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- It's not that I don't like small children. I like them well enough. I've spent the last week or so around two of them who are, for the most part, reasonably well behaved and decent to be around. But I don't seem to be able to communicate with them. Small girl: |
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- "A new virus is spreading by email in Malaysia, combining threats of terrorist plans and a Trojan horse virus. Victims receive an email that claims to warn of five planned terrorist attacks, with the times and places leaked by an anonymous Malaysian government source. The email's subject line is "Urgent message to all citizens of Malaysia", and the email says it seeks to minimise the number of terrorist victims by spreading the terrorist attacks information, reported the Star, a Malaysian daily. Inside the email is an embedded link that purports to link to a site with important information regarding the attacks. However, the Malaysian Computer Emergency Response Team (myCERT) said that clicking on the link instead installs three malicious files that appear to be Trojan horse virus files and adds a new key to the computer registery. |
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- Here are more details on the recently released letter from Islamofascist nutbags to President Bush: New Letter Surfaces Christmas Eve on Internet. (Hat tip: Elmo.) ALBUQUERQUE, NM (Talon News) -- ... |
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- Small plane enters LaGuardia airspace, circles Statue of Liberty Despite New York City's high security level and national terrorism warning, a small plane was able to enter LaGuardia Airport airspace without permission, fly along the East River and circle the Statue of Liberty, and a bus was stolen from the city's bus terminal and driven to Kennedy Airport the same day. |
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- ...is Poland and Eastern Europe. Go figure.... |
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- we here at bccy believe that the barista is a crucial part of the new coffee cuisine. we strongly believe in encouraging and supporting the talented and dedicated barista. we hope in the future this position will evolve into the same career level, and |
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- Supporters of an ordinance that would prohibit St. Paul police from asking about immigration status argue that the measure is |
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- A few readers wrote in regarding our post Saturday about cellphones and whether or not using one can accidentally spark a fire at a gas... |
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- A few readers wrote in regarding our post Saturday about cellphones and whether or not using one can accidentally spark a fire at a gas... |
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- A few readers wrote in regarding our post Saturday about cellphones and whether or not using one can accidentally spark a fire at a gas... |
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- An Israeli company has required thousands of Chinese workers to sign a contract promising not to have sex with Israelis or try to convert them, a police spokesman said today. According to the document, male workers cannot come into contact with Israeli women - including prostitutes - become their lovers or marry them, spokesman Rafi Yaffe said. This must be a gag. Nobody would name their kid Raffy Yaffy. |
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- The other night Tony popped open a bottle of beer. I made a comment about how unfair it was that... |
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- Report: Saddam Laying Out Money Trail Saddam Hussein has acknowledged depositing billions of dollars abroad before his ouster and has given interrogators the names of people who know where the money is, a member of the Iraqi Governing Council said in remarks published Monday. |
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- Staff Sergeant Michael Sutter of Tinley Park died Friday while defusing a homemade bomb in Iraq. |
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- A person has been stuck and killed by an Amtrak train heading into Chicago. |
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- Last post by Spanish Fly on 21:52 28/Dec/03 - http://www. |
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- Last post by 'littlekid' on 17:24 28/Dec/03 - http://observer. |
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Daze Reader (Dec 29 2003 18:57 GMT) - Racey logt al een tijdje te weinig. Te druk met schrijven, geen zin om te linken? Wat is het nou eigenlijk? Meer sex! Denkt ze aan het woord log, dan surft ze ook eerst naar Daze. |
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- Baghdad now has a lower murder rate than New York.... |
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- Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Rsync Interesting. I think that something like this and a terabyte raid array would cover all the needs of a medium to small company. Incremental backups to the... |
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- Excerpt: "Maine took a bold step earlier this year to create one of the nation's most far-reaching health insurance plans, naming it Dirigo, Maine's motto and Latin for 'I lead.' Dirigo Health is expected to sign its first enrollees this summer." (AP via Yahoo! News) |
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- Excerpt: "After more than 150 years of state-by-state regulation, many of the biggest insurance companies are leading a revolution to establish a federal regulator in Washington and shift state regulators to a secondary role." (New York Times; one-time registration required) |
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- Asynchronous Action Version 1.0 Beta released... |
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An XM Xmas? (Dec 29 2003 18:56 GMT) - Consumers tuned into satellite radio during the holidays. |
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- What to do when life hands you a complicated money decision. |
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- Lower-priced, more practical products drive retailer's sales growth. |
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- CNN Dec 29 2003 1:39PM ET... |
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- Darrel points to the MSF Risk Management Discipline. Indeed, this is something I believe to be very important, however, I did not put my money where my mouth is, and although I've read about it, I never got the chance to actually practice it. Ah, live and learn. I'll be reading this in the next couple of days, but I've already learned to trust that what Darrel recommends is probably, well... recommended. |
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- TERRORISM: The Unexpected Peace Dividend. "Since September 11, 2001, and the aggressive American operations against terrorist organizations, several long time wars have ended, or moved sharply in that direction." Outside the Beltway says the connections are plausible, but the results... |
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Downtime (Dec 29 2003 18:55 GMT) - Well, the site went down to problems with the file system a few days ago. It should stay in working order for the forseeable future. I’ve lost a few posts and I might try to re-create them as well as... |
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- Florida’s St. Petersburg Times features two Mexican illegal immigrants who would like to be able to go to college subsidized |
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- Banking group HSBC has sealed an agreement to acquire 50% of China-based Fujian Asia Bank for up to $20m (E16m) in cash. |
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- Excerpt: "HHS, the agency that manages Medicare, has the tough job of transforming a very complicated, ideologically driven piece of legislation into a practical drug benefit that will work for our older and disabled citizens when they go to the pharmacy to get the drugs they need." (Donna Shalala in the Washington Post) |
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- Finally, a bit of press on a candidate making raising the minimum wage a core campaign promise, in this case... |
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- I hope that everyone had a merry Christmas. I apologize for the outage here for the last couple of weeks. On December 16 I started coming down with a cold that I have yet to fully shake. Within that period of illness I traveled to Norway, Michigan to visit my family for the holidays. As it turned out I spent more time in the hotel room bed that with my relatives. |
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- 2 American Soldiers Die in Iraq; 7 Are Wounded Two American soldiers died in Iraq, the United States military announced today, one in an incident involving suspected rebels and another from an undetermined illness at a medical facility. |
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- A lot has happened this Christmas season in our household. I'll make an entry about my thoughts on this Christmas a bit later. In the mean time, I read this letter from a 79 year old man who shared his thoughts on religion. In a strange way, it gives me some hope for the furture of understanding each other.... |
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- References for Research The Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education seems to be adding weblogging as a point of research and building projects.... |
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- Iraqi police arrest foreign suspects in Kirkuk Iraqi police arrested Monday four foreigners in Kirkuk suspected of having links to a radical Islamist group and of planning attacks in this northern oil city, a police general told AFP. U.S. kills 3 Qaeda suspects in Iraq U.S. |
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