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Steve Ballmer Speech Transcript – Project 2000 Announcement
November 15, 1999
Remarks by Steve Ballmer
COMDEX/Fall ’99 – Project 2000 Announcement
November 15, 1999
Las Vegas, NV
MR. BALLMER: Well, it’s my pleasure have a chance to chat with you today. I have to admit that that when the guys suggested doing a product launch in the middle of the booth at Comdex, I thought it was purely insane. I actually now think it may be crazier yet than that. (Laughter.)
What I’m going to try to do in the next 15 minutes is give you a sense of the project management category and some of the new things that we’ve got coming. And for me, it is a particular pleasure, because in some senses I would say project management is probably the least well-understood category of software, at least that we participate in. Project management software is over a billion-dollar business.
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INDEPENDENT
'Jihadi John': Mohammed Emwazi – from British computer programmer to Isis executioner
The Pentagon is currently assessing whether the extremist has been killed in a drone attack in Syria.
Friday 13 November 2015 07:30
The masked executioner who as “Jihadi John” came to embody the brutal violence of Isis was identified as a British computer programmer who was known to MI5 and police for at least four years before he slipped away into Syria.
Now, it has been reported US forces have targeted Mohammed Emwazi in an airstrike in Syria. A US official told the Associated Press news agency a drone attack was launched on a vehicle in the city of Raqqa, which was believed to be carrying the Isis militant.
Emwazi, a Kuwait-born Briton, lived in London for 17 years, he was the figure appearing in the succession of grim online videos in which Western hostages are beheaded which raised questions about the ability of the security services to monitor extremists.
As the world’s media descended on the addresses where Emwazi was raised – ranging from an £800,000 mansion block apartment in Maida Vale to his last-known address on a gritty west London estate – debate raged about how the well-dressed and pensive son of a minicab driver became the blood-soaked poster boy of Isis.
The 26-year-old, who had moved to England at the age of six, first came to the attention of MI5 in 2009. He was detained with two others while travelling to Tanzania for a safari holiday. Intelligence officers believed it was a cover for an attempt to join the al-Shabaab terror group in Somalia. His week-long detention in Africa, apparently on British orders, and questioning by an MI5 officer were revealed by The Independent in 2010 – although he then identified himself by a different name.
While studying at the University of Westminster, he had been connected with a group of men who were under surveillance by the security services. They played five-a-side football together and went to the same schools and mosques in west London. Three of them are now dead, several others are serving prison sentences and one is living in Sudan, stripped of his British citizenship.
The group included Bilal al-Berjawi and Mohamed Sakr, both of whom travelled to Somalia to join al-Shabaab. Berjawi is known to have risen to a senior position within the Islamist group before being killed in a US drone strike in January 2012.
After leaving university, Emwazi drifted between jobs as a computer programmer and made efforts to move abroad after gaining a foreign-language teaching qualification. He eventually left the UK in 2012 or 2013 after changing his name to Mohammed al-Ayan by deed poll. Campaigners from the human rights group Cage claimed yesterday that Emwazi had become the subject of a campaign of harassment by MI5 to try to persuade him to become an informant between 2010 and 2012.
Emwazi alleged that he had been prevented by the intelligence services from travelling to Kuwait, where he had a new job and a fiancée, and had been left feeling “like a prisoner” on British soil.
Asim Qureshi, research director of Cage, who was contacted by Emwazi over his complaints of intimidation, compared the Briton to the Woolwich killer Michael Adebolajo, who also claimed to have been the subject of recruitment approaches from MI5. He said both men had been the subject of “suffocating domestic policies aimed at turning a person into an informant but which prevent a person from fulfilling their basic life needs” and such actions had “left a lasting impression” on Emwazi.
Mr Qureshi caused anger by describing the Arabic-speaking Briton as “extremely kind, gentle and soft-spoken, the most humble young person I knew”.
Such words were at odds with the reality of Emwazi, a man happy to spout Islamist invective while being filmed as he raised a knife to the throats of kneeling victims
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Steve Ballmer Speech Transcript – Project 2000 Announcement
November 15, 1999
Remarks by Steve Ballmer
COMDEX/Fall ’99 – Project 2000 Announcement
November 15, 1999
Las Vegas, NV
MR. BALLMER: Virtually every one of us is part of a project. Very few of us, though, ever interact with a project management system, and you could say, “Do I need to?” And the answer must certainly be “Yes!” — (laughter) — and it’s only the interference from the gods that is getting in the way! (Laughter.)
