Iowahawk has some predictions for 2005. I hope that his football team does better than he expects.
He also managed to find what Nick Coleman wrote before those spoilsport editors got hold of it. Thank heaven for editors, even when they don’t really exist.
We’ve already contributed eighteen million dollars to the relief effort since Sunday. Of course, since that’s only private contributions, and not one inefficient government bureaucracy taking money from the taxpayers to give to some other inefficient government bureaucracy, I guess it doesn’t count.
Chuck Simmons has more.
We’ve already contributed eighteen million dollars to the relief effort since Sunday. Of course, since that’s only private contributions, and not one inefficient government bureaucracy taking money from the taxpayers to give to some other inefficient government bureaucracy, I guess it doesn’t count.
Chuck Simmons has more.
We’ve already contributed eighteen million dollars to the relief effort since Sunday. Of course, since that’s only private contributions, and not one inefficient government bureaucracy taking money from the taxpayers to give to some other inefficient government bureaucracy, I guess it doesn’t count.
Chuck Simmons has more.
Clare Short is whinging that George Bush is undermining the UN by setting up an aid coalition for the tsunami victims. (Note that the coalition is much of the Anglosphere plus Japan…)
She missed her calling. She should have been in standup comedy:
Clare Short is whinging that George Bush is undermining the UN by setting up an aid coalition for the tsunami victims. (Note that the coalition is much of the Anglosphere plus Japan…)
She missed her calling. She should have been in standup comedy:
Clare Short is whinging that George Bush is undermining the UN by setting up an aid coalition for the tsunami victims. (Note that the coalition is much of the Anglosphere plus Japan…)
She missed her calling. She should have been in standup comedy:
Do you sometimes have delays (in fact, timeouts) in reaching web pages (and your mail and newserver)?
I got Bellsouth DSL a couple months ago, and I’ve had this problem since day one. I’ve had several conversations on the phone with them. Until today, the only response (not including having to go through the whole rigamarole with a clueless tech-support person who had no knowledge other than a checklist and fault-tree chart) was for them to send me a new modem.
Over the past few days (having tried it with various computers, various routers) I’d finally come to the conclusion that their DNS was intermittently FUBAR.
I finally got through to a tech who had at least a dim understanding of TCP/IP (is there anything more infuriating than dealing with a supposed tech-support person who is clearly clueless, and much less knowledgable on the subject than you?) and who I managed to finally convince that it really wasn’t a problem with my OS, or network, but that it was their DNS system, by switching back and forth between their DNS servers and a public one, in which the latter worked, and the former continually flaked out.
He said that he’d pass it on to upper management, but that he couldn’t understand how I was having a problem that had gone unnoticed for so long if it were really a Bellsouth problem.
My hypothesis (which I expostulated to him, and which he reluctantly agreed was plausible):
Many Bellsouth DSL customers have been experiencing this problem for a long time but either:
a) since they’d never known any other DSL or broadband, they just assumed that occasional, or even frequent timeouts in visiting websites was Just The Way It Is, or
b) they got so frustrated in reporting the problem to ignorant first-line techs that they gave up before the issue was properly diagnosed.
He (to my surprise–apparently the company lawyers hadn’t gotten to him yet) agreed that this might actually be the case.
So. Are there other instances of this problem out there, or is it just me?
(Sung the tune of “Blame Canada”)
This is amazing. The Vatican has blamed Israel for not providing disaster support, after they offered it and were turned down by Sri Lanka, who apparently didn’t want any help from the evil Jews. As is often the case, no good deed goes unpunished.
[Update on Friday afternoon]
Catholic World News says that it was a mistranslation and that the Vatican was actually criticizing Sri Lanka for refusing the aid.
Glad to hear it.
Here’s a study that says people derive more happiness from life experiences than from material possessions. I don’t know if it’s true, but it’s not obviously wrong, and it buttresses my long-held belief that public space travel is the largest near-term market for space products.