Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Ruth 1-4
Highlights: Famine — Elimelech and Naomi move from Bethlehem to Moab — Naomi and Ruth return to Bethlehem — Marriage of Boaz and Ruth
Links for today 3-30-2004
Fellowship Bible Church
http://www.fellowshipnashville.org
Welcome to Fellowship!
Your presence with us is a trust that we cherish greatly. Our hope is that you will find this family of faith a place where you can worship freely, relate authentically, and grow spiritually. You are joining a group of people who believe that the stakes are too high to sit on the sidelines when it come to things in life that really matter. Life is too short to coast through, and people are too important to take for granted.
Microsoft cuts Xbox prices
http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/29/technology/personaltech/xbox/index.htm
But some industry analysts suspect Sony will leave PlayStation 2 prices alone, at least for a while.
Daniel Pearl’s widow denied money from 9/11 fund(Daniel Pearl’s widow denied money from 9/11 fund
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/03/30/pearl.widow.ap/index.html
NEW YORK (AP) — The widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is seeking compensation from the September 11 victims’ fund, saying her husband, like the victims of the attacks, was a U.S. citizen targeted by Islamic extremists.
Mariane Pearl has filed a formal appeal with the fund after initially being denied, The New York Times reported for a story in Tuesday editions.
Badly injured driver waits 36 hours for aid
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Southwest/03/30/motorist.ordeal.ap/index.html
FRIENDSWOOD, Texas (AP) — A motorist injured in a crash lay paralyzed in the middle of a freeway with a broken neck for 36 hours before he was rescued.
Ed Theisen’s body was blocked from view by Gulf Freeway traffic barricades in this Houston suburb. The 46-year-old survived a night alone on the concrete, unable to move or summon help.
Janet Jackson: Breast-baring was ‘an accident’
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/30/tv.letterman.jackson.ap/index.html
NEW YORK (AP) — Unlike the last time she appeared on CBS, Janet Jackson was bleeped by censors while talking to TV talk show host David Letterman — for saying “Jesus.”
The exclamation, made in apparent exasperation as Letterman asked the singer about her famed Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction,” was edited out for broadcast, a show spokesman said Monday.
Broadcaster Alistair Cooke dies
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/03/30/obit.cooke/index.html
LONDON, England — Veteran broadcaster Alistair Cooke has died at age 95, less than a month after recording his last “Letter from America.”
A spokesman for the BBC said Tuesday that Cooke, who was credited with improving trans-Atlantic understanding for more than half a century, died at midnight at his home in New York.
The English-born broadcaster retired earlier in March after 58 years following advice from doctors. He was famous throughout the world for his weekly broadcast on BBC World Service and in Britain on Radio 4.
Accenture: Not looking to buy Acxiom
http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2004/03/30/News/167448.html
LITTLE ROCK - A top spokesperson for Accenture Ltd. on Monday called speculation that the consulting and outsourcing giant is in talks to acquire Acxiom Corp. “way off the mark.”
“Certainly, I have seen some stories in the media last week on speculation that Acxiom is involved in some kind (acquisition,) but Accenture is not in any way connected,” said Roxanne Taylor, director of communications for the Bermuda-based company.
Taylor said the company usually does not comment on deals in the works or rumors concerning possible acquisitions, but “that we are seeking to acquire Acxiom is way off the mark.”
Acxiom Completes the Acquisition of Consodata S.A.; German operation, formerly known as pan-adress, on track to close
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040330005714&newsLang=en
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—March 30, 2004—Acxiom® Corporation (Nasdaq: ACXM) today announced that the transaction to acquire the Consodata companies based in England, France and Spain from Turin-based Seat P.G. has been completed and is effective March 31, 2004. The closing of the German operation, formerly known as pan-adress is pending formal approval by German merger authorities and is expected to close by mid-April.
Colophon.com — THE MAN IN ASBESTOS
http://colophon.com/foolscap/asbes.html
In this futurist story written by the popular Canadian humorist Stephen B. Leacock (1869-1944) there are observations of human nature which are as refreshing today as when they were written in 1911. Leacock describes a world where the inhabitants are clad in long-wearing suits of asbestos; where death has been eliminated, although a person can be broken; and where only a vestigial memory of Work remains, anything requiring effort was accomplished centuries ago - in short, a perfect world. This utopia is illustrated in this edition by photo-engravings of drawings by Jan Vredeman de Vries, the Dutch architect, painter, and engraver of the 16th century. His drawings show us a perfectly ordered world and serve as a flawless backdrop to Leacock’s future world. Additionally, photo-engravings of drawings by Peggy Gotthold have been made to describe the character of the Man in Asbestos.
Method Studios
http://methodstudios.com/index.cgi?f=o&f2=r&f3=0&f4=&c=px3n6BWgQl7cE&cok=718536
Method is a visual effects artists’ studio specialized in the production of digital imagery for commercials, feature films and music videos.
Acxiom Seals Consodata Buy, Remains Quiet on Layoffs
http://arkansasbusiness.com/news/headline_article.asp?aid=37043
Acxiom Corp. of Little Rock on Tuesday said it completed a deal to buy Consodata companies in Europe but remained silent about layoffs related to an “organizational realignment.”
Acxiom said it will pay Seat P.G. about 30 million Euro, or $36.4 million, for Consodata, which has operations in England, France and Spain.
