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- COMMONWEALTH secretary-general Mr Don McKinnon faces an uphill task toexplain the basis for extending Zimbabwe's suspension at this week'sCommonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Abuja, Nigeria. |
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- PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday swore in four newly-appointed provincialgovernors and four others he re-appointed to start their two-year terms ofoffice. |
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- WEST INDIES captain Brian Lara has revealed that members of his teamvowed not to lose against Zimbabwe in both the two-match Zimbabwe Sun Testseries and the five-match Nissan One-Day International series in the tourwhich ended on Sunday. |
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- FOREIGN currency flows have remained in the red margin with both inflowsand outflows averaging around the US$200 000 to US$500 000 daily while themarket position still remains largely in the negative. |
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- THE Minister of State for Information and Publicity in the Office of thePresident, Jonathan Moyo, has challenged the nation to rise abovespeculation and concentrate on matters that will help develop thecountry. |
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- TOMMY Ganda Sithole, the first black president of the Zimbabwe OlympicCommittee, has resigned. |
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- THE Premier Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) says the $105 billion itwas allocated in the 2004 national budget proposals will go a long way inimproving services to its nearly one million members. |
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- THE 2003 Premiership season has come and gone with Amazulu being crownedleague champions after six years of trying while Chapungu's 10-year romancewith the top league finally came to an end. |
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- THE Zimbabwe Farmers Union (ZFU) said yesterday land preparation,planting and input procurement for the just-begun farming season is in fullswing although shortages of draught power and inputs are a major cause ofconcern. |
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- THE four-day Southern African Theatre Initiative administrators'workshop ended last week with organisers urging local practitioners totransform the industry into a viable and vibrant business. |
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- The Agricultural Development Authority (ARDA) has, in a major financialand operational turnaround, managed to reverse its fortunes and is nowoperating profitably following a massive financial injection by theMetropolitan Bank of Zimbabwe. |
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- ZANU-PF yesterday reclaimed the Kadoma Central seat after its candidateCde Ishmael Mutema polled 9 282 votes against his rival Charles Mupandawanaof MDC who garnered 6 038 votes. |
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- I can do without the good old days when we kept matters of incest and rape to ourselves. Rofayda Qaoud deserved shelter and understanding. If she couldn't find it within her family and her circle of friends, why couldn't she go outside of that box for it? |
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- Krugman on electronic voting. NYT columnist Paul Krugman has discovered the electronic voting scandal. He expresses surprise that it's been treated as a technology story thus far, instead of as an important political one. [Ceejbot] |
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- A Gentler Type of Colonoscopy Proves Effective. A new study finds that virtual colonoscopy, a method that uses a C.T. scanner for colon cancer screening, can be just as effective as traditional colonoscopy. By Gina Kolata. |
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- Gun-toting, drunk Moncton employee grieves firing: The City of Moncton thinks that showing up drunk at work toting a loaded, sawed-off shotgun in search of the boss is a firing offence. The city's union disagrees. [...] The 44-year-old arrived at the Moncton Public Works Operation Centre on April 10 extremely intoxicated and carrying a sawed-off shotgun and a handgun. |
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Timeline (Dec 02 2003 23:19 GMT) - Brian Tyler |
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Sylvia (Dec 02 2003 23:19 GMT) - Gabriel Yared |
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21 Grams (Dec 02 2003 23:19 GMT) - Gustavo Santaolalla |
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- A must watch. Includes: Sinistar, Pacman, dig dug, Phoenix, Ghouls and ghosts, Asteroids and many more. |
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- A must watch. Includes: Sinistar, Pacman, dig dug, Phoenix, Ghouls and ghosts, Asteroids and many more. |
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- I've now completed a full six months of blogging so i think its time I had a little look at how the blogs come along, and some of the things i've blogged about. Not bad. In my first month I... |
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- The following is a small sample of inspirational reading from Joan Borysenko's Newsletter - I have been waiting for her... |
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- in mir muss sich erstmal camino und den ganzen anderen quatsch downlöden jetzt. pantherpanther LMS. |
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- Went to Bubba's Beach Redneck Jock Football Bar last night to see Integrity play. Mixed emotions about this show. It was freeeezeezing outside. But we ended up standing outside with Kyle for a while, cause he didn't have enough money... |
