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Costa Rican Cop Kills Himself, Hostages
(AP)

Costa Rican Cop Kills Himself, Hostages
(AP) 07/28/2004 12:34 AM
AP - A Costa Rican policeman apparently distraught over an impending job transfer killed himself and three of the nine hostages he took at the Chilean embassy Tuesday, ending a tense seven-hour standoff.

Geodog is back from Costa Rica

Geodog is back from Costa Rica 10/29/2003 01:16 AM
We are back from our month in Costa Rica. We had a fabulous vacation. We learned a little Spanish, met some really nice people, and we had a great time living outdoors, hiking or swimming almost every day. In fact, we had so much fun that we didn't get around to doing all the research we had planned on housing costs, schools, employment opportunities, health care, and all the other details that would be involved in living there in the future. We just played. We also concluded that while we are definitely interested in going to Costa Rica to live for a year to two at some point in the near future, for now we are staying here in Berkeley. I highly recommend Costa Rica in the summer to anyone looking for a moderately priced vacation with great hiking, great wildlife viewing, great adventures and really friendly people. If anyone is interested, I put a few of the 300+ photos I took up on the web at http://www.thebishop.net/gallery/CRHigh/. Email me for the password if you want to see photos with people in them. If you are interested in my impressions of Costa Rica and travel recommendations, I'll be posting a travel report of sorts here and at Geodog: Costa Rica over the next few days. I plan to start writing here again, although I am going to try to avoid losing myself in politics again -- it takes up too much time, doesn't feel productive, and there seem to be plenty of people doing a good job exposing the lies of the Bush administration. Now it is time for me to restart the job/entrepreneurial opportunities hunt that I put on hold last spring. I am looking for anything that involves using my analytical, organizational, and people skills (see resume) to work with smart people on an interesting product or project, but I suspect that the easiest way to market myself is going to be as a Software Product/Project/Program manager. I'm hoping to find something in the East Bay or San Francisco, but I'm looking farther afield as well. If you know of any openings or of any interesting companies in the Bay Area that are hiring, feel free to leave me a comment or send me an email....

Rodrigo Costa: Microsoft's OEM Man of
Mystery

Rodrigo Costa: Microsoft's OEM Man of
Mystery 12/24/2004 12:26 PM
Who is Rodrigo Costa? Just the head of one of Microsoft's most powerful and profitable units, the OEM division.

Brazil crush Costa Rica

Brazil crush Costa Rica 07/12/2004 12:55 AM
Adriano scores a hat-trick as Brazil beat Costa Rica 4-1 to reach the Copa America quarter-finals.

One million Costa Ricans access Internet

One million Costa Ricans access Internet 06/24/2004 07:31 PM
Big News Network Jun 24 2004 11:14PM GMT

Bus bound for Costa Rica runs on used
cooking oil

Bus bound for Costa Rica runs on used
cooking oil 12/24/2004 01:09 PM
Y Bws Gwyrdd

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Geodog has temporarily retired to Costa
Rica

Geodog has temporarily retired to Costa
Rica 10/29/2003 01:16 AM
Writing is addictive, but sometimes I need to break the habit. After Bush's War on Iraq started, and after I started SARS Watch Org, about the SARS epidemic, I stopped my Geodog political and technology writing, and worked furiously and full time on SARS Watch Org for about 3 months, stopping as the epidemic wound down. When I stopped working on it, I found I needed a break from writing. I was (and remain) discouraged about the political situation, and I decided to spend more time enjoying my family and the beautiful summer we were having, so I haven't updated Geodog's MT Weblog in a while. Recently I have been concentrating more on coding and photography than on writing. I used the tools and skills I learned about with SARSWatch to update the TheBishop.Net's News page to actually do something useful, by having it display headlines and excerpts of articles from publications like the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the BBC. The page is updated hourly, making it a useful place to check out the news. I have put up a ton of family pictures in the photo gallery, and actually put up some public pictures, like the ones from the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. And while I took a break this summer from my "Geodog" political writing, I did continue to maintain my linklog. To keep my technology muscles limber, I also started a Costa Rica Travel Wiki to play with the technology and to store information about my upcoming trip to Costa Rica. Now I am heading down to Costa Rica for a month, to try and gage what it would be like to live down there. When I last visited Costa Rica for a month in 1994, it was a great place to travel, but I wasn't looking at it from the perspective of living there. This time we are going to check out housing costs, schools, employment opportunities, health care, and so on, as well as working on our Spanish and just having a great time. As the situation in the United States continues to deteriorate, it seems only practical to take a look at some alternatives, and Costa Rica sounds appealing from afar. We will see what it looks like close up. I expect that all my surfing in Costa Rica will be waves instead of the net, although I might check my mail once a week or so. Feel free to send me email at my travel address, costaricatim at thebishop.ne t. I expect that I will take up writing as Geodog again in the fall, after school starts up. Until then, hasta luego y vaya con dios.

