UK.gov blows £1.5bn on botched IT projects

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How We Botched the German Occupation

How We Botched the German Occupation 11/02/2003 07:35 AM
Instapundit

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Thai i18n projects & iBlog projects

Thai i18n projects & iBlog projects 05/23/2004 03:36 AM
Website Launched !

Botched Relay Leaves Jones 0-For-Athens
(AP)

Botched Relay Leaves Jones 0-For-Athens
(AP) 08/27/2004 05:24 PM
AP - A botched relay handoff doomed Marion Jones' chances of winning even a single medal at the Athens Olympics, a disastrous ending to her summer of turmoil and disappointment. Hoping to win a pair of golds Friday, Jones was shut out instead. An hour after she finished fifth in the long jump, Jones was unable to make the handoff in the 400-meter relay when Lauryn Williams left too early.

Botched migration hits Bulldog users

Botched migration hits Bulldog users 09/01/2004 04:36 AM
Broadband down

Trail of Pain From Botched Attack in
Iraq in '03

Trail of Pain From Botched Attack in
Iraq in '03 04/14/2005 09:42 PM
In one of the worst cases of "friendly fire" during the 2003 invasion of Iraq - one that has drawn little public attention - three soldiers died and five were wounded.

THE BELGRAVIA DISPATCH: Joe Wilson: A
Botched Niger Mission?

THE BELGRAVIA DISPATCH: Joe Wilson: A
Botched Niger Mission? 06/27/2004 09:11 PM
brings news of a Financial Times piece .. potentially embarrassing developments .. Gregory Djerejian

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Massive MyTravel losses blamed on
botched IT system install

Massive MyTravel losses blamed on
botched IT system install 12/15/2003 11:41 AM
Living on the margins

Super Science Fair Projects: Complete
Guide to Science Fair Projects, Topics
and Experiments

Super Science Fair Projects: Complete
Guide to Science Fair Projects, Topics
and Experiments 05/24/2004 06:24 AM
Super Science Fair Projects: Complete Guide to Science Fair Projects, Topics and Experiments
http://www.super-sc ience-fair-projects.com/

Today your teacher announced that your school is going to have a science fair and students are responsible for exhibiting their projects. What do you feel? Enthusiastic? Despondent? Dreadful? Fearful? Excited?" This statement opens the Super Science Fair Projects site. Actually, whether student or parent, science fair projects, while great ways to get students actively involved in learning the scientific method and problem solving, can be tough assignments. This site may help you with one of the hardest parts: coming up with an idea. The site does a great job of walking the visitor through the steps needed to plan and implement a project, from Choosing a Topic, the Scientific Method, and writing the Project Report. There are even tips on displaying your project, rehearsing, winning over judges, and what to expect the day of the fair. This is definitely a great tool to tap into when planning a science fair project.[From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/]

Fark Blows Ass

Fark Blows Ass 01/16/2003 12:11 PM
Why Fark RSS feed fails The requested URL / was not sent from server www.fark.com because your browser didn't set the USER_AGENT variable.

Brillian Blows It

Brillian Blows It 09/13/2004 11:13 AM
Component problems meant Brillian's new big screens missed the NFL's kickoff party.

Yahoo! Blows Off Businesses

Yahoo! Blows Off Businesses 06/18/2004 01:01 PM
Is the Internet giant playing to its strengths or missing a major market?

Bug bomb blows up for real

Bug bomb blows up for real 04/08/2005 12:19 PM
David Pescovitz: A restaurant in Perth, Australia was blown to bits on Wednesday by several dozen anti-cockroach bug bombs. A pilot light in one of the oven seems to have ignited the DIY fumigation chemicals. Two people were injured and property damage is estimated at $500,000. From The Mercury:

John McMillan, manager of the state fire investigations unit, said the pressure wave from the blast was powerful enough to lift the roof off the building.

"The restaurant owner has used the principle that if you use twice the soap, you get your hands twice as clean," Mr McMillan said. "He's just overdone it....This (cockroach bomb) is a good product, but this incident shows if you don't read the manufacturer's instructions, there can be very serious consequences."

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Outlaw blows himself up (Reuters)

Outlaw blows himself up (Reuters) 04/08/2005 12:22 PM
Reuters - Albania's most wanted man fought off special police and eluded capture for years only to blow himself up while fishing with dynamite, police and newspapers say.

U.S. blows its technology horn

U.S. blows its technology horn 04/12/2005 01:14 PM
Blog: The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), itself part of the...

Muni Train blows up!

Muni Train blows up! 02/10/2004 02:47 AM
This morning's train evacuation adventure (San Francisco Muni, J-Church line).

The J-Church train I was on this morning kind-of blowed-up! Actually, no explosion or anything, but a loud smashing sound followed by an immediate stopping of the train and the lights going off. After a few minutes, the conductor (driver?, engineer?) informed us "if you can hear me, we are going to have to walk out of here, this train is as dead as Julius Caesar!".

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[the iCite net development blog]

Wow - one of my co-workers on the project I'm working on - was on that train - too!  I figure it's a Bush conspiracy to make Gavin newsom look bad (along with this Hetch Hetchy thingie....)

