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Signings in January - More Rumours
in The Soccer Weblog, on December 2, 2009
...an expect Chelsea, who have had their ban on making deals postponed, to break new records in an attempt to plan ahead, but with so many clubs in financial crisis who is going to get the best bargain?
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Seen that? - Seen that? - Seen that? - Open-source alternatives to BigTable
in Googlestack, on November 30, 2009
... Columns versus Rows at Googlestack In an attempt to bring the column oriented storage closer to the readers, I've managed to find a serie...
Seen that? - Social Enterprise, Sunday Roundup
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on November 29, 2009
...dows start showing up in their beloved BSD-based OS) system lock-ups that have broken out as people attempt to upgrade to [...] Read More Enterprise Information Ecosystem - RSS ...
Seen that? - Seen that? - Columns versus Rows
in Googlestack, on November 20, 2009
... Columns versus Rows at Googlestack In an attempt to bring the column oriented storage closer to the readers, I've managed to find a serie...
Students Take to Online Gambling to End Their Debts
in The Gambling Weblog, on November 19, 2009
...ioned that, in some, instances, it has escalated to students blowing their whole loans online in an attempt to prepare for the debts. A lack of risk assessment, money management and even a lack in GP...
Get your game on, CIOs
in The CIO Weblog, on November 13, 2009
... tomorrow, those pressures aren't going to go away.
It's left to the CIO not to resist and attempt to stonewall on these factors, but to get out ahead of the curve, by envisioning how they can be u...
Seen that? - Baseball Betting Scandal Hits Taiwan
in The Gambling Weblog, on November 9, 2009
... betting turnover fall from HK$130 million per race in 1997 to HK$90 million per race now and in an attempt to reverse this decline, they are looking at alternative tax solutions. The Jockey Club is i...
OpenOffice.org Portable 3.1.1 简体中文版
in Wangtam, on 2009-11-04
...e TV's Mortal Foe, Helps Ratings
• Do-It-Yourself iPhone Apps
• Skype for Linux to go open source... eventually
• 魔兽世界运营内幕：版署与文化部的博弈
• Microsoft partners with Pasadena's OpenX to share onl...
Seen that? - Seen that? - Open-source alternatives to BigTable
in Googlestack, on November 2, 2009
... Columns versus Rows at Googlestack In an attempt to bring the column oriented storage closer to the readers, I've managed to find a serie...
Commercial real estate: an accounting shell game
in Sox First, on November 1, 2009
...if the banks have non-performing loans, they will not be subject to any reclassification. It's an attempt to make out that the bad loans will actually have some value to the banks in the long run. The...
Seen that? - Lara Flynn Boyle Twinkles in NBC’s “ Las Vegas” TV Show
in The Jewelry Weblog, on October 31, 2009
...sary at PCGamers Blog lara croft is back for one more attempt at redemption. I have always enjoyed the first Tomb Raider but as most of you know, the seri...
League Action
in The Soccer Weblog, on October 28, 2009
Score-lines from the weekend’s football included a 2-2 draw between West Ham and Arsenal at Upton Park, ahead of Arsenal’s rather more bitter London derby this weekend against Tottenham Hotspur. Chelsea trounced Blackburn Rovers 5-0 after a defeat against Aston Villa the week before which keeps the...
Seen that? - Columns versus Rows
in Googlestack, on October 22, 2009
... Columns versus Rows at Googlestack In an attempt to bring the column oriented storage closer to the readers, I've managed to find a series of r...
What can newspapers learn from the music business?
in Sox First, on October 12, 2009
...ey had established a digital distribution portal for audio and video, ala Hulu, that could at least attempt to compete with ITunes and Youtube. They would be in far better shape. Instead they are rein...
Seen that? - Speed Dating: The Movie
in The Dating Weblog, on October 8, 2009
...a joke. Did you know that you can fly to cities in Europe and speed date on a 737-700?! Yes, it is possible. Sky Europe came up with a unique way of entertaining their customers with their Sky Date o... ... of more than two dozen dates in less than two hours. In [...] Read More Plentyoffish Attempts Speed Dating World Record at The Dating Weblog ...
