If you are a male born into a Jewish or Moslem family, chances are you are circumcised. Circumcision is a euphemism for penile mutilation. I was horrified by the images I saw in this LiveLeak video taken from a Turkish ceremony where scores of young boys are gleefully taken by their parents to a butcher — Continue reading »
Apple Safari on Windows
📆 June 13, 2007
I'm a man of habits. That trait also extends to my browser of choice and, like many, I use Internet Explorer (IE) to surf the Web. Years ago, when the Internet was still new to the general public, it took me some time to actually start using a browser alongside my favorite text-based programs to — Continue reading »
HTTP Authorization and .NET WebRequest, WebClient Classes
📆 June 7, 2007
One of the more useful, yet simple, classes of .NET is System.Net.WebClient. It basically simulates a simple browser to interact with web pages within your code. You can use it to GET pages or POST data to pages over http or https (SSL). The page response can be saved into a byte array, a string — Continue reading »
Healthcare and Blood Test
📆 June 3, 2007
With the political party debates getting under way leading to the US presidential election, the subject of national healthcare has once again garnered some attention. In the last go-around, with the male Clinton in the office, national health insurance became a hot topic but was eventually shelved. It is a known fact that the US — Continue reading »
Amazon's Look Inside
📆 May 29, 2007
One of the niceties of shopping for books on Amazon is the "Look Inside" feature. It tries to mimic browsers' experience in a physical bookstore by showing them a few selected pages from a book or a limited number of pages based on a search phrase. It's probably a violation of rules, but one could — Continue reading »
Amazon's Look Inside
One of the niceties of shopping for books on Amazon is the "Look Inside" feature. It tries to mimic browsers' experience in a physical bookstore by showing them a few selected pages from a book or a limited number of pages based on a search phrase. It's probably a violation of rules, but one could — Continue reading »
Yahoo Messenger
📆 May 19, 2007
I guess this means I'm old and not with the current times, but I just don't get the lure of instant messaging (IM). The whole experience is so unsettling that a long time ago I vowed not to ever use it. What's the point? I have to be a super-typist to have a barely coherent — Continue reading »
What is best for ABN shareholders?
📆 May 14, 2007
The faith of the Dutch ABN Amro will be decided by its shareholders. They will decide between the offers of Barclays Bank of the UK and a consortium of Royal Bank of Scotland, Fortis, and Banco Santander Central Hispano. Thing got more interested with a Dutch court decision of the $21 billion sale of LaSalle, — Continue reading »
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