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Cargo ship damaged off Australian Coast
The Maritime | July 15th 2008
The Greek bulk carrier ATLANTIC EAGLE reportedly struck an unknown submerged object near Albany in Australia, suffering damage to its steering system. No pollution has been reported, and it appears the ship was able to proceed to anchor to investigat read more
Solano Avenue here I come
The Adventures of Whimsical Walney | July 9th 2008
Mark your calendar for the Solano Avenue Stroll on Sunday, September 14th and be sure to stop by the Whimsical Walney booth to say hello. This is the first year that I’ll be participating in the event and I’m really excited to meet the So read more
Filing for Bankruptcy Protection Increases Nationally
Bankruptcy Access | July 6th 2008 by BankruptcyAccess.com
From Albany, New York: “Nationally, the American Bankruptcy Institute estimates that bankruptcies will increase to 1.1 million in fiscal 2008, compared to 850,000 last year.” Click here to check it out: http://timesunion.com/AspStories/st read more
Dreary Saturday
Storm Chaos Weather | July 5th 2008 by Joe
Below is the weather outlook around the region. Stationary front with waves of low pressure will continue to impact southern New England throughout the day keeping the clouds and showers around. Further to the north across New England, high pressure read more
Microsoft ofrece en EEUU Office en "Alquiler"
BlogXperience | July 2nd 2008 by Xavier Soriano - SoftCat
Microsoft lanza una nueva manera de vender su programa Office, al ofrecer a sus clientes una suscripción en lugar del pago único por la licencia. A partir de mediados de julio, la compañía ofrecerá en Estados Unidos Microsoft Equipt, que tendrá read more
President Sarkozy and State TV in France. Whose the boss. Notes f…
Rozier's Orléans Diary | June 26th 2008 by Rose
Le chef de l’Etat veut pouvoir nommer lui-même le président de France Télévisions et annonce la fin de la publicité après 20 heures dès janvier 2009. RAPHAËL GARRIGOS et ISABELLE ROBERTS QUOTIDIEN : jeudi 26 juin 2008 La rumeur a fait hier read more
Taconic Hiking Club
New York Outdoors | June 23rd 2008 by Sue Freeman
Any outdoors lovers in Albany and the NY Capital District should check out the Taconic Hiking Club blog. The rest of us can enjoy their great photos and resources for a hiking vacation in that region. read more
A gay pride march
Ramblin' with Roger | June 8th 2008 by Roger Green
Back on March 9 of this year, there was this story in the Times Union by Jennifer Gish titled "Humanity in 'Laramie': High school actors project offers lesson on more than gay tolerance". It was about Bill Ziskin, a teacher at Schenectady High, dire read more
How to completely turn a woman into a lesbian
Pointless Banter | June 6th 2008 by Kevin
How the power of my penis changed a girl's life forever. (Actually I should change that to woman because it sounds creepy when you read "girl".) read more
I’m Famous…kinda
Funny in Church | June 2nd 2008 by Jeremy Ito
This month we announced to our church that I will be taking a new job as Area Director for Albany Young Life. The amount of love and support from our church members and the community has been overwhelming. We are grateful to know so many wonderful read more
Free Hudson River Access CD
New York Outdoors | June 1st 2008 by Sue Freeman
A CD is now available that provides interactive maps of the Hudson River Estuary, with over 90 sites along the river from Troy to Yonkers. If has information for boating, fishing and other aquatic recreation. For each access site you get directions, read more
Governor Paterson To Hillary Clinton: Quit!
Aisha Music | May 24th 2008 by Aisha
New York Governor Tells Hillary Clinton To Honor Her Word Obama Less Than 80 Delegates Away From The Nomination - Hillary More Than 200 David Paterson New York governor David Paterson has asked Hillary Clinton to do the honorable thing and a read more
Four paws good, two legs bad!
Garden of Ruminations | May 19th 2008
The paws of Yorkies, Golden Retrievers, Labs, and the occasional dog that resembles a rat* traverse the streets of Albany, with a gait in their step and tongue dangling carefree. Any given weather condition -- rain, sleet, hail, snow, wind, and of co read more
Shark Attack!
Archies Archive | May 17th 2008
I normally don’t do news. Except in the quiz each week and in occasional reports on some of the stranger thing we humans do. Most of my news comes from the mass media which I tend to mock, believing there is often another story behind that whic read more
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes II: Albany, NY edition
News of Doom | May 14th 2008 by Trench Reynolds
MONSTER X.