As e-Government Wind Blows

As e-Government Wind Blows 06/17/2005 04:26 PM
This Day Online Jun 17 2005 10:48AM GMT

Hurricane Charley blows through Web

Hurricane Charley blows through Web 08/13/2004 05:46 PM
Florida residents and their friends and families flock to the Net to track the progress and aftermath of the storm.

Bush blows off NAACP

Bush blows off NAACP 07/08/2004 12:11 PM

Apple Blows Fuse Over Ads

Apple Blows Fuse Over Ads 07/23/2004 02:36 AM
Apple is outraged over new advertisements by upstart music channel Fuse that resemble ads for the iPod. By Tim Arango, New York Post (via MyAppleMenu)

AMD Blows Away Earnings, Sales Forecasts

AMD Blows Away Earnings, Sales Forecasts 04/14/2004 05:18 PM
TheStreet.com Apr 14 2004 9:01PM GMT

As the wind blows, we see the anus of a
chicken.

As the wind blows, we see the anus of a
chicken. 01/19/2004 11:47 AM
Hollywood? Old. Bollywood? That's soooo 2003. Make room for Nollyw ood, Nigeria's own film industry which is growing by leaps and bounds every year, and is currently worth about $45 million dollars. About 400 Nollywood films are produced every year many on a budget of around $15000 and are distributed almost entirely by VHS and VCD. The stories are very much simplistic and pulpy (check out 419 Stalk Exchange. Yes, 419 as in the email scam) but are much preferred by local residents and emigre's than the usual arthouse fair one often thinks of when talking about African cinema. Now if you'll excuse me there's a bucket of popcorn and a copy of GSM Connection waiting for me in the living room.

Palestinian Blows Himself Up at Erez
Checkpoint

Palestinian Blows Himself Up at Erez
Checkpoint 04/17/2004 10:06 AM
Reuters via Wired News Apr 17 2004 1:35PM GMT

Overzealous Owner Blows Eatery Apart
(AP)

Overzealous Owner Blows Eatery Apart
(AP) 04/07/2005 07:32 AM
AP - An overzealous attempt to rid a Thai restaurant of cockroaches sparked an explosion that blew the eatery apart, emergency services said Thursday.

Fraternity Blows Cannon Into Apartments
(AP)

Fraternity Blows Cannon Into Apartments
(AP) 04/30/2004 07:20 PM
AP - Members of the Kappa Alpha fraternity tried to load an antique cannon on their front lawn with fireworks, but destroyed the cannon and blew out the window of an second floor apartment across the street.

FBI Blows $600 Million On Database
Upgrade

FBI Blows $600 Million On Database
Upgrade 05/12/2004 05:28 AM
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CIA blows whistle on Rummy's "bullshit"

CIA blows whistle on Rummy's "bullshit" 05/17/2004 01:39 AM
Seymour Hersh's piece in the new New Yorker, "The Gray Zone," begins thus:

The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret operation, which had been focussed on the hunt for Al Qaeda, to the interrogation of prisoners in Iraq. Rumsfeld’s decision embittered the American intelligence community, damaged the effectiveness of elite combat units, and hurt America’s prospects in the war on terror. According to interviews with several past and present American intelligence officials, the Pentagon’s operation, known inside the intelligence community by several code words, including Copper Green, encouraged physical coercion and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners in an effort to generate more intelligence about the growing insurgency in Iraq. A senior C.I.A. official, in confirming the details of this account last week, said that the operation stemmed from Rumsfeld’s long-standing desire to wrest control of America’s clandestine and paramilitary operations from the C.I.A. Rumsfeld, during appearances last week before Congress to testify about Abu Ghraib, was precluded by law from explicitly mentioning highly secret matters in an unclassified session. But he conveyed the message that he was telling the public all that he knew about the story. He said, “Any suggestion that there is not a full, deep awareness of what has happened, and the damage it has done, I think, would be a misunderstanding.” The senior C.I.A. official, asked about Rumsfeld’s testimony and that of Stephen Cambone, his Under-Secretary for Intelligence, said, “Some people think you can bullshit anyone.”

Hersh's report, which seems too detailed and credible for the administration simply to dismiss (though no doubt they will try), suggests that the testimony Rumsfeld offered Congress last week was at best a patchwork of outrageous omissions and at worst a passel of outright lies.

It's also clear that Hersh's sources are intelligence officials who decided to step forward with this tale only after Rumsfeld's testimony. (Otherwise, presumably this material would have appeared in one of the reporter's previous dispatches.) According to Hersh, the "black budget" operations his piece describes were top secret, and Rumsfeld could not have talked about them in public hearings. But clearly, something about the definitive nature of the Defense Secretary's insistence on the "handful of loose cannons" line enraged someone at the CIA who knew a different story -- enraged him enough to spill the beans to Hersh, using words like "bullshit" to describe Rumsfeld's testimony.

