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Today Is Day #41 of 2003
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Australia's first literature
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The first fleet of ships which arrived in Botany Bay (Sydney) from England, in
January 1788, heralded the beginning of white settlement in Australia. Watkin
Tench (1759-1833), Captain of the Marines, was one of the four captains who
made the voyage. In his autobiographical "A Narrative of the Expedition to
Botany Bay" Tench states that "our number was...twelve sail: His Majesty's
ships 'Sirius', 'Hyena', and 'Supply', three Victuallers with two years
stores and provisions on board for the Settlement, and six Transports, with
troops and convicts. In the transports were embarked four captains, twelve
subalterns, twenty-four serjeants and corporals, eight drummers, and one
hundred and sixty private marines, making the whole of the military force,
including the Major Commandant and Staff on board the Sirius, to consist of
two hundred and twelve persons, of whom two hundred and ten were volunteers.
The number of convicts was five hundred and sixty-five men, one hundred and
ninety-two women, and eighteen children; the major part of the prisoners were
mechanics and husbandmen, selected on purpose by order of Government."
In "A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay" and his subsequent work "A
Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson", Tench provides a first
hand account of the voyage and then goes on to describe the subsequent
settlement in Sydney, New South Wales. He details the natural environment of
Port Jackson and its environs; the efforts to establish food production; the
exploratory trips into the hinterland; and, most interestingly, the first
interaction between Europeans and the Australian Aborigines.
This is a remarkable eye-witness account by a thoughtful, humane man who was
also a talented writer. Tench was interested in everyone and everything
around him. These two works may be considered the first works of Australian
literature. Both are both available at Project Gutenberg
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Nov 2004 First footsteps in East Africa,byRichard F. Burton[?ffeaxxx.xxx]6886
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HEADLINE NEWS
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Headlines From Newsscan
DELL FLIPS THE OFF SWITCH ON FLOPPIES
Dell announced it will stop installing floppy drives in its desktop
computers next month, offering them only as an option. "What Dell has done,
I expect every major vendor to do in the next 12 months," says technology
consultant Tim Bajarin. "The utility of the floppy disk is just no longer
there for most users." Instead of the floppy, Dell brand 16-megabyte USB
flash memory drives will be offered in high-end models, and the company
will consider making them standard equipment on all desktops, depending on
customer response. (AP 6 Feb 2003)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030206/D7P13FU00.html
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HP OFFERS CONSUMER INCENTIVES FOR COMPUTER RECYCLING
Hewlett-Packard will offer e-coupons exchangeable for HP products when
users recycle old computer hardware through the company. The coupons will
range from $20 to $50 in value, depending on the amount a consumer spends
on recycling services, which cost from $17 to $30 depending on the size of
the equipment to be recycled. An HP executive said: "This is a way to learn
what our customers want. Do they even want an incentive? Or do they just
want to fill out a form and leave a box on their doorstep? We know that
waste is a growing problem in the industry, but no one has really studied
what consumers want to do to get rid of their computers.'' (AP/San Jose
Mercury News 6 Feb 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5119968.htm
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SALES TAXES CREEP ONTO THE WEB
Internet sales traditionally have been exempted from sales taxes, providing
the buyer lived in a different state than the e-tailer they purchased from.
But a collective push by states to institute Internet sales taxes is
gaining momentum, and several big-name retailers -- including Marshall
Fields, Target and Wal-Mart -- are cooperating. The retailers say they're
simply streamlining bookkeeping to accommodate situations where customers
purchase on the Web and then return or exchange those items at their
physical stores. But according to washingtonpost.com, the retailers have
ulterior motivations. In return for collecting the taxes, "38 states and
the District of Columbia agreed to absolve the retailers for any liability
for taxes not previously collected on Internet sales." And while the stakes
are high for states -- a University of Tennessee report estimated that
states could collectively lose more than $45 billion in Internet sales tax
revenue in 2006 -- there's no groundswell of opposition from consumers.
Jupiter Research yesterday released a study that indicates most online
shoppers are indifferent to the issue, with most online shoppers unaware
that they can shop around on different sites to avoid the extra charge, and
some respondents saying they wouldn't choose one retailer over another just
because there was no sales tax. (Washington Post 6 Feb 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35186-2003Feb6.html
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LIGHTBULB IDEA
Incandescent lightbulbs, neon tubes and fluorescent lamps are expected to
go the way of the gas lamp: into the history books. The emerging
"solid-state lighting" industry, based on LED (light-emitting diode)
microchips is expected to make its presence felt in the general home and
office lighting market as early as 2007. Currently used mainly in
large-scale projects such as the Nasdaq sign in Times Square, Chicago's
Goodman Theatre, or the White House Christmas tree, offer huge performance
advantages. An example: an LED traffic light consumes 80% less electricity
and lasts ten times longer than a traditional light. (New York Times 11 Feb
2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/02/11/technology/11LIGH.html
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FBI HUNTS EBAY DATA THIEF
FBI officials say that a hacker used a computer system at the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) to steal private
financial information from eBay users. According to complaints, eBay
users received e-mails that appeared to come from eBay telling them
that their accounts were suspended until they verified personal
information, including credit card number and mother's maiden name. A
link embedded in the e-mail messages took users to a Web page that
seemed to belong to UNCC. The hacker evidently used a university
computer server for two hours or more February 2 to post the page
before technicians shut it down, according to university spokeswoman
Karin Steinbrenner, although the hacker does not appear to be a UNCC
student or employee.
San Jose Mercury News, 7 February 2003
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/5130858.htm
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PUBLISHERS SETTLE ON WEB POP-UP ADS
Major newspaper publishers, including the New York Times Company,
Gannett, Dow Jones, and others have settled a lawsuit filed in June
with Gator Corporation over pop-up ads placed on their Web sites
without permission. Gator's software, eWallet, collects user password
and shipping information when customers visit different Web sites and
simultaneously displays pop-up ads on top of those sites. Plaintiffs
argued that this practice obscured their Web sites, while Gator
defended it as similar to instant messaging. The terms of the
settlement have not been disclosed.
Associated Press, 8 February 2003 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/08/business/08GATO.html
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