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- Here's a prediction: Within the next two weeks, the European Union will begin describing the Bush Administration's decision to exclude Canada, Germany, France, Russia, China et al... |
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Tribute. (Dec 12 2003 01:57 GMT) - TalkLeft reports that Illinois favorite son and two-term U... |
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- Via r0d, this short, cool, geeky and scary comic strip set in a phone box that's been, apparently randomly, encased in concrete with our hero trapped inside. Phone boxes (or phone booths, to you Americans) make quite a rich seam... |
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- Forty two may be a choice number for many things, but the amount of hours spent in labour is not one of them. Still, well done, Cait! (Though I imagine you won't be awake to read this till next week.)... |
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Wowie (Dec 12 2003 01:57 GMT) - 2004 Will Be the U.S.'S Best Year Economically in Last 20 Years, The Conference Board Reports in a Revised ForecastRevising its year-end economic forecast sharply upward, The Conference Board today projected that real GDP growth will hit 5.7% next year,... |
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- Excepting Calgary (and that was on business, so it hardly counts), I haven't left Greater Vancouver for nine months. While this was a refreshing change of pace from our one-trip-a-month routine in Europe, I'm pleased that it's coming to an... |
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- Today was a very long day. The oldest stayed late at school, was a planned thing for help but he... |
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- At the end of October, Microsoft held the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. With the largest number of attendees of any previous PDC, we presented details regarding many upcoming developer-oriented technologies, including "Whidbey" (the codename for the next version of Visual Studio), "Yukon" (the codename for the next version of SQL Server), as well as the much anticipated "Longhorn" (the codename for the next version of Windows). Fortunately, we had our camera crew down there as well, and were able to film a special episode of the .NET Show during the event. |
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- Management Accessibility means ensuring that the management of your company is accessible via your web presence. Too many companies try to shield management from customers with PR departments and other non-communication methods. Some companies may provide a short bio of the company executives, but they provide no way to contact them. Customers want to be able to communicate with the principals of the companies that they do business with. Companies that embrace communication with customers are more successful in maintaining loyal customers and better reputations. |
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- Right now -- a search is on for a man who *exposed* himself to some children near their school in the inland empire. |
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- A tenant in a rundown apartment house was charged with murder Thursday after a third body was discovered buried beneath a layer of freshly poured concrete in the building, police said. |
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- A state lawmaker today unveiled a plan to name part of the Golden State (5) Freeway in honor of slain Burbank police Officer Matthew Pavelka. |
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- The Santa Ana Unified School District is raffling off a free color TV to students who ignore an economic boycott by Hispanics and instead show up for class tomorrow. |
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- "American Idol" host and DJ Ryan Seacrest will replace radio icon Casey Kasem as host of the weekly pop countdown show, "American Top 40." |
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- The first treatment to show any promise against the deadly Ebola virus has cured one-third of the monkeys it was tested on - raising hopes that a lifesaving therapy for people may be on the horizon. |
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- You have a child. You name him in honor of the greatest living writer in the world, one of the few authors that both you and your spouse agree is great. Of course, now that you have said child, you no longer have time to read books. At least there are book reviews. Má |
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- Among the local journalists in Boston last weekend talking about narrative non-fiction were the LAT's Pulitzer winner (for Enrique's Journey) Sonia Nazario, her editor Rick Meyer, the NYT's Charlie LeDuff, UC Irvine's Barry Siegel and USC's Victor Merina. Reports from... |
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- What goes around comes around. You give, you get, and it's always been so. Pat Marino of Williamsburg called earlier this week to invite me to breakfast. He had bought two tickets for a church sportsman's breakfast and his wife couldn't go. "I'll buy you breakfast," he said. |
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- Facts about the National Air and Space Museum's new Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: LOCATION: Next to Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va., 28 miles west of the National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall. |
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- After I wrote the entry yesterday about how Narcissists hijack the holidays, including many of the things I suffered while... |
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- After I wrote the entry yesterday about how Narcissists hijack the holidays, including many of the things I suffered while... |
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- While taking a gander at CNN I noted the following blurb on Alex Ross. The link features Chip Kidd's new book on Ross' art called "Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross". (DC Comics is a unit of Time Warner, as is CNN; Pantheon Books, the publisher of "Mythology," is part of the Bertelsmann publishing empire). |
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- Prepare to have your door blown in Bradley A. Buckles, the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), is to take over the Anti-Piracy Unit of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). With RIAA already having the same reputation the ATF got after the Waco massacre, it can only go further downhill from here. |
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T610 update (Dec 12 2003 01:51 GMT) - I finally did end up making a decision about a new cell phone, and I ended up getting the Sony... |
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- neither the U.S. nor New Zealand run a fueling station in antarctica... |
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- ITBusiness.ca Dec 11 2003 8:21PM ET... |
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- ITBusiness.ca Dec 11 2003 8:21PM ET... |
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- SiliconValley.com Dec 11 2003 8:22PM ET... |
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- John Travolta lost his movie-star cool while admiring the aviation marvels at the National Air and Space Museum's new second home. He was one of 2,000 people at the dedication Thursday of the huge hangar, which exhibits such treasures as Amelia Earhart's flight suit and the Enterprise space shuttle. |
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- GoodGuys.com - Current Promotional Links. Exclusive Offer! Save 15% OFF on select items. |
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- La version 1.6beta de Mozilla vient de sortir. Au menu des nouveautés: - Authentification NTLM sur toutes les plateformes - Quelques bugs de sécurité résolus - Intégration de ChatZilla version 0.9. |
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- Dans un article daté d'aujourd'hui sur le site The Inquirer on découvre que la firme de Minneapolis SILICORE vient de choisir de placer son microcontroleur SLC1657 sous licence LGPL. Ce chip (RISC 8 bits) est conçu pour les senseurs, les appareils médicaux et l'électronique de grande consommation ( |
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- Speaking of Kid Rock... though, for his lifetime achievement, I'll exclude him from this just to make it fair. "From... |
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- Our goal with Talk The Line is to create an online community where the readers are also the writers. We were looking for easy to use CMS systems and we loved Xoops' flexibility.We encourage our readers to submit any systems, picks, money management ideas, et cetera, that they think might be of interest. Our goal isn' |
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- I have been writing to many entries that I delete. I start out with strong convictions, then I start to think about my potential audience and pare them back. While my readership is small, my personal views could seem in conflict with my neighborhoods views. Enough of that. I shouldn't delete what I think. |
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