Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

Sharbat Gula

Wow. They found the girl who's face was on the National Geographic cover 17 years ago. She'll be featured in the April 2002 issue.

Exclusive recording from homeland security meeting

You may have heard about the recent terror threat. I mean, that there is one, and that it's a "yellow alert" situation.

I was able to get exclusive access (don't ask me how!) to some private discussion between top White House officials including Bush, Ridge, Powell and Ashcroft discussing the threat and their response. You'll notice that near the end, things started going off on a tangent...

Here are the recordings, believed to be in order...
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As you can tell from these recordings, they're not only very confident, but have everything under control.

RE: Filling the Void

On the 19th of September last year I posted a link to a NY Times story about the Phantom Towers. I'm so glad they actually did it!

I've never been to New York before, and never felt any urge to go before, but I would love to go to New York just to see this with my own eyes. It must be incredible.

Modems are not obselete

Hack the Planet Prime: my antenna fu is the greatest

Modems are *not* obselete. If I could have afforded an Apple AirPort Base Station when I was in San Francisco, I would have bought one in a heartbeat. I didn't have high-speed internet access for the entire 10.5 months I was down there. In fact, for the last 4 months, the best I could get was 28.8kbps because the phone line at that place was so bad.

I couldn't get DSL. I couldn't get Cable internet. I couldn't get Sprint line-of-sight wireless. Richochet went out of business just before I was going to sign up with them. Couldn't even get ISDN (yes, I tried).

An Apple AirPort Base Station would have let me connect to the internet without having to manually dial up on my PowerBook time after time after time. I bought a WiFi card but could only use it at Starbucks because none of the other affordable base stations had a modem like the Apple one.

Broadband access is hard to come by in the Bay Area, and in a LOT of other areas in the country. (not so in urban Canada, but hey, I wasn't there)

So, sorry Wes but being able to buy a $180 base station and use it with Apple's nice software and connect with a modem to use WiFi is a wonderful thing.

‘Can you tell the world about us?’

CNN: Guantanamo hunger striker: 'We are innocent'

Guilty until proven innocent... the only catch is you're not allowed to defend yourself.

Men with Brooms

Calgary Sun: 'Men with Brooms' sweeps box office

I really want to see this movie but I don't think it's playing in the USA. I'll have to see it when I go up north to visit...

I've also not been able to find the soundtrack on CD here, anywhere. Amazon doesn't even have it as of a couple days ago when I checked. I found it on futureshop.ca and asked Cheryl to pick it up for me.

Maybe I can get her to rip the CD for me and put the MP3 files on her computer's Personal Web Server.

Iraq is not afraid

AP: Saddam: Iraq is not afraid

(jaw dropping) I had no idea they were doing that. That's vicious.