From the downtown San Francisco skyscraper named for AirTouch, a wireless provider acquired four years ago by Vodafone Group, to the ballpark bearing the name of Pacific Bell, the local phone company now owned by SBC Communications, some of the region's most visible structures boast corporate names that are no longer in active use.
Monday, February 24, 2003
Friday, February 21, 2003
Wednesday, February 19, 2003
The DVD Journal | DVD News, Reviews, Rumors, and Commentary
The DVD Journal | DVD News, Reviews, Rumors, and Commentary - will add this to my Popular Culture section on the sidebar.
Tuesday, February 18, 2003
Study: SUV's Not Safer Than Cars
Study: SUV's Not Safer Than Cars
BERKELEY (KRON) -- Bigger isn't necessarily better when it comes to safety on the road, that's the gist of a continuing study on sport utility vehicles, conducted by scientists in Michigan and Berkeley
Fool.com: Joe Millionaire's New Million
Joe Millionaire's New Million - Surprisingly useful advice on what Joe and Zora should do with their money. Useful links to financial advice here, even if you don't care about the show.
Sunday, February 16, 2003
Ticketstubs
Ticketstubs
Ticket stubs are everywhere, one of the many receipts in our daily lives - but we all save some from time to time. The Ticketstub project is a place where you can upload scanned images of your saved stubs, and tell a story about that night, that concert, that movie, what happened on that date; basically, ask youself why you saved the stub as a reminder.
Spychecker - database of Spyware (adware) products lets you detect spyware before you download.
Spychecker:
Not sure if the free software you are about to download is in fact a so called Spyware, or adware or otherwise advertising enhanced product that installs additional third party components on your system?
We currently index almost a thousand software titles, providing the most complete online database of this kind.
We currently index almost a thousand software titles, providing the most complete online database of this kind.
SBC enforcing all-encompassing Web patent
The Register
SBC Communications Inc is enforcing a patent it owns that, it claims, covers the use of frame-like user interfaces in web sites, it emerged this week Kevin Murphy writes. . If your web site uses a frames or a persistent user interface, then you could be in infringement.
NASA - Space Shuttle Columbia and Her Crew
On Feb. 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia was lost duirng the re-entry into Earth's atomosphere. As NASA mourns the loss of seven family members, this page will collect and distribute information about the crew, the mission and the ongoing inverstisgstion.
Saturday, February 15, 2003
Textism - Word HTML Cleaner
Textism - Word HTML Cleaner
This utility strips proprietary Microsoft tags and artefacts from Word HTML documents, leaving basic formatting and typographic entities intact.
Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time
Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal - Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time
cool - now my blog will be powered by Google!
Google, which runs the Web's premier search site, has purchased Pyra Labs, a San Francisco company that created some of the earliest technology for writing weblogs, the increasingly popular personal and opinion journals.
cool - now my blog will be powered by Google!
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