April 08, 2003: [•] US forces continue to pound the living daylights out of the now defunct Iraqi military. [•] Work has begun by US officials on getting an Iraqi government together that represents its citizens. [•] Meanwhile Iraqi “Information Minister” Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf continues to say that his forces are winning despite no one believing a word he says at this point. [•] Yahoo! has tweaked its search engine yet again in an attempt to become the choice search engine. [•] Infants breast fed require a Vitamin D supplement to prevent health issues. [•] A rose is a rose by any other name except when it shares the name of a terrorist. Then it is a suspect held at gun point and subjected to scrutiny. [•] A new antibiotic that fights pnuemonia and bronchitis is now showing strength in fighting anthrax. [•] IBM has literally run out of stock shares. So now what? [•] The product key for Windows Server 2003 has leaked onto the Internet. [•] Sun previews its new CPU code-named Jalapeno. Spicy! [•] Intel and Via have settled all outstanding lawsuits against each other. The result is Via can continue making chipsets and Intel gets a cut of the profits from them. [•] There is a security hole in the *NIX application called Samba. [•] The whole total home network thing doesn’t appeal to me. I mean I’ve had my web site hacked before and that was bad enough. I can only imagine having to re-mirror my entire house because someone hacked into my refrigerator through a buffer exploit, set my ice maker on high, and covered my floor in ice cubes. Then dropped the temperature in my apartment to 20° and froze my cats to the kitchen floor. Doh! [•] The Warwick School District budget is up 8% from last year and it looks like even an austerity budget won’t save residents an impending tax hike. [•] It’s time for some new music and here’s what came out today that’s worth buying: Autechre, Atari Teenage Riot, Johnny Cash, Fear Factory, Godsmack, Jay Z, and the X-ecutioners. [•] SARS is spread by cockroaches. [•] McDonald’s is going to start selling healthy food. Believe it or not that isn’t a joke. [•] A US air strike targeted Saddam Hussein may have killed the dictator though no one knows for sure right now. [•] US Forces found what appears to be the chemicals used to make Sarin gas. Further testing is being done, but if it comes back positive from a lab Iraq is in deep poop. [•] The Deftones have launched a club tour. [•] Staind is going to do three free shows to celebrate the release of their new album 14 Shades of Gray. Also, Meatloaf is launching his final world tour. [•] DJ Shadow says he’s only produced three tracks for Zach De La Rocha’s new album and the rest were produced by Trent Reznor. Very cool. [•] BMW has premiered its new 5-Series sedan at its latest German world headquarters press conference. I’m not quite sure if I like it or not. I’ll give this– it’s different. [•] Supposedly it’s Spring here in Southern New York State. All I have to say to that is; HAH!