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- Thinking Intelligence and thinking are two different things. At least according to Edward DeBono. And I agree. The way DeBono explains the difference is simple. Intelligence is potential. |
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- Two security advisories from Trustix. |
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- PUC/SP - A ocupação continua... |
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- Well tonight was Angel's 100th outing and had all the elements of a real feel good episode. Cordelia came back (for a while at least) and pointed out that they where all working for the bad guys and Gunn was now a total jerk (ok that bit was me) and ever |
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Bad juju (Mar 30 2004 21:57 GMT) - There's shit in the air at work. Though I've been through enough to know that nothing truly catastrophic can be expected to happen... the energy and happenings in a number of areas are hard to miss. It'll be interesting to... |
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- More than 100,000 technology jobs have been outsourced from the United States to overseas workers, a trend that will continue for several more years but is actually good for the U.S. economy, a new report from the Information Technology Association of America argues. |
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- A trip to the Washington Convention Center last week was all the proof needed to show that the business of selling technology goods and services to Uncle Sam is still hot. Some 500 vendors -- selling everything from printers, scanners and software to GPS-equipped digital cameras and high-tech motion-detector systems -- showcased their wares. |
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- Pasadena, California-based Guidance Software is perhaps the leading IT forensics software vendor, with the exception of the U.S. government. The E-Commerce Times recently spoke with Jon Bair, the company's senior director of development, about the evolution of IT forensics and the challenges facing this fast-moving field. |
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- A bill to criminalize file-sharing on the Internet is moving rapidly through the U.S. Congress. The measure -- which last week was just a draft proposal circulating among members of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property -- has been scheduled for action by that panel tomorrow afternoon. |
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- The iPod is still in that stage of awareness where mainly the early adapters and pioneers are aware of it. Apple has sold more than 2 million iPods -- 750,000 in December alone, a sign they're taking off -- but that's nothing compared with cellphones, personal digital assistants or other popular techno-gizmos. |
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- Promising a more integrated and economical development environment, Microsoft has released a beta of its newest embedded operating system (OS), Windows CE 5.0, at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco. |
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- After a series of legal challenges to the law, Attorney General Drew Edmondson asked the Oklahoma Supreme Court to rule on the Constitutionality of the state's 2002 ban on cockfighting,... |
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- Posted by pastor paul 3/30/2004 |
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- Posted by Constantly Amazed 3/30/2004 |
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Coyote... (Mar 30 2004 21:57 GMT) - Posted by Baldpate 3/30/2004 |
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- Naked Objects - a BOF session after the end of the normal day here. Naked Objects - oddball thing about the name - book lookup on Amazon yields some "interesting" nearby subjects The idea - to get rid of all the extraneous things - reduce to the leanest, bare essentials. Four layers in classic architecture: Presentation Application/Controller Domain Object Model Persistence Naked Objects eliminates the controller layer - encapsualtes all business functionality on the entity objects (note - this elides any issues with session access to behavior that is permission based). Make the presentation layer generic. |
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New Project (Mar 30 2004 21:56 GMT) - A new web site is in the works. It's not illusioned.org, but it's definitely something resourceful and should be interesting to at least a few people. More information will be posted as it's available. |
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- Chow Sang Sang hopes a deal to sell figurines of Walt Disney's famous talking rodents in Hong Kong Disneyland will be a merchandising cash cow for the jeweller, which is the first to operate within any of the 11 Disney parks worldwide. |
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- From the AP, via USA Today: "A 15-year-old girl has been arrested for taking nude photographs of her self and... |
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- From the AP, via USA Today: "A 15-year-old girl has been arrested for taking nude photographs of her self and... |
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- Mar. 30 - A Texas jury heard opening statements Monday in the trial of a 38-year-old mother charged with stoning her two children to death last year. |