Seen that? - Open-source alternatives to BigTable
in Googlestack, on October 3, 2009
... Columns versus Rows at Googlestack In an attempt to bring the column oriented storage closer to the readers, I've managed to find a serie...
Seen that? - NBA's Marc Cuban Blogs his Plans to Launch Betting Hedge Fund
in The Gambling Weblog, on October 2, 2009
... betting turnover fall from HK$130 million per race in 1997 to HK$90 million per race now and in an attempt to reverse this decline, they are looking at alternative tax solutions. The Jockey Club is i...
RFID on all vehicles running in Philippines
in The RFID Weblog, on September 30, 2009
...a directive that all motorists install RFID tags on their vehicles.
This seems to be part of an attempt by the government to crack down on unregistered vehicles, car theft and other auto violation...
Airlines pledge cut in emissions
in Sox First, on September 24, 2009
...afe kerosene alternative with a zero carbon footprint or less by then." This is just a feeble attempt by the aviation industry designed to avoid a carbon tax....
OIN Blocks Patent Trolls
in HackITLinux, on September 9, 2009
...ity Trust (AST).
"Microsoft is understood to have approached different organizations in an attempt to sell the 22, including companies euphemistically known as non-practicing entities, or pat...
Can Skype make it on its own?
in Sox First, on September 2, 2009
...eBay has written down more than $1.4 billion on the acquisition and in April, it announced it would attempt to spin off Skype through an initial public offering next year. The big question is whether...
American Motors AMX, the GT That Could Have Been
in Classical Drives, on August 24, 2009
...h I highly recommend reading. But first some personal recollections. The AMX was an American Motors attempt to get the jump on its pony car competitors by creating a short-wheelbase 2-seat GT tourer v...
Headed for the double dip
in Sox First, on August 20, 2009
...ly 65%. And the price of copper has skyrocketed about 75%. "If that trend continues, it's possible that these price increases will eventually be passed on to you and me. That could prompt th... ...y be passed on to you and me. That could prompt the Federal Reserve to jack up interest rates in an attempt to cool off inflation." If that were to happen, we could well be in for the double dip...
New Final Fantasy XIII 720p HD Screenshots
in Wangtam, on 2009-08-05
...• New Final Fantasy XIII 720p HD Screenshots
• Now on YouTube, Local News
• 4Chan Users Attempt To Incite Mass Fear, Succeed Only In Creating Really Tidy Block List
• Why Apple needs a Tablet P...
The Kaiser-Frazer That Never Was? Or Was This the Pride of Willow Run?
in Classical Drives, on July 28, 2009
...Ferguson, has commented, making us aware that this Frazer was, indeed, manufactured as a last-ditch attempt to save the brand with a styling update exclusive to that marque. Harley directs us to a Web...
Windows 7 Pricing announced
in The CIO Weblog, on June 25, 2009
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I'm not throwing this out there as a sign of weakness on Microsoft's part or as a thing to attempt to take advantage of. Whether they are making the decision out of based on this factor or no...
OIN Seeks Prior Art in TomTom Patent Suit
in HackITLinux, on May 2, 2009
...s 5579517 , 5758352 and 6256642 — to a section of its Linux Defenders website in an attempt to get community members searching for prior art that could prevent Microsoft from wielding t...
Giving banks permission to lie
in Sox First, on April 5, 2009
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More fallout from the Financial Accounting Standard Board's latest attempt to make the banks happy. From now on, it should be called the Fake Accounting Standards Board. As Peter Schiff, the ...
The New Ho Chi Minh Trail
in Eagle Par Birdie, on March 25, 2009
...with the main points of the Vietnam War, a war that took hundreds of thousands of lives in a futile attempt by the U.S. to shore up a corrupt regime in the South.
