BBC: The area around Mount St Helens has been sealed off after geologists noticed a surge in seismic activity earlier this week. [cut] A number of small earthquakes in the region has stirred the volcano back to life. Steam is rising from the crater and rocks are tumbling down its side.
Adam Curry: There's a webcam updating a picture of Mount St. Helens every 5 minutes.
Dave Winer: The USGS is blogging Mt St Helens.
Jeff Nolan: What a lot of people don't realize is that entrepreneurs pick their VC's as much as we pick the deals we invest in. With so much ink (bits) devoted to covering the VC side of things, I thought it would be helpful to look at the process through the eyes of the startup.
Source: Scobleizer.
Peter Dawson: Randy, this is a topic for our geek dinner !! :)-
Randy: Peter's got some thoughts on our next TO Geek Dinner. iM fielding potential dates. The venue will be PeelPub again, assuming no better locales are presented.
Goldstone: $2386.00 Bounty to the first person to ask George W. Bush this question in a public forum. Up to $6000.00 MORE if the question is televised and answered! Go to The $6,000 Answer Bounty for details.
Ernie: It has come to my attention that President Bush has previously acknowledged being arrested at least 3 times in total (twice for disorderly conduct, once for drunk driving).
Source: Oleg Dulin.
Randy: Not bad. That makes at least 5 arrests between the President and his VP. Cheney has two drunk driving arrests.
Xprize.org: Mike Melvill first X PRIZE flight a success. One down one to go. A LIVE worldwide webcast began today at 6 AM PDT detailing the first successful X PRIZE flight of SpaceShipOne. Watch the event like you were there. Flight archives, interviews and event program now available on demand. View the video here.
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This is me moblogging at the Geek Diner for Oleg Dulin. Oleg took the picture. I put it up on imageshack (conserve bandwidth). This fits Dave Winer's definition of moblogging, but not mine.
That's my $dollar store pad of paper and a W5 pen. Sorry, couldn't afford the digital camera.
Quote: WSDL uses the optional wsdl:document element...
Randy: Should be wsdl:documentation.
Alec Saunders: Well, I've learned a valuable lesson. Make backups of your blog. I had the nightmare scenario a few days ago - lost my hard disk. I don't know what's going to happen to my blog when I post this since I am using a very old backup of it. Here goes nothing, as they say.
Randy: Here's an example of why client side data is bad, bad, bad. One of our best CDNian blogs has disappeared, likely, forever :(
Just a reminder that tonight is the Geek Dinner. Peel Pub at the corner of Duncan and King, downtown Toronto, 7PM. Duncan is between Spadina and University, in the theatre district. Click here for a map. I'll be the host. You can't miss me. iM the real geek. My pic is in the upper right corner of my blog. The occasion is Oleg Dulin is in town. Famous NYC blogger. Every geek is invited. You're a geek only if you know what a blog is. Invite all your geeky friends too!
Quote: I've attached a photo illustrating the damage caused to my home from a
storm that passed through the south of Sweden last week.
Source: Malakasis.
Randy: Don't view this unless you are really interested in seeing the damage caused by the recent Swedish weather.
Click here for endless amusement.
Source: Malakasis.
Oleg Dulin: I am in Toronto again as of Monday on a business trip. This time I am here till Thursday afternoon. Things to do – have pizza at Milano’s on King Street; go out for lunch and/or drinks with Official Sources.
Randy: Maybe we should have a spontaneous Geek Dinner. A first in TO. I'm thinking Peel Pub, tonight or tomorrow.
Update: Let's do a geek's dinner tomorrow, 7PM, Peel Pub. I'll be the host. You can't miss me. iM the real geek. My pic is in the upper right corner of my blog. The occasion is Oleg Dulin is in town. Famous NYC blogger. Every geek is invited. You're a geek only if you know what a blog is. Invite all your geeky friends too! Click here for a map.
