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- U.S. Tsunami Aid Commitment Now to Total $350 MillionPresident boosts monetary commitment in White House statement31 December 2004President George W. Bush has announced a 10-fold increase -- from $35 million to $350 million -- in the United States' commitment to the relief effort for victims of the tsunami that devastated Asian coastal areas bordering the Indian Ocean. Moreover, Bush pledged in a statement released by the White House December 31, U. |
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- Cabo da Roca am 8. September 2004. It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. -- Aristoteles Das war's fr dieses Jahr. Kommt gut ins neue! |
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- [The Unofficial Apple Weblog] - Quark VS InDesign .com accuses Macworld of bias against Adobe, maker of Photoshop, InDesign, and several other industry-standard creative applications, by ignoring Adobe’s products in the recently announced 20th Annual Editors’ Choice Awards. After giving InDesign CS rave reviews all year, including a statement in a February 2004 article that “ |
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- [The Unofficial Apple Weblog] - Due to my well-known obsession with Cubes, everyone and their brother has been emailing me over the past few days with news of the rumored new headless Mac that Apple is allegedly unveiling at Macworld in 2 weeks. “Look! It’s a new Cube! |
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- [The Unofficial Apple Weblog] - File this under “Cool, compassionate companies”: SendStation, makers of the PocketDock iPod dock adapter, will donate $5 from every PocketDock sale through their online store to tsunami relief for the victims in South Asia. Place your order before January 31, 2005 to make your contribution to the relief efforts. Half of the funds will be donated to UNICEF, the other half going to Aktion Deutschland Hilft (” |
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- [The Unofficial Apple Weblog] - Do you make music on your Mac? Head on over to MacJams.com new community-based music equipment section to get some advice on your next piece of gear. The RecRoom allows users to submit reviews and give product ratings to Mac-friendly (or Mac-unfriendly!) music equipment. |
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- [The Unofficial Apple Weblog] - Praise be to the Apple Developer Connection’s zen-master revelations: “The keyboard’s primary use is to enter text. |
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- [Henrik Torstenssons Weblog] - Med n?gra timmar kvar av 2004 vill jag önska alla ett Gott Nytt ?r! |
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- [ResearchBuzz] - The National Library of Scotland has an RSS Feed at http://www. nls. uk/news/feed. xml. |
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- [ResearchBuzz] - I get so many announcements about sites which are designed to sell things, or to be roundups for e-commerce information, that's it's startling (and refreshing) to find out about a... |
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- [ResearchBuzz] - Steven of Library Stuff will be working at PubSub starting in 2005. Congrats on the job change, Steven! Now get out there and be all the RSS evangelist you can... |
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- [ResearchBuzz] - SuperJason has developed a tool for tracking UPS packages via an RSS feed. He explains all and points to a permanent home for the tool at http://superjason. com/archive/2004/11/28/272. aspx. |
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- [ResearchBuzz] - As I mentioned a while ago, Feedster had a developer content going on. You can get the details at http://www. feedster. com/contest. |
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PF 2005 (Dec 31 2004 19:30 GMT) - [Maxblog] - ... |
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- "More illegal entrants were caught along the Arizona-Mexico border this year than in California, New Mexico and Texas combined, officials... |
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- Yesterday, I wrote a review of the single-brewer coffee machine. Got a few comments about these don’t compare to the old fashioned coffee makers. I agree. More at Old Coffee... |
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- I don’t usually report on consumer products, but I love my coffee. I have done a lot of reading and research on these single brewing systems and thought coffee fans... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite. |
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- I’m a member of International Virtual Womens’ Chamber of Commerce and Kim Bloomer interviewed me. It was strange to be on the other side of the interview. : |
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- Last week, I reported that I had trouble accessing Marqui’s CMS help file because it keeps asking me to login. Er… I am logged in, CMS… as a guy named... |
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- I’ve made minor changes to some of the pages (content and logo) to give it a lift. Sometime soon, I plan to move the navigation to the left side since... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite. |
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- Many wrote with thanks for the original article. A reader dropped me a note indicating it was out of date. So, here’s an update on how to PDA-lize the Blog.... [[ This is a content summary only. |
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- A new book review has been posted. Meet F1 Getting the Most out of Excel.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! |
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- Time for a visit Marqui’s CMS specifically the Console and Calendar Events tabs. I logged into the demo account as an administrator. It thinks I’m some guy named Dave, but... |
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- The finalists in Arts Project Moving Image Contest have been announced. The contest asked entrants to create short films demonstrating some of the tensions between art and intellectual property... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! |
