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- This is amazing. Imagine where this technology will take us in 20 years. I've read reviews that QRIO can walk, run, dance, perform martial arts and even hula-hoop.... |
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- This is amazing. Imagine where this technology will take us in 20 years. I've read reviews that QRIO can walk, run, dance, perform martial arts and even hula-hoop.... |
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- Since Ron Suskind?s alleged tell-all book has come out, Paul O?Neill, the ex-treasury secretary whose revelations the book is based on, has taken to the talk-show circuit in an attempt to disavow many of the more sensational quotes from the book. James Joyner is among those noting O?Neill? |
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- آنها ۲۳ سال پيش ازدواج کردهاند |
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- A quick check of swfan.wizards.com will show you that the failed Wizards Fan Club store has finally been put to rest. It's about time. |
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- I'm way too lazy to make separate entries today, so you'll have to deal with a combination of what I wrote on my livejournal. Here it is. Killer times lately. Monday, tried to get into the screenprint class. No luck.... |
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- So far I’ve had good luck with Microsoft’s new filter for Outlook. However, I run SpamAssassin on my Webspiffy mail account, which catches about 99% of spam with no false positives. The spam I get that Outlook takes care of is from my UCLA account. |
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- C-SPAN.org: Search Results: "Carly Fiorina, Chairman & CEO of Hewlett-Packard, speaks to students at the University of Maryland" |
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- When it comes to launching millions of pounds of material into space, nearly everyone knows about the Orion Project. Blow up a series of nuclear bombs under your dairy-aire and ride the explosion on up. Unfortunately, the Orion spewed out so much radiatio |
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- Ian went to bed last night with a sore throat, and woke me up middle of the night to say he thought he was coming down with a cold. Gave me some psychosomatic symptoms (after all, my head's on the pillow beside his, breathing in all his exhaled cold germs) and kept me awake part of the morning. I guzzled down OJ and hot tea with breakfast and seemed to escape the worst. Unfortunately, Ian's still unwell.At any rate... |
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- Yahoo's plan a cure, or a placebo?. We recently gave an overview of Yahoo's Domain Keys proposal, an anti-spam open-source system that uses public key cryptography to digitally sign e-mail and verify its origins. However many anti-spam crusaders aren't thrilled by the idea of putting .. |
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- Petitions, threats, and deserters..... According to Comcast, "less than one one-hundredth of 1 percent" of users have found their accounts terminated for crossing the company's invisible download barrier. That hasn't stopped users in our Comcast forum from continuing their assault on th.. |
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- Audio-video conferencing standard flaw. The H.323 protocol, primarily used for video-conferencing and VoIP applications, has been consistently beaten down as a troublesome cluster of standards and protocols since its inception. Flaws in the implementation of these standards is now raising.. |
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- 'Forced bundling' getting closer look. As we've discussed in the past, the bells have found themselves under fire for terminating DSL subscriptions of customers who switch their local voice carrier to competitors- often claiming that continuing to offer service is technologically impossib.. |
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- Broadband-via power-line in Manassas. The nation's first non-trial broadband via power-line city is set to go live next week. Residents of Manassas, Virginia will see speeds between 560 and 840kbps for $27.00 a month - via their electrical outlets. The BPL (broadband via power-line) co.. |
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First Post (Jan 14 2004 02:55 GMT) - My first blog entry, I am excited. Not sure what this is supposed to be about actually, I guess just to keep myself sane and document some of interesting, or not so interesting, stuff that I do, work on, learn, etc. How is a blog different from a journal? Is it supposed to be? Maybe someone can answer that for me before I go nuts here and start ranting about how my boyfriend slept with my sister, my best friend, and my dog. |
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- We have recently installed a number of quick new Linux boxes, and I am eager to get TWiki running there. However, I ran into one (or more) very frustrating problems ... |
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- WITNESS: Instapundit decides that it's a good idea to smear Joe Conason's story on Salon by deriding him for accusing Halliburton of wanting to drill for Martian oil. Absurd? Of course. READ: |
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- Four months after Foreign Minister Anna Lindh was fatally stabbed in a department store, her confessed killer takes the stand Wednesday in a murder trial surrounded by questions about the man's motive and mental health. |
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- AP: Palestinian Authority may miss February Payroll I'm not usually the one (or two, or three) to do the jokes about the Palestinians, but I'm pretty sure it was one of the clauses in my ATS contract that I make... |
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- TSL is Feedster's "Feed of the Day," so a hearty welcome to new visitors! If you're not already following their FOTD, it's a cool way to find new sites, and naturally there is an RSS feed for it. "Of all the RSS feeds now floating around, there are many you long know about--but don't. That's why Feedster puts a new "Feed of the Day" on our home page seven days a week. We used to call this 'Interesting Blog of the Day'--but there are so many good feeds that just aren't blogs. |
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- The 10.3 version of the Installer application can handle multiple simultaneous installs at the same time. Simply open mutiple .pkg files (you don't even have to do it at the same time), and Installer will properly handle thin... [macosxhints] |