Impressions of Costa Rica after a
month's visit: Biodiversity

Impressions of Costa Rica after a
month's visit: Biodiversity 10/29/2003 01:16 AM
In Costa Rica biodiversity isn't a just a slogan or a buzzword, it is an observable fact. The country is teeming with life. We saw amazing numbers of birds, reptiles, insects and plants. Even when we weren't looking for them, the number and kinds of birds and insects that we saw just walking around rural towns was astonishing, and the variety we saw when we were hiking in the national parks was awe-inspiring. For example, on one short afternoon hike on Rincón de la Vieja I saw 2 species of toucans, 2 species of parrots, a laughing falcon, a cuckoo, a woodpecker, several kinds of finches, flycatchers, magpies and jays. That was just some of the birds. I also saw 2 bats, an agouti, a snake, several kinds of frogs and toads, several kinds of lizards, several kinds of ants including leaf cutter ants and army ants, and thousands of butterflies. I'm not much on plants, so I can't name many of the different trees I saw, but in the course of one afternoon I passed through at least 5 kinds of habitat: cloud forest, tropical rainforest, dry tropical forest, open savannah and what looked like California live oak highlands. I have done a lot of hiking in the United States, and I have never seen anything like it. As the guidebooks point out, there are more species of birds in Costa Rica (650) than in all of the United States and Canada combined. All of this in a country the size of West Virginia. If you like hiking and wildlife viewing, especially bird-watching, it is hard to imagine a better place. And if you are a fan of the writings of Charles Darwin, David Quammen and Edwin O. Wilson, as I am, it is a great place to see, in the flesh as it were, exactly what they were writing about....

nikka costa, nobel peace prize winner

nikka costa, nobel peace prize winner 02/13/2004 03:57 PM
she's reunited prince and wendy, ?uestlove and d'angelo, and next she'll be reuniting the Beatles

Low-Wage Costa Ricans Make Baseballs for
Millionaires

Low-Wage Costa Ricans Make Baseballs for
Millionaires 01/25/2004 06:14 AM
Every baseball used in the major leagues is handcrafted by workers who typically make about $2,750 a year.

One Dead as Christmas Quake Hits Panama,
Costa Rica

One Dead as Christmas Quake Hits Panama,
Costa Rica 12/25/2003 01:58 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 25 2003 12:40PM ET

Impressions of Costa Rica after a
month's visit: Tico Time

Impressions of Costa Rica after a
month's visit: Tico Time 10/29/2003 01:16 AM
The pace of life in Costa Rica is considerably slower than it is in the United States. Part of this was undoubtedly because we traveled as tourists, mostly in rural Costa Rica, in the low season. I'm sure that it would have been somewhat different in San Jose in the high season, or working at Intel's plant in Heredia. Still, people in Costa Rica aren't as frantic about getting things done on time as people are in the US. Costa Ricans act as though people are more important than deadlines, and people expect to make time for each other, and to wait for other people and to have other people wait for them. Expatriates, and some Costa Ricans, call this living on Tico Time. Punctuality is not next to godliness, and waiting is not seen as offensive, or as a waste of time. We ran into this all the time. The best example of this was one day when a hotel owner offered to take us and some other people in the hotel up to see turtles coming ashore to lay eggs at Ostional (a fantastic trip). He said that we would leave the hotel after lunch, and I asked him exactly when after lunch we should be ready to go. He shrugged his shoulders, looked at me and slapped his empty wrist and said "you see a watch? We will leave when everybody is ready to go." It worked both ways -- once we were about to go out to dinner and another hotel owner stopped us and asked if we would help her middle-school aged son with his homework, because he had a test the next day but was still confused about the difference between the comparative and the superlative. Having made her house into a home for our family (mi casa es su casa), she expected that we would do no less for her family. So we happily postponed our dinner for an hour to tutor her son. Living with tico time was not always easy. One morning we got up early, hoping to climb up to the top of Rincón de la Vieja volcano before it was covered with clouds, but when we got to the entrance to Rincón de la Vieja National Park, we found a scene from the California Department of Motor Vehicles. There was long line of other hikers waiting to pay...

Ericsson and ICE in Costa Rica Sign
Managed Services and GSM/GPRS
Infrastructure Contract

Ericsson and ICE in Costa Rica Sign
Managed Services and GSM/GPRS
Infrastructure Contract 04/18/2005 02:02 PM
Business Wire UK Apr 18 2005 3:24PM GMT

New Website Offering Developments and
Property for Sale on the Costa del Sol
in Casares, Manilva, Duquesa, Marbella,
and Estepona in Spain

New Website Offering Developments and
Property for Sale on the Costa del Sol
in Casares, Manilva, Duquesa, Marbella,
and Estepona in Spain 06/02/2004 02:32 AM
Ocean Coast Estates new website offers new developments and property for sale on the Costa del sol in Casares, Manilva, Duquesa, Marbella, and Estepona as well as other regions of Spain [PRWEB Jun 2, 2004]

¿Sun contra Linux?