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Carcassonne (Dec 31 2004 19:29 GMT) - Despite growing up playing TV video games, computer games, and handheld electronic games, I still love the old fashioned board game. The newest addition to the Snave family cabinet is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! |
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- Stephen King, President and CEO of Marqui, asked about BzzAgent and how is it similar / different to Marqui’s blogosphere program. Like Marqui, BzzAgent is controversial, but it is all... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite. |
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- I’ve been looking for a spell checker to use with all of my programs, but have yet to find one I like. Read more…... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite. |
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- I’ve posted a list of geeky and wacky gifts that I’ve seen around the ‘net.... [[ This is a content summary only. |
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- I’ve learned a lot from Tom Peters especially from The Pursuit of Wow! Compared to this and past books, Project04: Snapshots of Excellence in Unstable Times is disappointing. In it,... |
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- I went into Marqui’s communications management system this morning and played with it for a couple of hours. Right off the bat, I discovered it won’t work with anything but... [[ This is a content summary only. |
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- Over on the podcasting blog I have a pool of Gmail invites available for anyone interested in a Gmail account. Go check it out and drop me a line if you're interested in an invite.... |
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- Over on the podcasting blog I have a pool of Gmail invites available for anyone interested in a Gmail account. Go check it out and drop me a line if you're interested in an invite.... |
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- [8] He carries the past like a moneybag stitched around his waist, quite like a kangaroo’s pocket, and coins jingle deep in his sleep. He desires to become something else, faceless, colorless, odorless, perhaps even that giant cockroach of Kafka crawling across an infinite sheet of white paper. Who is he and what are the stories he carries somewhere in his body five or so feet long? India appears like a daydream. |
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2004 Gone (Dec 31 2004 19:29 GMT) - The year 2004 is foregone. That's it. Over. Completed. Determined. |
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- Amid the deluge of movies in 2004, these were my favorites - the 10 best films of the year. |
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- Spend a couple hours jacked into "Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal" as you collect weapons and vehicles while romping through alien armies |
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- The end of the year always makes us nostalgic for meals we have known since January. We remember beginnings that whet our appetite, entrees that satisfied it and desserts that made us feel luxurious |
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- In Tucson theater this year, we've had a show called "Underpants," another called "Urinetown." |
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- Tucson wasn't part of the game plan when rock giant Van Halen mapped out its 2004 reunion tour last spring. But come mid-November, Eddie and Alex Van Halen, Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony had |
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- While it's often said that you never forget how to ride a bike, it's also true that many never really learn - especially when it comes to mountain bicycling. "It might not be so obvious that you |
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- During a time of year when most stores are chock-full of stuff that'll stress you out, Aqua Vita, 2801 N. Country Club Road, feels almost like a haven. It's not harshly lighted, and it has an open |
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- If you're planning on heading to the annual New Year's powwow at Rillito Raceway Park, get your mind around the idea that it's not a fair and it's not a show. At its base, the collection of American |
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- It has been an impressive year for video games, with the current generation of consoles reaching their maturity |
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- Sometime in the next year, Joshua Bell hopes to learn to salsa dance. He also wants to learn Spanish. Finish renovating his new New York City apartment. Compose. Conduct. |
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- It may be sick. It sure is twisted. But dull it ain't. It's "Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation," and it's broken loose once again to romp through the country, shedding |
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- When it comes to the world of butterflies, I'm the top dog 'round these parts. No, I'm not conceited, but people do call me a Dog-face Butterfly, or a Zerene Cesonia to be exact. My name comes from |
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- Growing up as the only deaf person in his family, Ed Waterstreet didn't get the big deal about music. "When we went to the church and plays |
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- Mark your calendar for Super Sunday, Feb. 6. First, catch high school bands Affirmation of Wumpus, Andrew Collberg, Japanesian Barbie, Christopher Hall, Jetlag, Night Owls and Forgotten Melody, the |
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- A more important question than what your New Year's resolution will be this time around is how many days you'll keep up with it. Because we're all sure to fudge on our self-promises before January |
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- Spend five minutes inside Tucson's French Quarter on any given night, and it's not hard to realize why the restaurant/bar's official motto is "Laissez les bon temps rouler" (Let the good times |
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