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new tower (Nov 25 2003 04:59 GMT) - When I came into work today I did my daily check on the health of the six production tuxedo servers.... |
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- Iraqi Security Forces Torn Between Loyalties The U.S. administration in Iraq has high hopes for the Civil Defense Corps and other forces it is aggressively training, projecting them as an eventual alternative to the 130,000 American troops in Iraq. Some members have performed with remarkable bravery, and dozens have died in the recent wave of car bombings across Iraq. But Yusuf and the other men with the unit in Baiji -- a scared, disheartened and confused lot -- embody the challenge facing Iraqi forces as a new institution in a country still taking shape. |
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- My birthday is next Saturday, December the sixth. I'll still be thirtysumthin. I'm thinking that next week, I might give myself a little early birthday present. I might go downstate to visit some friends, towards the lowcountry...Savannah way. |
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- This, ladies and gentlemen, is a mofockain blog entry! And also why we love Anna, Proprietress of the Purge, so very, very much. Sigh. That was wonderful. I was going blogroll bottom up, so I actually saw this link first... |
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- Northern Sky : Holmes Gap Road, Tennessee, USA : 22 November 2003 |
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- Detailed engineering description of TPS - There are a lot of books about the Toyota Production System, but this is one of the most useful for those actually attempting to implement elements of this system. Most of the books on TPS by western authers ... |
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- Fa maa min kum min ahadin an hu hajizin And not a single one of you could prevent it The following is an excerpt of commentary on this ayah, from Tafsir Ibn Kathir: No one would be able to come between Allah and him if He wanted to do any of this to him |
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- I want to go to bed, but the news just keeps on breaking.... Macworld UK reported that Apple Computer has acknowledged that some "new-generation" iPods are experiencing problems with the power level reported by the battery status indicator. They did... |
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- Menschenrechtsorganisationen und das Flüchtlingswerk der Vereinten Nationen (UNHCR) warnen vor einer Verschlechterung der Situation von Flüchtlingen durch die geplante EU-Richtlinie für Asylverfahren. ?Die nationalen Regierungen scheinen einen Wettkampf auszutragen, wie weit man die Standards für den Flüchtlingsschutz verringern kann?, sagt Dick Oosting, EU-Beauftragter von Amnesty International. ? |
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- Boeing Dismisses 2 in Hiring of Official Who Left Pentagon The Boeing Company dismissed its chief financial officer and another executive yesterday for what it called ethical misconduct in the hiring of the executive, a former Pentagon official who was involved in contract negotiations with the company. |
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- :fool: general announcement to anybody and everybody - i'm wanting to practice my tarot reading skills, and i'd be happy... |
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- Australia's Anglican Church is on the verge of a split, with the Archbishop of Sydney, the extraordinarily bigoted Peter Jensen, more than a little miffed over the church's position on the ordination of practicing homosexuals, in particular the Bishop of New Hampshire, Gene Robinson. The good Reverend has decreed that there is every chance he will behave like a spoilt brat and cut ties with the Archbishop of Canterbury and instead ally his group of god-botherers with the equally silly Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria. I'm still wondering at the logic of a group, whose flock is rapidly dwindling, alienating people who want to join. But then it's not like churches have ever been big on giving a toss about their members when it gets in the way of their lust for power and money. Religious Turf Wars - Sunday, 23rd November 2003. |
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- It's hard to believe that it's been a year since last Thanksgiving. Last year at this time, I was getting myself all ready to take a flight to Robyn and Todd's for Robyn's 30th birthday. This year, I'll be staying homebound and heading over to Mac's for dinner, which should be fun. The plus side is that I'll be able to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Last year, I had to watch football. |
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- That's short for the Army of the Republic of Vietnam -- the pathetic excuse for a military force fielded by the pathetic excuse for a government of South Vietnam. The butt of any number of nasty jokes during the Vietnam... |
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- The latest version of XPostFacto has initial support for booting Panther on older Macs: XPF now includes limited support for Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) on the 7300 - 9600 (and friends), as well as the Wallstreet Powerbooks and Beige G3 (with some limitations related to video). The original Powerbook G3 (Kanga) is not yet supported, but I will be working on it. |
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- Die niedersächsische CDU/FDP-Regierung will die Erkundung des Salzstocks Gorleben als mögliches Endlager für Atommüll ?schleunigst? wieder aufnehmen. Das hat der Umweltstaatssekretär Christian Eberl (FDP) angekündigt. |
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- Hoo Fa!Mike, I LOVE the new site design. It "feels" (very subjective, I know) very clean, crisp, and professional. As far as bandwidth goes, it loads much faster for me than the current site. The new... |
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- Thumma la qata'na min hu al-watin Then We should cut his artery The following is an excerpt of commentary on this ayah, from Tafsir Ibn Kathir: Ibn `Abbas said, "It (Al-Watin) refers to the artery of the heart, and it is the vein that is attached to the heart". This has also been said by Ikrimah, Sa'id bin Jubayr, Al-Hakim, Qatadah, Ad-Dahhak, Muslim Al-Batin and Abu Sakhr Humayd bin Ziyad |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - "Computer Associates recently ran a customer survey in Australia and New Zealand that showed 25 percent of respondents currently have Linux deployed in production and an additional 45 percent are considering it..."... |