Ho Chi Minh continued to inspire his...
Market soars as trade collapses
in Sox First, on March 24, 2009
...and elsewhere, making households unwilling to purchase durable goods such as automobiles while they attempt to rebuild their savings. Falling commodity prices, while a boon to consumers in importing c...
France Debates 'World's Toughest' Anti-P2P Law
in P2P File Sharing, on March 12, 2009
... for up to a year," according to Digital Trends' Christopher Nickson .
"The French attempt to pass the world's toughest 'graduated response' law against P2P file-sharers h...
Counterpoint: Employers snoop away!
in The CIO Weblog, on March 4, 2009
...es, can do to an IT department and company, I don't think it's in the least unreasonable to attempt to determine someone's proclivities in that direction before hiring them. Similarly, som...
Some thoughts as the month ends
in WebKinzBlog, on March 1, 2009
...o collect them and then play like 30 at a time to win. It's a great strategy but now, no longer possible
-A lot of people mentioned in comments they think the new header for the arcade means the ... ...e
-A lot of people mentioned in comments they think the new header for the arcade means the end of attempt to get high scores lists actually fixed. I hope not but I fear that is true.
-I cannot get ...
Ford May Sell Volvo To China
in Exclusive from our news room , on February 5, 2009
...olvo, one of the company's many bad investments, to the Chinese, is Ford's latest effort to attempt to raise capital.
Read here about Ford's willingness to take a multi-billion dollar l...
AOL 宣布裁员 700 人
in Wangtam, on 2009-02-04
TC 消息 ， AOL CEO Randy Falco 上周在致全体员工的备忘录中表示，受经济衰退的影响，公司将裁员 700 人。
Falco 在备忘录中称公司将裁员 700 人，占员工总数的 10%。同时还将冻结 2009 年全年的加薪计划。"全球经济衰退已经影响到每一个角落，包括我们自己。" Falco 表示。
本月初， AOL 的母公司时代华纳其 2008 年的营收预期下调了 3.7 亿美元，这意味着其旗下 AOL 的广告营收同比下降了 18%，大约为 6400 万美元。
上周，Google 承认其于 2005 年收购 AOL 5% 股份已成为一笔亏本生...
Google gone bonkers?
in The CIO Weblog, on January 31, 2009
...ogle has gone bonkers today. Every non-News/ image search result that comes back for any query I attempt in the search engine returns with a warning beneath the link "This site may harm your c...
Virgin Media Cancels 'Virgin Music Unlimited' P2P Service
in P2P File Sharing, on January 24, 2009
...rgin Music Unlimited, represented a major investment for the ISP and would have been the first such attempt to monetise P2P file sharing in an ISP partnership in either Europe or the USA," Orlows...
Novices Given $1 Million to Start a Hedge Fund on TV
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 23, 2009
...up camp in one of the buildings grade A office suites, buying and selling in the stock market in an attempt to make their millions.
Full story at HedgeCo News
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Blockbuster Video Service Coming To Cell Phones
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on January 19, 2009
... net-connected televisions and of course, mobile phones .
This latest news is Blockbuster's attempt to match the advances of Netflix in late November when it introduced a gadget that connects ...
Security is just broken
in The CIO Weblog, on January 15, 2009
...t aspect than they are typically presented. One of the slides the first presenter put up (a blatant attempt to be scary, as far as I could tell) said in 18 point type: "Can you guarantee that yo...
Columns versus Rows
in Googlestack, on January 11, 2009
... In an attempt to bring the column oriented storage closer to the readers, I've managed to find a series of really great explanations about these two distinct storage schemes. While still theore...
4 Crisis Related Suicides (Report)
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 7, 2009
...rnoon trading session of São Paulo's commodities and futures exchange in an apparent suicide attempt in November. Trading stopped for about 15 minutes.
...
