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- Dec. 30 - Some scandals helped make a celebrity's career, and others seem to tarnish them. But no matter which way it went, 2003 was filled with celebrity scandals. |
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- Dec. 30 - If there was one celebrity you could kiss, who would it be. According to a survey, most men would want to lock lips with Angelina Jolie. |
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- Dec. 30 - It's that time of year again, when everyone starts thinking about their resolutions for the coming year. So, what is yours? |
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- Dec. 29 - Some call it a major advancement in technology, but others say it's an invasion of privacy. Check out the future way you could be secretly tracked. |
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- Dec. 29 - Want a night out on the town without leaving your living room. Check out a new service that allows you to meet and interact with friends in a 3-D virtual world. |
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- "Canada's gun registry does so work": "While our system might not be perfect, it brings Canada in line with emerging international standards and keeps a path very different from our neighbours to the south, where there are as many guns as people and where more than 10,000 are murdered with guns each year."[10,000 people out of +250,000,000... Don't twice as many people die of "hospital-related diseases" or whatever they're called? [Anyway, thanks to Xavier for the link. |
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- An AP story focuses on about 3,000 Haitians who entered the country illegally with fake documents by air and whose |
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- Rent-a-cops on power trips. Even the laws of nature are more pliable. One of the most annoying and lasting effects... |
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- Experts on both sides of the spam legislation debates have tended to agree only on one thing: the Can-Spam act about to go into effect in two days will not work. But Alan Ralsky, one of the web's biggest spammers - now on a cautious hiatus in preparation for continuing his "marketing" efforts next month - gave hope to the optimists, saying that he will not only comply with the new rules, but also that "You would have to be stupid to try to violate this law." NYT reports. [summary] |
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- Yes folks, the J-Walk Blog has a new URL: http://j-walkblog.com/blog Please update your bookmarks and/or favorites. And if you have a web site that links to this blog, please change the link target. |
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- OK - maybe not a revolte quite yet. Phil Woodford started a thread on new rules concerning term-time absenses. Yet more beauracracy - more cost - and it won't meet it's aims, but I guess will alienate yet more of the population. On a related note I was pleased to read on the font page of the times today that the government is nervous about a backlash by motorists concerning over-zealous use of speed cameras - especially where this appears to primarily be a means of raising funds. Apparently 2 million people paid a £60 fine this year. |
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- OK - maybe not a revolte quite yet. Phil Woodford started a thread on new rules concerning term-time absenses. Yet more beauracracy - more cost - and it won't meet it's aims, but I guess will alienate yet more of the population. On a related note I was pleased to read on the font page of the times today that the government is nervous about a backlash by motorists concerning over-zealous use of speed cameras - especially where this appears to primarily be a means of raising funds. Apparently 2 million people paid a £60 fine this year. |
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- Als ik op internet zoek naar 'Frank van Nobelen' kom ik hem wel tegen, maar het is niet de goede. Het is niet mijn Frank van Nobelen. De mijne is er ruim een week geleden stilletjes tussenuit gepiept, lag eenzaam dood in bed en is daar 's morgens door z'n werkster aangetroffen. Hij wilde vervolgens in alle stilte worden gecremeerd, zonder een mens erbij. Dat had hij ergens opgeschreven. |
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- I forgot to mention that Valitutti also said that regular old |
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- Gemologist Michael Valitutti, who sells signity star cz's on Shopnbc, said |
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- Take care and I wish you a very speedy recovery! :) |
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- I've lived in California twice and the strongest earthquake I felt |
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- [QUOTE][url="http://www. diamondtalk. com/forums/showthread. php? |
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- 10. After your application starts failing everywhere, you talk to the DBA and he says, “I had to change the names on all the columns because I didn’t follow the company standard. |
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kofuzi? (Dec 30 2003 14:58 GMT) - Broken blog. |
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- After the whining yesterday, comes the damage control: The Former Governor: After Complaint, Dean Explains Himself to Party Chairman. I love the summary of the conversation:A senior aide to Dr. |
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- Next Version of MSN Launches With All-Encompassing Campaign, Including Print, TV, Online Media and First Added-Value Cable Network Sponsorship Activities. REDMOND, Wash. -- Dec. 30, 2003 -- The MSN® network of Internet services today announced that the colorful star of the "It's better with the Butterfly" campaign will make an encore appearance with the launching of the new version of MSN. The new MSN, due to be released Jan. |
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- Over the course of his career, Goldman worked on the cusp of technology and consumer electronics at firms such as Apple Computer and Microsoft Corp. The cause of his death may take several weeks to determine, the coroner's office said. In 1995, along with former Apple colleagues Steve Perlman and Bruce Leak, Goldman co-founded WebTV Networks, which allowed users to surf the Internet from their televisions. Microsoft bought WebTV in 1997 for $425 million and today is called MSN TV. Last year, Goldman founded Mailblocks, a Los Altos company that sells a Web-based e-mail system that promises to eliminate unwanted e-mail, or spam. |
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- In sports, they call it a rebuilding year, a period when a team works on the fundamentals and prepares for the next season's championship run, doing all it can in the meantime to keep the stadium filled with fans. It might be tempting to think of Microsoft Corp.'s 2004 in those terms, sandwiched as it is between major releases of the company's biggest products. New versions of Microsoft Office and Windows Server debuted in 2003. And the next Windows for PCs, code-named Longhorn, isn't due until 2005 or 2006. |
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- Dec. 30 - The U.S. has told foreign airlines that their planes may not be allowed to land or fly over the United States if they do not have armed air marshals on board. |
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- Dec. 30 - Promising that everyone will be safe, officials say security at Times Square will be extra tight for tomorrow's New Year's Eve celebration. |
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- Dec. 30 - If there was one celebrity you could kiss, who would it be. According to a survey, most men would want to lock lips with Angelina Jolie. |
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- Dec. 30 - Even in rehab, Courtney Love is still acting a bit off the wall, parading in front of fellow patients completely in the buff for three hours. |
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- Dec. 30 - Some scandals helped make a celebrity's career, and others seem to tarnish them. But no matter which way it went, 2003 was filled with celebrity scandals. |
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- Dec. 30 - 2003 was a breakout year for many musicians. Especially as we learned how 50 Cent could be worth millions. |
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- Dec. 30 - Bad breath stems from more than just eating onions or garlic during lunch. It could be a sign of other more serious health problems. |
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- From Jeff Noon's new book "Falling out of cars":"Noon has taken the idea of signal-to-noise (the ratio of useful information... |
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- De utländska investeringarna i Sverige har hittills i år rasat jämfört med förra året. 2003 ser ut att bli det sämsta året på mycket länge. |
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- Darth Vader is one of the grotesques on the Washington National Cathedral. Cool. (via Matthew Kirschenbaum) |
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- Geheimstudie: Deutsche Atomkraftwerke völlig unsicher |
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- With their homeland staggered by AIDS, poverty and political instability, many Haitian-Americans are struggling to find the right way to mark their country's bicentennial Thursday, with emotions ranging from pride to sadness. |
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- V priebehu decembra prepustila spolocnost Slovglass, a.s., Poltar 84 zamestnancov |
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- Ministri financii zo skupiny G7 budu na svojom februarovom stretnuti diskutovat o slabom dolari |
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- Dec. 30 - The U.S. has told foreign airlines that their planes may not be allowed to land or fly over the United States if they do not have armed air marshals on board. |
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