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- independent expert on human rights in afghanistan to visit country from 31 january to 6 february |
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- secretary-general praises courage of iraqi people on election, says success augurs well for transition |
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- huge investments in water, agriculture and ecosystems needed to reduce hunger and poverty, says fao in message to conference in the hague |
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- secretary-general urges african leaders to help make 2005 year of renewal for un, hope for africa, in address to abuja summit |
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- terrorism, iraq, middle east, sudan among critical issues before security council in 2004 |
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- tentative schedule of meetings of united nations bodies in february 2005 |
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- president of united nations security council and chairman of military staff committee in february |
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R.I.P. FDR? (Jan 31 2005 19:59 GMT) - In his inaugural address, George W. Bush accomplished two things. Judging from the accolades, he successfully branded his administration—“fr is its name. |
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- That famed UK pop-gossip/tittle-tattle site Holy Moly talks to MediaGuardian. And reveals throughout that rather than being some kind of seedy teenager trapped in the toilets of Media Whorehouse Central, he is in fact a married 30-something Northerner who wants to "turn the site into a successful business model". Any donations you make to the site, goes to him to buy more fashionable clothes. Call me insane and hippy-esque, but it's disgraceful. I do wish people would stop seeing the Internet through nothing but green-paper-tinted glasses. |
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- One of the highlights of attending SXSW 2004 was going to a very entertaining blogging panel. Amongst the panellists was a very funny Justin Hall, who struck me as being a unique blend of someone who could be entertaining, funny, *and* knowledgable at the same time. In other words, someone I could aspire to liking, if I had heard of him before that day. Then amongst the morass of weblinks that get thrown at everyone all the time, I forgot to check out his website. (This is before I discovered Bloglines and the point of RSS feeds - to help you catch up on your web reading! |
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- On the Chris Moyles radio show this morning, the "gang" riffed on that classic early-90s two-albums-wonder Martika, and played a Japanese version of Love ... Thy Will Be Done. And howled at Martika singing Japanese lyrics with an English chorus, as if this was typical of the oddity of Japan. Except ... I'm pretty much certain that outside of English-speaking countries, an awful lot of the native pop does incorporate English and other multiple languages into songs. |
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- Oh for heavens' sake. BBC NEWS | Blogging 'a paedophile's dream' says a forensic psychologist adviser to the Scottish parliament. What next? Banning pens and paper on the grounds that if children write things, it might find its way over to that nasty child catcher? How on earth did paedophiles become such a bogeyman in today's society? |
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- It's the end of the world ... so it's time for Snow Patrol to do the video to that rather fabby song, Chocolate. They say it's all about madness, but I beg to differ. Certainly, it's much better than Ultravox's video on the same theme, with the added poignancy of some 9/11-esque imagery. Also pays "homage" (ie it rips off) to Don McKellar's great film Last Night. |
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- "If you want a working definition of a producer's job, it is persuading people to do things they don't want to do. And which are not in their own best interests." - Jeremy Paxman. So right. |
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- Since I spent 14 hours yesterday mostly monitoring/watching the Tsunami Relief Concert to provide on-demand broadband video clips (with my colleagues of course), I thought I might as well give my knee-jerk reactions of the artistes involved. Although of course I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE INSTEAD, if it wasn't for my cursed multi-skilling abilities. Rant to come. Katharine Jenkins - nice voice, but the songs seemed a bit too bland and were too anthemic at this early stage in the proceedings. Of course, at one point I shouted across the office: |
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- Well, it was a 14-hour workday producing on-demand broadband video clips from the Tsunami Relief Concert - and aside from the fact I've still got a glowing wristband on that would have allowed me backstage access throughout the entire gig and I had to babysit a video encoder instead - it was good fulfilling fun. Pumping out 8 hours of video content, checking it for swearing gives one a huge sense of achievement. Although not being able to spot when Badly Drawn Boy repeats a song twice is not one of my music appreciation highlights. |
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- tsunami concert goers start arriving Originally uploaded by badlydubbedboy. Like ants to a sugar cube on a picnic. And just when it gets interesting, and the music starts pumping out the stadium speakers, I have to go to the office to pump out 8 hours of broadband-quality on-demand video. Which will be fun, but not as fun as working backstage. |
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- an empty millennium stadium Originally uploaded by badlydubbedboy. Up from the sixth floor, just waiting... and waiting... |
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- Watch that Tsunami Relief Cardiff concert online in broadband. and guess which muggins is having to produce the on-demand broadband video clips, instead of using his backstage pass? Boy will there be a rant about that later... |
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- My sister popped round briefly in the post-Christmas haze of festivities. Having spent a couple of days in her suburban house stuffed full of toys, cute crabs, pillows and other girly things, I thought it was a bit rich of her to turn around in my penthouse suite overlooking the river and announce imperiously: "You're still living like a student!" I'm still not sure by which she reached this statement - probably because I still live with flatmates, rent the flat and don't own my own house. (Although of course, I do - it's just not the one I live in). |
