October Weblog Archives

Never in America

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_536233.html

Survey lifts lid on Britain’s e-moral emailers
A survey suggests more than half British workers send unethical emails.
NOP says its research into corporate inboxes shows online back-stabbing, sexism and discrimination is rife.
They also found the medium is increasingly used for Machiavellian purposes to win power and influence in the office.
The survey - which was commissioned by […]

care package

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030402-012357-8526r
When you gotta go …
By Marcella S. Kreiter
UPI Regional Editor
From the National Desk
Published 4/2/2003 1:44 PM
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Like any other father, Mike Flynn wants his son, Ryan, to be as safe and comfortable as possible when he joins the troops already in the Persian Gulf.
So the sales manager at the Unisource Worldwide Inc. facility […]

question of the day

if your website is inaccessible for a time; can you claim you really lost a certain amount of money?

Tourists ‘jinxed’ by Aborigine rock Uluru

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2828769.stm
Tourists ‘jinxed’ by Aborigine rock Uluru
rock Uluru used to be known as Ayer’s Rock
Tourists who have taken home pieces of rock from Uluru, Australia’s most
sacred Aboriginal site, may have got more than they bargained for.

Rangers at the Uluru National Park say they have been mailed thousands of rocks
which their senders say have brought […]

flash

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/07/macromedia.warns/index.html
TechWeb: Flash Player poses threat
By George V. Hulme
InformationWeek
Friday, March 7, 2003 Posted: 10:51 AM EST (1551 GMT)
(TechWeb) — Macromedia Inc. is warning its users of what it calls a critical security flaw found in the latest version of its Flash animation player. It is advising customers to immediately install a new version just released on […]