Monday, September 16, 2002
Hague Conference - List of the Hague Conventions LIST OF CONVENTIONS
The Hague Conventions on Private International Law
You will find below an overview of the multilateral treaties drawn up by the Hague Conference.
The Hague Conventions on Private International Law
You will find below an overview of the multilateral treaties drawn up by the Hague Conference.
ASIL Electronic Resource Guide Treaties I. Introduction to Treaty Research
The history of treaties stretches back for thousands of years, (a treaty existed between the Hittites and Akkadians around 1380 BC, for example). However, it is only relatively recently that they, and the rules under which they are formed, have become increasingly codified. After drafting efforts in the early 20th century by various bodies such as the League of Nations, the International Law Commission of the United Nations drafted the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969) (http://www.un.org/law/ilc/texts/treaties.htm), which came into force in 1980.
The history of treaties stretches back for thousands of years, (a treaty existed between the Hittites and Akkadians around 1380 BC, for example). However, it is only relatively recently that they, and the rules under which they are formed, have become increasingly codified. After drafting efforts in the early 20th century by various bodies such as the League of Nations, the International Law Commission of the United Nations drafted the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969) (http://www.un.org/law/ilc/texts/treaties.htm), which came into force in 1980.
embassy.org: the Electronic Embassy
The Electronic Embassy Web site turned seven years old on May 1, 2002. When the site was launched, only two of Washington's foreign embassies were on the Web.
Now, most of the embassies have homes on the Internet to complement their addresses on Embassy Row.
The embassy.org site's Business Directories allows companies serving the international community, and those working, living, and traveling internationally, to find their audience.
We are considering developing an educational board game based on the work of embassies and diplomats in Washington D.C. If you would like to be notified if our research turns into an actual game, please send e-mail to: game@embassy.org
The Electronic Embassy Web site turned seven years old on May 1, 2002. When the site was launched, only two of Washington's foreign embassies were on the Web.
Now, most of the embassies have homes on the Internet to complement their addresses on Embassy Row.
The embassy.org site's Business Directories allows companies serving the international community, and those working, living, and traveling internationally, to find their audience.
We are considering developing an educational board game based on the work of embassies and diplomats in Washington D.C. If you would like to be notified if our research turns into an actual game, please send e-mail to: game@embassy.org
Some perspectives on Knowledge management
Knowledge management is essential for all profitable and viable businesses as we approach the 21st century! To succeed, businesses need access to, and become proficient in, the use of effective tools, methods, and practices that allow them to become self-sufficient in managing knowledge well. Although the realization that knowledge is the enterprise's most important asset is gaining broad acceptance, many business leaders admit that effective methods are often lacking to plan and manage the creation, organization, distribution, and realization of the value -- the use -- of knowledge and other intellectual assets. In effect, they have insufficient influence on how well these assets are managed to secure their enterprise's success. Many leading companies pursue KM to achieve and sustain world-class performance. For some, the value of KM is unquestionable and long-term. Others have started to make expectations explicit and to quantify achievements.
Knowledge management is essential for all profitable and viable businesses as we approach the 21st century! To succeed, businesses need access to, and become proficient in, the use of effective tools, methods, and practices that allow them to become self-sufficient in managing knowledge well. Although the realization that knowledge is the enterprise's most important asset is gaining broad acceptance, many business leaders admit that effective methods are often lacking to plan and manage the creation, organization, distribution, and realization of the value -- the use -- of knowledge and other intellectual assets. In effect, they have insufficient influence on how well these assets are managed to secure their enterprise's success. Many leading companies pursue KM to achieve and sustain world-class performance. For some, the value of KM is unquestionable and long-term. Others have started to make expectations explicit and to quantify achievements.
Sunday, September 15, 2002
Blog
William Safire
n an upbeat Independence Day column in The Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan, the incurable optimist, wrote about all ''the lights that didn't fail'' America -- from cops and firemen to peach-growing farmers and cancer-curing scientists, from local churches to TV comedians to blogging.
Blogging? She explained the word as ''the 24/7 opinion sites that offer free speech at its straightest, truest, wildest, most uncensored, most thoughtful, most strange. Thousands of independent information entrepreneurs are informing, arguing, adding information.'' . . .
