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- Bush to Chrétien: don't worry about Iraq contracts Prime Minister Jean Chrétien said Canada won't be excluded from contracts to rebuild Iraq. F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News] 'He said Bush wished him good luck on his last day as prime minister and thanked him for Canada's military role in Afghanistan and the country's financial contribution to rebuilding Iraq. |
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- U.S. Small Business Administration Administrator Hector V. Barreto and Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao today signed a Strategic Alliance Memorandum designed to help people with disabilities pursue small business ownership and increase their employment opportunities ... |
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- Thomas Friedman beings his column today with a rather bizarre reference to The Shining that I'm afraid I don't get: Whenever I think of President... |
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- The government is to announce plans to move the principal members of the Royal Family outside London, The Eye Opener has learned. The move parallels plans by Chancellor Gordon Brown to sell off some prime buildings in central London and halve office rental costs by relocating between 20,000 and 30,000 civil servants outside the capital. Douglas Ramsbottom, a spokesman for Mr Brown, noted that there is no longer any defensible reason for civil servants to be physically located near to their political masters in the capital. "We'll give them phones and computers, and arrange video-conferencing, so they can be in touch from anywhere in the UK," he said. "And we think it's only fair to treat the Royals in the same way. |
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Plain Gravy (Dec 11 2003 19:24 GMT) - PLAIN GRAVY tofer, and tofer's involved with this clothing company. enjoy.... |
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- The teams have been announced for this weekend's AIB All-Ireland League fixtures. |
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- Waterford United have today sacked manager Jimmy McGeough. |
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- Ghanaian President John A. Kufuor has called on all nations to subscribecollectively to the Digital Solidarity Fund (DSF). |
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Duh. (Dec 11 2003 19:24 GMT) - Microsoft will end support for Windows 98 and Windows 98 Second Edition on Janua... |
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- With hyper sales of cheap, color screen phones and an infrastucture that can support content downloads, the mobile entertainment business is growing beyond ringtones, song clips, and simple games. Traditional media and entertainment companies are looking at wireless as the next big distribution channel, with 1.4 billion mobile subscribers. Studios have begun to embrace mobile phones as another potentially lucrative distribution channel for their content. While some, like Disney, have created their own mobile-entertainment divisions, the majority have licensed their brands to specialized mobile-entertainment companies with names like Mforma and Jamdat Mobile. |
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- Some friends just welcomed a little one into their lives this past Saturday. Congratulations John and Janna! |
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- Big Blue is boosting its developer outreach programs and its Java tools as an alternative to the software giant's Windows-only strategy. |
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- The Humane Society is up in arms after Vice-President Dick Cheney's Monday trip to an exclusive hunting club, in which he killed approximately 70 pen-reared pheasants, and an unspecified number of mallard ducks. The issue brings to light one of... |
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- Michael Jackson's parents say he is innocent of child abuse claims and they will adopt his children if he loses custody. |
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- Congressman Dana Rohrabacher was a Los Angeles journalist before going into a life of Republican politics, and the Daily Breeze says that at age 56 he's about to become a first-time father -- of triplets. As a lifelong surfer, he... |
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- Geoff Colvin thinks we have more in common with Paris Hilton than we want to admit.Maybe you remember Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich's famous prediction in... |
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- Cluster munitions fired by U.S. and British forces killed or wounded more than 1,000 Iraqi civilians during the invasion last spring and continue to inflict casualties among the population, a study by a leading human rights group says. |
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- A fix distributed to some Windows XP systems earlier this week is a preventative measure and not a new issue, the software giant says. |
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- Software RIP for large format printing and signmaking incl. PDF Editing and color calibration. |
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- Valdis.Kletnieks_at_vt.edu (Dec 11 2003) |
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- Valdis.Kletnieks_at_vt.edu (Dec 11 2003) |
