I’ve been traveling today in Chicago, the city of brotherly love, the windy city, blah, blah, blah. I’ve also been listening all day about the woes of the Chicago Cubs and the pathetic season that they’ve been having. Woe is me; the curse is on, blah, blah, blah. Even worse, I’ve been listening about the Chicago [...]
The program has been going on since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. It was disclosed last week by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times.
Using broad government subpoenas, the program allows U.S. counterterrorism analysts to obtain financial information from a vast database maintained by a company [...]
The White House is nearing an agreement with Congress on legislation that would write President Bush’s warrantless surveillance program into law, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman said Sunday.
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., has a drafted bill that would require the attorney general to get approval from the FISA court every 45 days to preserve the surveillance [...]
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Friday (June 23) said that it plans to build a 300-mm plant in upstate New York. The 300-mm fab, to cost $3.5 billion, is expected to be located in the Luther Forest Technology Park in Saratoga County in upstate New York.
Construction of the fab is expected to begin in July 2007 [...]
Saddam Hussein believes the United States will have to seek his help to quell the bloody insurgency in Iraq and open the way for U.S. forces to withdraw, his chief lawyer said Sunday.
“These puppets in the Iraqi government that the Americans brought to power are helpless. They can’t protect themselves or the Iraqi people. The [...]
Warren Buffett has pledged to gradually give 85% of his Berkshire stock to five foundations. A dominant five-sixths of the shares will go to the world’s largest philanthropic organization, the $30 billion Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, whose principals are close friends of Buffett’s (a connection that began in 1991, when a mutual friend introduced [...]
We live in a scary world, but its becoming more difficult to say what scares me more.
The arrest Friday of a group of men allegedly planning a ”jihad” that was intended to be “as good or greater than 9/11.” Narseal Batiste a/k/a “Brother Naz” a/k/a “Prince Manna” appears to be the ringleader of this group.
According to [...]
In the latest episode of political wrestling, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger this week body slammed a request from the Bush administration to send an additional 1,500 National Guard troops to the Mexico border.
California has committed to putting 1,000 troops on the border by July 31 and has 250 there already.
While this latest denial can be [...]
Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the water! It’s Blue-Ray vs HD DVD…
The EETimes had an article where a Senior Analyst says that he believes the DVD format war will result in stalemate, at least in the short term.
Isn’t that just great? Who remembers VHS and Betamax?
You would think that [...]
We recently purchased the Canon PowerShot SD700 IS and can wholeheartedly endorse it!
It’s the first Digital ELPH to feature Canon’s Image Stabilizer Technology for steady, long-zoom shooting. It has a high-quality 6.0 Megapixel CCD, 4x Optical Zoom lens and elegant tri-color Perpetual Curve design.
It uses the DIGIC II Image Processor and iSAPS Technology for superior image quality, [...]
