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- It's great to see the turn around on successful theatrical films get even faster. This week's most notable DVD... |
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- Optus has reached 100,000 resale DSL broadband customers since entering the market less than 12 months ago. The move comes amid indications the number two telco plans shortly to announce details of an investment of up to AU$100 million in its own DSL network |
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- Maybe you better sit down and pop a Xanax before reading any further, because what I’m about to tell you should seriously short you out: not only is the average soldier’s salary barely life-sustaining, the combat pay of the average grunt in Afghanistan and Iraq is only $7.50 a day or a measly $225 a month. And to make matters worse, the folks bringing up the rear – hundreds of miles from the horror show – are pulling down the same combat pay as our heroes who daily lay their lives on the line. America was far more generous to her soldiers during World War II, when combat pay on the battle fields of Europe and Asia was 30 cents a day or about ten bucks a month. |
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- Optus has reached 100,000 resale DSL broadband customers since entering the market less than 12 months ago. The move comes amid indications the number two telco plans shortly to announce details of an investment of up to AU$100 million in its own DSL network |
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- I'm waaay to old for this shit. |
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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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- Forum: General Discussion Posted By: GraphiteSportDesign Post Time: 02-01-2005 at 02:46 AM |
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- Forum: General Discussion Posted By: jdmaltz Post Time: 02-01-2005 at 02:41 AM |
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- State of the City points to successes, seeks aid on ‘stubborn challenges’ |
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- According to this BBC article, Viktor Yushchenko's father spent time as a prisoner in Auschwitz. And yet still during the elections last year his opponents compared him to Hitler. Also, Viktor's mom has died at the age of 88. |
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- The UN finds no genocide in Sudan's Darfur region, but accuses the government and militias of systematic abuse. |
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- This is Megan, a little girl living in southern Indiana who's just been diagnosed with Microscopic Polyangiitis. What a cutie! Go sign her guestbook and wish her a speedy recovery.... |
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- A drunken German who bought three hand grenades at a flea market in Bosnia has been arrested after throwing one out of the window to see whether it worked. |
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- Manga Entertainment's Street Fighter Alpha 2 has been solicited for release on June 28th. Source: TRSI |
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- Judge Says U.S. Denies Guantánamo Inmates Basic Rights. A federal judge ruled the Bush administration has been unconstitutionally blocking suspects from fighting their detention. |
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- So I had this interesting idea for a SF story today. I was listening to an NPR report on Indian reservations on the way home from work, and it was about various businesses and escaping poverty. And I started wondering about unique skills to native americans, and I remembered the whole code talker thing from World War II. Then I remembered that I had read that quantum computing meant the death of encryption as we know it, so one might be able to start a business using code talkers in the commerce world, once, ya know, encryption is dead. I started thinking about how one could open a big school on a Navaho res to train folks in the old language. |
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- Kansas Chat rooms at cuteandsingle.com |
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- Il est 22H21, chez moi en Martinique, je suis là devant l'ordi à parler, à rire avec des gens que je connais ou que je ne connais que du net. Je vais bien, pourtant il me manque quelquechose : "écrire". J'ai envie de parler de mon vide, celui qui me remplit. Un manque de tout et de rien. |
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- Lu sur : Anarcotico « Milan - Aujourd hui 31 janvier, s est clos le procès de treize personnes accusées d outrage à magistrat dans l exercice de ses fonctions, à savoir, lors d une audience, avec les mêmes prévenus et poursuivis pour avoir attentés à la bonne marche d un chantier ferroviaire. |
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... (Feb 01 2005 02:57 GMT) - today wasn't all that great. i dont really know why. there might be a few reasons. and if you think you know what they are |
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- Joseph Staleknight uploaded a new Neologism, Mamaboard (n.). "1. Computer. 2. |
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- last night's terrible fire in the west bottoms generated so much smoke that bonnie and i caught a whiff of it last night, filtering through the window as we lay in bed.i liked the kansas city nut, bolt, and screw building, i'll miss it, crossing the 12th street viaduct.i hate the smell of burning buildings. just hate it. |
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- Will i see any future problems with 36" IDE cables? Thanks, -Biz |
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- Showing off her natural big tits and getting her pierced nipple sucked. |
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- Anybody know the model(s) of the USR hardware dialup modems?.. I need one for a build for a relative in another state..and I sure do not want a winmodem, which almost all PCI types were a couple of years ago. I know they are "out there" |
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The Western (Feb 01 2005 02:55 GMT) - SirReelFilms, 1st Feb 2005 at 02:46 (8) |
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- SirReelFilms, 1st Feb 2005 at 02:42 (4) |
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Open Thread (Feb 01 2005 02:55 GMT) - Your virtual water cooler for idle and not so idle... |
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- Kelly McNeill writes "Though Apple computer is known for some of the computing and technology industry's most notable innovations, its not as if the company hasn't also taken its lumps. Thomas Hormby submitted the following editorial contribution to osOpinion/osViews, which supplies us with his top ten list of Apple's (and some of associated partners) most significant flops throughout the company's history." |
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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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