Since September 11, 2001, Americans and Canadians have come together as never before in our generation. We have banded together to overcome tremendous adversity. We have weathered direct attacks on our own soil, wars overseas, corporate/government scandal, layoffs, unemployment, stock price plunges, droughts, fires, mad cow, SARS, high gasoline prices, and a myriad of economic and physical disasters both great and small. But now, we must come together once again to overcome our greatest challenge yet. Hundreds of Professional Hockey players in our very own nation are going to be locked out, living at well below the seven-figure salary level. And as if that weren't bad enough they could be deprived of their life giving pay for several months, possibly longer, as a result of the upcoming lockout situation. But you can help!
For only $20,835 a month, about $694.50 a day (that's less than the cost of a large screen projection TV) you can help an NHL player remain economically viable during his time of need. This contribution by no means solves the problem as it barely covers the annual minimum salary, but it's a start, and every little bit will help!
Although $700 may not seem like a lot of money to you, to a hockey player it could mean the difference between spending the lockout golfing in Florida or on a Mediterranean cruise. For you, seven hundred dollars is nothing more than a month's rent, half a mortgage payment, or a month of medical insurance, but to a hockey player, $700 will partially replace his daily salary.
Your commitment of less than $700 a day will enable a player to buy that home entertainment center, trade in the year-old Lexus for a new Ferrari, or enjoy a weekend in Rio.
HOW WILL I KNOW I'M HELPING?
Each month, you will receive a complete financial report on the player you sponsor. Detailed information about his stocks, bonds, 401(k), real estate, and other investment holdings will be mailed to your home. Plus, upon signing up for this program, you will receive an unsigned photo of the player lounging during the lockout on a beach somewhere in the Caribbean (for a signed photo, please include an additional $150). Put the photo on your refrigerator to remind you of other peoples' suffering.
HOW WILL HE KNOW I'M HELPING?
Your NHL player will be told that he has a SPECIAL FRIEND who just wants to help in a time of need. Although the player won't know your name, he will be able to make collect calls to your home via a special operator in case additional funds are needed for unforeseen expenses.
YES, I WANT TO HELP!
I would like to sponsor a locked out NHL player. My preference is (check below):
[ ] Forward
[ ] Defenseman
[ ] Goaltender
[ ] Entire team (Please call our 900 number to ask for the cost of a specific team - $10 per minute)
[ ] Jaromir Jagr (Higher cost: $32,000 per day)
Please charge the account listed below $694.50 per day for the duration of the lockout. Please send me a picture of the player I have sponsored, along with an Jaromir Jagr 2001 Income Statement and my very own Bob Goodenow (Executive Director of the NHLPA player's Union) pin to wear proudly on my hat (include $80 for hat).
Your Name: _______________________
Telephone Number: _______________________
Account Number: _______________________ Exp.Date:_______
[ ] MasterCard [ ] Visa [ ] American Express [ ] Other
Signature: _______________________
Alternate card (when the primary card exceeds its credit limit):
Account Number: _______________________ Exp.Date:_______
[ ] MasterCard [ ] Visa [ ] American Express [ ] Other
Signature: _______________________
Pour the perfect pint (game).
Source: Steve Garfield.
Adam Curry: The ultimate mobile blog post, in 4 minutes from L.A. to N.Y. I suggest downloading the source file here and watching it full screen.
Randy: Very cool!
For those that don't know, I've spent most of my last two weekends looking for a bigger house, for my growing family. As we plan on having a fourth child next fall, we still have a three bedroom house. We are looking for a 4-5 bedroom house. Within driving distance of downtown TO. Are requirements are quite defined.
- No swimming pool.
- No hot tub.
- No crowded neighbourhood.
- Low traffic road like a culdesac or crescent.
- 4-5 bedrooms.
- 2000+ square feet.
- Less than 10 yrs old.
- No new development in the area.
- Central air conditioning.
- RV port, would be nice.
- Park w/in walking distance, w/out crossing any medium or high traffic road. Preferably w/out crossing any roads.
- Driving distance to downtown TO.
- A finished basement, would be nice.
- Less than $400k.
The next step is to go online and search for houses. This is normally done at MLS.ca (Canada only, sorry), but I have tried a half dozen other search facilities. MLS is the best of them.
