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Symphony Close to Agreement with Musicians A glimmer of hope today in the San Antonio Symphony’s long road back to financial health. Symphony Board attorney Sheldon Padgett said today the Symphony is ‘close’ to working out a new contract agreement with it’s musicians.
Passengers wait to breathe easy Buckled up, pondering the snacks and waiting to land, airline passengers might not know that they sit on the front lines of a battle over the quality of the air they’re breathing.
$60M development for downtown San Antonio unveiled Plans were recently unveiled for a new mixed-use project in downtown San Antonio.
Man Robs Quarry Bank: Then Tries To Carjack Woman Police say a man robbed a bank inside a store at the Quarry and then tried to carjack a woman in the parking lot on Monday night.
If you SMS, you know T9… here’s a company that claims of a replacement for it. A better way to type on a PDA? ZDNet’s Patrick Houston looks at new technology for full-text entry on mobile devices that uses a 9-key interface.
Wild dingoes descended from domestic dogs The mysterious origin of Australia’s wild dingoes has become substantially clearer following new genetic research. It shows the animals descended from domestic dogs introduced from South East Asia about 5000 years ago.
Sunscreens fail to offer full protection Sunscreen creams do not adequately protect against all the Sun’s harmful rays, warns a new study. Researchers found that current creams only blocked about 50 per cent of one type of ray thought to be linked to the deadliest form of skin cancer.
Segway sales haven’t transported maker When Segway announced the recall of all its Human Transporters on Friday, it shed light on the sales performance of the previously highly hyped two-wheeled device.
Sun’s Software Revolution I finally realized the revolution is on after reading about the Java Enterprise System in Fortune. I’d thought Sun’s new software strategy was just the latest of the company’s attempts at figuring out how to make money from Java. But there are three threads that together change the whole game. First is […]
Dark Tip: Secure Instant Messaging As you may know, every time you send an instant message you are sending plain text across the Internet. Like any plain text (email, document, I.M.) it can be sniffed and read. Time to crack down on prying eyes and talk about instant message encryption on tonight’s “Screen Savers.”
Sprint, Nextel make numbers portable Sprint PCS and Nextel Communications said Monday they’ve agreed on a process to let each others’ customers switch carriers later this year but keep their old cell phone numbers.
Cultural movement kindles interest of secular Jews Nearly 200 secular humanistic Jews here will gather this week to honor the culture and values of their people. This article talks about Jews honoring their culture…. but minus the God. Wow.
Rackspace Looks To Forge New Types Of Partnerships Rackspace, which has for some time worked with hundreds of resellers, Monday introduced a new program aimed at application developers, systems integrators and other MSPs.
Heat Warning: OVERHYDRATION is as dangerous as DEHYDRATION During the intense summer heat it’s important to drink fluids to prevent a heat injury caused by dehydration. You could go too far by drinking too much water.
Play the Longevity Game It says I’ll live to 85… good news. 😉
4 Simultaneous Channels Okay For 802.11b Exclusive: New study shows that four channels can be used simultaneously without significant interference, easing installation and support problems for wireless networks. From the article, it says that you can use channels 1, 4, 8. and 11 at the same time… w00t!
RSS Readers: Bringing the World to Your Desktop Review: News readers used to be geeky and difficult to use, but this latest crop of RSS programs brings usability and modern interface techniques to the RSS world.
A Weird and Twisted Tale What’s the real story behind the Microsoft antitrust case?
Crab buffet leaves Red Lobster all wet Americans love their crab. The shellfish delicacy is one of the top three choices at No. 1 seafood dining chain Red Lobster, along with shrimp and lobster.
Confessions of a Spam King How Richard Colbert mastered the art of bombarding people with unwanted e-mail, and why Congress almost certainly won’t do anything to stop him
British Singer Robert Palmer Dies in Paris British rock singer Robert Palmer (news), best known for his hit 1980 videos featuring leggy models in short black dresses and electric guitars, died of a heart attack Friday. He was 54.
