Archive for October, 2005

Philadelphia Inquirer ignoring Able Danger

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

When lying down and hiding from predators, ostriches are known to
lay their head and neck flat on the ground.  This fact may
have given rise to the widely held belief, that of an ostrich hiding its head
in the sand at the first sign of danger.
In a very well done article at commonsensepoliticalthought.com entitled “Ignoring It to […]

The Da Vinci Code

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

Perhaps you’ve heard of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.
This fictional thriller, which supposes a marriage between Jesus and
Mary Magdalene that produced a royal bloodline in France, has captured
the coveted number one sales ranking at Amazon.com, camped out for 47
weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List, and inspired a
one-hour ABC News special. Along the […]

Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI): What it is, how it works and what it means

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

: :  What it is and how it works

How can a search engine tell the difference between relevant
information and irrelevant information? Some search engines use LSI to
achieve this goal. LSI helps improve a search engine’s performance in
three significant tasks: recall, precision, and ranking. Recall is
getting all of the relevant information available for your search.
Precision is getting […]

A Spy in the White House

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

Ex-aide to Cheney accused in spy case
That is the headline of a story in the News & Observer.
WASHINGTON — An FBI intelligence analyst who
once worked as a military aide in the White House is accused of passing
secret government documents to current and former officials in the
Philippines.

The FBI said Wednesday night that it has expanded a […]

Bush nominates Harriet Miers

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

Most recently, Miers served as Assistant to the President and Staff
Secretary. Prior to that, she was Co-Managing Partner at Locke Liddell
& Sapp, LLP. Previously, she was President of Locke, Purnell, Rain
& Harrell, where she worked from 1972 until 1999. From 1995 until
2000, she was chair of the Texas Lottery Commission. In 1992, Harriet
became the first […]

Illegal immigrant seeks compensation for work injury

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

GILLETTE (AP) — The state Supreme Court has
agreed to consider whether illegal aliens can sue the companies that
hire them for compensation for an on-the-job injury.The case
involves Javier Molina, who had been working illegally for Freund
Construction about 10 years when a Caterpillar Sideboom ran him over at
a Campbell County coal-bed methane pipeline work site. Molina lost […]