The oil offshore Cuba is “non-commercial” Repsol’s well offshore Cuba did not find commercial quantities of crude, according to EFE News Services. A Repsol executive told EFE that, “there are good signs that there are hydrocarbons there, but the exploratory…

Only in L.A. A former parking gargge – admittedly built 80 years ago in Beaux Arts style and resembling an apartment building, but still a parking garage – has been granted “historic landmark status” by the state. It has been converted to…

IBM tells users not to install Windows XP update In a note headlined “To patch — or not to patch” posted Friday on its corporate intranet, IBM tells its employees not to download SP2 when it becomes available because of…

Jobs up, pay way down in Wisconsin While the Bushies say the economy is improving because of new job creation, things look different in Wisconsin. Yes, there are new jobs being created, however they pay much less than all the…

The biggest new adopters of Linux are The public sector in developing countries!

The election Bush approval ratings: raw poll data. Down, down, down Nader fails to make California ballot State election officials said Nader fell far short of the 153,035 signatures needed by Friday’s deadline. He submitted 82,923 with 56 of the…

Windows XP SP2 Service Pack 2 for XP has been released. It is will be a monster download from the Microsoft servers, and way too big for dial-up accounts to download in any reasonable amount of time. They will need to get the…