Universities sign up for Google’s web apps – 17 Aug 2007 – NZ Herald: Technology News from New Zealand and around the World
Universities sign up for Google’s web apps
10:05AM Friday August 17, 2007
NEW YORK – Google says five U.S. universities have signed on for its Internet-based applications including e-mail and instant messaging.
Google’s relationship with the universities gives it a wider audience for applications that compete with Microsoft Corp popular programs. Google Apps Education Edition is a free service for e-mail, online calendars, documents and spreadsheets.
Schools newly signed on to the program are University of North Carolina Greensboro, Clemson University, University of Texas San Antonio, Kennesaw State University and Arkansas State University, Google said.
Universities that already use Google’s programs include the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Trinity College in Dublin and Nihon University in Tokyo.
- REUTERS
Skype: It’s alive!
Skype: It’s alive! Alive!
VoIP service back from the dead after two-day outage due to ‘algorithm deficiency’
Gregg Keizer Today’s Top Stories or Other Mobile and Wireless Stories
August 18, 2007 (Computerworld) — Skype Ltd. announced late Friday that all users could now again log on to the voice-over-IP service, marking the end of an outage that affected millions and lasted more than 48 hours. At 7:00 p.m. Eastern, Villu Arak, the Skype spokesman who has been posting blackout updates, said: “The sign-on problems have been resolved. [However] Skype presence and chat may still take a few more hours to be fully operational.”
Life’s Weaving – Ann’s Items – About my genealogy
A Link in Time
From lands and seas that I shall never know,
complex roads have merged their path to me.
Translucent threads of ancient lives before
interwove this web which is my pedigree.
Cultures of many nations formed the loom,
and laced the strands of fiber to evolve
a potpourri of souls who braved the path
of destiny with passion and resolve.
And now this fertile ribbon which I weave
a plait to braid and join the next in line;
people and histories which I may only dream
may know about this link in time that’s mine.©
by: Ann Glasgow
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VOA News – US Television Mogul Merv Griffin Dies
US Television Mogul Merv Griffin Dies
By Ray McDonald
Washington
13 August 2007
Merv Griffin, who moved from big-band crooner to television mogul, died August 12 of prostate cancer.
He was 82. Born in the San Francisco area, he began singing on local radio programs at age 19, and later toured as a singer with bandleader Freddy Martin.
Moving on to television, Merv Griffin hosted game shows and talk shows, while also creating the hugely successful game shows Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune.
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Van Halen confirm US reunion tour
Van Halen confirm US reunion tour
Van Halen
Legendary rock band Van Halen have confirmed they will reunite with the group’s original singer, David Lee Roth, for the first time in 22 years.
A 25-date North American tour, which had been postponed when guitarist Eddie Van Halen entered rehab in March, will get underway in September.
Roth, who left the band in 1985, has indicated their reunion might lead to a world tour and a new album.
Spent about fifteen minutes out looking at the sky; leaving the cats wondering what I was doing out in the dark.
It is just after midnight — I saw one very brilliant falling star. It moved from the center of the high night sky straight above me, and moved in a north-easterly direction.
I have much to do Monday, or I would spend a bit more time watching the ‘meteor shower’ for this year. For now, one brilliant shooting star is enough.
And how was your evening?
– Cathy
weavercat@gmail.com
Night owls make the most of the meteors – Space News – MSNBC.com
Night owls make the most of the meteors
How to maximize your view of shooting stars for the Perseids and beyond
Daily Home – 12 to 14 screen movie theater coming to city, mayor says
12 to 14 screen movie theater coming to city, mayor says
By David Atchison
08-12-2007
PELL CITY — Let the show begin — a new movie theater is coming to the city by the lake.
“A movie theater is coming to Pell City, Ala., and it will be a big one,†Mayor Adam Stocks said Saturday. “On Monday night, Mr. Marty Felts will be at our council meeting, and I will present several items to the council pertaining to the movie theater.â€
Here’s a tidbit from ABC33/40’s weather notes:
“…Dog Days End Today…
This will be one of those cases where the thermometer will not agree
with the calendar. Today marks the official end to the Dog Days. The
Dog Days are named for the Egyptian belief that during the period of
time from July 3 through August 11 when the Dog Star Sirius rises and
falls with the sun, that the star added to the heat of the Sun...."
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Hope everyone has a plan to keep cool until the heat wave breaks.
-- Cathy
weavercat@gmail.com
Universal Music Will Sell Songs Without Copy Protection – New York Times
Universal Music Will Sell Songs Without Copy Protection
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By JEFF LEEDS
Published: August 10, 2007
Signaling another departure from the music industry’s longtime antipiracy strategy, the Universal Music Group will sell a significant portion of its catalog without the customary copy protection software for at least the next few months, the company announced yesterday.
PC World – AT&T Says It Didn’t Censor Pearl Jam
AT&T Says It Didn’t Censor Pearl Jam
The U.S. rock band cries foul after an AT&T webcast censored politically themed lyrics by lead singer Eddie Vedder.
Your Type is
INFJ
| Introverted |
Intuitive |
Feeling |
Judging |
—–
Interesting…will have to re-read the explanation for my ‘type’, soon.
– Cathy
