Olmert says he talked Bush out of cease-fire vote - Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Washington -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert boasted Monday that he successfully pressured President Bush last week to reverse course on U.S. diplomacy over fighting in Gaza, in an episode that could sharpen tensions between the close allies at a sensitive moment.
Speaking to an audience in Ashkelon, Israel, Olmert said he had called Bush last Thursday and convinced him that the United States should not vote for a pending U.N. Security Council resolution urging a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip.
Olmert said Bush's agreement "embarrassed" Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice because the resolution was one that she had "cooked up, she organized, she formulated, she maneuvered," according to comments reported by Israel Radio.
"And she was left pretty embarrassed, abstaining on a draft resolution she organized herself," Olmert added.
Just when you thought Bush could do no more harm...
My wife likes this show, and I told her that it was canceled, guess that was mostly just a rumor?
Lipstick Jungle (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: On November 13, rumors emerged that NBC would cancel the show due to low ratings and it was unclear if the remaining episodes would be aired in the current time slot. However, these rumors are, as yet, unconfirmed. Lipstick Jungle will continue to air their remaining episodes due to a 50% increase in ratings. NBC Chairman Ben Silverman stated that they "may" order more episodes down the line if ratings were to improve.
Not sure if this is the way you compete with low ratings, but convincing people that you're probably going to cancel their show. Wonder if the same goes for "My Own Worst Enemy"...
My Own Worst Enemy (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: My Own Worst Enemy was an American television drama airing on NBC, and Global in Canada. It premiered on October 13, 2008. The series was produced by Universal Media Studios. Jason Smilovic was the executive producer; David Semel was the director and executive producer. It ended on December 15th after 9 episodes. The final episode ended with a cliff-hanger, and the major plot lines ended without resolution.
Nope, appears that one is dead. NBC already killed "Journeyman" which we both enjoyed. Still can't figure out why "Chuck" is still on, or why "Heroes" isn't rated higher. Clearly I'm not anyone's target audience, or even a good judge of what it takes to run a TV network...
FogBugz - Project Management Software: FogBugz helps teams work together by tracking, prioritizing, and coordinating the thousands of small tasks a development team has to do.
On the tip from A.San I checked out FogBugz and I'm glad he mentioned it. Much easier to get tasks in the system, much easier to group, categorize, organize, and manipulate tasks; and much easier to close them out than my previous solution of Salesforce. And I've only just scratched the surface...
A while back I read about a new symbol that could be appearing on my consumer products: 
Marks on products to indicate the Kosher Certification of one authority or another are quite familiar to most Americans (I think) and "Halal" marks are common throughout the Muslim world, but this mark seems to be the first effort to mark products as acceptable to Muslims in the US. The growth of this sort of thing, especially in the US environment, is clearly going to be a slow thing, but this morning I noticed the mark on a product that was already in my medicine cabinet, Deodorant - Apricot Long Last Stick (2.25oz 18P). IFANCA: About Us: IFANCA's halal certification symbol, the Crescent M, can be found on thousands of products around the globe. In addition, IFANCA maintains close working relationships with many Islamic centers and Islamic organizations throughout the country and the world.
The seem to know their stuff, but who knows what process they go about when certifying products. Still I'll trust this mark over nothing, and it's better than my trying to review a product for Kosher marks, since there is a ton of difference between those marks as well, and I also then have to search for anything with alcohol in it.
Amazon.com - Wish List: Universal Wish List allows you to add products from any website to your Amazon Wish List with one simple click, making it easier than ever to keep track of all the gifts you wish for, all in one place.
And since I'm apparently some sort of Amazonaphile I've promptly moved my list off of Kaboodle and back onto Amazon.com.
Perhaps I've explained it before, but we aggregate lists published by governments of "bad people" that other companies can then search via website, web services, or various batch reports to ensure that they are not doing any kind of business with said "bad people". But how often does this sort of thing make the news?
U.S. Links Iranian Bank To Fifth Avenue Building - washingtonpost.com: Citing a series of alleged sham transactions and e-mails, Treasury and Justice write in court documents that Assa Corp., which holds the 40 percent interest, is a shell company that funnels the rental proceeds through a parent company in the Channel Islands, off the coast of France, to the Iranian bank, which is wholly owned by the Iranian government. Under various laws and presidential orders, the government of Iran and related entities are prohibited from doing business in the United States without a license from Treasury.
And yes, Assa Corp. is now designated "bad people".
Yes, I am redoing my work site. ColdFusion 5 to ASP.NET 3.5, so there is lots of potential for improvement. One such improvement is localization. The last time I tried localization I was on ASP.NET 1.1 I think, and it seems some improvement was made in ASP.NET 2.0/VisualStudio 2005 (and it all still works with 3.5/2008).
CodeProject: Globalization and localization demystified in ASP.NET 2.0. Free source code and programming help: Globalization and localization are two important processes which every developer should be aware of while creating global products or applications. Though there are many articles which explain the subject well, I did not find a single resource which explains all important concepts regarding globalization/localization, practically and comprehensively. This article aims to provide practical step-by-step approach to globalizing a web application in ASP.NET 2.0.
Relatively painless so far, though I am taking shortcuts by only using language and not culture, so I'm not going to be changing symbols or currency markings, etc. Plus I'm not tackling support for RTL languages, I'll worry about that later...
So I'm converting an Excel Spreadsheet to a SQL script and I forgot to escape the single quotes before surrounding all of the data with single quotes, which won't run in SQL of course. Usually I just start over, today I took it upon myself to determine how I can find these offending single quotes with a vim RegEx. Voila: /[(,']\@<!'[,')]\@!
The only ones this misses is single quotes at the beginning or end of a field, like: ''Bobby Smith'', which should be escaped '''Bobby Smith''', but these are much easier to hunt down with all other cases taken care of with a simple :g//s//''/g knowwhatimean?
Prison cops in five-hour Muslim riot | The Sun |News: A FIVE-hour rampage by young Muslim prisoners armed with hammers and chisels was broken up by a riot squad yesterday. Dozens of inmates barricaded themselves into a workshop and grabbed tools including saws. Riot police and 100 specially-trained prison officers — kitted out with body armour, shields and helmets — were called in. When negotiations failed, the officers moved in and overpowered the prisoners — many of whom were teenagers. No injuries to staff were reported but there was said to be “considerable damage” to the workshop. Some of the rioters suffered minor bruises. It is believed the rampage at Aylesbury Young Offenders’ Institution started after inmates celebrated the Muslim festival of Eid which marks the end of Ramadan.
Commenter "Bettymac": When are they going to stop calling this the "Religion of peace"?
Because, of course, criminals are known to be the exemplar of following rules...
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