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Mohammed Atta
EGYPTIAN MILITANT
Mohammed Atta, (born September 1, 1968, Kafr al-Shaykh, Egypt—died September 11, 2001, New York, New York, U.S.)
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Steve Ballmer Speech Transcript – Project 2000 Announcement
November 15, 1999
Remarks by Steve Ballmer
Steve Ballmer Speech Transcript – Project 2000 Announcement
November 15, 1999
Remarks by Steve Ballmer
COMDEX/Fall ’99 – Project 2000 Announcement
November 15, 1999
Las Vegas, NV
MR. BALLMER: Well, it’s my pleasure have a chance to chat with you today. I have to admit that that when the guys suggested doing a product launch in the middle of the booth at Comdex, I thought it was purely insane. I actually now think it may be crazier yet than that. (Laughter.)
What I’m going to try to do in the next 15 minutes is give you a sense of the project management category and some of the new things that we’ve got coming. And for me, it is a particular pleasure, because in some senses I would say project management is probably the least well-understood category of software, at least that we participate in. Project management software is over a billion-dollar business. Most people would be surprised to learn that Microsoft Project is actually the fifth largest-selling software product at Microsoft. It’s a substantive business for us, and I think there’s a lot of important and interesting change coming in the project management category that I want to summarize for you.
The first thing that’s important to highlight is, for many of us, that project management remains an unknown category. Project management has become kind of the purview of the elite, the project managers who sit there and print out huge PERC charts and CAD charts and other kinds of charts that none of us really understand and love in the same way as the project managers. But even with that fairly narrow focus, this is a business that’s been growing about 25 percent a year.
We think, though, that the big opportunity, in addition to providing more capability to the project manager, is to be able to enlist more and more people into the project management process; to make project management accessible to mere mortals; to give mere mortals the tools that they need, the input status about their project and to get back the kind of simple, clean, status reports that people will want on a given project.
We have over 5 million Microsoft Project users around the globe today, and for that community and all of the people that they reach and touch, but can’t reach and touch directly, I do think that this is an important, important day.
We’ve done a lot of work over the last several years to really integrate Microsoft Project in the fabric of the rest of what we do in Office and in Back Office to store project summary information inside to SQL Server database, to make sure that it’s easy to extract information on a project scheduled for analysis in Excel or reporting in Access, but really, the next step is opening this up to a broader world.
There’s been a lot of work done to integrate Microsoft Project in with the kinds of Web applications people are building. The projects people are deploying, in IT the ERP applications in which essentially much of the line of business data is stored; but we’ve got to unlock that and open that up for a broader community of users.
If you track the history of Microsoft Project, and I think it reflects the project management category, we started out very focused in on the needs of the power users, much the way spreadsheets and word processors did. With Project 98, which shipped a couple of years ago, we went through a transformation in which, at least in small ways, you could get information out of the project management package and integrate it with the task list, the to-dos could get sent and mailed and notified by people through the email system. But still, it’s just a casual connection between what the project management people do and the overall knowledge that most people need to get their job done.
Virtually every one of us is part of a project. Very few of us, though, ever interact with a project management system, and you could say, “Do I need to?” And the answer must certainly be “Yes!” — (laughter) — and it’s only the interference from the gods that is getting in the way! (Laughter.)
So the real question is, what can we do to open that information up to people in a very, very reasonable way? This whole focus on knowledge workers — people who use their brains, people for whom information is the critical resource that they use to do their jobs effectively, is a huge focus for us at Microsoft. We find most workers in most companies think that it’s too hard to find the information people need to do their jobs. It’s very hard to filter information so that people get the right information at the right time to make a decision. And it’s also nigh impossible from time to time to easily share the information that people need on a project. And when you throw in the fact that people more and more want to be able to do this on any device, including pocket-size devices, any time, you get a whole new and important set of needs.
So if you take these key things in the project management category and you say, what does it take to make it very easy in a certain sense to focus in on finding information, we’ve got to make it easy enough to collect that information. How many resources — how many people are available to work on a project in a given department? How many people have already been applied? How much work is left to be done? That information must first be sourced in some original way. Then you want to give people the tools to analyze it: What are the costs really going to be? Geez, this department is way behind schedule, what are we going to do to allow them to catch up? Is there a way to fit that into the overall project schedule? How do we share the best practices from these two departments? And how — perhaps most importantly — do we keep people informed about project status, budget status?
