Wednesday, June 30, 2004
FT.com Home US: "Halliburton, the world's second-biggest energy services company, warned investors on Tuesday of two unexpected charges, totaling $815m, to come in the second quarter of 2004."
Conspiracy theorists take note.
Google Labs
I never remember to look here until AFTER they add some new service and it gets publisized. Duh.
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Monday, June 28, 2004
The New York Times > Washington > National Review Founder Says It's Time to Leave Stage: "In 1954, when Ronald Reagan was still a registered Democrat and host of 'General Electric Theater,' the 28-year-old William Frank Buckley Jr. decided to start a magazine as a standard-bearer for the fledgling conservative movement. In the 50-year ascent of the American right since then, his publication, National Review, has been its most influential journal and Mr. Buckley has been the magazine's guiding spirit and, until today, controlling shareholder."
War crimes investigator says al Qaeda spawned from Third Reich
If you don't listen to the John Bachelor show you may be living in a fantasy land.
Gates defends Microsoft patch efforts | The Register: "Gates lauded Microsoft's recent handling of its security patching processes. 'We have several hundred people who are on 24-hour availability to do this work. It is a phenomenal thing,' he said. 'If you track how we have improved over this last twenty four months, you'll see that we are absolutely doing our best.'"
Yes, that's what scares us.
CNN.com - Iraq handover of sovereignty completed - Jun 28, 2004: "BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The handover of sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government took place at 10:26 a.m. local time Monday, two days before the June 30 deadline previously announced by the U.S.-led coalition, CNN has learned."
Headline news from Sky News - Witness the event: "IRAQ A SOVEREIGN STATE
Control of Iraq has been handed to a sovereign government after a surprise announcement that the transfer was being brought forward to today."
WSJ.com - In Surprise Move, Coalition Transfers Power in Iraq Early: "BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The U.S.-led coalition transferred sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government Monday, speeding the move by two days in an apparent bid to surprise insurgents who may have tried to sabotage the step toward self rule."
Sunday, June 27, 2004
Taipei Times - The jury is still out on open source
The title is misleading though. Tim O'Reilly gives several examples of Open Source success stories.
Saturday, June 26, 2004
Friday, June 25, 2004
The New York Times > Washington > The Intelligence: Iraqis, Seeking Foes of Saudis, Contacted bin Laden, File Says: "The task force concluded that the document 'appeared authentic,' and that it 'corroborates and expands on previous reporting' about contacts between Iraqi intelligence and Mr. bin Laden in Sudan, according to the task force's analysis.
It is not known whether some on the task force held dissenting opinions about the document's veracity."
I love the word-play at the New York Times. When they can't get away with a lie they just play dumb. Well, type-casting helps.
Researchers warn of infectious Web sites - News - ZDNet: "Researchers believe that attackers seed the Web sites with malicious code by breaking into unsecured servers or by using a previously unknown vulnerability in Microsoft's Web software, Internet Information Server (IIS). When a victim browses the site, the code redirects them to one of two sites, most often to another server in Russia. "
ZDNet came closer to getting it right.
My Way News: "The mysterious infection appeared to target at least one recent version of software by Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) to operate Web sites, called its Internet Information Server, popular among businesses and organizations.
A spokesman for Microsoft declined to comment immediately."
More accurately: This ONLY affects Windows software. Microsoft doesn't have a clue what to do about it yet.
Thursday, June 24, 2004
Monday, June 21, 2004
Safire: The Zelikow Report: "Don't blame the media for jumping on the politically charged Zelikow report. Blame the commission's leaders for ducking responsibility for its interim findings. Kean and Hamilton have allowed themselves to be jerked around by a manipulative staff."
Sunday, June 20, 2004
Wired 9.11: The Electric Kool-Aid Bandwidth Test
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Saturday, June 19, 2004
Friday, June 18, 2004
Thursday, June 17, 2004
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Joel on Software - How Microsoft Lost the API War: "For example, WinFS, advertised as a way to make searching work by making the file system be a relational database, ignores the fact that the real way to make searching work is by making searching work. Don't make me type metadata for all my files that I can search using a query language. Just do me a favor and search the damned hard drive, quickly, for the string I typed, using full-text indexes and other technologies that were boring in 1973."
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Monday, June 14, 2004
local6.com - Weather - Lightning Strike Injures 17 Army Reservists In Wisconsin
One more place we should pull out of. I think we should let those cheese farmers fend for themselves.
Sunday, June 13, 2004
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | US told: charge Saddam or free himMaybe the IRC should elect Saddam to be their president.
Saturday, June 12, 2004
Yahoo! News - The Host With the Most: "'It was a speech, I suppose, that with variations, I'd given hundreds of times before,' Reagan wrote in his autobiography. Its themes were as simple as they were unchanging: The growth of government should be restrained; an unelected elite were able to set policies and thwart the desires of ordinary people; and America was on the road toward socialism. 'A government may be the most benevolent, well-meaning in the world, but when it attempts to operate the economy, control production of a country, it must eventually use coercion and force to achieve its purposes,'"
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