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- And the annual WVU Bowl Game tradition continues: Scott McBrien threw for a career-high 381 yards to help Maryland (No.... |
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Kirt Wins (Jan 01 2004 23:59 GMT) - Kirt Nilson from Norway today took out World Idol. Early in the competition the bookies had him as second last favourite. His presentation of U2's 'Beautiful Day' not only captured the attention of the judges who installed him as a... |
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- Mexican Flight Denied Clearance to Fly to LA Reuters - An Aeromexico flight to Los Angeles from Mexico City was canceled on New Year's Eve when officials citing security reasons said it would not be allowed to land, Mexican officials said on Thursday. |
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- We spent the new year in Lohja, watched the fireworks in town, had some drinks, then brought in the new... |
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Risks? (Jan 01 2004 23:59 GMT) - ARAB NEWS: Palestinian Resistance Must Retain Its Moral Edge Palestinians have the right of self-defense, and the unequivocal right of ridding themselves of the occupation. These rights are protected in international law and require little debate or intellectual tussling. But... |
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Back (Jan 01 2004 23:58 GMT) - We're back. A little later than we thought, but we're back. Being stuck using a dialup connection that costs about 60 cents a minute really... |
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- If I was good at betting on sports, I would live in Las Vegas and not New York. But... |
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- I always thought Colin Powell was the only one on Team Bush with a whit of sense, and though he can never overcome his loss of credibility for that sham of a presentation to the UN and his lockstep march... |
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- Congratulations to Jamais Cascio for his book Broken Dreams being out for a week now (What is this? Did they release it on Christmas Eve?). He came a couple of times to the Future Salon, but then got bogged down with finishing the book. Together with Alex Steffen he is also editing the exceptional Weblog WorldChanging |
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- President Bush exercised compassion by having Treasury Secretary John Snow open up the financial spigots to allow Americans to send aid to help Iranians recover from the cataclysmic earthquake that struck them on December 26. Though I agree with almost nothing else that he has done, I sincerely salute Bush on this truly American humanitarian deed.... |
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- feliz ano novo para vc tb fofa, e tudo vai se resolvre mesmo nesse ano novo !!!! beijos saudosos !!! |
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- Que tudo se resolva mesmo! Feliz 2004, muita paz, saude e dindim :) Beijos |
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- I could be wrong, I got two things that day, a |
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- A few years back Ken and I decided to follow the tradition that whatever happens on the first day of the new year will happen the rest of the year. Therefore we always aim to enjoy our day, while... |
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- Big - And I Mean BIG - Snake This just gives me the creeps. The largest snake ever caught is said to have been snared by villagers in Indonesia. The python is almost 15 metres long and weighs nearly 450 kilograms, a local official said today. 15 meters. |
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- I'm going to be following this, since I've also been thinking about this, and I can't wait to find out how things work out. |
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- I am adding this post because I want to keep track of the link to the 10 favorite IT power bloggers. I read most of these guys, but not all. |
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- Gateway 2 Russia Jan 1 2004 5:25PM ET... |
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- Canadian Press via Canada.com Jan 1 2004 5:15PM ET... |
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- ZDNet Australia Jan 1 2004 6:30PM ET... |
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- Economictimes Jan 1 2004 5:37PM ET... |
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- Gateway 2 Russia Jan 1 2004 5:25PM ET... |
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- Die seit Wochen anhaltenden Unruhen in Haiti sind am 200. Jahrestag der Unabhängigkeit eskaliert. In der Stadt Gonaives schossen Aufständische auf eine Wagenkolonne des Präsidenten Aristide. In Port-au-Prince kam es bei Demonstrationen zu schweren Ausschreitungen. |
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- gardel writes "So everyone's top-tech predictions for 2004 says it will be the year of VoIP. What does that really mean? This may narrow it down. Here's ... |
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- Earlier in the week I had decided that the port replicator for my laptop had died. It would power on, start to boot the laptop, and then power off. Today I decided to try and make it work again ...... |
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- More Hispanic Marketing.... |
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- And if I could have a hammock on the float in the middle of the lake...that would be really great...this is a photo of me enjoying Brazil in 1995. |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - MiTAC has said that they plan to introduce ten new Microsoft Smartphone-powered cellphones next year, and MSMobiles reports that the first of them, the long-anticipated... |
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- Comcast for $20? Roadrunner for $26.95?. When DSL providers dropped their prices this year, there was supposed to be a full-blown price-war with cable. Well, there was no war - but some interesting, albeit regional, cable bargains emerged to indicate there's at least the hint of a skirmish.. |
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- Despite early concerns of collapse. In the middle of 2002, it looked like Satellite radio was going to be a short lived experiment that wound up staring bankruptcy in the eye. But the industry's two major players, XM Satellite Radio and Sirius are still kicking, and still earning prai.. |
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- Philly, Denver, Boston POPs closing. Discussion is ripe in our Speakeasy forum about the company's decision to eliminate some points of presence (POP's) in a cost savings push. Denver, Boston, and Philadelphia pops will be converted to Network Access Points (NAP's), resulting in slight.. |
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- Hopes to file IPO for 22 percent ownership. Comcast looks to expedite sales of its 22 percent stake in Time Warner Cable, acquired after its purchase of AT&T Broadband in 2002. The two companies have been looking to unwind their partnership for some time. According to Bloomberg News and .. |
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- Top spam subjects, top searches. Viagra, "Lowest mortgage rates" and "Hot XXX action" were the most common spam subject lines in 2003. According to Yahoo, KaZaa beat out such typically common subjects like "Eminem" and "Britney Spears" as the top searched for term of 2003. Reuters.. |
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- How many of us forward e-mail to friends or co-workers. You may do this to pass on a good joke or even warn your co-workers of the latest Internet virus. You may find that you are being duped into exposing your e-mail address book to unsavory spammers. Did you know that many of the "chain" e-mails you receive about new Internet viruses are probably hoaxes? The purpose of these e-mails may be to get you to expose your e-mail address book or just plain anarchy to clog up the Internet or your corporate e-mail servers. |
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- David Bale, an activist and the husband of feminist writer Gloria Steinem, has died at age 62. Bale, the father of actor Christian Bale, died Tuesday of brain lymphoma at Santa Monica Healthcare Center, where he had been residing since November, family friend Carla Morganstern said Thursday. |
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- So yesterday, the passengers of a British Airways passengers sat on the tarmac and waited three hours to deplane. Today that same flight was cancelled altogether. On tonight's news, a government official indicated that (paraphrased) "americans should get used to frequent disruptions of their travel schedules". Mind you with all the flights that the government has cancelled or quarantined over the last couple weeks, they've yet to actually catch anyone. So, basically, it seems like it's the government's assertion to completely fuck with peoples' schedules, not care about it too terribly much, and do it in such a broad net that they're not actually going to even be sure to "catch the bad guys". |
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- Steyn says: How good 2004 is can be measured by how well some of the following turn out. Here a look at the list: 1) SADDAM’S TRIAL In a nutshell: A courtroom in Baghdad: |
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- Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, disputes and ethnic differences have raised their ugly heads as delegates attempt to hammer out an acceptable constitution: Debate on Afghanistan's new constitution descended into chaos on Thursday as bitter ethnic divisions erupted and nearly half the delegates at the grand assembly boycotted a vote intended to settle outstanding issues and seal the text of the charter. After three days of false starts as government and western officials... |
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- Thousands of people face a second night without power after blizzards in northern England. |
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- Well, that's what Ireland's laconic smokers are calling it, anyway. (Language note: the word "fag" in Hiberno-English refers to a... |
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