Month: March 2003

Note to self…SEARCHING FOR HOT SPOTS?. 80211hotspots.com allows you to select a city, state or country and find a hot spot for your wireless networking requirements…. [Rodent Regatta] I’ll have to check this out later. Sounds interesting. Of course, you could just wardrive.

To Ooops or not to Oooops? (Shakespeare reference)…New Windows leaks onto the Web. A test copy of the next version of the Microsoft operating system, code-named Longhorn, offers an unexpected peek at new storage technology and other features. [CNET News.com] I’m sure it was by no accident it was leaked. How better to draw media…

Everyone else is doing it, why shouldn’t we?…Europe targets the Moon. Europe’s first mission to the Moon looks set for a July blast-off – but much will depend on the flight readiness of the spacecraft’s launch rocket. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] Maybe it’s time we take a trip back to the…

Another Coolstop…Sugar’s got a new look.  I like it!…and Sugar said:  “I’m not a pastel kind of girl.  I don’t even wear pastels.  So…I dumped the washed out morning glory background and came up with something a little, uhh, a little more Me.  You keeping up Joe??  ::wink::”[jenett.radio] I like it. It’s a very warm and…

Goodbye old friend…Our sympathies to “l:joe”. It’s amazing how they become part of your family isn’t it?

More holes than Swiss cheese…Major Internet vulnerability discovered in e-mail protocol. The Department of Homeland Security has been working in secret for more than two weeks with the private sector to fix a major Internet flaw that could leave most e-mail traffic vulnerable to hackers. [Computerworld News] Just got the email from Red Hat confirming…

I’m number 4! Who is number 1? (Reference to the old Steve McQueen television serial “The Prisoner”)…Hmmm…I’m number 4 in Google for “Saddam’s son”. Bad thing is, that post was a casualty of my hard drive crashing and has been lost.

Stonehenge is ancient PORN?!?!?…Female Anatomy Inspired Stonehenge?The design of Stonehenge, the 4,800-year-old monument in southwestern England, was based on female sexual anatomy, according to a paper in the current Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. [Discovery Channel News]

California out to make money any way it can…California Sells Airport Security Contraband On eBay “That pocketknife you surrendered to airport security screeners might now be tucked away in someone else’s pocket — someone who bought it on EBay. Under the handle CaliforniaGold2000, the state is using the Internet auction house to convert scores of…

From around the globe…‘Hostile’ doctors and teachers discriminate against vegetarian children, say parentsVegetarian parents are protesting against the discrimination they and their children are forced to face in everyday life.[The Independent]