U.S. Giving Up On Turks and Rerouting Ships

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Israeli Court Orders Rerouting of
Barrier (AP)

Israeli Court Orders Rerouting of
Barrier (AP) 06/30/2004 08:06 AM
AP - In a precedent-setting decision, Israel's Supreme Court ordered the government Wednesday to change a large section of its West Bank separation barrier, saying the current route violates the human rights of the local Palestinian population.

Israel Rerouting Barrier Closer to
Border-Sources

Israel Rerouting Barrier Closer to
Border-Sources 07/13/2004 06:56 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jul 13 2004 11:50AM GMT

Israel Rerouting Barrier Closer to
Border-Sources (Reuters)

Israel Rerouting Barrier Closer to
Border-Sources (Reuters) 07/13/2004 06:45 AM
Reuters - Israel is redrawing the route of its West Bank barrier closer to its borders to ensure Palestinians are not cut off from their lands in keeping with a High Court order, security sources said on Tuesday.

Israel Completes Rerouting of West Bank
Barrier (Reuters)

Israel Completes Rerouting of West Bank
Barrier (Reuters) 07/26/2004 02:21 PM
Reuters - Israel's Defense Ministry said Monday it had revised the route of part of its disputed West Bank barrier, a move that security sources have said would entail cutting through less occupied land.

Turks aim to get revenues right

Turks aim to get revenues right 07/06/2004 11:18 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jul 7 2004 3:10AM GMT

that's nobody's business but the Turks

that's nobody's business but the Turks 12/12/2003 11:34 AM
29 May 1453, Constantinople fell to Mehmet II, sultan of the Ottoman Turks. With it fell the last stronghold of Christendom in the East. Founded by Consta ntine the Great, the Byzantine empire had lasted 1129 years.

During which time it created the Cyrillic alphabet, was sacked by the 4th crusade, precipitated the great schism, and created some of the most beautiful religious art of the ancient world. Sailing to Byzantium?

Turks spark German passport row

Turks spark German passport row 04/12/2005 05:51 AM
German-Turkish ties are strained amid reports that many German Turks have reapplied for Turkish citizenship.

Three Turks Held in Iraq; Blast Kills 19
(AP)

Three Turks Held in Iraq; Blast Kills 19
(AP) 06/26/2004 08:46 PM
AP - Militants loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said Saturday they have kidnapped three Turkish workers and threatened to behead them in 72 hours, heightening tensions as President Bush visited Turkey.

3 Turks Taken Hostage in Iraq (Los
Angeles Times)

3 Turks Taken Hostage in Iraq (Los
Angeles Times) 06/27/2004 05:04 AM
Los Angeles Times - BAGHDAD — Followers of the United States' "No. 1 target" in Iraq announced Saturday that they had kidnapped three Turkish contractors and threatened to behead them, even as President Bush was flying to Turkey for a NATO summit. The abductions came as 54 people were killed in insurgent attacks across Iraq.

Group Claims to Hold 3 Turks and Says It
Will Behead Them

Group Claims to Hold 3 Turks and Says It
Will Behead Them 06/26/2004 08:48 PM
The group, led by the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, demanded that Turkish companies leave Iraq within 72 hours.

Iraq Hostages Rescued, but Turks
Abducted (AP)

Iraq Hostages Rescued, but Turks
Abducted (AP) 06/09/2004 01:21 AM
AP - The United States' allies in Iraq mourned their dead Wednesday, a day after six European soldiers died while transporting munitions. Family members brought home the remains of two Japanese journalists killed while covering the occupation.

Iraqi Militants Claim to Kidnap Two
Turks (AP)

Iraqi Militants Claim to Kidnap Two
Turks (AP) 07/31/2004 07:17 PM
AP - Iraqi militants said Saturday they kidnapped two Turks and threatened to behead them within 48 hours, the latest in the country's unrelenting wave of abductions, even as efforts intensified to free seven truck drivers taken captive by other insurgents.

Four Jordanian Hostages, Two Turks Freed
in Iraq (Reuters)

Four Jordanian Hostages, Two Turks Freed
in Iraq (Reuters) 08/04/2004 06:24 AM
Reuters - Four Jordanian hostages were freed by Iraqi gunmen who raided their captors' hide-out, one of the released captives said on Wednesday, while a video from kidnappers said two Turkish hostages had also been released.

