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November 22nd, 2009 | 
Author: Ex-soldier faces jail for handing in gun
Ex-soldier faces jail for handing in gun
Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 12:15A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for “doing his duty”.
Paul Clarke, 27, was found guilty of possessing a firearm at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday – after finding the gun and handing it personally to police officers on March 20 this year.
The jury took 20 minutes to make its conviction, and Mr Clarke now faces a minimum of five year’s imprisonment for handing in the weapon.
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Armed Robbers Apologize to Army Reserve Victim – ABC News
The 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee sophomore, who joined the Army Reserve a year ago, said he was walking home from work early Tuesday morning when four masked men forced him into an alley at gunpoint.
After ordering him to the ground, the reservist said the men took his wallet, keys, cell phone, and even an energy bar wrapper from his pants pockets.
But when one of the robbers started going through the wallet, the reservist said the hostilities immediately ceased.
“They found my military ID which stopped them dead in their tracks,” the student, who asked not to be identified, told WTMJ-TV. “What I presume to be the leader said, ‘We can’t do this. We’ve got to give him his stuff back.’”
Parachuting has come a long way in my lifetime.
Have a look at this video on jumping from a helicopter I believe from the Alps:
Insane wingsuit skydiving – Watch more free videos
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Google Launches Free 411 Service
When I was young directory assistance was free, a human, and very good. I used it a lot and maybe folks like me are why Ma Bell dumped it.
But there is a good reason to keep information flow free and apparently Google agrees with me. What they have done now is created a robotic voice 411 service for businesses and it is free, call 1-800-GOOG-411
I’ve only begun to try it but it looks like a keeper to me.
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Here is something new and fun from Yahoo.
Tagmaps combines the Yahoo map with Flikr photos so that as you look at the map you find tags for the ares on the map and by holding your mouse over those tags images from the area appear in a window to the right. Then you can look more closely at those pictures by clicking them and look at the photo collections of the photographers.
It’s pretty neat!
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Today Google updated their page format of Google Reader. It now can look much more like Bloglines or Pluck in addition to its old style of display.
Personnaly I think this is a great improvement once again making Google the big bully on the web, M$ is falling backward again.
Consider this a top recommendation from me, I think Google really made something useful here!
Closed Captioning Hits Google Video
This is great news for the hearing impaired. Now Google is captioning the videos on it’s site.
I wonder if it uses software or skilled people to do it…
You need to see this…
It’s a five minute video I only recommend for high speed connected folks, but it’s good. 
How to Write More Clearly, Think More Clearly, and Learn Complex Material More Easily
One wonderful thing about the Internet is the educational opportunities in it. This page is from a University of Georgia Prof. who wants to help his students write papers well.
It’s not exactly new to me, but it is concise, much as a speech note page and maybe it will help you or others you show it to as well.
Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software
by Tim O’Reilly
09/30/2005This
has been a question of mine and that I hear from folks just getting
started in computers nowadays. If you are new to the net, or if you are
not new but still don’t have any grasp of what you are doing with the
Internet this five page article is a well written ticket just for you.