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- Regular readers will recall my one man campaign against sandwich chain Pret a Manger, a crusade made necessary by the company's move from a superior - some might say Godlike - recipe for banana cake to a markedly mediocre monstrosity containing nuts. It's been a bit quiet on the campaign trail of late, but I'm very pleased today to be able to report a major development. I've received an e-mail from Pret's Head of Customer Services, Janet Prescott. She writes:We've taken on board what you've said and changed the recipe. |
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- The primary focus of Leatherwood Online is on what's in the pages, not on the technology behind the pages. Moving parts for the site are kept to a minimum and preferably hidden, as much as possible. Some of the technology is directly accessible by the readers, such as movies, and the forum, but much is behind the scenes: providing ad review sites for the customers and file uploading for the photographers, that sort of thing. After all, trying to send an 18 MB file through... |
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- The Rocky Mountain Blogger Roundup is being hosted by Matthew Edgar. You won't find ResurrectionSong there because I'm a dork.... |
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- Posted by The Happy Tutor Interesting model from right wing philanthropy. Donor Trust offers donor advised funds plus gift consulting. They also support the right wing think tank at The Philanthropic Enterprise. Papers there look askance at liberal and progressive traditions of philanthropy and tout free market alternatives. |
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- Вооруженное восстание на Гаити охватило 11 городов страны, сообщает РИА “Новости”. По информации местного радио и представителей Красного Креста, за последние дни в ходе столкновений между противниками президента Жана-Бертрана Аристида и верными ему силами правопорядка погибло около 40 человек. В ходе волнений из населенных пунктов в первую очередь изгоняются местные полицейские и поджигаются полицейские участки. Лидеры повстанцев отказываются от проведения переговоров о новых выборах в стране до тех пор, пока Аристид, которого они обвиняют в коррупции и нарушениях прав человека, не откажется от должности. Волна протестов против Аристида началась в четверг, когда повстанцы захватили четвертый во величине город страны Гонаив, в котором проживает более 200 тыс человек. |
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- The Orcadian reports:"Orkney Islands Council and Orkney Enterprise have welcomed plans for a wireless broadband service across all rural Orkney by 2005. Initial pilots in five Scottish areas (including Westray and Papay ) proved all the major principles underlying the project, allowing commercial rollout of the service to be planned." |
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- Just a fast note from your favorite girls Daddy to let you know that there are two new sets of... |
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- "The Yankee Group anticipates Verizon Communications will pass more than 350,000 customer locations with fiber by the end of 2004. This is significantly less than the 1 million locations Verizon is advertising, due to a murky regulatory environment. Nevertheless, this deployment should generate more than $150 million in broadband equipment revenue. During the next five years, the Yankee Group forecasts the deployment will reach almost 6 million homes, apartments and businesses, and will generate equipment revenue of nearly $3 billion for Verizon alone. " |
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- Federal Computer Week profile of Truckee Donner Public Utility District's FTTH (fiber to the home) project, which gets underway this summer. |
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- "Telecom Ottawa Limited, a broadband data utility and Internet services provider operating in Eastern Ontario, Canada has launched a municipal Wi-Fi service trial in the City of Ottawa using the BelAir Networks cellular LAN architecture. The trial involves deployment of BelAir200 wireless internetworking nodes to provide Wi-Fi service in the common areas and meeting rooms at Ottawa City Hall and in the public areas of the Nepean Sportsplex, a sports and recreation facility. These deployments will allow visitors to use standard Wi-Fi-enabled hardware such as laptops and PDAs to wirelessly access the Internet for e-mail, web surfing, virtual private networks for corporate access, file transfer and instant messaging. 'When you combine Wi-Fi technology like that developed by BelAir Networks with a fiber backbone of the kind employed by Telecom Ottawa, you suddenly have very cost-effective access technology for providing high-speed wireless Internet service at the municipal level," said Dave Dobbin, Chief Operating Officer, Telecom Ottawa.'" "Telecom Ottawa is owned by municipal power utility Hydro Ottawa. |
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- AllHeadlineNews.com - Feb 10 2004 4:49:0 GMT |
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- www.cbsnews.com - Feb 10 2004 4:38:21 GMT |
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- www.cnn.com - Feb 10 2004 4:34:6 GMT |
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- abcnews.go.com - Feb 10 2004 4:24:40 GMT |
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- www.bbc.co.uk - Feb 10 2004 4:14: |
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- csmonitor.com - Feb 10 2004 4:5:34 GMT |
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- abcnews.go.com - Feb 10 2004 4:5:20 GMT |
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- abcnews.go.com - Feb 10 2004 4:0:31 GMT |
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- abcnews.go.com - Feb 10 2004 4:0:30 GMT |
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- abcnews.go.com - Feb 10 2004 3:55:41 GMT |
