Manners are what we use to hold bad impressions at bay until strangers learn to tolerate us.
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Posted in News on Jan 31st, 2007
(BBC News) France is to ban smoking in all public places from next February, the prime minister has announced. Cafes, nightclubs and restaurants are to be given until January 2008 to adapt, said Dominique de Villepin. Those found in breach of the ban would be fined – 75 euros (£50) for individuals and 150 euros [...]
Posted in Technology on Jan 30th, 2007
This one is for copyboy24 and cyberduck.
Posted in News on Jan 26th, 2007
(Reuters) Chinese police have arrested three men for killing two young women to sell their corpses as “ghost brides” for dead single men, a Chinese newspaper reported, warning the dark custom might have claimed many other victims. Yang Donghai, a 35-year-old farmer in western China’s Shaanxi province, confessed to killing a woman bought from a [...]
Posted in Technology on Jan 25th, 2007
(Cnet) EarthLink announced Thursday that it’s negotiating a contract with the city of Atlanta to build, own and operate a municipal Wi-Fi network throughout the city. “Atlanta has been EarthLink’s home for many years,” Donald Berryman, executive vice president of EarthLink and president of the ISP’s municipal networks unit, said in a statement. “And we [...]
Posted in Political on Jan 25th, 2007
(Reuters) Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a Democratic bill to increase the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade, demanding it first include small-business tax relief. On a vote of 54-43, Democrats fell six short of the 60 needed to end debate and go to passage of the House-passed measure, which would [...]
Posted in Journal on Jan 23rd, 2007
Sorry for the disappearing act from Livejournal and the Cafe Arcane blog, but the last week or so has been a bit hectic. I’m still adjusting to recent shakeups at work and business matters outside the workplace have kept me off balance. On the plus side, Wordpress 2.1 has been released and I’ll be [...]
Posted in Bush on Jan 17th, 2007
In a chilling bit of prophecy, Jared commented on the slight differences between Nixon and George W. Bush in silencing their critics. A recent address by Senator Feinstein addressed the fact that the Bush regime has been pressuring “forced retirements” of U.S. Attorneys that have expressed negative views of the legality of the regimes actions [...]
Posted in Political on Jan 16th, 2007
(Washington Times) A last-minute addition to a federal spending bill at the end of the last U.S. Congress now makes civilians eligible for military courts-martial. With the addition of just five words, the provision sponsored by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., was signed into law by President Bush, and makes civilian government employees and journalists eligible [...]
Posted in 50 Classics on Jan 16th, 2007
I suspect my ongoing experience can be summed up by Black Adder:
Baldrick: “What, Jane Austen’s a man?”
Black Adder: “Of course — a huge Yorkshireman with a beard like a rhododendron bush.”
Baldrick: “Oh, quite a small one, then?”
Black Adder: “Well, compared to Dorothy Wordsworth’s, certainly. James Boswell is the only real woman writing at the moment, [...]
Posted in Bush on Jan 15th, 2007
(CNN) Congress cannot reverse last week’s decision to send 21,000 more troops to Iraq, President Bush said in an interview intended to rally popular support for his plan. “Frankly, that’s not their responsibility,” Bush said in an interview on the CBS News program “60 Minutes,” which aired Sunday. “It’s my responsibility to put forward the [...]
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