Year: 2004
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Has this guy been living under a rock?
Microsoft has been running ads like this one trying to get people to install additional crap onto their Windoze servers so that they can connect to servers that are using a real operating system (UNIX). I don’t think that most administrators have never used Windoze as these ads claim; considering the 70-90% desktop market share…
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Wierd from Nat
Weird, weird, weird music… “outsider music,” you might call it. Check track 7: a tuba playing Lonely Bull. Comfort Stand RecordsGreat sidewalk chalk drawings: DodgerFunny/weird Las Vegas travelogue by Bender: hetikIf you didn’t download it yet, here’s the Uncle Mark guide: (If you don’t know what it is, just download it and read it. Yep.)…
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Food for all
I can’t understand why we continue to pour resources into the industries of the 19th century.Intel CEO Craig Barrett bemoaning U.S. agriculture subsidiesMust be because he can afford to buy any kind of food he wants.Dr. Wingnut
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Unprecedented Summit
I was listening to the News Briefs on the local Boston all-news station when the reporter read a story about an unprecedented summit between the Prime Ministers of two countries who are encaged in heated territorial dispute.The reporter stated it was unprecedented because of the longstanding acrimonious relationship between the two leaders.Whoa! Acrimonious is not…
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Politically Correct
I came across this little stack of pages from a desk calendar "365 days of Political Correctness" that I was given in 1997. They were too good to just throw away, especially with the alternative spellings, so here they are: Saturday, 18 October, 1997In 1993, the Iowa City School District Equity—Affirmative Action Advisory Committee began…