Microsoft's Midlife Crisis

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Jane's midlife roller coaster
(USATODAY.com)

Jane's midlife roller coaster
(USATODAY.com) 08/23/2004 08:40 AM
USATODAY.com - Compared with many adults hit by bipolar disorder, Jane Pauley got off lightly with a rare midlife diagnosis and rapid symptom relief after three weeks in a top-notch hospital, say experts reacting to Pauley's disclosure of the illness in her autobiography.

Microsoft preps midlife kickers for
Windows XP

Microsoft preps midlife kickers for
Windows XP 05/05/2004 09:56 AM
Microsoft Corp. will release as many as six new products late this year as a suite of midlife kickers for its core WindowsXP operating system. The products represent the company's dual goals of improving the traditional PC and inventing new devices for Windows software beyond it. In the fourth quarter, the Redmond giant will roll out an upgrade of XP focused on greater security, 64-bit versions of its desktop and server operating system and improved versions of its Windows Media Player and Media Center PC software. It will also release software for the Portable Media Center, a new type of Windows handheld device that stores and plays video, music and pictures.

Is there a countryside crisis?

Is there a countryside crisis? 06/21/2004 04:48 AM
The number of homeless people in England's rural areas is now increasing more rapidly than in large towns and cities. Is there a crisis in the countryside?

Spin Crisis 1.0

Spin Crisis 1.0 10/31/2003 04:03 PM
You must guide your marble through an ever more challenging series of mazes.

Is the Aids crisis being taken
seriously?

Is the Aids crisis being taken
seriously? 07/11/2004 06:38 AM
The number of people who are HIV positive is increasing in many countries, and parts of Africa have a 40% infection rate. Why is the situation not improving?

Feeding a Crisis

Feeding a Crisis 02/01/2005 09:39 PM
Steve Rubel covers how Robert Scoble, Buzz Bruggeman and Anil Dash tackled the thorny topic of crisis communications at the Blog Business Summit:As the trio suggested today up in Seattle, continually nuture your network of blogging allies. This will...

A Crisis for Web Preservation

A Crisis for Web Preservation 06/25/2004 05:44 AM
A Crisis for Web Preservation by Florence Olsen
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0621/pol-crisis-06-21-04.asp

The Federal Depository Library Program has fallen behind in cataloging and preserving access to government documents published only on the Web. As a result, public access to those publications is spotty at best. "This is not a problem; this is a crisis," said Daniel Greenstein, head of the California Digital Library, which serves the 10 universities in the University of California system. He said information is disappearing from government Web sites at an alarming rate. At the Government Printing Office, which runs the depository library program, officials are struggling with the problem, known as fugitive documents, said Judith Russell, superintendent of documents. Fugitive documents are electronic publications that remain outside the federal depository collections in 1,300 libraries nationwide. According to Greenstein, Web crawlers are fairly good at capturing documents from the Web surface, but the technology is not as good at capturing information from the Deep Web. The Deep Web is where databases and dynamic Web pages — pages that gather information in response to users' requests — reside. A recent California Digital Library study found that about 85 percent of the Deep Web is in the .gov domain. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Creativity from crisis

Creativity from crisis 04/29/2004 03:11 AM
USA Today Apr 29 2004 7:24AM GMT

Communicating Through a Crisis

Communicating Through a Crisis 05/26/2004 07:34 AM
Business Week May 26 2004 12:05PM GMT

Identity crisis (XML.com)

Identity crisis (XML.com) 09/13/2002 06:40 PM

Identity Crisis

Identity Crisis 09/12/2002 07:48 AM
Kendall Clark examines section 2 of the W3C Technical Architecture Groups "Architectural Principles of the World Wide Web", concerning Identifiers and Resources.

Analog tape crisis

Analog tape crisis 03/17/2005 03:19 AM
Quantegy, the last remaining branded manufacturer of professional audio tape, closed its doors and filed for Chapter 11. But it seems there's hope that they'll bounce back.

ICANN's Crisis of Legitimacy

ICANN's Crisis of Legitimacy 06/17/2004 05:46 PM
eWeek Jun 17 2004 9:27PM GMT

Naivety led to GCHQ IT crisis

Naivety led to GCHQ IT crisis 12/03/2003 11:04 AM
vnunet.com Dec 3 2003 10:38AM ET

"E3: Crisis Zone Hands-on"

"E3: Crisis Zone Hands-on" 05/22/2004 09:54 AM

Shark Tank: One crisis after another

Shark Tank: One crisis after another 12/02/2003 01:57 AM
It's 2001, California's energy crisis is heading into the rolling-blackouts stage, and at this high-tech venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, one founding partner wants to know how IT equipment is being protected.