Courting Allies, Bush Ends Rift With the
Turks

Courting Allies, Bush Ends Rift With the
Turks 06/27/2004 08:45 PM
On the eve of a two-day NATO summit meeting that will be dominated by Iraq, President Bush concentrated on the theme of reconciliation.

Turks, Israelis Search Istanbul Blast
Sites

Turks, Israelis Search Istanbul Blast
Sites 11/16/2003 05:55 AM
Reuters via Wired News Nov 16 2003 4:35AM ET

Cyprus Greeks and Turks Agree on Plan to
End 40-Year Conflict

Cyprus Greeks and Turks Agree on Plan to
End 40-Year Conflict 02/14/2004 01:04 AM
Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders accepted Secretary General Kofi Annan's plan for ending Cyprus's decades-long division.

Poll shows French and British attitudes
to the US are broadly similar, with
Germans, Russians, Turks and Mexicans
being the most negative.

Poll shows French and British attitudes
to the US are broadly similar, with
Germans, Russians, Turks and Mexicans
being the most negative. 02/01/2005 10:01 PM
There is a lot of France bashing these days, on the basis that France is the most anti-US of...

Who's giving to who?

Who's giving to who? 07/08/2004 03:41 PM
You can probably guess who people like Janeane Garofalo and Ben Stein have given campaign contributions to. But how about Jennifer Garner? Reese Witherspoon? Siegfried and Roy? Karl Malone? The Newsmeat Hall Of Fame has the answers.

giving away

giving away 04/05/2005 04:12 AM
TechSpot Apr 5 2005 8:34AM GMT

Giving It Away (for Fun and Profit)

Giving It Away (for Fun and Profit) 04/22/2004 01:25 PM

Andy Raskin wrote a long, detailed piece about Creative Commons for the May 2004 issue of Business 2.0 magazine entitled "Giving It Away (for Fun and Profit)." The thrust of the artice is a look at what the future landscape might look like for artists that license their work under Creative Commons. The article also talks about ways current artists are making money and what types of future economies might be built around the licensed work.

Giving Ecto a try

Giving Ecto a try 02/10/2004 02:44 AM

Just downloaded Ado's update to Kung-Log, called Ecto. Seems to have a nice and easy set up, and the posting interface appears pretty clean. Automatic spell-checking is there as well, which is a nice feature too. If only it wasn't only available for this lousy Mac hardware. I've said it before and I'll say it again: If IBM and Apple teamed up and released OSX on a Thinkpad T40, I'd buy one in a heartbeat.

Anyway, that's not Ecto's fault. Kudos to Adriaan on a job well done.

The prince who keeps on giving

The prince who keeps on giving 08/05/2004 02:04 PM

New-age strategy on giving

New-age strategy on giving 01/01/2004 11:05 AM
San Jose Mercury News Jan 1 2004 8:04AM ET

the season of giving

the season of giving 01/07/2004 02:44 PM
I've already plugged EFF as a worthy target of support. Here's another easy and very worthy group: the folks at Wikipedia. As you (should) know, Wikipedia has built an extraordinary free content encyclopedia. They're now in real financial need. Please help if you can.

Giving the Gift of a new PC?

Giving the Gift of a new PC? 12/24/2003 07:07 PM
Thanks to Slashdot for the good link. If you are giving the gift of a new PC then you need...

Giving away the index

Giving away the index 06/05/2005 11:35 PM

My final year project is due in two weeks, and I'm going to be running on silent for most of them. I have, however, upgraded to Tiger and playing with Spotlight has given me plenty to think about.

Giving away the index

The great benefit of having an electronic version of a book you own in dead-tree format to hand is that you can search it. Publishers generally don't hand out free digital copies because, well, they want you to buy the books, not freely distribute electronic copies.

The thing is, you don't need a digital copy of a book to be able to search it; you just need a full-text index of it (if you don't understand what this means, go and read Tim Bray's series O n Search). An index isn't enough to reconstruct the book, but it is enough to answer questions like "on what pages of Eric Meyer on CSS are float layouts discussed?"

