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Mexico Warns Of Border Closing. NBC San Diego Mar 11 2003 10:24PM ET [Moreover – California news] Here’s the interesting part of this article: The Mexican consulate said it was told that if the United States goes to war with Iraq, the color-coded alert system will go to code red, and the lanes of entry…
...Read MoreThree and a half-year old SETI@home project identifies candidate radio signals from space, heads for Arecibo to take second look: “After more than a million years of computation by more than 4 million computers worldwide, the SETI@home screensaver that crunches data in search of intelligent signals from space has produced a list of candidate radio…
...Read MoreNY Times: Software Pioneer Quits Board of Groove. Mitchell D. Kapor, a personal computer industry software pioneer and a civil liberties activist, has resigned from the board of Groove Networks after learning that the company’s software was being used by the Pentagon as part of its development of a domestic surveillance system. [Tomalak’s Realm] I’ve…
...Read MoreMapping the Penalties of Failure. Below is a picture of of a map that hangs in my office; it shows an area in the Balkans and was created around 1790. I bought it in a dusty little bookstore in Juneau Alaska, but that’s another story. It’s inscribed in French, Polish, and Turkish (written pre-reform in…
...Read MoreDocumentation writers shouldn’t write documentation. GEEKS should write documentation. After all, they know the product inside and out. And for most things needing documentation, well, most likely it’s gonna be geeks using it. Ok. I’m just a little miffed. I’ve been sitting here trying to figure out how assign a port so I can use…
...Read MoreArgentina Makes Its Software Play. Driven by peso devaluation and a domestic downturn, Argentine technology companies are marketing the country as a great place for other nations to outsource software programming. Eleonora Rabinovich reports from Buenos Aires. [Wired News] Here’s a list of other great places to outsource programming. California, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas,…
...Read MoreSomething I think would be neat in FMRS, select the text of an article you’re browsing then right-click to the menu where there is a “Post” option. I’m still using it BTW. I like how it’s integrated together. I can’t wait to see what they come up with when they get it outta beta.
...Read MoreSo the Bloggies are done. Interesting. I didn’t know we were having a contest.
...Read MoreNASA already planning shuttle changes, return to flight. NASA is currently investigating a number of safety improvements to the shuttle program as it… [spacetoday.net]
...Read MoreCameron Barrett is back with both guns blazing. He’s been to Siberia, and now is in Austin. I don’t agree about the US, but he states is point of view very powerfully. A must-read. [Scripting News] Cam IS back. And with an interesting point of view, some revelations about America and the Bush Administration, and advice…
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