COMDEX's identity crisis

COMDEX's identity crisis 11/19/2003 12:30 AM
Techfocus Nov 19 2003 0:05AM ET

How can the pensions crisis be resolved?

How can the pensions crisis be resolved? 09/13/2004 06:54 AM
The TUC has warned of more industrial action unless the government acts to ease the growing pension crisis. What do you think?

Darfur crisis 'tragic', UN says

Darfur crisis 'tragic', UN says 05/04/2004 05:06 PM
A top UN official back from Darfur in western Sudan speaks of "one of the world's worst humanitarian crises".

My Annual Health Crisis

My Annual Health Crisis 06/05/2005 11:07 PM

I think I'm on a health plan which dictates that every year I must suffer from a completely unexpected medical issue. Last year it was a neck injury which resulted in surgery; this year, it's s udden hearing loss (SHL) in my left ear.

It all started on my first flight to Denver to meet the folks at NewsG ator. I had a really bad cold, and when the flight ended I noticed that my left ear felt "clogged." I figured it was just cold-related so I ignored it at first, but I started to get concerned when it didn't resolve itself over the next week.

My first doctor said it was caused by fluid in the ear, and prescribed something to help clear it up. But over the next few weeks it didn't get any better.

So last week I went to a specialist, and he discovered a pretty significant hearing loss in my left ear. I have trouble hearing higher frequencies, so it's kind of like my own personal Dolby noise reduction system. Apparently, SHL isn't uncommon, and many times the cause is viral.

Now I'm taking two different medicines, one of which makes me feel like I've drank three pots of coffee (great in the morning, not so great at night). The other is a drug commonly prescribed for herpes - a fact I wish I would've known before I picked up the prescription! My eyes bugged out when I saw the drug's description in the printout that accompanied it (hey, how many guys do you know who would want a herpes drug on their shelves?). Of course I immediately called my doctor, asking what the deal was and whether there was something he forgot to tell me, but he said not to worry - the drug had several other uses (whew).

Side note: don't you hate doctors who fail to tell you the side effects of the medicine they prescribe? One of the possible side effects of the first drug is that it "may cause vomiting that looks like coffee grounds." Wow. You'd think they'd write that in big letters on the side of the pill bottle ("Warning: this medicine may have some really disgusting side effects. Wear old clothes before taking this prescription.")

Anyway, now it's just a "wait and see" and hope that the medicine clears up the problem. In the meantime, it's not too bad having poor hearing in just one ear, but it is a little awkward. For example, whenever I talked with someone at Syndi cate last month I'd have to turn my right ear towards them, which felt a little odd, like I was saying, "hello, do you like my right ear? isn't it the sexy one?" to complete strangers.

I joked with a friend of mine about how I keep falling apart despite the fact that I have a healthy lifestyle. We figure that by the time I'm 80, I'll basically be a brain in a jar with a wireless connection to my computer (what, you think I'm ever going to stop coding?). Hmmm...actually, some days I'm already like that, so perhaps old age will suit me just fine?

A recipe for crisis management

A recipe for crisis management 06/24/2005 09:27 PM
globetechnology.com Jun 25 2005 1:41AM GMT

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DEC - DEC LIBERIA CRISIS APPEAL 12/31/2004 12:43 PM
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Antoin on the crisis in Sri Lanka

Antoin on the crisis in Sri Lanka 01/02/2005 02:03 PM

Some of us have been having an email exchange online about how we can help tsunami victims. Here is an email from Antoin that I found particularly interesting. It concurs with an IHT article I read the other day which said the biggest problem in many regions was not the volume of support but the coordination and the most limited resource was airspace, airstrips, and coordination.

Antoin

Hi folks,

I've been staying with some Sri Lankan friends living in London. But they really don't know what to do. They are perplexed really.

There is a relief effort, and a lot of people are doing a lot of work, but you'd have to wonder whether this is thought out to any great extent. I can imagine what will happen. In a week or two, tents and medical equipment will show up in SL in large volumes, but by that stage they will be useless. At that stage, they will be beginning to look for things like building supplies. Medical supplies are being shipped from the UK, and this is certainly an important contribution, but perhaps the money and effort could be better focused. You could buy them cheaper in China or Singapore, and the flight time is much shorter.

According to the News Lanka newsletter, a paper for the Sinhalese community in the UK, the government is turning down aid teams from places like Israel, because they already have too many relief workers. Perhaps the Sri Lankan government mistakenly thought that these were 'amateur' relief workers who were being sent.