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- These are some of Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi's secret sketches for two illegal long-range missiles, one using two engines and... |
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- Sexual Services for the Disabled. When the taboos of prostitution and sex of the disabled meet, there's bound to be plenty of controversy. In Germany, the Dutch prostitute Nina de Vries stands at the center of this debate. She offers erotic massages to mentally retarded clients and trains others to do the same. Recently she attempted to create a network of sexual caregivers in Zurich and was rebuffed. |
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- Vic Wertz from the U.S. Official Fan club today posted a huge teaser over at the Starwars.com forums when he was dropping hints about the next issue of the Insider. "The new column we're debuting is the oft-requested continuation of the Action Figure Archive, originally published by Chronicle Books. |
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- A long discussion about the need to have kids so they take care of you in your old age or winning the lottery somehow led to this: me: the thing is that miscarriages are actually a lot more common than people think. nadia: Yeah. |
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- :heart: :heart: thank you, everyone, for the supportive comments. : |
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- People like me who have enormous respect for the intelligence and judgment of Alan Greenspan have long been puzzled at his approval of the Bush administration's 2001 tax cut. It never fit our picture of who the man was and what he thought. Now, thanks to Paul O'Neill's reports of his discussions with Greenspan, we have a satisfactory answer: Alan Greenspan said at the time that the 2001 tax cut was a mistake: p. |
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- Virginia Tech's new G5-based supercomputing center isn't the only place that Macs are being used for scientific research, writes Matthew Herper. Herper's new Forbes.com article, Apple's Supercomputing Scientists, profiles some of the other uses for Macs in the scientific world. [MacCentral] |
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- But according to this Guaridan article, it's not in Israel. It also postulates that the impending war is about water, not religion, and that the Jews are, of course, the bad guys. For my money, I say that the IDF... |
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- Now low carbers can have it their way at Burger King too. |
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- I've been a follower of Salam Pax's site for some time now. Although not consistently... I've found there's a limit to the amount of real news I can take about the war (and our current depressing state of politics in general). Upon receiving his book Salam Pax - The Clandestine Diary of an Ordinary Iraqi (made up entirely of blog posts between 2002 and 2003) for Christmas, I was looking forward to skimming through it and reading the chunks I had missed on the site. ... |
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- The Cardinal came to visit. |
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Papa Leave (Jan 14 2004 02:48 GMT) - This week’s Economist has an interesting article about parental leave in Sweden (alas, the Web version requires a subscription), a long-standing and generous benefit; they can take up to 13... |
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- What started out as a good idea has turned bad. Potentially, real bad. One method of music copy protection that is used by some record labels is to actually put two copies of a song on each CD. One for conventional playback and another for playback on computers, MP3 type players and for copying. ... |
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- The HIV problem among minorities, specifically among African Americans is fundamentally a social issue. One cannot expect to see a marked decrease in infection rates among blacks without implementing programs that address the social ills that pervade this particular community. For example, and this is only one of many... The problem of dislocated fathers, (some by choice and some due to incaceration) single mothers are attempting to raise families alone. A single parent household in the AA community is often times a breeding ground for teenage pregnancy and/or drug use and abuse - not to mention juvenile crime. |
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- We often speak of the behavior of molecules and of the behavior of planets orbiting our Sun. Are such examples simply demonstrations of our tendency to anthropomorphize the nature of things? Must you have intentions in order to behave? Or is behavior something more fundamental? What is the technical meaning of behavior and is attention to such definition trivial for those interested in the health consequences of behavior? |
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- I agree with Joel. The HIV pandemic has surpassed catastrophic proportions. Research has shown that the sexual promiscuity and the drug use associated with the disease, significantly contributes to the social stigma associated with HIV. As a result, sex education, including alternative sexual practices, should start at an early age and be followed with continued re-enforcements. The transmission of HIV CAN BE PREVENTED!!!... |
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- The social attitude of the society for the particular morbidity is very important, the attitude is acquired from the society & this is reflected in practice & seen as behaviour in a person. This is changed only by giving correct information and by health education.... |
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- BBC to broadcast silent orchestra. The BBC is to broadcast a live radio performance of an orchestra playing four-and-a-half minutes of silence. John Cage's seminal work 4'33" will be the highlight of a concert on Radio 3. The piece consists of four minutes and 33 seconds' worth of nothing. [Ananova] Recently I pointed to some discussions on the fate of classical recording, in which the point was made that there really hasn't been much worth recording written in the last hundred years. |
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- Makes perfect sense. By the way, PO in the following quote means "purchase order" which is an arbitrary example object. From Web services = or != distributed objects? QUOTEYou would think that given the arbitrary extensibility of a dist-obj style interface, this would have taken off. |
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