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- USA:s centralbank, Federal Reserve (Fed), beslutade på tisdagen att inte ändra på landets styrränta. Detta innebär att den ligger kvar på 1,0 procent, den lägsta nivån på 45 år. |
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- Life and Deatherage was right on the money. If you are in one frame of mind or the other on the OU / LSU game read this article on the subject. |
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- I'm writing a mail-filtering script in perl and while testing just sending all e-mail to myself. Made a typo and... |
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- Today's stupidity in the Norwegian press I normally pass over all the nonsense I read in the Norwegian press for my blogging. Today I think I'll just make a little summary of international news misrepresented in our press because Norwegian journalists are entirely clueless. Most of these stories are not of major consequence, but they are actually representative for the quality, or lack thereof. The story that really caught my attention this morning was the news in practically |
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- Today's stupidity in the Norwegian press I normally pass over all the nonsense I read in the Norwegian press for my blogging. Today I think I'll just make a little summary of international news misrepresented in our press because Norwegian journalists are entirely clueless. Most of these stories are not of major consequence, but they are actually representative for the quality, or lack thereof. The story that really caught my attention this morning was the news in practically |
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- Flu throws county for a loop "At times, clinic patients who needed to be transferred to a hospital have had to wait because beds were unavailable, Smith said. 'When you get this many people seeking care, it really overwhelms your available services,' she said." |
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- City out nearly $1 million per month over fee "After slashing hundreds of city temporary jobs and more than 50 permanent positions this summer, city programs and city workers are once more facing the budget ax. 'The easy things and the moderately difficult things have already been done,' said City Manager Alan Tandy." |
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- County expects hit from loss of license fee funds — Der Gropenfuehrer just hurt everyone in the state. |
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- Climate change laid to humans "They also predict more wildfires, abrupt changes in vegetation and continued melting of glaciers and of the great Greenland Ice Sheet, causing floods along many continental coastlines." |
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- Starbucks has "Supersecret" Plans for Commercial Hotspots Gotta love it. Starbucks will add audio interviews and videos (READ: ADVERTISEMENT) to... |
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- It will be the largest overseas deployment of Japanese troops since WWII. The Independent has this report. |
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- This Hartford Courant Article [Reg. Req.] says the U.S. publishing industry is churning out ever more books each year, an embarrassment of riches for publishers, reviewers and readers alike. |
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- "Louvre visitors are now viewing displays of 240 statuettes of modestly draped and veiled matronly or maidenly figures found in thousands of graves from the era of Alexander the Great in cemeteries round the vanished hilltop city of Tanagra, about 20km east of Thebes in Viotia." "The baked clay Tanagras are hardly more than 30 centimetres tall, about the height of a wine bottle. Some are thought to represent deities, but most realistically show figures, generally female, less often youths or children. They are above all marked by a charming grace." Russian art historian GA Beloff once described them. |
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- "The present generation of children and teenagers will turn into the most obese and infertile adults in the history of mankind, doctors warned yesterday ... one in 10 teenage girls aged 16-19 had the sexually transmitted disease, chlamydia, which can make women infertile. A quarter of 15- and 16-year-olds smoked, at least one in five 13- to 16-year-olds was overweight or obese and 11 per cent of 11- to 15-year-olds had used drugs in the previous month." |
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- Current status: Telephone service is restored, but my ISP cannot put the order in to restore my DSL circuit until |
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- Apparantly there was a pretty low moment last night for Howard Dean: "At a New York fund-raiser for front-runner Howard Dean last night, antiwar comedians came out to provide entertainment and shill for the former Vermont governor. But what should have been another boon for Dean--on the eve of Al Gore's endorsement--became a tawdry spectacle of vehement Bush-bashing and language that would make a sailor blush. This wasn't a Kerry-esque foray into profanity; this was a full-frontal attack on the administration and some of Dean's competitors for Oval Office that was beneath the Democratic Party, beneath basic common decency, and should have been beneath Dean. |
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- Take all the centerfolds of four decades worth of Playboy, split them into decades and put them together into four seperate images. What do you get? You get these pictures... |
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- Govt. tells consumers, media how to spot lures cnn.com: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a guide Tuesday to help consumers and the media spot deceptive weight-loss products. The goal is to prevent consumers from wasting their money and to... |
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- I found out what happened to Cheryl. The WABC message boards report that she was rear-ended and her SUV flipped over, so she was hanging upside down, held in by her seatbelt, when she yelled out to Curtis and Kuby... |