Shown: Photos of cane-shaped gun from Pa. deliveryman’s car Investigators released photographs Thursday of a cane-shaped, likely homemade firearm found in the car of a pizza deliveryman who died when a bomb locked around his neck exploded after he robbed a bank.
Texas ranked 6th best climate for small business Texas has been ranked the sixth best state for small business and entrepreneurship by the Small Business Survival Committee’s (SBSC). From the SBSC article: In terms of their policy environments, the most entrepreneur-friendly states under the “Small Business Survival Index 2003” are: 1) South Dakota, 2) Nevada, […]
U.S. tequila industry troubled by Mexican regulation plans U.S. distributors of tequila are upset over a proposed Mexican government regulation that would require all tequila sold in the United States to be bottled in Mexico.
Peet’s opens first coffee shop in Austin Specialty coffee retailer Peet’s Coffee & Tea Inc. has opened its first Austin coffee shop, near the University of Texas at Guadalupe and 23rd streets, Peet’s announced Thursday.
Holy crap! Frienster is shutting down for a couple of months… so get people’s email addresses because all those contacts you made won’t be accessible for a couple of months! Yikes! More here
A Church in A Bar The Rev. Bob Gomez has, like many people, asked himself: What would Jesus do? His answer: He’d open a church in a bar.
Home-brewing a 1.2TB IDE to Firewire Monster Delta-9 writes “Here is a writeup on how to combine 6 200GB IDE drives into a small tower and hack together some firewire controllers to give you one giant 1.2TB firewire drive.” Very cool project, both technically and aesthetically. The link in the article is slammed, so here’s […]
Cleverness may carry survival costs Being smart is not always a good thing in the evolutionary race, suggests a new study by Swiss researchers
Dispute over test for toxic shock syndrome A tampon maker says it may try to develop a test for genetic susceptibility to toxic shock syndrome, based on the results of a study announced last week.
Study: Britons quickly dropped seafood for meat in Stone Age Surf or turf? If you’ve faced that decision in a restaurant, consider what Stone Age people in coastal Britain went through, with a traditional seafood diet on one hand and newly domesticated plants and animals on the other.
Court blocks ‘do not call’ list The marketers that Americans love to hate may get another chance to interrupt consumers’ dinners with unwanted telephone pitches.
The Enterprise Guide to Web Traffic Spikes Although extra servers can be a comfort during a busy season, they will be nothing more than excess, costly hardware when traffic slows. Other options, such as load balancers and cache servers, may prove to be better alternatives. Paul is quoted in it! Woohoo!
Neanderthal hunters rivalled human skills Neanderthals were not driven from northern Europe by vastly superior human hunters, suggests an analysis of hunting remains.
Dixie Chicks may fly the country coop Are the Dixie Chicks turning their backs on the music goose that laid the golden egg?
Geek Eye for the Luddite Guys The experiment: Let loose three tech experts in an average family’s home. The result: gizmo nirvana (well, almost). http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/23/1710231.shtml?tid=126
Study: Use of profanity increasing on TV Television is cussing up an increasingly blue streak, according to a study of the major broadcast networks. “During the 2002-2003 season, the broadcast networks attempted to rewrite the book on language standards for television,” the Parents Television Council, a watchdog group, said in a report released Monday. http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2003-09-23-cursing_x.htm
Epilepsy drug helps beat cocaine addiction An anti-epilepsy drug has shown promising results for treating cocaine addiction in a preliminary US trial. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994190
Study: Chemicals in Texas Breast Milk The breast milk of Texas women might contain a higher level of flame-retardant chemicals, which research has shown causes brain damage in newborn rodents, according to a new study. http://www.msnbc.com/local/KMOL/D-FC44E327-19C3-4946-9C9F-D163A7D61316.asp?0na=x2201230r
I’m really starting to like the crew at Network Computing, they’re funny guys… I’m sure we’ve all seen the Starwars Kid stuff – and on the NWC blog they’ve got a mirror of the Matrix Reloaded version. Anyhow, they made their own – not as good as the original kid running around with a golf […]