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- This is cool: Toysight Games. Toysight is a set of fun games and toys to play using your iSight or similar firewire camera created by Strange Flavour, the authors of the award winning 'Airburst' Using a system of object and motion detection to track your position, Toysight allows you to control buttons, sliders and perform gestures on the screen, putting you right in the gameplay, and also giving you a bit of a workout. [Backup Brain] |
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Cycles (Dec 02 2003 23:17 GMT) - I was thinking the other day that it was totally arbitrary that the Lord Of The Rings was published as... |
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Cycles (Dec 02 2003 23:17 GMT) - I was thinking the other day that it was totally arbitrary that the Lord Of The Rings was published as... |
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- I was reading David Anderson's Working Smarter Not Harder and thought about managers. David's right, a ew small improvements can dramatically increase a team's productivity and therefore lower the cost of development. But I contend that most of the productivity costs in software is the way we mismanage software projects. If managers worked smarter, they would: |
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- Thanks to Stowe Boyd's blog that points to an interesting article by Valdis Krebs on quantifying the number of results that show up when you Google someone's name. OK, OK, I know you can’t wait. Go to www.google.com and enter your name within double quotes. |
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- There are numerous acrimonious situations at startups thanks to later rounds of financing which have given those investors complete control over companies, and instead of ensuring that they think of the company first rather than their limited partners, those VCs are now coming in conflict with earlier investors and founders according to this Wall Street Journal story (subscription required): Indeed, at a time when many in the industry say the worst is behind them, the VentureOne study shows... |
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Googlog (Dec 02 2003 23:17 GMT) - A parody of Google's founders' Brin and Page's blog...or what their blog (if they had one) might look like!:)Â Thanks to a jill/txt post. An example entry: November 8, 2003 Free Food!!! |
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- With the start of the hectic social season, I couldn't help be amused by Mark Twain's observations of the San Francisco scene according to Leah Garchik in the San Francisco Chronicle. Of course, we must remember that this was before the excessive use of plastic surgery by socialites. Hmm, doesn't sound like it, does it?!:) At the start of the winter 1865 holiday season, after attending a number of balls, Twain reported that four out of five ladies were pretty, including Mrs. L. |
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- Seems like we weren't the only ones who went out and bought a digital camera according to this Wall Street Journal story (subsccription required). We bought this incredibly slim, lightweight but 4.0 megapixel Pentax Optio S4 with a 3x optical zoom (equivalent of 35-105 mm), and 15 fps movie with audio feature -- it is so very sweet! And it doubles as a wireless PDA and phone, too. OK, I was kidding. |
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- The company that created new first-day price records when it went public in 1998 is seeing a rebirth according to this Wall Street Journal story (subscription required): Michael Egan, who became rich founding Alamo Rent-a-Car, has a big idea for his next venture. It's an Internet company. It's called theglobe.com. |
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- What happened to the Silicon Valley mantra that execution is more important than patents? The back-and-forth on patents for social networking makes you think otherwise. First Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams bragged they had over a dozen patent applications underway, then Friendster competitors (and early investors), LinkedIn and Tribe.net swooped in and acquired a patent supposed to be the basis of many of the current social networking sites in a story first broken by CNET News.com. |
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- The three national security agencies -- the Justice Department, FBI and Department of Homeland Security -- have conditionally signed off on News Corp.'s purchase of a controlling interest in DirecTV, owned by Hughes, according to this Wall Street Journal story (subscription required). To satisfy national-security concerns, Hughes, a unit of |
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- From a couple of days back, a Fortune story on Google facing some tough growing problems: Those close to Google say that the company has begun to more closely resemble a madhouse than any kind of serene dot-com dream. It's a tough place to work, and a tough place to do business with.....Aversion to bureaucracy is turning out to be better in theory than in practice. People who work at or do business with Google worry that the company has outgrown that style. |
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- At blogforum I slammed the print media repeatedly. I think that at least the danish print media deserve a good spanking for not being responsive to the developments taking place right under their noses (if print media have noses). So it is good news to see that New York Post at least realizes that things are happening. Maybe the developments in the US will wake up the danish slumber party. social networking ala New York Post... |
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- Der etwas andere Adventskalender von tagesschau.de: Zuschauer sprechen die tagesschau. (via tagesschau mobil) Ab dem 24. kann dann der persönliche Favorit gewählt werden. |
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