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- I didn't post yesterday. I thought of it a number of times, but kept getting distracted by other things I was trying to catch up on. Work's been C*R*A*Z*Y this week! Uggh! Our Principal, who is leaving next year, is... |
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- I simply translate what our illustrious Minister of Health said in Geneva. Did he think nobody was listening? Is this guy as idiotic as he sounds? Will he go back to fixing varicose veins soon? |
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- Una sencilla utilidad para chequear las posiciones en los concursos de posicionamiento. Telendro Utilidad (Nigritude Ultramarine, Serps, Telendro y Mangeur de Cigogne)... |
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- NYTimes writes about Google's plans "to introduce a powerful file and text software search tool for locating information stored on personal computers": The Google software project, which is code-named Puffin and which will be available as a free download from Google's Web site, has been running internally at the company for about a year. The project was started, in part, to prepare Google for competing with Windows Longhorn, which according to industry analysts will dispense with the need for a stand-alone browser. The disappearance of the Web browser and the integration of both Web search and PC search into the Windows operating system could potentially marginalize Google's search engine. Google, well aware of this threat, hired a Microsoft product manager last year to oversee the Puffin project as part of its strategy to compete with Microsoft's incursion into its territory. |
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- A federal biologist who said his team's advice was illegally ignored prior to a massive 2002 Klamath River fish kill has resigned, accusing the government of politicizing scientific decision-making and misleading the public. |
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- One of the big features in this issue is "Utilities". One major thing that caught my eye was the Dogpile Toolbar. It's much like any other standard toolbar, but one thing that sets this one apart is that you can add RSS and Atom feeds that scroll right in the toolbar or are fed to a local content page right on your hard drive. It's quite cool... When I got home yesterday, I was BEAT. |
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Day Two (May 19 2004 23:54 GMT) - The first few days of chemo have been uneventful and exactly what I expected. We have formulated a plan for the next four weeks, one round of methotrexate after another. The tough part is that your body reacts on a multi-week cycle to the abuse, and most doctors give you two weeks off after a week on to stabilize between rounds. Not so in my case, there will be no rest weeks, and it's pretty certain I'm going to get progressively whacked over the remaining 26 days. At the end of this period, there is a specific soft-tissue section of the tumor which we will scan to look for shrinkage, since the bone tumor may die, but it never shrinks visibly on a scan. |
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- I went to the doctor today because of my wrist pain. The doctor told me to get an x-ray which I will get tomorrow. Also, the doctor gave me a prescription for anti-inflammatories. Sorry if this entry seems somewhat awkward... |
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- As you know, the great cicada invasion of 2004 begins in June. It's been 17 years since the pesky insects last darkened the skies of the eastern US. We've come to think of them as harmless little bugs that live... |
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- LAKE TAHOE, CA (HBN) -- How's this for luck? A California man, Kurt Yoshio Kitajima, was down to his last 75 cents at a casino in Lake Tahoe. He then proceeded to win 1.3 Million Dollars! Kitajima was apparently playing a game called "Wheel of Fortune" when he won the jackpot. |
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- Senators say that the Bush administration is beginning to understand the urgency; big nations can't act small or mean. |
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- Senators John McCain and Joseph Biden both say there were miscalculations and squandered opportunties to get international support. |
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- May 19 - A News Channel 10 investigation finds obstacles at Providence City Hall for residents with disabilities. |
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- May 19 - A special first birthday present arrived this week for a West Kingston birthday boy. The only problem, the gift was delivered 19 years late. |
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- May 19 - A passenger ferry is being used by the military for a high-tech torpedo test. |
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- May 19 - If you're wondering what you might be seeing on the big screen a few years from now, you can get a sneak peek. |
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- A police camera catches an SUV fire that was apparently sparked by static at a Salt Lake City, Utah, gas station. A child in the SUV was rescued with second-degree burns. |
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- May 19 -- A Westerly man was arraigned Wednesday in an alleged bedside attack at Fatima Hospital in North Providence. |
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- HARRISBURG, Pa. - A federal judge will sentence former Rite Aid Corp. chief executive Martin L. Grass next week. |
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- 1. "It sucked." Tell those artsy fartsies what you really thought about the Whitney Biennial at a roundtable discussion led... |
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- Last post by Greebo, Thu 20-May-2004 00:41:56 (1 Reply) |
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- "Today we have elves, stormtroopers and now superheroes," Koster said. "We need to break out of the geek ghetto. No offense ... I am one." Wired is running the old mainstream acceptance article, except it's about MMORPGs instead of comic books. |
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- Something rather remarkable has just happened. I am watching Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned, and they have just had a serious discussion about how they really did not like the fact that the Government can tell exactly which internet sites you have just been visiting, and read all your emails, and send you to prison if you encrypt them and do not tell them the key, or whatever it is. Baddiel and Skinner never have serious... |
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- We never saw this coming, did we? The Government signalled yesterday that it was willing to breach the first of its "red line" safeguards on the European constitution by agreeing to cede Britain's veto over sensitive areas of criminal justice. The shift in policy raises fears that Brussels could acquire the power to interfere with the common law tradition of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and rules of evidence. Whereas, until today, nobody had ever... |
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- The good news in space travel just keeps piling higher. An american group has launched a rocket to suborbital altitude. An amateur unmanned rocket has been launched into space from the Nevada desert - the first time this has been achieved by a privately-built vehicle. The Civilian Space eXploration Team's 6.5m (21ft) GoFast rocket is understood to have exceeded an altitude of 100km. |
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- No question about the big story in London today. Some idiots seeking to draw attention to their cause (which – oh dear oh deary me – I seem to have quite forgotten although I was told) by chucking some contraceptives full of chalk dust at the Prime Minister during Prime Minister's Questions. If this dust had been scarily biological – anthrax or some such thing – then the subsequent behaviour of the assembled MPs was... |
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- Despite the best efforts of the Negatroid Hordes to convince us otherwise, much in Iraq is going very well. DEMOCRACY TAKES ROOT: Democracy is spreading - from the ground up, as it should: "In the province of Dhi Qar, about 230 miles southeast of Baghdad and a backwater even by Iraq's standards, residents voting as families will have elected city councils in 16 of the 20 biggest cities by next month." Read the whole article... |
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- The May 1 issue of New Scientist contains an item 'Why our fears about fat are misplaced' written by Paul Campos, a Professor of Law from the University of Colorado. We have often stated our belief fat is the new job frontier for government bureaucracy and Professor Campos seems to agree with us. He states unequivocally that no research directly links fat to shorter lifespans. Sedentery lifestyles and other factors, yes. Fat alone? |
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- The Coding Monkeys have released a new version of their fine OS X programming and text editor, SubEthaEdit (good product, bad name). A big addition for me, one that gets me closer to being able to shut off my addiction to using UltraEdit on a PC, is regular expression support ... |
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- An international prosecutor cleared four Jordanian police officers of involvement in a Kosovo prison shootout that killed three American corrections officers and the assailant, a U.N. official said Wednesday. |
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