Wednesday 21 May 2003

Philip Greenspun writes: "After two days of touring Wales, a country that apparently has yet to discover the mixing faucet, it has become apparent that there is better mobile phone coverage in the remotest sheep pasture or coastal outcrop than in downtown Boston. How can such an otherwise backward place be so far ahead of the U.S. technologically?" (via Scripting News) [onlineblog.com] 2:20:15 PM

UK: Food processors caught on video boasting that they have developed undetectable methods of adulterating chicken. [Guardian Unlimited] 11:49:43 AM

Microsoft's decision to support RSS without arguing over what it is looks smarter every day. Somehow MS has taught its people not to care about issues that are not related to success or failure of products. Here's how I like to look at it -- formats and protocols are tools, details; the important thing is functionality delivered to users. For HTML it's the page. With OPML it's the outliner. In RSS it's the aggregator. [Scripting News] 11:35:06 AM

[20 MAY 2003] REGIONAL DIRECTOR HIGHLIGHTS GROUNDWORK'S ROLE IN CREATING HEALTHY COMMUNITIESGroundwork projects have long brought vital health benefits to individuals and communities across the north west. Now Groundwork's importance to the health agenda in the region has been underlined with the appointment of public health specialist Ian MacArthur to the post of Regional Director, Groundwork North West. [Groundwork UK news] 2:04:56 AM

With the sudden unravelling of the Aceh peace process, the Indonesian government has brought in tens of thousands of troops to the troubled province of Aceh to exterminate the separatist GAM rebels. [Plastic] 1:24:55 AM

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