM and then not being able to install it because you can't find a screwdriver small enough to unscrew the bottom of your PowerBook! My advice - buy the screwdriver before you buy the RAM. |
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- There's nothing like receiving 512 MB of new RAM and then not being able to install it because you can't find a screwdriver small enough to unscrew the bottom of your PowerBook! My advice - buy the screwdriver before you buy the RAM. |
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- newegg.com offers the Samsung 160GB EIDE UltraATA/133 7200 rpm hard drive, model no. SP1604N, for $108. With free shipping, that's $6 less than the...(more) |
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