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Averse n°10 (Dec 21 2005 21:36 GMT) - Allez. Avant que ce soit une averse de neige :Aq, un des présentateurs de LugRadio, nous annonce la sortie de son second livre, Run Your Own Web Server Using Linux and Apache.Après la tornade mondiale concernant les propos de Linus Torvalds lui-même (qui recommande l'utilisation de KDE au détriment de GNOME, peut me chaut), une très belle réponse par Luis Villa : "Just do something new and different, and share it with the world so others can run with it, adjust it, or maybe just worship it because you got it right the first time. |
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- Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott expanded his lawsuit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment on Wednesday, alleging that a second form of anti-piracy technology used by the label violates the state’s spyware and deceptive trade practices laws. SiliconValley |
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At present. (Dec 21 2005 21:35 GMT) - Over in Fuel on GB, I mentioned the worst Christmas present I ever got. It was a three-pack of underwear sets -- briefs and t-shirts -- from my dad when I was 12. No ordinary... |
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- The World Bank has set conditions for the delivery of its assistance package for Liberia. They include the willingness of the in-coming government to carry out reforms, move towards repair work, and ensure proper management of resources and commitment to the Governance Economic Management Assistance Program (GEMAP), among others. |
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- The Nigerian Steel Company that won the bid to operate the Bong Mining Company has re-iterated its commitment to add values in the iron ore industry in Liberia. |
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- PIPELINE explosions, yesterday, rocked the Niger Delta cities of Port Harcourt, setting one conveying crude oil on fire and in Warri where another one conveying petroleum products provided an easy pick for suspected illegal oil bunkerers. Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) confirmed that the Port Harcourt explosion occurred on a crude oil pipeline operated by the company located across the Opobo Channel, 50 kilometres South-West of the Rivers State capital. The incident left the company and security operatives at a loss over the source of the explosions. Preliminary investigations revealed that the fire might have been caused by a dynamite attack carried out by unknown persons. Meanwhile, the company has shut-in production from Diebu Creek and Nun River fields as well as all land area facilities except Rumuekpe. |
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- Insurance practitioners have started eyeing the food industry as a strategy to diversify and improve their income generation. |
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- The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the second and third reviews of Mali's economic performance under an SDR 9.3 million (about US$13.5 million) Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) arrangement (see Press Release No. 05/55). The completion of the reviews enables the release of a further SDR 2. |
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- A team of miners and security personnel of AngloGold Ashanti have carried out an exercise to seal up more than 50 pits sunk by small-scale miners in the active operational area of the Company. |
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- History was made in Nigeria's financial sector yesterday as Vmobile Nigeria announced the completion of a $1.1 billion medium-term debt financing agreement with leading international banks and a consortium of 16 top Nigerian banks led by Zenith International Bank Plc, Guaranty Trust Bank Plc and First Bank of Nigeria Plc. |
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- The Bayelsa State Governor, Dr Goodluck Jonathan has recommended the merging of airlines in the aviation industry to bring about greater efficiency and curb incessant air disasters in the country. |
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- Not less than N800 million is said to have been lost by domestic airline operators in the country following Saturday's grounding of Boeing 737 - 100, 200 and 200C aircraft operating in the country. |
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- A crude oil pipeline belonging to Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), was yesterday blown up in Port Harcourt, Rivers State by suspected members of militant groups with the resultant fire killing eight persons and destroyed several properties. |
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- A total of 400 vehicles seized from smugglers or abandoned as overtime cargoes will be auctioned today in Lagos, by the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS). |
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- The official Campaign Spokesman of the Unity Party (UP), Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan has been defending move by President-elect, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to block the transfer of Maritime Funds amounting to Euro$58 million. |
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- Several employees reportedly ran into all directions within the courtyard of the Freeport of Monrovia in search of refuge so as not to be caught in the melee that erupted. |
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- When the year turns the bend in a few days, the country will come face to face with 2006, the year which the regulator of the Communications industry, the Nigerian Communications Commission has said it will introduce the Unified Licensing Scheme in order to further effectively open up competition for government to realize its dreams for the industry. |
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- The Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan, has called for the removal of the Budget Monitoring and Price Intelligence Unit (BMPIU), otherwise called Due Process, from the Presidency to the Budget Office of the Federation. |
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- Minister of Tourism and Culture, Okere Adams Tuesday at the Sir Samuel Lewis Road, Aberdeen, opened the five hundred thousand pounds Raza Guest House. |
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- After receiving reports that the situation in Liberia is still a threat to international peace and that its natural resources are still not being used in a way that benefits its people, the United Nations Security Council has renewed the sanctions regime it imposed on the war-torn country in 2001, which now includes timber, travel, arms and diamond embargoes. |
