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- Have you ever wanted to make a movie about your family, or have a record of all your great family stories? if you don't have the time to gather all the information and shoot the video, there are companies that will do it for you. |
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- 38 illegal immigrants who were convicted of sexual offenses were arrested in Houston. |
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- An Arizona Republican lawmaker is promoting a public protest during next week's visit of Mexican President Vicente Fox. |
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- Hundreds of millions of dollars in Social Security payments may someday be headed south of the border. |
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- The Department of Homeland Security introduced its plans to track the millions of people who enter the U.S. |
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- Senator John Kerry was asked to express his views on immigration by NPR. |
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- Connecticut’s Joe Liberman’s campaign platform on immigration “is as liberal as any in the field." |
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- Republicans in Congress are pushing a proposal that would pressure local and state police departments nationwide to arrest undocumented immigrants. |
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- On Oct. 3, an illegal-alien truck driver from Canada was caught hauling a shipment of Humvees into northern Maine. |
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- The son of a Berkeley landlord is scheduled to enter a guilty plea Friday. |
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- Congressman Tom Tancredo called Pelosi’s comments “both embarrassing and offensive." |
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- MSN is serious about search, so serious, it split MSN into two divisions, Communications and Information. The information unit will be in charge of search and e-commerce. If MSN wants to leverage its huge operating system and browser advantage, it will still need to be nimble, as nimble as Google. Microsoft can achieve a lot when it gets serious about a goal, and search dominance is Microsoft's new goal. MSN is the means to that goal. |
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- Acer Offers Free Wireless for K-12 Education Acer America Corp. has announced the "Wi-Fi 101" initiative, which will provide free wireless access points and installation to select K-12 schools nationwide. With the support of Intel Corp., Acer America will canvas and select one school in each qualified school district for Wi-Fi 101, with up to 120 schools participating nationwide for the program. Each designated school will be eligible for the installation of up to four access points in two different locations at no cost to the school or the school district. |
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- During the England Samoa Rugby Match England sent Dan Luger onto replace centre Mike Tindall, who was being treated for injury but had not left the field, and while England had 16 players Luger made a tackle before being told... |
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- TEHRAN, Iran - Iran on Tuesday rejected a U.S. demand to hand over senior al-Qaida operatives, saying the terror suspects would stand trial in Iranian courts, state-run radio reported. The United States called the rejection an indication that Iran is "supporting terrorism." |
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- PUERTO PEÑASCO, Sonora - A boat carrying five Tucsonans reported missing over the weekend was found capsized Tuesday afternoon about 100 miles southwest of this popular coastal city, family and officials said. |
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- SAN DIEGO - Wildfires roared toward mountain communities across parts of Southern California on Tuesday, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes while frustrated firefighters said there was little they could do to stop the flames. |
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- WASHINGTON - The House voted Tuesday to expand a pilot program that lets employers check immigrants' identification numbers and ensure they are not in this country illegally. |
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- Facing a surge in violence, President Bush said Tuesday the United States will change tactics and stiffen defenses in Iraq and will not be intimidated by a wave of suicide bombers intent on discouraging cooperation with the American occupation. |
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- WASHINGTON - One-third of children 6 and younger have TVs in their rooms and a similar proportion live in homes where a television is on most or all the time, a study says. |
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- WASHINGTON - Two key Republican senators want the Bush administration to explain U.S. intelligence failings in Iraq that they say are endangering American troops and contributing to the rising death toll there. |
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- Bene Diction Blogs On!'s exhaustive on-going survey of the religon weblog scene |
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- Has anyone any examples or links to how you deploy straightforward vanilla Model MBeans on Weblogic? There's lots of documentation on how you query the MBeans within Weblogic but I would like to create my own MBeans. Any info or links would be greatly appreciated. |
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- Daniel Drezner writes:These pop culture sneers do reveal a libertarian dilemma: to put it delicately, defending the right of the idle rich to inherit their wealth in its entirety is one of the knottier positions to advocate in public.There is no dilemma. The right at stake is not the right to inherit but rather the right to bequeath. |
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- Natural economic stimulus or menace? Jonathan Wilde corrects the Reuters journalist Kevin Plumberg who writes that "economists reckon the aftermath could end up lifting demand". I'm pretty sure it won't improve demand for most things homeowners wanted before their homes burned up.... |
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- This note from a Times VP came Wednesday afternoon, in response to this. |
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- Deux ans après la fusion, il est temps que la Ville de Québec réalise des projets à l'exté |
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- Hi, All Thanks for putting up with questions from a newbie. I am trying to open a 4MB OPML file in the Userland Outliner and it doesn't seem to be working. What I would like to do is edit Syndic8's comprehensive list of RSS feeds which is in OPML format. If anyone can tell me if this is doable with the Userland outliner I would appreciate it, from everything I read I thought this was the way to go. Bob |
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- Ben and Jen finally made it to City Hall, but it had nothing to do with a marriage license. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were there to visit Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who expressed his admiration for Lopez a few months ago. |
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- Actress-singer Courtney Love was charged with two felony drug counts Tuesday in a complaint that specified she illegally possessed painkillers. |
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- Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe have a new co-star in their family: a baby boy. The "Legally Blonde" actress gave birth to Deacon Phillippe in a Los Angeles area hospital on Oct. 23, her spokeswoman said Tuesday. |
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- Sonnet CXVI: Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds Let me not to the marriage of true minds... |
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- Rob Reiner and the California Teachers Association are preparing to file a ballot measure for November, 2004 that would increase commercial property taxes by 55 percent and dedicate the money -- $4.5 billion annually -- to expanded pre-school and K-12... |
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- LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) -- A bisexual musician is combating biphobia with a CD compilation featuring -- what else? -- bisexual musicians. Skott Freedman has just released the CD, "Bi The People," which includes artists like Jill Sobule, Pansy Division... |
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- Peter-Paul Koch has a new site, QuirksMode. Lotsa good stuff here for JavaScript and CSS quirks and tricks. [Backup Brain] |
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- I've put in descriptions of all the transaction attributes. I think I'll start on deployment descriptors next. I am thinking of making some revision cards that you will be to print out and carry around to help learn the rules and details required for SCBCD. I'll keep you posted on that. I've put a number next to the chapters on the side navigation of the site to give visitors an idea of how many pages are within each chapter so far. |
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- Think that anything you write on your own blog is your business? Think again. Consider Michael Hanscolm who was fired by Microshaft because he posted a picture of Apple G5 computers being delivered to the Redmond complex. Read the cautionary tale and beware of Big Brother. Kudos to anyone who can tell me where I got the title for this story |
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- Anthony Zerbe is another well known face in the movies and on TV. From Westerns like Rooster Cogburn to science fiction in Star Trek Insurrection, you're sure to have seen him more than a few times. |
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- I'm trying to decide whether I'm ready to kick the demon nicotine. Friday, Jan flies off to Edmonton for a few days and I think this might be a good time. No intention of going cold turkey, I'll chew the gum until my jaws ache. I guess I'll make the decision today or tomorrow. Stay tuned for updates. |
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- For everyone, it's International Internet Day. In Tanzania, it's Naming Day. And Liberia celebrates National Youth Day. Whatever you're celebrating, have a great one! |
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- October 29, 1889 Canada: Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC. I spent many a pleasant day there in the late 60s and early 70s. |
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- "Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care." William Safire "Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair." George Burns "I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens." Dwight D. |
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