It's no secret that the CIA and the Bush administration are fighting their own war with each other, one that dates back at least to the buildup to the Iraq war, when the intelligence service kept telling the Bush team that there was no evidence Saddam still possessed weapons of mass destruction, and the Bush team kept throwing away the CIA's info and seizing anything that looked like an excuse to invade. In each of the two biggest screwups of Bush foreign policy -- the failure to anticipate 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq -- Bush's people have pointed fingers at the CIA and declared the problem to be a "failure of intelligence." (Given this interpretation of history, you'd think Bush would have given George Tenet the boot long ago. But Tenet is loyal, and that's all that seems to matter in this administration.)

Now the CIA is firing back. And that's perfectly understandable. But you get the depressing feeling that, as all this bureaucratic crossfire ricochets, the biggest casualty will be the "war on terror" itself. Which is why the mistreatment and torture of the people we were supposed to be liberating is not only a moral calamity but a strategic disaster.

Israel blows up bomber's home

Israel blows up bomber's home 09/01/2004 04:09 AM
Israeli troops destroy the house of one of the men said to have carried out the Beersheba suicide attacks.

"Senator, VP exchange words, blows"

"Senator, VP exchange words, blows" 07/20/2004 02:40 PM

Federer blows his own trumpet (Reuters)

Federer blows his own trumpet (Reuters) 07/06/2004 11:53 AM
Reuters - Last year Swiss Open organisers gave Roger Federer a cow -- named Juliette -- for winning the Wimbledon title.

AMD Blows Away Earnings, but Concerns
Remain

AMD Blows Away Earnings, but Concerns
Remain 04/15/2004 12:58 PM
TheStreet.com Apr 15 2004 5:43PM GMT

New IAB campaign blows internet's
trumpet

New IAB campaign blows internet's
trumpet 11/04/2003 10:34 PM
Netimperative Nov 4 2003 9:36PM ET

Linux Patent Cloud Blows Over Europe

Linux Patent Cloud Blows Over Europe 08/04/2004 06:36 PM
UPDATED: Munich abandons Linux plans for now leaving an open source consultant wondering what the big deal is. Meanwhile, Red Hat's taking its own measures.

Palestinian Blows Himself Up at Erez
Checkpoint (Reuters)

Palestinian Blows Himself Up at Erez
Checkpoint (Reuters) 04/17/2004 08:52 AM
Reuters - A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up on Saturday at the Erez checkpoint on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, Israel Radio said.

Rivera Blows Save As Red Sox Beat Yanks
(AP)

Rivera Blows Save As Red Sox Beat Yanks
(AP) 04/06/2005 05:29 PM
AP - Mariano Rivera let another lead slip away against Boston. Alex Rodriguez made a costly error, too, and this time the Yankees couldn't recover. Playing without ailing manager Terry Francona, the Red Sox rallied for five runs against Rivera in the ninth inning and beat New York 7-3 Wednesday to avoid a season-opening sweep.

Homeland Security blows $16m prepping
for apocalypse

Homeland Security blows $16m prepping
for apocalypse 04/06/2005 12:24 PM
Duct tape and sheet plastic writ large

Bush blows cover of al-Qaeda insider

Bush blows cover of al-Qaeda insider 08/08/2004 12:22 PM
"After his capture he admitted being an al Qaeda member and agreed to send e-mails to his contacts," a Pakistani intelligence source told Reuters. "He sent encoded e-mails and received encoded replies. He's a great hacker and even the U.S. agents said he was a computer whiz." In its haste to get a scary headline the weekend after the Democratic Convention, did the Bush Administration deliberately blow the cover of one of its best informants within al-Qaeda?

"There She Blows!" OceanFootage.com Adds
New Footage to a Whale of a Collection!

"There She Blows!" OceanFootage.com Adds
New Footage to a Whale of a Collection! 09/16/2004 03:35 AM
Massive, mysterious and beautiful, whales have been a continuing source of fascination and wonder for humans for centuries. Now stock footage industry leader OceanFootage.com has enhanced its already massive "Whales" collection (at www.oceanfootage.com/stock_whale_footage.htm) with even more of the most rare and spectacular footage of these great leviathans. The world's most comprehensive online resource for ocean footage, OceanFootage.com's superb Whale footage comes from a variety of the best cinematographers worldwide. As a result, the newly expanded Whales collection is unforgettable -- expansive in species, behavior, and geography. From exhilarating tail slaps, spyhops, and breaches on the ocean's surface, to dives, attacks, strandings, and majestic underwater ballets, OceanFootage.com now offers even more comprehensive whale video and film stock footage covering a wide variety of species and locations worldwide, assembled for convenience in one location. [PRWEB Sep 16, 2004]

Hurricane Charley blows through, 15
confirmed dead in Florida

Hurricane Charley blows through, 15
confirmed dead in Florida 08/14/2004 06:43 PM
Free Internet Press Aug 14 2004 10:11PM GMT

Gagne Blows Save, Ends Record Streak at
84 (AP)

Gagne Blows Save, Ends Record Streak at
84 (AP) 07/05/2004 10:21 PM
AP - Eric Gagne's major league-record streak of 84 consecutive saves ended Monday night when he blew a 5-3 lead for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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