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Pervasive Computing News
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Semantics (Feb 29 2004 16:12 GMT) - Mohammad Abed was kind enough to leave a comment on PCN. I started to reply to him in the comment space, but the answer has morphed into something worth pointing out on the front page. I think Mohammed's comment points out a common semantical problem for users of intranet services - the difference between an intranet and a portal. Thanks Mohammed, for asking a good question. To many users of intranet services, their entire view of the intranet is a corporate portal. |
Pervasive Computing News
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Comfortable on the Net (Feb 29 2004 16:12 GMT) - Verlyn Klinkenborg has some really good insights about Google and the Internet in this NYTimes piece. My favorite: "The fact is that many of us have grown comfortable within the amorphousness of the Web. We no longer need a breakwater like AOL when a good search engine promises to make the sea itself our home." Well said. |
The Command Post - Global Recon
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Haiti in Turmoil, Aristide Leaves (Feb 29 2004 16:12 GMT) - Looters and violent mobs have taken over the streets of Haiti as Aristide flees the island nation. An international coalition of peacekeepers, including Americans, will be deployed shortly. The U.S ambassador to Haiti says the U.S. |
Secular Blasphemy
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Aristide has fled Haiti President ... (Feb 29 2004 16:12 GMT) - Aristide has fled Haiti President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has stepped down as president and fled Haiti. With rebels holding most of the country and threatening the capital, and strong international pressure from both France and the US to resign, Aristide's last act as president, at least, was the right one. In accordance with the constitution, chief justice of the Supreme Court, Boniface Alexandre, was sworn in as interim president. There was jubilation in rebel-held areas at the news, while the reaction in Port-au-Prince was, to put it mildly, more mixed. International peace keepers may soon be in place, even though we all recognise a real quagmire when we see one. |
nf0's Life
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Nightly Link Dump (Feb 29 2004 16:12 GMT) - JPluck 2.1 is out The portal for news, comics, art and more ecto 1.0.4 is out. You can now use it with iPhoto. |
Pedro Jorge Romero
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Japonés, chino y coreano (Feb 29 2004 16:11 GMT) - Héctor García nos ilustra sobre las diferencias entre el japonés, el chino y el coreano. Tres lenguas asiáticas que los occidentales tendemos a confundir. |
KOSTĚJŮV SVĚT
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Želary mají svůj blog a mě se to líbí!!! (Feb 29 2004 16:11 GMT) - Film Želary má svůj blog, ale to už asi víte a abych řekl pravdu - má to něco do sebe. Pořád lepší než některé neaktulizované a nudné stránky, které vypadávají z hlav marketingový a PR pracovníků některých agentur. Prostě zajímavý nápad a Želary prostě žijí |
KOSTĚJŮV SVĚT
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Horst Fuchs a Henckellbach jsou tvrdí soupeři (Feb 29 2004 16:11 GMT) - Marketingový zástupce Horsta Fuchse v České republice, pan Mgr. Michal K. (podle neověřených zpráv jeho nemanželský syn), se na mne obrátil s obchodní nabídkou Horsta Fuchse. Neuvěřitelná věc se stala včera ve večerních hodinách pravdou. Právě včera se totiž dotočil pilotní pořad Horsta Fuchse - "Teleshopping - Jsem fakt impotent" |
KOSTĚJŮV SVĚT
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The CURE - jó, to je moje (Feb 29 2004 16:11 GMT) - Když jsem v roce 1984 dostal od kamarádky kazetu s nahraným LP Pornography, tak jsem s Robertem trávil spoustu nocí a psal a psal. The Cure a Roberta Smitha zvlášť prostě mám rád. Vlastně to začalo ještě o prá měsíců dřív. Kamarád mi pustil už dnes téměř zapomenutou kapelu Joy Division. Ian Curtis mi rozerval adolescetní vnitřnosti svým zpěvem, alei překlady textů. |
Amish Tech Support
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Chinese Math (Feb 29 2004 16:11 GMT) - Sundays are cleaning up the messes of the previous days, and they are for dealing with those go-getters who don't have the sense to spend a few hours in a church getting yelled at for being a bad little human.... |