Implementing Agile Operations in your IT department
in The CIO Weblog, on January 6, 2009
...39;t ask for it, don't do it. Base as much of your project inventory and operating processes as possible off of actual end-user demands. Listen to those requests and don't go out of your way t... ... * To borrow a phrase, let architecture emerge. Establish guidance and sketch out plans, but do not attempt to set your infrastructure overmuch in stone before you need it. Instead, be prepared to imp...
On Tour With Condoleeza Rice
in Exclusive from our news room , on December 20, 2008
... The President 's trip has to be the shoe throwing incident in Iraq; which easily eclipsed his attempt at trying to convince the world that his Presidency was one of peace and progress.
Now we h...
SEC: porn, conflicts of interest and private businesses
in Sox First, on December 20, 2008
..."The OIG completed three investigations of employees who misused their government computers to attempt to access and successfully access pornographic website. In the first of these matters, the O...
Honora Pearl Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on December 16, 2008
...isshapen (baroque). Only in rare cases will a natural pearl occur in a spherical shape, making it impossible to supply commercial quantities of round necklaces to the marketplace.
A Cultured Pearl ... ...In a defensive response, the mollusk begins secreting nacre, thin layers of calcium carbonate in an attempt to cover the offending object.
Black Cultured Freshwater Pearl Bracelet in Sterling S...
Entellium files Chapter 11; Intuit hopes to pick up the pieces
in The CIO Weblog, on December 3, 2008
...ective a company such as Intuit has every incentive to make the customer transitions as painless as possible.
I think this bodes well for SaaS, on the whole. If the big fear over the delivery of Soft... ...
Entellium has filed for bankruptcy protection in an attempt to keep operations running while company assets are sold off and customers... well, while something is done with customers; what exact...
T-Bird #1 Goes on the Block in Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction
in Classical Drives, on November 26, 2008
...t by the Thunderbird grew heavier until it no longer bore any resemblance to the original. A recent attempt at a retro revival was, sadly, a marketing flop. Nevertheless, because it was first off the ...
Walking to Guantanamo
in Latina Viva, on November 3, 2008
...to Guantánamo: Images from a Journey Through Cuba, is both a personal chronicle of one man's attempt to battle depression through an incredible journey and a travelogue of his encounters and rumin...
Ooma Adds New Features
in The VoIP Weblog, on October 29, 2008
...t;Though I use my system solely for outbound calls, some folks have jotted down the Ooma number and attempt to call me on it. So I'm looking forward to having my cell phone ring when a VoIP call c...
More reasons I'm ready to be stoked about Windows 7
in The CIO Weblog, on October 22, 2008
...anyone overseeing software development projects.
Engineering 7 is a very authentic and unvarnished attempt to drum up some positive buzz for 7, started by Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan in an effort ...
The Boring Game
in Eagle Par Birdie, on October 21, 2008
...ed over a season and then handicapped for the final six tournaments is a heavy-handed failure of an attempt to "create" excitement.
Golf's excitement is in the playing of the damn game...
So it's just going to be "Seven"
in The CIO Weblog, on October 13, 2008
... if you want to spell it all out, but I imagine most people won't.
I like it. Another breathy attempt to be trendy like " vista " would have just been a bit too much at this point. 7...
Update on Kentucky vs. the Internet Lawsuit
in Internet Poker, on October 12, 2008
...s state via seizure of domain names by the Kentucky government.
Beshear has admitted this is an attempt to "protect" the other gambling interest in the state such as its world-renown hor...
Hedge Fund Manager Attempts Overhaul of Noront's Board of Directors
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 10, 2008
...ing, "Rosseau's action is not in the best interest of shareholders. It is an opportunistic attempt, in light of extraordinary recent market conditions......Norent will respond (to the circula...
Wikia to launch applications around search
in The Search Engine Weblog, on October 9, 2008
... have a whole business domain around search rankings and the results are difficult to guess. In its attempt to make the choice of community shape a search engine, Wikia announced the Wikia Intelli...
