What’s going on while North America sleeps? Or, why haven’t you gone to sleep?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Well let’s see here… its a bit of a rainy morning but finally summer-type weather a ajuns. I just got back from a most righteous roadtrip where we saw the sights of a big portion of my new country, Romania!
I saw everything from tiny villages to the big capital of Bucharest, which is just like a New York City of this part of the world. Full of honking cabs and yelling people and I even got to ride on the subway! I also got to stop in a number of beautiful cities, from the tourist favorite Brasov to the lovely city of Pitesti, which has a gorgeous downtown square, to the oil smudged fields around Ploiesti…
And the best part is we’re doing Part Deux of our road trip this weekend! We’re heading west to Oradea, Arad and Timisoara.. the last city being described to me as beautiful by everyone whose ever been there. It’s also the home of the Romanian Revolution, where a brave priest stood up to the then-invincible might of the Communist dictator Ceausescu… I can’t wait!
The big story pan-Europe right now of course is the upcoming French vote on the EU Constitution.. other than that, not much is going on except my bloc has the water shut off today and the toilet is starting to stink righteously :)))
Pax
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Jerome a Paris :: BooMan :: Susanhbu
Is it possible to put Jerome’s Diary back up due to ACTUALITY IN NEWS – opening of pipeline from Azerbaijan via Georgia and Turkey to Mediterranian Sea!
Ceremonies attended by presidents and top international officials, including US Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, to launch the four-billion-dollar Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline were held at an oil terminal south of the Azerbaijan capital.
by Jerome a Paris Sun Mar 27th, 2005
Oil & gas in the Caspian has a long history – indeed it is one of the earliest oil production regions in the world, with Baku a major oil center in the second half of the 19th century and beyond. What makes the situation today interesting is the simultaneous appearance of three things: (i) new reserves discovered offshore, (ii) the fact that, with the break up of the Soviet Union, the oil is located in (new) countries that are keen to have foreign investment and (iii) these countries have no direct access to the world markets.
Picture from the US Energy Information Agency's Caspian area briefOui – Liberté – Egalité – Fraternité
I was up late because someone had taken over my computer.
Finally resolved after a long talk with my ISP who said
my connection was ‘crytal clear.’ I used all the tools I
had to check my computer and found out that two people
were using it. Then I found out Microsoft had a free
anti-spyware program,
(after trying out others). This program revealed a big spyware
in my Windows XP startup and that there was a
messaging progam running.
Zapped them and 12 other spies in my ‘registry keys.’
My computer connection had slowed to a crawl and now it is
working fine, (so far) Now I guess Microsoft is spying
on me.
But I’m starting to save up for my iBook, so there.
Otherwise things are looking fine in Canada.
earlier this year. Before that, my kids couldn’t even walk by the computer without sucking in some kind of spyware program or virus! Now, I have all this extra time that I don’t have to spend on computer maintenance (so I spend it here, LOL).
You will love the hassle-free (mostly) internet use!
Ah bin a maccie all ma life, yesiree. Round these parts a man ain’t a man ‘less he totes a G4 laptop and a bluetooth deevice that chimes right in step.
We be browsin’ with Safari and old Firefox, runnin’ Opera on the deevice.
Dang me, folks from the forests be real connektid….
I just updated a ton of security patches
from Microsoft and AOL keeps popping up to ask me
to sign up. Microsoft is the biggest spy of them all.
I lost my Firefox weather forecast when I upgraded
Mozilla. I have “chrome registration failure.”
Should I see a doctor?
My grandchildren with their games, freestuff, music
and messenger chats had the computer guy in every
week at my son’s place. So now there is only “Bob’s
computer” that they are allowed to touch.
(Named after the computer guy.)
My elegant daughter has never used anything but a Mac.
earlier this year when I had a self recreating virus, I would zap it but it would reproduce to the point where I was literally bombarded with hundreds of popups, that froze my computer and the only way out was to do a full restore from start up and I had no chance to recover and save anything prior to shutdown.
Then I discovered that my ISP(Adelphia) had anti spyware as well as virus protection and a firewall, that is vitally important too. So I have had no trouble since and knock on wood, hope it stays that way.
BTW I got the virus by opening an email, I should have known better, since the subject line was Honey bear. My son’s girlfriend worked at a Teddy Bear factory and for a sec I thought it was from her and clicked and in the next sec. I knew I had done something really bad, but could not get rid of it with any available zapper.
Even the Geek Squad could not get rid of it.
FYI the Geek Squad can be found on internet and they are all over the US as far as I can see and make house calls.
I use the Opera Web browser like Sven and couldn’t be happier with it.
Have a really great day everyone!!!!!
I let myself be talked into a Compaq a few years ago when it was time to do a serious upgrade. I am less than thrilled with Microsoft, and I still hate the platform–it’s simply counterintuitive to use something where you have to click Start to shut it off.
Don’t think I have spyware. My ISP has McAfee and Postini, I have email set for subject lines only, and I have Norton.
How do I find out if there is spyware? And what do I do about it?
Next upgrade, it’s back to Mac. Even if it does mean transferring skatey-eight messages and manuscripts.
Microsoft has a free antispyware available to all
windows people.
The spyware I had was not malicious, it was called
moderate. the antispyware got rid of it.
I found out that it might be the cable from my
computer to the modem that has been cutting out
my connection. So the cable guy is coming, and
I hope that he is cute.
Cute cable guys are always the best.
Switched last year after 10 years w/MicroSuck. With Apple you might want to wait until they get a G5 in their iBooks. (Family friend just priced a new Dell, and by the time it was equipped like a Mac, it cost more and did less.)
Last night I happened to catch NOVA’s Life & Death in the War Zone, in part dealing with wrenching decisions made by medical staff:
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The dilemma is a profound one, one that ethicists have wrestled with but not agreed upon. The United States, though a signatory to the larger Geneva Accords of 1949, balked at signing additional protocols in 1977 that would have obligated it to provide all medical support as necessary to an occupied state. Recognizing that it was not equipped to assume what could easily become an open-ended and monumental undertaking, the U.S. did not sign these protocols. Military physicians were therefore not legally bound to accept any and all cases outside of the priorities described above.
So I researched the Protocols and found this:
Apologies for the length of this, but I don’t have time to generate a full diary. Both articles are worth the read.