Woo hoo! I think...
Borders Goes Live. Borders launches its T-Mobile service in several states, 145 stores: Borders had announced last November that it had partnered with T-Mobile to put hot spot service in all Borders stores in the US. Today, they announced all stores in California, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, New Jersey, Texas, and Washington have gone live, or 145 stores total.... [Wi-Fi Networking News] 

Bush guilty of war crimes?...
Former congressman asks court to decide if Bush committed war crimes
Former U.S. Rep. Clair Callan of Nebraska has asked a federal court to determine if President Bush is guilty of war crimes in Iraq.

Callan has filed a motion for a temporary restraining order in U.S. District Court in Lincoln that would stop the president from ordering further attacks in Iraq.

Callan argues that Bush is in violation of international law, including United Nations treaties and the findings of the Nuremburg Tribunal, for ordering the invasion of a country that has not attacked the United States. [The Independent]

 

The facts ma'am. Just the facts...

CNN's Incredible Admission. UPDATED In an appalling op-ed piece in the New York Times, "The News We Kept to Ourselves," CNN's chief news... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

I guess when you're not reporting the raw facts but reporting what someone else is telling you is the facts, you're merely reporting someones opinion.

 

If it's broke, buy a new one
Family Technical Support. Russell Beattie Notebook: Family Technical Support

I told my parents - sorta sarcastically - they ought to just go down to Walmart and get themselves a $300 PC that would be better than their Pre-USB Pentium II, 64Meg, 5 Gig Gateway they've had for quite a few years now. I'm sick of hearing about Windows 98 screwing up on them every other minute and complaints about it being "slow". I've VNCed into that machine a dozen times but it's impossible to clean out the cruft that's been built up...

I hear you, man. Right now, I'm installing Mozilla on my Dad's laptop. He's 140 miles away, in Memphis. I've got an old PPro 200 sitting behind his Netgear MR314 wifi router running linux. I opened port 22 on the router, so I ssh into the linux box and tunnel vnc over that to control his machine.

[gammatron (phase ii)]

And so this seems to be a thing going around. I've experience the same problems myself over the past few weeks.