JavaWorld has an overview of the new I/O classes in Java 1.4.
Entries from September 2001
September 26th, 2001 · Comments Off
September 26th, 2001 · Comments Off
The Institute for the Secularization of Islamic Society is an organization that is striving to make Islam more compatible with democratic society. There are a number of interesting papers on their site, including this one: Jihad, the Arab Conquests and the Position of Non-Muslim Subjects , which takes a historical look at the position of [...]
September 26th, 2001 · Comments Off
Phil Agre’s latest set of attack-related links.
September 26th, 2001 · Comments Off
On TV Tonight, courtesy of The Onion.
September 26th, 2001 · Comments Off
Today, Salon’s Jake Tapper takes a look at American Islamic organizations and their support for terrorists, or at least their refusal to condemn them.
September 26th, 2001 · Comments Off
Can the investigation into the terrorist attacks of 9/11 really be this scattershot? Round up all the usual suspects, indeed.
September 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
Harvard professor Jessica Stern testified before the House Committee on Government Reform last week, providing lots of useful background information on al Qaeda. The testimony contains fascinating revelations gleaned directly from interviews with former members of the organization. There’s a transcript at the Harvard web site.
Ms. Stern’s prescription for solving the terrorism problem in the [...]
September 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
Derrick Story thinks highly of Mac OS 10.1. I’m thinking of buying a laptop later this fall, and if Mac OS 10.1 is really great, maybe I’ll make it an iBook.
September 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
Is anyone else troubled by the profusion of ads for online casinos that have been popping up only slightly less frequently than X10 ads lately? I even see them on sites like Yahoo, which means that Internet ad rates have truly fallen through the floor or there are lots of people paying to gamble [...]
September 25th, 2001 · Comments Off
Christopher Kremmer’s column in the Sydney Morning Herald:
Alas, our new brothers-in-arms resemble more a freaks’ gallery than a stable family. The British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, heads off today to Iran to ask its government - which is on an American list of countries that support terrorism - to join the war against, that’s right, terrorism. Perhaps Tehran’s [...]