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R. Robot: The first self-writing weblog
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Fellowship of the Democrats (Dec 30 2003 22:18 GMT) - Among the fork-tongued Bush-haters, Valerie Plame distorts the position of people like Tony Blair with the usual insouciance. "What ever happened to Osama Bin Laden?" she said last week. Didn't she see the footage of Afghans dancing and cheering? You... |
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Downtime over Christmas (Dec 30 2003 22:18 GMT) - I'm not sure what it is with me and intermittent Internet connectivity failures, but now with my DSL service that I've been quite happy with, I occasionally lose connection. It seems to me that the modem is defective, and I've convinced my provider of that so they swapped it for another.  The modem froze up while I was out of town over Christmas - losing connectivity to the computers at home from the family's place in Brantford took away that comfy “the computers are ok so the house is probably ok†feeling that being able to ping www.stevex.org gives. |
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Downtime over Christmas (Dec 30 2003 22:18 GMT) - I'm not sure what it is with me and intermittent Internet connectivity failures, but now with my DSL service that I've been quite happy with, I occasionally lose connection. It seems to me that the modem is defective, and I've convinced my provider of that so they swapped it for another.  The modem froze up while I was out of town over Christmas - losing connectivity to the computers at home from the family's place in Brantford took away that comfy “the computers are ok so the house is probably ok†feeling that being able to ping www.stevex.org gives. |
Cranial Cavity
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Is This More Than We Need to Know? (Dec 30 2003 22:16 GMT) - Each year Danish men donate sperm that contributes to around 1,000 pregnancies, and with increasing demand from Americans, Cryos has opened its first New York office -- on Broadway. Thousands of men visit Cryos's three Danish donation centers, most of them students. They are paid $40.50 for each donation. |
Ecademy
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How to teach yourself to touch-type [Hilary Curtis] (Dec 30 2003 22:15 GMT) - I must admit that this article was inspired by the mind-numbingly bad advice you'll find pilloried here: BBC NEWS | Magazine | Christmas reading digest I taught myself to touch-type a good few years ago. It's an incredibly useful skill, not least at Ecademy where it enables you to write as fast as you can think. There are only four very basic things you need to know: |
Ecademy
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How to teach yourself to touch-type [Hilary Curtis] (Dec 30 2003 22:15 GMT) - I must admit that this article was inspired by the mind-numbingly bad advice you'll find pilloried here: BBC NEWS | Magazine | Christmas reading digest I taught myself to touch-type a good few years ago. It's an incredibly useful skill, not least at Ecademy where it enables you to write as fast as you can think. There are only four very basic things you need to know: |
Niutopia/Jouebs
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zaboune : le nvl an, les couleurs de mon joueb et youyou... (Dec 30 2003 22:15 GMT) - pour une fois je vais ecrire un article sans trop savoir de quoi je vais aprler... d'habitude, je repasse ds ma tete des millions de fois ce que je vais dire et apres j'aime pas le résultat alors je vais essayer une autre tactique ;) demain je pars à la montagne pour le nvl an, je vais chez des amis de la famille, qd on m'a dit ca j'ai commencé a faire la gueule et puis jme suis rappellé que ct les parents de julia qui est trop sympa... alors ca va, j'ai arreté de faire la gueule (discretement qd mm, faut pas qu'ils sachent que je me suis trompée...) je sens que les couleurs de mon joueb vont encore changer, ca commence a me souler le vert fluo (hein eline ? |
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anarchie : Objecteurs de conscience : « les pires des criminels » (Dec 30 2003 22:15 GMT) - Lu sur Indymédia Nice : "Compte rendu de l'audience du 23 décembre 2003. Cela aurait dû être Le Jour - le point culminant de plus d'un an de batailles juridiques, le jour où le Tribunal Militaire de Jaffa devait enfin rendre son jugement sur Haggai Matar, Matan Kaminer, Noam Bahat, Adam Ma'or et Shimri Tzameret. Plus d'une heure avant le début de l'audience, des centaines de manifestants étaient présents, brandissant des pancartes avec « Nous sommes tous des Refuzniks », « Nous refusons de servir l'Occupation », « La Conscience en prison - la Stupidité au pouvoir ! » |
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lamuselivre : La dame à l'adaptation cinéma (Dec 30 2003 22:15 GMT) - Tracy Chevalier, auteur du (surprenament) bon (non, vraiment, je vous jure, j'en ai moi-même été très surprise ; c'est un livre qui n'a l'air de rien, qui est écrit très simplement et qui n'a pas une seule fausse note) La jeune fille à la perle, parle de l'adaptation ciné de son livre, qui devrait sortir en France au printemps. They seemed to 'get' the novel, understanding that the key to the story was its restraint. One of the first things I said to them was that I did not want the main characters to sleep together. Hollywood would want to sex up the film, and I thought a small British production company would be more likely to remain faithful to the book in that respect, as well as to ensure the film had a European feel to it. |
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youyou : Michael Jackson et Zaboune (Dec 30 2003 22:15 GMT) - ben moi je suis fan de Michael Jackson depuis toute petite c'est mon fère qui écouter alors je baigne ds cette musique depuis ben mon enfance et peux vous dire que ça me sidère ce qui lui arrive tt ça pr lui piquer du frique une fois de plus car je crois a son INNOCENCE !!! Aller faut avoué il était trop beau à l'époque de Thriller et même que je trouve que même avec toutes ces chiurgie ben il a conservé son charme d'autre fois moi je vois que lui et sa musike quand je regarder ses concerts et pas les conneries dans la presse a scandale ! voilou |
Niutopia/Jouebs
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anarchie : Anarko-Autonomne ou Intox sécuritaire ? ? (Dec 30 2003 22:15 GMT) - Lu sur Indymédia Paris : : "(....)Ce n'était qu'une "bombinette", mais le gouvernement italien affirme prendre très au sérieux l'attentat commis, samedi 27 décembre, contre Romano Prodi à son domicile de Bologne. C'était la troisième action en une semaine dirigée contre le président de la Commission européenne. |
WebDeveloper.com
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DTS Designer Tasks and Package Workflow (Dec 30 2003 22:14 GMT) - Marcin Policht continues his discussion of various ways of utilizing global variables in DTS Designer tasks. In particular, he looks into their role in exchanging data between packages, using features built into the Execute Package task and also explains the purpose of DTS Package Workflow. |
BDGamer.News [PC and Console gaming news around the clock]
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Q&As (Dec 30 2003 22:14 GMT) - Battlefield VietnamHomeLAN Fed's Battlefield Vietnam Q&A converses with A.J. Marini, lead designer on Digital Illusion's upcoming Battlefield 1942 follow-up. They discuss features of the game, improvements over the BF1942 engine, changes to multip... |
BDGamer.News [PC and Console gaming news around the clock]
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Screens (Dec 30 2003 22:14 GMT) - Battlefield Vietnam (PC) - GenGamers Delta Force - Black Hawk Down: Team Sabre (PC) - WorthPlaying FireStarter (PC) - Action Vault Full Spectrum Warrior (PC) - GenGamers Joint Operations (PC) - GenGamers Tenchu: Return from Darkness (XB) - PA... |
Neobike.net
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Motorcycle lanes in Malaysia (Dec 30 2003 22:14 GMT) - According to an article today in Utusan Online, future highway projects in Malaysia will be required to include dedicated motorcycle lanes. A much better solution than simply banning two-wheelers from the highways, as has been tried elsewhere. |
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