Scandal a boost for home-grown email tracker
The News Review:
- Scandal a boost for home-grown email tracker
- Edmonton is the city of champions
- Iraqi troops capture ‘Zarqawi’s cameraman’
- Hometowns across US mourn their war dead.
- Once children leave home it’s time to regroup
- Catch a wave back home
Scandal a boost for home-grown email tracker
The Age – Oct 31, 2006
com, aservice that enables people to track what happens to emails afterthey’ve left the outbox, operates out of the home of founder ChrisDrake in Copacabana on the NSW Central Coast. The service monitors the path your email takes all the way tothe recipient and beyond, so you can snoop on who’s read it andeven where it’s been forwarded to, Drake said. Drake’s company employs 22 staff dotted around the country,about half of whom are full-timers. HP investigators signed up for a ReadNotify account and used itto spy on US reporter Dawn Kawamoto of technology news websiteCNET. They did this by embedding the ReadNotify service in a fakeemail they sent to Kawamoto, hoping she would then forward it on toher source on HP’s board to get more information… They did this by embedding the ReadNotify service in a fakeemail they sent to Kawamoto, hoping she would then forward it on toher source on HP’s board to get more information. The email was deliberately designed to be a tip-off from aninsider at HP , but the attempt failed as Kawamoto did not forwardthe email. HP also snooped on the personal phone records of US journalistsand some of its own board members, and the leak was eventuallytraced back to former board member George Keyworth. HP’s spying antics blew up into a major scandal, resulting inthe company’s chairwoman, Patricia Dunn, stepping down and criminalcharges being filed against her and four others. Drake stresses that he had no idea HP was using his company’sservices until he saw the media coverage surrounding the HPscandal. “We’ve got a lot of customers and we don’t look at who they areor what they’re doing with it [the service],” he said. Since HP’s snooping entered the public domain, sign-ups toReadNotify’s free two-week trial have increased 2½ times, saidDrake.
Edmonton is the city of champions
Globe and Mail – Oct 31, 2006
Albert, which are essentially Edmonton suburbs). But that aside (otherwise we’ll have more stipulations than the NHL rule book), imagine the kind of hockey teams some Canadian cities could ice. Think of the all-Toronto squad taking on the home-grown Montrealers. Related Articles From the archives… ”
Okay, it’s not the ’67 Leafs versus the ’77 Habs but it does show you what we’re looking for. Here’s the all-Ottawa lineup:
Goal — Fred Brathwaite (signed with the Atlanta Thrashers and sent down to the AHL)
Defence — Sean O’Donnell, Adrian Aucoin
Forwards — Rod Brind’Amour, Derek Roy, Marc Savard
But the best home-grown roster has to belong to the city of champions, Edmonton, where you could quibble over the merits of goaltender Jamie McLennan and how reliable he’d be as a starter. Then again, behind this team, McLennan could look like the second coming of Ken Dryden. The Edmonton defence would consist of Dion Phaneuf, Scott Niedermayer, Jay Bouwmeester, Darryl Sydor, Andrew Ference, Richard Matvichuk, Derek Morris and Mike Commodore. At forward, there would be Jarome Iginla, Joffrey Lupul, Fernando Pisani, Mike Comrie, Steven Reinprecht, Gilbert Brule, Daymond Langkow, Jamie Lundmark, Scott Nichol and Ray Whitney. Why that team would be so good it could probably beat my hometown squad from Thunder Bay, which would include Taylor Pyatt, Trevor Letkowski along with Eric, Jordan and Marc Staal.
Iraqi troops capture ‘Zarqawi’s cameraman’
Times of India – Oct 31, 2006
We found important documents and videos with him,” the
spokesman said, confirming the arrest of Khalid al-Hayani, an Iraqi militant. Zarqawi — a Jordanian who as
head of Al-Qaeda in Iraq had a 25-million-dollar bounty on his head — was
killed in a US air strike on June 7 near the restive city of Baquba, north of
Baghdad. His death was a
setback for the Sunni insurgency but his Iraqi followers have regrouped under a
home-grown leader and continue to carry out deadly attacks against American
forces and Iraq’s US-backed
government. Al-Qaeda bombers
have also targeted civilians in a successful attempt to spark a sectarian
conflict between Sunni and Shiite factions, which has come close to pushing the
country into all-out civil war. Shaker said that Hayani’s role
in the violence was being investigated.
Hometowns across US mourn their war dead.
Free with registration – Chicago Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 31, 2006
troops killed in Iraq in October _ the fourth deadliest month of the war _ were on extended, second or third tours. At home, that further exposure to danger added heartache to the deaths and underscored national anxiety over a conflict more protracted than anyone expected. Among the first to die in October was 27-year-old Staff Sgt. Jonathan Rojas of Hammond, Ind. “He should have come home,” Hammond High School assistant principal Cynthia Warner said of the 1997 graduate, killed two months after his tour was extended. “He should be home.
Once children leave home it’s time to regroup
Globe and Mail – Oct 31, 2006
At age 51 and 53, respectively, it’s now time to look ahead at the next stage of life — retirement and ensuring their own financial house is in order. In Nick’s words, "we’ve done our job making sure our kids grew up with safety, opportunity and love. Unfortunately, that meant some financial sacrifices of their own… The three biggest priorities for people in this age group are to plan for retirement, minimize taxes and get out of debt. Here are some of my tips for empty nesters getting set for retirement:
Get out of debt. A little over half of empty nesters own their home free and clear. Most retirement experts will tell you that having a paid-off home in retirement should be a key financial goal. So talk to your banker or mortgage adviser about paying off your mortgage as quickly as possible. Envision retirement. Planning for retirement starts with developing a vision of how you see your life after work.
Catch a wave back home
The Age – Oct 31, 2006
“Iwould try to contact someone and they would go, ‘Oh, we don’treally know what the problem is’. The servers were also stressed by the business’s rapidexpansion. Since the two Dell PowerEdge boxes went to Singaporemore than two years ago the site has grown from 200,000 to 1. 4million unique hits per month. It is now ranked seventh by Hitwiseamong Australian travel sites, close behind household names such asQantas, Flight Centre, Virgin Blue and Wotif. But it was stuck with the infrastructure of a much smallerbusiness.