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[www.theregister.co.uk] International access to the official re-election website of Us President George W. Bush (www.georgewbush.com) has been blocked. Surfers from outside the US trying to reach the site receive an “access denied” message. … It’s true. I just tried it: Access Denied You don’t have permission to access “http://www.georgewbush.com/” on this server. …but like ElReg

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[news.bbc.co.uk] So what colour was Jesus? Jesus has been named the top black icon by the New Nation newspaper. Their assertion that Jesus was black has raised eyebrows in some quarters – so what colour was he? … First – if the past 2,000 years of Western art were the judge, Jesus would be white,

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So in regards to a previous posting about DataPower I got a thank-you e-mail from Rich Salz – a name that I’ve not really seen much since I gave up on being a USENET admin in 1996-ish, but which is familiar to we older generation of geeks in the days before USENET became DejaNews, latterly

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It’s bizzare, having a highly-pageranked blog. I get pagerank points for password cracking, security documentation, and a variety of other stuff – photos, artwork – as well as having a widely-read blog with links from lots of other widely-read blogs, so that helps overall contributes to my site’s high hitrate. The amusement comes from the

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<unhappy> [news.bbc.co.uk] Veteran BBC broadcaster John Peel has died at the age of 65, while on holiday in Peru. </unhappy>

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Oh! It is so refreshing to have a breath of fresh air: [www.datapower.com] As enterprises deploy sophisticated XML-enabled applications, they face several adoption hurdles: * Poor performing applications – Powerful applications rely on complex processing of large XML files. XML is a text-based encoding standard that slows ordinary processors to a crawl, rendering applications unusable.

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If you are involved in corporate politics – especially in the IT industry – I really recommend the following. Go read the following Q&A interview with SciFi author Neal Stephenson; specifically go read the pitch and response to question 2: 2) The lack of respect… – by MosesJones Science Fiction is normally relegated to the

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…in fact it’s been rot13(“fuvg”). I woke up with backache – a muscle beneath my left shoulderblade was tense and refusing to loosen; a Radox bath gave me 10 minutes relief but once I fed the cats it seized completely and left me flat on my back on the kitchen floor. I crawled, literally, back

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Pointed out to me by Rob Diamond – [www.blueman.com] well worth a look.

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A colleague [blogs.sun.com] pointed me to a photo of this bridge between Sweden and Denmark. It takes a moment to work out what’s going on, and then you wonder at at how clever and elegant it is and then – if you are the sort of person that I am – you note… how easy

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there are quite a few of these around, but this one is rather impressive: [www.levenez.com]

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FilmFour earlier this year screened (if I remember right) a fairly recent Japanese movie — a love story movie set in the postwar period with lots of atmospheric, almost film noir lighting, formal clothing, and repressed desire. For those of a British bent it was a sort of Brief Encounter-ish tale, but with an unexpected

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