Imagine if technical publishers made binary full-text index files of their titles available for download, for free in some kind of open standard format. Readers could query them using Spotlight or similar technologies, and gain the ability to search the titles they own all without needing to rely on centralised, artificially limited services such as Amazon's Search Inside the Book.

O'Reilly, I'm looking at you.

Full-text phishing

On a darker note, one thing about Spotlight that has given me pause is the immense ease with which it can uncover passwords saved amongst my email. Lost password reminders, new account details, invitations to sign up for services - they're all hidden away in my mail archive. Spotlight makes it trivial to dig them back up again, and offers the APIs for applications to do so as well. Combine this with a piece of spyware / some trojan horse and you've got the ultimate vector for phishing attacks.

This problem isn't limited to Macs either; Google and MSN's Desktop Search engines could be used for much the same purpose, and full-text search is bound to end up built in to Windows sooner or later. For the moment, the safest thing to do is either delete those pesky emails or move them to a folder that is excluded from Spotlight's index. Somehow I doubt many people will think to take such precautions.

And with that off my chest, it's time to get back to my dissertation.

Giving Up On The Internet?

Giving Up On The Internet? 01/03/2005 02:58 PM
For all the stories of spam, scams and spyware online, are some people deciding that enough is enough, and logging off completely? The article just has a single anecdote, of one person who has disconnected her modem, and then uses the rest of the article to highlight all of the problems that have been discussed way too many times already. There have been a few similar articles in the past as well. It's pretty clear that there isn't a widespread rush to shut off the internet, but it is definitely true that some users just don't want to bother with the constant security patching and making sure their anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-phishing, anti-hijacking and anti-spyware software offerings are all up-to-date and working. It still seems like most average users expect their ISPs to handle all of this for them, but the ISPs are afraid to take on the role, knowing that it's quite difficult to manage. There's a real market opportunity if anyone could figure out a simple, no hassle way to handle all of this -- but clearly, we're a long way off from that.

Spammers are giving up, AOL says

Spammers are giving up, AOL says 12/29/2004 08:44 PM
National Post Dec 30 2004 12:44AM GMT

HP Giving Away G5, PowerBook, iMac, More

HP Giving Away G5, PowerBook, iMac, More 08/27/2004 02:03 PM
HP has launched an "Extreme Makeover" contest in which the company will give away more than US$40,000 worth of high-tech gear, including several Apple products. By MacMinute (via MyAppleMenu)

Giving Up Passwords For Chocolate

Giving Up Passwords For Chocolate 04/20/2004 08:35 AM

Book giving ideas

Book giving ideas 12/19/2004 03:21 PM
Not from me this time, though if I read more new books I would recommend some too you. This one comes from the New York Times: 100 Notable Books of the Year. This year the [New York Times] Book Review has selected 100 Notable Books from those reviewed since the Holiday Books issue of Dec. 7, 2003. Sadly I've only read one on the entire list, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan, the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America, which was great. 2004 has been my most pathetic year for reading. I used to read the number of books I've read this year in a week back in the day. Hopefully 2005 will be different.

Regifting: The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Regifting: The Gift That Keeps On Giving 12/24/2004 12:54 PM
Learn the cardinal rules of regifting and how to regift successfully. The Regift Network is giving away free $10 gift certificates to enable individuals to give along with their gift. [PRWEB Dec 22, 2004]

Giving Lightning Talks

Giving Lightning Talks 07/30/2004 01:26 PM
It's conference season, and there's still a chance to sign up for lightning talks. Until now, there've been no written rules for giving lighting talks. Mark Fowler explains.

Giving Thanks (a very abbreviated list)

Giving Thanks (a very abbreviated list) 01/07/2004 05:27 PM
Well, it is 4:30AM and I'm completely awake - bright and bleary-eyed This has been a tough few weeks, with both kids getting the flu (or something like it) - and they got it consecutively - first Melody, which knocked her out for a week, now Noah, who is busy snoring away in the swing because that's the only place where he gets any rest. Poor bugger, he can't even blow his own nose yet, so he's just plain uncomfortable.

This leads me to something I've been thinking a lot about lately, especially given the holiday season, and that is giving thanks. I learned a long time ago that having an attitude of gratitude is by far the most healthy thing for me, and especially in these somewhat difficult times of newborn bliss, giving thanks is a great way to remeber just how lucky and blessed I am. I was hoping to get this out for Thanksgiving, but better late than never, and as anyone who knows me well knows, time management isn't my strongest quality. :-)

So here goes. In no particular order.