¿Sun contra Linux? 09/25/2004 09:50 AM

Fritz contra Kasparov

Fritz contra Kasparov 11/12/2003 01:32 PM

Los bares contra la SGAE

Los bares contra la SGAE 05/19/2004 10:11 PM

From Iran-Contra to Iraq

From Iran-Contra to Iraq 04/19/2004 04:22 PM

Contra la piratería, bajada de IVA

Contra la piratería, bajada de IVA 04/29/2004 07:54 AM

Transgénicos contra el hambre

Transgénicos contra el hambre 05/17/2004 04:19 PM

La OCDE, contra el SPAM

La OCDE, contra el SPAM 08/12/2004 10:19 PM

Artículo contra el spam en La Vanguardia

Artículo contra el spam en La Vanguardia 01/04/2005 11:51 PM

Microsoft y sus métodos contra la
piratería

Microsoft y sus métodos contra la
piratería 06/17/2004 11:30 AM

Avances en la investigación contra el
SPAM

Avances en la investigación contra el
SPAM 09/19/2004 07:43 PM

Dia 29 manifestación contra pantentes en
Barcelona

Dia 29 manifestación contra pantentes en
Barcelona 05/20/2004 12:59 PM

El Gobierno de EEUU advierte contra el
uso de IE

El Gobierno de EEUU advierte contra el
uso de IE 07/02/2004 08:04 AM

La Unión Europea, contra Echelon

La Unión Europea, contra Echelon 05/17/2004 10:36 PM

Manifestación contra el canon en las
bibliotecas

Manifestación contra el canon en las
bibliotecas 04/23/2004 05:38 AM

El director del CIS contra el voto
electrónico

El director del CIS contra el voto
electrónico 08/14/2004 04:59 AM

Las nuevas leyes de copyright contra
CloneCD

Las nuevas leyes de copyright contra
CloneCD 11/06/2003 06:29 AM

Setencia contra la marca Mandrake en
Francia

Setencia contra la marca Mandrake en
Francia 02/19/2004 04:35 AM

Contra las patentes de software en el
Forum de Barcelona

Contra las patentes de software en el
Forum de Barcelona 05/19/2004 04:23 AM

Importante avance en la lucha contra el
sida

Importante avance en la lucha contra el
sida 08/16/2004 06:15 PM

La ACAM pierde los nervios y arremete
contra la AI

La ACAM pierde los nervios y arremete
contra la AI 06/11/2004 05:55 PM

Juicio contra la seguridad informática
en Francia

Juicio contra la seguridad informática
en Francia 05/24/2004 06:23 AM

BNG también está en contra de la
patentabilidad del software

BNG también está en contra de la
patentabilidad del software 05/27/2004 04:46 AM

Movilización universitaria contra las
patentes de software

Movilización universitaria contra las
patentes de software 04/11/2005 03:02 PM

Ingeniería genética contra las minas
antipersona

Ingeniería genética contra las minas
antipersona 01/28/2004 06:40 PM

La Junta de Andalucía ¿contra el canon
de la SGAE?

La Junta de Andalucía ¿contra el canon
de la SGAE? 01/22/2004 09:15 AM

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Pro Tech introduces the anticipated
release of CrimeTrax

Pro Tech introduces the anticipated
release of CrimeTrax 07/29/2004 02:59 AM
Pro Tech releases it long anticipated CrimeTrax, crime scene correlation software. Pro Tech has also expanded it's national sales team. [PRWEB Jul 29, 2004]

Beat It!

Beat It! 06/03/2004 11:27 PM
What's wrong with the Party Shuffle feature of iTunes? I'm now getting the third Michael Jackson song within five songs.
I've praised the UI of this new iTunes feature, but the engine behind it can definitely use some improvements.

Beat the S&P 500

Beat the S&P 500 08/18/2004 01:05 PM
Legg Mason's Mary Chris Gay shares her secrets for outperforming the S&P 500.

If you can't beat 'em ...

If you can't beat 'em ... 02/10/2004 02:59 AM
Oracle threw in the towel this week and offered to connect with rival software suites, instead of trying to buy the ...

M-Beat 2.2b

M-Beat 2.2b 05/05/2004 02:16 PM
An iTunes controller, featuring playlists, a floating window and much more.