William Safire
n an upbeat Independence Day column in The Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan, the incurable optimist, wrote about all ''the lights that didn't fail'' America -- from cops and firemen to peach-growing farmers and cancer-curing scientists, from local churches to TV comedians to blogging.
Blogging? She explained the word as ''the 24/7 opinion sites that offer free speech at its straightest, truest, wildest, most uncensored, most thoughtful, most strange. Thousands of independent information entrepreneurs are informing, arguing, adding information.'' . . .
Turnitin.com
"I shared an essay with my students that I had submitted to Turnitin.com. They were quite impressed and a little perturbed at the same time. Impressed because of the thoroughness of the analysis; perturbed because the teachers now have access to such a wonderful service. They thought they had sole use of such educational aids!"
"I shared an essay with my students that I had submitted to Turnitin.com. They were quite impressed and a little perturbed at the same time. Impressed because of the thoroughness of the analysis; perturbed because the teachers now have access to such a wonderful service. They thought they had sole use of such educational aids!"
Thursday, September 12, 2002
A city boy, Kenny, moved to the country and bought a donkey from an old farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day.
The next day the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry son, but I have some bad news. The donkey died."
Kenny replied, "Well then, just give me my money back."
The farmer said, "Can't do that. I went and spent it already."
Kenny said, "OK, then just unload the donkey."
The farmer asked, "What ya gonna do with him?"
Kenny: "I'm going to raffle him off."
Farmer: "You can't raffle off a dead donkey!"
Kenny: "Sure I can. I just won't tell anybody he's dead."
A month later the farmer met up with Kenny and asked, "What happened with that dead donkey?"
Kenny: "I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at $2 a piece and made a
profit of $898.00."
Farmer: "Didn't anyone complain?"
Kenny: "Just the guy who won. So I gave him his $2 back."
Kenny grew up and eventually became the chairman of Enron.
The next day the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry son, but I have some bad news. The donkey died."
Kenny replied, "Well then, just give me my money back."
The farmer said, "Can't do that. I went and spent it already."
Kenny said, "OK, then just unload the donkey."
The farmer asked, "What ya gonna do with him?"
Kenny: "I'm going to raffle him off."
Farmer: "You can't raffle off a dead donkey!"
Kenny: "Sure I can. I just won't tell anybody he's dead."
A month later the farmer met up with Kenny and asked, "What happened with that dead donkey?"
Kenny: "I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at $2 a piece and made a
profit of $898.00."
Farmer: "Didn't anyone complain?"
Kenny: "Just the guy who won. So I gave him his $2 back."
Kenny grew up and eventually became the chairman of Enron.
NEWS.com.au | Entertainment | Now it's Kylie: The Musical (September 12, 2002)
FORGET Mamma Mia! What the world needs now is a new musical based on Kylie Minogue hits.
It may be a grim prospect to those vocal critics who reckon the Singing Budgie should be left in a soundproof cage, but it's gonna happen.
Confidential can exclusively reveal the production, with the working title of Should Be So Lucky, is definitely on the singer's agenda – although in the embryonic stage.
FORGET Mamma Mia! What the world needs now is a new musical based on Kylie Minogue hits.
It may be a grim prospect to those vocal critics who reckon the Singing Budgie should be left in a soundproof cage, but it's gonna happen.
Confidential can exclusively reveal the production, with the working title of Should Be So Lucky, is definitely on the singer's agenda – although in the embryonic stage.
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
Society of Knowledge Base Publishers
The Society is a membership organization for information professionals engaged in all aspects of managing intellectual assets in a business context. Members include people from librarianship, knowledge management, organization development, corporate learning, information technology, and business management. Benefits include a monthly Web journal, discounts on seminars and roundtables, and a personalized information and referral service.
The Society is a membership organization for information professionals engaged in all aspects of managing intellectual assets in a business context. Members include people from librarianship, knowledge management, organization development, corporate learning, information technology, and business management. Benefits include a monthly Web journal, discounts on seminars and roundtables, and a personalized information and referral service.
Monday, September 09, 2002
INTERNET LEGAL RESEARCH WEEKLY
INTERNET LEGAL RESEARCH WEEKLY
September 8, 2002
Tom Mighell
Welcome to Issue #81 of the Internet Legal Research Weekly, a newsletter that delivers relevant and timely legal research information, and other fun stuff, to your inbox every Sunday. If you like what you read, please forward this newsletter to anyone you think might be interested, and encourage him or her to do the same! To subscribe, all you have to do is send an e-mail to ilrw-subscribe@topica.com. It’s free!
