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Still Waiting for the Euphoria (Oct 28 2003 19:20 GMT) - A poll among Iraqis indicates the Bush team was wrong in foreseeing a warm welcome for the occupiers. |
LA Times Commentary
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New Way to Win, or Cyber-Hype? (Oct 28 2003 19:20 GMT) - NASHUA, N.H. — Although the first caucus vote is three months away, the 2004 presidential campaign is already being hailed by some as the presidential Internet campaign. No question, the Internet has had a dramatic effect on the "invisible" primary season, the pre-voting phase of the nominating process during which political pundits, party leaders and donors decide which aspirants have what it takes to win in November. |
LA Times Commentary
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U.S. Fumbles on N. Korea, and China Grabs the Ball (Oct 28 2003 19:20 GMT) - SANTA BARBARA — "Diplomacy," Britain's arch-diplomat Harold Nicholson wrote, "is not an end but a means; not a purpose but a method. It seeks, by the use of reason, conciliation and the exchange of interests, to prevent major conflicts from arising between sovereign states." |
Marc's Voice
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Avalon, Laszlo and Royale (Oct 28 2003 19:20 GMT) - I haven't run into Jeremy yet but it'll be the third time we're at the same conference - in the past month. He's totally right on - and groks where this is all going and what's available today...... Avalon and XAML, Royale, Laszlo and MXML. |
it's getting better
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the current topic of discussion within our company (Oct 28 2003 19:20 GMT) - This article talks about their experience using outsourced development to offload some work. It's pretty much the story I expected. This concerns me because the company I work for (which will remain nameless) is currently making noises to start outsourcing work. With many unemployed friends that are good at what they do, I can't say I'm sympathetic to the idea. |
Shameless Self-Promotion
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War comes to the web (Oct 28 2003 19:19 GMT) - A couple of times in the last week or so, HostingMatters, the host to such blogs as Instapundit, LGF, and a wide variety of other blogs, was down due to a DoS attack. The attack was perpetuated by al Qaeda... |
linkfilter.net
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This Means War - Pro Dissent , Claim Space on Internet (Oct 28 2003 19:18 GMT) - TOP FEEDS Interesting site I stumbled upon with a variety of boxes from different sources. This page shows top feeds for slashdot, lawmeme, perl, labourstart, phpClasses, WebStandards, The Reigister, NewScientist, SecurityFocus, NatureScienceUpdate, BBCSciTech, Memesaremindviruses, Hackinthebox, LinuxSecurityArticles, LivingwithoutM$, Politicalwire, NewsForge, Nooface, happypenguin, greplaw, indymedia, gamersarchive, privacydigest,Geeknews, infoanarchy, kuro5hin, everything2, Webmasterworld, Hactivist, politicalwire, missingmatters, i4u, zeropaid,openflows,shellcity, netstumbler, plastic etc. |
linkfilter.net
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Does Bad News Steer the Stock Market? (Oct 28 2003 19:18 GMT) - A thought-provoking op-ed by Robert Folsom, a financial writer and editor for Elliott Wave International, a financial analysis company. He has covered politics, popular culture, economics and the financial markets for 16 years, and today writes EWI's popular Market Watch column. Investors, economists and most media types not only have it wrong about Enron and the stock market, they have the chronology backwards... |
Raible Designs ~ We Build Web Apps
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Panther vs. Jaguar ~ The results are in! (Oct 28 2003 19:18 GMT) - !According to [my performance tests|PerformanceComparisons], Panther is faster than Jaguar for most things Java related. Compiling whole projects with Ant is a few seconds faster. Opening IDEA is only 1-2 seconds faster. Opening Eclipse is actually slower. Booting is ''considerably'' faster - they've managed to trim off 1/3 of the boot up time. |
jogin.com :: weblog
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Feed Free (Oct 28 2003 19:18 GMT) - I've quit using a feed-reader, I no longer subscribe to any weblogs. Mostly, I guess, out of laziness. I got a new computer a while back and I never got around to installing FeedDemon again. As a consequence of which, I read less weblogs. That doesn't mean I don't read... |
Blog for America
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More Than 15,000 Letters Written (Oct 28 2003 19:18 GMT) - Last night Joe Trippi sent a message encouraging you to write letters that would change America. The occasion was the 216th anniversary of the Federalist papers, when Alexander Hamilton wrote to fellow citizens and began the debate on self-governance that... |
Geek Noise
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PDC - Weblogging the Future of Conversational Software (Oct 28 2003 19:18 GMT) - At 10pm, Jamie, Paolo and I headed to the Weblogging BOF being hosted by Robert McLaws. This was without a doubt the most lively BOF I've been in yet. I shouldn't have been surprised... the room was full of extroverted tech bloggers! On stage were Robert, Clemens Vasters (dasBlog), and Scott Watermasysk (. |
The Agonist
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Two CIA Contractors Killed (Oct 28 2003 19:18 GMT) - Two CIA Contractors Killed in Afghanistan, Agency Says WASHINGTON (AP) - Two contractors working for the CIA were killed in an ambush in Afghanistan, the agency said Tuesday. |
The Agonist
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Turkey Accuses The U.S. Of ineptitude (Oct 28 2003 19:18 GMT) - Turkey slams US Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul charged that the United States had been inept in handling a request for Turkish troops to be sent to neighbouring Iraq to help its forces there, Anatolia news agency reported. via Counterspin Central |
Baseball Musings
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Beane Ball (Oct 28 2003 19:17 GMT) - We have another convert. Update: The permalink is working right. Scroll down to the entry entitled, "SHHH."... |
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