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- Privacy = terrorism file: Defying airline and public opposition, shrubco goes ahead with plan to scan backgrounds of all passengers... |
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- Collapse of the Israeli state file: Over 100,000 protest settlement evacuation plans... |
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- Parmalat scandal rooted in local family/town culture (unlike wild blue yonder firms like Enron and WorldCom) yet implicating global financial concerns like Citibank and Standard & Poor's in web of deceit... |
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- LOS ANGELES--Powered by voter anger, wall-to-wall media coverage, and a beautifully cut gray-flannel Prada suit, Arnold Schwarzenegger swept into the governor's office in Sacramento last November promising "action, action, action, action." So far, the former bodybuilder has delivered. |
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- “Like everything Apple makes, Safari combines a clean, simple interface with sophisticated functionality,” writes Walt Mossberg in his Personal Technology column for the Wall Street Journal. “It has a built-in popup blocker, and a built-in Google search box that spares you the need to navigate to the Google Web site.” [Jan 12] |
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- Watch Jamie Cool describe how the next version of Visual Studio, codenamed "Whidbey," introduces a technology codenamed "ClickOnce" that allows developers to write Windows Forms applications that utilize the powerful features of the client, yet are as hassle-free to deploy and update as a Web page. |
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- Create a practice environment for developing ADSI scripts, with ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode), without having to install Active Directory. |
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- HALMSTAD - Per turns 45 today. We know that normally the 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th ... anniversaries are the ones that get special attention, but since 2003 has been such a great, special, amazing year for The Man, we just thought he deserved some special attention, and also remember other special moments in Per's life. January 12, 1959 Per is born. 1978 First record ever - The "Billy" EP. |
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- Last week, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) held a public hearing Alabama to consider a proposed revision to the Alabama State Implementation Plan (SIP) concerning redesignation of the Birmingham 1-hour ozone nonattainment area (Jefferson and Shelby Counties) to attainment under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone. If approved, the state will be able to declare that it is finally, after 26 years, passing federal ozone rules. However, even if the current SIP is revised to reflect attainment, more violations are expected when more strict federal rules soon come into effect. The Birmingham News reported that the EPA recently wrote the state a letter informing that both counties are in violation of the upcoming ozone standard. The new standards consider the latest research that shows more lung damage occuring from longer exposure to low levels of ozone than from one-time peaks. |
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- The EPA is today putting into effect Performance Specification 11 (PS-11): Specifications and Test Procedures for Particulate Matter Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems at Stationary Sources, and Procedure 2: Quality Assurance (QA) Requirements for Particulate Matter Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems at Stationary Sources. The PS-11 and QA Procedure 2 will apply to sources that are required under an applicable regulation to use particulate matter continuous emission monitoring systems (PM CEMS) to monitor PM continuously. The PS-11 and Procedure 2 will help to ensure that PM CEMS are installed and operated properly and produce good quality monitoring data on an ongoing basis. |
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- A new Bush Administration regulation meant to ease requirements under the Clean Air Act New Source Review provision was blocked by a federal court two days prior to the scheduled date of effect late December, 2003. The EPA regulation would have allowed chemical companies, refineries and power plants to modify facilities without having to install modern pollution controls, if the cost of such modifications is under 20% of the unit's replacement value. Industry has supported the new rule, saying that they have limited modernization of facilities in the past due to the cost of implementing new controls required by the New Source Review provision. Environmental groups and state regulators oppose the regulation, saying it will lead to increased air pollution from these industries. Several states, cities and environmental groups sued the Bush Administration over the rule and the court has halted implementation of the rule until later this year. |
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- “When noted biologist David Botstein was lured from Stanford University to head the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton, he had his choice of computing systems,” writes Matthew Herper for Forbes.com. “But Botstein says he outfitted the center almost soup to nuts with Apple computers and servers, which are used for everything from desktop applications to comparing lengths of genetic code. By eschewing the more expensive workstations that high-tech biologists have come to rely on, he says he has also cut down on the cost of maintaining his number-crunching machines.” [Jan 12] |
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- Based on my previous entry, I thought I'd post some ways you can limit being forced to make incorrect choices. A project should undergo a period of time with persons with knowledge in all the areas of the project. Decisions should be made based on the collective input. Resist decisions being made at the early stage, without serious thought Keep code and architecture Agile by Designing in layers (tremendously important) Keeping a distinction between data and its services Using OO and SOA wisely. (There is a place for both, but they can both be used in the wrong places) Keep Business rules highly maintainable. |
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- Club Dread at StudioZ every Monday! JAH YZER (Jah Warrior Shelter Hi Fi) and JAH LOVE UNIVERSAL SOUNDS |
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