INTERNET LEGAL RESEARCH WEEKLY
September 8, 2002
Tom Mighell
Welcome to Issue #81 of the Internet Legal Research Weekly, a newsletter that delivers relevant and timely legal research information, and other fun stuff, to your inbox every Sunday. If you like what you read, please forward this newsletter to anyone you think might be interested, and encourage him or her to do the same! To subscribe, all you have to do is send an e-mail to ilrw-subscribe@topica.com. It’s free!
Sunday, September 08, 2002
USS Clueless
Case in point: I'm a strong advocate of attacking Iraq, for numerous reasons I've gone into before in more-than-great depth. I've also on more than one occasion attempted to look at arguments made by the opposite side.
Case in point: I'm a strong advocate of attacking Iraq, for numerous reasons I've gone into before in more-than-great depth. I've also on more than one occasion attempted to look at arguments made by the opposite side.
August 19, 2002 Time magazine [link not found]
BY GARRISON KEILLOR
There's a new survey out saying that people who take a positive view of aging actually live longer than those who grouse and grumble, which is hogwash, and I am paying no attention to it. I turned 60 last week and it's no picnic, and anybody who says so is whistling in the dark. Maybe this doesn't sound life-affirming to you. So — shoot me.
I didn't want a 60th birthday party but agreed to it under pressure lest I be thought a sorehead, and so all my jowly friends with thin dead hair sang Happy Birthday in their horrible ruined voices and we sat eating aged beef and heirloom tomatoes with a dry but experienced Chardonnay and old pals woofed about how happy and busy they are in retirement and gave me dumb birthday cards ("Welcome to the Incontinence Hotline ... Can you hold, please?") and a cake blazed up like the Hindenburg and some people I knew back when they were fun told me how good I look.
Back in the 1960s, birthday parties were major fun. The Grateful Dead was on the hi-fi and you danced and took powerful drugs and swam naked in the lake and lay on the sand talking about what you were feeling. But I can't do that anymore for fear of embarrassing my children.
This week, as a gift to myself, I'm going to Scotland. Turning 60 is darned awkward in America. We glorify carefree youth and feel sheepish if our abdomen is not hard enough to crack walnuts on and our heart is not warm and smiley. Geezers and geezerettes go around in juvenile clothes, shorts and flip-flops and jokey T shirts (my goal is to live forever. so far, so good). Embarrassing. A man my age should not aim for boyishness. He should wear an old tweed jacket and wool trousers and a silk vest with a great belly under it and have wild eyebrows the size of rats and carry a knobby walking stick and smoke torpedo cigars and sit around kicking the bejabbers out of the government. A guy can do that in Scotland.
In Scotland, old codgers like me don't buy into the fairy tale that these are the Best Years of Our Life. They know better. If life is a journey, then your 60s are the homeward leg when you're hung up in an airport and thinking bad thoughts about your travel agent. Your shoes have been x-rayed, your flight is delayed, you're trapped in a lounge full of idiots with those dangly cell phones and voices like chainsaws. You'd like to tell them to get lost. But in America we've seen a serious erosion of the right to be cranky. Ordinary grumpiness has been marginalized by blatant moodism, symptomized, pathologized, made to seem like a bad thing. Oprah is to blame for this, and the whole Onward & Upward, Little Engine That Could industry that has made smiliness obligatory. Look at the Clintons.
Here are two folks who spent eight years being attacked by midgets and now have fat contracts to write memoirs in which they could pound on their enemies and throw gravel at them, and will they? Will it be Payback Time? No, it will not be. They will say that those eight years of persecution only deepened their faith and drew them closer as a couple and made them realize how terribly lucky they really are.
In Scotland, memoirists would be expected to lacerate their enemies and rain garbage on them, and if you raked in $18 million doing it — bingo! more power to you. A wonderful dour tribe, the Scots, and the right to groan and moan is sacred in Scotland. Here we have been duped out of it by the people who gave us aromatherapy and seaweed wraps.
Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality. And a man who turns 60 and tells you he never felt better is delusional. He has forgotten how it was when your whole being leaped and bounded, before you turned into a lumbering galoot. Nature is relentless; it programs degeneration into our DNA. Even if you're positive-thinking, hopped up on Viagra, and your face has been lifted and stapled to make you look like a feral woodchuck, nonetheless one day you'll look like something from the lost lagoon and have the sex drive of a smoked salmon. Nature doesn't care about your golden years; it's aiming for turnover.
You don't get to be old by putting on a happy face. What keeps you going is stubbornness and righteous anger: at ugly buildings, suvs, background music, the eminence of nonentities, at cravenness and cruelty in general and the shamelessness of this government — leading the lynching of a few corporate scapegoats to distract the mob from your own sins — the naked hypocrisy of it! If you're not brave enough to have morals when you're 72% popular, what hope is there for you? Give the bastards a hard time: that's how you get to be old. But why am I telling you, bubby? Grow up and come back when you know something.
Crankiness in Decline, Says Old Guy
Youth-obsessed America has made it tough to age with crabby, righteous anger
BY GARRISON KEILLOR
There's a new survey out saying that people who take a positive view of aging actually live longer than those who grouse and grumble, which is hogwash, and I am paying no attention to it. I turned 60 last week and it's no picnic, and anybody who says so is whistling in the dark. Maybe this doesn't sound life-affirming to you. So — shoot me.
I didn't want a 60th birthday party but agreed to it under pressure lest I be thought a sorehead, and so all my jowly friends with thin dead hair sang Happy Birthday in their horrible ruined voices and we sat eating aged beef and heirloom tomatoes with a dry but experienced Chardonnay and old pals woofed about how happy and busy they are in retirement and gave me dumb birthday cards ("Welcome to the Incontinence Hotline ... Can you hold, please?") and a cake blazed up like the Hindenburg and some people I knew back when they were fun told me how good I look.
Back in the 1960s, birthday parties were major fun. The Grateful Dead was on the hi-fi and you danced and took powerful drugs and swam naked in the lake and lay on the sand talking about what you were feeling. But I can't do that anymore for fear of embarrassing my children.
This week, as a gift to myself, I'm going to Scotland. Turning 60 is darned awkward in America. We glorify carefree youth and feel sheepish if our abdomen is not hard enough to crack walnuts on and our heart is not warm and smiley. Geezers and geezerettes go around in juvenile clothes, shorts and flip-flops and jokey T shirts (my goal is to live forever. so far, so good). Embarrassing. A man my age should not aim for boyishness. He should wear an old tweed jacket and wool trousers and a silk vest with a great belly under it and have wild eyebrows the size of rats and carry a knobby walking stick and smoke torpedo cigars and sit around kicking the bejabbers out of the government. A guy can do that in Scotland.
In Scotland, old codgers like me don't buy into the fairy tale that these are the Best Years of Our Life. They know better. If life is a journey, then your 60s are the homeward leg when you're hung up in an airport and thinking bad thoughts about your travel agent. Your shoes have been x-rayed, your flight is delayed, you're trapped in a lounge full of idiots with those dangly cell phones and voices like chainsaws. You'd like to tell them to get lost. But in America we've seen a serious erosion of the right to be cranky. Ordinary grumpiness has been marginalized by blatant moodism, symptomized, pathologized, made to seem like a bad thing. Oprah is to blame for this, and the whole Onward & Upward, Little Engine That Could industry that has made smiliness obligatory. Look at the Clintons.
Here are two folks who spent eight years being attacked by midgets and now have fat contracts to write memoirs in which they could pound on their enemies and throw gravel at them, and will they? Will it be Payback Time? No, it will not be. They will say that those eight years of persecution only deepened their faith and drew them closer as a couple and made them realize how terribly lucky they really are.
In Scotland, memoirists would be expected to lacerate their enemies and rain garbage on them, and if you raked in $18 million doing it — bingo! more power to you. A wonderful dour tribe, the Scots, and the right to groan and moan is sacred in Scotland. Here we have been duped out of it by the people who gave us aromatherapy and seaweed wraps.
Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality. And a man who turns 60 and tells you he never felt better is delusional. He has forgotten how it was when your whole being leaped and bounded, before you turned into a lumbering galoot. Nature is relentless; it programs degeneration into our DNA. Even if you're positive-thinking, hopped up on Viagra, and your face has been lifted and stapled to make you look like a feral woodchuck, nonetheless one day you'll look like something from the lost lagoon and have the sex drive of a smoked salmon. Nature doesn't care about your golden years; it's aiming for turnover.
