Sunday, May 27, 2007

whales moving toward sea

lost whales are heading back to the pacific ocean after lingering for about a week near a sacramento river
ukrainian president viktor yushchenko and prime minister viktor yanukovych set parliamentary elections for Sept. 30, defusing a political crisis that has lasted almost two months, yushchenko's office said:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aiOpQ0S.EaOg&refer=home

Saturday, May 26, 2007

stocks rise

us stocks rose yesterday after three days of declines. the dow gained 66 points to close at 13,507 while the s&p 500 gained 8 to 1516.


i got a raise

the president is expected to sign a bill that raises the minimum wage from $5.15 to $5.85 by the end of the summer and to $7.25 by summer 2009. read the full story here:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4834833.html

Friday, May 25, 2007

clay pidgin

one of the best multi-protocol instant messenger clients, pidgin has reved to version 2.0.1 and it's available now!

first post

i check a couple of news sites every day. it turns out that the vast majority of news is always bad, so i thought to put this blog together where i'd host the best news of the day.

without any more fanfare, today's entry:

clinton plan would trim health spending by $120 billion a year