IT Business Incubation After Hurricane Katrina, in New Orleans

July 19th, 2006 New Orleans police have arrested a doctor and two nurses on second-degree murder charges for allegedly administering lethal pain medications to patients stranded in hospitals in the chaos following Hurricane Katrina. At least 34 patients at Memorial Medical Center died in the aftermath of the hurricane, after power was lost and those hospitalized were stranded for four days.

September 24th, 2005 Hurricane Katrina - Multi-day movie with DMSP night visible and daytime true color as background (Approx 15M). You may need to install a new viewer to see them, InterVU for Windows 95 and VMPEG are free viewers and either of them will work.

October 1st, 2005 Doctors in New Orleans are bracing themselves for what they call a "second disaster" as New Orleans-area residents return to their devastated city. While environmentalists warn of the long-term danger to health from possibly polluted floodwaters, and rumors of disease swirl, front-line emergency doctors say the actual health danger will come from accidents.

September 2nd, 2005 Randall Robinson reported in The Huffinton Post that "black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive". Note: I briefly searched google news for corroborating evidence/reporting.

September 24th, 2005 Hurricane Rita plowed into the Gulf Coast early Saturday, lashing Texas and Louisiana with driving rain, threatening to flood low-lying regions and knocking power out to half a million people as transformers exploded. Rita struck just east of Sabine Pass, on the Texas-Louisiana line, bringing a 20-foot storm surge and up to 25 inches of rain according to National Hurricane Center said.

September 3rd, 2005 I was feeling sick and tired reading the sad reports on the death and devastation initiated by Katrina and the lawlessness, lack of timely help and administrative apathy that followed it. And then it struck me.

August 10th, 2009 Air Force used Twitter to track NY flyover falloutWASHINGTON —As the Pentagon warns of the security risks posed by social networking sites, newly released government documents show the military also uses these Internet tools to monitor and react to coverage of high-profile events. The Air Force tracked online messaging service Twitter, video-sharing site YouTube and various blogs to assess the huge public backlash to the Air Force One flyover of the Statue of Liberty this spring, according to the documents.

September 19th, 2006 "Hi there, I am a brithsh businessman and I contact you for a business proposal. I want to to be my co-worker.

November 10th, 2004 Questions for all Design By Contract practitioners - If my class ( E ) implements three interfaces (A, B & C) and extends class D, each with its own pre-conditions and post-conditions and some invariants. Class E also has few pre-conditions and post-conditions and some invariants.

March 22nd, 2005 A simple technique (one step) to enable displaying of sidebar in individual post pages. By default in the default layout the sidebar is not visible in individual post pages.

April 17th, 2006 I just got a call from someone that was high up at sun saying "Do I know what's happening next week at Sun". He told me that scott is leaving his post next week.

May 5th, 2006 Amcat's contact center technology has been awarded the "CRM Excellence Award" from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine for 2006. The award recognizes how Amcat's unified contact management system has helped U.S.

May 30th, 2006 New York Post confirmed that Microsoft has been involved in top secret discussions to buy eBay. Apparently Microsoft wants to merge eBay into its MSN portal as part of its "war" against Google.

July 1st, 2009 CenturyTel completes purchase of EmbarqKANSAS CITY, Mo. — With the completion of its purchase of Embarq Corp.

January 24th, 2004 In technology startups marketing is often ignored, or when the startup is in troubled waters they are the first to laid of. Marketing is cornerstone of any successful enterprise.