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- AJ. Iran's Defence Minister Ali Shamkhani has said that the medium-range Shahab-3 missiles would be deployed if Israel attacked its nuclear facilities. |
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- It is Christmas morning here, the children got up at 5:30 eek! We are about to put the Turkey on and open our presents. Hope everyone has a safe, happy and healthy christmas ~ love the Grants'... |
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- It is Christmas morning here, the children got up at 5:30 eek! We are about to put the Turkey on and open our presents. Hope everyone has a safe, happy and healthy christmas ~ love the Grants'... |
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- Il y a beaucoup d'oppression et d'injustice en ce monde. Même durant la période des Fêtes, les bulletins de nouvelles... |
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MIRACLE!!! (Dec 24 2003 21:57 GMT) - I am so excited to post this! It is so cool! On my way home for lunch I stopped at the bank just to check on our situation and when I looked at my account statement I almost had a heart attack. Yesterday night when I went to bed our account was sitting somewhere around negative 700 dollars and then... |
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- Yesterday Benjamin informed me on my group that eXo is now JSR 168 compliant. I wish him and his product a big success. I am planning to write about it in detail. But for now you can visit theserverside.com for more details. |
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- Yesterday Benjamin informed me on my group that eXo is now JSR 168 compliant. I wish him and his product a big success. I am planning to write about it in detail. But for now you can visit theserverside.com for more details. |
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- If you heard me on The Beat and are are looking for more information on the games described, head on over to SeattleSpiel.... |
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- If you heard me on The Beat and are are looking for more information on the games described, head on over to SeattleSpiel.... |
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- Systemantics [Slashdot] adapted from 1977 book "Summary: Despite small imperfections, there's a wealth of real knowledge in this small volume. The author helpfully outlines the main points at the book's end (some of which I've bulleted above). The book's overall message couldn't be more clear if it summarized itself. Which it nicely does: |
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- Air France Action No Mystery, But U.S. Reaction Is6 flights cancelled amid terrorism fears. Six airline flights between Paris and Los Angeles were cancelled at the U.S. |
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- Cross the invisible line, lose your service. Some interesting responses continue to pile up in this thread about one Comcast user who had his account suspended for using too much bandwidth. Some users don't see a problem, others believe they should be told by Comcast what the download limitati.. |
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eCulture (Dec 24 2003 21:54 GMT) - Systemantics [Slashdot] adapted from 1977 book "Summary: Despite small imperfections, there's a wealth of real knowledge in this small volume. The author helpfully outlines the main points at the book's end (some of which I've bulleted above). The book's overall message couldn't be more clear if it summarized itself. Which it nicely does: |
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eCulture (Dec 24 2003 21:54 GMT) - Systemantics [Slashdot] adapted from 1977 book "Summary: Despite small imperfections, there's a wealth of real knowledge in this small volume. The author helpfully outlines the main points at the book's end (some of which I've bulleted above). The book's overall message couldn't be more clear if it summarized itself. Which it nicely does: |
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- Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons (I believe) has reviewed some (mainly) Caml code to see what data structures and algorithms are in use. There's some background here. I wonder what the bias is (towards what is already available in the languages)? Anyway, it seems like an interesting approach - obvious, really, but I don't know of any other similar work. I guess it must happen. |
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- Hooray, for traffic light wars. [via knobby]... |
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- I was reading the obituary of Harold von Braunhut, the man who sold the world Sea Monkeys, and the more... |
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- Montreal Gazette, 24 Dec 2003 |
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- The Morganton News Herald, 20 Dec 2003 |
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- Burlington Post, 21 Dec 2003 |
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- Rocky Mountain News, 23 Dec 2003 |
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- The Steamboat Pilot & Today, 24 Dec 2003 |
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- Charlotte Observer, 24 Dec 2003 |
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- Denver Post, 23 Dec 2003 |
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- Manila Bulletin, 19 Dec 2003 |
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Toes (Dec 24 2003 21:53 GMT) - And feet.... |
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- News that a cow had apparently been infected with mad cow sent a shudder from Wall Street to Main Street. |
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- ABC7's Hungry Hound checks out a Chicago cafe serving up traditional Middle Eastern specialties. |
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- Holiday travelers are getting a gift of short security lines at O'Hare International Airport today. |
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- Gov. Rod Blagojevich renewed his pledge against raising state sales or income taxes, despite a projected budget deficit that could reach $2 billion in 2004. |
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- Congratulations to Telepark on the launch of WebWizards! You're definitely going to bookmark this site. Year End Newsfrom Joel Spolsky, CEO, Fog Creek Software As the year draws to a close I'd like to bring you up to date on the latest news from Fog Creek Software. This has been a terrific year. Monthly sales of software licenses were about 250% higher than the same time last year, allowing us to pay salaries to the company founders (always appreciated), move into shiny new office space, hire new people, and start a summer internship program for college students. |
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- There was a replacement Santa sent back over soon after that, to try to reduce the stress of the trauma on the kids. |
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- I can't verify that it's the world's biggest, but it sure looks huge. Also, isn't it a bison? |
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- With violent sound effects. |
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- From the maintenance staff of the Plain House, a very merry Christmas to each and every one of you. May your holidays be awesome, your families and friends loving, and your presents cool -- or at least returnable. And thanks... |
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- Fast-food and meat packing stocks all fell Tuesday, dragging the DJI down with them. But two biomed stocks soared as a result of Mad-Cow disease panicing U.S. markets. |
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- Drop Me Off In Harlem investigates the Harlem Renaissance. |
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- Matt Price from BCFacts.org just sent out the following (excellent) summary of the BC provincial government's environmental record in 2003.... |
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- Downloaders of free digital music should be aware their computers may be infected with spyware that could compromise passwords and even online bank accounts, says the president of a prominent global Internet security company. [Privacy Digest] '-- "If your kids download music, I guarantee you that on your home computer you have a piece of spyware that tracks every keystroke you make on your keyboard, and telegraphs those keystrokes to somebody who's watching your system" --' ...John |
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