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Sproing. (Feb 09 2004 23:58 GMT) - Most days this web serving thing makes complete sense. Then there are days like today. For some inexplicable reason, the server which you are now accessing without any trouble whatsoever, decided to take leave of its senses this morning. Not only did it n |
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- Washington, D.C.'s Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) has selected Cisco Systems equipment for its' DC-Net municipal fiber optic network."Still in the development phases on an OC-48 SONET backbone, DC-Net will eventually link over 300 sites throughout Washington, DC, allowing OCTO to consolidate data and voice communications traffic from all of the city's agencies. Examples of services that DC-Net will provide include real-time interactive video for public schools as well as an updated emergency communications system for the police and fire departments. |
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- Progress Telecom, jointly-owned by power utility Progress Energy and Odyssey Telecorp, is doubling its' presence in Washington, D.C. |
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- The great grassroots team at National Grassroots for Dean have created a new way for you to get out the message that the best way to defeat George W. Bush is to nominate Howard Dean. They've created an 18 minute... |
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- The Seattle Times reports"Last week a huge Wi-Fi hotspot was created in a swath of Eastern Oregon known previously for its watermelons and toxic-weapons stockpile. U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore. |
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- Aasiassa arviolta yli 100 miljoonaa peruskouluikäistä lasta ei saa kouluopetusta, vaikka oppilasluvut kasvoivat koko 1990-luvun ajan. |
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- Saksan liittokansleri Gerhard Schröder on ilmaissut epäilyksensä siitä, valmistuuko EU: |
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- Uusi Mydoom-virukselle sukua oleva Doomjuice-verkkomato on löytynyt, tietoturvayhtiö F-Secure kertoo tiedotteessaan. Doomjuice iskee koneisiin, jotka Mydoomin A-versio on jo saastuttanut. Doomjuice ei leviä |
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- Paikallisosuuspankkien kasvu jatkui myös viime vuonna. Liikevoittoa ryhmä kokosi 30 miljoonaa euroa. Summa pienentyi 2,6 miljoonaa edellisvuodesta. |
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- Britannia on ilmoittanut perustavansa Yhdysvaltain liittovaltion poliisin FBI:n kaltaisen organisaation saadakseen kuriin muun muassa huume- ja ihmiskaupan. Suunnitelmasta kertoivat pääministeri Tony Blair ja sisä |
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- Nyrkkeilyn raskaan sarjan ex-mestari Mike Tyson suunnittelee paluuta kehään. 37-vuotias Tyson etsii yhteistyössä |
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- This production uses the simplicity of a comp format to highlight the sexual abilities a true shining star in adult entertainment; click here for Briana Banks.... |
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- Two separate databases with personal information about children and their families were exposed on the internet - free for anyone to download - when a programmer, Mark Dennis, intentionally posted them to a message board used by computer programmers ... |
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- I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when a woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year-old... |
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Edges (Feb 09 2004 23:57 GMT) - It's the edges of my site that i dislike... I think that's the major thing... i'm fixing it right now. (I know my blog has been really boring the past two days but please bear with me I have some good content coming) |
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- Charlize Theron, Oscar nominee for best actress for her role in 'Monster' arrives to the annual Oscar nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills, Calif., Monday, Feb. 9, 2004. The Oscars are scheduled to be presented in Hollywood on Feb. 29. |
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- A model wears a ruby rose velvet corset dress in the Betsey Johnson Fall 2004 fashion show, Monday, Feb. 9, 2004, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (Click for Large Photo) [ytop: 5, +model +wears +rose +dress +fashion] |
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- A model wears a pink tulle zip dress in the Betsey Johnson Fall 2004 fashion show, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2004, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (Click for Large Photo) [ytop: 5, +model +wears +pink +dress +fashion] |
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- A model wears a ruby rose velvet corset dress in the Betsey Johnson Fall 2004 fashion show, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2004, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (Click for Large Photo) [ytop: 5, +model +wears +rose +dress +fashion] |
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- Brooke models a red cashmere sweater with a black and white tweed skirt, and a red leather bag during the showing of the fall 2004 Oscar de la Renta collection in New York Monday Feb. 9, 2004. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson) (Click for Large Photo) [ytop: 4, +brooke +models +skirt +collection] |
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- A model wears a safety pin dress in the Betsey Johnson Fall 2004 fashion show, Monday, Feb. 9, 2004, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (Click for Large Photo) [ytop: 4, +model +wears +dress +fashion] |
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- Erin models a silver embroidered chiffon cocktail dress during the showing of the fall 2004 Oscar de la Renta collection in New York Monday, Feb. 9, 2004. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson) (Click for Large Photo) [ytop: 4, +erin +models +dress +collection] |
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