Nintendo Makes Huge Announcements, Fans Weep with Delight!
in House of Nintendo, on October 3, 2008
... with buttons. But not using motion for a Punch Out game seems ridiculous. Is balance board support possible?
Sin and Punishment 2 for Wii
For those who don't know, this is a sequel to an N64 g... ...e is the rundown of the bigger, most noteworthy things:
New DS!
The DSi looks like Nintendo's attempt to revitalize the DS market. It is still tops in the US, but it has been supplanted by the P...
BioWare's Sonic RPG Now Available for DS
in House of Nintendo, on October 1, 2008
...ut him back on equal footing with Mario.
Sonic: The Dark Brotherhood is the most off the wall attempt yet, an RPG made by BioWare, the current heavyweight champion of Western RPG design (Mass Ef...
Barney Frank Presses Government On Internet Gaming
in The Gambling Weblog, on September 25, 2008
...mand the restoration of their freedom to use discretionary income as they wish.
Frank's recent attempt to overthrow the stifling, and unclear tenets of the, "Unlawful Internet Gambling Enfor...
Kentucky Declares War on the Internet
in Internet Poker, on September 24, 2008
...tucky.
Governor Steve Beshear is not a fan of online poker/gambling and shows it by his outlandish attempt to ban online poker domains within the state of Kentucky via lawsuit. He's is not exactl...
Yesterday's VMworld entry
in The CIO Weblog, on September 19, 2008
... am sorry for subjecting you to my half-completed musings and I hope to get things fixed as soon as possible.
... ...have thus been subjected to. Unfortunately, the support team tells me that I should not go back and attempt to fix that entry until they have had a chance to examine it and hopefully unveil the bug ca...
Game Informer Hates Nintendo, Pretends it is out of Respect
in House of Nintendo, on September 19, 2008
...ck to Wii Music...) might not be any good. But don't just tell us it isn't and then make no attempt to tell us why: it got no coverage other than to say they hated it! Also, the way the magazi...
RIAA sues P2P-Law Blogger
in P2P File Sharing, on September 18, 2008
... throughout the cases he has been involved with, and has posted all his actions to the public in an attempt to give a negative view of the RIAA, and thus makes the case unfair.
Wait...so does that me...
MySQL fragmenting under Sun?
in The CIO Weblog, on September 6, 2008
...tion in it, it may indicate some fragmentation within the project, and that may be the result of an attempt by Sun to push the preferred platform for the database software from Linux to Solaris, as so...
Oooh, shiny!
in The CIO Weblog, on September 2, 2008
...of their planning. As Carr points out, this is less about Chrome itself as it is about Google's attempt to push other browsers in the market to expand their capabilities to make browsing faster, s...
Internal security is the most important security
in The CIO Weblog, on August 30, 2008
...been those who, to a greater or lesser degree, decided to let acrimony interfere with judgement and attempt to disappear with company equipment or information, or disrupt what was left behind. In some...
Start of a Productive Day...
in Biz Plan Hacks, on August 21, 2008
...ad. While there is going to be times that you cannot sleep for whatever reason, you need to make an attempt to get a minimum of 6 to 8 hours sleep.
Next you need to do something in the morning to ge...
EA Announces New Tennis Game For Wii, will use Motion Plus
in House of Nintendo, on August 21, 2008
...for the Wii Remote™ that will give players a new level of accuracy and responsiveness.
Any attempt at Tennis with standard motion control results in something similar to Wii Tennis, which of course a...
Support requirements driving application selection
in The CIO Weblog, on August 16, 2008
...most organizations to select Office, of course; they do it because everyone else does. Were they to attempt to abandon it and move to a flurry of free, open-source alternatives, though, I think they m...
MyCMDB: the cool BSM software with the funny name
in The CIO Weblog, on August 7, 2008
...es such as Digg or Wikipedia, the burden of entering information could be pushed down to the lowest possible level of responsibility, who also happened to be the people most likely to have accurate kn...
