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Date: March 14th, 2005

Public Service Announcement

14 March, 2005 (20:27) | Business, Computer | No comments

If you run an online business, particularly one that provides a service rather than a physical product, and you accept credit cards then you have probably already felt the sting of stolen credit cards. Of course the same thing happens with Paypal accounts, thanks to phishing scams, but the majority of frauds are still [...]

Creankier

14 March, 2005 (17:42) | Language | 2 comments

Sometimes I have the most fortuitous typos. Today in an email to an old friend I typed creankier © when I intended crankier and didn’t notice until I hit send, which of course was too late to change it. However upon reflection I’ve decided I like this word. It expresses how I’ve felt lately. [...]

Unfair and Unbalanced

14 March, 2005 (10:39) | Media, Political | No comments

The Washington Post reports on a new study on Fox News done by the Washington based group “The Project for Excellence in Journalism”
In covering the Iraq war last year, 73 percent of the stories on Fox News included the opinions of the anchors and journalists reporting them, a new study says.
By contrast, 29 percent of [...]

 

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