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- The Mfanstipim School in Cape Coast has emerged the winner of the second i2CAP-'I Too Can Program' computer programming competition for second cycle schools held at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT. The Coordinator of the programme, Mr Ebenezer Kye-Mensah said Mfantsipim was adjudged the winner among 13 other schools by a unanimous decision by three judges. |
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- Minister for Power and Steel, Senator Liyel Imoke, yesterday said the sum of N14.78 billion was spent to acquire an ultra-modern electricity transmiter, meant to improve power supply to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). |
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- Call for the sack of Aviation Minister heightened yesterday as the All India Universities Alumni Association yesterday added its voice to the call for Dr. Babalola Borishade's sack. The association said Borishade's sack should be part of measures to overhaul the ministry. |
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- Since the death of the 62 students of Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja in the Sosoliso DC-9 aircraft crash in Port Harcourt on December 10, groups, individuals, and corporate bodies have inundated the college with condolence visits. Juliana Taiwo writes on the latest callers, including the former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida |
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- Nasarawa State government has budgeted over N29 billion for its services next year. |
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- Minister of Aviation, Professor Babalola Borishade has stated that he could not have been the architect of the problems currently bedeviling the nation's aviation sector just as he disclosed that a special fund is being explored to tackle the sector's myriad problems. |
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- This is the Pyle 600 Watt Single Bandpass System with Blue Neon Woofer Silhouette for $84 Shipped from Amazon.com. This thing weighs 37 Pounds!!! NOTE: Amazon is not showing a photo but this photo is correct and you can see a larger image at Target. |
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- Lo cuenta el Brussels Journal, lo traduce Blueslord: ... el Consejo de Europa, una organización que agrupa a 46 países europeos, ha criticado al gobierno danés por invocar "la libertad de prensa" en su rechazo a tomar partido contra los "insultantes" dibujos-caricaturas del Profeta Mahoma. El comité de Ministros del CdE discutió el caso durante una [...] |
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- Five people are behind bars in Hoke County charged with murder. |
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- "Space Age Technology transforms girl-phobic Junta into the infamous Mega-Playboy!" |
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- Author: Lt. Ripper Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 1:35 pm (GMT -8) in the words of paris hilton: |
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- Smokers and Grills Online.com - ceramic grills Smokers and Grills Online.com - charbroil gas grills Smokers and Grills Online.com - charbroil grills - My Barbecued Chicken RecipeBarbecued Chicken #2 Stephen Ceideburg 1/4 c Hoisin sauce3 lb Chicken, cut into 8 pieces, 1 tb Cider vinegar -skin and fat removed, or: [... |
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- Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney are once again "single persons." Paperwork finalizing and formalizing the end of the duo's blink-and-you-missed-it marriage was filed Tuesday in Los Angeles. " |
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- Link: Sober worm prompts net perv confession . A child porn suspect turned himself in to the police after mistaking an email generated by a prolific internet worm for an official notice he was under investigation.The perp said he didn't... |
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- Clayton Holdings Inc files SEC Form S-1/A [Amend] General form for registration of securities under the Securities Act of 1933 |
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- Hej, Jeg skal til at bygge mig en lydløs media pc. Jeg mangler lidt info. først vil jeg gerne have passiv køling og ingen blæser i kabinettet hvis det er muligt. Jeg vil gerne have et lille kabinet med den hurtigst mulige cpu gode ideer modtages gerne. Jeg havde forstillet mig at bruge et ASUS P5S800 -vm bundkort eller evt et Asus pundit -R men det er desværre ikke med passiv køling. |
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- Firefox Victory Forbes.com - Firefox’s feed icon, the company announced on a |
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- PITTSBURGH - A University of Pittsburgh researcher wanted the school to provide $200,000 to help fund stem cell research with a South Korean scientist whose work is now being questioned, but the proposal never got off the ground, the university said Wednesday. |
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- Martha Stewart finance chief Follo to resign next year for undisclosed reasons SignOn San Diego - ASSOCIATED PRESS 5:58 a.m. December 16, 2005 NEW YORK Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. temporarily as chief financial officer by its vice president for finance and Brasil Telecom Highlights 2nd Annual TMCnet. |
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- Everyone in the U.S. could be inoculated against anthrax by using only an acre of tobacco plants to produce the vaccine, according to a study in the journal Infection Immunity.... |
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- SIX FEET UNDER: WORMFOOD |
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- Matt Groening, Erfinder von Futurama und Die Simpsons, sagte in einem Inverview mit einer Australischen Zeitung, daß es vermutlich bald eine Fortsetzung von Futurama geben wird. Nach Aussagen von David X. Cohen, dem Co-Autor der Serie, ist auch ein Spielfilm angedacht, bei dem mehr erzählt werden kann als in der 20-minuten Serie. Als Grund für die kommende [...] |
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- Japanese stocks rise on deflation end hopesAP via Seattle Post Intelligencer - finish at 15,641.26 points on the Tokyo UPDATE 1-Goldman 4th-qtr earnings rise on trading, bankingReuters - 2005 9:00 AM ET (Adds Wall Street stumbling to the end of the yearChicago Sun-Times - week ahead of the [...] |
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