And it’s this set of problems that we’re really trying to attack with Project 2000 and the newly introduced — the product we’re introducing for the first time today, Project Central, which is a companion product to Microsoft Project 2000 that is for the rest of us. The project management elite may continue to use Project 2000, but Project Central will help the rest of us with these tasks.
So Project 2000 then becomes a tool that makes it easier to collect information with integrated emails, a fundamental funnel into the data collection project for Microsoft Project. We’ve taken some things that we know people want to do and built very explicit templates that will help people with a prescribed set of tasks build the project that they want in Microsoft Project. We’ve made it easier to analyze information inside Microsoft Project databases using Access. We’ve improved the formula support in the product. And as we’ve already done in Excel and PowerPoint, Word we have a variety of new tools for grouping and outlining that let you collapse information and expand it so that you don’t have to weed through copious amounts of information which simply aren’t interesting to you.
Many people don’t understand all of the chart types, which are important to the project manager. The new network diagram approach that we put at the center of Project Central makes it so that most people will have a very good, integrated view of their project with new graphical indications and the ability to share that information out to people through this new Project Central offering.
Project Central itself, the product for the rest of us, makes it easy to do the things we all do: create and delegate tasks; have that integrated with the task list in Microsoft Outlook; tracking actual reported hours and status; grouping; filtering; looking at task and project data to find out where things are, and at least if I speak for myself, I like to be able to track things that I delegate, and we give tracking functionality back to the average user.
So today we’re announcing the availability of the Beta release of Project 2000 and the new Project Central. We’re announcing a specific template that we know will interest anybody who sits in this theater, which is a project template designed to help people who are going to do Windows 2000 deployment. And we’re announcing a technology guarantee so that anybody who buys Microsoft Project 98 between now and the end of April next year will have an automatic guarantee of an upgrade up to Project 2000. The final Project 2000 product will be available by the end of the first quarter of next year, and really the star of the show today will be the product itself. I’ll invite Todd Warren and team to come back up and show you Microsoft Project 2000.
I’m super excited. I will admit that I have not been an active project management user. With the new Project Central extension, with the work I think our team has done to really make project management more accessible, we’ll really take a step forward into giving all of us better visibility and some of the most important information we need to do our businesses. And certainly, I think, today we’ll sort of mark as the day where — hopefully you’ll agree with us — we make project management better available for the rest of us.
(Applause.)
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Richard Nixon
XXXVII President of the United States: 1969 - 1974
274 - Statement About Progress Toward Establishment of an All-Volunteer Armed Force
August 28, 1972
BASED on the report submitted to me this morning by Secretary Laird, and provided the Congress enacts pending legislation I have recommended, we will be able, as planned, to eliminate entirely by July 1973 any need for peacetime conscription into the armed forces.
Four years ago I pledged that if elected I would work toward ending the military draft and establishing in its place an all volunteer armed force--and that during such time, as the need for a draft continued, I would seek to make its working more equitable and less capricious in its effect on the lives of young Americans.
Immediately on taking office, my Administration began its fulfillment of that pledge--and I take deep and special satisfaction in the progress that has been made.
Within 18 months, the old, outmoded draftee selection process, with its inequitable system of deferments, was replaced by an even-handed lottery system based on random selection. The uncertainty created by the draft was further minimized by reducing the period of draft vulnerability from 7 years to one. As a result of these and other reforms, confidence in the fairness of the Selective Service System has been restored.
Meanwhile, we have also been working toward the all-volunteer force.
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William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Remarks at the Bosnian Federation Agreement Signing Ceremony
March 18, 1994
The President. President Izetbegovic, President Tudjman, Prime Minister Silajdzic, Mr. Zubak: The Secretary of State, Mr. Lake, the Vice President, and I are happy to be joined by you, as well as by others here today. We have the Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, Vitaly Churkin; representing the European Union troika, the Foreign Ministers of Greece, Mr. Papoulias, of Belgium, Mr. Claes, of Germany, Mr. Kinkel; and of course, David Owen and Thorvald Stoltenberg, who have been the cochairs of the international conference.
In addition to that, we're very pleased to be joined by the Ambassadors to the UNPROFOR nations who have been so active in working for peace and in preserving the peace, General Shalikashvili, Ambassador Albright, and Members of the Congress. In the front row, Senator Lugar, Senator Stevens, Senator Levin, Senator Hatch, Congressman Lantos, and I believe Congressman McCloskey is here. There he is, in the second row. So we thank all of you for coming today.
