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- Konrad Wulf has created a quiz web service, Millionaire style. You can see a working HTML example of it here. Today I played with it in Flash. Watch the star to see if you got it right or wrong!The service has five operations: |
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- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, well known for causing discord with his outspoken comments, is surprising the Italians with some unexpected harmony. He has just released an album of Neapolitan love songs written with previously unknown singer and guitarist Mariano Appicella. |
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- Last of a four-part series: Made in China Beijing - While the United States focuses on China's export prowess and cheap labor, Beijing is investing in a new generation of sophisticated "knowledge workers" to carry the nation to the next stage of its industrial revolution. |
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- Shenzhen, China - No one passing the nondescript glass office tower in this southern Chinese city could guess that it houses one of the biggest cogs in the machinery of the global economy. |
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- Wisconsin's 3-month-old 0.08 standard for drunken driving isn't flooding the courts with new cases so far, but for some chronic drunken drivers an even tougher standard and stiff jail or prison sentences haven't been enough to keep them sober behind the wheel. |
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- The federal government will ban the sale of ephedra in dietary supplements early next year, but Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced the ban Tuesday in hopes of discouraging consumers from using the supplements to keep New Year's weight-loss resolutions. |
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- Nashville, Tenn. - Jeff Mack wasn't thinking about ordering barbecue, a culinary specialty in this friendly city, when he and his University of Wisconsin teammates arrived over the weekend. |
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- For people doing research on the power of weblogs, watch this: I have written a small review of the Belkin Media Reader 12 days ago and a search on Google for Belkin Media Reader returns it on the first page as the 4th or 5th result today. The first result pointing to the Belkin web site is on the 11th page! And it's not even going to the product page, only to a press release which itself does not point to the product page. I've given looking after the 25th page on Google. |
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- A bus tire exploded in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, causing a brief panic in a country on edge amid a flood of warnings about possible terrorist attacks on New Year's Eve. |
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- ...and more than I've ever had. I'm not quite sure if this will be the entry that closes out 2003 for me, but it's not that big a deal, I guess. Chalk it up to vestigial discomfort with annual things (though annular things have played a significant role these last two weeks! Huzzah!). |
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- ...and more than I've ever had. I'm not quite sure if this will be the entry that closes out 2003 for me, but it's not that big a deal, I guess. Chalk it up to vestigial discomfort with annual things (though annular things have played a significant role these last two weeks! Huzzah!). |
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ZIPDeCode (Dec 31 2003 09:00 GMT) - ZIPDeCode. This is a very cool Java app that displays the location of a zip code, visually. Try it. It's very cool. |
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- As we turn the page on another year, let us pause to consider one of the greatest questions about the universe: what on earth (uhmm) is it made of? We believe that there are around 200 billion galaxies each containing around 200 billion stars. That may be a lot of sunshine but it amounts to a mere 4% of the cosmos. It seems that about 73% of the universe is made up of something the scientists call 'dark energy' - a strange force which is a kind of gravity in reverse. |
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First Class (Dec 31 2003 09:00 GMT) - I'm back in Hamilton again, at my mother's insistence, after spending nearly two days in Milton Keynes. This feels like an admission of failure, but then again, that's probably because it is — it turns out I can't look after myself, can't cope with living on my own. On the plus side, the journey up wasn't unpleasant. When I joined the train, I dropped my bike off in the guard's van, then nipped into the first carriage along (it was snowing, I wasn't going to trudge along the platform) which happened to be first class. |
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- No sign of a strike and tubes will run all nightWell I think the New Year's Eve bit of the squash strike is also off as I can't see any mention of it in the news. And "for one night only" the tube will be running all night for New Year "revellers". So no just missing the last train and no hideously slow night buses - just wish they could do it every weekend. |
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- It is 'arise Sir Clive' and gongs all round for England's World Cup-winning rugby players and coaches in the New Year Honours list. |
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- McLaren have yet to confirm if David Coulthard will be part of their line-up for the 2005 F1 season when Juan Pablo Montoya joins them. |
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- Leeds have revealed they are prepared to sell any top players who would rather leave Elland Road than face a relegation dogfight. |
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- Arsenal keeper Jens Lehmann has accused Southampton striker Kevin Phillips of foul play during their Premiership clash at St Mary's. |
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- The US Olympic Committee has said sprint champion Kelli White is one of six American athletes to have tested positive for modafinil. |
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- For four years now, I've been using a 400 mHz clod of a notebook PC for most of my work-related computing. It's been a faithful companion, albeit a slow one at times. So, you can imagine how excited I was when my employer told me that I'd be receiving a new 2 gHz, lightweight speester as a replacement! At last, no more waiting for large documents to load! No more rearranging my files every time I need disc space for a new download! |
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- Tim Berners-Lee gets knighted .. TBL, KBE .. BBCnews. bbc. co. |
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- Site of electronic voting firm hacked .. Assocated Press' articlecnn. com/2003/TECH/biztech/12/29/vo hack. ap/index. htmltrack this site | 6 links |
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- folksa. wholelottanothing. org/features. blah/entry/007633track this site | 6 links |
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Reason (Dec 31 2003 09:00 GMT) - Ride the Death Spiral .. Julian Sanchez .. good column up .. warns us .. nails itreason. |
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- found one with bookmarked pages .. more from The Washington Postwashingtonpost. com/wp-dyn/articles/A39710-200 htmltrack this site | 6 links |
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- NASA Adjusts Course of Mars-Bound Rover .. the next lander is due on Saturday .. NASA probes are almost there .. this article at Space.com .. |
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- to criticise Bush is a hate-crime .. The Bush Haterswashingtonpost. com/wp-dyn/articles/A40031-200 htmltrack this site | 6 links |
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- Bye-bye BIOS? .. gearing upnews. com. com/2100-7337_3-5131787. |
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- raising the minimum wage .. Deanwashingtonpost. com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39768-2003Dec2 this site | 6 links |
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