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Japan Running Out of Waste Sites. Japan will run out of sites to dump its industrial waste in less than four years if current trends continue, according to a new government study that underlined long-standing concerns that the world's second-richest country could eventually drown in its garbage. Osaka, we have a problem...

Former Enron executive commits suicide. Mr Baxter resigned from his post at Enron last may. [NewsBlip.com] Ladies and gentlemen of the media, forget the war on terror, you now have a new path to ratings success!

Ha ha, I'll bet the folks at the telegraaf will be wondering about all the traffic Dave is sending them about our Radio Shows. Dave and I have been working on several ways weblogs and perhaps even better, Desktop Websites, can integrate with a radio program. The obvious is that the audio portion is the top level of the blog, which is fed by whatever bubbles to the top. It certainly is nice to read how "The Netherlands is leading the way., especially after the idiotic KPN chat of the royal couple :)

Although I voted not to make the Scripting News Awards voting data public, I'm tickled that I actually placed 4th, between Evhead and Zeldman. But cooler by far is the voting system that was built for the voting. Nice archives in xml of who voted when, beautifully archived as well. Chapeau bas!

Companies line up to hire Arthur Anderson. "Look, most of my compensation is based on options," continued Farnsworth. "Why would I hire an accounting firm that might insist on the spirit of the law, when I could hire Arthur Andersen and cash out? Those guys are pros! When I saw that guy [David Duncan] refuse to testify in front of Congress, I knew that the boys at Andersen had balls. There's no 'I' in 'Team' with them." [FARK]

Many of you know that I have been working with Peter Ford on "SchoolBlogs". Peter is a teacher at the British School of Amsterdam. I recently found out he's been working all this time on a Pentium I windows95 machine with 16 Megs of Ram. Woah! He's been Running "radio" on that machine as well! Today I'm dropping off a nice Powerbook with OSX, can't wait to see the results of his upgrade :)

Suicide bomber strikes Tel Aviv. At least 22 people are said to have been injured in a suicide bomb blast in Tel Aviv, as police find evidence of a planned second attack. This shit is so fucked up

Jim Hightower. "Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy."

Keeley: Hot Looks at the Golden Globes.

The "Radio Userland" weblogs community is experiencing some issues when running under OSX. Lots of smart folks working on this, looks a bit like OSX gets confused between using lookupd and netinfo, especially when being used as a server (as in the case of desktop web-apps like radio) and eventually closes net connections. Hmm...sounds almost exactly like the problems we've been having with our "Frontier" server on OSX as well! Still digging!

Yesterday we announced my radio show. BigPress picked up on it here in Holland as well as top blogs here. Every Friday from 8-10pm on BNN, Radio 2. There are no secrets.....

Passenger 'stuck' in lavatory: The woman used the toilet, but pushed the flush button before standing up. To her horror, she realised that the powerful vacuum action had got her in its grip.ot her in its grip.

Osmonds to carry Olympic torch. 70s singing sensations DONNY and MARIE OSMOND are going to help carry the Olympic torch on the final leg of its journey to SALT LAKE CITY in UTAH for the WINTER OLYMPICS next month.

"Picture to HTML" - This certainly is an incredible render machine. Drop in a jpg or gif, get ascii art in html back. Very slick.

It's A Steal - "Free Winona" T-Shirts Hit L.A.

L.A. - Moratorium on cyber cafes. In response to a fatal stabbing and other crimes at some of this Los Angeles suburb's 19 cyber cafes, the City Council has placed a moratorium on new permits for them.

Malcolm Forbes. "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." [Quotes of the Day]

Man, do I love "Radio"! I was wondering if it was my machine or something else that was causing upstreaming problems. then I got this news feed in from "Dave": "We're almost there on the upstreaming problem for some Mac OS X users. It appears to happen only when we reuse streams. And it looks like an OS bug. Always the most unlikely thing. No sarcasm." Apparently it *is* my machine then :)

Advertising Spyware can now read your mail. Did you think Spyware is a problem that happens to other people? Well, there's a company out there that you may have unknowingly been sending all of your email, your bank account numbers, and anything else you've typed into an online form. The company is VX2, the product is Sputnik, and until recently, Audiogalaxy was helping them. Great, now if they could only make spyware that will ANSWER my email...

Enron chairman resigns. Kenneth Lay, chairman and chief executive of the failed US energy giant, steps down as a Congressional probe into its bankruptcy continues. And the band played on

Mariah Carey and EMI Part Ways. Who's next? Whitney?

Goodmorning from Amsterdam, where we spend our morning tea-time re-installing software.....

KPN blew it last night. As a part of the Royal Wedding Mania, they were brought in to supply all technical details of the Royal Chat Event. There wasn't much more to see than the KPN logo at the beginning of the session before everything came crashing down. They claim it was a DoS attack, I beg to differ, they should've been prepared for that. We've done 65,000 simultaneous users in a chat with Bono at u2.com and even though Bono isn't [yet] a royal, even that was tough so I can only imagine the traffic for the royal couple. Another strike against the Net, now the BigCos are making us all look stupid by placing egg over their own face. What KPN should have done was be honest, tell the Queen that a centralized chat is always going to be iffy on the net and set up a killer Wedding Blog for the couple to post their own personal thoughts on.

Charlie Babbit was right.K-Mart sucks.....files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.