We have a facility where we name servers after rivers. Apparently I keep finding rivers that no one has ever heard of. This time I was sure I picked one that everyone knew:
The Blue Nile is one of the two main courses of the river Nile. The Saharan part of the river is formed by the union at the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, of the White Nile coming from the lacustrine region in Eastern Africa, and the Blue Nile coming from the Ethiopian Highlands. Though with a shorter length, the Blue Nile course amounts to more than 60 % of total Nile water flow.
[ Blue Nile, IGAD Sudan Peace talks ]
Someone must have heard of the Blue Nile before reading it here, please!
Update: James Bruce had heard of the Blue Nile.
Yet you continue to read my page...
Here's what you'll be missing if you don't pick one up:
[ Zelda Universe ]
I'm so excited.
Welcome to E3Insider for 2005. This site is for you, the gamer that wants to know everything about E3. Our production staff is here getting ready for the exhausting week ahead. While we're ramping up, let's talk about all of the exciting plans we have for the week ahead. First, the new site - we've kept many of your favorite features and added a bunch of new ones.
[ E3 Insider | Blog ]
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I am rather excited about all of the new consoles. Can't wait to hear more about the new Zelda game. Eager to see what Ubisoft has to announce. I'd like to know more about upcoming NDS titles too. What are you waiting to hear?
Microsoft has always been good at marketing.
Microsoft intended to preview its new gaming console, dubbed Xbox 360, to the world on Thursday via an MTV special. The Redmond, Wash.-based company invited 200 people to attend the Los Angeles taping and asked them not to reveal what they saw until the show's broadcast
[ Details on New Xbox 360 Slip Out Via Pics - Yahoo! News ]
But recently, and especially with their XBox and Halo, they've done a great job with viral marketing. I think, however, that the real genius is inviting 200 people to see this thing, and *wink* *wink* asking them to not tell anyone.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, those few were also armed with digital cameras, which they used to snap pictures of the Xbox 360 console. The photo--which first surfaced over the weekend on Engadget.com--of the console confirmed the authenticity of earlier pictures, showing a silver, slightly concave-shaped console that looks almost as though it's designed to sit atop the slightly convex current-generation Xbox. It also confirmed the so-called "ring of light" theory, which had said the device would sport an oversized power button surrounded by a ring of LEDs, as well as that it would sport two slots for 64MB memory cards and one for a 40GB hard drive on the console's side.
[ Xbox 360 pictures leaked, peripherals and customization revealed - News at GameSpot ]
I bet that none had to sign an NDA. I certainly wouldn't put it past them to have staged a time that taking photos would be convenient with no one watching. I wouldn't be surprised if they put a shill in the crowd to initiate the photo taking. And, even more so, I would easily believe that not one of the invitees actually took a photo of anything, but Microsoft released some photos into the "wild" that appeared to be taken at this event.
When all is said and done, how much did this hurt Microsoft? How much did it help? You do the math...
If you are near a Wegmans, you must try them out.
Wegmans currently operates stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Virginia
[ Wegmans Store Locator ]
Picture a Whole Foods crossed with an Albertson's and a Harris Teeter with just a touch of Reading Market. I picked up some items that I've been looking for, for a long time:
Plus they had so much more. Unfortunately I was only near the Wegmans because I had to go to Ashburn where our co-lo facility is. Now that I know it's destination worth visiting, I can plan for big grocery shopping next time.
However their Asian selections did leave a bit to be desired, so I still need a trip to Grand Market on a regular basis...
Not only do they tell you how your bibliography should look, they dynamically give it to you. This makes me feel like writing research papers...
To cite Missouri Compromise in your work, copy the complete reference below:
"Missouri Compromise." The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia.
© 1994, 2000-2005, on Infoplease.
© 2000–2005 Pearson Education, publishing as Infoplease.
12 May. 2005 <http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0833427.html>.
How to cite an Encyclopedia article:
Article title in quotation marks. Encyclopedia name (in italics).
(Copyright date) on Infoplease.
Website copyright date and company name.
Access date and full URL in angle brackets.
[ Infoplease: Cite this Page ]
Why the Missouri Compromise? Because it starts with the Mason-Dixon line. Why the Mason-Dixon line? To determine if Henri lives in what would be a slave state in 1850. Why 1850? Because Henri is young and therefore wrong. And how does that impact billed work? Not in a good way...
George Ou is outraged by Sony's gumption:
It’s bad enough for a company to neglect patching older products, but it’s absolutely inexcusable that the new 2005 Sony PSP will be unleashed upon the masses with defective Wi-Fi equipment. Since WEP was found to be completely broken five years ago, the Wi-Fi Alliance in 2003 mandated that all Wi-Fi products comply with the new WPA standard and use the new TKIP encryption algorithm yet Sony somehow feels exempt from this responsibility.