We have come to bear witness to a moment of hope. For 33 months the flames of war have raged through the nations of the former Yugoslavia. By signing these agreements today, Bosnian and Croatian leaders have acted to turn back those flames and to begin the difficult process of reconciliation.
Around the globe, the tension between ethnic identity and statehood presents one of the great problems of our time. But nowhere have the consequences been more tragic than in the former Yugoslavia. There nationalists and religious factions aggravated by Serbian aggression have erupted in a fury of ethnic cleansing and brutal atrocity.
The agreements signed today offer one of the first clear signals that parties to this conflict are willing to end the violence and begin a process of reconstruction. The accords call for a federation between Muslims and Croats of Bosnia. This Muslim-Croat entity has agreed on the principles of a confederation with Croatia. Together these steps can help support the ideal of a multiethnic Bosnia and provide a basis for Muslims and Croats to live again in peace as neighbors and compatriots. The agreements are as important for Croatia's future as they are for Bosnia's. And it is the hope of all present today that the Serbs will join in this process toward peace as well.
These agreements are a testament to the perseverance and to the resolve of many people: the Croatian and Bosnian diplomats who kept probing for openings toward peace; the U.N. soldiers from many nations, here represented today, who have worked to bring both stability and humanitarian supplies; the NATO pilots who have helped put our power in the service of diplomacy.
I want to praise the leadership and courage of those who have come to Washington to sign these agreements, especially President Izetbegovic and President Tudjman. I also want to recognize the tireless efforts of Thorvald Stoltenberg and David Owen and of course our own Cy Vance, who is not here today, and especially to express my personal appreciation to the skilled diplomacy of Ambassador Charles Redman. Thank you, sir, for your work.
All of these people have done much to bring us to this point of agreement. Through Ambassador Redman's efforts and in many other ways, our administration has worked with our NATO allies, the European Union, Russia, the U.N., and others to help end this conflict. The fact that we have done this work together has made a significant difference. And to the Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, I say a special thank you, sir, for your renewed energy in this area and our common hopes.
We have engaged in this work because the United States has clear interests at stake: an interest in helping prevent the spread of a wider war in Europe, an interest in showing that NATO remains a credible force for peace, an interest in helping to stem the terrible, destabilizing flows of refugees this struggle is generating, and perhaps clearly a humanitarian interest we all share in stopping the continuing slaughter of innocents in Bosnia.
The documents signed here are only first steps, but they are clearly steps in the right direction. If they lead to an overall negotiated settlement, if a lasting peace takes hold in this war-torn land, the ceremony will be remembered as an important event. Whether that comes to pass will depend less on our words today than on the actions of Muslims, Croats, and Serbs on the ground tomorrow and in the days to come.
For while documents like these can define the parameters of peace, the people of the region themselves must create that peace. Economic, political, and security arrangements for the new federation must be given a chance to work. The cease-fire between Croats and Bosnian Government forces must hold. Croats and Muslims who have fought with such intensity must now apply that same intensity to restoring habits of tolerance and coexistence.
The issue of the Petrinja region of Croatia must be resolved. Serbia and the Serbs of Bosnia cannot sidestep their own responsibility to achieve an enduring peace.
The new progress toward peace will likely come under attack by demagogs, by rogue riflemen, by all those who believe they can profit most from continued violence, aggression, and human suffering. Such attacks must be met with the same steadiness and leadership that have produced these agreements today.
Neither the United States nor the international community can guarantee the success of this initiative. But the U.S. has stood by the parties as they have taken risks for peace, and we will continue to do so. I have told Presidents Izetbegovic and Tudjman that the U.S. is prepared to contribute to the economic reconstruction that will bolster these agreements. And as I have said before, if an acceptable, enforceable settlement can be reached, the U.S. is prepared through NATO to help implement it.
All across Bosnia and Croatia, communities and entire peoples were once connected by ancient bridges, like the great stone arch in Mostar which for centuries stood as the city's proud symbol. Today, too many of those bridges have been reduced to rubble or closed by force. The challenge for parties to this conflict is to rebuild the bonds that those bridges represent. The announcement that Sarajevo's bridge of brotherhood and unity soon will reopen is a hopeful sign that the parties can begin to span the divide of hatred and violence.
The work ahead is indeed daunting, but all of us in the international community are committed to help. Together, let us strive for peace.
Thank you.
[At this point, Foreign Minister Karolos Papoulias of Greece, Presidents Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia, and Bosnian Croat representative Kresimir Zubak each made statements.]