Never Missed a Beat

Never Missed a Beat 03/06/2004 01:55 AM
“Once loaded up, you can drop the [iPod] mini in your pocket, or make use of the optional arm band to strap it to you,” writes Brett Larson in an iPod mini review for CBS. “And unlike CD players, or even tape-based WalkMan’s, the iPod’s let you move about, run around, work out and stay active without any song skipping. In fact, where my typical 4 mile run has me skipping a few steps, my iPod hasn’t ever missed a beat.” [Mar 5]

Beat the Street With Value

Beat the Street With Value 04/08/2005 10:23 AM
Want better returns? Philip Durell shows you how to get them.

CNET's Beat Goes On

CNET's Beat Goes On 04/27/2004 08:43 AM
At last, CNET officially launches its music site.

Beat the Lottery!

Beat the Lottery! 04/05/2005 12:30 PM
Scientific Games expands its relationship with the Massachusetts State Lottery.

The bl0g beat...

The bl0g beat... 08/13/2004 10:38 AM
Dan Gillmor's We the Media arrived in the mail today — ah, the lovely sound of organized atoms hitting the carpet. This got me thinking about the artificiality of "articles" as a rhetorical form for newspapers. They are a result of a scarcity that no longer exists. Reporters often have beats they cover, producing articles when something happens of sufficient importance to warrant taking over some of the limited real estate of the newspaper. Online, there's no scarcity of real estate, so we can publish more than the occasional article. In fact, blogs are more like beats than like articles....

You Can Beat the Market

You Can Beat the Market 07/27/2004 07:19 AM
Nobody said you have to invest in the "typical" mutual fund.

The Lawsuit Beat Goes On

The Lawsuit Beat Goes On 12/24/2003 01:26 PM

You gotta beat 53/70!

You gotta beat 53/70! 09/04/2004 07:16 PM
BBC Test the Nation: Popular Music.
UK centric [slightly] quiz in the Test The Nation series [- but allows a 'not UK' option.]
Who did write the theme from 'The Office' Handbags & Gladrags'?

easy beat 2.0

easy beat 2.0 01/23/2004 09:54 PM
A music authoring program for the Macintosh.

What can be done to beat obesity?

What can be done to beat obesity? 05/26/2004 05:45 AM
MPs are set to criticise the UK government's record on tackling obesity as world experts gather in Prague to discuss the epidemic. What should be done?

AMD can beat Intel

AMD can beat Intel 06/14/2004 08:10 AM
ZDNet Jun 14 2004 12:29PM GMT

Can you beat my record of 296.1?

Can you beat my record of 296.1? 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
Hit the penguin!

More from the torture beat

More from the torture beat 06/09/2004 02:03 PM

Microsoft: if you can't buy them, beat
them

Microsoft: if you can't buy them, beat
them 11/10/2003 11:38 PM
The Register Nov 10 2003 5:14AM ET

Sony beat on Playstation

Sony beat on Playstation 09/23/2004 03:00 AM
USA Today Sep 23 2004 6:08AM GMT

Since Macromedia Can't Beat 'Em, It
Joins 'Em

Since Macromedia Can't Beat 'Em, It
Joins 'Em 08/27/2004 06:58 PM
The Feature Aug 27 2004 10:25PM GMT

MSNBC - How to Beat Bush

MSNBC - How to Beat Bush 08/30/2004 05:15 PM
Brazile: Memo to Kerry-Edwards .. has a story

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How to beat the blackout blues

How to beat the blackout blues 12/21/2003 01:23 AM
US News Dec 21 2003 0:01AM ET

Dell beat itself in the first quarter

Dell beat itself in the first quarter 05/13/2004 06:18 PM
We'll print HP into submission

Beat Spam By Not Using Email

Beat Spam By Not Using Email 09/10/2004 10:43 AM

Football: Arsenal beat PSV

Football: Arsenal beat PSV 09/14/2004 04:37 PM
Arsenal make a winning start in Europe thanks to an own-goal by PSV Eindhoven's Alex.

IBM profits beat the Street

IBM profits beat the Street 07/15/2004 05:24 PM
Big Blue slightly exceeds expectations on strong mainframe sales and services deals, despite weaker software sales.

Update: Easy Beat 2.1

Update: Easy Beat 2.1 05/11/2004 09:12 AM
The MIDI sequencer adds export of song tracks for GarageBand, better handling of user input for improved responsiveness, expanded scroll wheel support, and other changes.

Heat Beat Rockets 95-81 (AP)

Heat Beat Rockets 95-81 (AP) 01/27/2004 12:07 AM
AP - Thanks to one of the Miami Heat's best offensive efforts of the season, Stan Van Gundy pulled even in the first-year coaching rivalry with his younger brother.

Survivor's Mesmerizing Beat

Survivor's Mesmerizing Beat 09/16/2004 09:39 AM
The ninth installment of the hit CBS reality series kicks off its tribal warring ways.

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