[ ZDNet.com ]
Which begs the question, how about the Nintendo DS? Does anyone have experience with the Nintendo DS and have enough info about WPA and TKIP to have an informed opinion on Nintendo's first foray into the wireless world?
Microsoft is going to attempt to trump E3, but my hope is that will somehow only negatively affect Sony, but not Nintendo. Previously there were rumors that Nintendo wouldn't mention anything about their upcoming platform for fear of the competition "stealing" their great ideas, but apparently that rumor isn't true:
Our coverage begins on Tuesday, May 17, when we'll break early news about Nintendo's key products right after the press event concludes. Check back here for the latest announcements on the Legend of Zelda for Nintendo GameCube; news about Nintendo handhelds -- Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance -- and the first word about Nintendo's upcoming home console: Nintendo Revolution.
[ Nintendo : News ]
As always I'm looking forward to great announcements all around. For all of my favorite platforms of today, and my possible favorite platforms of tomorrow.
Want to keep it legit too? The open-source community has developed an IDE that seems to have large support for all sorts of things:
Eclipse is a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular. Find out what eclipse is all about - check out the Eclipse Roadmap, white paper, read some technical articles, visit the newsgroups, take a look at the projects, and pick up the latest downloads.
[ eclipse.org ]
For my purposes I downloaded the "platform" version (since I won't be extending Eclipse, just using it), installed the CF plug-in and the VSS plug-in and then got a bit frustrated before finding out the VSS plug-in required the Java Development Tools  to be installed to function correctly.
Once all of that was in place, it appears I have a program that is vastly superior to ColdFusion Studio 5, and vastly cheaper than DreamWeaver MX 2004. It still isn't CF editing in my beloved VisualStudio, but it will do.
Though everyone thinks it is. Instead:
Cinco de Mayo ("Fifth of May" in Spanish) is a national holiday in Mexico which commemorates the victory of Mexican forces led by General Ignacio Zaragoza over the French expeditionary forces in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.
[ Cinco de Mayo: Definition and Much More From Answers.com ]
Why not Mexican Independence day?
The rise in Cinco de Mayo's popularity in the United States can be attributed to the Chicano student movement of the late 1960's. Inspired by student-activists nationwide, members of the MEChA organization in California sought to find a day of celebration that highlighted their largely Mexican ancestry. “El Dieciséis de septiembre” (September 16) seemed like an obvious choice, however this day proved too early in the school-year for college students to effectively organize rallies and celebrations. Thus Cinco de Mayo became the de facto alternative for these student assemblies.
[ Cinco de Mayo: Definition and Much More From Answers.com ]
Of course Corona's promotion of the holiday has certainly helped all Americans embrace it. This year, however, is a especial Cinco de Mayo since it's Cinco de Mayo de Cinco or 05/05/05.
Am I such a sucker that I'd feel the need to buy another GameCube just because it looked like the concept piece that someone mocked up on Engadget?
...supposed portable GameCube are more likely a concept design than anything based in physical reality...
[ Portable Nintendo GameCube? - Gaming - gaming.engadget.com / ]
Unfortunatly yes I think so...
I can never remember how to grab the screen as an image on a Mac, so I googled it. I like the fact that there are a bunch of options on how to do this on a mac, though I ended up using the first one listed and creating a PDF of all things. But then we get to what to do with an image on the clipboard:
Use SimpleText to copy the image or part of the image you wish to paste into your documentation
[ Screen Capture Tips ]
SimpleText can do images? That's just confusing...
Seattle, right?
Our coffee quotient was designed to serve both camps. It's a measure of the number of Starbucks stores per 10,000 population in cities across the U.S., as of March 2005.
[ Cities with high coffee quotients - ePodunk ]
Falls Church, Virginia? Come on, this has to be a statistical anomaly.
Perhaps one just opened in Falls Church to replace one that was about to close? Maybe Falls Church has weird borders and makes it seem like a lot less people live there than really do. Perhaps the folks at ePodunk don't realize that what the Post Office considers "Falls Church" and what the population data people consider "Falls Church" are very likely 2 different things. The odd thing is that I can only think of one Starbucks in Falls Church, I wonder where the other 6.7 are...
Note: Eyeballing it, I think about 2 maybe 3 Starbucks are actually in Falls Church and not just pretending to be in Falls Church.
Great article on 1UP.com about the upcoming Zelda title:
This is Nintendo. Little pikachus all around, some pikmin in the back, and a friendly guard who will take us on a whirlwind, song-filled tour of this wonderland of imagination!
[ Zelda Exposed from 1UP.COM ]
Koji Kondo is mentioned, and I'm sure you've heard his music. The entire interview isn't here, they saved the best parts for EGM. Zelda will be huge this year, and could drive a ton of last minute sales for the GameCube and possibly even assist with Revolution as it is said to sport backward compatibility.
Any-which-way, you know you want Zelda, and if you don't you're only kidding yourself...
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