Palin's Travels: Himalaya

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Palin's Travels.

Palin's Travels. 04/13/2004 10:06 AM
Palin's Travels. The full texts of all five books in Michael Palin's wonderful travel/adventure series, Around the World in 80 Days, Pole to Pole, Full Circle, Hemingway Adventure, and Sahara are available online, along with loads of pictures, video (Quicktime req.) and audio clips.

Exotic Travels

Exotic Travels 06/05/2005 11:56 PM

I promised a friend to take her for an excursion by private airplane to a foreign country where they speak a strange tongue unknown to 97 percent of the world's population.  She readily agreed.  We folded ourselves into the four-seat propeller-driven single-engine Cirrus SR20 and entered the clouds above Hanscom Air Force Base near Boston.  We didn't see the ground again until about 600' above a long runway amidst a cold rain-soaked landscape.  "Welcome to Quebec City," I said to her.

[Tip for dogless travelers:  the Auberge St-Antoine is truly a fine hotel in the old city.]

New Worm Travels by IM

New Worm Travels by IM 08/20/2004 02:35 PM
According to researches at PivX Solutions a new worm has surfaced, but this one travels via instant messaging. This worm has been labeled as the next generation of the Scob worm, this new worm has already started to infect Web sites in Russia, Uruguay, and now the United States.

This worm has the same basic instructions as a worm called "Scob" or "Download.ject." Back in June Scob attacked un-patched Windows 2000 systems running IIS Version 5. This was done by exploiting a buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft's implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer. This 'next generation' of Scob sends instant messages containing the following text "Check out my new home page!” followed by a link. This message can be sent from your either your friends or strangers. The link provided in the message takes the user to several attack Web pages where a Trojan horse program is downloaded.

As is the case with most worms/viruses Microsoft has already released a patch. If you keep up to date with your 'Critical Updates' then your machine should be fine. However, PivX has yet to determine the total amount of damage that this worm inflicts. Recommending that even if users have applied the necessary update not to click on the link. Especially if their system was previously infected with the Scob worm.

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Photos from Cory's travels

Photos from Cory's travels 08/30/2004 10:02 AM
Cory Doctorow: I've been travelling nonstop for a couple years now, shooting pix of various amusing, pretty or outre things as I go. I find myself with hundreds of photos that I took basically because I thought it'd be funny to show them to friends, but I never do.

This morning, I used Flickr's Uploadr tool for OSX to upload about 160 of them, tagging them with some metadata as I went. It was a pretty neat experience, reliving all those moments. I'm gonna try to keep my public Flickr library up to date on this stuff from now on. Link

what if one wants to play some games
while he travels ?? or

what if one wants to play some games
while he travels ?? or 08/22/2004 06:16 AM
TechTree Aug 22 2004 8:43AM GMT

Pet Rooster Travels 45 Minutes Under Car
(AP)

Pet Rooster Travels 45 Minutes Under Car
(AP) 08/03/2004 08:05 PM
AP - Mary Lute just thought she was driving to work. Little did she know her pet rooster was underneath her car during the 45-minute ride July 27. When she stopped at a convenience store, a fellow customer said there was a chicken loose in the parking lot.

US 'deserter' travels to Japan

US 'deserter' travels to Japan 07/17/2004 10:50 PM
A former GI faces being turned over to the US after his alleged desertion in 1965, as he heads to Japan for medical care.

STMicro travels further into India

STMicro travels further into India 02/19/2004 12:59 PM
The European chipmaker opens a new design facility in the country and plans to hire more engineers to work on embedded software.

How news travels through bl0gs

How news travels through bl0gs 03/08/2004 11:03 PM
A reader writes, "Stephen VanDyke analyzes how news travels on the Internet. He uses a nifty graphic that resembles a kabbalah diagram. (In the process of doing this, VanDyke's post becomes a textbook example of how news travels." Link

STMicroelectronics travels further into
India

STMicroelectronics travels further into
India 02/19/2004 02:15 PM
ZDNet Feb 19 2004 6:34PM GMT

Farm Aid Travels to Washington State
(AP)

Farm Aid Travels to Washington State
(AP) 08/02/2004 03:51 PM
AP - For the first time, Farm Aid will be doing its musical fund raising west of the Rockies this year, holding its annual concert at the White River Amphitheater. Farm Aid 2004, featuring Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews and others, will be held Sept. 18 in Auburn.

