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Re: POLL: FOIB Success to Date.

Aha! At last an excuse to use your newfound Silicon Valley Buzzword Dictionary? 🙂 -Ian. Mark Winder wrote:> > So Ian! when did you pass out the Kool-Aid??? ;o) > > – Mark. > > —–Original Message—– > From: Nancy Zehr > To: foib [at]...

Onex Wants to Buy Air Canada AND Canadian Airlines..

http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560851881-89f 12:31 PM ET 08/24/99 Onex Wants To Buy Canada Airlines Onex Wants To Buy Canada Airlines MONTREAL (AP) _ Onex Corp., a Toronto-based conglomerate, is offering $3.8 billion to buy and combine Air Canada...

Canada’s Internet Vice Superstars in Trouble

Also.. No shortage of accusations flying about that might explain the justification that the RCMP/Vancouver Police used for the raid here: http://www.gamblingmagazine.com/starnet.htm If the investigation is sealed, meaning the cops are not revealing the grounds, you...

Canada’s Internet Vice Superstars in Trouble

Apparently the cops raided the Starnet offices in Vancouver on Friday — they did a DNS cutover to their operations in the Caribbean and no inter- ruption. Clearly they think their recovery path is to get out of the porn business and move into gambling, though.....

Wealth in Silicon Valley

All too true. Not all is rosy here in the boomtown.. -Ian. http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/special/wealth/ The pursuit of money has changed the culture of Silicon Valley, affecting everyone from the super-rich to people struggling just to survive AT FIRST...

Broadcasting MP3 over 2.4gHz Wireless to Your Stereo

http://www.x10.com/mp3/mp3_anywhere.htm Thanks to Christy for digging this up… MP3s Rock the House by Andy Patrizio 3:00 a.m. 19.Aug.99.PDT MP3 addicts can now bypass those wimpy PC speakers and broadcast straight to their stereos, thanks to a wireless...

Re: Whoopee!

Oops. URL: http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/SF_Bay.html -Ian.

Whoopee!

AN EARTHQUAKE OCCURRED AT 06:06 PM PDT Tuesday, Aug 17, 1999. THE MAGNITUDE IS CURRENTLY UNKNOWN; MORE SHOULD BE AVAILBLE IN ABOUT 2 MINUTES THE EVENT IS LOCATED 0 MILES SSW OF BOLINAS, CA THE HYPOCENTRAL DEPTH IS 4.2 MILES. PRINCIPAL EARTHQUAKE...

The True Cost of Iridium

Funny posting on Slashdot about the Iridium debacle: http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/13/1947222.shtml So Gore Sold Us Out For Nothing (Score:2, Funny) by Fleet Admiral Ackbar (squid [at] columbus.rr [dot] com) on Friday August 13, @04:00PM EDT (#5) Let me get this...