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Slobokan's Site O' Schtuff
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Greenspan Sick? (Mar 31 2004 15:15 GMT) - The dollar weakened broadly on Wednesday after rumors that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan had suffered a heart attack roiled the markets, traders said. The Fed declined to comment on... |
Ramblings of SilverBlue
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Office Procedures (Mar 31 2004 15:15 GMT) - It has been brought to the attention of this office that many employees have been dying while on duty for apparently no good reason. Further, some employees are refusing to fall over after they are dead. This, in some cases,... |
InfoWorld: Top News
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Update: SAS unveils new BI platform, apps (Mar 31 2004 15:15 GMT) - SAS Institute unveiled its new SAS 9 business intelligence platform Tuesday that includes data integration, enhanced analytics, and refined user interfaces designed to drive BI beyond simple querying and reporting analyzing past performance within siloed departments to a more predictive tool that can be leveraged across the enterprise for critical decision-making. |
Bells and Whistles
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37 (Mar 31 2004 15:15 GMT) - 37 today, and I find my collection is strangely devoid of baby pictures. So I commemorate today with this peek... |
macosxhints
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Use Final Cut Express 2 on '0 MHz' machines (Mar 31 2004 15:15 GMT) - Back in August 2003, I bought a Sonnet G4 1400 MHz CPU Upgrade for my old G4 466 Digital Audio. And like form many other Sonnet customers, the System Profiler didn't recgonize my new CPU's clock settings. It just showed 0 MHz... |
black...MYstory
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Hornung: N.D. 'must get the black athlete' (Mar 31 2004 15:15 GMT) - Former Heisman Trophy winner Paul Hornung has called on Notre Dame to “ease” its academic standards to attract “black athletes” so the perennial football power can remain competitive.Hornung, one of school’s most famous and outspoken alumni, made his comments Tuesday night on AM 1270 in Detroit.“As far as Notre Dame is concerned, we’re going to have to ease it up a little bit,” he said. “We can’t stay as strict as we are as far as the academic structure is concerned because we’ve got to get the black athlete. We must get the black athlete if we’re going to compete. |
ThinkNerd - We serve the Nerd-Community!
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Debian Sicherheitshinweise CVE-kompatibel (Mar 31 2004 15:14 GMT) - Die Debian Sicherheitshinweise (DSA) sind auf der RSA-Konferenz 2004 in San Francisco am 24. Februar 2004 für CVE-komaptibel erklärt worden. Der DSA-Service, bereitgestellt durch das Debian Sicherheits-Team, bietet seit 1997 Informationen über Sicherheitsverwundbarkeiten, die in Debian GNU/Linux Releases behoben wurden. Um mit dem Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Projekt zu kooperieren, das eine Standardisierung der Namen aller öffentlich bekannten Verwundbarkeiten erreichen will, haben alle neuen Sicherheishinweise seit Juni 2002 die entsprechenden CVE-Namen beinhaltet. Debian hat sich im Mai 2003 offiziell für die CVE-Kompatibilität beworben. |
Movies from KTLA5 FeedRoom
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The Alamo (Mar 31 2004 15:14 GMT) - This is the historical epic about the siege of the Alamo, at which a small band of Texans found themselves hopelessly surrounded by a huge Mexican army. |
Thrilling Days of Yesteryear
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On this date in the ... (Mar 31 2004 15:14 GMT) - On this date in the Golden Age of Radio From Those Were the Days: 1953 - Cavalcade of America was heard for the final time on network radio. It had been the longest-running show of its kind. Cavalcade of America presented dramatized events in American history for 18 years. |
CurveWatch
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Short movie (Mar 31 2004 15:14 GMT) - A nice girl getting undressed, take a look at this small movie! [2.7 Mb] |
Amish Tech Support
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Have you ever? (Mar 31 2004 15:13 GMT) - Ever been approached to commit a crime? Ever been approached by a crime gang to join them in a caper? Ever been approached by a crime gang with members with the names of Louie, Fats, Thumbs, and Kid and join... |
A Small Victory