The Problem
Turns out that none of these search engines provide anything beyond a very trivial search. I can't specify "No Swimming Pool," which I think would be a popular option. In the end, I get a list of thousands of houses that I have to manually filter. I smell I business model.
A reader wrote in my comments: As a Point of Sale software developer that was forced to start my own company, due to outsourcing, I agree that FREE, or almost free, as on eBay, sucks. I get terrorist customers who want Perfect software, FREE support, FREE everything, for only $30. Then if they find one bug, or have to do one extra step to install the software, they scream for a refund. Go figure! These same terrorsit customers are probably my former co-workers who were downsizing my butt, only to be downsized themselves. Now they are opening a retail store to survive and want everything FREE. So much for the American dream and our freedom in the long run! Lots of money = power, lack of it = tyranny! Hope we learn this before it is too late!
Randy: Well, I wouldn't compare a freeware software developer or customer to a terrorist, but the point is well receive. Freeware is sucking the life out of software development.
As some have likely noticed, I've using Bidvertiser.com to server ads this last week. This is a very interesting service that allows advertisers to bid for placement on my blog (or any Website that serve Bidvertiser.com ads). You can deny ads and even request that all ads be approved before they are placed. Using the publisher side of this application for a couple days, I was really impressed, except of course for the <$0.01 CPM and <$0.01 CPC.
My next thought was that this would be a great service for those trying to place ads. So, I logged into their advertiser Website and tried to place an ads on my own site. If you click the "place ad here..." link, then would go to a sign up form. Well, I already had an account, to I clicked the client login button. After logging in, I was at the advertiser homepage and not a page where I could place ads on my Website. I then tried to find my site by clicking on the various links. THEY ALL HAVE JAVASCRIPT ERRORS!!! I thought maybe the Web developers were Gecko-geeks, so I converted to Mozilla and tried the site w/ another browser. OMG! It looks like complete crap and even less functional on Gecko.
That's enough experimenting w/ Bidvertiser.com. Time for a new advertising service. If the service ever gets worthwhile, then please do ping me as I really like the Bidvertiser.com model. Too bad the Website is broken.
Esther Dyson: I'm about to become an investr in Flickr, so far as I can see the richest/deepest of the photo sites.
Richard Soderberg: What all is out there currently, and what's the conglomerate of them all look like for a given page?
Source: PhotoRSS.
Randy: It looks like there are as many ways of geo locating your HTML as there are syndication formats. Please, invent me a new wheel :(
Awesome HTML slideshow idea. Example.
Source: 456 Berea.
Space.com: The countdown for a Canadian rocket with its eyes on the international Ansari X Prize is on hold while project engineers secure and test key components for their piloted spacecraft. Just over a week before a scheduled Oct. 2 launch, the Toronto-based da Vinci Project announced a delay in their plans to fly Wild Fire Mark VI, a privately built spacecraft piloted by team leader Brian Feeney, from the town of Kindersley, Saskatchewan.
NYTimes: The Republican Party acknowledged yesterday sending mass mailings to residents of two states warning that "liberals" seek to ban the Bible. It said the mailings were part of its effort to mobilize religious voters for President Bush. The mailings include images of the Bible labeled "banned" and of a gay marriage proposal labeled "allowed."
Source: Steve's No Direction.
Randy: Bush's team, caught in another lie. Of course, the Bush supporters will brush YET ANOTHER LIE off and vote for their corrupt candidate.
A haunting exception I get in Release mode only. I've noticed other .NET developers have also reported it. Any ideas? For now, I'm going to disguise it.
************** Exception Text **************
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The parameter is incorrect
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.UpdateLayered()
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnHandleCreated(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmCreate(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmCreate(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
Update: Figured it out. I was trying to Show() the control before it was Created.
NewScientist: Spam and spim - spam by instant messenger – are about to be joined by "spit" - spam over internet telephony.
Source: Smartpartol, BoingBoing.
