A town in Italy has banned people from keeping goldfish in bowls.
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The council in Monza believes fish get a “distorted view of reality” if they’re kept in a bowl.
...”You have no idea of the hygiene problems caused by animals and people living together and we don’t want to see animals treated like objects any longer.
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I recently had occasion to configure my first Windows 2003 server, so I decided to write down some guidelines to aid the configuration and keep it secure. Before long, I had a lengthy list of boring rules, so I decided to make a list of commandments for managing web servers. Here is the [...]
I’ve posted my latest post on my forum: Aids Reduces African Life Expectancy To 33: What are the root causes of the crisis?
Two cool tricks: put your Firefox install on a flash drive, and get a notification agent for Gmail.
If you are a TAMU student, I highly recommend participating in the economics experiments this summer and fall. Two years ago, I made boatloads of money ($50-$100/session) in the experiments with a bit of game theory [...]
Update: I started an album for my Auburn photos.
For anyone interested in such things, here are photos of beautiful Auburn, AL and my beautiful new laptop:
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I havent blogged much lately, so its time for an update on the recent goings-on in my life. I mentioned a while back that I had a great internship coming up in San Antonio. Unfortunately, the company reneged on their offer on the last minute, so I took summer classes and worked [...]
Jonathan Hoenig on SmartMoney: Get Off Our Backs!
Found via my daily fix of AR.
Things that give me a greater appreciation for the 4th:
China is planning to begin censoring and monitoring over 220 billion SMS messages sent each year by cell users. It already censors email traffic and web sites.
In an all-to-common incident in Israel, four gunmen from an armed group in the Fatah movement loyal to Palestinian Athority [...]