The President. Ladies and gentlemen, today we have witnessed an act of great statesmanship. Now we must hope that the courage embodied by these agreements will inspire further acts of reason, reconstruction and progress to implement them, to make them real in the lives of the people whose leaders are represented here today.
We also must hope, I will say again, that the Serbs will join in this effort for a wider peace. We invite them and urge them to do so.
Over 150 years ago, the Balkan poet Ivan Jukic wrote the following line: "Only those are heroes who know how to live with their brothers." Let us hope we are beginning to learn that lesson in this troubled land.
Thank you very much.
NOTE: The President spoke at 9 a.m. in Room 450 of the Old Executive Office Building.
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Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
BARTON, Bruce, (1886 - 1967)
BARTON, Bruce, a Representative from New York; born in Robbins, Scott County, Tenn., August 5, 1886; educated in the public schools of Ohio, Massachusetts, and Illinois; graduated from Amherst (Mass.) College in 1907; moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1900 and engaged in literary and editorial pursuits; moved to New York City in 1912 and continued literary work; also engaged in the magazine and advertising business; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Theodore A. Peyser; reelected to the Seventy-sixth Congress and served from November 2, 1937, to January 3, 1941; was not a candidate for renomination but was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1940 to the United States Senate; delegate to the Republican State convention in 1938 and to the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia in 1940; resumed advertising business in New York City; died in New York City, on July 5, 1967
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July 1967
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The following events occurred in July 1967:
July 5, 1967 (Wednesday)
Died: Bruce Barton, 80, American advertising executive and co-founder (in 1891) of the Barton, Durstine & Osborn agency that merged with in 1928 with the George Batten agency to create BBDO, the world's largest advertising agency. Besides serving as a Congressman for Tennessee and creating the character of Betty Crocker for General Mills, Barton also wrote the controversial bestseller The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus, in which he described Jesus Christ as "the greatest salesman who ever walked the Earth".
From 6/21/1955 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Executive Order 10616 - Suspension of Certain Provisions of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947, as Amended, Which Relates to Officers of the Marine Corps of the Grade of Brigadier General ) To 3/18/1994 ( Bill Clinton - Remarks at the Bosnian Federation Agreement Signing Ceremony ) is 14150 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/30/2004 is 14150 days
From 3/24/1956 ( Steve Ballmer ) To 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 14150 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/30/2004 is 14150 days
From 5/11/1965 ( premiere US TV series episode "McHale's Navy"::"Birth of a Salesman" ) To 2/6/2004 ( my final day working at Microsoft Corporation as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and the deputy director of the United States Marshals Service and the United States Marine Corps brigadier general circa 2004 ) is 14150 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/30/2004 is 14150 days
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Stargate SG-1 Season 8 Episode 4
Zero Hour
Aired Friday 8:00 PM Jul 30, 2004 on Syfy
Episode Summary
Five days in the life of SGC as Jack assumes full command of the base and has to deal with a rapidly growing alien plant, the capture of SG-1 by Ba'al, arguing alien delegates, and a tricky traitorous System Lord.
AIRED: 7/30/04
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Jack O'Neill
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jonathan J. "Jack" O'Neill, Lieutenant General, USAF, is a fictional character in the military science fiction franchise Stargate, and primarily one of the main characters of the television series Stargate SG-1. He is most known as portrayed by actor Richard Dean Anderson, who played O'Neill in all the Stargate media since 1997, when he took over the role from actor Kurt Russell, who portrayed the character in the original Stargate film in 1994. O'Neill and Daniel Jackson are the only two characters to appear in both the original film and all 3 Stargate television series.
In his first appearance in the 1994 film as Colonel Jack O'Neil, the character leads the first team to go through the Stargate on a reconnaissance mission. He subsequently becomes the main character of the television series Stargate SG-1 created in 1997 as a sequel to the movie. In the first seven seasons of the show, Colonel Jack O'Neill, recalled from retirement after the first film, is the leader of the team SG-1, a part of the Stargate Program whose goal is to explore the galaxy and defend against any & all alien threats.
The character became less prominent in the eighth season in which he is promoted to Commanding Officer of Stargate Command, at the rank of Brigadier General, therefore greatly reducing the character's time spent exploring via the Stargate.
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Stargate SG-1
"Zero Hour"
Television series Season 8 episode 4
Friday 30 July 2004
[Weir is talking to O'Neill in her office.]
WEIR
General Hammond is being promoted.
