USATODAY.com – Officials to probe use of aviation contractors By Gary Stoller, USA TODAY The General Accounting Office is launching an investigation into the federal government’s use of thousands of private companies to inspect and certify airlines’ planes and aircraft…
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Weblogs for Professional Web Sites For web sites to look current and vital, they need a steady diet of fresh content. You—the designer/builder—certainly don’t want to spend all day adding articles to the news page or updating the client’s “You…
USATODAY.com – FAA failings in Swissair crash follow a too-familiar pattern In December, the National Transportation Safety Board faulted the Federal Aviation Administration for contributing to the January 2000 crash of an Alaska Airlines jet that killed 88. The indictment…
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Wired News, Why Did Google Want Blogger Google became the preeminent search engine by exploiting the structure of hyperlinks that make up the Web. Instead of using a simple keyword search, which is how most early search engines found their…
DALLAS (AP) — Prosecutors say a pet cockatoo that was killed while trying to protect its owner from an attacker produced evidence crucial in convicting the man’s murderer. Kevin Butler’s 18-inch white-crested cockatoo, named Bird, flew at the Daniel Torres…
Google and Larry Page: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong’s Webjournal Think about it, Google’s king hit is PageRank which generates highly reliable sources of whatever kind of information you ask for, based on search terms generated by idiots like you…