Fragile Bolivia Unites, for Now, on Chile Sea Spat For 120 years, Bolivia has demanded neighboring Chile give back coastline seized in a 1879-1883 war, saying that this landlocked Andean nation needs access to the sea, and therefore an easier route to world markets, to escape centuries of poverty. The issue historically resurfaces in Bolivia […]
According to broadband reports, phishing scams which exploit Microsoft Internet Explorer’s bug that allows scam artists to hide the real url of a link while displaying a legit looking address. While the story itself is interesting, theres an interesting thread evident in the comments posted by readers. A lot of them wrote about how they’ve
I purchashed a PNY 256MB USB Flash Drive. Partially to get a gadget hit but also to have something convenient to shuttle files in between home and work. There are a number of files on my work pc that I need to bring home. Other time, I need to work on a file at home
In a bit of a surprise announcement, the San Jose Earthquakes announced Alexi Lalas as their new General Manager. Ordinarily, such an announcement wouldn’t be of interest to anyone outside of US Soccer, but this is Alexi Lalas. He’s just about the only American player that made himself known to the rest of the US
Nothing firm yet on a WUSA comeback but it seems that the business minds are triumphing over the go-it-aloners. Payne suggested that MLS and WUSA teams should work together, saying, “It’s silly to replicate the cost structure, the operating and administrative structure that already exists.
Today I’m releasing a simple php calendar output class. Nothing I looked at quite fit the bill for what I wanted, plus I think its part of being an INTP that I usually prefer to write stuff like this from scratch. It was a great excercise for really learning my way around all the different
From the NY Times, Salaries Provide Window Into M.L.S. For years, it had been assumed that the league’s eight teams operated under a strict salary cap, with maximum salaries set at $280,000 and minimums at $25,000. The facts are quite different. As a single-entity operation, where the league negotiates and owns all player contracts, exceptions
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Tivo has set off quite a debate on Slashdot with the news that it is suing EchoStar for patent infringement. The suit, filed in federal district court in Texas, alleges that EchoStar’s DVR infringes TiVo’s “Time Warp” patent, which includes the method used to allow viewers to record one program while watching another and the
Via Luke Huttermans blog: on keeping RSS subscriptions synchronized. A standard like this would not only allow you to for instance sync up different SharpReader instances on different PCs (say one at work and the other at home), but would also work across aggregators so you’d even be able to for instance sync up NetNewsWire