Yostivanich

“The committee’s vote was 13 to 6, with Sen­a­tor Lind­sey Gra­ham of South Car­olina the only Repub­li­can join­ing the panel’s 12 Democ­rats in vot­ing for the nom­i­na­tion. The action cleared the way for a Sen­ate floor vote next week for Judge Sotomayor, who would be the 111^th jus­tice to serve on the Supreme Court, the first His­panic and the third woman.”

“To say it clearly: Microsoft does not enter a mar­ket unless it’s impor­tant, huge and on the way to becom­ing even big­ger. Microsoft is the buy sign, not the sell sign. The peo­ple at Microsoft are bril­liant and not to be underestimated–history has shown this to be true.” It’s down to Microsoft and Google in terms of the major search engines.

“Regard­less, we are cer­tainly com­mit­ted to con­tin­u­ing to inno­vate on the user expe­ri­ence of search all across Yahoo! and on con­tin­u­ing to engage with the devel­oper com­mu­nity on sev­eral fronts, open­ing up lead­ing audi­ence expe­ri­ences and data to third-party inno­va­tion. In that con­text, Search­Mon­key can add a lot of value to how we help peo­ple get the most out of search and out of Yahoo!. Over the next sev­eral months we’ll deter­mine what makes sense with our devel­oper offer­ings and pro­vide infor­ma­tion when avail­able.” Yahoo pro­vides no details on it’s search API’s.

“The Obama admin­is­tra­tion says it will release Mohammed Jawad, who has been held at the Guan­tanamo Bay prison camp since 2002. Ear­lier this month offi­cials admit­ted that there was no mil­i­tary case for Mr Jawad’s con­tin­ued deten­tion.” Another wrong­ful imprisonment.

“AT AN EVENT to show off upcom­ing Christ­mas good­ies, Microsoft let slip to the INQ that Win­dows Mobile 6.5 is to be re-christened Win­dows Phone.” Why Microsoft, Win­dows Mobile had good brand recog­ni­tion and mostly positive.

“Iran­ian oppo­si­tion lead­ers have vowed to attend cer­e­monies to hon­our those killed in the vio­lence fol­low­ing the country’s dis­puted elec­tion result. Author­i­ties have refused per­mis­sion for a cer­e­mony tra­di­tion­ally held 40 days after a person’s death.”

“The Very Large Tele­scope (VLT) facil­ity in Chile has taken the sharpest pic­tures yet of Betel­geuse. The star, which famously sits on the shoul­der of Orion, is posi­tioned some 640 light-years away and is one of the bright­est objects in the night sky.”

“Although geno­cide and homo­sex­ual acts are both sins, in man’s economy–and my own belief system–genocide is a far greater sin. And although I believe that all sin rep­re­sents rebel­lion against God, I believe that homo­sex­u­al­ity and geno­cide are by nature dis­tinct. If I were going to com­pare the Holo­caust to another sin in terms of its grav­ity and evil, it would be to abor­tion.” You are a moron.

“Any­one won­der­ing who got the bet­ter deal today (my detailed thoughts later) need only look at the stock move­ments of Yahoo and Microsoft. Yahoo dipped 12.08% to $15.14, knock­ing $2.91 bil­lion off their mar­ket cap. Microsoft gained 1.41% to $23.80, adding…$2.94 bil­lion to their mar­ket cap.”

“About half the US pop­u­la­tion should be vac­ci­nated against the H1N1 virus with preg­nant women and health work­ers the top pri­or­ity, US offi­cials have said. A US gov­ern­ment advi­sory com­mit­tee said health offi­cials should pre­pare to vac­ci­nate 160 mil­lion people.

“A South Korean fish­ing boat has been towed away by a North Korean patrol boat off the peninsula’s east coast, South Korean offi­cials say. The mil­i­tary says the ship may have strayed north of the mar­itime bor­der due to a nav­i­ga­tion sys­tem error. It is not known how many crew mem­bers were on board the vessel.”

“I had to fax a form to some­one the other day. I do not have a fax machine. Had to drive over to the copy store and stand in line behind three other peo­ple, one of whom was fax­ing 22 pages of some­thing. Then I had to pay $5 to send four pages. Total dam­age: 1 hour of my life that I will never get back and $5.” Why are faxes still used?