Entries from September 2005

September 29, 2005

Hello world!

I’ve installed the free, open-source WordPress blogging and Web publishing platform with which I’ll use to post on a variety of topics, which will be of a nature mentioned in the Categories to the side. Widespread roll-out and use of WP is contingent upon rigorous testing; however, it may replace my Blogger Blog*Spot blog, at [...]

September 25, 2005

Sullivan defeats Clark, for NPA mayoral nomination in Vancouver

‘A fighter, a survivor,’ Sullivan wins key battle: “Father really does know best. Sam Sullivan’s father, Lloyd, was calm in the nerve-wracking hours leading up to the announcement of Sullivan’s win over Christy Clark in the Non-Partisan Association mayoralty nomination yesterday.”
In a headline rivalling the New York Post’s famed “Dewey Defeats Truman” of the 1948 [...]

September 9, 2005

eBay to buy Skype?

“EBay Inc. is in talks to buy Web telephone phenomenon Skype Technologies SA, a source said on Thursday, prompting a 4 percent drop in shares of the online auctioneer amid concern Skype could crimp highly-profitable eBay’s growth.” (Justin Hyde and Eric Auchard, Reuters)
According to the named Reuters reporters, who cite Wall Street Journal and New [...]