When anyone thinks of betting on a horse race the first thing that comes into mind is placing a bet at the race track on the day, possibly even just a few moments, before a race begins. Of course today, with all our modern technology, we can place bets on horse races without ever leaving our armchairs by using one of the numerous websites offering horse race bets. However, before placing that horse race bet you really ought to consider just what exactly are your horse race betting options in the USA?

I had handled hundreds of complaints, both large and small in scale. On my investigative team, I was considered adept at civilian interviews, especially those involving "walk-in" complainants like Ms. Brillant. We often got people like Ms. Brillant at the agency, people who might have had emotional or psychological conditions, homeless people, and others who relayed fantastic incidents like her.

The first stop on the tour was at the Korean DMZ. On the tour, we got to do a variety of things such as go deep underground into a tunnel constructed by the North, peer into the city of Kaesung through binoculars and go to the demarcation line. At the demarcation line, we had the good fortune of being the background for a several North Korean soldiers' pictures. Interestingly enough, a day or two later we saw the video footage of that incident taking place on the news.

We have all been told repeatedly, in a message that takes many forms, and is regularly reinforced by crime fiction and cop shows on TV, that fingerprints are unique -- that the presence of a fingerprint someplace that matches Mr. X is irrefutable proof that Mr. X was there. It is rare that we ask ourselves why we are so sure. It should be evident, as a matter of principle, that we really cannot make the statement that fingerprints are unique with any existing, or even imaginable, scientific justification.

The LiveScience Web site has an interesting article about a new volunteer effort, called the Quake Catcher Network, that employs ordinary laptop computers to gather data on earthquakes. The program takes advantage of the fact that many newer laptops have built-in accelerometers, designed to allow the machine's hard disk to be shut off if the laptop is dropped.

Greetings from Istanbul! It's spring break, and I'm on a ten day Turkey Trek with the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. It's a student-led voyage that takes students to a particular locale, usually the home country of the trip's organizers, and then combines the must-see tourist destinations with meetings and info sessions with really high level people, courtesy of the H stamp.

I was talking to a prospect the other day and was amazed at how she talked about her customers. When I asked questions about her market, she couldn't get down to individual characteristics -- just big generalizations. It was like she was all forest and no trees!

If you have missed out on cloud computing, then one application of this may be coming to a city near you. Perhaps without realizing it, you may be using a cloud computing application such as Google Docs. Many may also be using a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system such as that provided by SalesForce.com which is also on the cloud. Now you can see some further cloud computing applications when VMware Takes Virtualization on the Road With VMware Express.

I had an opportunity to stop by the 2009 South West Regional Agro-Pastoral Show, an annual exhibition for local farmers and craftsmen, here in Limbe this afternoon. Amid all the displays, one guy stood apart with some creations that can only be described as a near perfect marriage of form, function, green design and a borderline obsession with bamboo.

Just when I think I have the software landscape in Cameroon pretty well figured out, a guy like Djorwe Temoa comes along to turn all my assumptions upside-down. If iPhone development can be done in Cameroon's Extreme North -- about as harsh a computing environment as one is likely to find anywhere -- it opens up a vast range of potential footholds for software engineering elsewhere on the continent.

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