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- The private detective with the torturous personal life is a standard cliche of modern television and cinema. But he was also to be found sleuthing away behind the Iron Curtain. Similarly, devious intellectuals and honest sincere workers have thrived on both sides of the divide. This article compares the effects of communist censorship on popular culture with the effects of market pressures on modern popular culture, finding some striking similarities. ... |
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Heads Up! (Dec 09 2003 21:58 GMT) - A news.com story reports on a company called Motion Research and their forthcoming heads-up display product for motorcyclists. The display lets riders see critical data like road speed, engine RPM, and even gear selection, all without looking away from the road. This type of display makes it look as if the information in out there in the middle distance, to reduce strain on the eyes from refocusing. Since the speed information is apparently GPS-derived, a version for adventure riders with compass and position information is surely a possibility too. |
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- Ex-Superstar-Kandidatin Vanessa (18) hatte in einem Interview zugegeben, gekifft zu haben. Nun führte die Polizei eine Drogenrazzia im Elternhaus der Sängerin durch. Ob sie fü |
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- Ideas take hold. The semi-official WSIS Weblog at Daily Summit reports from WSIS and covers topics such as the tight security, technical difficulties and jackboots, Microsoft Bloopers, and Censorship in Iran. Here's the RDF link for your aggregators. |
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- Today's issue of Secrecy News published by the American Federation of Scientists, posts a memo from the Navy's Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General discussing the impact of the USA Patriot Act on . . . |
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- Former Deputy Attorney General Larry D. Thompson, an architect of the government's legal battle against terror defended the USA Patriot Act, telling a federal commission on Monday the law rightly . . . |
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Earthquake! (Dec 09 2003 21:57 GMT) - OK, here's something odd, people: I just lived through my first earthquake. Nothing astounding, mind you. The quake, according to the Washington Post, was centered in Virginia and was felt as far north as Maryland. At around 4: |
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- (SOURCE:Googled :: AO)- Very cool. Writing a book about the Google IPO using a blog (I assume parts of this blog will be private! |
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- (SOURCE:Googled :: AO)- Very cool. Writing a book about the Google IPO using a blog (I assume parts of this blog will be private! |
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- You want bull, try this on for size: Northern Illinois University, a team that went 10-2 and beat Alabama in... |
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- A classic "modest proposal" written up by Christopher Kenton in Business Week about a way to solve the spam problem. Kenton has been pointing out all the same things lots of people have been pointing out about why all of the various spam laws won't work - and he's been getting slammed by angry emailers for it. One assumed that he is against these laws because he has a personal assistant who screens his spam for him - which is when he had his brainstorm: to help solve both the spam problem and the job situation, everyone should hire "personal email assistants" who can manually scan their email for them. He points out that not only does this solve the basic problem, but it has a nice balancing effect. |
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- Does the word arguendo do any work? Compare the following: Assuming, arguendo, that the chicken could have financed the million dollar deal.... Assuming that the chicken could have financed the million dollar deal.... I mean, is there anything conveyed by the first statement that isn't conveyed by the second, other than a gratuitous use of Latin? |
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- A document leaked on the thesmokinggun.com, indicates that Michael Jackson was cleared in Feb of sexual abuse of the same boy he faces charges for now. It seems that about the same time as the Jackson special aired, someone at the boys school called the DCFS hotline. The memo notes... |
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- I truly believe that Janklow represents the rule, not the exception when it comes to "public servants." (I'd like to see that misnomer stricken form the English language) For years he used his office to run like a bat out of hell all over HIS state endangering the lives of... |
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- If ice ages and global warming run in natural cycles on Mars, why is it still so difficult for the tree hugging religious left to understand that these are natural cycles experienced by all ecosystems? An ice age may be ending on Red Planet Or are some of you going... |
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- We fight that battle on a regular basis, not against MSFT, won that one about 18months ago. No against J2EE or more accurately Websphere.Everytime a project comes up Websphere is chosen, as we have a... |
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- Paul Brown posted this presentation in PDF format. Although it's a slide show, it's quite readable--a good 10-minute tour of BPEL. |
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- Paul Brown posted this presentation in PDF format. Although it's a slide show, it's quite readable--a good 10-minute tour of BPEL. |
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- Paul Brown posted this presentation in PDF format. Although it's a slide show, it's quite readable--a good 10-minute tour of BPEL. |
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