Computers: microsoft issues critical fixes

news and advice for it professionals working with visual basic, .net and visual studio....

News: Vatican university debuts classes on Satanism

Worried about the lure of the devil, a Vatican-linked university on Thursday debuted its latest course offering: a class on Satanism, black magic and exorcism. ...

Sports: Laila Ali retains title with TKO

Laila Ali retained her WIBA super middleweight championship title with an eighth-round TKO of Cassandra Geiggar Friday night. The referee stopped the fight at 1:13 after Ali (20-0, 17 KO), daughter of former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, finally punched Geiggar (6-5, 6 KO), into the ropes. ...

Science: Researchers blend folk treatment, high tech for promising anti-cancer compound

Researchers at the UW have blended the past with the present in the fight against cancer, synthesizing a promising new compound from an ancient Chinese remedy that uses cancer cells' rapacious appetite for iron to make them a target....

Internet: Search Engine Optimization Incest!

Lycos and Ask.com have offered paid SEO services. If there ever was a clear conflict of interest in the search engine industry, it is this. Imagine Google saying it would auction off ranking to the highest bidders. Though search engine optimization would become scientific (more money = better rank), it would mark the end of the search industry. Naturally google would not do that. Nor has Lycos or Ask. But, I think that it is the closest brush so far. Let us hope for the best, but I think that this seeks of optimistic desperation. Optimistic because Lycos / Ask must clearly have convinced themselves that they will prevent a conflict of interest. Desperation because a search engine offering search engine optimization services just has to be desperate....