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four more years! (Mar 31 2004 15:13 GMT) - Happy Anniversary to you Happy Anniversary to you Happy fourth blogging anniversary to one of the most kick ass people I ever had the pleasure of meeting and whose site causes my retinas to burn with orange and pink flames................. |
Blog-Fu
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Greenland, Australia or Canada look safe to me. (Mar 31 2004 15:12 GMT) - The Conflict Map is quite cool. This map shows the wars that have taken place over the 20th century. You can also correlate the countries to the geographic distribution of Nobel Peace Prize laureates and nominees. I like the map.... |
Biased Opinions
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Ridiculous policies (Mar 31 2004 15:11 GMT) - Australian blogger James Roberts' project, the Adalaide Blogs community, is being shut down, apparently because one of the pages it linked to had slanderous/libelous material on it: From what I understand, this will occur sometime today and will essentially be... |
Cranial Cavity
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A link Leads to a Copyright Violation? (Mar 31 2004 15:11 GMT) - Steve flagman for the Rodent Regatta writes “On June 5, 2002 I linked to an article that appeared in Wired News magazine. Today, March 30, 2004, the author of that article wrote this to me by adding a comment to... |
Seb's Open Research
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Group dynamics at the social computing symposium (Mar 31 2004 15:11 GMT) - Yesterday evening I had a little chat with Kevin Schofield in the #socialcomp IRC channel right after the Social Computing Symposium ended. Schofield works at Microsoft and has a lateral thinker / synthesist's dream job: connecting the unconnected, at the human level. "Part of my team is responsible for making sure that we do a good job of tech transfer in spite of the lack of internal financial incentives, and we take a unique approach to doing it. I've spent a lot of time looking at successes and failures of tech transfer our of research labs, and I came to the conclusion that most people think of technology transfer as some sort of Rube Goldberg machine -- technology goes in one side, weird things happen in the middle, and if all goes well it pops out on the other side. |
Michael Tsai's Weblog
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Tactile Pro Keyboard (Mar 31 2004 15:10 GMT) - Adam Engst writes about a subject dear to me: keyboards. My favorite keyboard, in terms of feel, was the ADB keyboard that shipped with the Apple IIGS. Unfortunately, it didn’t have F-keys, Home/End, or Page |
Garbage Collector
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Usando calendarios y restando fechas en Java (Mar 31 2004 15:10 GMT) - Para trabajar con fechas siempre hay que tener mucho cuidado, sobre todo si estas son antiguas. Así tenemos que hasta 1582 estuvo en vigor el calendario Juliano, año en el que el papa Gregorio XIII ordenó pasar del 4 de... |
Liberal Arts Mafia | No Al Terrorismo | Fair and Balanced | Advocates for Humanism
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ticket gossip (Mar 31 2004 15:10 GMT) - Gephardt proving a key member of Kerry's organization The shouts of approval quickly turned into a chant of "Gephardt for VP," which was repeated again later during the rally. The noise was deafening at one point when Kerry cupped his hand to his ear as a sign that he was listening. a love-in at the World's Fair pavillion in St. Louis (scroll down) It was a political love-in Saturday night at the World's Fair Pavilion, with Democratic prez hopeful Sen. John Kerry lavishing praise on his escort, Rep. |
TECHFLUID
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AI - Motown (Mar 31 2004 15:10 GMT) - Simon wore that horrid shirt again. He must think he looks buff in it... I can't honestly think of any other reason he would wear it week after week. It can't be long until it just rots into tiny, smelly pieces of black fuzz... hopefully on air. |
Praeternatural Play
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Planetary Hours (Mar 31 2004 15:10 GMT) - Planetary Hours are an ancient astrological technique to make your spells (and other activities) more effective. For a given day, you can calculate which planet holds sway over each hour. You cast your spell during the hour ruled by the planet most favorable to the spell. This takes a bit of calculation , but it isn't too bad. Planetary hour are so-called "unequal" hours. |
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