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- For 18 years, Paul Salvatore has helped make Christmas special for local children. |
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- Happy Festivus! Merry Christmas! Happy Chanukah! Etcetera, etcetera ... |
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- All the staff here at Mythic Entertainment wishes everyone in the Camelot community a happy, wonderful, and safe holiday season. Happy Holidays everyone! |
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- Bigvegan reports that mad cow disease has been identified in the USA. Some would choose "acknowledged" over "identified", and those same "some" would probably question the news release showing up during Christmas week, when newspaper front pages are typically busy with pictures of air traffic controllers saying Santa's clear for landing. As for myself, I'm just going to link to the Canadian rendition of the story, and recall the time last May when BSE was found in Canada and every country in the world shut their borders to Canadian beef imports, at a cost of $11 million a day. The next little while will be interesting... Of course, the cow's brain has only tested positive twice, and they'll have to wait until England verifies BSE before it's official. |
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- I love repeating myself. I take a story and slap the same basic commentary on it again and again, and in a way, that makes me feel like a boy band, although my hair just isn't quite at that level. The story of the day is from inobgirl, and it's one of those cow escapes slaughterhouse and gets to spend life at a sanctuary ones. Once again, I'll point out that once again we're saving the cleverest animals, which, if these sanctuaries could just get the budget to support breeding, will inevitably lead to a generation of animal overlords. On to new business now, doesn't it look like our side got horribly screwed on this deal? |
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- Rosemary notes that the RSPCA is somewhat troubled over an upcoming wild boar and wild cat hunt to be taking place in Australia. Wanna know why? "Organisers say it does not matter how the animals are killed. 'You can get them anyhow you like, with dynamite or you can run them over,' said the event's organiser Rod Haines." Tell me again about how responsible hunters are. |
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- Annak and Aspifox sent this story in before we left, but I'm in a nostalgic mood today, so let's party like it's Thursday before last, shall we? An Arkansas man and his son drowned while the son was trying to kill the family pit bull, who apparently was too old to fight anymore. As it turns out, the dog still had some fight left in him (or her), because the dog's still alive and well. I don't have a lot of sympathy for dogfighters, but I sure have a lot of respect for karma. The story's here. |
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- Oh man, it's 10 to three and I still haven't posted anything today. So lazy... I need to be more active, I should do some sports, or maybe think about sports, or maybe just read submissions about sports, like the one that Rosemary sent in. Wow, what a rough intro. I'm out of practice. |
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pydiction (Dec 24 2003 10:57 GMT) - Some developers in Propylon will probably be interested in pydiction for the VIM editor. As an Emacs bigot, I will have to pass. BTW, what's with the 22/7 rating? PI in the sky? |
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- "St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has joined the ranks of world-class supercomputer users around the world with the installation of an IBM computer system that can perform more than 600 billion operations per second..."... |
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- Seattle Times Dec 24 2003 5:18AM ET... |
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- Daily Mail & Guardian Dec 24 2003 5:28AM ET... |
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- indiaexpress.com Dec 24 2003 5:30AM ET... |
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- AFP via Yahoo! Dec 24 2003 5:32AM ET... |
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- Interfax Information Agency Dec 24 2003 5:15AM ET... |
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- Digital Chosunilbo Dec 24 2003 5:41AM ET... |
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- Web Host Directory Dec 24 2003 5:17AM ET... |
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- Lawrence, Thanks for the hint. I tried it but no luck in the long term. I managed to get half an hour last night out of RU before it crashed. This morning it runs for about 2 minutes and then crashes. The last change I made to my system was upgrading to Panther and that was several weeks ago. |
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- just received this special greeting from asia: > Hello everyone, it is time to cheer up for Christmas and happy New > year. > > MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR! May this New year brings forever > prosperous, happiness... |
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- The server that runs our mailing lists is having some technical difficulties and is down as a result. We are working with the sponsor to restore service as soon as possible. In the mean time, users are encouraged to use IRC or the Gentoo user forums for user support needs. Update: Over the weekend Gentoo's list server suffered network problems, in order to preserve the current emails and the list emails we queued them in hopes to get the problem fixed. |
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- This week, we're announcing the first anniversary of the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, which we'll celebrate next week with some special content. Don't forget to read this issue, though: we're featuring developer Hanno Böck, bring you the usual coverage of the community and bugs, and bring you a tip about using /etc/skel to give new users the same initial settings. Enjoy |
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- Twas the night before payroll, when all through the company The place was abuzz, Would they layoff, any? The CVs were out on the Internet bubble… For Company X, it looked like big trouble. |
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- Culinary: An auxiliary vocational program at Edmondson-Westside aims to place students in the food services industry. |
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- In suit vs. city and HUD, ACLU says former mayor continued segregation; Judge demands evidence |
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- Virginia jury spares life of teen-ager who took part in '02 sniper killings; Saved by youth, troubled past; Montgomery prosecutor says he hopes Maryland gets chance to try Malvo |
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- Keepsakes: Animal owners line up to have their beloved pets photographed with Santa. |
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- Data: Report that finds most states exaggerate high school graduation figures is another example of the 'Lake Wobegon effect.' |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - "St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has joined the ranks of world-class supercomputer users around the world with the installation of an IBM computer system that can perform more than 600 billion operations per second..."... |
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