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- Mar. 30 - More than 40 people have been killed in Uzbekistan after three days of terrorist violence in the Central Asian nation. |
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- March 30 - Spain's interior minister on Tuesday named a Moroccan extremist group for the first time as the main focus of the probe into the Madrid terror bombings. |
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- Lisa and I returned to Brooklyn Monday morning via JetBlue. The flight was packed and served as yet another reminder of why I stopped flying for two years. There was nothing wrong with the flight, or JetBlue, it was just crowded, and long, and a red-eye. We had a cluster of Beavises and Buttheads in the row in front of us who absolute had... |
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- Free hardcore sex pics and porn movies! Hardcore porn for mases! Hardcore sex porn mega portal! All kinds of free hardcore sex: porn stars, fetish sex, teens, gay, lesbian, mature and more hardcore xxx photos, movies and live shows!... |
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- Classic Rich Mintz: “Okay, I have officially decided that Norfolk doesn’t suck. It won’ |
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- Mar. 30 - Actor Jason Patric was arrested on misdemeanor charges of public intoxication and resisting arrest in Texas on Monday. |
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- Mar. 30 - Jay Leno has signed a new deal with NBC worth $100 million that will keep him at 'The Tonight Show' for at least another five years. |
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- Mar. 30 - Some of the biggest names in music are hitting the concert tour this summer. But if you don't have tickets yet, don't worry... some are still available. |
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- Mar. 30 - More than 40 people have been killed in Uzbekistan after three days of terrorist violence in the Central Asian nation. |
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- In an era when shortstops have become dominant offensive players, Jimmy Rollins wants to be a throwback. |
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- Dat overkwam me vanmiddag nog. Ik poogde RSS uit te leggen aan iemand die eigenlijk geen tijd had en ook niet wist wat een newsreader was. Zo'n uitleg moet dan ultrakort en glashelder zijn, niet meer dan maximaal 10 woorden. Zoiets als: - Standardized internet news format readable by personalizable news reading software; |
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- Did you know that NT-based Microsoft OSes come with a Quote of the Day server? (131 words, 2 comments) |
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- Okay, this doesn't quite fall into "multimedia", but we all use the Web for research and I had to share... |
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- This script pulls the current threat advisory level from the Department of Homeland Security's website and displays a graphic corresponding to the current threat level on your site. |
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- Marin Komadina picks up where he left off last month, with an examination of the procedure for making a database backup using Tivoli Storage Manager, (TSM). |
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- On a regular OLTP system, one of the perennial sources for doubt and debate is the number, type and configuration of indexes. Dave Aldridge shares some simple principles that can be applied to the business of indexing a data warehouse. |
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- MSAS Architect and Reporting Services Consultant Bill Pearson introduces the addition of data, then grouping, sorting and more, within a basic tabular report, as he concludes his overview of the Authoring phase of MSSQL Server 2000 Reporting Services. |
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- ...s has been launched after a delay of nearly three years" |
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- ...tions in preparation for the ultimate video game challenge - Belfast's World Pong Championships" |
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- Subject: MEDIA ALERT! March 31st A New Love Affair Begins AUTHOR CANDACE BUSHNELL TO BEGIN MONTBLANC’S GREAT AMERICAN LOVE STORY WHO Candace Bushnell, Author Sex and the City, Trading Up Jan-Patrick Schmitz, President/CEO Montblanc North America Montblanc Solitaire Royal, ultra glamorous fountain pen covered with 4,810 pave diamonds set in 18k gold. Marcia Gay Harden, Oscar winning actress Jason Lewis, actor, last appearing in HBO’s Sex and The City as Jared Smith, Samantha’s younger boyfriend WHAT Candace Bushnell handwrites the first line of Montblanc’s Great American Love Story with the world’s most expensive pen, the Solitaire Royal fountain pen, valued at $125,000. Bushnell’s handwritten line will call on all New Yorkers, to develop this unconventional love story. |
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- Something wonderful died with Napster: the collaborative discovery and sharing of a wide diversity of music. Lucas Gonze is on a crusade to bring that experience back, legally. On his site, webjay.org, users share playlists -- i. |
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- Project description: Sushi is a suite of GNOME application that allow people to play a pen-and-paper game across the Internet. |
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- Project administrators: davide178 |
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