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Olivia (Dec 31 2003 05:13 GMT) |
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- Year of the notebook? Or year of the G5? |
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- Companies take a proactive stance' ahead of new empowerment legislation |
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- Despite all the political infighting dominating the headlines, the NarcGovernment has been working quietly on fixing the economy. There have beensome bold decisions and notable gains, but the Government clearlyunderestimated the task at hand. |
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- Trading at the bourse improved yesterday with 1.7 million shares valued at Sh87 million being dealt in, up from 757,000 shares posted the previous session. |
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- Latest report says its potentials can make Cameroon more competitivein the international market. |
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- Everything seems to hinge on government's new economic policy. |
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- Angolan Education Ministry is planning to build in the country, with the support of its partners, about 50 Polytechnic Institutes for technical and professional training until the year 2015. |
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- From the air, Yala Swamp is a scene to behold. It emerges from Siaya,juts into Bondo and straddles Busia District. Its western shoulder embracesLake Victoria. |
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- Striking university lecturers have been paid all their withheldsalaries. |
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- After a decade of promises, the government has finally drafted a Bill tofunction as the country's investment code. |
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- When investment banker Dyer & Blair recently hosted a rareend-of-year cocktail party for its business partners, the excitement amongthe capital market figures present was palpable. |
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- Big oil firms have gained a big advantage over smaller, independentdealers, after the government decided that all petroleum imports into thecountry must be purchased centrally through a tender floated by the Energyministry. |
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- THE executive director of Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), Dr. MaggieKigozi, has said trade imbalance (trade gap) between Uganda's imports andexports can be reduced by an increase in inter-Africa trade. |
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- The World Bank (WB), African Development Bank and the Nordic DevelopmentFund (NDF) have approved a total of $40m for Uganda's mineral sectordevelopment programme. |
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- Kenya is back in the game of survival. After mending fences with itsdevelopment partners, the country is now off onto a Sh707 billion economicrevival programme. Blissfully, the donors have agreed to provide more thanSh300 billion, a vital package to get the ball rolling. |
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- A Good Way to End the Year © 2003, John H. Farr This is from today's Counterpunch. It's a song Willie Nelson wrote last Christmas but will perform for the first time at a Kucinich for President fundraising concert in Austin, Texas on January 3, 2004. The song is called, "Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth? |
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Divini Rae (Dec 31 2003 05:11 GMT) - Australian resident, Divini Rae, is Miss November 2003. Divini lives in Sydney Australia, however, she grew up in Alaska. Divini is stunningly lithe blonde with legs for days. See it all at PlayboyPlus.... |
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- Forskningsdirektør i Novo Nordisk - og præsident for Akademiet for de Tekniske Videnskaber, Mads Krogsgaard Madsen, holder sin nytårstale til danske ingeniører. |
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- Some legal stories featured in Wednesday's foreign press... Israel's Haaretz reports the Knesset Finance Committee has again extended the Law to Encourage Capital Investments despite criticism that much money is wasted on its subsidies. It is likely tha |
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- Hot: Almanacs. Not: Beef. Prions are fucking scary, but it looks like any boneless steak is "virtually" risk-free (for now), so I'm hoping hysteria sets in and I can load up on $3/lb. |
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- Anybody remember the word ‘hasbian” that was briefly popular about the time Kissing Jessica Stein came out?A group of teenagers is gathered at a party. Music’ |
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- "What if we understood that our borders did not exist, that the earth is a one and only space and what if we learned to be free as birds?"—Jacques Perrin, Director, "Winged Migration" Few film trailers leave you breathless. But the trailer for Jacques Perrin's Oscar-nominated documentary Winged Migration, viewed on a wall-sized screen at my neighborhood Best Buy left me awestruck.The result of four years following bird migrations through 40 countries and seven continents, over seas and snow-capped mountains, in winter and in spring, Winged Migration isn't so much a documentary as it is a visual spectacle. |
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- JNet's Top Picks of 2003 : a random selection of some of the best, most topical or just plain fun sites for journalists. |
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- It's down to the last 24 hours in the 2003 Amish Tech Support Dead Pool... the qires are quiet, and it's looking like the Hussein Boys have really made the difference in the leaderboard. It's been a pretty quiet December...... |
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- Los Angeles DJ, Colleen Shannon, is Miss January 2004 and is also the 50th Anniversary Playmate. She's a petite blonde with a fabulous body. See more Colleen at PlayboyPlus.... |
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- First Official Turkish Visit to USA, March 25 ~ July 29, 1923 Part I The first visit to the United States by an official Turkish delegation took place before even Turkey was declared a republic. Dr. Fuad Umay, the founder of Cocuk Esirgeme Kurum |
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- that usually either means I'm having way too much fun to take the time to write anything down, or I'm not doing a thing... |
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BlogPulse (Dec 31 2003 05:06 GMT) - BlogPulse "Automated Trend Discovery for Weblogs." Very interesting data collection, but I'll have to fool around with it for a while to see if it's just clever or really useful. |
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- Mobitor implemented a new Sales Force Automation/Customer Relationship Management system in C# using the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework running on Pocket PC devices, which communicates with a server and intermittently synchronizes its Microsoft SQL Server CE 2.0 database over a variety of wireless and wired connections. This enables users to work seamlessly in both a connected and disconnected mode. The new system is reliable and scalable, and helps agents close sales in the field. |
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