From Wall Street Journal:: On Saturday, India will play Pakistan in the cricket World Cup in South Africa — the first time they have played each other in three long years, thanks to the Indian government’s refusal (correct, in my view) to permit sporting links… Read More »
Archive for February 2003
Alan Reiter writes: “An Italian tobacconist saw two suspicious characters outside his shop in Rome. He used his camera phone to send a photo of the pair and a text message to the police. The police checked their records, found the two people… Read More »
World Cup Cricket 2003 is in full swing in South Africa. Sure this is an event which does not get headlines like the SuperBowl or the Major League Baseball, but when it comes to viewership, more than 1.75 billion people tune into the… Read More »
So one upside of the massive Blizzard of 2003 - I have finally figured it out that day time television sucks, and so do the big four network channels, I spent the entire day watching coverage of the big blizzard which has blanketed the entire… Read More »
Jeff Pulver, one of the few pundits to throw his considerable weight behind the internet protocol telephony wants no government regulation in the new emerging technology for voice over the Internet. On February 5th he filed a petition with the FCC on behalf of Free… Read More »
From Power Page :: How to Lose a Man in 10 Days featured more iMacs and PowerBooks than an Apple Store on steroids, and for me, was one of the most redeeming aspects of the “razzie”-worthy film. I’m wondering now, just how much… Read More »
From The New York Times :: New Jersey legislator, Shirley K. Turner, introduced a bill that would require that workers hired under state contracts be American citizens or legal aliens or they occupy some specialty niche that American workers cannot be found to… Read More »
From News.Com :: Potential customers for utility computing are wary of sharing information technology resources and worry about the financial viability of service providers, research firm IDC said Thursday.well that was the problem with the managed hosting services and other shared infrastructure type services.… Read More »
Derrick Story :: thinks that Sony’s DVD-recording standards might face opposition from rivals ala Minidisc, BetaMAX, Memory Stick. Hmm! Here is what he has to say: “I’ve been following the DVD-R vs. the DVD+RW competition rather closely. At the moment Samsung, Toshiba, Hitachi,… Read More »
JACKIE CHAN - The action star says he’s finally started to use a double for some of his more difficult stunts. Like speaking English. VALENTINE’S DAY – Or, as men call it – NATIONAL GREETING CARD and Rose Grower Support Day. JOE MILLIONAIRE – One of the himbo’s… Read More »
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From New York Times Online :: “Corporate profits reported to the I.R.S. in 1998 were $155 billion less than those reported to shareholders, according to Mihir A. Desai, a Harvard economist. His study and others suggest that tax shelters may be the primary reason for… Read More »
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