There is a lot of talk about not being able to afford response systems. In reality, there was no problem predicting the tsunamis by all accounts, at least as far as India and Sri Lanka were concerned. The problem was that the seismologists had no idea who they should call when they found out what was happening.

Now there are false alarms happening and It is difficult for ordinary people to get good information. TV footage in the UK showed people running, because they thought another tsunami was coming. But the information people were getting from the government was incorrect. This will eventually turn into the story about the boy who cried 'wolf' too many times.

There really has to be a better way of going about this.

I absolutely agree with what Jack has written about land title. There is no point in funding the rebuilding the homes of the people effected, if they do not have at least some sort of title on the land. Of course, this only represents a small proportion of the land masses we are talking about, but it would be a great place to start on sorting out land ownership in SE Asia.

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The National Identity Crisis

The National Identity Crisis 12/27/2003 06:36 AM
Bring up the subject of a national ID card and be prepared for a fight. It doesn't have to be that way: the key is verification, not identification. By Jeffrey Rosen from Wired Magazine.

French Voters Could Cause E.U. Crisis

French Voters Could Cause E.U. Crisis 04/10/2005 12:54 PM
Free Internet Press Apr 10 2005 3:31PM GMT

UN 'misled' over DR Congo crisis

UN 'misled' over DR Congo crisis 04/05/2005 09:19 PM
The UN probes claims by an ex-employee that an erroneous report on DR Congo destabilised the region.

On the Supercomputer Technology Crisis

On the Supercomputer Technology Crisis 07/28/2004 06:43 PM

Sudan Crisis Could See 300,000 To 1
Million Die

Sudan Crisis Could See 300,000 To 1
Million Die 06/05/2004 06:03 AM
Free Internet Press Jun 5 2004 10:14AM GMT

UN set to vote on Darfur crisis

UN set to vote on Darfur crisis 09/18/2004 03:14 AM
The UN Security Council is to vote on a resolution designed to step up pressure on Sudan to bring peace to Darfur.

Argentina blames IMF for crisis

Argentina blames IMF for crisis 07/31/2004 05:44 AM
Argentina's president says the international lender has been too slow in recognising its role in the economic crisis.

UK heading for IT staffing crisis

UK heading for IT staffing crisis 02/05/2005 10:05 PM

Football: Man Utd rues crisis

Football: Man Utd rues crisis 08/09/2004 03:59 AM
Man Utd manager Sir Alex Ferguson faces up to an injury and suspension crisis.

Crisis shuts down Haiti assembly

Crisis shuts down Haiti assembly 01/12/2004 01:52 AM
The mandate of Haiti's parliament expires, as violent protests over President Aristide's rule escalate.

Abe wants to revise Constitution to use
SDF in hostage crisis

Abe wants to revise Constitution to use
SDF in hostage crisis 04/12/2004 12:56 AM

Japan Today

Abe wants to revise Constitution to use SDF in hostage crisis

Monday, April 12, 2004 at 06:47 JST
TOKYO — Shinzo Abe, secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, called Sunday for amending the Constitution to enable the government to mobilize the Self-Defense Forces in such eventualities as the current hostage crisis in Iraq.

Obviously the US doesn't have a monopoly on using tragedies and fear to push their political agenda. I personally am not against revising the constitution and I can see how it makes "political sense" to do it now, but it still bugs me. People make such stupid laws when they're emotional.

Thought for the dayIT downtime is a
crisis

Thought for the dayIT downtime is a
crisis 08/12/2004 04:00 AM
Computer Weekly Aug 12 2004 8:14AM GMT

Australia warned of water crisis

Australia warned of water crisis 07/05/2004 01:01 PM
Australia faces severe water shortages if it fails to cut its greenhouse gas emissions, a report warns.

PM's 'solution' to ASW pension crisis

PM's 'solution' to ASW pension crisis 04/21/2004 12:50 PM
Tony Blair says he hopes to find a way of helping hundreds of former steelworkers who lost pensions when ASW collapsed.

U.N. warns of global HIV women's crisis

U.N. warns of global HIV women's crisis 07/09/2004 03:30 PM

EXCLUSIVE: Wen Says US, N.Korea Want to
End Crisis (Reuters)

EXCLUSIVE: Wen Says US, N.Korea Want to
End Crisis (Reuters) 04/28/2004 08:39 AM
Reuters - Washington and Pyongyang have both told China they hope to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis peacefully with the ultimate goal of a nuclear-free Korean peninsula, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Wednesday.
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