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- The radio in the cab advertised some language course, loudly, frantically. It might have been “Spanish in 30 days”, “no effort at all”. |
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Test post (Jan 12 2004 04:59 GMT) - Test to see if we can post again. |
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Test post (Jan 12 2004 04:59 GMT) - Test to see if we can post again. |
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- The preeminent interactive information access device in the business world today is clearly the personal computer. Via the PC, individuals access the exploding array of information sources both within their businesses and throughout the Internet. PCs are rapidly penetrating the consumer environment as well, and we strongly believe that the PC will become the center for national information infrastructure access for the residential consumer. This paper develops themes by examining the forces that are driving corporate PC network access to the NII and the various network topologies being discussed for the residential environment as well as possible future service directions. |
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- PHILADELPHIA - A recreational vehicle caught fire outside Lincoln Financial Field during the Philadelphia Eagles playoff game on Sunday, but no one was hurt. |
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- Jewelry in the news: Team effort leads to quick arrest of suspected jewelry thief.... |
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- "State law adapting to new kinds of families; Ruling imminent on man claiming 'equitable adoption'": This article will appear in Monday's issue of The San Francisco Chronicle. |
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- God Told Me To (1976, Larry Cohen)... |
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- Kazza started talking about Superman movie, and it made me suddenly remember that I haven't watched them in years. Though... |
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- Diamonds in the news: Russia to increase diamond mining in 2004.... |
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- As previously mentioned, I am having good luck working with XQuery. Today, I was experimenting with pulling multiple RSS feeds together into a single feed. Here is a sample XQuery and result: ... |
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- Weekly Fitness Blog Item - 162 pounds. Waist has ballooned to 33.5". Resting pulse: 70. |
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- How Come Major Media Websites STILL Don't Get the Internet? The Washington Times runs a not-terribly-informative story on the 2004... |
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- This Just In - Communism still sucks.... |
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- I Hate You and I Wish You Were Dead - Ginger Stampley says Mike Koslowski is a "silly idiot" for... |
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- A Fanboy's Further Ado - In correspondence with Sean Collins about the Marvel Age imprint reworkings of classic Lee/Kirby/Ditko material,... |
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Pranks (Jan 12 2004 04:58 GMT) - A Washington man's apartment-sitter wrapped everything he owned in aluminium foil while he was away: A lone book titled Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends was untouched. But nearly everything else in Chris Kirk's downtown Olympia apartment was encased in aluminum foil when he returned home Monday night from a trip to Los Angeles. The walls, ceiling, cabinets and everything in between now shimmer with a metallic glow, thanks to a prank by Kirk's longtime friend, Olympia native Luke Trerice. If that prank doesn't float your boat there's always the teenage pranksters who 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. |
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Pranks (Jan 12 2004 04:58 GMT) - A Washington man's apartment-sitter wrapped everything he owned in aluminium foil while he was away: A lone book titled Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends was untouched. But nearly everything else in Chris Kirk's downtown Olympia apartment was encased in aluminum foil when he returned home Monday night from a trip to Los Angeles. The walls, ceiling, cabinets and everything in between now shimmer with a metallic glow, thanks to a prank by Kirk's longtime friend, Olympia native Luke Trerice. If that prank doesn't float your boat there's always the teenage pranksters who 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. |
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- Jewelry in the news: $90,000 diamond robbery reported at Fashion Valley.... |
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- Already, I have taken like four naps and slept a full night on this ship. We did not depart Miami until 2 AM because of some sort of malfunction, so when I woke, we were moving very quickly. More quickly,... |
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- Information about the hobby of collecting authentic and reproduction Sci-fi weapons, props, and costumes. Topics covered include what to collect, terminology, authentication, replica pages,... |
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- To oppose confident credibility is to hate America. Sean Penn and his ultra-crepidarian MEChA members are at it again. "I thought the hijackers were Saudi," he said at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Because, you see, America is "a... |
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- I've been off, but what have I accomplished? Patch for Mozilla Bug 94787.Learned a bit of Javascript, and some XUL (hopefully more Mozilla work soon).Some updates to blog templates/atom feed/other blog stuff.Patch for SpamAssassin Bug 2889. |
