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- Apr. 29 - A guest columnist in a university newspaper who wrote that football player turned soldier Pat Tillman "got what was coming to him" is being criticized. |
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- Apr. 29 - Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin, has taken two rare Sumatran tiger cubs into his zoo in Australia. |
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- Come Al Jazeera riporta la notizia della manifestazione di Roma del 29 aprile |
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- Apr. 29 - James Porter's fiancee speaks out for the very first time about the case and about her support for Porter. |
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- Apr. 29 - Lawyers for the Station Nightclub owners asked a judge to bar Attorney General Patrick Lynch from talking about the case. |
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Lua 5 (Apr 29 2004 23:32 GMT) - If you need a small yet fast embeddable scripting language engine, check out Lua. Lua 5 now has a formidable array of tools and libraries you can choose from and there is also a Lua wiki. |
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- Ah-ha.... I was right. The ongoing Partisan Party, more commonly refered to as the 9/11 commission, has been proven to be of little consequence by its own esteemed leader, Lee Hamilton and one of his co-horts in crime, former U.S.... |
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- Co-founders release Google 'owner's manual'. Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin craft a letter to map out Google's credo as a public company. [CNET News.com] |
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- Today, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney will testify jointly before the 9/11 Commission. While the Commission asked that Bush and Cheney appear separately -- like Bill Clinton and Al Gore did before them -- Bush insisted on appearing together. To date, neither Bush nor a spokesperson has yet to answer why this is the case. |
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- Cabrera: "Would Laurel have been as funny without Hardy? Would Ernie have been as endearing without Bert? Would we as a society think Mary-Kate as cute without Ashley? Could George W. |
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- McAuliffe: "Bush has said that No Child Left Behind is 'the most dramatic reform' in public education in a generation. But what is really dramatic is that a whole generation is going to be left behind by the failure of this President's education policies." |
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- McAuliffe: "Democrats will tirelessly continue to fight until no voter is ever disenfranchised again. We are appalled, but not surprised, by the Bush campaign's insensitivity. Democrats across the country are uniting to ensure that the voting righs of Americans are never denied again." |
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- This Yahoo! News article goes into detail about Gibson's new digital guitar. Something that got my attention: It... allows the player to control the sound of each string. |
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- The French owners of a defunct Montana phosphorous plant were fined more than $16 million Thursday by a federal judge who warned the cleanup must be completed properly. |
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- Did the Pentagon order the assassination of a journalist in order to cover up secret mass burials of dead U.S. soldiers and U.S.- contracted mercenaries in the deserts around Baghdad? |
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- Janet Jackson's on the Tonight Show right now! |
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- Time for my personal meme, "In Song". This one's for Klaudy. And me. Us. The Lost Song - The Cat Empire I had nine lives but I lost all of them And I've been seaching the night And I've been... |
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- I read Matt's review of Barnes & Noble Publishing's XHTML in Easy Steps and I decided to stop by B&N on the way home from work today and check it out. Sure enough, Matt's enthusiasm was completely on target. For only $9.99 (10% off with a B&N card too!) are you kidding me? |
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- There is a growing and disturbing trend among US and Canadian companies to implement a policy of work confirmation-only references. In other words, their policy is to confirm employment, and that's all. This is a major career management hurdle for... |
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- [PlneHry.cz] - Chystana adventure tymu Nihilis disponuje v prvni rade atmosferou hutnou tak, ze by se dala krajet. Jak bude pokracovat zivot hlavniho hrdiny po navratu z blazince do prostredi mrtveho mesta? |
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- [PlneHry.cz] - Opravdu velmi zajimava flashova arkada s ninjou v hlavni roli a padesati levely, ktere zarucuji mnoha hodinovou zabavu. Vasi cestu bude ztrpcovat nejen omezeny casovy limit, ale i ruzni nepratele, miny, lasery a kdovi co jeste. Hlavni hrdina je vsak hbity, umi velmi dobre skakat i behat a tak ma velikou sanci nad vyse zminenymi nebezpecimi zvitezit. |
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- [Wi-Fi Networking News] - 4,000 access points in flyover: Mike Outmesguine brings a CNN representative (reporter?) and some other Wi-Fi fans on a warfly of Los Angeles. We flew from Brackett Field in La Verne (a.k. |
