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- You tell me that he's not worth cryin over.You tell me that Ill find another only better.You tell me that Im only in lust and not love.But if thats true then why is it i can' |
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- San Francisco - Barry Bonds took most of the day off after hitting his 661st homer. |
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- As we shuffle off to pay our taxes today, it makes sense to try to think happy thoughts. Or even Happy Meal thoughts. For in addition to being tax day, it is also a very special McAnniversary. |
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- German reunification was not a marriage of equals. |
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- What measure of fame Jon Langford has earned comes more from his status as a musician than as a painter. |
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- In his quest to create a wider audience for pop music, David Bash will settle for nothing less than world domination. That's why he named the music festival he founded International Pop Overthrow. |
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- On his fourth album, "Use Your Voice," Minneapolis singer-songwriter Mason Jennings sings in a lackadaisical Midwestern drawl, plays acoustic guitar and whirls notes through a harmonica. If that sounds familiar - hint: like a guy who changed his last name from Zimmerman to Dylan and who also lived in Minnesota for a time - Jennings doesn't mind at all. |
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- Read Tim Cuprisin's columns WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14 Tim Cuprisin Journal Sentinel TV and radio columnist Tim Cuprisin, who covers the TV and radio landscape for the Journal Sentinel, answered your questions in his monthly chat. Following is the transcript: |
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- The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has, for the second year in a row, received the number one ranking on George Mason University Mercatus Center's 5th Annual Performance Report Scorecard for the federal government. The Center announced the results of its ... |
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deploys (Apr 14 2004 23:12 GMT) - U.S. |
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overhauled (Apr 14 2004 23:12 GMT) - Mbeki: Local government must be |
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- This class is meant to execute a SELECT query on any database table and generate a XML document from the query results. The class can also take the resulting XML document and execute an INSERT or UPDATE SQL query to update any other table. This class requires the packages ADODB and EZXML that need to be downloaded separately. |
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- This class is meant to execute a SELECT query on any database table and generate a XML document from the query results. The class can also take the resulting XML document and execute an INSERT or UPDATE SQL query to update any other table. This class requires the packages ADODB and EZXML that need to be downloaded separately. |
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- This class generates a picture to use in forms that perform CAPTCHA test (Completely Automated Public Turing to tell Computers from Humans Apart). After the test form is submitted a key entered by the user in a text field is compared by the class to determine whether it matches the text in the picture. The class is a fork of the original released also in this site by Julien Pachet with the name ocr_captcha. The following enhancements were added: - Support to make it work with GD library before version 2 - Hacking prevention - Optional use of Web safe colors - Limit the number of users attempts - Display an optional refresh link to generate a new picture with a different key without counting to the user attempts limit verification - Support the use of multiple random TrueType fonts - Control the output image by only three parameters: |
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- This class is meant to calculate the postage cost of a deliverying a package in Brazil given the package weight and the postal codes of the origin and destination cities. It can be used to calculate total shipping costs of deliverying products sold by e-commerce sites. The postage cost is calculates automatically by the class by accessing the site of the Correios post company or by looking up on CSV files. The code and the comments are in Portuguese. In Portuguese: |
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Caut job IT (Apr 14 2004 23:12 GMT) - Sunt MCSA pt Win 2000, stiu bine Win 2000 server, ISA 2000 server, Exchange 200 |
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- A bunch of wingnut bloggers have invaded and occupied Hugh Hewitt's radio show, and they're trashing the place. It's brutal. I've heard a rumor that James Lileks is going to interview Mark Steyn: Listen live here. |
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- Project description: Dawn of the Titans is a project to provide basic softcode/hardcode snippets, advice, and documentation for BattleTechMUX players and staffers alike. This is of particular interest to BTMux coders and admins. |
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- Project administrators: grantblackman, patrickblackman |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 6 Apr 2004): Ranking: 0, Activity percentile: 0.00%, |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- by TChris Last month, TalkLeft pointed to editorials calling upon the military to apologize to Captain James Yee for its misguided effort to prove that he's a spy. After initially accusing Yee of espionage and then charging him with (among... |
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Gastro (Apr 14 2004 23:10 GMT) - Just had a fantastic lunch at Mako right in my neighborhood. I had the bento box, and the unagi component was the best eel I've ever had. It's open for lunch Wednesday-Friday only. Thanks Dad!... |
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- Fred writes about Clay Shirky's comments about good and bad technologies and freedom to innovate: The thing that will change the future in the future is the same thing that changed the future in the past --- freedom, in both its grand and narrow senses. The narrow sense of freedom, in tech terms, is a freedom to tinker, to prod and poke and break and fix things. Good technologies -- the PC, the internet, HMTL -- enable this. Bad technologies -- cellphones, set-top boxes -- forbid it, in hardware or contract. |
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- ERIC MULLER looks at the 9/11 Commission's conflict-of-interest rules and concludes: Under these guidelines, it certainly seems to me that Ms. Gorelick should not be participating in the portion of the Commission's investigation that focuses on law enforcement's role in counterterrorism. I think it would have been wise for her... |
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- ERIC MULLER looks at the 9/11 Commission's conflict-of-interest rules and concludes: Under these guidelines, it certainly seems to me that Ms. Gorelick should not be participating in the portion of the Commission's investigation that focuses on law enforcement's role in counterterrorism. I think it would have been wise for her... |
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- Volume one of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex has been set for a July 27th release in two different formats. The standard release ($24.95) contains anamorphic video, Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, and interviews with director Kenji Kamiyama and Atsuko Tanaka, Mokoto's Japanese voice. |
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- The bad news: I'll be ending my tour of duty at Baseline Magazine at the end of this month. This wasn't a planned move. But in September of 2001, as we were closing our first issue,if you'd told me that I would have my job for another two and a half years, I would have been happy. The good news is that my paychecks will still come from Ziff-Davis. |
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- Sorry to those who've had trouble accessing this site in the past few hours - I'm told we have been having server upgrades. There will be a few more outages in the hours ahead also. Thanks for your patience.... |
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- Hattip to The Obvious?: "Technorati provides a really neat way of picking up on blogs pointing to posts on this blog simply by including the appropriate Technorati search into my template" |
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- I seriously doubt that Ariel Sharon is one of the foreign leaders who supposedly supports John Kerry. This was his statement today: SHARON: I was encouraged by your positive response and your support for my plan. In that context, you... |
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- Project description: GPU is a Gnutella client for sharing files and CPU-resources. Our objective is to develop a robust framework for distributed computing on a peer-to-peer grid. We hope to support peaceful, open and free research and to build a cheap supercomputer. |
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- Project administrators: akoese, dangermaus, seeschloss, wppetersen |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 6 Apr 2004): Ranking: 4053, Activity percentile: 75.74%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 6 Apr 2004): Download count: 13 |
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- Public mailing lists: gpu-world |
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- Public discussion forums: Help, Open Discussion, Developers, Network status |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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