O'NEILL
Any idea who we're going to be stuck with?
WEIR
Brigadier General Jack O'Neill.
O'NEILL
I've spent my whole life sticking it to the man. I don't think I can be the man.
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http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/06/to-summarize-why-me.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess
SATURDAY, JUNE 08, 2013
To summarize: Why me.
I noted earlier in a blog post that my blog is boring.
I started reading it one day recently while trying to maintain the mindset of a person who had just started reading my blog.
People are going to read one blog post and if they continue then presumably they will click the link at the bottom of the page at the end of the blog post.
One of those links reads "Newer Post" and the other one reads "Older Post." In the middle of those two links is one that read "Home" and that will take you to the page with the latest blog post on it.
So anyway, I was reading back and I thought to myself that my blog is incredibly boring.
But then I got to a post where I reference biological data about Microsoft Bill Gates, specifically about "Jennifer" and "Phoebe," and then suddenly it is not so boring.
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From 9/11/2001 to 2/6/2004 is 878 days
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Steve Ballmer Speech Transcript – Project 2000 Announcement
November 15, 1999
Remarks by Steve Ballmer
COMDEX/Fall ’99 – Project 2000 Announcement
November 15, 1999
Las Vegas, NV
MR. BALLMER: The first thing that’s important to highlight is, for many of us, that project management remains an unknown category. Project management has become kind of the purview of the elite, the project managers who sit there and print out huge PERC charts and CAD charts and other kinds of charts that none of us really understand and love in the same way as the project managers. But even with that fairly narrow focus, this is a business that’s been growing about 25 percent a year.
We think, though, that the big opportunity, in addition to providing more capability to the project manager, is to be able to enlist more and more people into the project management process; to make project management accessible to mere mortals; to give mere mortals the tools that they need, the input status about their project and to get back the kind of simple, clean, status reports that people will want on a given project.
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Hijackers in the September 11 attacks
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The hijackers in the September 11 attacks were 19 men affiliated with al-Qaeda. 15 of the 19 were citizens of Saudi Arabia, and the others were from the United Arab Emirates (2), Egypt, and Lebanon. The hijackers were organized into four teams, each led by a pilot-trained hijacker with three or four "muscle hijackers," who were trained to help subdue the pilots, passengers, and crew.
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HISTORY
9/11 ATTACKS
On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon
The attackers were Islamic terrorists
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September 11 attacks
UNITED STATES [2001]
September 11 attacks, also called 9/11 attacks, series of airline hijackings and suicide attacks committed in 2001 by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group
Evidence gathered by the United States soon convinced most governments that the Islamic militant group al-Qaeda was responsible for the attacks.
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/sep/12/news/mn-44964
Los Angeles Times
Muslims in Southland Brace for Retaliation
Religion: Leaders denounce the terrorist acts, but Islamic schools, centers and mosques close in fear of revenge assaults. Hate calls and e-mail threats abound.
September 12, 2001 LARRY B. STAMMER and TERESA WATANABE TIMES RELIGION WRITERS
American Muslims joined a stunned nation Tuesday in denouncing the attacks in New York and Washington--and then braced themselves for an anti-Islamic backlash.
From Washington to Los Angeles, Muslim leaders quickly mobilized to put out the word that they stood united with other Americans. At the same time, Muslim parochial schools were being closed, Islamic centers and mosques were being shuttered, and Muslim workers were staying off the job out of fear that they would be targeted amid an upturn in e-mail and telephone threats.
"Our country is under attack," said Salam Al-Marayati, director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles. "We stand shoulder to shoulder with all Americans to bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to justice."
Al-Marayati was in Washington on Tuesday with other Muslim leaders for a previously scheduled meeting at the White House with President Bush to discuss the Middle East crisis.
"These attacks are the work of Satan," said Yahia Abdul-Rahman, president of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, which represents half a million Muslims in 67 Islamic centers. "All I can do is kneel inside my heart and ask God to accept those who died into paradise, relieve the pain of their families and bring together those who love God to combat the work of the devil."
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Robert Wright Jr.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert G. Wright Jr. is an FBI agent who has criticized the FBI's counterterrorist activities in the 1990s, when he worked in the Chicago division on terrorists with links to the Middle East, especially on the issue of money laundering. Specifically, he worked on project Vulgar Betrayal, which allegedly implicated Yasin al-Qadi. He wrote a detailed book which the FBI prevented him from publishing with threats of criminal prosecution. He complained that "FBI management intentionally and repeatedly thwarted and obstructed my attempts to launch a more comprehensive investigation to identify and neutralize terrorists."
