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- I haven't posted anything for the earlier part of this month. I was extremely busy with my product development. I am beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel, which will be toward the end of year. My family and friends have been wondering what I could be doing, being out of work (and semi-retired) for almost... |
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Japan (Apr 30 2004 00:59 GMT) - After spending two and a half weeks wandering around Japan, I am, naturally, an acknowledged expert on all things Japanese. Not. All the same, working the "fresh pair of eyes" principle to its bones, I've decided to list here some of the things which struck me about the country. |
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- Business News: Terms of new deal not yet known -- Turner Broadcasting reached an 11th hour agreement with Charlie Ergen's EchoStar Communications that will keep the company's seven basic cable nets on the Dish satellite network, which reaches 9.4 million homes. |
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- Business News: Performers' union outlines key issues -- Over five months prior to the Nov. 15 expiration of the current three-year deal, the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists has started prepping for negotiations on its key network code contract. |
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- Business News: Sales growth puts cabler back in the black -- Fourth-ranked U.S. cable operator Cox Communications kept up its share of the cable industry's high-powered digital pace, reporting strong first-quarter cash-flow growth off steady gains in digital cable and high-speed data, along with reduced churn and improved operating margins. |
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- Business News: Net incomes increases 82% -- Top vidgame publisher Electronic Arts kept up its rapid pace of growth in the first quarter, fourth on its calendar, posting a 29% rise in revenue to $598 million and an 11% increase in net revenue, excluding a one-time charge last year, to $90 million. |
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- Business News: 41% jump in consumer revs driven by subscriptions -- Digital media content and technology company RealNetworks generated revenue of $60.4 million in the first quarter, up 29% from a year ago. |
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- Business News: Televisa exceeds analysts' expectations -- Grupo Televisa, Mexico's largest broadcaster, reported an 81% increase in earnings boosted by strong net sales in the first quarter of this year. |
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- The HK$6bn professional tranche of the Hong Kong Link 2004 offer prices tight thanks to strong demand. |
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- Another busy day for the Indian CB market with three transactions. |
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- Prudential bankruptcy decision "silly", says Indonesian Finance Minister Boediono. |
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- Clifford Chance partner Stephen Roith and associate Malini Budhwani discusses changes to Hong Kong companies ordinance. |
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Stasis (Apr 30 2004 00:58 GMT) - Steven Hart writes in response to yesterday's post: Maybe I'm venturing into the realm of the unthinkable here, but you have to realize that this work situation is only going to get worse. The best you can hope for is that you get a job elsewhere, or she does. The worst is that your employer decides the situation has gone too far and you get fired for erratic job performance. |
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- Albert Crudo, The Birth of Paris, 2003, oil on canvas, 32"X48" What's all this about that faddish Poconos noodle sack that's suddenly everywhere now that it was spotted on Paris Hilton's shoulder. It looks too heavy to be comfortable, with... |
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- --- In soaplite@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Rooke" ... I have fou |
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- Hi, I've been successfully using SOAP::Lite to pass parameters to and from othe |
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- HORRIBLE news :( Shooting at an Abortion Clinic BREAKING NEWS out of Palm Desert, where sheriff's deputies are searching for a teenager who witnesses say dragged his girlfriend out of an abortion clinic, and then shot her in the head.... |
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- Last night on CBS's Sixty Minutes 2, pictures were shown of alleged US army abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Baghdad.... |
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- Exactly how committed is the Bush Administration to tracking down Osama Bin Laden’s financing sources when they have only four Department of Treasury agents working on it? Why does the Administration have five times as many Treasury agents tracking financial... |
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- Larry, Whether you stay as assistant editor or not, I hope you will continue to be here with your advice and wisdom as related to all things "teardrop"... I for one went back over all the messages and can't see where there is much of a problem. It's all kind of a tempest in a teapot.... As my Grandmother used to say "this too shall soon pass!"... |
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Blaðburður (Apr 30 2004 00:57 GMT) - Helsti stuðningsmaður Derby á skerinu bloggar um Mogga-blaðburð sinn. Líklega hafa ansi margir byrjað feril sinn á vinnumark ... [1] |
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- "Moonlighting" will be out on DVD in November, according to Bruce Willis.... |
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- The public is beginning to turn on advertisers.... |
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- Good news for Waits fans.... |
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- Action figures for kids who like to torture pets.... |
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- Two former officials of the Santa Rosa Independent School District were arrested Thursday on charges accusing them of accepting a set of tires in exchange for the district's school bus tire contract. |
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- Border Patrol agents have caught two men they say may have tried to smuggle drugs into the United States by scuba diving through a drainage tunnel. |
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- The last fugitive accused in the human smuggling operation that led to the suffocation deaths of 19 people was picked up in a traffic stop, federal prosecutors said Thursday. |
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- A Texas jury's stunning $1 billion award to the family of a woman who died after taking one of the now-banned fen-phen diet drugs is unlikely to stand, say legal experts and drugmaker Wyeth, which claims the trial was riddled with errors. |
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- Tyler police arrested two juveniles in the investigation into threatening letters found at Hubbard Middle School. |
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- Today was all about eyewitnesses to the incident. In some ways most compelling of these was Marty Dennis, if only because he's the witness who began tape recording the scene after the Taser was fired. That recording was played in the courtroom and regardless of what one thinks of the incident overall, the seemingly-endless sounds of the Taser cycling are extraordinarily eerie and disturbing. As you can see from the... |
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- how do I find an individual audio file i've recorded in garage band...I can't seem to locate the file on its own, only the song file..I want to copy this file and move to another computer. Thanks in advance Geoff Last Reply by hopewellst @ 4:05 pm on April 29, 2004 | Read More | Reply |
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- A suburban maternity ward may have broken some kind of record with the delivery of 13 baby girls in 13 hours. |
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- Florida police are searching for the gunman who shot down an 18-year-old college student from Chicago's southwest side. |
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- HP makes a bluetooth enabled GPS. Now a camera maker needs to build a bluetooth camera or camera add-on that can communicate with the GPS and write that info to the EXIF information. See this previous entry. It even has a jack for an external antenna, so you can keep the GPS in a bag or clipped to a belt or some other place that doesn't have a clear line of sight to the sky. THis appears to be the same unit with a different sticker on it.... |
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- Efter tolv dagar med hjärt- och andningsproblem har Diego Armando Maradona lämnat sjukhuset i Buenos Aires. Iförd mörka solglasögon klev han in i en bil med tonade rutor, gavs poliseskort och lämnade området. |
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- Det finns stjärnor men man ska inte tro att alla är världsspelare. Synar man det italienska landslaget så hittar man förvånandsvärt få spelare med det där lilla extra. |
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- Det ser bekant ut när det danska landslaget trillar boll. Det är inget tvivel om den saken. |
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- I have an extra Gmail invitation to hand out. I could auction it off on eBay, like some chuckleheads. But that seems crass. Yet the thing is, I want to make sure that whomever gets the invite actually wants it, and will take advantage of it. I've already helped two different people get hooked up with Gmail accounts who haven't even used them. |
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- Author: rexwrx Date: 30 Apr 2004 Replies: 0 |
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