William Gibson: Microsoft was like some really rich junior college, where everyone was 20 to 30 and super-bright and very nice. At the podium, I couldn't help but wish I had known people like this when I was 19. They would have understood me. Life wouldn't have been so hard.
Source: Mike Glass.
It's just code. Live w/ it.
System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider x =
new System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider();byte[] bs = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(password);
bs = x.ComputeHash(bs);
System.Text.StringBuilder s = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
foreach (byte b in bs)
{
s.Append(b.ToString("x2").ToLower());
}
password = s.ToString();
I get the following failure delivery response from GMail when I send 50k zip-file attachments.
Unable to deliver message to the following address(es). <randymorin@gmail.com>: x.x.x.x failed after I sent the message. Remote host said: 552 Illegal Attachment.
If I can't send attachments, then what good is GMail's 1 Gig?
Abu Hafs al-Masri: We are very keen that Bush does not lose the upcoming elections.
Source: Oleg Dulin.
Source: Smartpatrol.
Randy: John never fails to post the funiest content. But then, that's why Scott Adams subscribes to John's RSS.
9. W-2 Form is now Dubya-2 Form.
8. Under the simplified tax code, your refund check goes directly to Halliburton.
7. The reduced earned income tax credit is so unfair, it just makes me want to tear out my lustrous, finely groomed hair.
6. Attorney General (John) Ashcroft gets to write off the entire U.S. Constitution.
5. Texas Rangers can take a business loss for trading Sammy Sosa.
4. Eliminate all income taxes; just ask Teresa (Heinz Kerry) to cover the whole damn thing.
3. Cheney can claim Bush as a dependent.
2. Hundred-dollar penalty if you pronounce it "nuclear" instead of "nucular."
1. George W. Bush gets a deduction for mortgaging our entire future.
Use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Randompage as the homepage for your browser. You'll get a random Wikipedia article. Congrats on reaching 10^6!!
Source: Smartpatrol.
Muhammed Mansoor: MSDN has an article comparing ASP.NET with Struts. They define both architectures and then try to compare.
Randy: I strongly doubt MSDN is a great place to go for a comparison of ASP.NET and Struts. I think they are biased towards Struts ;) Looking at the diagram, MSDN seems to be saying that Struts+J2EE provides more than ASP.NET+.NET. Look at the stacks and remove the 3rd party extensions. A bigger stack on the right. Also, Base Class Library? Shouldn't that be .NET Framework? Last, why did MSDN fail to point out alternative .NET IDEs? #developer? C#Builder? C# Express? Does anybody write Python in Visual Studio.NET?
Source: Yosit Taguri.
Marc Canter: Some people come out over the web, others have been married or given birth. For me - I'm going to deal with the death of my father. I could have gone back. I could have blown off the roadshow and stayed by his bedside.
Randy: I love that the passage of time brings me closer and closer to attending my own kids weddings, graduations and other milestones, but I know that it also brings closer to a time where I will no longer have my own parents. I remember when my godfather died. I had recently missed a family reunion because I had a troubling case of gastritis (a pathetic excuse). I really wish I could have seen him that last time. My condolences to Marc and his family.
We spent most of this weekend looking at houses. First in Georgetown, then in Bolton, then Brampton East and finally in Mississauga. I think we'll go see some more Mississauga houses tomorrow. We're preparing for that fourth child who is planned for the fall of 2005. Also, ever since Celeste was born, I've lost my home office. So, we need four or five bedrooms and a den.
Update: I forgot to mention that I moved into my current house 8 yrs ago this Sunday.
Drudge Retort: Campaign mail with a return address of the Republican National Committee warns West Virginia voters that the Bible will be prohibited and men will marry men if liberals win in November.
Randy: At what point, do Bush supporters realize that lying is the central theme of Bush's campaign? Of course, Bush supporters are going to point at Michael Moore and say 'an eye for an eye.' I told you so.
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Source: Serendipity.
MLB.com: Words of wisdom sometimes come from the mouth of innocent Babes. Not Ruth, of course, but Aisha Bonds, the 5-year-old daughter of only the third man in Major League Baseball history to reach the 700-homer plateau.
