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How's that for a ringing endorsement? .< 8:34:04 PM  >Things to miss about Montreal Maciej and the few things he won't miss about Montreal. [Via montreal city weblog] Hyperbolic but good humour often requires a little. .< 8:26:49 PM >CSO, musicians take more time to reach deal Last week, the musicians union advised members to clean out their lockers in anticipation of a strike. CSO contracts are typically worked out in marathon, 11th-hour sessions, and the orchestra musicians' most recent strike was in 1991. CSO musicians currently earn a base salary of $104,000 a year and pride themselves on setting the pace for salaries among American orchestras. Struggling to reduce an accumulated operating deficit of $11.1 million, CSO management wants to keep expenses down. .< 8:24:05 PM >Cleveland Orchestra Players Now Working Without Contract The future is unclear for 104 Cleveland Orchestra musicians whose contract expired after midnight Sunday . [Via Classical - Topix.net] .< 3:59:32 PM >Is Mac OS the most secure? | News.blog | CNET News.com In a study bound to rile Linux advocates, a British security company has found that attacks on Linux machines are more than twice as common as those on Windows systems. London-based Mi2g found that computers using Mac OS X and other BSD Unix software were more secure. The study said that over a 12-month period, Linux machines suffered roughly two-thirds of security breaches, Windows systems represented just over one-quarter of attacks, and Mac OS X/BSD Unix computers accounted for just 5 percent.
The company conducting the study highlighted Apple Computer's performance, offering a glowing endorsement of the Mac.
Sad? Wondering about your own echo chamber? I am. I was 90% certain that Bush wouldn't win, that it wouldn't be as close as the polls predicted.
Listening on the internet, reading my usual sites, I figured that Kerry would pull it off. Now, I'm realising that I've been reading people like me.
Perhaps, most people are like me, that is, most of the rest of the world. We seemed to want Kerry over Bush. Yet, the middle, the heart of America decided to stick with it's war President, it's Christian, god fearing lunatic.
[Via Steve Hooker: War & politics].< 8:47:10 AM >Depressing I must admit that the results we are seeing do look totally unbelivable from this side of the Atlantic. Akma: If the Democratic Party can't win in a year when the incumbent President is administering an unpopular, unsuccessful foreign war, when a blockbuster semi-documentary made millions of dollars exposing that President's short-comings, when the economy is uncertain, when the Red Sox won the World Series -- under what circumstances can it win?Yet, look at these numbers: apparently a significant majority of US citizen are happy with this administration, more than in year 2000. Maybe this is amazing because of the reality distortion field in which we live in the blogosphere. Suddenly we realize that most of the voices we hear are actually coming from a minority while a silent majority is choosing again a world leader who has already started cruel wars based only on lies, a majority totally unaware of what's going on in the rest of the world and and scared to death. It's very, very depressing. [Via Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] .< 1:42:31 AM >Would You Like an Extra Shot of Music With That Macchiato? Starbucks is growing increasingly aggressive about marketing music with its coffee by offering customized CD vending machines in its stores. [Via New York Times: Technology] |
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