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What's for Dinner When There's No Water (Nov 19 2003 23:59 GMT) - A rather large water main break forces us to scramble our meal plans. We gave serious consideration to going out, but bad weather and the extent of the water outage changed our minds. Instead we enjoy a simple bean chili. |
Tablet PC Talk News
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Bars, Booths, and Ballrooms at Comdex (Nov 19 2003 23:59 GMT) - "We were in Las Vegas Sunday through Tuesday and in that short time period we spent most of our time meeting people in bars, booths, and ballrooms. Our goals were simple: learn even more about Tablet PCs; future notebook, desktop, and Tablet PC hardware; and future software. |
widdershins
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Alone (Nov 19 2003 23:59 GMT) - "I cannot recite a single poem," linguist John McWhorter says, as interviewed in the New York Times. "You can take a Russian teenager and say recite some poetry, and they will give you strophes of Pushkin. We can't do it.... |
Smart Mobs
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World’s First Global ICT Ranking (Nov 19 2003 23:59 GMT) - The International Telecommunication Union(ITU) has published Digital Access Index: World’s First Global ICT Ranking.This forms part of the ITU's upcoming 2003 edition of the World Telecommunication Development Report (WTDR)to be published to coincide with the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).Michael Minges of the Market, Economics and Finance Unit at ITU said "Until now, limited infrastructure has often been regarded as the main barrier to bridging the digital divide.Our research, however, suggests that affordability and education are equally important factors. |
through the looking glass
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great tit (Nov 19 2003 23:57 GMT) - Hehe, I never could have imagined I'd find myself in here one day. But I've always wanted to write without... |
Doug's Dynamic Drivel
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Free Trade and the Democrats (Nov 19 2003 23:57 GMT) - The thing I like most about Dennis Kucinich is his hatred of NAFTA and his desire to see it gone. For the most part free trade agreements benefit no one but the multinational corporations that want to run roughshod over... |
Doug's Dynamic Drivel
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The Phoenix Rises (Nov 19 2003 23:57 GMT) - Anyone who thinks there are no parallels between the war in Iraq, the "war" on terrrorism and the Vietnam War are just fooling themselves. During the Vietnam War the US had an assassination program called Phoenix. They used it to... |
Doug's Dynamic Drivel
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Michael Jackson Arrested for Pedophilia (Nov 19 2003 23:57 GMT) - Quick everyone act really shocked. California has charged him with multiple counts of child molestation. Gee what took them so long and how many kids had to suffer since we heard years ago about his habit of sharing his bed... |
Doug's Dynamic Drivel
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Leave a message (Nov 19 2003 23:57 GMT) - Leave a message eh, I'll get back to you on the next turn of the wheel. Mourners at a chapel of rest in Belgium were shocked when a mobile phone started ringing inside the coffin. Relatives of Marc Marchal have... |
DMC Weblog
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Stripperin oder Sauberbabe? (Nov 19 2003 23:56 GMT) - Niemals, so sagte die 22-jährige R&B- Queen Beyoncé Knowles kürzlich in einem Interview, könnte sie so etwas Abstoßendes tun wie Britney Spears, die bei der Fernsehshow zu den MTV-Awards einen Zungenkuss mit Madonna getauscht hatte. Mrs. Knowles' eigene Stöhn-, Räkel-... |
KTLA5 FeedRoom
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Is Eminem Racist? (Nov 19 2003 23:54 GMT) - Nov. 19 - Rapper Eminem says lyrics where he makes disparaging remarks against African-American women are old, and stemmed from an angry break-up at the time. |
Southernly Delicious
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Work, again. (Nov 19 2003 23:54 GMT) - I am so fucking pissed off! I happen to notice the revised schedule for Thanksgiving day, that NOBOBY told me... |
The Agonist
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Republicans Back E-Vote Bill (Nov 19 2003 23:54 GMT) - Republicans Back E-Vote Bill As criticism of electronic voting systems heats up across the nation, three Republicans have signed on to support a bill that would force e-voting machines to produce a paper trail. Previously only Democrats had vowed to support the bill. Republican congressmen Tom Davis of Virginia, Christopher Shays of Connecticut and New Hampshire's Charles Bass have agreed to co-sponsor the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003, which was introduced to the House in May by Rush Holt (D-N.J.). |
No Such Weblog
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Fedora Core Notes. (Nov 19 2003 23:53 GMT) - I've been playing around quite a bit with Fedora Core recently, the successor to the non-enterprise versions of RedHat Linux -- RedHat 9.1, if you want.... |
No Such Weblog
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Time to revise the PDP? (Nov 19 2003 23:53 GMT) - It may be time to revise ICANN's shiny new policy-development process: While that process has a lot of good elements, the deadlines suggested prove to be too tight. The new registry services PDP is a particularly extreme example: In trying... |
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