You don't get to be old by putting on a happy face. What keeps you going is stubbornness and righteous anger: at ugly buildings, suvs, background music, the eminence of nonentities, at cravenness and cruelty in general and the shamelessness of this government — leading the lynching of a few corporate scapegoats to distract the mob from your own sins — the naked hypocrisy of it! If you're not brave enough to have morals when you're 72% popular, what hope is there for you? Give the bastards a hard time: that's how you get to be old. But why am I telling you, bubby? Grow up and come back when you know something.
TIME Magazine: The Bible & The Apocalypse
What do you watch for, when you are watching the news? Signs that interest rates might be climbing, maybe it's time to refinance. Signs of global warming, maybe forget that new SUV. Signs of new terrorist activity, maybe think twice about that flight to Chicago.
Or signs that the world may be coming to an end, and the last battle between good and evil is about to unfold?
What do you watch for, when you are watching the news? Signs that interest rates might be climbing, maybe it's time to refinance. Signs of global warming, maybe forget that new SUV. Signs of new terrorist activity, maybe think twice about that flight to Chicago.
Or signs that the world may be coming to an end, and the last battle between good and evil is about to unfold?
Tweney.com - Understanding weblogs
After a couple of weeks, I realized that my weblog was turning into a useful repository of information. What was the URL for that nifty site about cork dolls? There it is in the weblog [6]. What about that news item on how many files are being traded over P2P networks? Right there [7].
In other words, I realized that a weblog could be a useful tool for personal knowledge management as well as for public communication. Because it's so easy to create and update a weblog -- the characteristic that has made blogging boom in the past year -- it's an ideal information capture device. Whenever you come across something interesting online, you can easily drop a link, a quote, and/or a comment into your weblog, and move on. You may never return to it, but it's there if you ever want to look it up again. Same with passing thoughts: Just jot them in the weblog.
Need to find something later? Use a search engine, either one built in to the blogging tool itself or, if your site has been indexed by it, Google.
After a couple of weeks, I realized that my weblog was turning into a useful repository of information. What was the URL for that nifty site about cork dolls? There it is in the weblog [6]. What about that news item on how many files are being traded over P2P networks? Right there [7].
In other words, I realized that a weblog could be a useful tool for personal knowledge management as well as for public communication. Because it's so easy to create and update a weblog -- the characteristic that has made blogging boom in the past year -- it's an ideal information capture device. Whenever you come across something interesting online, you can easily drop a link, a quote, and/or a comment into your weblog, and move on. You may never return to it, but it's there if you ever want to look it up again. Same with passing thoughts: Just jot them in the weblog.
Need to find something later? Use a search engine, either one built in to the blogging tool itself or, if your site has been indexed by it, Google.
Saturday, September 07, 2002
Answering Machine Greetings Actual answering machine answers recorded and verified by the world famous International Institute of Answering Machine Answers.
NameBase a cumulative index of names with short book reviews
Citations to names of individuals and groups involving :
assassinations, organized crime, and scandals
Wall Street and transnational corporations
foreign policy and media establishments
political elites from the Right and Left
Cold War history and intelligence
Citations to names of individuals and groups involving :
assassinations, organized crime, and scandals
Wall Street and transnational corporations
foreign policy and media establishments
political elites from the Right and Left
Cold War history and intelligence
Found at Random Thoughts
When I was in Portland Oregon earlier this year I just happened to time my visit to coincide with a most unusual event. Overnight, a hundred or so brightly painted and transformed fibreglass cows appeared. Because Portland is a relatively small city - the cows caused a huge buzz. Everyone stopped in the street to take a look and talk about what it was all about.
It has been interesting to watch what has happened in London as the organisers of the event have tried to create the same level of interest here. Somewhat typically, various councils in the city decided that they didnt want cows on their streets. The cows that I have seen have been pretty lame compared to the efforts in Portland. The Ritz cow for example is just painted blue with a bit of gold and a few mirrored bits. Today however, I found a cow worthy of mention. The Cow inspired by Harry Potter playing Quidditch is a great example of how these sculptures can make people take notice.
