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- Digging into Akamai's Financials. |
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- The apparel company is losing a key customer, but it's not as bad as it sounds. |
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* (Dec 11 2003 21:36 GMT) - [...as Little Annie Rooney used to say to her dog in the funnies of years ago, as they gaped at something startling.] * |
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- "Es tun alle so, als würden wir am 25. sterben", sagte gestern Freundin L. mit etwa 2 - 3 Promille, und doch nicht wankend. Alle wü |
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- A judge on Thursday scheduled closed-door competency hearings in January for the homeless couple charged with kidnapping Elizabeth Smart. After each hearing, Judge Judith Atherton will decide whether the defendants are capable of standing trial. |
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- HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced the purchase of 250,000 doses of flu vaccine today. The first shipment of 100,000 adult doses are being distributed to state health departments based on the state's population and should arrive over the weekend. ... |
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- Palestiinalaishallinnon uudistuspolitiikka on melkein pysähtynyt, arvioi Yhdysvaltain Lähi-idän-erityisl&a David Satterfield torstaina. Hä |
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- I would mail you some Kleenex but I need all mine I got the FLU Now Playing: Firewalk - Beseech |
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- GOP hopes to paint Dean as the new McGovern - "Republicans already are considering various strategies for President Bush to use against Howard Dean, the man they expect to head the Democratic presidential ticket next year. Republicans say one tactic for containing Mr. Dean's surging campaign is to connect the... Posted by abursey at 03:35 PM |
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Eye bean (Dec 11 2003 21:35 GMT) - Caffeine is cleared from the body through metabolism and excreted in the urine. Symptoms of overdose include insomnia, restlessness, tremor,... Caffeine is cleared from the body through metabolism and excreted in the urine. Symptoms of overdose include insomnia, restlessness, tremor, delirium, tachycardia, and running of the mouth. Caffeine really does a number on me. |
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- A consortium of music and software companies hopes to find ways to make money from Internet file sharing. The Content Reference Forum formed in March to develop a universal way to distribute digital content. |
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- Climate change, linked by scientists to human emissions of gases such as carbon dioxide from cars and factories, caused 150,000 deaths in 2000, the World Health Organization says, and that number is rising. |
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- im still bored and im drinking day-quil, its not as much fun since they took the alcohol out of it <dickweeds> |
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- Okay, having written that last entry a bleeding four hours after the end of the torts exam, the huge number of typos and stupid errors (whose for who's, et cetera) that I keep trying to fix... well, pretty much, I imagine that my torts exam will contain illegitimate spelling. Probably I misused apostrophes, too. Ah well. Such is life. |
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- Besides, I am a tease.... |
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- Or inconsistent, illogical hack - take you pick.... |
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- If you want to win over the hearts of jaded sports journalists, disaffected Mets fans, and your average cynical New Yorker, take a note from playbook of the new Mets shortstop Kazuo Matsui, who met NY yesterday in a press conference. The Japanese baseball superstar instantly became a son of New York by uttering in English, "Hello everyone. My name is Kazuo Matsui. I love New York." It also helps that he's ridiculously good– |
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- Wat ligt er op het nachtkastje? Nieuw op het nachtkastje dankzij Sinterklaas alias mevrouw JW "Verloren Seizoen" van John Grisham. |
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- RIAA hires guns, alcohol and smokes expert to fight piracy. Getting at the seedy underbelly of the US [The Register] |
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- IE glitch gives spoofers powerful tool. A newly discovered vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser could be a powerful new tool for scammers, allowing them to convincingly mask the real origin of Web pages used to trick targets into revealing sensitive information. [InfoWorld: Top News] |
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- Mozilla Readies Next Release. The open-source project releases a beta version of Mozilla 1.6 as it prepares for a full launch by January. The update adds greater security, particularly for enterprises, and greater integration with GNOME. [eWEEK Technology News] |
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- Evaluating opportunities: Moving data between storage tiers. Evaluator Group partner Randy Kerns discusses the best ways to use secondary storage, including intelligence-based policies and the reduction of administrative burdens. [Computerworld Networking News] |
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- Denial-of-Service Attack Knocks SCO Group Offline. The SCO Group Inc.'s Web site was slammed Wednesday by a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that made the site completely unreachable for much of the day. [eWEEK Technology News] |
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- Smart Plug May Banish Cable Clutter. A small HDMI cable can replace all the audio and video cables needed to display a high-definition image on a screen. By Eric A. Taub. [New York Times: |
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- For Hearing Aids, a Lesson From a Fly on the Wall. A fly with extraordinarily sharp hearing inspires an advance in the technology of hearing aids. By Anne Eisenberg. [New York Times: Technology] |
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- I don’t really know the logic the various browsers use to handle this but I’ve wanted to bitch about it for some time.I first noticed it on sites that have Double Click handle their advertising. But I got to note it on weblogs where people... |
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- (US) A check of court records indicated Lagrone was convicted in McLean County for misdemeanor domestic battery and possession of drug paraphernalia in 1995, and he was issued a citation in DeWitt County in July for failing to wear a seat belt. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $drugs(90%), $paraphernalia(100%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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- (US) Wendel, 41, was shot after he responded to a call about a drug dealer with a gun in Richmond's Southside. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) A check of court records indicated Lagrone was convicted in McLean County for misdemeanor domestic battery and possession of drug paraphernalia in 1995, and he was issued a citation in DeWitt County in July for failing to wear a seat belt. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $drugs(90%), $paraphernalia(100%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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- WASHINGTON - The trend toward U.S. IT and manufacturing companies outsourcing jobs to other countries has so far had little effect on the overall U.S. job market, supporters of offshore outsourcing and some economists argued Thursday, but others predicted the national debate over the issue will get hotter as more jobs move. |
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- wow it looks like some of you guys really missed menow mail me some kleenx, im out and im tired of wiping my nose on my sleeve |
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- REBloomfield writes "The Register is reporting that after nearly two years, Solaris x86 8 & 9 is once again Free (as in beer) to download for x86 users." ... |
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- intraVnews 1.0 RSS add-in for Microsoft Outlook intraVnews 1.0 RSS add-in for Microsoft Outlook intraVnews is a state of the art news aggregator that turns Microsoft Outlook into a news reader. With intraVnews you can subscribe to any of 1000's of syndicated feeds from personal weblogs (Blogs) to mainstream news sources to specialist publications. You never have to leave Outlook again to keep up with changes on the web or your intranet. |
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- Some seem to expect the Word of God to hit them like a jolt of adrenaline each time they read or study it. Although the “jolt” may hit us periodically, the benefits of the Word of God act more like vitamins. People who regularly take vitamins do so becaus |
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- I need to see a dermatologist about a funny dot of skin under my eye. My doctor tries to expedite a referral. But I have to wait two weeks for it to arrive. The number on the sheet that arrives yields a busy signal every day for a week. I call back my primary and am told that my doctor isn't authorized to make a referral to a dermatologist and I need to call my... |
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- Miles de piqueteros coparan la Capital federal |
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- grey and greased dishwater late, last thing – the whole day and nothing |
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- Revising its year-end economic forecast sharply upward, The Conference Board today projected that real GDP growth will hit 5.7% next year, making 2004 the best year economically in the last 20 years. The forecast, by Conference Board Chief Economist Gail Fosler, expects worker productivity, which set a 20-year record in the third quarter, to rise at a healthy 3. |
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