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- [Wi-Fi Networking News] - Wi-Fi cradle allows Toshiba's 20 Gb music player to sync, broadcast: The Japanese-first Gigabeat can be backed up, loaded with music, or stream music over an optional Wi-Fi cradle. It's about $700 in Japan.... |
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- [Wi-Fi Networking News] - You might call it just a press release, but Indianapolis company wants to beat Hartford, Conn.: Wi-Fi network enabler Sputnik is working with an Indianapolis firm that appears slightly aggrieved that Hartford, Conn., has one-sixth the residents and more Wi-Fi hotspots. Their public (and public relations) goal? Boost Indianapolis from 48th in Intel's recent wireless cities survey up into the top 10. |
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- [Wi-Fi Networking News] - SkyRiver to install 22 Pinnacle hotels with all Wi-Fi service: Pinnacle has 22 properties in the western states and Ohio, and decided against hard-wired Internet because Wi-Fi made more sense as a plan for the future.... |
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- [Wi-Fi Networking News] - PC Magazine rounds up several 802.11g routers, and says they're cheap enough, they're good enough: 802.11b no longer enjoys a large enough (or any) price differential for quality Wi-Fi gateways that include WPA encryption support, PC Mag says. So while you can still find 802. |
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- [Wi-Fi Networking News] - MuniWireless reports that a tribe in Southern California is using broadband wireless to link 18 tribal communities: HP donated a bunch of gear for the network and the tribe is using solar-powered antennas. In addition to the educational benefits to such a network, tribal members are using the access to keep on top of and apply for federal grants. We've linked to other stories about tribes around the country using wireless to bring Internet access to reservations. In most of these cases, the incumbent operators weren't interested in serving the communities, which are often remote and sparsely populated. |
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- [Wi-Fi Networking News] - While many communities around the country vaguely hope that wireless networks will bring business to town, this Indiana town has some very real reasons for wanting broadband: Scottsburg, Ind. couldn't get any kind of broadband access from the incumbents so it spent $350,000 to build a wireless broadband network. The network equipment comes from Alvarion, which means that it's probably proprietary gear based on 802.11. |
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- [Wi-Fi Networking News] - Mike Rutenberg offers this photograph of laundry-Fi: Kostenlosen W-LAN = free Wi-Fi in a Munich laundromat. You can sit, you can spin, you can surf.... |
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first song (Apr 29 2004 23:30 GMT) - [i am pleased precariously] - so, I wrote my first song yesterday.. music, lyrics, etc. Unfortunately my current recording setup leaves a lot to be desired. I don't think I really want anyone to hear the lyrics anyway as they're stupid, melodramatic, self-indulgent crap, so... |
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oily bay (Apr 29 2004 23:30 GMT) - [i am pleased precariously] - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A broken pipeline has spilled as much as 1 million gallons of diesel fuel into Suisun Bay, which feeds into San Francisco Bay. peachy.... |
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oily boy (Apr 29 2004 23:30 GMT) - [i am pleased precariously] - I completely spaced I had a massage appt. today.. she got on icb and reminded me, and I hurried over. "How you feeling? |
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- [WebmasterWorld] - "...a quick starter tutorial on how to increase your site’s link-popularity, and ultimately your search engine rankings. " |
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- [WebmasterWorld] - "Google Image Search now displays current news images and links to news headlines related to a user's query. For example, a query on Google Image Search for "earth" will likely show relevant news images and links to related news stories at the top of the results pages if " |
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- [WebmasterWorld] - Google files for IPO. "Google said that it generated revenues of $961.9 million in 2003 and reported a net profit of $106.5 million. |
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- well there is a action that is used frequently, it is called: : REQUEST_URI And I think it is only for Apache Servers. Any Ideas? |
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- A poignant anecdote from a friend of mine who lives in the Los Angeles area: I caught a little bit of local news last night. It was local NBC news at 11. Their lead was that there was a bomb threat at West LA malls... |
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- Bob Moog documentary looks great. The video clips from the new Bob Moog (inventor of the Moog synthesizer) documentary (titled "moog") are very exciting. Can't wait to see it. He says inventing things is a combination of "discovering and witnessing." (As an aside, isn't "Moog" a great name. |
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- Most recent daily statistics (24 Apr 2004): Ranking: 15359, Activity percentile: 6.22%, |
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