Friday, March 15, 2002

[kuro5hin.org] Downed Pilot Scott Speicher - Did He Survive?. On August 2nd 1990 Saddam Hussein's Iraqi Armed Forces, dubbed at that time as the `fourth largest army in the world', rolled into Kuwait. The United States, having pledged to defend Iraq's neighbours at massive cost, immediately sent combat aircraft to Saudi Arabia. After over four months of intense negotiation, yielding nothing, the Gulf War began. On January 18th 1991 the first American air-strikes commenced against targets in Iraq's capital, Baghdad. It was on this ferocious opening night that America incurred its first fatality, fighter pilot Scott Speicher. The circumstances of his death are sketchy; evidence to prove the assertion that he is actually deceased is non-existent. There is, however, an increasing amount of indication that Scott Speicher survived and has, for the last 11 years, been held prisoner in Iraq. A report which substantiates this hit President Bush's desk this week and has become an essential point on his foreign policy agenda. 8:56:05 AM

[New York Times: Technology] Profits Fall 13% at Oracle, and It Blames the Economy. Asserting that the technology sector is not yet seeing signs of recovery, the Oracle Corporation reported that its sales were continuing to slide. 8:46:07 AM

[New York Times: Opinion] Reviewing Harvard's Business Review. Perhaps it was not intentional, but the outgoing editor of the Harvard Business Review has suddenly made her publication a must-read. 8:45:46 AM

[Technology Review - Software] Innovation: Video Objectification. New tools have computers seeing things. 8:40:12 AM

[xmlhack] Web Services Conversation Language. The W3C have published a new Note on the Web Services Conversation Language (WSCL). WSCL defines the allowed sequences of interactions with a web service. 8:34:56 AM

[John Robb's Radio Weblog] WSJ.  Microsoft plans to reduce special bonus pay to 1,600 workers in the bay area that was instituted during the .com boom to retain employees. Voluntary attrition is down to 9% from the previous 30% 8:24:54 AM

[Sam Ruby's Radio Weblog] New Wyona Open Source CMS demo and docs.  Based on Xopus and Cocoon. 8:18:31 AM