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- Let me tell you, it too fucking cold outside, but never too cold to fuck outside. Lol, there you go!... |
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Tag 62 (Dec 31 2003 10:41 GMT) - 14/22 an vorsylvester. die stimmung war gedrückt. einerseits, weil man nicht früher ausgehn kann und solche scherze, auf der anderen seite, weil man gegen 22 uhr hin noch betrunkene kinder zu transportieren haben kö |
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- Instapundit.com: So Glenn quotes at length, and approvingly, from an article in the Guardian of all places, comparing the outcomes... |
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- The Quantum Framework for Java is a port of Miro Samek's Quantum Framework in C/C++. The framework consists of finite state machines, heirarchical statecharts, active objects, and the glue to hold it all together. |
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- Java Psion Link (JPL) is intended to be a cross-platform solution for transferring files between Psion Epoc PDAs (netBook, series 7, 5Mx, and revo) and any computer with a serial port and the ability to run Java. |
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- This articles discusses why you might want an indication of an object's size. He also asks, " given that you usually deal with object graphs, what is the definition of an object size? Is it just the size of the object instance you're examining or the size of the entire data graph rooted at the object instance? The latter is what usually matters more in practice." He presents you with code examples for measuring an object's size. |
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- Happy New Year's Eve! All about New Year's Eve in Times Square though some politicians think it's a bad idea. But don't fret: Here are some New Year's Eve suggestions from our Events page. The Times looks at the cost of various New Year's Eve revelry supplies (party hat by Tiffany, in sterling silver, $225; |
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- Circa un'ora fa, alle 16.30, una delle bancarelle che vendono fuochi pirotecnici in Viale Aldo Moro è andata a "fuoco" e tutti i prodotti in vendita sono letteralmente scoppiati. Sembrava di assistere ad un anticipo della mezzanotte e dei "botti" di capodanno, che fra poche ore la faranno da padrone. Per ... |
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- As reported in various newspapers (link, link and link) as well as a lot of blogs, the US is thinking... |
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Capt. Swing (Dec 31 2003 10:40 GMT) - As the year ends let me try and pull together some threads I have started. The biggest threat we all face is Islamic terrorism, my optimistic view is that this desperate and bloody revolt is the work of a people... |
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- I promise, no more of this for a while. But, I feel compelled to show this information, for a couple... |
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- I wish the readers of this weblog all the best for a good 2004, with a lot of payment innovations! The picture below is an old, nicely designed, booklet with credit-transfer forms, issued by the Municipal Giro of Amsterdam in the 1920s. This municipal giro was the first in many innovations ranging from early automation of the booking process in the 1920s, the design of a photo-machine (1930s), introduction of communications networks, atm's and (almost) a credit card.!! |
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- Business calls for less red tape in 2004 From Reuters. A short and powerful article - extract: "Jones predicted that employment in Britain would continue to rise in 2004 but only because of the continued expansion of the public sector. The CBI is predicting jobs growth of 190,000 next year, many of which will be in the public sector while manufacturing will lose close to 50,000 more jobs. "While we can look forward to record highs in employment, approaching two thirds of the jobs created are likely to funded by the taxpayer. |
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- Business calls for less red tape in 2004 From Reuters. A short and powerful article - extract: "Jones predicted that employment in Britain would continue to rise in 2004 but only because of the continued expansion of the public sector. The CBI is predicting jobs growth of 190,000 next year, many of which will be in the public sector while manufacturing will lose close to 50,000 more jobs. "While we can look forward to record highs in employment, approaching two thirds of the jobs created are likely to funded by the taxpayer. |
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- From: The Nation, Thailand, Thailand - Dec 31, 2003 From school guard to school teacher-to-be, 36-year-old Wiroj Keawkrai, an undergraduate in sign language is an inspiration for any deaf person that education can really make a difference. "Before, everything seemed... |
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Lights Up! (Dec 31 2003 10:35 GMT) - Liska wins the prize for odd Christmas gifts this year (and thanks for the photo!) It should provide hours... |
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- Un petit peu d'auto-promo avec le présent billet. En effet, les surfeurs de Yahoo France on retenu LesBlogs.com dans leur sélection des meilleurs sites de l'année 2003 parmis les 2 sites retenus dans la catégorie "Informatique et Internet". Merci à... |
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Good News. (Dec 31 2003 10:34 GMT) - "A man has been arrested in connection with the death... |
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Spying? (Dec 31 2003 10:34 GMT) - I have a stats thingy for Soliloquist mainly so I... |
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- The body of Faina "Fay" Zonis was found just inside an unlocked side entrance to a realty company on Street Road, where she worked. |
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- Hope 2003 has treat you well... the new year is just a few hours away, hope you and your family... |
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- FriedEgg writes "Recently, many people have started to forgo traditional landline telephones in favor of cellular phones only. This presents a problem for ... |
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- Oh, and there is nothing like listening to Alvin and the Chipmonks Christmas Album over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and mom please make it stop and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. You'd think The Kids would get sick of it. But nooooooooooo! Over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and … |
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- .qggL .gggr. PMML /|MM |!MM, /`|MM .d/"q, qgg; |
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- I don't recall exactly how the conversation turned towards leap days, but it did. I think it may have been something to do with birthdays and being born on February 29th, the 29th being the leap day once every four years. “But it's not,” I said. |
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- From: XXXXX <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX> To: sean@conman. |
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- “Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein,” Iraqi President Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, then special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad on December 20, 1983. … Rumsfeld also met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz, and the two agreed, “ |
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- I was able to use the Gentoo installation disk to boot the laptop, get the dying harddrive mounted (had to turn off DMA operation in the IDE device driver to keep the kernel from crashing) and rsync all the important files to my main server. But that still left me with a dead laptop, and now a D&D game that pretty much requires a laptop (since Bob is doing the whole online thing, as Bob is now using kLoOge.Werks to help run the game). It was then I realized I had a copy of Knoppix lying around. |
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- Thanks Lawrence, For the Manila site, I've done as you suggested, but whenever I post something there, it emails the post to me and shows my email address with the old address. I also noted earlier this morning that the category links on my RU 8 home page point to ourfavoritesongs. com/users/wizard@grove. net/... rather than to the radio. |
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- A former Horsham resident's Bronze Star Medal highlights a 20-year naval career and his bravery in wartime. |
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- (US) When it comes to SWAT operations, the idea is to get inside a house as quickly and efficiently as possible to rescue the hostages or subdue the drug dealers or whatever the day s mission calls for. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- Dec. 29 is a day of reckoning for the Breschs of Levittown. |
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- In the spirit of New Year's, these are the resolutions (damn you, Babylonians) on Gothamist's list for 2004: • More meat • Less "blog" • More playing– |
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- I got the Microsoft Exchange Server reported error (0x80040600) : 'Unknown Error 0x80040600'. again today. Sure enough, deleting the messages in deleted items cleared the problem. When I then did a F9 synch 18 messages suddenly appeared in deleted items. |
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- There are some really cool megamixes in the Download section of the website of Martin Pieters who does mixes for two of the biggest dutch radiostations. The back to the 90's mix and the 25th preparty mix are awesome!!!! |
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- (Almost) from IP: I wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2004, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions... |
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- Until a new agreement is reached, work will continue under terms of the contract that expires today. |
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- Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder hat in seiner traditionellen Neujahrsansprache um Verständnis für das verabschiedete Gesetzespaket im Sozialwesen geworben. Fü |
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- Six Grand View surgeons will get medical malpractice coverage through the hospital's insurance company. |
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