On IT Observer today:
Car RFID Tags Cracked
31 January 2005
30 January 2005
Gentlemen (and Ladies?), I Salute You
From the Winston-Salem Journal’s Web site recently:
Confederate group, blacks to clean up cemetery
Thanks to Dick Eastman’s blog for the tip.
29 January 2005
27 January 2005
Yea, Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Fire of Death...
From MercuryNews.com today:
Ex-Fire Victim Pulled People From Train
Chain-reaction crash points to wider hazard
From MercuryNews.com today:
Chain-reaction crash points to wider hazard
May Their Memories Be Eternal
From reuters.com today:
World Remembers Holocaust at Snow-Swept Auschwitz
26 January 2005
Suicide Is Not Painless
On CNN.com this morning:
Train collision near Los Angeles kills 10
On SignOnSanDiego.com:
Suicide try triggers California commuter rail tragedy, police say
From ABC News:
10 Killed in Suburban L.A. Train Crash
22 January 2005
21 January 2005
Politician, Thy Name Is Hubris
From the MercuryNews.com today:
Possible contender for council forced to retract claim
“A prospective candidate seeking to replace former Councilman Terry Gregory was forced this week to drop his claim that he serves on the board of a labor group’s domestic violence project after labor leaders said the project doesn’t even exist.
Ryan Nguyen Hubris listed on his résumé that he was an “advisory board member” on Working Partnerships’ “Domestic Violence Project.” Hubris, a commercial real estate developer and former roommate of Mayor Ron Gonzales, also repeated the claim to the Mercury News, which published it in a story this week about Gregory’s resignation over alleged ethics violations.”
Could this be any more perfect??
It Would Seem Our Chancellor Designate Didn’t Waste Any Time…
…making a fool of herself after all.
From MercuryNews.com today:
Creation of job by UC criticized
“The creation of a $192,000-a-year job for the partner of newly appointed UC-Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Denton in the University of California's Office of the President has drawn the ire of clerical and service workers, who have not had raises for three years.”
Now This Is Scary
From MercuryNews.com today:
Fremont’s alarming decision
“Burglars may arrive at your home, but the Fremont police may not.
In a first for the state, California’s 14th largest city is set to adopt a policy of not responding to residential or commercial burglary alarms unless they’re first verified as legitimate -- because about 98.5 percent aren’t.
It just costs too much money and time for a department already beset with cuts -- for example, Fremont cops no longer investigate car burglaries or even car thefts. And the department has axed all crime prevention programs.”
20 January 2005
Room for Cautious Optimism?
From MercuryNews.com today:
Spread of oak death slows
"Sudden oak death has run its course in the most vulnerable forests in coastal Bay Area counties, although it continues to pose a threat to new areas of wilderness as well as commercial nurseries, experts said Wednesday.
The fungal pathogen that causes the disease has a firm foothold in the region and is not going away, said Steve Tjosvold, a University of California extension agent for Santa Cruz and Monterey counties."
Today in History
From wikipedia.org:
Events
1156 - According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of the lake Köyliönjärvi in Finland
1265 - In Westminster, the first English parliament conducts its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster, now also known as the Houses of Parliament
1356 - Edward Balliol resigns as King of Scotland
1783 - Britain signs a peace treaty with France and Spain, officially ending hostilities in the Revolutionary War
1801 - John Marshall is appointed Chief Justice of the United States
1840 - Dumont D’Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica
1885 - L.A. Thompson patents the roller coaster
1887 - The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base
1892 - At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game is played
1937 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first inauguration scheduled on January 20, following adoption of the 20th Amendment. Previous inaugurations were scheduled on March 4
1941 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for a third term as President of the United States, becoming the only President to be elected to three terms
1945 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for a fourth term as President of the United States, becoming the only President to be elected to four terms
1949 - Harry S. Truman is re-inaugurated as the 33rd President of the United States
1953 - Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States
1957 - Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States
1958 - Elvis Presley receives his draft notice
1961 - John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States
1965 - Lyndon B. Johnson is re-inaugurated as the 36th President of the United States
1969 - The first pulsar is discovered, in the Crab Nebula
1969 - Richard M. Nixon is inaugurated as the 37th President of the United States
1973 - Richard M. Nixon is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States
1977 - Jimmy Carter is inaugurated as the 39th President of the United States
1981 - Ronald W. Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States. Minutes later, Iran releases 52 American hostages
1985 - Super Bowl XIX becomes the most watched game in history. Television commercials ran for a million dollars a minute
1985 - Ronald W. Reagan is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States
1986 - The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel
1987 - Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in the Lebanon
1989 - George H. W. Bush is inaugurated as the 41st President of the United States
2001 - George W. Bush is inaugurated as the 43rd President of the United States
2005 - George W. Bush is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States
Births
1812 - Thomas Meik, engineer (d. 1896)
1896 - George Burns, American actor, comedian (d. 1996)
1920 - DeForest Kelly, actor (d. 1999)
1920 - John O’Connor, Cardinal of New York City (d. 2000)
1926 - Patricia Neal, actress
1929 - Arte Johnson, actor
1929 - Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, NASCAR race car driver (d. 1964)
1930 - Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
Deaths
1156 - Bishop Henry, patron saint of Finland
1779 - David Garrick, actor (b. 1717)
1907 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist and inventor of the Periodic table (b. 1834)
1984 - Johnny Weissmuller, Olympic swimming gold medalist, actor (b. 1904)
1993 - Audrey Hepburn, actress (b. 1929)
2003 - Al Hirschfeld, caricaturist
Holidays & observances
The Eve of St. Agnes
Presidential Inauguration Day in the United States
dy of Saint Sebastian in catholic church. Also holidy in rio de janeiro as he is the city’s saint
On This Day
From the BBC:
1961: John F Kennedy sworn in as US president
1958: Explorers meet at South Pole
They Actually Know Who Made Up the Bundt Pan?!?
From mercurynews.com yesterday:
Beloved Bundt pan still leaves mark
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