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 Tuesday, 2 April 2002
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Nova Scotia's massive debt to continue growing despite balanced budget. CNEWS Apr 2 2002 8:35PM ET [Moreover - moreover...]
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I was away for the long weekend visiting family so there were no posts here.
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U.S. confirms capture of suspected al-Qaeda recruiter
U.S. officials said on Tuesday they dealt a serious blow to al-Qaeda
with the capture one of the terrorist network's top leaders.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
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iBooks Love Linux. O’Reilly: “It feels a bit like a homecoming. After years wandering in the cranky wilderness of mix-and-match PCs I’m working again on a computer that feels like it has a soul. The reason I feel like this? The other week I switched from an Intel-based laptop to an iBook.” [ranchero.com]
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XM Satellite Signs Up More Customers Than Expected. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Satellite radio service provider XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. (XMSR.O) on Monday said it ended the first quarter with more subscribers than it had expected and is on track to meet expectations for full year 2002. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]
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Newfoundland wins large area of seabed
A new boundary line has been drawn in the waters between Nova Scotia and
Newfoundland and Labrador, ending a 40-year dispute between the two
provinces.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
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Charles Eicher is streaming QuickTime from his Radio desktop. Coool-oh.  [Scripting News]
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Secrets of Schmitt's Success
Los Angeles--Producer/engineer Al Schmitt took home his 11th Grammy this
past February in the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical category, for
Diana Krall's album, The Look of Love. [ProSound News]
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AT&T Debuts Media NOC for Broadcasters
Basking Ridge, NJ--AT&T has begun trials of new streaming capabilities for
its Internet-based content delivery network that will help media and
entertainment companies deliver pay-per-view and subscription-based Web
services to Internet users. [ProSound News]
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Why you might want to do this: Email filtering: "there are filtering tools available in the subsystem of OS X that are incredibly powerful. What we're going to do here is learn to take advantage of those tools.
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Jon Udell's piece on Instant Outlining is available on O'Reilly. "It's been clear to me for a long while that the only thing that might displace email would be some kind of persistent IM. That's exactly what instant outlining is. If it catches on, and it's buzz-worthy enough to do that, we'll have a framework within which to innovate in ways that email never allowed." [Scripting News]
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DaveNet : Jon Udell on Instant Outlining: "
We've been using this tool, which we call an Instant Outliner, since November. When we switched over, our workgroup's productivity soared. All of a sudden people could narrate their work. We've gotten very formal about how we use it. I can't imagine doing an engineering project without this tool." I'd love to use a tool like this in my workgroup. But there just isn't the technical savy which would be required to make it work.
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BW Online | April 1, 2002 | Wi-Fi: It's Fast, It's Here -- and It Works 'Far from what tradition might indicate, the wireless Internet isn't turning out to be one of those tech breakthroughs that arrives accompanied by a Microsoft-size marketing campaign and eight-foot-high displays in consumer-electronics stores. Instead, it's a grassroots trend that has moved from research labs, to techie circles, to hobbyists -- and that now, after five years -- is about to reach the general public.'
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Canada says Israeli troops should leave Palestinian cities
Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham called on Israel Tuesday to
withdraw its troops from Palestinian towns.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
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Canadian faces jail in U.S. for trade with Cuba. Globe and Mail Apr 2 2002 9:58AM ET [Moreover - moreover...] 'James Sabzali is waiting in his suburban Philadelphia home while a jury decides whether he will be the first Canadian to be convicted of trading with Cuba, something that is perfectly legal in Canada, but which could send him to prison in the United States.'
Sold water purification tablets. What a bad man.
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April Fool blow to Canada dollar. Evening Standard Apr 2 2002 3:03AM ET [Moreover - moreover...] Are traders as stupid as they seem?
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Resume partial OmniWeb downloads [Mac OS X Hints]
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