Three months before 9/11 he wrote the following:
"Knowing what I know, I can confidently say that until the investigative responsibilities for terrorism are removed from the FBI, I will not feel safe. The FBI has proven for the past decade it cannot identify and prevent acts of terrorism against the United States and it's [sic] citizens at home and abroad. Even worse, there is virtually no effort on the part of the FBI's international terrorism unit to neutralize known and suspected terrorists residing within the United States."
After his revelations circa 2002–2003 he was demoted.
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Homerpalooza [ The Simpsons television series episode ]
Original Airdate in U.S.: 19-May-96
Corgan: Hey, Homer, looks like our next stop is your hometown, Springfield.
Chamberlin: The hometown show's the big one, Homer.
Iha: Yeah, people who called you a weirdo in high school get to see what a successful freak you've become.
[points to D'Arcy]
D'Arcy: Hey, I wasn't a weirdo. I was in the audio-visual club.
Homer: Really? Me too! But I got kicked out 'cause of my views of Vietnam. Also, I was stealing projectors.
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Village of the Damned (1960)
Release Info
USA 7 December 1960
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WORLD TRADE CENTER
WTC Timeline
Key Dates
Demolition at the site began with the clearance of thirteen square blocks of low rise buildings for constru ction of the World Trade Center. Groundbreaking for the construction began on August 5, 1966.
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Steve Ballmer Speech Transcript – Project 2000 Announcement
November 15, 1999
Remarks by Steve Ballmer
COMDEX/Fall ’99 – Project 2000 Announcement
November 15, 1999
Las Vegas, NV
MR. BALLMER: If you track the history of Microsoft Project, and I think it reflects the project management category, we started out very focused in on the needs of the power users, much the way spreadsheets and word processors did. With Project 98, which shipped a couple of years ago, we went through a transformation in which, at least in small ways, you could get information out of the project management package and integrate it with the task list, the to-dos could get sent and mailed and notified by people through the email system. But still, it’s just a casual connection between what the project management people do and the overall knowledge that most people need to get their job done.
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 4:30 AM Sunday, April 24, 2011
York
I went to a funeral in 1998. I cannot recall the specific date. I was working on a software project that French-based company in York South Carolina asked me to work on. I told the controller I was only going to try working for myself for one year before I started looking for a full-time employment job and when that one year had passed, which was more like close to two years, I accepted that offer of employment from Microsoft Corporation and I accepted their offer to begin employment with Microsoft Corporation in Washington State on 7 December 1998.
So anyway, before that, when I was still working for that France-based company, which I noted several years ago no longer operates in the United States, and was a manufacture of high-voltage insulator equipment, the controller asked me to create a software application using Microsoft Project 98 that would improve the way they scheduled the production of their products. I didn't really want to do it because I had already given their production procedures a lot of thought and I was waiting for the release of the next version of Microsoft Office to start writing code for an application that would improve the production schedule of their products. The controller wanted me to start at the present time though because he thought Project 98 would be the improvement he wanted. I did create an application for them and as I told them, when that time period had elapsed I was going to start looking for work elsewhere. I did accept that employment offer from Microsoft Corporation and that France-based company did contact me later for technical support but the problems that arose were easily corrected and were simple problems introduced by the people who started trying to provide technical support after I left.
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, March 5, 2006 3:31 PM
Subject: Job #AJB27277920 - .NET Developers Needed!
Job #AJB27277920 - .NET Developers Needed!
Please find my resume attached for consideration of this postion as a .Net developer.
KERRY WAYNE BURGESS
Seattle, WA 98104
Work History:
1998 - 2004
Microsoft Corporation, Premier Support
Technical Account Manager, Applications Development Consultant
Duties:
Case management for Fortune 500 customers of Microsoft Premier Support
Technical support for most Microsoft products, especially Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint.
Developer knowledge and experience with Visual Basic.Net, C#, .Net Frameworks, SQL Server/ADO.Net, automation
Proactive consulting on Microsoft products, including managed applications development, for Microsoft Premier customers and peers
Technical lead for Microsoft Office 2003 partner program
Education and Training:
Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Certified NetWare Engineer
Advanced Electronics Field, United States Navy
Ashdown High School, Ashdown, AR
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 07/15/07 1:00 PM
When did I go to Texas for Thedia's wedding? It must have been early 1998. I was doing an initial assessment of using Microsoft Project for that project Ken Burns wanted
Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries premiere episode - Monday 08 December 2003 USA
(from internet transcript of incomplete dialog)
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Adama: Why don't you talk to me, Lee?
