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- That's what William Safire tells Democrats, in this op-ed in the NY Times. |
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- Sunday's Blade ran two stories that unintentionally marked the 10th anniversary of NAFTA. The firstis about a small Ohio village that lost about 1,200 jobs to low-wage Mexican workers. More than 1,200 hourly and salaried employees lost their jobs last December after Ottawa[base ']s largest employer abandoned the Putnam County village for lower costs in Mexico. Since then, about 1,100 former Philips factory workers have been searching for ways to replace jobs that paid $14 an hour on average, although about 140 either have retired or will within two years. Some, like Mr. |
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- New York Dolls. Now Playing: Pennywise - Waste of Time |
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- Bandai has delayed the release of Galaxy Angel Volume 1 from March 2nd until March 16th. This delay affects the regular, special and limited editions. Source: TRSI |
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- As part of the Java settlement with Sun, MS is dropping support for a number of products as of December 15 of this year (2003): The products targeted for phase-out are those that embed Microsoft's Java Virtual Machine technology. Other products on the Dec. 15 phase-out list include: Office XP Developer and Office 2000 Developer editions; |
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- The latest release of InterMute's AdSubtract tackles the lucrative sponsored links that appear along with search results on Internet search engines. |
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- A new consortium aims to fight e-mail-based efforts to hijack personal information. |
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- Broadcom Corp. is apparently about to take home wireless to new heights of speed and operability with chips that enable routers to reach 125 Mbps throughput over 802.11g. |
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- Hide and seek: The nearest galaxy to the Milky Way is found sneaking up behind us - "Galaxies come in many different shapes: some are spherical, some are sort of blobby and disorganized, and some are disk-shaped, with elegant spiral arms of young stars radiating out from their centers. We belong to this last class, the so-called... Posted by abursey at 05: |
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- I've been looking for a warm, pretty black scarf that wasn't going to cost me a fortune. I hadn't found... |
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- I was looking up some Christmas songs on the Internet this evening and had cause to look up something by the Mamas and the Papas, a fine group, I'm sure you'll all agree. What I found was, on so many levels, disturbing. And being thusly disturbed I, of course, have decided to share it with you. Don't you feel special? Anyway, this is what I found. |
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- Business News: Soap vet Whiston takes key ITV prod'n job As the increasingly one-sided merger between ITV shareholders Granada and Carlton continues, one of the key production jobs at Blighty's commercial web has gone, as expected, to the man already employed in a similar role by Granada. |
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Sol Leon (Dec 08 2003 23:29 GMT) - Obituaries: Exec VP at William Morris Obituary |
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- Obituaries: Television graphic artist Obituary |
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- House Speaker Dennis Hastert made the following remarks on the House floor today: |
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- We're trying to figure out what to get Danny's mom for Christmas. First thought was a potted flowering plant via... |
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- More Google tricksOne of the nicest hacks this year was the 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' coup on Google. [Type those words into Google and then hit "I'm feeling lucky".] Now (courtesy of my friend Andrew) comes a new one. Try tying "miserable failure" (with quotes) into Google. I think the usage in this context originally came from Dick Gephardt. |
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- An e-mail to Mark Steyn: Dear Mr. Steyn, In your article, "An Open-and-Shut Case," in the December 8 New York... |
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- The Daily Rant with Jay and Jane has a new name and a new address.... |
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- Upon leaving a supermarket and heading to your car, with your weeks groceries, you pass by a full shopping cart. Nobody else is in the parking lot and the grocery store is closing. What do you do?... |
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- Upon leaving a supermarket and heading to your car, with your weeks groceries, you pass by a full shopping cart. Nobody else is in the parking lot and the grocery store is closing. What do you do?... |
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- After a successful tour of 21 dioceses, and a final stop in New York that drew thousands to St. Patrick's Cathedral, Los Angeles's most famous religious relic is returning permanently to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels at a ceremony on December ... |
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- ...bent on sabotage or stealing data" |
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- ...sophisticated threats on the Internet, the need for personal firewalls has grown to become an absolute necessity for home users" |
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- ...ou actually hide a message within another file" |
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- ... in network and computer security" |
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- Rapidtron and Smart Card Integrators(SCI) will work together to integrate their contact and contactless technologies, software and Smart Card products, thereby increasing the value, benefits and services for their respective customers. |
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- This is a table about Cash Grain Bids in Utah |
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- This is a table about Demurrage Seen as Rail Revenue Source |
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- Suositun kuubalaisyhtyeen, Buena Vista Social Clubin, pianisti on kuollut. Ruben Gonzales menehtyi eilen Havannassa 84-vuotiaana sairauksien uuvuttamana. |
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- The King could be your cabbie under the city's new taxi driver dress code. The City Council voted Monday to approve legislation that would allow drivers to sport rhinestone capes, blue suede shoes or whatever other appropriate costume they wish. |
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- I'm doing some training on Microsoft's SQL Server Reporting Services and it looks like it's going to kick Crystal Reports square in the Jimmie's. How many people have you worked have encountered this scenario: Project Manager: “ |
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- This blog entry discusses making an application look more like standard applications on a platform - like Windows or Mac - where that matters. While the discussion is on Swing and Java, it's relevant to VisualWorks developers as well. |
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- There's a lot new product hitting the shelves lately, according to our readers. Alex Miller has found the intial assortment of the Saga Ultra line in a Toys R Us in Somerville, NJ. Stephen Hayford scored the Hoth wave (and guest) this past weekend at a Wal-Mart in North Fort Meyers, Florida. And Keith Smith found the third wave of the Clone Wars figures at Wal-Mart in Mattson, including both packaging variations of the Clone Trooper. Other reports indicate the Outlander wave has been showing up the past few weeks, including the corrected version of Elan Sleazebaggano, and the Boba Fett assortment of the Unleashed line as well. |
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