SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. -- This morning in an e-mail to all our children, I mentioned it was my mother's 119th birthday. Her lifetime was one from 1887 to 1969 and included electricity, telephones, automobiles, airplanes, two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam and then, actually, on the night of her last birthday, man landed on the Moon, in that giant step for mankind.

The lifespan of one child of mine has spanned events from President Lyndon Johnson's declaration of the War on Poverty in 1964 and through the Moon landing, the "pill," the Beatles, the Vietnam War, the building of the World Trade Center and the invention of the Internet, all in a day-to-day life filled with more of the same.

There have been been wars, race riots, terrorist attacks, political scandals, heartfelt moments and all kinds of crises around the world - all seen from the comfort of his own living room.

The semiconductor industry's shattered supply chain must be ...

With the complexity and quantity of automotive electronics steadily increasing, designers are turning to better EDA tools and programmable solutions.

Ever get the feeling you've been ad?

Many in the industry would question their reliance on TV campaigns which cost money and it's questionable whether people actually see them. "Changes in TV mean that fewer people watch commercial terrestrial TV and the new satellite and digital channels are usually impossible to get regional-specific ads on. "There is little doubt in the industry that if the SNP or Lib Dems got in, advertising spend would be substantially cut." But he added: "In a way, Tesco has it easier in that it's easier to measure whether things are working, you're either attracting more customers or you're not. "The Executive tackles issues in which success is hard to measure or might take years." The Scottish Conservatives' finance spokesman, Derek Brownlee, said the Lib-Lab pact had little to show after spending a "fortune" on advertising over the past eight years.

We will not let the black coats and black veils to get United

They can say that they are the N-power, their army is able to so anything, but its a national shame for all pakistanis that despite giving the advance threat by the islamist terrorist group, they were all helpless in Karachi. really a shame !
Afratafree, Pakistan

attack on benazirIt was a shameful act of ignorance that Muslim militants,who are hiding in rat holes of pakistan tribal areas attacked a peaceful rally of people who were welcoming their leader BENAZIR BHUTTO.I am against her deal with military janta of pakistan but she is still an icon of paklistani politics like her father.Musharaf regime has been failed in protecting lives of pakistanis against terrorist attacks by osama and his company,after his failure,Musharaff regime must now allow American froces to attack those rat holes of osama in tribal areas of pakistan,Mush regime should also arrest and punish former officials of Pakistan Army who have links with osama,Former ISI guy HAMID GUL must be hand over to America for his involement and links with osama.

Jenice Armstrong: Rocawear picks Philly writer

PHILLY-BASED novelist Daaimah S. Poole deserves a shoutout, most recently for her recognition by Rocawear, the hip-hop-clothing giant.

Poole, whose latest book is "All I Want Is Everything" (Kensington, $14.95), was selected after submitting a video on which she talks about her struggles as a teenage, single mother who landed a major publishing deal without even owning a computer. A graduate of Overbrook High, Poole used to type on the computers in Temple University's library until closing time. I got to know Poole (who was discovered by literary whiz Karen E. Quinones Miller) after editing her first book, "Yo Yo Love."

A spokeswoman for Rocawear says Poole will be featured on the Web site www.Iwillnotlose.org. In addition to Poole, Jay-Z's I Will Not Lose Campaign is spotlighting singer Ciara and Nicole Paultre-Bell, fiancee of Sean Bell, who was killed in a hail of 50 bullets on the eve of his wedding after leaving a New York strip bar.

The Medium Is the Moral

In 1999, when Glidden announced the computer initiative, I was his special assistant and helped field complaints about our catering to popular culture.

However, Glidden adds, a key difference between Ohio's computer experience and Duke's iPod one “is that we KNEW there would be plenty of practical, exciting possibilities for the use of computers" — from the digital library to the Internet.

Tiger Direct lists the Toshiba HD-A3 for $129.99

Even with all the recent announcements, HD-DVD is still selling 38% of the market, same as they've been doing the past several months. This fire sale could really make things interesting. All it needs to do is hang in another year. By then there'll be so many players out there the market will be too big to can no matter how well Blu Ray is doing. .

WiebeTech SilverSATA V

WiebeTech's SilverSATA V is a compact and stylish five-bay RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks). It delivers some impressive data transfer rates and shows the promise of port multiplication in the SATA II specification.

In the original SATA I specification, each hard drive needed its own dedicated data cable. The SATA II protocol added a port multiplication feature that lets multiple drives connect via a single SATA cable—a clever use of resources since it takes about five drives to saturate the 300 MBps throughput that is available with SATA II.