Tuesday, August 20, 2002

Jaime Escalante: The Real Story: Many of us have seen the excellent and inspiring film Stand And Deliver in which a maverick math teacher turns a group of undisciplined kids into excellent scholars.  Here's an article that outlines the real events which the movie was based on and what has happened since. 10:35:55 PM

Wells Fargo to Terminate its Wireless Banking Program: Since they only managed to sign up 2,500 people Wells Fargo will stop supporting its not-so-popular Wireless banking service.  Who knows how far they might have gone had they used AuthentiKey configuration management? 6:46:30 PM

Samsung preparing Palm-based cellphones: Company to ship two devices with Palm OS in coming months [InfoWorld: Top News] 6:26:58 PM

Haiku-based Spam Filtering?  A new spam-filtering service uses a unique method to halt the flow of the horrid stuff: a hidden scrap of copyrighted poetry. By Michelle Delio.  It's a cute idea, but of course doomed to fail immediately.  [Wired News] 5:18:15 AM

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