"My dad's the best player," she said, charming a room full of media types after Barry Bonds hit his 700th homer in a 4-1 victory over the San Diego Padres on Friday night at SBC Park, the spot where he has hit almost all of his milestone home runs.
Randy: Click thru to the article, there's video of the homerun.
Source: Scripting.
Free Press: Trevithick said the study shows that drinking one bottle of beer a day reduces your chances of contracting cataracts or atherosclerosis (narrowing of the arteries caused by the buildup of plaque) by 50 per cent.
Source: Tony Talks Tech.
Randy: I wonder how low alcohol beer affects these numbers? I'm drinking about 2 regular beers per day and 3 low alcohol.
A9 is a new search engine, brought to you by Amazon. It's pretty cool.
- I signed in automatically. No username. No password. Never entered my name or anything. It just knew who I was. I'm guessing they are sharing a cookie w/ Amazon. I signed out and the sign in was clearly Amazon's.
- It saves your searches.
- They have an IE toolbar, of course.
- The results are organized in two side-by-side panes, so that you can see Webpage results along side an image search (or other).
- The interface is pretty clean (maybe a couple CSS issues).
click to view test
According to CNN, the peaceful nation of Switzerland has taken over the Czech Republic. Once again, the American media failed to pick up on this story.
Source: Adam Curry.
TSG: Court and police records obtained by The Smoking Gun show that Cheney was convicted of drunk driving twice during an eight-month period in the early 1960s in his home state of Wyoming. The two convictions came when Cheney was 21 and 22 and resulted in fines and a brief suspension of his driver's license.
Randy: Not bad. Three DUI/DWI convictions between the President and Vice-President of the United States. I assume, if Kerry got convicted three times, that he'd be a shoo-in for the presidency.
CRN: The inexorable march of outsourcing took an abrupt about face Wednesday, when JPMorgan Chase bank canceled its $5-billion outsourcing deal with IBM and said it would take back the 4,000 employees working at IBM on the bank's IT programs.
Randy: IBM has spearheaded the IT outsourcing market. Is this a sign of a declining IT outsourcing market or just a bump in the road?
NHL.com: Canada rules the World and now they have the trophy to prove it. Team Canada won the 2004 World Cup of Hockey Tuesday night, posting an emotional 3-2 victory over a very good Team Finland at the Air Canada Centre before a raucous sellout crowd that basked in the glow of their heroes' triumph. With the win in this eight-nation tournament, Team Canada has now strung together an impressive array of tournament victories on the international stage. Canada won the gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and also has captured World Championship titles in both 2003 and 2004 before adding a perfect 6-0 mark in the World Cup to the impressive resume.
Randy: And on Saturday, God created hockey and gave great hockey powers to all those called CDNians.
Bopnews: If Europeans could vote in the U.S. presidential election, they would pick John Kerry over George W. Bush by a nearly 6-to-1 majority, the latest HI Europe poll shows. President Bush is supported by less than 7% of adults in three of five European countries in the survey. These countries also had the largest majorities who said they would choose Mr. Kerry over Mr. Bush: Germany, 69% to 6%; France, 63% to 4%; and Spain, 57% to 5%.
Washington Post: President Vladimir Putin outlined plans Monday to "radically" change the Russian political system in a way that would increase his own power, portraying the moves as a means of combating terrorism in the aftermath of this month's deadly school seizure. Putin's plan would eliminate the popular election of governors and individual members of parliament. The president would appoint governors, subject to the confirmation of regional legislatures. All members of the lower house of parliament, known as the State Duma, would be drawn from party lists rather than elected in individual districts.
Randy: Must end democracy to fight terrorism. Too many stupid people in this world. I bet ya, some morons are still gonna vote for this village idiot. He must be taking queues from Bush. Use fear to gain more power.
Sreejumon: SreeShap NewsReader is windows based desktop application for connecting news group servers (NNTP based) via HTTP.
Randy: The author tells me he used my HowTo C# in NNTP article as a learning point. Cool!