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Loki Dog (Jan 12 2004 04:54 GMT) - New page. |
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- Now that we've competed the first week of 2004, let me say 'Happy New Year' and let's take a look at that fist week. With everything from landing the Mars rover to President Bush being compared to Hitler (again), Brittany spears getting (sorta) ma... |
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- The chipmaker gets involved in Linux users' legal battle against SCO Group, contributing money to a defense fund designed to help them fight off suits. |
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- Crains Detroit Business Jan 11 2004 10:41PM ET... |
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- Jang Group Jan 11 2004 10:41PM ET... |
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- CNN Jan 11 2004 11:07PM ET... |
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- Tulsa World Jan 11 2004 11:12PM ET... |
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- Israel National News Jan 11 2004 11:25PM ET... |
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- Pagans are sometimes vocal about the discrimination and acrimony fired against them by Christian fundamentalists. There's certainly room for complaint - witness the flap over Pagan worship in the military just a few years back, when some extremist groups called for banning Pagans from the service. While offensive, however, this is mild compared to what's happening in India. Ryan's Lair is tracking the Shiv Sena organization's violent attacks aginst BORI, a research institute in India. The institute's crime? |
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- Pakistani Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali arrived Monday in Afghanistan for talks with President Hamid Karzai expected to focus on the stepped-up struggle against Islamic militants along the rugged border between the two countries. |
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- Chemicals from underarm deodorants and other cosmetics can build up inside the body, according to a study. |
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- An anti-smoking charity is warning bosses that they now face legal action if they fail to protect workers from tobacco smoke. |
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- Three men are due in court on Monday in connection with the alleged murder of a holidaymaker at Liverpool's airport. |
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- I think one of the most exciting things I've experienced since I put my weblog out there is the sudden increase in emails from old friends and coworkers. I've never really established any deep friendships since I was a teenager, but I have had great coworkers who I would consider good friends. Especially from my time at the Acxiom corporation. |
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- Posted by The Happy Tutor In George Dafermos's "Blogging the Market," we have once again a market/blog manifesto written in the ringing tones of a political call to action, invoking even Athens, and calling for no collective action for a greater good, only consumer choices in a market in which the Corporation, like Mommy and Daddy listens attentively to what the Consumer Child wants for Christmas. This, as in Cluetrain is the voice of a society which has forgotten the meaning of the word citizen. This is what blogging is all about, an unmediated relationship between people in the market. |
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- It is an excercise in futility to attempt to set some people straight on the facts, but at times some straightening needs doing. Take this comment from Matthew Yglesias: It seems to me that the badness of George W. Bush is at least 70 percent a matter of lost opportunities. The nineties boom dealt him a strong hand on fiscal policy as did 9/11 in its way on foreign policy, and he's played both very poorly. |
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- With Saddam caught, one of the Dem's favorite questions is no longer available to attack Bush.. Still, there is the 'Where's Osama?' mantra in the arsenal, but even that one seems to have lost some of its luster. But there is another question you won't hear asked: Where's Karadzic? |
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- Linda and Cassie under a pretty Portola Valley sky this AM. Good hike... |
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- "The purpose of this document, which is a part of the Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library and of the Zen Buddhism WWW Virtual Library, is to provide comprehensive and factual information about the koans (J.) [kung-ans (C.), kong-ans (C.), cong-an (Viet.), hua-t'ou (C. |
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- Jeff and I have been planning to take a long Valentine's weekend (which turns out to be President's Day weekend as well, a Monday holiday for me) trip to Manhattan, and today we finally got around to doing more than talking about it. Jeff already had tickets to see the Rufus Wainwright concert that weekend, and even now he's plotting out the other shows we hope to see while there: Avenue Q definitely, and probably one or two others from among Wicked (the cast recording to which I downloaded this evening from iTunes, and we're listening to it right now), The Boy From Oz and Rent. I had really wanted to see Take Me Out, but it seems to have closed its run at the Walter Kerr Theater. For now, I've made reservations for us at the Roger Williams, just so we'll be sure to have a place to stay that holiday weekend. |
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