The Nordic Countries seem to create such interesting music, and no I don’t mean ABBA. I’m talking about bands like The Cardigans or performers like Eilert Pilarm (who both happend to be Swedish), and now, Norweigan band, Hurra Torpedo.
Hurra Torpedo bills themselves as “world’s leading kitchen appliance rock group” which the most amazingly demonstrate in this video of their version of Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart…
Sounds like Peter Pan is going to be gone for a while, which is too bad because it’s my favorite kind of peanut butter.
When asked when consumers could expect to see Peter Pan back on store shelves, Childs replied that no Peter Pan product was available and that ConAgra is continuing to work with the FDA and their on going investigation and what steps will be required next to correct the situation.
Anyone who runs Linux servers remotely knows that you can do almost ANYTHING from the CLI. One of the more tricky things to do is install a new kernel. Too often, if there is an error in the new kernel build the machine will kernel panic and lock up.
The only way around that is to manually power cycle the machine - unless you pass a panic parameter to the kernel on boot up.
There are probably thousands (maybe millions) of posts today complaining about this, but I’m going to say it anyway.
I HATE Daylight Savings Time. Actually, it’s not the DST that I hate as much as it is the TIME CHANGE. Not everyone has this problem, but I’m screwed up for at least a week after the spring change. Losing that hour out of my life is hard on my schedule.
My favorite thing about the whole time change is the idiocy of it all. We don’t get ‘an extra hour of daylight’. The amount of daylight is the same yesterday as it is today (except for the 30 seconds we gain going in to summer). The whole thing is just a nationwide gimmick used to trick us into going to bed an hour earlier and getting up an hour earlier. How dumb is that.
We save energy at the cost of thousands of hours of lost productivity due to sleep schedules being screwed up. Then in the fall, when we could really use the ‘extra hour of light’, they take it back. Why? ‘Because of the children’ who can’t go to school in the dark.
The whole thing is just ridiculous and makes me irritable. I’m going to keep complaining until somebody puts a stop to the nonsense!
Just found this, but back in February a Federal Judge in Texas dismissed a suit against MySpace. The lawsuit was brought by the mother of a 14 year old girl who lied about her age on MySpace, made a date with a 19 year old and was assaulted while on the date. They alleged that MySpace should have done more to make sure the 14 year old was who she said she was.
Sparks’ decision to dismiss the lawsuit was based mainly on the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which exempted websites and Internet service providers from responsibility for what their users said online. The law also states that those providers can’t be held liable for adopting imperfect protections against indecent or harmful content — a provision aimed at encouraging sites to do the best they could to safeguard users. To its credit, MySpace has taken several steps to guard against sexual predators, such as limiting the contact between adults and users who say they are younger than 16 years old. It is also lobbying state legislatures and Congress to require convicted sex offenders to register their e-mail addresses, and it plans to unveil software that could help parents see how their children are identifying themselves on MySpace.
Connecticut lawmakers unveiled legislation Wednesday that would require MySpace.com and other social-networking sites to verify users’ ages and obtain parental consent before minors can post profiles.
It will be interesting to see how much time and money is wasted in court due to this law…
There seem to be a significant number of bloggers out there that are very concerned about their privacy/security. There is a fine line between publishing your opinion and offending employers/friends/family.
My question today goes a little beyond that. Any overlap that my personal and professional life has with my blog are a concern, but should bloggers be more worried? I would like to hear from anyone who has had their personal safety jeopardized because of a public web presence. This could cover anything from being stalked to being robbed.