AP: All of Canada was ready to celebrate Mike Weir becoming the first Canadian to win the Bell Canadian Open in 50 years on Sunday. But Vijay Singh, in his first week as the world’s no. 1-ranked player, become Public Enemy No. 1 north of the border by running Weir down in regulation and then defeating him in sudden death. Weir had several good chances to salt away the victory, but missed three crucial birdie putts. Dave Winer: Today I rented an apartment in downtown Seattle, near Pike Place market, museums, restaurants, ferries. It's a short-term lease, puts me in Seattle at least through the end of November. It's the first time I've ever lived in the center of a city. I move in on Wednesday. Exciting!!
w2he3n yo9ur4 ke3ybo9ar4d blo9w2s a gaske3t :O(
Update: Better now. I attached an external keyboard to my laptop. It feels a little strange using a laptop CPU, laptop screen, laptop touchpad mouse and external keyboard.
Greg Mitchell: The latest Newsweek poll, released this week, revealed that 42% of Americans continue to believe that Saddam Hussein's regime was "directly involved" in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Randy: The Bush electorate?
Source: Atrios.
Randy: This is very funny. It's also very true. Bush's attack on the good guy policies of John Kerry mirror this joke. Substitute Kerry quotes and read again. It's the Bush campaign.
click the picture to enlarge
NHL: Pressed to the max by a never-say-die Czech Republic squad that threatened to ruin their World Cup party, Team Canada dug deep into its collective heart and soul Saturday night at the Air Canada Centre, advancing to the finals of the World Cup of Hockey Saturday night with a 4-3 overtime win over the Czechs. Vincent Lecavalier was the offensive hero for the Canadians, scoring on a great individual effort at 3:45 of overtime.
Randy: CDN v Finland, Tuesday night! Let's pick a bar downtown near the ACC. Party!
CP: A 2-1 victory over the United States on Friday night catapulted Finland into the World Cup of Hockey final, guaranteeing the Finns their best-ever result in competition involving the world's top players. Koivu got behind Bryan Smolinski at the side of the U.S. net to convert a cross-ice pass from Ossi Vaananen in scoring one of the biggest goals in Finnish hockey history.
Randy: Koivu is one of my favorite players.
LIE #1: "The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program ... Iraq has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons." -- President Bush, Oct. 7, 2002, in Cincinnati.
FACT: This story, leaked to and breathlessly reported by Judith Miller in the New York Times, has turned out to be complete baloney. Department of Energy officials, who monitor nuclear plants, say the tubes could not be used for enriching uranium. One intelligence analyst, who was part of the tubes investigation, angrily told The New Republic: "You had senior American officials like Condoleezza Rice saying the only use of this aluminum really is uranium centrifuges. She said that on television. And that's just a lie."
Randy: An awesome set of well known Bush league lies.
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JohnKerry.com: As the number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq passed 1,000 today, John Kerry issued the following statement:
“Today marks a tragic milestone in the war in Iraq. More than one thousand of America’s sons and daughters have made the ultimate sacrifice. Our nation honors their service and joins with their families and loved ones in mourning their loss. We must never forget the price they have paid. And we must meet our sacred obligation to all our troops to do all we can to make the right decisions in Iraq so that we can bring them home as soon as possible.”
Slate: It is the claim that John Kerry, during his 20 years in the Senate, voted to kill the M-1 tank, the Apache helicopter; the F-14, F-16, and F-18 jet fighters; and just about every other weapon system that has kept our nation free and strong. [cut] Kerry did not vote to kill these weapons, in part because none of these weapons ever came up for a vote, either on the Senate floor or in any of Kerry's committees. This myth took hold last February in a press release put out by the RNC. Those who bothered to look up the fine-print footnotes discovered that they referred to votes on two defense appropriations bills, one in 1990, the other in 1995. Kerry voted against both bills, as did 15 other senators, including five Republicans. The RNC took those bills, cherry-picked some of the weapons systems contained therein, and implied that Kerry voted against those weapons. By the same logic, they could have claimed that Kerry voted to disband the entire U.S. armed forces; but that would have raised suspicions and thus compelled more reporters to read the document more closely.
