Dhimmi Watch: Hirsi Ali dispute brings down Dutch government As I noted earlier, the Dutch government treated Hirsi Ali poorly, and now it looks like a price might be paid. A dispute over the citizenship of Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali brought down the Dutch government yesterday when D66, the junior member of the centre-right coalition, [...]
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BREITBART.COM – USA Today: Call Database Not So Broad Is this another case of ‘fake but accurate’ reporting? USA Today acknowledged in a “note to our readers” Friday that it could not establish that BellSouth or Verizon contracted with the National Security Agency to provide it with customer calling records, as it previously reported. But [...]
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French lawmakers approve ‘iTunes law’ – Yahoo! News The French have passed a law forcing Apple to make the iPod and downloaded iTunes compatible with rival mp3 players. Never mind that Apple’s DRM scheme would be compromised, leaving purchased music even more vulnerable to casual copying. (Yeah, I know the DRM can be bypassed now, [...]
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Don’t blame me.
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Congress approves controversial offshore drilling bill – Jun. 29, 2006 The U.S. House of Representatives approved a controversial bill Thursday that opens up vast stretches of the U.S. coast to oil and gas drilling, paving the way for a reversal of a 25-year ban on energy exploration off a majority of the country’s shoreline. Unfortunately, [...]
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Google Checkout More Google stuff (tags: Google shopping checkout ecommerce web2.0 money shop)
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Some people are still living in August of 2001. SCOTUS has ruled. The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Bush overstepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees. The ruling, a rebuke to the administration and its aggressive anti- terror policies, was written by Justice John Paul Stevens, who said [...]
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PaulStamatiou.com » First Flash-Based Laptop Due Next Week The beginning of the end of the hard drive? (tags: laptop flash)
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Posted here. In this AAR, you’ll get to hear me use the word ‘subsequently’ every thirty seconds. Geez. Tough scenario all around. Chris made the comment that this is the sort of attack that gets the officer fragged as he’s explaining what the soldiers are supposed to do.
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This is an amazing edit job. I can’t imagine how tedious this had to have been.
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You can now find it beneath the title up above.
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The Ubuntu saga continues. My basement looked like a computer graveyard this past week while on vacation. My primary PC, as I had mentioned, is strewn all over the desk in a tangle of cables, drives and panels. I’ve pulled my drive cages and have three loose drives sitting on the table, wired into the [...]
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A couple of weeks ago, we had our front yard landscapped. It looks nice: new trim, extended beds, lots of new plants and so on. Down by the mail box, we had three examples of Japanese Blood Grass. They looked really good. Until I came out to get the mail on Saturday and noted three [...]
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Hashapass Strong passwords made easy. (tags: password security) CNN.com – Band’s latest release: Blank discs – Jun 26, 2006 A different approach to music delivery. (tags: music) YouTube – David Letterman comments attack on the U.S. ( 9/11 WTC ) I never got to see this when it happened. It brought back a lot of [...]
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John Murtha has lost his mind. American presence in Iraq is more dangerous to world peace than nuclear threats from North Korea or Iran, U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said to a crowd of more than 200 in North Miami Saturday afternoon. … “[The United States] became the target when Abu Ghraib came along,” Murtha [...]
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In talking with Chris at lunch today, I was reminded of a line from the X-Files that resonated with me when I first saw it in 1996 or so. Ironically, Chris recalled it perfectly because it had the same effect on him. Thanks to Google, I thought I’d share. What does it say about me/us [...]
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I’ve been using the ‘old’ style Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard for a couple of years now. I liked it so much, I bought two for home and managed to score one here at work. Life was good. Until the discomfort set in yet again. I’ve followed all of the ergo-recommendations: seat height, wrist angle, monitor height [...]
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An interesting time for NHL fans is approaching. Free Agency begins this Saturday, July 1. Some stars will change teams, which helps build excitement for the upcoming season. Already a number of trades have occurred. Check into Steven’s Hockey Corner for irregular updates! The big one over the weekend was Roberto Luongo, Panthers G, going [...]
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Back from Vacation. Posting will resume shortly.
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As you might have noted in the Now Reading pane, I’ve been working through a book on the Vi editor. The ‘why’ behind that requires a brief story.Back in mid-2005, Movable Type glitched and obliterated my blog database, flushing nearly two years with of blog activity back to my beginning in September of 2003. I [...]
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