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Columbine: 10 years later

April 20, 2009
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Columbine: 10 years later

Update: A comment by a reader of the daily blah blah and a post by security expert Bruce Schneier that anyone should read. I believe that they present the same point: no matter what security measures schools take, in the end it is the school community that will solve the problem of violence./Update Today...

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no hope

July 30, 2007
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I came across this link using stumble, a nice little thingy which redirects you to various places across the net, places and pages you either like or dislike and you let the system know about it. Anyway, enjoy the little piece of proof that human idiocy and ignorance know no limits. http://view.break.com/335023 – Watch...

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when sysadmins ruled the earth

June 29, 2007
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You must read “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth” (link to full story text), a fantastic, and scary, and grab-you-by-the-throat, and not-want-to-let-it-until-it’s-over story authored by Cory Doctorow.  As Cory writes in his site, he started writing the story just as London was being bombed by terrorists in July 2005.  The story chronicles a doomsday scenario...

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Fuddenheim

May 30, 2007
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An absolutely hilarious story about a little war going on “… in the small town of Fuddenheim”, this is a story (in allegoric language) of the opensource movement and a well known Corporation located somewhere in the northwest of the US. Read more of the story of Rinus Poortvliet, Omnifast GmbH, Linexx eV and...

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Legends of the fall

July 10, 2006
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Legends of the fall

It was sad to watch a great player like Zidane end his career in such a low note last night at the final game against Italy.Perhaps, his send-off was part of the reason team France could not score an extra goal and take the trophy home. Passions run high during the game, emotions can...

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Happy Mother’s Day

May 14, 2006
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Happy Mother’s Day to everyone.

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Save the Internet : Support the Campaign

May 3, 2006
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Save the Internet : Support the Campaign

I was reading Wil Wheaton’s excellent blog this morning and came across this amazing posting about Net Neutrality Basically, a scheme to transform the entire internet into categories based on fees and moneys paid to and from players who have money. You have money, your site gets preferrential treatment. You don’t have money to...

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May 1st

May 1, 2006
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May 1st

May 1st, today. Different countries, different celebrations, different perspectives… Most countries celebrate Labor day today, with the exception of the United States where the original May 1st demonstration happened in Chicago two centuries ago… If you want to read more on this, follow this link. Also a detailed account of the events in Haymarket...

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Remembering Dunblane and Erfurt and Columbine

March 13, 2006
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Today marks the 10th anniversary of the incident at Dunblane, Scotland, where a lone gunman entered the local school and killed 16 students and one teacher before killing himself. The BBC has a detailed account of the events if you don’t know how it all happened. Next month also marks the anniversaries of similar...

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Orange go dancing…

March 12, 2006
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Gerry, Gerry, Gerry!!! Wow, what a weekend for all die-hard Orange fans… If you have not followed it, good ole’ Cuse beat the odds, won four in a row, beat the buzzer, and did a repeat at the Garden. All the details are here. Now on to the Big Dance… Thanks Gerry for those...

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