Apollo: What do you want to talk about?
Adama: About anything. You've been here for an hour.
Apollo: Well, I don't have anything to say. My orders said, report here and participate in the ceremony, so I'm, I'm here. And I'm gonna participate in the ceremony. There wasn't, wasn't anything in my orders about having any heart-to-heart chats with the old man.
Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries premiere episode - Monday 08 December 2003 USA
(from internet transcript of incomplete dialog)
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(Back to Caprica City)
Baltar: (Walking outdoors with Number Six) It may interest you to know that the final results of the CMP project are working close to 95% efficiency throughout the fleet. Hold your applause, please.
Six: No applause for me? I doubt you would have ever completed the project without me.
Baltar: Yes, well, you helped a bit.
Six: I rewrote half your algorithms.
Baltar: All right, you were extremely helpful, but let's not forget, you got something out of it. All that poking around inside the defense mainframe. Should give you a huge advantage bidding for the contract next year.
Six: You know that's not really why I did it.
Baltar: No, you did it cause you love me.
Six: That, and God wanted me to help you.
Baltar: Right, he spoke to you, did he? You had a chat?
Six: He didn't speak to me in a literal voice, and you don't have to mock my faith.
Baltar: Sorry. I'm just not very religious.
Six: Does it bother you that I am?
Baltar: It puzzles me that an intelligent and attractive woman such as yourself should be taken in by all that mysticism and superstition. But, I'm willing to overlook it on account of your other attributes. (They both smile. He tries to kiss her, but she pulls away.)
Six: I have to go. I'm meeting someone.
Baltar: Really? Who is he? I'm insanely jealous.
Six: I doubt that.
Baltar: So touchy today. Well, as a matter of fact, I'm meeting someone too. Business. A new project at Defense I might do. So, uh... (kisses her on the cheek) You'll call me later, right?
(He walks away. Six looks up.)
Six: It's about time. Wondered when you'd get here.
(On Galactica. We cut to a museum display of a Cylon Centurion and Basestar.
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November 15, 1999
Remarks by Steve Ballmer
COMDEX/Fall ’99 – Project 2000 Announcement
November 15, 1999
Las Vegas, NV
MR. BALLMER: Virtually every one of us is part of a project. Very few of us, though, ever interact with a project management system, and you could say, “Do I need to?” And the answer must certainly be “Yes!” — (laughter) — and it’s only the interference from the gods that is getting in the way! (Laughter.)
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Lyndon B. Johnson
XXXVI President of the United States: 1963-1969
90 - Statement by the President on the Fight Against Organized Crime and Racketeering.
January 6, 1964
THE GROWING success of the Federal effort against racketeering and organized crime reported to me by the Attorney General should be a source of encouragement to citizens in all parts of the country.
This record is the result of exceptional dedication and efficient operation by the various Federal law enforcement agencies working together. No amount of recognition can compensate the men and women of the FBI, Bureau of Narcotics, Secret Service, Internal Revenue, Immigration Service, and the other Federal law enforcement agencies, for their long and unusual hours, extended periods away from home, and threats and physical danger to themselves and their families. Nonetheless, I am sure all Americans join me in expressing the Nation's gratitude to them--and their colleagues in State and local agencies.
At the same time, it should be recognized that the intensified Federal effort against organized crime stems in large part from the deep interest and leadership of the Attorney General. His efforts deserve our appreciation.
We can provide it in no better way than to take sober note of his conclusion that there is a very long way to go--that we not only have not won the battle against organized crime, but that we have only begun to conduct an effective fight and that each one of us can help.
For our part in the Federal Government, we intend to continue and to accelerate that fight.
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Steve Ballmer Speech Transcript – Project 2000 Announcement
November 15, 1999
Remarks by Steve Ballmer
COMDEX/Fall ’99 – Project 2000 Announcement
November 15, 1999
Las Vegas, NV
MR. BALLMER: I’m super excited. I will admit that I have not been an active project management user. With the new Project Central extension, with the work I think our team has done to really make project management more accessible, we’ll really take a step forward into giving all of us better visibility and some of the most important information we need to do our businesses. And certainly, I think, today we’ll sort of mark as the day where — hopefully you’ll agree with us — we make project management better available for the rest of us.
(Applause.)
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