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- An Illinois woman sentenced to 50 years in prison for killing a man in 1997 is out of jail. |
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- Nearly two dozen students were treated at a local hospital after a sewer gas leak at Chester High School. |
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- Federal aviation officials are trying to figure out what caused a door to fall off an airplane flying over Galesburg. |
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- í gær, þann 7. janúar, rann út frestur Alberts Jónssonar til að skila einkunnum úr Aþjóðastjórnmálum. ekkert bólar þó á eink ... |
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- "Police believe teenage pranksters are hacking into the wireless frequency of a US Burger King drive-through speaker to tell potential customers they are too fat for fast food. Policeman Gerry Scherlink said the pranksters told one customer who had just placed an order: 'You don't need a couple of Whoppers. You are too fat. Pull ahead. |
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- Announcing new project: BNF for Java... |
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- Learn how to use JavaServer Pages for localization and multilingual applications. |
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- Catch the latest product downloads, code camps, books and more by reviewing December's Core and Enterprise Java Technology Newsletters. |
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- web ad.vantage Jan 9 2004 5:28PM ET... |
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- Internet News Jan 9 2004 5:42PM ET... |
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- DoubleClick secures exclusive management of Pfizer campaigns; FindWhat.com adds one to its board; Epsilon hires a former DoubleClick exec. |
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- IBM will add its middleware to RealNetworks' latest platform to help... companies bring audio and video content to consumers. ... |
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- ... Court bars two Chicago area residents from participating in Web auctions and orders more than $90,000 in consumer redress. ... |
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- http://planetrdf.com/ Planet RDF is an aggregate of the weblogs of software developers in and around the semantic web community. We hope both to take advantage of the community that exists, and also to foster more collaboration between independent developers. Although by nature not always 100% focused on semantic web content, it provides a great snapshot of the work being done and new web sites of interest to those working on the semantic web. |
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- What a shock! US businesses added few jobs when the ENTIRE NATION WAS ON VACATION LAST MONTH. THIS IS REALLY FRONT PAGE MATERIAL NEW YORK TIMES! But this isn't what I want to write about. I just heard a report on NPR that stated, and I'm paraphrasing: |
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- Anticapitalistas contra o Fórum Económico Mundial |
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- Sony Ericsson today announced that its T610 replacement will come in black and will be sold by T-Mobile. The T630 has all the features of the T610, an improved screen and a few more items including a redesigned case. The... |
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- Last post by Beelzebub on 21:57 09/Jan/04 - when do you say payed and when do you say paid? |
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- Try this at home:Police believe teenage pranksters are hacking into the wireless frequency of a US Burger King drive-through speaker to tell potential customers they are too fat for fast food. ... Officer Scherlinck said the men are telling customers who order a Coca-Cola that, "We don't have Coke." And when the customer asks what they do have, the hacker would say: |
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- “A typical Ford vehicle on the road today gets fewer miles per gallon than the Model-T did 80 years ago.” |
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- The Guardian reports:A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity". As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction. |
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- That is, IF we LOVE FREEDOM. From the register:A mother's enquiry about buying Microsoft Flight Simulator for her ten-year-old son prompted a night-time visit to her home from a state trooper. Julie Olearcek, a USAF Reserve pilot made the enquiry at a Staples store in Massachusetts, home to an earlier bout of hysteria, during the Salem witch trials. |
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- President Vicente Fox said Friday that most Mexican migrants who would benefit from immigration reforms proposed by President Bush don't want to become U.S. citizens. |
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- As well as no one knows anyone who wants it. Since BOB unfortunately became the largest Flop from Microsoft. Visit the official unofficial German BOB site, and Windows History, there are also over 670 screen shots. |
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- Weil hier auf dem Blog so lange nix passiert ist, gibt's heute mal ein paar Links zu Bildergallerien mit Fotos von Neuseeland. Kennt jemand von euch noch weitere schöne Fotogallerien? ginini.com.au (200 Fotos) Backpack New Zealand (51 Fotos) Pure ... |
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- http://www. linuxexposed. com/modules. php? |
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- http://users. 757. org/~joat/blog/archives/001372 html NetworkWorld Fusion has a howto for securing your wireless network. Thanks Joat! |
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- Charles Murtaugh points me to this article in The Economist (via Orinn Judd). It argues that there is "...a trade-off between the benefits of scale and the costs of heterogeneity." Duh! That's why I'm a federalist, and when I'm less... |
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- The United States has lowered its security alert for the country, and at the same time it expedites security at Port Huron's Blue Water Bridge. ABC12's Cathy Shafran had more. |
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- The disappearance Dorothy Murphy last July stunned Mundy Township. But after the arrest of a suspect in her death, family and police have been able to find some closure. |
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- A Flint institution that helps abused and battered children got ripped off by a circus promoter, so changes have been made with a similar circus that opened on Friday. |
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- New issue on anti-Iraq War and anti-FTAA demonstrations. |
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- Kathleen Brown was about to stand trial for murder on Friday, charged with smothering her newborn baby boy, when the D.A. dropped a bombshell. Another newborn that died eight months earlier had DNA that matched Brown. |
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- More fallout over the guitar signed by ex-Beatle George Harrison. The Staten Island doctor accused of forcing Harrison to sign the guitar while on his death bed is about to lose his job. |
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- There are new concerns for those who eat salmon. A new study says we should eat less of the popular fish. It focused on farm-raised salmon, which is what we're eating half the time or more when we buy salmon. Sade Baderinwa has more. |
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- The Topic Exchange now parses SoundBlox XML files. These are the files that contain playlist information for the Laszlo SoundBlox widget. Here's Marc Canter's one. (You need to be logged in, sorry.) Comment |
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- Look guys and gals TO is #1 on WiFi Meetup. Here are the top 5: 1. Toronto, ON (162 members)... |
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- PHPIndex publie actuellement un article visant à recenser les différentes solutions groupware développées en PHP. De très bonnes solutions qui pourraient, à terme, mettre en difficulté les solutions Exchange jugées souvent trop onéreuses. |
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- Think you’re a shoo-in for admission to your dad’s college just because he went there? Think again. Giving preference to children of alumni—legacies—has come under fire recently, as concerns about preferences of any sort continue to surface. This article discusses... |
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- A Whole Different StoryRereading the news from the 2000 Iowa caucauses sure gets you thinking. I get the feeling the turn out in Iowa is going to be a lot more impressive this time around:CNN estimated that only 8.3 percent of the state's voting age population actually turned up at caucus voting places, with 3.5 percent of these attending Democratic gatherings, and 4. |
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- My boss was on a bit of a rampage today and was on a mission to make our workspace more usable. Ever since we moved into the new area, they've been talking about finding us somewhere better to go. And... |
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