Pope travels to Adriatic shrine

Pope travels to Adriatic shrine 09/06/2004 02:00 AM
Pope John Paul arrives on Italy's Adriatic coast to beatify three future saints, on his last journey of the year.

Online Scrapboooks Let Globetrotters
Trace Their Travels

Online Scrapboooks Let Globetrotters
Trace Their Travels 03/28/2005 11:18 AM
Washingtonpost.com - Mon Mar 28, 11:06 am GMT

Runaway Turtle Travels 3 Miles in 3
Months (AP)

Runaway Turtle Travels 3 Miles in 3
Months (AP) 09/01/2004 05:17 PM
AP - Herman the tortoise is more than 30 years old, but she can still cut a dash. The female tortoise has just been returned home after a rushing three miles across country in a little over three months, her owners said Wednesday.

Furtive Surfers Find a Way to Keep Their
Travels Secret

Furtive Surfers Find a Way to Keep Their
Travels Secret 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
A new thumb-size U.S.B. drive from a company called StealthSurfer aims to guard your privacy by keeping the records of your Web activity close to the vest. When you plug in the StealthSurfer and use its customized version of the Netscape browser, the device stores the cookies, U.R.L. history, cache files and other traces of your Web browsing that would ordinarily accumulate on your computer's hard drive. When you're done surfing, you unplug the drive and take the records of your travels with you.

The Evolution - and Future Travels - Of
Search Technology

The Evolution - and Future Travels - Of
Search Technology 06/06/2004 06:40 AM
The Evolution - and Future Travels - Of Search Technology
http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid =148

In this trip down the Memory Lane of information retrieval -- or search -- technology, author Ramana Rao begins at the beginning, with an excerpt from a 1945 Vanity Fair article titled "As We May Think" that foretold the image of a scholar aided by a machine: "a device in which an individual stores all his books, records and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility." Today, when some 25 million Web searches an hour are conducted, that vision is quickly becoming reality. Rao finds that, across the decades, two dichotomies stand out clearly in the evolution of search. "The first is the contrast between focusing on the one hand on narrowly defined technological approaches and on the other hand on a broader understanding of the full problem set and the possible solutions. The second is the contrast between working out ideas in research versus spreading them commercially." Essentially, the longstanding challenge has been matching technological capabilities to real information needs. Rao concludes that the "semantic Web," may eventually come to pass, but only with the birth of systems that support human-computer symbiosis.

Online Scrapboooks Let Globetrotters
Trace Their Travels (washingtonpost.com)

Online Scrapboooks Let Globetrotters
Trace Their Travels (washingtonpost.com) 03/26/2005 06:43 PM
washingtonpost.com - Soon you may be able to search your life history online to recall where you ate that fabulous dinner in New Orleans six years ago or the names of those two dopey dudes you met in Acapulco when you were 21.

Oregon Governor Travels in Wi-Fi
Equipped "Beaver Patriot"

Oregon Governor Travels in Wi-Fi
Equipped "Beaver Patriot" 11/10/2003 10:55 PM
A fully-loaded RV will allow Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski to travel beyond the I-5 corridor and meet with constituents while still carrying out his office's business: I grew up in Oregon, and while the state has population centers around Portland, Salem, Eugene, and Grants Pass, a big chunk of the state is reachable only through small highways and farm roads using passes crossing coastal and inland mountains. The RV uses satellite for its connectivity and Wi-Fi within the vehicle. A business lobby has provided the vehicle, but it's awfully hard to see how there are any ethical problems given that the connections are completely exposed: this isn't a backroom deal, and the RV was made by an Oregon firm. (Kulongoski is the first politician I ever stumped for when he ran for office back in the 1980s; he lost.)...
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