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Nerd alert (Feb 29 2004 16:11 GMT) - Xbox 2 SDK released on cool Apple Power Mac G5s. And: "The XBOX 2 SDK has been seeded to developers on dual Apple Power Mac G5 systems running a custom Windows NT Kernel." ?! VirtualPC? |
Ecademy: user blogs
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Funnies from the papers [Jim Wade] (Feb 29 2004 16:11 GMT) - Decide for yourself if these are for real. But they are funny IMO Commenting on a complaint from a Mr Arthur Purdey about a large gas bill, a spokesman for North Westgas said, "We agree it was rather high for the time of year. It's possible Mr Purdey has been charged for the gas used up during the explosion that destroyed his house." (The Daily Telegraph) Police reveal that a woman arrested for shoplifting had a whole salami in her knickers. When asked why, she said it was because she was missing her Italian boyfriend. |
Ecademy: user blogs
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Funnies from the papers [Jim Wade] (Feb 29 2004 16:11 GMT) - Decide for yourself if these are for real. But they are funny IMO Commenting on a complaint from a Mr Arthur Purdey about a large gas bill, a spokesman for North Westgas said, "We agree it was rather high for the time of year. It's possible Mr Purdey has been charged for the gas used up during the explosion that destroyed his house." (The Daily Telegraph) Police reveal that a woman arrested for shoplifting had a whole salami in her knickers. When asked why, she said it was because she was missing her Italian boyfriend. |
Quinto Stato
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Una rete per dialogare (Feb 29 2004 16:09 GMT) - L'utopia della e.democracy č spesso naufragata sugli scogli dei concreti esperimenti di e.government: le reti civiche costruite dalle Pubbliche... |
Alec Saunders: Alec Saunders .LOG: Canada
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What drives LD prices? (Feb 29 2004 16:08 GMT) - The Smug Canadian speculates, in Long distance prices, about why long distance calling rates to Afghanistan and Iraq are so high compared to other places. He offers that perhaps it's because soldiers and NGO's have driven demand up, or that the US Government is controlling rates to those places and has jacked prices up to flow cash into those countries. It's relatively inexpensive to set up a POP to deliver phone service anywhere in the world. |
Alec Saunders .LOG
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What drives LD prices? (Feb 29 2004 16:08 GMT) - The Smug Canadian speculates, in Long distance prices, about why long distance calling rates to Afghanistan and Iraq are so high compared to other places. He offers that perhaps it's because soldiers and NGO's have driven demand up, or that the US Government is controlling rates to those places and has jacked prices up to flow cash into those countries. It's relatively inexpensive to set up a POP to deliver phone service anywhere in the world. |
Halley's Comment
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I Believe (Feb 29 2004 16:07 GMT) - I BelieveDan Rather's opening question for the debate, asking the nominees to fill in the blank after "I BELIEVE ----- " was really weird. And he used the word "religiousity" when I think he simply meant "religion." Was this because it's Sunday morning? Want to make sure we keep blurring issues of church and state? |
How to Save the World
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THE BOSTON TEA-PARTY AS 'ECO-TERRORISM' (Feb 29 2004 16:07 GMT) - A member of the Derrick Jensen mailing list pointed out a brilliantly-written letter to the editor of a small Virginia community newspaper, describing new laws to increase penalties for 'eco-terrorism', a vaguely defined term which appears to include acts of sabotage to corporate 'property', even if they do no harm to any individual. The law was apparently designed to discourage acts against the property of logging, mining, and factory farm corporations, developers and SUV retailers. Here's the letter in its entirety. Last week, you used the term "ecoterrorist" with regard to the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). A note on semantics: |
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