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- Death toll rises to 191 in Chongqing gas field blowout At least 191 people had been confirmed dead Thursday in a fatal gas blowout which occurred Tuesday at a natural gas field of the China National Petroleum Corporation in southwest China, according to local government sources. |
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- Airliner Crash in West Africa Kills 60 More than 60 people, mostly Lebanese, were killed Thursday when a passenger plane bound for Beirut crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff from the west African nation of Benin, Lebanese airport officials said. |
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- Bomb Shakes U.N. Building in Afghanistan A bomb exploded outside a house used by United Nations staff in the capital Thursday, demolishing part of a wall around the property and shattering nearby windows but causing no injuries, police said. |
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- Sudan rebels: Militia leader decapitated Rebels battling government forces in western Sudan said Wednesday they had decapitated the leader of a government-armed militia and showed civilians his head as proof of his death. |
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- France finds no terror links on flights Fears of a Christmas Day September 11-style attack have eased after checks by French intelligence on passenger lists turned up no terror links on any of six cancelled Air France flights. |
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- Christmas day explosions rock Baghdad Guerrillas fired more than a dozen grenades, rockets and mortar shells in Baghdad on Christmas Day, striking a hotel housing foreigners, the Iranian and Turkish embassies and the gates of a U.S. army base. One woman was wounded as she slept in an apartment near the hotel. |
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- Pakistan Leader Survives Another Assassination Attempt Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf narrowly survived a second attempt on his life in two weeks on Thursday when suicide car bombers attacked his motorcade, killing themselves and at least 12 others. This comes in the wake of Musharraf's announcement that he will step down as army chief. |
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- 5 Palestinians killed in Gaza strike Five Palestinians were killed Thursday in a Gaza City air strike, Palestinian sources said, in the first assassination attempt since October. Also, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian armed with a bomb near a settlement in the central Gaza Strip early Thursday, a military source said. Three Israelis killed in suicide bombing east of Tel Aviv Three Israelis were killed Thursday evening and about 15 people were wounded, two seriously and two moderately, in a suicide bombing near several bus stops east of Tel Aviv. |
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- This special report from CNET News.com carries an eloquent subtitle: "Wireless expectations rose in 2003, but growth was hobbled by security concerns and unproven business models." It's much more worse than you think and I'm going to tell you why Wi-Fi will still not be broadly used in 2004 in this column. Technology columnists are usually looking at their own part of the world, in Silicon Valley or on the East Coast of the U. |
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- Yay, I've started some reading in that gigantic - and scary - PHP and MySQL webdevelopment book, and managed to... |
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- No BushXmas Here © 2003, John H. Farr No self-serving "terror" alerts, no lies, no TV, no bullshit. Just love for each other, the timeless beauty of mountains without condos, music, good food, and caring. MAKE YOUR OWN WORLD, people, or live how & where you're directed. |
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- Reading things like this can never make you happy. In particular, when the country is at "High" alert and our Secretary of Homeland Security tells us that airlines have "never been safer in the histroy of aviation" if I recall the quote correctly. Stowaway found dead in NY jet NEW YORK (Reuters) - Maintenance crews have found the body of a man believed to be a stowaway inside an American Airlines jet at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, a spokesman for the airport says. Maintenance workers discovered the dead man, estimated to be about 25, around 11 p. |
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- I decided to simply start over with my Radio blog, since, after installing Panther and switching the blog from an iBook to an iMac, I could never get the archives to hook up properly. I figured that by doing a fresh install of Radio and trashing the OS X prefs, things would be cool. But I've encountered the following issues: 1. Comments are mismatched and linked to entries and dates that I've since deleted. |
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- Deutsche Telekom is pushing one particular router into the market that once again has proven to be very hospitable. Lots of people seem to buy this device without having an immediate need for its wireless capabilities. Since they don't use the wireless access they probably don't feel an urge... |
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- MSNBC - Many performers took final bow in 2003 Nice summary of my saddest posts of the year.... |
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- CNN.com - Bono, Nicole Richie, and the F-word: Broadcast indecency law - Dec. 23, 2003 #%&* these *&%holes... |
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- CNN.com - Lenny Bruce granted posthumous pardon - Dec. 24, 2003 Well it's about time.... |
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- Thanks sg. I think I will. I have 30 days to |
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- Do you think that whomever ultimately BUYS this ring will be |
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- Merry Christmas, everyone. See you later! |
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- I took several pictures at Monday night's Georgetown-Citadel game. These pictures will be temporarily housed here until I can get issues worked out with a couple of my photoblog accounts. The pictures found below are of McAllister Field House... |
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- Last week, a Florida man sold men.com for $1.3 million, a healthy profit over the $15,000 he paid for it in 1997. Seattle Post |
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- fujiQ sun21.dec || we got up early to leave ishikawacho by 6:30am. it was tough getting up so early after the KOLC christmas/farewell party. |
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- I am such a curmudgeon! Even today means little to me except that we get craptastic repeats and moreless on TV plus all the stores are closed; if I was working I'd be happy to have the days off and of course I don't begrudge others that pleasantry or their chance to worship the invisible man in the sky. Still, I was completely peeved to learn that the National Park Service is caving to the Religious WackosRight by allowing the display of three bronze plaques bearing biblical verses at the Grand Canyon.So I sent the following letter to Gale Norton (Secretary of the Department of the Interior), Deputy Director Donald Murphy (through his mouthpiece David Barna) and Joe Alston (Superintendent of the Grand Canyon National Park) to express my thoughts: |
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- Slashdot Dec 25 2003 11:09AM ET... |
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- Slashdot Dec 25 2003 11:09AM ET... |
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- Miami Herald Dec 25 2003 12:15PM ET... |
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- SpaceRef Dec 25 2003 12:12PM ET... |
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- SpaceRef Dec 25 2003 12:12PM ET... |
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- SABC Dec 25 2003 12:06PM ET... |
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- news.com.au Dec 25 2003 11:44AM ET... |
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- Une vie qui pourrait etre le rêve de certains, Une vie qui pourrait etre la misère pour quelques uns, Une certaine part de bonheur confondue aux souffrances, Alors que certains n'ont même pas eu cette chance. |
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- Il faut rajouter de la vie aux années et non des années à la vie. [Proverbe chinois] Men moet leven aan de jaren toevoegen en niet jaren aan het leven. [Chinees Spreekwoord ] |
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