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- Damn, Suw beat me to the first Welsh-language podcast. I think. I'm just thankful that this achievement in the Welsh language was not achieved by a remote geek somewhere in Welshpool extolling the virtues of php over perl. Although I guess for added obscurity, said podcast should have been done in a North walian accent. Now I'm waiting for complaints from ardent Welsh nationalist fascists that Suw not actually being Welsh, it doesn't count... |
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- Not knowing who every single band is on the setlist at Cardiff's forthcoming Tsunami Relief benefit concert, I thought I'd better try and update myself as to what the cool kids of today are listening to. And iTunes has a handy sample of all music bands in the UK. Or so I thought. A search on Embrace or Feeder on iTunes UK comes up with lots of bands, but none of them being the actual Embrace or Feeder. At least, as far as I know. |
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- There was always something about the "seminal" Call on Me: Eric Prydz music video that seemed distinctly Eurotrash/Europop about it. The complete disassociation from anything else, the lack of outdoor shots, the Euro-friendly look of the dancers. It just looked like something that was shot by the geniuses behind the Menthos adverts, or Cillit-Bang, for that matter... However, it turns out that the only thing European about it was Mr. |
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Panama (Jan 31 2005 19:59 GMT) - Panama-the people and landscape |
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- The largest library system in Illinois, the Alliance Library System, has launched this handsome advocacy website, LibrariesMatter.com. Member libraries can order blue Lance Armstrongish bracelets that proclaim "Libraries Matter" and sell them to patrons. Libraries can also "register" on the site to let visitors to the site know what their funding needs are. Here's an explanation of the project, which is an attempt to apply web-based philanthropy to libraries. |
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- Anonymous Patron writes "Interns get help pursuing master’s in library science “It’s not just checking out books; it’s not like that at all, there’s a lot of work involved in the cataloguing, organizing and maintaining the online resources,” Treviño said. “It was a rude awakening. We are doing a lot of work.”" |
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- A new national study, the largest of its kind, says America’s high schools are leaving the First Amendment behind. Among its findings: Nearly three-fourths of high school students either do not know how they feel about the First Amendment or admit they take it for granted. Seventy-five percent erroneously think flag burning is illegal. Half believe the government can censor the Internet. |
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- One librarian's take on the role of (and need for) librarians in e-government projects: There are many librarians involved in e-government projects. I chair a group of information professionals working in local government and many of its members will have been involved in e-government in one way or another. Librarians should be at the forefront as the provision of information is a key element; and that is what we do best. |
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- Anonymous Patron writes "Google lead in search is narrowing is a New York Times you can read at IHT.com. They say so far, the fruits of thousands of computer scientists' labor have not seemed to shake Google from its perch at the top of the search market. Hardly a week passes without an announcement heralding an Internet search innovation by one of the big sites - Google, Yahoo or Microsoft, which is testing the search engine that it will soon promote on its MSN service. Even the smaller players, like Acoona. |
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- Durst writes "Government Executive News has a story about GPO's policy regarding public access to agency information. The new policy requires a more detailed review of why an agency wanted to withdraw, withhold or restrict access to a document, and whether alternative options could be used. The option would depend on what the agency wanted to do. For example, if they wanted to withdraw a publication, the option might be to edit it so it can be printed anyway. If they wanted to hold a publication, the option might be to put a timeline on how long it's held. |
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- twistedlibrarian writes "For years, librarian Charyl "Char" Frounfelter helped people learn about their ancestors, Michigan history and many other topics, too. "She was very knowledgeable," says Eleanor Koepke of Grand Blanc Township, president of the Flint Genealogical Society, "and she helped a lot of folks over the years." "A couple of times she helped people who found relatives they'd been separated from for years," says Lloris "Larry" Frounfelter, Char's husband. "One lady who found her brother wrote Char a letter, thanking her for helping find him. That meant a lot to her. |
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- [N24 - Dokumentationen] - Mo., 31.01., 20:05 Uhr +++ Di. |
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- Harvard Medical School researchers have selected Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan's "Generic Drugs -- The Unadvertised Brand" as a model BlueWorks program for keeping prescription drugs safe and affordable. |
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- Karstadt verkauft Deutsches Sportfernsehen an EM.TV - HB DÜSSELDORF (Dow Jones-VWD)--Die KarstadtQuelle AG, Essen, steigt nach Informationen der Zeitung "Handelsblatt" (HB) beim Deutschen Sportfernsehen ... |
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- Geeks.com offers a silver 53-inch camera tripod with bubble level for $7.99. That's $1 under our last mention and lower than any other 53-inch tripod...(more) |
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- Geeks.com offers a silver 53-inch camera tripod with bubble level for $7.99. That's $1 under our last mention and lower than any other 53-inch tripod...(more) |
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- We have plenty of maniacs here, as in every country. Not every criminal has guns, but to let everyone have guns to defend themselves against those who do isnt the solution I think. We have the police to do that.A respectable law abiding citizen owning a gun is no problem. But is everyone that owns a gun a respectable law abiding citizen? |
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- Most recent daily statistics (15 Jan 2005): Ranking: 0, Activity percentile: 0.00%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (15 Jan 2005): Download count: 0 |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Patch Tracking System |
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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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