The Wagner BlogDevelopment Notes, News and Trivia(Untitled)- May 18, 2004 The Nation: "Powell acknowledged that he and the Bush administration misled the nation about the WMD threat posed by Iraq before the war." Scripting News I don't necessarily subscribe to the Nations viewpoint, but some of the items mentioned here are interesting, especially if ever corrolated by more centrist media.http://radio.weblogs.com/0101986/2004/05/17.html#a1008 (Untitled)- May 18, 2004 "Idol" Voting Slammed (E! Online). E! Online - When it comes to American Idol fans, middle-aged housewives with limited patience are no match for so-called "power dialers" and cell-phone-equipped text messagers. Yahoo! News - Technology That explains to some extend why the best singers in the current crop are being voted off. Seems that Diana DeGarmo or Yasmine have more appeal with the phreaking crowdhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0101986/2004/05/17.html#a1007 (Untitled)- May 17, 2004 Gas Prices a'la Enron A commentator on the radio the other day likened the gas price increases to Enron's gaming of the energy markets. It made me wonder how we can know for certain that gas prices are not being driven by the profit motive of a bunch of traders.http://radio.weblogs.com/0101986/2004/05/17.html#a1006 (Untitled)- May 17, 2004 Visual Studio 2005 here we change again Well I suppose this is bound to happen quite frequently at the current point of the dev cycle. Dino points out how ADO.NET 2.0 is set to be relieved of some of the features shown in Whidbey. Bummer as far as batch updates and asynchronous connections goes. Right on as far as the odd implementation of paging in a reader was concerned. Here is more. Dine also mentions what seemed to be the paging approach taken by ADO.NET 2.0 - yuck !http://radio.weblogs.com/0101986/2004/05/16.html#a1005 (Untitled)- May 17, 2004 White House 'tried to ban film'. Michael Moore accuses the White House of trying to stop the making and release of his new film. BBC News News Front Page UK Edition Moore is one of the most self-serving , self-promoting horses assess I have ever seen in my life.http://radio.weblogs.com/0101986/2004/05/16.html#a1004 (Untitled)- May 17, 2004 How's your health A 27 year old guy at my job is complaining of wrist pains. Another one, 33 years old, has neck problems and I myself had a nasty run-in with Sciatica. In my case it was caused by 2 years of 10 hour days in front of the computer with bad posture, plus not enough exercise and being overweight by a good 20 - 25 Ibs. Who would have thought that being so productive can be such hell on your health and body. Adding a sheet of 12 in plywood under my side of the mattress to firm it up..http://radio.weblogs.com/0101986/2004/05/16.html#a1003 (Untitled)- May 16, 2004 The New Yorker The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Someone a few days ago said that Bush will make a high rnaking civilian - not Rumsfeld - the scape-goat of this entire mess. Wanna bet that it'll be Cambonehttp://radio.weblogs.com/0101986/2004/05/16.html#a1002 |