Randy: More blatant Bush league lies.
Pics and vids courtesy of front-line blogger Mike Akers.
AP: With Monday's deaths and those of two U.S. soldiers in a mortar barrage outside Baghdad a day earlier, 985 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq in March 2003, according to the Defense Department.
Randy: It makes me wonder. How many Americans died because of 9/11? How many have died in the crusade since? This all seems counter-productive now. Had they stopped at Afghanistan, the world would be a better place? Had they allowed a U.N. occupation of Iraq, instead of a U.S. occupation? It seems all clear to me. But still, 100 million people are going to vote for the root cause of the war in this world. And billions of us have to live in a world at war, because a small percentage choose to follow a religious fanatic.
Telegraph: In a fresh blow to John Kerry's flagging presidential campaign, the Pentagon has ordered an official investigation into the awards of the Democratic senator's five Vietnam War decorations.
Source: Steve' No Direction.
Randy: Wow! The corrupt maneuvers of the U.S. government to get Bush re-elected have moved to a new level.
on 9/11 at the Pentagon? Beyond the facts here, this is simply an amazingly composed flash file. It's worth a look, even if you don't buy the conspiracy.
Register: Problems include dismissal, redundancy, forced resignation or being denied training. More details on the EOC interim report are available for download here. And there's more on Usdaw's findings here.
Randy: Most companies don't realize that treating any employee like dirt, and more-so w/ pregnant employees, has an affect on morale. They may believe their actions justified and healthy for the company. Denial will be the path to their doom.
I love the </Bush> geek speak so much that I had to make my own bumper sticker. Tell the world, you are both a geek and anti-Bush on a simple bumper sticker. The question is whether my wife will let me stick it on the motorhome.
MSDN: Use Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) to transfer files asynchronously between a client and a server. There are three types of transfer jobs. A download job downloads files to the client, an upload job uploads a file to the server, and an upload-reply job uploads a file to the server and receives a reply file from the server application.
Can you shoot him? I tried, but to no avail. Destroyed all the bottles and the piano. Frustrating. Can you shoot him?
The list of top search result hits on my Website for the month of September.
- paris hilton (4%) - One in twenty-five search hits are for the term Paris Hilton. When I originally posted a pic of her, I didn't know who she was or what her name was.
- suicide girls (0.9%)
- buggatti - This is a mispell.
- six flags guy
- flamesgirls
- nude news
- wagenschenke
- six flags commercial
- Paris Hilton - There she is again.
- terry tate office linebacker - Terry is awesome.
- an error has occurred in the script
- license plate maker
- java/byteverify
- yetisport
- cnn rss
- lemontonic
- base 64
- ping icmp
- wasaga beach camping - I like it!
- "flamesgirls.+com"
- base64 encoding
- sexphoto english
- yetisport.com
- office linebacker
- randy charles morin (0.19%) - iM glad I made it in here somewhere.
- doubleclick spyware
- buggatti veyron
- hipster.com
- filipino friendster
- std::string replace
Quote: Points today announced the appointment of Grad Conn as its Chief Marketing Officer. In this new role, Conn will be responsible for the overall direction of Points International’s consumer and product strategies.
"Points.com is an incredibly exciting opportunity," says Conn "since they're using their loyalty exchange to add liquidity to the 8.5 trillion loyalty miles outstanding in the marketplace. When you realize that loyalty points are the world's second largest currency next to the U.S. dollar; when you look at the partners like IAC, American Airlines, and eBay; and when you look at the 400% year over year growth in the exchange -- it all adds up to a unique and revolutionary marketing opportunity."
Another awesome idiot caught on tape.
Source: Malakasis.
Jumapili: Things you have to believe to be a Republican today:
1. Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him and a bad guy when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin Laden" diversion.
2. Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony.
3. The United States should get out of the United Nations, and our highest national priority is enforcing U.N. resolutions against Iraq.
4. A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own body, but multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind without regulation.
5. Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton.
