Random

~ Century old fish caught in Alaskan waters.

~ In spite of all the nonsense going on around the globe, the world economy will still be growing at nearly 5% this year. This suggests that there are growing opportunities for the poor. And that's the good news in the numbers.

~ Sometime today my gmail box went over the 1 gig mark. I'm now at 35%.

~ The Kodak rant (apparently a commercial produced for intra-company amusement, which has found its way onto YouTube) reminds me of the I Am a Canadian ads that Molson did a few years ago -- uses an irreverent rant to stir up latent emotions of loyalty. (via)

~ Palm is going Linux. I suspect this means that they're sucking air and grabbing onto whatever they can to survive. Will PDA's have been around long enough to make it into the history books?

~ Career opportunity -- Between 50% and 70% of the executive directors of non-profit organizations plan to retire or leave by 2010. And there isn't anyone waiting in the wings. (via)

~ MySpace has been blocking content from competitors. After seeing how MySpace has taken over our campus computers, littering the hard-drives and desktops with trash -- and some of the stuff that goes with it -- I'm already pretty annoyed with them these days.

~ Diabetics (type 1) cured by stem-cell treatment

~ Bookmark: Speed-up the disk defrag process

~ It's still dry season on Guam and there have been lots of jungle fires on the island -- smoke all over the place. Somebody needs to put Smokey the Bear on a plane and get him over here. Remember friends, ONLY YOU can prevent boonie fires!

~ My Chinese classical music station, KGCA-LP (106.9) in Tumon, had been off the air for a week. But it was back on today when I went over to the west side of the island. It sounds even stronger than it was. Perhaps the conditions were just different or maybe they made some technical adjustments. It's just nice to have them back.

~ I was in Tamuning this afternoon so that I could deliver a $133,000 check to the supplier of our computers. Last night while we were sleeping the US government transferred the money into the PIBC account so that we can buy new computers for the school. It's all a part of a USDA/RUS distance learning grant -- a project that I inherited when I arrived at PIBC. Some of the money will be used to buy new computers which will go into the computer lab on the Guam campus. Much of it will go to set up computers at our remote sites and campus.