Cow Parade - London's finest
Good stuf!When I was in Portland Oregon earlier this year I just happened to time my visit to coincide with a most unusual event. Overnight, a hundred or so brightly painted and transformed fibreglass cows appeared. Because Portland is a relatively small city - the cows caused a huge buzz. Everyone stopped in the street to take a look and talk about what it was all about.
It has been interesting to watch what has happened in London as the organisers of the event have tried to create the same level of interest here. Somewhat typically, various councils in the city decided that they didnt want cows on their streets. The cows that I have seen have been pretty lame compared to the efforts in Portland. The Ritz cow for example is just painted blue with a bit of gold and a few mirrored bits. Today however, I found a cow worthy of mention. The Cow inspired by Harry Potter playing Quidditch is a great example of how these sculptures can make people take notice.
SecurityFocus HOME News: Hackers Deface Thousands Of Domains Parked At Verisign Rick Forno, chief technology officer for Shadowlogic and the former head of security for Network Solutions, said Verisign has begun relying on numerous partners for services it bundles with domain sales.
While Verisign has the ultimate responsibility to its domain customers, the blame for the security breach falls squarely on Interland, he said.
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Whoops, time to find a new web host and a new Registrar.
While Verisign has the ultimate responsibility to its domain customers, the blame for the security breach falls squarely on Interland, he said.
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Whoops, time to find a new web host and a new Registrar.
CERT Advisory CA-2001-04 Unauthentic "Microsoft Corporation" Certificates On January 29 and 30, 2001, VeriSign, Inc. issued two certificates to an individual fraudulently claiming to be an employee of Microsoft Corporation. Any code signed by these certificates will appear to be legitimately signed by Microsoft when, in fact, it is not. Although users who try to run code signed with these certificates will generally be presented with a warning dialog, there will not be any obvious reason to believe that the certificate is not authentic.
I. Description
I. Description
MessageLabs - ThreatList The Threatlist shows a comprehensive list of every different type of virus we have intercepted on a monthly basis.
sophos virus infoW32/Klez-H
Type
Win32 worm
Detection
Detected by Sophos Anti-Virus since March 2002.
The worm searches for email addresses in the Windows address book and also in files with the extensions TXT, HTM, HTML, WAB, ASP, DOC, RTF, XLS, JPG, CPP, C, PAS, MPG, MPEG, BAK, MP3 and PDF.
The email message "From:" field will contain either one of the addresses found in the search or an address taken from a list inside the virus body.
The worm sends itself using emails with the following characteristics:
Subject line:
The subject line is randomly created using one of the following rules.
1.
A combination of "Hi,", "Hello," "Re:", "Fw:", or nothing
with
"Very" and "special" as the first word
and
"New", "funny", "nice", "humour", "excite", "good", "powful", "WinXP" and "IE 6.0" as the second, arranged in one of the following sentences:
"A %s %s game."
"A %s %s tool."
"A %s %s website."
"A %s %s patch."
e.g. "A special powful tool"
Type
Win32 worm
Detection
Detected by Sophos Anti-Virus since March 2002.
The worm searches for email addresses in the Windows address book and also in files with the extensions TXT, HTM, HTML, WAB, ASP, DOC, RTF, XLS, JPG, CPP, C, PAS, MPG, MPEG, BAK, MP3 and PDF.
The email message "From:" field will contain either one of the addresses found in the search or an address taken from a list inside the virus body.
The worm sends itself using emails with the following characteristics:
Subject line:
The subject line is randomly created using one of the following rules.
1.
A combination of "Hi,", "Hello," "Re:", "Fw:", or nothing
with
"Very" and "special" as the first word
and
"New", "funny", "nice", "humour", "excite", "good", "powful", "WinXP" and "IE 6.0" as the second, arranged in one of the following sentences:
"A %s %s game."
"A %s %s tool."
"A %s %s website."
"A %s %s patch."
e.g. "A special powful tool"
Friday, September 06, 2002
Dirty Laundry, Online for All to See
"It was the natural progression of technology," said Mr. Cissell, the clerk of courts for Hamilton County, whose seat is Cincinnati.
Mr. Cissell's three-person technology staff put together the Web site at www.courtclerk.org. State tax liens, arrest warrants, bond postings — all became searchable and accessible on the Internet.