6. The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay.
7. If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex.
8. A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our long-time allies, then demand their cooperation and money.
9. Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy. Providing health care to all Americans is socialism.
10. HMOs and insurance companies have the best interests of the public at heart.
11. Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are creationism should be taught in schools.
12. A president lying about an extramarital affair is an impeachable offense. A president lying to enlist support for a war in which thousands die is solid defense policy.
13. Government should limit itself to the powers named in the constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet.
14. The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades, but George Bush's drunk driving record is none of our business.
15. Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a conservative radio host. Then it's an illness, and you need our prayers for your recovery.
16. You support states' rights, which means Attorney General John Ashcroft can tell states what local voter initiatives they have the right to adopt.
17. What Bill Clinton did in his private life in the 1960s is of vital national interest, but what Bush did in his professional and political life in the '80s is irrelevant.
18. John Kerry, after enlisting to fight in Vietnam, earning multiple medals for heroism and leadership, returns home to lobby against the war after his experiences, is "unfit" to be Commander-in-Chief, butGeorge Bush getting into the Texas Air National Guard through his daddy's influence and then repeatedly fails to report for duty because he'd rather get drunk and high is "better able to defend America."
19. Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, Welfare, even public education are all dangerous socialism, but corporate welfare, bailing out companies (Chrysler, the airlines, etc.), farm subsidies, allowing off-shore incorporation to avoid taxes are all free market policies.
20. Government should not interfere with the business, commercial, environmental welfare of the nation, but should control and regulate citizen's personal affairs.
These pics are from my RV Dad blog. They are so amazing, I thought I'd reproduce them here.
McKenzee is awesome again.
Wendell III: A stunning capacity for enlightened visions of the future, this one has. Highly recommended to the uninitiated technical maven, and probably everyone else, too...
Randy: Wendell just wrote my first Tribe testimonial. I liked it so much, I thought I'd reproduce it here. Thanks Wendell.
Virt: so i replaced eliza's tiny, boring script with a massive dumb blonde script that has like 3,800 responses on all sorts of topics, but mostly sex. jenny18 is very horny and she loves talking to horny guys. and everyone knows the best place to talk to horny guys is on dalnet irc sex channels.
so i took jenny18 there.
Source: Smartpatrol.
Randy: This is funny! A sexy blonde IRC bot. I wish I had a few hours to kill to read this all.
NHL: Sure the Canadians thrashed an injury-depleted Slovak team, 5-1, at the Bell Centre Wednesday night. But the score doesn't really explain where Team Canada is at this stage of the 2004 World Cup tournament. What the match revealed was this: Team Canada comes equipped with the tools to manage the bumpy road and the super-highway. Canada gutted out a 2-1 back-alley victory against the Americans Tuesday and followed that result with an artistic display against the Slovaks.
NHL: Mikael Tellqvist, a backup goalie for the Toronto Maple Leafs last season, made two superb saves as the Czechs put the pressure on.
Randy: The Leafs are looking great at this World Cup. That is, the Team Canada and the Toronto Maple Leaf players.
Robert Scoble: You can see it by visiting my.msn.com and clicking "Add content." (I'm in the "All Content" tab under "Tech.").
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Source: Steve Rubel.
Quote: The Sunburst Award Committee is pleased to announce that the winner of its 2004 award is author Cory Doctorow, for his short story collection A Place so Foreign and 8 More.
Randy: Congrats Cory!
Quote: Lemontonic announces that it has commenced external Beta testing of its Messenger software. The company also announces it has crossed the 45,000 member threshold. "We began deploying our Messenger software to our membership base on August 6. We are continuing to deploy it throughout this week and by the end of this week we will have deployed it to approximately 5,000 members. To date, we have not experienced any material issues that will affect our commercial launch, scheduled for the end of August," stated Mark Pavan, CEO of Lemontonic.
2Q Results: For the quarter ended June 30, 2004 revenue comprised interest income of $32.
Social People: Internet dating firm Lemontonic Inc.'s quarterly loss soared to $1.7 million on increased operating costs, the company said today, adding it has sufficient cash to continue its current operation to the end of September.