Lo-Res Viscera | May 13th 2008 by Lo-Res Viscera
Kick-ass collection of material spanning the career of one of the great fast hardcore bands of all time. I'm pretty sure this is everything they released, but don't quote me on that as I am no expert on anyones' discography.(I'm posting as many reque read more
Basic Creek Reservoir Re-opens June 20 in Albany
New York Outdoors | May 13th 2008 by Sue Freeman
Mayor Gerald Jennings has announced the reopening of the Basic Creek Reservoir to shoreline fishing, hiking and bird watching. The 265 acre City of Albany reservoir, located in the Town of Westerlo, was closed following the September 11, 2001 terrori read more
Capital Region - May Bike Events
New York Outdoors | May 12th 2008 by Sue Freeman
Wednesday, 5/14: 5:30pm-8:00pm: Bicycle Rodeo for Kids and Families. Free bike safety checks and helmet giveaways for children; one child’s bike will be donated to recipient of “Citizen’s Award,” chosen by Boys & Girls Club (B&GC). Lo read more
Farewell to the Old Me
Garden of Ruminations | May 6th 2008
Lots of life changing events, I'll try to detail them to the best of my ability in upcoming posts. I'm usually not too big on delving up personal details, but I'm sure I could somehow manage to crank out some snarky bits for your reading pleasure.An read more
US Mail Carrier Makes Super Catch
The Views Of The All Seeing Eye | April 23rd 2008 by Texas_JAM
FoxNews reports that"A U.S. Postal Service worker is being praised after handling with extreme care her most precious package to date.Lisa Harrell, 42, can add hero to her record after catching a 1-year-old baby who fell out of a second-story window read more
Albany, Office y OneCare ahora de suscripción
Wellcome To My World | April 20th 2008 by sergio de candelario
Albany es la nueva propuesta de Micriosoft que dará bastante que halar los próximos meses. Se trata de no otra osa que los servicios de suscripción en aplicaciones locales, entre las que se encuentran: Office 2007 OneCare Servicios de Windows Liv read more
Microsoft Announces Private Beta Launch Of Mysterious Albany
B.E.T.A. Daily | April 18th 2008 by Vikrant Sharma
Microsoft has announced the private beta launch of its “All-In-One” subscription service which was code named “Albany” and has been under covers for a very long time. Albany is Microsoft’s latest move in line with its read more
Google Gadets and Albany
Joe's Korner | April 18th 2008 by NLCM - India
Microsoft (MSFT) has finally launched a subscription-based version of Office, code-named "Albany." (Currently in private beta). This won't be a direct Google Apps competitor, but it will presumably mimic some of the convenience and simplicity of Goo read more
As Singapore (*cough*LTA*cough*) embraces ERP, New York trashes i…
Simply Jean | April 7th 2008 by Simply Jean
While the Singapore government embraces Electronic Road Pricing (ERP), New York - one of the world’s busiest city decides to trash it. New Yorkers unanimously decided against setting up road pricing schemes in New York because they felt that do read more
Albany Redux
Sport Ramblings with a hint of Pop Culture | March 21st 2008 by Todd
As I prepare for the NCAA Tournament games (my preparation includes drinking coffee and talking on the AIM), I am thinking back to the 2006 NCAA Tournament.The Albany Great Danes. Yes, Albany the team that stayed close with UConn for the entire game read more
Black, blind, and the governor of New York State, David Patterson
The Black American Discussion | March 17th 2008 by Beni Dakar
Governor David Patterson (far right) with his parents Basil and Portia, and younger brother Daniel (Courtesy of The NY Times)ByBENI DAKAR"You never know how the Divine will work: David Patterson, born black and blind in 1954 (the same year of Brown v read more
NY Army recruiter arrested
MyCrimeSpace | March 17th 2008 by Trench Reynolds
Army recruiter accused of meeting teens on MySpace: 22-year-old Richard Brenton of the Albany, New York area has been arrested for meeting 16-year-old girls on MySpace and getting them drunk. As much as some guys would like to think there is there is read more
Spitzer Prostitute’s MySpace Page Hacked
pajamadeen.com | March 13th 2008 by pajamadeen
Someone has hacked Ashley Dupré’s MySpace page. It received over five million hits after news broke yesterday that she was the prostitute who met New York Governor Eliot Spitzer on February 13 at the venerable Mayflower hotel in Washington, DC. read more
Eliot Spitzer’s Prostitute Identity Revealed
pajamadeen.com | March 12th 2008 by pajamadeen
"Kristen,” the hooker who led to New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s downfall after a February 13 tryst at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, has been identified as Ashley Alexandra Dupré. She’s 22…only five years older than Spitzer’s el read more
Silda Spitzer’s Annus Horribilis
pajamadeen.com | March 12th 2008 by pajamadeen
With news of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s imminent resignation on March 15 also came a New York Post article reporting that Hizzoner has been seeing prostitutes for the last 10 years, spending up to $80,000 on them and traveling as far as Flor read more
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