"Everything we get is scanned and available," said Mr. Cissell, a former United States attorney. "It was very easy to open the door to the public."
Visitors have flowed to the site. So have the complaints.
Divorce lawyers say clients are furious that neighbors are combing through the details of their cases (and are even brazen enough to discuss them with them). A teenager was confronted by his father about a speeding ticket. A man complained to Mr. Cissell's office because his friends discovered his history of domestic violence.
"It was the natural progression of technology," said Mr. Cissell, the clerk of courts for Hamilton County, whose seat is Cincinnati.
Mr. Cissell's three-person technology staff put together the Web site at www.courtclerk.org. State tax liens, arrest warrants, bond postings — all became searchable and accessible on the Internet.
"Everything we get is scanned and available," said Mr. Cissell, a former United States attorney. "It was very easy to open the door to the public."
Visitors have flowed to the site. So have the complaints.
Divorce lawyers say clients are furious that neighbors are combing through the details of their cases (and are even brazen enough to discuss them with them). A teenager was confronted by his father about a speeding ticket. A man complained to Mr. Cissell's office because his friends discovered his history of domestic violence.
NATIONAL POST ONLINE | FPMastering THE CONCEPT
Is KM just good information management?
For nearly 25 years, managers have had to master data processing, information management and knowledge management (KM). The more cynical among them suspect that nothing more substantial than "terminological inflation" is taking place. Part of the problem is there is no hard and fast distinction between information and knowledge; information may be (theoretically) public and knowledge locked in people's minds, but for the purposes of KM they occupy a continuum of increasing value.
Is KM just good information management?
For nearly 25 years, managers have had to master data processing, information management and knowledge management (KM). The more cynical among them suspect that nothing more substantial than "terminological inflation" is taking place. Part of the problem is there is no hard and fast distinction between information and knowledge; information may be (theoretically) public and knowledge locked in people's minds, but for the purposes of KM they occupy a continuum of increasing value.
Wednesday, September 04, 2002
Mercury News | 08/29/2002 | Microsoft issues security alert on Windows flaw
Microsoft released a patch to fix the problem and urged Windows users to download it immediately at
Microsoft released a patch to fix the problem and urged Windows users to download it immediately at
Vandals in the Stacks?
A Response to Nicholson Baker's Assault on Libraries
Greenwood Publishing Group I1 Libraries and archives have violated their public trust, argues Nicholson Baker in his controversial book Double Fold, by destroying traditional books, newspapers, and other paper-based collections. Baker's powerful and persuasive book is wrong and misleading, and Cox critiques it point by point, questioning his research, his assumptions, and his arguments about why and how newspapers, books, and other collections are selected and maintained.
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A $64.95 book to refute a $19.72 book
A Response to Nicholson Baker's Assault on Libraries
Greenwood Publishing Group I1 Libraries and archives have violated their public trust, argues Nicholson Baker in his controversial book Double Fold, by destroying traditional books, newspapers, and other paper-based collections. Baker's powerful and persuasive book is wrong and misleading, and Cox critiques it point by point, questioning his research, his assumptions, and his arguments about why and how newspapers, books, and other collections are selected and maintained.
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A $64.95 book to refute a $19.72 book
Googling by E-Mail
A new service called GoogleMail gives you e-mail access to the popular search engine. Just send a message to google@capeclear.com with your query in the Subject line. The search results will be sent to your In box, usually within minutes.
The service was created by Cape Clear Software, which specializes in so-called Web services, or software that links online applications with other programs. Initially it was aimed at users of palmtop organizers and mobile phones. But in just a few months GoogleMail has handled more than 30,000 queries from a surprising variety of people, said Colin Newman, vice president for marketing at Cape Clear.
For example, GoogleMail is fielding many queries from places where online Internet access can be relatively expensive, like Russia and the Philippines. "People are creating e-mail queries offline and then going online just to send them," Mr. Newman explained. "Then they disconnect, and log back on later to download the results."
A new service called GoogleMail gives you e-mail access to the popular search engine. Just send a message to google@capeclear.com with your query in the Subject line. The search results will be sent to your In box, usually within minutes.
The service was created by Cape Clear Software, which specializes in so-called Web services, or software that links online applications with other programs. Initially it was aimed at users of palmtop organizers and mobile phones. But in just a few months GoogleMail has handled more than 30,000 queries from a surprising variety of people, said Colin Newman, vice president for marketing at Cape Clear.