The purchase includes 5 million Euro for a German operation formerly known as Pan-adress. That deal awaits approval by German officials and should close by mid-April, Acxiom said.
Gibson’s Passion works miracles at box office
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=485630§ion=news
LONDON (Reuters) - Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of The Christ” has stormed to No 1 at the UK box office, taking in just over two million pounds in three days over the weekend, according to Screen International.
The film’s takings marked the highest opening for a subtitled film in Britain, defeating incumbent “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon”.
Punctuation vigilante heads stateside
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=485739§ion=news
For, as she explains in “Eats, Shoots and Leaves”, published in Britain by Profile Books, a misplaced comma can indeed be deadly.
The book’s title stems from the joke about a panda who walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots into the air.
“Why?” asks the confused waiter as the panda heads for the exit. The animal produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
“I’m a panda,” he says at the door. “Look it up.”
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and all is revealed.
“Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.”
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Judges 20-21
Highlights: Civil war between Benjamites and other tribes — Benjamites defeated — Wives provided for few remaining Benjamites
Star Wars Episode 3 Plot Summary Script Synopsis Story
http://www.supershadow.com/starwars/episode3/plot.html
According to the opening-text crawl that begins Episode 3, the Clone Wars continue to rage between the Old Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems (The Separatists). The opening-text crawl also reveals that the enemy Separatists have taken Supreme Chancellor Palpatine hostage. Next, we see an epic space battle (the largest space battle ever seen in a Star Wars film) taking place over Coruscant between the Republic military forces and the Separatist’s military forces. General Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and other Jedi Knights enter the battle with clone troopers in star ships.
Wicked Cool Shell scripts
http://www.intuitive.com/wicked/index.shtml
Become a shell script expert the fun and easy way!
The Unix shell is the main scripting environment of every Linux, Mac OS X and Unix system, whether a rescued laptop or a million-dollar mainframe. This cookbook of useful, customizable, and fun scripts gives you the tools to solve common Linux, Mac OS X and Unix problems and personalize your computing environment.
An Introduction to the Unix Shell
http://steve-parker.org/sh/bourne.html
This is an HTMLized version of Steve Bourne’s original shell tutorial. I found the source at http://cm.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/vol2/shell.bun and generated my own copy with troff, which I then edited into an HTML version.
This 1978 classic (not sure about the exact date, corrections welcome) is not only historically interesting, it’s still a good tutorial as long as you keep in mind that some minor details like the terminal interface has changed quite a bit (DEL is not usually the interrupt character anymore, etc). The same goes, by the way, for a lot of the old Unix documentation from Murray Hill, including the excellent book The Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan and Pike.
Bourne Shell Programming
http://steve-parker.org/sh/sh.shtml
A Bourne Shell Programming Tutorial for learning about using the unix shell.
Movable Style
http://www.movablestyle.com/
Ready to use style sheets for default Movable Type templates
GNU utilities for Win32
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
Here are some ports of common GNU utilities to native Win32. In this context, native means the executables do only depend on the Microsoft C-runtime (msvcrt.dll) and not an emulation layer like that provided by Cygwin tools.
SQL Stored Procedure Wrapper & Typed DataSet Generator for .NET
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/database/dbhelper.asp
This a small tool that will generate static methods in a class that acts as wrapper for SQL stored procedures. It either outputs a source file or a compiled assembly. Also supports automatic DataSet generation.
I BEAT ANOREXIA!
http://www.strangecosmos.com/view.adp?picture_id=13512
I beat anorexia. Beat it to death!
Froogle
http://www.google.com/froogle?hl=en&tab=wf&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q
froo·gle (fru’gal) n. Smart shopping through Google.
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Judges 18-19
Highlights: Danites force Micah’s Levite to be their priest, attack Laish, then occupy it — A concubine is victimized
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Judges 15-17
Highlights: Samson loses his wife — 1,000 Philistines slain — Delilah — Samson defeated, blinded, dies with the Philistines — Micah’s idols
FormSIX
FormSIX (Form Simple Interface in XML) package is a set of tools and suggestions for interchanging simple HTML FORM data between Web Browser and Web Server in XML format.
For a bigger purpose, FormSIX aids replacing/extending regular CGI with XML by providing client-side JS modules for composing valid XML document. For a smaller purpose, FormSIX helps testing out Internet system design by providing a tool for generating front-end prototype even to a not-yet XML enabled back-end. (FormSIX can even be used to generate Web-based interface to SOAP service.) In fact, the author finds FormSIX pretty handy when it comes to designing DTD.
FatScripts.com!
Download free scripts, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, Perl, Javascript, and much more
stock.xchng
The leading free stock photo site
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Judges 12-14
Highlights: Jephthah’s victory over the Ephraimites — Israel under Philistine control — Samson’s Philistine wife in Timnath
Reading the Bible in a Year with Bible Pathway. Today’s Reading — Judges 10-11
Highlights: Israel forsakes the Lord and worships idols — Israel oppressed by Ammonites for 18 years — Jephthah’s daughter dedicated to God
Here’s some goofy spam that I cannot ignore. Not only is the reported Google keyword search inaccurate, but the spammer did not include a URL for me to blindly link to.
I verfied the keywords “christian faith movie” against the major search engines using the Webmaster Toolkit’s Search Engine Position Checker. No hits at ALL for Google, but I am #37 with All The Web