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Thibodeaux is what you'd call a computer hobbyist, a techno-geek of the highest order--not like the average consumer. There are a lot more of those: people who like the idea of a home computer network but wouldn't want to spend all their spare time (or even one Saturday) reading technical manuals, shopping for parts, reconfiguring hard drives and rewiring the house. If you wanted to network a few PCs a few months ago, you really had to be a Todd Thibodeaux to pull it off--or spend thousands of dollars hiring professionals...
...language never rivals the story in The Queen of the Mist; rather, the spare imagery Murray painstakingly inserts allows the heartbreaking story to tell itself without unnecessary flourishes. Images of birth, death and rebirth permeate the poem's language, providing the strongest continual layer of metaphor within the poem. The barrel, Annie's self-made womb, becomes in the end Annie's self-made tomb as Annie watches herself disintegrate within the short and petty memory of history. Eventually she is even called an imposter when the idealistic collective imagination consumes memory and literally recreates "Annie Taylor" into a blonde...
...When we were coming up with the idea we were just looking for a way to make use of our spare time, but lately it has been cutting into our time as we have been busy getting everything organized," Keller said...
...asks Texas jury to spare life of racist killer John William King...
There are some real dangers. "Hackers can try to break into research communications between weapons labs and universities," says Thompson, "and they can mess up a lot of traffic pertaining to such support activities as paychecks, logistics, transportation and spare parts." But, he stresses, cyber-spies cannot penetrate the heart of the nation's defenses -- because the Pentagon keeps the good stuff offline. "The Pentagon's key military networks are not on the Internet," says Thompson, "and they are not linked to the Internet." So while the hackers may succeed at making life difficult for the military, they cannot compromise...