Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Spears Reveals Pregnancy on Her Web Site (AP). AP - Britney Spears has revealed what might be Hollywood's worst-kept secret: She's pregnant. In a posting on her Web site, Spears told fans that she and husband, Kevin Federline, were expecting their first child together. Her publicist, Sonia Muckle, confirmed the singer's pregnancy Tuesday but refused to provide additional details. [Yahoo! News: Top Stories] Umm...I belive we knew this...I also believe I said the lady doth protest too much... 10:26:55 PM    comment []

French may have to buy compulsory biometric ID cards. PARIS -- French citizens will have to pay for new identity cards that hold their biometric information in electronic format -- and carrying the cards will become compulsory, if the minister of the interior gets his way. [InfoWorld: Top News] If you do not believe a national ID card is needed and will be introduced in the United States in the next five years, it is time to get your head out of the sand. 1:45:28 PM    comment []

Rumsfeld Warns Iraq Against Purges, Corruption (Reuters). Reuters - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld issued a terse warning to Iraq's new leaders on Tuesday urging them to avoid political purges or favoritism that could lead to charges of corruption in the new government. [Yahoo! News: Top Stories] So, let me see.  The United States went into Iraq to bring democracy.  Now it is dictating how they will implement that democracy...isn't that rather undiplomatic of them? 9:29:09 AM    comment []

Foiling Spies at the Vatican. When the cardinals convene to select a new pope next week, every effort will be made to frustrate high-tech spies bent on eavesdropping on the proceedings. Vatican officials say they're ready. Others aren't so sure. [Wired News] The Catholic church almost single-handedly invented spying...I suspect when they say they are ready, they are. 9:22:33 AM    comment []

Blue Jays spoil A's home opener By CBC. [CBC | Baseball News] Cooool!  I can gloat for a while - we don't get to be in first place very often or for very long. 9:20:07 AM    comment []

Trade Deficit Hits All-Time High in Feb. (AP). AP - The U.S. trade deficit, exacerbated by surging imports of oil and textiles, soared to an all-time high of $61.04 billion in February. [Yahoo! News: Top Stories] If you do not find this the scariest story I post today, then you must have gold sacked away under your house.  What will be interesting is the bond's reaction to this. 9:16:39 AM    comment []

Sending e-mail! -- Oracle 8i specific response. How to send personalized email to clients registered in my portal www.intrainternet.com using the information stored in our Database Oracle 8i automatically? [Ask Tom MOST RECENT ARTICLES] Geek post - but a cool one. 9:14:18 AM    comment []

Rootkit Web sites fall to DDOS attack. Two prominent Web sites that specialize in remote access software known as "rootkits" have been taken offline by a large distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. The take-down was allegedly ordered by a shadowy group of hackers and rootkit authors who took offense to criticisms of their software posted on the sites. [InfoWorld: Top News] I don't know whether or not I feel sorry for the site for being dumped or the authors who are so infantile that they resorted to a DDOS. 9:05:20 AM    comment []

Windows XP SP2 blocking tool expires Tuesday. A special tool that blocks the download of Service Pack 2 (SP2) on Windows XP PCs will expire Tuesday, ending the last SP2 respite for users who rely on the Automatic Updates feature in Windows to keep their systems up to date. [InfoWorld: Top News] It's bug day.  XPSP2 is forced out today whether you are ready for it or not and MS has no less than 6 patches out today that you might want to take a gander at. MS05-004 already has a problem in its installation and it warns you about that up front.  I love it when the patches have bugs. 8:48:34 AM    comment []

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