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- Frank Knobbe (Dec 11 2003) |
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- STATE: Uh, Mr. President, we were wondering if we might have an opportunity to discuss with you your plan for... |
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- Solidaridad!! ¡¡Quién quiere matar a Fernando!! |
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- A late birthday present, these arrived yesterday. I'd have had them sooner, but H. didn't know the correct size, not least because I didn't either and had to visit a shoe shop to be measured ;)... |
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- Good conversation about outsourcing to overseas developers at Due Diligence. The distinction between low-level coding work which can be outsourced, and more architecture/design-heavy work which perhaps can't be, is important. I am starting to believe that the boundary is moving in favor of outsourcing as communications and practices improve. |
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- (SOURCE: No More Phone Bills: We Can Have OUR Telephone System Now! via Jon Husband's Wirearchy)- Cheap, fast, ubiquitious IP changes everything and is truly disruptive. |
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- I made my first steps with the wticker project about 13-14 month ago and since that time a lot of new and exciting stuff crossed my way, like RDF, Syndic8, MT, XML, XSLT, HTML, NITF, SQL, PHP, UTF8 and others . Also I jumped eventually over my neurotic relationship to times and timezones. And in addition to this, I visited aimlessly probably most dead-end roads, which lead to bad program usability. However, the most remarkable thing I stumbled over during the development of wticker, is the japanese alphabet. This was when I was debugging some "character-encoding" - problem. |
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Nomar! (Dec 11 2003 19:21 GMT) - Rich Hammond speculates on Nomar Garciaparra in Dodger blue. It seems like wishful thinking given the complete silence of the Dodgers so far this winter, but I guess you never know. |
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- Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:00:26 PST |
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- Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:00:00 PST |
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- Unorthodox Interpretation Replaces Baby Jesus with Bush Figurine [More] |
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- gurix schreibt "Alle kennen sicherlich die Situation, dass man den Telefonhörer abnimmt und es fängt fürchterlich an zu pipsen. Genau, da hat jemand die Faxnummer mit der Telefonnummer verwechselt. Was bei einem einmaligen Vorfall ein müdes Lächeln hervorruft kann bei wiederkehrendem Faxterror oft Wutanfälle hervorrufen, vorallem wenn dies um 22:30 Uhr oder 7:30 Uhr statt findet. |
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- Ermel schreibt "Heise berichtet, dass Sun das hauseigene Solaris nun auch für x86-Systeme zum kostenlosen Download anbietet. Bislang waren für Solaris/x86 20 USD "Downloadgebühr" fällig, während die SPARC-Version kostenlos zu bekommen war." |
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- Ermel schreibt "Relativ weit unten versteckt in diesem Heiseticker-Artikel liest man Erfreuliches: ab nächster Woche kann man im deutschen Festnetz sehr einfach alle Dialer blockieren lassen, weil sie laut Gesetz nur noch Nummern anrufen dürfen, die mit 09009 beginnen." |
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- Ian Bailey complained he was under siege by paparazzi after his arrest for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier and was still under siege everywhere he went. |
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- The second annual Koufax awards are on, so go and vote for your favourite lefty blogs and writing over at... |
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- American casualties reported, but unclear if any soldiers killed; GI drowns, another missing after patrol-boat accident on Tigris |
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- Teen, Muhammad planned to keep authorities guessing, psychiatrist testifies; He also says 3 to 5 students initially targeted in school shooting |
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- Ab sofort gibt es die deutschsprachige "Starter Edition" des Bilderverwalters Photoshop Album 2.0 kostenlos zum Download. Das Programm organisiert, bearbeitet und präsentiert Fotosammlungen, die jedoch nicht auf CD gebrannt werden können. |
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pReSS 0.1.1 (Dec 11 2003 19:20 GMT) - Create a RSS news feed for your site. |
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- Update: The site might go down tomorrow but it shouldn't be for long. The man came today to install broadband so it was all ready and working when I got in from work. It's so nice having fast net and... |
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- The Commonwealth of Program Witch is a tiny, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service. Its hardnosed, hardworking, intelligent population of 5 million have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often. The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 19. A robust private sector is led by the Woodchip Exports, Soda Sales, and Basket Weaving industries. |
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