POMPEII — Walking around the ancient city of Pompeii, reading up on its history, and thinking of its people — wiped out in 79 A.D. by a volcanic eruption — got me thinking about unheeded warning signs. In the case of Pompeii, these signs included a severe earthquake, dogs running away, and columns of smoke belching out of Mount Vesuvius. But these warning signs were ignored, and the volcano blew its top, burying the city and its inhabitants under 60 feet of ash and volcanic rock. There is currently plenty of alarming smoke pouring out of our economic Vesuvius — including rising unemployment, record bankruptcies, record credit card defaults, and record home foreclosures. But the warning signs are once again being ignored.
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Arianna Huffington: Why Visiting Pompeii Has Me Thinking About the Smoke Billowing Out of Our Economic Mt. Vesuvius
July 21st, 2009 |
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Quake sparks NZ-Australia alert
July 15th, 2009 |
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A 7.8-magnitude earthquake has shaken New Zealand, prompting a tsunami warning for parts of the Pacific Ocean.
The quake struck off the south-west tip of New Zealand, 161km (100 miles) west of Invercargill at a depth of 33km (20 miles), the US Geological Survey said.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii issued a "non-expanding regional tsunami warning" for nearby areas.
There were no immediate reports of damage or any evidence that a tsunami had formed after the quake.
"An earthquake of this size has the potential to generate a destructive tsunami that can strike coastlines in the region near the epicentre within minutes to hours," the warning centre said in a statement.
The quake was detected at 0922GMT (2122 local time), reports said.
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Microsoft Warns of New Attack as Patch Tuesday Nears
July 13th, 2009 |
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Microsoft is warning of limited attacks targeting a vulnerability in Microsoft Office Components. The warning comes the day before Patch Tuesday, which this month is slated to include fixes to a number of critical vulnerabilities.
– On the eve of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft is warning users about a flaw in Microsoft Office Web Components that is under attack.
Microsoft Office Web Components are a collection of Component Object Model (COM) controls for publishing and viewing charts, spreadsheets and databases on the Web. In this…