KEY WEST, Fla. Sep 21, 2005 — Rita intensified into a Category 4 hurricane Wednesday with wind of 135 mph, deepening concerns that the storm could devastate coastal Texas and already-battered Louisiana by week's end.

Mandatory evacuations already have been ordered for New Orleans and Galveston, Texas, one day after Rita skirted the Florida Keys as a Category 2 storm, causing minimal damage.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff urged residents to heed calls for evacuation Wednesday.

Looks like New Orleans might be in for it all over again... :(

ABC News: Rita now Category 4

"Somebody asked George H.W. Bush Monday about the criticism of his son's handling of Hurricane Katrina, and the former president said that the critics ought to tell it to his wife -- and that they ought to don a flak jacket before trying. But this morning, it's Barbara Bush herself who might want to think about some protective clothing, at least metaphorically speaking.

The former first lady toured the Astrodome Monday, and along the way she opined that many of the refugees from New Orleans were so poor to begin with that they ought to be pretty happy with their temporary digs in Houston. "What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas," Barbara Bush said in comments first aired on the public radio program "Marketplace" and reprinted by Editor & Publisher. "Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

In the midst of that last line, you can hear the former first lady chuckling."

There just aren't words, really, to say how tactless that was.

Barbara Bush on those lucky refugees

ibenez wrote:
This is a great tool - but doesn't sound like it'd be hard to implement yourself if you already are working in SOAP anyways

I think the point was for people using a SOAP capable environment - not necessarially using SOAP themselves. People developing in ASP.NET or Tomcat could well not be going anywhere near SOAP, and yet they can still make use of this service.

From the site:
For .NET, we provide a compiled component (DLL file) so that you don't even have to mess with SOAP and web services.

I'm not sure how keen I would be for all of my website errors to be sent to somebody else for collection. Seems like it could be a major security risk in some situations...

RE: Slashdot | Free Web-Based Exception Reporting

TOPEKA, KS—As the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held "theory of gravity" is flawed, and they have responded to it with a new theory of Intelligent Falling.

This is getting silly. What's going to be next on the list? World's not really round after all?

'Intelligent Falling' challenges Theory of Gravity