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Archive for August 7th, 2013
Racism
Confederate flag will fly along I-95 BY TED STRONG Richmond Times-Dispatch A Confederate heritage group confirmed Tuesday that it plans to fly a 10-by-15-foot Confederate flag along Interstate 95 just south of Richmond. The flag will fly on a 50-foot pole, and will be visible from the northbo[...]
Balmer Blues: Rupert Murdoch Drubs Steve Balmer
Balmer to rebrand SkyDrive after losing trademark skirmish to Murdoch’s BskyB. Microsoft is going to be rebranding SkyDrive, its cloud storage service, following its loss of a trademark battle with British Sky Broadcasting Group over the “Sky” name. A joint press release by [...]
Davey Jones .. back on a new vessel
Longitude 128-51.9West Not too much interesting to report here, we got underway from Oakland at 5:30 Tuesday afternoon and too departure at 8:30 PM, that same night, so we are now on our way to Honolulu, no pirates here, and no cadets either, but on the plus side this is a steam ship, not a [&hell[...]