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- Pupils from public schools should pay higher university top up fees, a senior government adviser has suggested. |
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- Injured England fly-half Jonny Wilkinson faces a fight to be fit for the Six Nations. |
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- An investigation starts after a body was found in a plane from London to New York. |
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- Microfrets Guitars. Carl Perkins favoured Microfrets guitars because he got them for free. From Fetish Guitars. Exceptionally unique vintage guitars. Don't miss the Wendré |
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- a cura della coop. Naturalia ( G. Angeloni - M. Cavallucci) SITUAZIONE: Oggi 31 dicembre si chiude un anno che... |
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- Ett par nya svenska bloggar att hålla koll på (hittade via kommentarerna hos mig): Infontology - Information och verklighet - av Simon Winter Emanuel Sidea - Emanuel, en grej: gärna permalänkar till dina enskilda inlägg, dvs. att varje inlägg får en unik webbadress som jag kan länka till när jag vill hänvisa till något. |
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- Interesting undercurrents at the Post, where chief Pentagon correspondent Thomas Ricks has angered Rummy enough to warrant an attempt at silencing Ricks by having Rummy mouthpiece Larry DiRita first send a letter of complaint to Ricks’ Post editors, and then... |
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- Will Cellular Phones Skew Survey Results? [Slashdot] |
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- Online Assessment - Australian National Training Authority. This Quick Guide looks at the nature of assessment in a changed (and changing) Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) context, and considerations and issues for online teaching. Specifically this Guide looks at why the topic of online asse [Online Learning Update] |
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- How to Measure Student Proficiency?. Two recent studies show that states have set widely different standards for measuring students' progress under the law known as No Child Left Behind. By Ford Fessenden. [New York Times: Education] |
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- Excerpt: "Their retirement savings were lost. And there is likely no chance of ever seeing that money, after a federal judge ruled Tuesday that Foster & Gallagher executives acted fully within the law in regard to the employee stock ownership program." (PJStar.com) |
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Heathers (Dec 31 2003 15:58 GMT) - It's an honor just to be nominated. For the record, kids, I was into Howard Dean before it was cool and have been living my lavish Beltway lifestyle for all of four months.... |
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- El "breve recorrido sobre los temas de este año que me llamaron la atención" ™. Es casi imposible abarcar todos los temas de tecnología, comunidades, weblogs, etc que han pasado en este 2003, cosas tan diferentes como las luchas por... |
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- As a woman who can gain weight by reading recipes online, people like Kylie Minogue make me mad: Kylie Minogue... |
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- It wasn't because we thought Saddam Hussein was a good guy, or even that he didn't have WMDs. |
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- New York will be the first state to require that all cigarettes be manufactured with paper that extinguishes itself if smokers don't do the job, state officials said Wednesday. Advocates say the regulations, which go into effect in June, will prevent many of the fires started by careless smoking. |
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- INCLUDE{"DocsDevTopicNote"} Feedback on CaboteriaSkin Main.TobyCabot 15 Feb 2003 Hi Toby, Thanks for posting this skin. Although I'm not using it, the clean feel ... |
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Giggling (Dec 31 2003 15:56 GMT) - I caught a classic bit of the Today programme this morning. They had Falim Khoury (the head barman at the Savoy Hotel) shaking cocktails for everyone, and it was fairly evident from the general level of merriment that a certain amount of actual drinking was going on. Poor Charlotte Green had to try to read the news with sounds of shaking cocktails in the background, and she got a serious case of the giggles. The cocktail in question was a ‘Corpse Reviver’ |
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- Inmiddels al weer twee dagen aan de bak bij 3FM. On Tour zelfs. Veel 3FM coryfeën reizen het hele land door om zo veel mogelijk geld in te zamelen voor een prima doel: Villa Pardoes. |
