| Sun backs Web 2.0 startups
Sun Microsystems has put its weight behind up and coming web 2.0 companies with the launched this week of a new initiative designed to provide UK startups with discounts on Sun technology and services. The Sun Startup Essentials programme, which was originally launched in the States, will help eligible companies purchase a range of discounted products and services, including Sun Fire x64 servers and Sun Fire servers with CoolThreads technology, according to the firm. Startups under the scheme can also rent discounted web hosting infrastructure from Sun partners Layered Technologies, NaviSite and NTT Europe Online, and gain access to free open source software including Sun's own. "They will also get free technical support – the idea is to help startups make good decisions up front so as their needs go up they can sustain higher traffic," said Sun's Juan Carlos Soto.
Party time at Yuvi's house for Diwali
Both the Indian and Pakistani cricket teams will celebrate the festival of lights at Yuvrajs house in true North Indian style. Says Yuvis father Yograj Singh, We are very happy that we will be spending Diwali with the team. In fact, every Diwali with Yuvraj is nothing short of a bigger boost for him to do well in the game and we hope this Diwali brings all the good wishes for both the teams. So, what are the special preparations for both the teams who will get together for a party for the first time in Chandigarh? Well, the plans for the Indian boys are set, There will definitely be a praying session,
perhaps on ninth morning, to help the boys perform better with each passing day and win the series, Yograj adds. But theres something for the Pakistani boys as well (read mithais).
Daschle on Obama’s appeal: Hope versus fear
Blah, blah, blah. Never a substantive complaint about how he might personally suffer if the Democrats assume control. Tuesday night he called for a long visit and it became apparent he has had an epiphany. He suddenly realized that his greatest prosperity came during the Clinton years and that his seven figure pension was lost and his company bought out by an uncaring competitor because of rules changes initiated during the GWB presidency. He has voted as a social conservative for years, but last night said" It is unconscionable that any one in the richest country in history has to pay for health care or higher education. And I don't see why we haven't done something to get free of that damned foreign oil. And I don't think one more American boy should die for oil!" The thing is, he starts to draw Social Security in a couple of months, and there isn't a defined benefits pension plan any more so he really needs SS to be solvent so he can make it, and he sees privatization as his own road to ruin.
American Judiciary Against The American Military
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Electronic censorship
THE WEB site Wikileaks is a true product of the Internet age. Started in 2006 to let whistle-blowers anonymously publicize secret information exposing what they see as malfeasance, it has put up 1.2 million documents, including a handbook for the administration of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. But as of last week, Wikileaks.org was no longer accessible. It had been shut down by a court that seems to have forgotten something important the First Amendment to the Constitution. What got the site in trouble was its posting of records from Julius Baer Bank and Trust of the Cayman Islands. These documents, according to Wikileaks, "allegedly reveal Julius Baer trust structures used for asset hiding, money laundering and tax evasion." The bank said a disgruntled former employee had illegally made use of stolen information.
Mothers Day charity gifts
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has opened a 13th century church in Wales which was dismantled and rebuilt stone-by-stone over 20 years 50 miles away at the National History Museum, St Fagansa, in Cardiff. St Teilo's Church from Pontarddulais near Swansea has been restored to recreate its appearance in 1520. Copies of a rare series of 16th century paintings, which were uncovered as it was being dismantled, adorn the walls. Dr Williams is from Wales, and he served as Bishop of Monmouth and as Archbishop of the Church in Wales, a disestablished art of the worldwide Anglican Communion, before becoming Archbishop of Canterbury. He was accompanied at the ceremony by First Minister for Wales Mr Rhodri Morgan and other officials Morgan believes that his great-grandparents married at the church, which was used regularly until 1850 and then occasionally during the summer until 1985, reports the BBC.
MSNBC draws flak over political remarks during campaign coverage
Keith Olbermann excoriates the Bush administration during his show's "Special Comment" segment and occasionally blogs on Daily Kos, a favorite Web site of the left. At an event celebrating his program's 10th anniversary last fall, Chris Matthews declared that the current administration had "been caught in their criminality."
The latter comment drew winces internally. But for the most part, MSNBC executives are at ease with the dual roles played by the network's personalities. Both Olbermann and Matthews moderated campaign forums last year and anchor major news events.
"I do think that viewers accept that there are points of view out there, and sometimes that seeps out," Griffin said. "As long as you're up front and straight about what you're doing, I'm OK."
Still, he admits the dynamic is "a high-wire act," underscored when Shuster, serving as guest host on "Tucker," made the "pimped out" remark.
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