For example, GoogleMail is fielding many queries from places where online Internet access can be relatively expensive, like Russia and the Philippines. "People are creating e-mail queries offline and then going online just to send them," Mr. Newman explained. "Then they disconnect, and log back on later to download the results."
Tuesday, September 03, 2002
Today's Front Pages
The Newseum consistently produces compelling online exhibits, some
of which we've featured in Yahoo! Picks. "Today's Front Pages" is
no exception. The collection of 134 newspaper front pages from 24
countries offers a fascinating daily look at what is deemed worthy
of front-page placement around the world. You're sure to be surprised
at the choices in some regions. Don't miss the archived exhibit of
front pages from September 12, 2001, the day after the terrorist
attacks on the U.S. It's a solemn presentation of 70 images from
newspapers across the U.S. and the globe. This site's stunning
imagery proves the world can be seen from many different angles.
The Newseum consistently produces compelling online exhibits, some
of which we've featured in Yahoo! Picks. "Today's Front Pages" is
no exception. The collection of 134 newspaper front pages from 24
countries offers a fascinating daily look at what is deemed worthy
of front-page placement around the world. You're sure to be surprised
at the choices in some regions. Don't miss the archived exhibit of
front pages from September 12, 2001, the day after the terrorist
attacks on the U.S. It's a solemn presentation of 70 images from
newspapers across the U.S. and the globe. This site's stunning
imagery proves the world can be seen from many different angles.
Weblogs All sorts of things to read and learn about weblogs, weblog finding and indexing tools.
One looks forward, if they type as well as me, to the day of speech-updated weblogs.
One looks forward, if they type as well as me, to the day of speech-updated weblogs.
Monday, September 02, 2002
Crime in London over the top compared to NYC
"In America, uniformed cops eat in coffee shops, diners and restaurants and I always feel safer having them around," she said.
The actress also advised women to wear trainers in public in order to run faster if confronted by muggers.
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Wow. I din't think Liz dined at Denny's like me!
"In America, uniformed cops eat in coffee shops, diners and restaurants and I always feel safer having them around," she said.
The actress also advised women to wear trainers in public in order to run faster if confronted by muggers.
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Wow. I din't think Liz dined at Denny's like me!
Sunday, September 01, 2002
A trenchant analysis this of the comparative advantages and reletive shortcomings anticipated between regular television and hig definition television, which as you may know has been enacted into law and you cannot escape buying a new television within the net 2 or 3 years by an act of congress.
If you don't want to watch television they will hold a hurricane, snow day, war or riot in your neighborhood so thew police can knock down your door and infgorm you of what you should have been watching, you numbskull!
If you don't want to watch television they will hold a hurricane, snow day, war or riot in your neighborhood so thew police can knock down your door and infgorm you of what you should have been watching, you numbskull!
Saturday, August 31, 2002
Thursday, August 29, 2002
Tuesday, August 27, 2002
Skycraperpage
Home Diagrams Forum now over 4830 illustrated structures in our database!
Yes it is rather amazing.
Home Diagrams Forum now over 4830 illustrated structures in our database!
Yes it is rather amazing.
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Sunday, August 25, 2002
Saturday, August 24, 2002
Battered Westerner Syndrome inflicted by myopic Muslim defenders
Last Thursday, in Sydney, the pack leader of a group of Lebanese Muslim gang-rapists was sentenced to 55 years in jail. I suppose I ought to say "Lebanese-Australian" Muslim gang-rapists, since the accused were Australian citizens. But, identity-wise, the rambunctious young lads considered themselves heavy on the Lebanese, light on the Australian. During their gang rapes, the lucky lady would be told she was about to be "f---ed Leb style" and that she deserved it because she was an "Australian pig."
Last Thursday, in Sydney, the pack leader of a group of Lebanese Muslim gang-rapists was sentenced to 55 years in jail. I suppose I ought to say "Lebanese-Australian" Muslim gang-rapists, since the accused were Australian citizens. But, identity-wise, the rambunctious young lads considered themselves heavy on the Lebanese, light on the Australian. During their gang rapes, the lucky lady would be told she was about to be "f---ed Leb style" and that she deserved it because she was an "Australian pig."
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