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Brief notes (Dec 31 2003 15:56 GMT) - If you live in the USA, don't buy an almanac because somebody might think you're a terrorist and report you to the FBI. It seems Cuba is finally speaking up; it has called Guantanamo "an attack on human dignity". A radical privatisation of Iraqi assets is under way. Companies from coalition force countries, especially those with close ties to the White House, can rejoice. |
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- Steven Taylor is confused as to how Halliburton could lose a contract, seeing as how we went to war to line their pockets.... |
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- Just got back from Munakata Shrine. This year we moved to a small village in Chiba and Mizuka and I decided to go to the local shrine to pay our New Years respects. At Munakata Shrine, we met many of our neighbors, clensed ourselves and payed our respects. I've just uploaded some photos. Anyway, Happy New Year EVERYBODY! |
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- De Telegraaf heeft op de valreep van 2003 VVD-fractievoorzitter Jozias van Aartsen volop de ruimte gegeven nog eens lekker uit... |
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- drunk slut is sucking black cock Guy gets his first cock in the ass chubby hoe gets fucked from behind Bitch fucks two hard large cocks hot babe in fancy room gets facial Asian beauty shows her fine boobs Young... |
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- im halbschlaf im bett gelegen. offenbar zwischenzeitlich auch eingeschlafen und auch promt getraeumt(ich schlafe gerne und traeume meistens auch, mit erinnern). was genau passiert ist, weiss ich nicht mehr, ausser das es wie ueblich wieder sehr unterhaltsam war, teilweise allerdings auch sehr merkwuerdig, insbesondere der teil mit dem trashigen flughafen, in dessen wartehalle ein symphonie-orchester probte, wo wir aber leider durchmussten, um unseren flug zu erreichen.... wie auch immer, der entscheidende... |
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Ach doch, (Dec 31 2003 15:55 GMT) - eins noch: |
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- At the moment we only have 4 hens - one of our original 6 died of natural causes in the summer, and another was taken (we think) by a fox in the autumn. This spring we plan to get another... |
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- One of the few positive things to come out of the current legal battle that The SCO Group is waging towards IBM, Red Hat, and seemingly all things Linux is the growth of a new Web site that provides detailed legal analysis and information surrounding the lawsuits. Groklaw's Pamela Jones sits down for a special year-end interview with LinuxPlanet. |
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- Karen Sperling has announced the 2004 schedule for her Artistry Corel Painter v8.1 Retreats and classes -- a series of one and two-day seminars around the United States, aimed at beginners and intermediate users of Corel Painter 8.1. |
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- Lists can be made to mean anything, but it's interesting to see that one 'Irishman' - Daniel Day Lewis - has made a list of the Greatest Movie Stars of all Time, in at Number 33. |
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- Zwei Wochen nach dem Skandal um überhöhte Treibstoffrechnungen ist der US-Ölkonzern Halliburton das Pentagon als Kunden los. Nach Angaben des Verteidigungsministeriums ist das aber nicht als Bestrafung zu verstehen. |
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- New tax laws that aim to cut people’s income tax burden and lure billions of euros in foreign bank accounts back into Germany take effect on Thursday. |
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- I have many resolutions, or goals, in mind for this year -- it will be a busy year if I manage to keep them -- but only two related to blogging:Link to other sites more. I've never been a big... |
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Live (Dec 31 2003 15:54 GMT) - Armed with a bevy of Christmas gift cards and old games to trade in, I finally broke down and purchased... |
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- Tonight we'll be doing dinner with Andy & Jennifer & Gosey & Joy Lynn. Should be fun times. Not sure if we'll stay there afterwards or head over to Isaacs. Either way it'll be a good evening. I'm looking forward... |
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- MegaMacs.com offers Apollo XIII: A Night to Remember (a Mac/PC CD, not the movie) for $1.99. It's the lowest price we've seen, although shipping adds... |
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- MegaMacs.com offers Apollo XIII: A Night to Remember (a Mac/PC CD, not the movie) for $1.99. It's the lowest price we've seen, although shipping adds... |
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- We've got friends coming round in a short while, so this may be the last post of 2003. It ought ... |
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