Sunday, July 28, 2002

West Nile Virus Found on Grounds of White House. DRUDGE REPORT -- A mosquito alert has been issued at the White House -- after a dead bird discovered on the mansion's grounds tests positive for West Nile virus. "Preliminary tests show the presence of West Nile," a health official said this weekend of the decomposing crow found by the Secret Service near a fountain on the South Lawn. "Mosquitoes spread the disease, all parties in the area should be on guard." ... But one White House staffer who contacted the DRUDGE REPORT was less confident. "More people died last year from this thing than all who died from the anthrax outbreak! Hell, I'm worried." West Nile has killed 18 people since its appearance in the United States in 1999, and caused notable infections in 161, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Infected birds or mosquitoes have appeared in 28 states so far this year. (07/28/02) [Synergic Earth News] 6:23:19 PM    comment []

PocketFeed Teaser. PocketFeed. So, here's some information about a new project that I've been working on over the last week: PocketFeed. PocketFeed is an RSS/RDF news aggregator that runs on the Pocket PC 2002 PDA's. Using OPML for it's blogroll, you can now take your news, blog entries, or any other type of syndicated data with you, sync it wirelessly or read it offline. It's not quiet ready yet, but jump over to the PocketFeed page for the full scoop, some screenshots and when it will be available for download. [The Furrygoat Experience] Cool [Simon Fell] I must echo the coolness factor of this not-quite-available-yet application, especially since my blog made the screenshot ;-)  I can't wait to see this in action. [System.Error.Emit] 7:19:06 AM    comment []