• My wife and kids, just for being great.
• The rest of my family, parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, everybody.  Thanks for your love and support.
• All the folks at Sputnik - Dave, Art, Kathy, Scott, Tom, Bryan, Tony, Jeff - Kudos guys.
• All the folks at Technorati - Dan, Kevin, Mike, Kriszti, Louis, Brendyn, Theresa - you folks rock.
  
• Dan Gillmor, one of the few voices in mainstream journalism who consistently does great reporting on technology, media, and civil liberties issues
  
• Steve Gillmor, tireless supporter for metadata and new journalism business models
  
• Dave Winer and the folks at Userland for setting up weblogs.com, the granddaddy of the pinger sites.
• Not to mention all the standards backed up by real money (and bandwidth) that Dave provides. Thanks, man.
• Doc Searls - a constant voice of sanity, wisdom, and good judgement. And the best knack for writing weblog/article titles I've seen.
• Jason DeFillippo and his wonderful Blogrolling service.
• Ben and Mena Trott for producing great tools
• The USA.  Yeah, even though this country isn't perfect (and right now, we're going through one of those periods of collective insanity), it is still a great country, and I'm grateful to be living here - only by accident of birth - rather than in one of dozens of incredibly repressive, war-torn, or dirt-poor countries.
• Evan, Steve, Jason, and the folks at Blogger
• Linus and the hordes of open source programmers out there adding to the collective codebase.  Thanks.
• The EFF, for its tireless work and fight for our civil rights in cyberspace
• Larry Lessig and the folks at Creative Commons, fighting to preserve the public domain and our collective heritage
• Brewster Kahle and the folks at the Internet Archive, adding a Library of Congress every few months can get wearing after a while, thanks for doing it.
• All you bloggers - who (a) help inspire and inform me, and (b) help make my current business possible.  There is a rebirth of civics going on, and you guys are making it happen (as well as posting great kitten photos)
• Yahoo, Google, the New York Times, AOL, the Mozilla Project, the Apache project, the list goes on and on. Thanks.

This just starts to scratch the surface of the list. I am so lucky to be alive and to be right here, right now.

Giving Google rope

Giving Google rope 07/30/2004 01:53 AM
USA Today Jul 30 2004 6:02AM GMT

Geico Not Giving Up Against Google

Geico Not Giving Up Against Google 01/03/2005 02:58 PM
Last month, Geico very quickly lost their trademark infringement case against Google, even if the company tried to spin the loss and say it was a victory. Now, Geico is still claiming that they're going to fight on with this case, saying: "We continue to believe that the sale of our trademark is wrong, and we will continue to litigate this issue." The issue, of course, is that Google isn't "selling [their] trademark." They're selling positioning for anyone who is looking for Geico. As we've pointed out plenty of times, that's no different than the process of products being placed on shelves in stores. Stores sell placement all the time, and plenty of companies want to get placed near bigger brand names. The article also goes into some details about the method Geico used to show that there was trademark confusion. This was basically showing users two extreme cases, neither of which they were likely to see in a real-life Google search, and suggesting there was confusion. Part of this "confusion" was that some users in the test would click on an advertisement for other companies offering insurance quotes -- including quotes for Geico. You could easily question whether or not this created real confusion. If you're looking for a Geico quote, and someone offers you the opportunity to get quotes for Geico and others, many people would consciously choose to get the comparison quotes. It's not about confusion, but realizing they have more choice. In other words, Geico's complaint isn't about protecting trademark (which is just designed to prevent confusion over brand), but about preventing competition.

Three years of bl0gging and not giving
up

Three years of bl0gging and not giving
up 03/14/2005 04:27 PM
Today is the 3 year anniversary of my English blog. In three years I have been able to post 668 entries. Thats a little more than 1/2 an entry every day. In other words, all in all it hasn't been...

Giving Shareware As A Gift

Giving Shareware As A Gift 12/15/2003 09:18 AM

Is Anheuser-Busch Giving Too Much?

Is Anheuser-Busch Giving Too Much? 08/09/2004 11:14 AM
The brewer's stock buybacks are pushing the limits of sensibility.
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