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- In the non-pissing-me-off category, I picked up a copy of The Doctors’ Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story... |
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- …that pisses me off: Insurance. I promise that the whole “pisses me off thing” |
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- Großbritanniens erster Windpark auf See hat den Betrieb aufgenommen. Premierminister Tony Blair und Umweltgruppen feierten die Eröffnung als wichtigen Schritt in Richtung einer Stromversorgung mit Erneuerbaren Energien. |
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- Kleinen Kindern sollte man Wurzeln geben, Großen gebe man Flügel. —Swantje Odenburg... |
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- Northern Sky : Holmes Gap Road, Tennessee, USA : 22 November 2003 |
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- I read an article today about a normal, innocent geek desiring to torture and kill spammers, and to my dismay, it appears that he is going to be fined and potentially go to jail. That is so not fair! Since I can't actually say in public what I think about spammers, here is my top ten list of what I would do to spammers if I had to think of funny things to do to spammers: 10. Make them explain to their own mothers why they send explicit under-age / man-boy / horse+woman / dog+woman / an*l / inc*st porn*graphy to every known email address in the world, even though many of those email addresses are owned by people like their own mothers. |
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- Die größte Gewerkschaft Norwegens hat ihre 300.000 Mitglieder dazu aufgerufen, wegen unzumutbarer Arbeitsbedingungen für die Beschäftigten die irische Billig-Airline Ryanair zu boykottieren. Ein Sprecher der Gewerkschaft sagte, der Boykottaufruf geschehe aus Solidarität mit den Angestellten, die die Zeche für die niedrigen Flugpreise zu zahlen hätten. Ryanair und andere Billig-Fluglinien werden ... |
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- One of the great things about open source is the heated discussions, not to mention the creative use of english. I often find people who use english as a second or third language much more expressive than native speakers. Here is a little snippet from an interesting thread I bumped into while researching a new mysterious PHP error message, "Session object destruction failed". |
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- The one in which 2 American soldiers were dragged from a car, their throats slashed a bunch of crazed Iragi's smashed their heads with bricks? Or that nothing of the sort happened at all? Apparently papers across the US were frothing at the mouth over the inhumane treatment of the liberating forces. |
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Carlist (Nov 25 2003 04:52 GMT) - What the heck is a Carlist? I've seen this expression before and I think I even looked it up once about a decade ago. It's gone now. Hopefully it won't be as difficult to track down as Jacobist. The man who systematized their fears and resentments into the political ideology which we know as Basque nationalism was one Sabino de Arani Goiri. |
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- Sigh, this is taken from the evc4 readme, so much for MSFT's security focus. Users need administrative privileges to use or install eMbedded Visual C++. Attempting to use eMbedded Visual C++ without administrative privileges results in errors. |
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- Über Teile des australischen Great Barrier Reefs, des größten Korallenriffs der Welt, hat sich ein mysteriöser Algenteppich gelegt. Nach Angaben von Wissenschaftlern setzt sich die als ?goldene Nudel? bezeichnete Alge, deren Ursprung unbekannt ist, auf lebenden wie toten Korallen fest. Sie zeigten sich besorgt über ihre Ausbreitung die Folgen für ... |
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- Evening Sky : Holmes Gap Road, Tennessee, USA : 22 November 2003 |
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- Code samples in reStructuredText documents are normally shown as plain literal blocks. This recipe uses the SilverCity ( http://silvercity. sourceforge. net/ ) lexing package to generate syntax highlighted code blocks instead. |
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- Vanesa Bauza | HAVANA · With dark storm clouds gathering above and twilight fast approaching, hordes of hitchhikers waiting for a ride home know their time is running out. If no cars or trucks come by soon, they'll be spending the night on concrete benches in an open, palm-thatched rest stop and using their bags and bundles as makeshift pillows. "I have almost no hope of getting out of here today," said Iliana Cabrera, 34, who was headed 500 miles east to her home in... |
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- BY TRACEY EATON | Dallas Morning News HAVANA - It was Cuba's $1 billion gamble -- to train an army of scientists, develop a sprawling biotech industry and tackle every affliction from cancer to AIDS. The bet paid off, Cuban officials say. Since 1990, Cuban scientists have developed dozens of new treatments and drugs, including the world's only vaccine against meningitis B. And its products and technologies are available in at least 40 countries, including Mexico, Iran, India... |
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- By TRACEY EATON / The Dallas Morning News Police crackdown takes country off top list of sex tourist destinations HAVANA – Cuba is no longer one of the world's top destinations for sex tourism after five years of relentless police crackdowns, travel experts say. But another trend has emerged: More travelers are using the Internet to find prostitutes in Cuba. And rights advocates say that computer-assisted sex tourism is troubling because it makes it easier for men... |
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- Pam McLoughlin | New Haven Register It's been 40 years since Maria Gelabert was a 7-year-old girl forced to work in the fields of rural Cuba, but tears still come easily when she talks about the lunch she and the other children were fed: sugar, water and two crackers. Since then, she’s fulfilled the American dream — opening a successful hair salon and buying a house in Orange. |
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