I can’t believe I’m posting this. I’m compelled by the ridiculousness of it all. This just goes to show that you shouldn’t believe everything you read in the paper — especially Iranian papers. BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iranian woman ‘gives birth to frog’
Just so you aren’t completely taken by surprise the next time you buy a TV or computer…
On September 24, 2003, landmark legislation established a funding system for the collection and recycling of certain electronic wastes. The California Integrated Waste Management Board adopted emergency regulations on April 13, 2004, to implement portions of this statute. The [...]
I’ve come to the disappointing conclusion that if you are doing anything at all beyond the toy level, the upgrade wizard in VB.NET is probably not going to work. The idea behind the upgrade wizard, if you didn’t know, is that it automagically converts your VB6 project to VB.NET. For me, it didn’t [...]
It occurs to me that the phrase “Please allow me to apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you,” isn’t really an apology at all. It’s marketing double-speak. It’s a request for permission to apologize. Don’t be duped if the speaker doesn’t follow through and actually apologize after you allow him [...]
In case you haven’t been following the story, it’s about this so-called “Terror Report” that the Bush administration originally issued on April 28. In the original report, they said 1,593 people were wounded or killed in 2003 in terrorist attacks. Representative Henry A. Waxman and several analysts questioned the report and on June [...]
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