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- The former Australian captain believes that India's campaign Down Under will only get tougher after the victory in Adelaide. |
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- The Muslim-dominated Malappuram district has seen a village renamed as Saddam Beach. |
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- Leading IT services provider Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp plans to build three more fully-owned technocomplexes covering over 600,000 sq feet area for its 6,500 employees |
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- Inclement weather has delayed several of the ongoing renovations at the township's two schools, but officials said they are optimistic the upgrades will be done before the 2004-05 school year. |
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- Firefighters in a Chicago suburb were told to take down the Christmas decorations inside their firehouse because some residents complained... |
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- rteeter writes "On a day when a magnitude 6.5 quake hit California comes word that Earthquake Engineering Abstracts, which had been a free database at UC Berkeley, will soon become a fee-based database at Cambridge Scientific Abstracts." |
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- Getting open source into public libraries is an article by Bob Kerr over a NewsForge. He's written a nice How-To Guide as well. He's been spending the last six months working to get the first open source or free software CDs available in libraries as lending CDs. He has now succeeded; 415 public libraries out of a possible 507 have accepted them in Scotland. |
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- Bibliofuture writes "After seeing a cataloging textbook selling for $82 I wrote up a small piece discussing the idea of an open source library science textbook. I would be interested in comments from library school students and other librarians. Full Story" |
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- Technology analyst Bill Thompson wonders why he cannot stay away from Google, even though he has his doubts about it, in This BBC Piece. He says google is now the equivalent of programmes on ITV, there solely to attract eyeballs for advertisers. "Perhaps it is simply that Google has become the Coke of the web. Sweet, available everywhere, and the first choice of the consumer. The fine wines and elegant cordials are still available, of course, but Coke outsells them all, just as Google outranks other, more refined, search tools. |
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- The Contra Costa Times Asks - Are you tough enough to be a Santa Cruz librarian? Think twice before you answer. For the last six years, 76 worker compensation claims in the city-county library system amount to about $460,000 in medical bills, lost work time and other costs. There were 17 claims last year alone. "The library's unique because they're lifting books -- picking up and moving things, over and over again," said Dee Schabot, principal analyst in the City of Santa Cruz human relations department. |
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- JOHN AIELLO writes "I have recently launched an on-line magazine (THE ELECTRIC REVIEW-- www.electricrev.net) which is an electronic broadside dedicated to the review of new books and records. It is expanding by the month, with traffic averaging between 1,500 and 2,000 hits per day for new issues. The magazine reviews both general titles in myriad genres, as well as reference books in the law and medicine fields. |
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- Bad News Out Of Kolkata where : Language titles have taken a backseat in the country's largest book repository — the National Library. Research fellows here have little access to valuable documents and books in various Indian languages. The backlog has piled to a whopping 2,86,392 Indian titles including government documents in English. Although officials keep on whining about dearth of competent librarians, some of them don't even do their minimum job. |
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- Elisabeth McKechnie writes "The City of Galt California recently took the book Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey off the required reading for the local middle school and made parental permission a requirement to borrow it from the school library. Shortly thereafter, the Sacramento Bee FEATURED the book and a review on its Teen Page, letting us all know what all the hoo-haw was about. i.e. |
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- Spears Reigns Again on Internet. Lycos, America Online and Yahoo! all have their top ten of '03 lists out. Google Zeitgeist wasn't mentioned in the Hollywood Reporter Article, but it's always worth a look. |
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- Good News for libraries in Seychelles, December 15 will be recognised as Seychelles National Library Day. |
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- A neat Little Piece from Saskatoon Sun on why libraries are so under appreciated. "The big thing is that they are always there when I need them. When I need information, reading and viewing material, the library is there." |
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- Where history is packed into small envelopes is a Richmond Times-Dispatch article by John D. Clarke, a librarian/researcher for the Times-Dispatch. He writes abour clipping files of the Times-Dispatch comparing them to geology: "Geologists can learn about the history of a location by drilling a core sample of the ground and studying the layers." |
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- Bob Cox spotted This Toronto Star Article that asks is literature incapable of inspiring moronic acts of mayhem? They say people are influenced by what they see and read, and authors have little control over how people will react to the ideas in their books, so when will we start seeing the lawsuits? "Many of the controversial novels of the last century were publicly condemned because it was believed they would lead to a decay in public morals. These criticisms were often patronizing ("Won't somebody please think of the children?"), expressing the belief that less educated members of society were likely to imitate anything and everything they read. |
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- Now That's A Hobby! Karen Cornell, a librarian at Pellissippi State Technical Community College, estimates there could be "a couple of thousand" Santa faces, figures, teapots, candlesticks, ornaments and more in her collection. She takes a week off in November to set out all the Kris Kringles gathered over 20 years. Most Santas are stored after the holiday, but hundreds stay out year-round. Many are faces and small figures hanging from push pins on two sides of the Cornell home's front hall. |
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- Das Recklinghausener CDU Mitglied Hans Knoblauch unterlag vor Gericht. Knoblauch war nach der Hohmann-Affäre in die Schlagzeilen geraten, weil er die Rede Hohmanns mit den Worten 'Man darf in Deutschland nicht mehr di ...mehr... |
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- Names too close - unlike Lindows/ Windows... |
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- Two of my development aims for 2004 are to improve my time management and skills in creating robust processes. Can anybody recommend any good business books on these subjects? Regards. |
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- Two of my development aims for 2004 are to improve my time management and skills in creating robust processes. Can anybody recommend any good business books on these subjects? Regards. |
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- Today's distributions: Devil-Linux 1.0.3 and Puppy Linux 0.7. |
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- Today's general app: Nvidia IA-32 Drivers 1.0-5328... |
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- Today's GNOME apps: Translator for GNOME 0.1.0, Rhythmbox 0.6. |
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- Today's KDE apps: Opale 0.5 and Konserve v0.9. |
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- An 18-year-old man pleaded guilty yesterday to killing a 16-year-old girl inside a sport utility vehicle parked at a shopping center in Willingboro. |
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- A children’s hospital in Scotland prevented the distribution of a charity Christmas CD because one of the songs mentioned baby... |
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- I'm currently working on a personnal project (an ASP.NET application/website) which will certainly have a lot of success (well, I'm 100% sure of that). For me, lot of success rhymes with "risks of overloading", "need for a good architectural design in order to handle load and scalability", and "wow, will I be able to handle that ?". |
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- About 150 Northern Burlington County Regional High School students staged a sit-in yesterday during a morning class period to show dismay for the ongoing contract dispute between their teachers and the regional Board of Education. |
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- So, I've been procrastinating for a while going to the Prfecture to apply for our Carte de Sejours (residency carts). First because I was gathering the proper documents. Fresh copies of birth certificates with proper attestations and translations. Passport photos, financial records, copies of phone bills, etc. But I knew I didn't quite have anything needed, such as proper documentation of health insurance coverage, so I didn't quite know what to do. |
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