This week's issue of the Olympic College's newspaper The Olympian includes news of the HP 3000. In specific, the paper reports about the fate of systems which support admissions, registration, financial aid and graduation tracking. This nearly-total range of college operations relies on an H...

Fond du Lac Reporter: Bird lovers may see a change in the feathered friends frequenting their backyard feeders if seasonal temperatures in Fond du Lac climb as predicted. At this point, it's hard to measure whether that's good news or bad, but it's certainly a matter of adaptation, said well-known a...

Fond du Lac Reporter: Bird lovers may see a change in the feathered friends frequenting their backyard feeders if seasonal temperatures in Fond du Lac climb as predicted. At this point, it's hard to measure whether that's good news or bad, but it's certainly a matter of adaptation, said well-known a...

Fond du Lac Reporter: Bird lovers may see a change in the feathered friends frequenting their backyard feeders if seasonal temperatures in Fond du Lac climb as predicted. At this point, it's hard to measure whether that's good news or bad, but it's certainly a matter of adaptation, said well-known a...

Thousands of foreign workers, including London School of Economics graduates with six-digit salaries and desperately poor Bangladeshi factory workers, are streaming home as the economy in Singapore suffers the worst of the recessions in Southeast Asia, reports the Washington Post. Singapore is an ep...

Washington Post - By Anthony Faiola - Mar. 05 (Special Report) - Singapore is an epicenter of what analysts call a new flow of reverse migration away from hard-hit, globalized economies, including Dubai and Britain, that were once beacons for foreign labor. Economists from Credit Suisse predict an e...

Image via CrunchBase This week I bought a new 500GB hard drive for my Macbook and experienced how easy and quick it is to clone your old smaller hard drive into what is a gigantic hard drive for a laptop in an incredibly short amount of time. The HUGE difference between Macs and Windows machines is ...

This is the 137th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Dave Edwards is enjoying a week off, and so as part of my plot to take over the world, I am writing this week’s Log Buffer. First, the fun stuff: Josh Berkus tells us that the American English Translation of the Mang...

One of our favorite places in the country is the Hula Lake Park, just a little south of Kiryat Shmona in the Galilee. There, you can rent bicycles or a family-sized golf cart and tool around the spacious lake to view some of the most amazing birds in the world. Enviro-nerds that we are, we bring [.....

Arthur Laffer and the ALEC have a report out with lots of economic, tax, and regulatory data about the individual states.   This chart caught my eye: They have a hundred pages explaining why these trends might be, but you and I already know, don’t we,  just from looking at the names of the ...