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In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

  
  BBC News | Sci/Tech | Rubik man turns on Y2K
The man who helped a generation of Rubik's Cube owners solve the 1980s puzzle at the age of 12 is helping to crack the millennium bug problem.
Patrick Bossert's 1981 best-selling guide was seen as a godsend to a generation of parents and children baffled by the toy.
Now, Mr Bossert is a 30-year-old father of two and technical director of WSP Business Technology.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_283000/283856.stm   (403 words)

  
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Patrick suggested we should measure how many people use networks in general, and should not be unhappy that people are moving off NCF.
Patrick's comment that people move off the FreeNet - this should be interpreted as moving off NCF MODEMS ONLY - we still want all kinds of people on the NCF system.
Bossert noted that there are some changes needed to the budget: in the existing financial position, and due to the accepted strategy document.
www.ncf.carleton.ca /ip/freenet/board/minutes/min95/dec/minute27   (1378 words)

  
 CNN - Rubik cube whiz kid offers millennium bug solution - February 22, 1999
At the age of 12, Patrick Bossert shot to fame when he worked out his own solution to the mystifying cube and wrote a bestseller about it that sold 1.5 million copies.
Bossert estimates hundreds of millions of chips are buried deep inside equipment in Britain.
Bossert expects one in 500 embedded systems will take equipment back in time to Jan. 1, 1900, causing equipment to fail.
www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9902/22/rubik.millennium   (319 words)

  
 Patrick Bossert
Download current CV Born in London, 1968, Patrick has built a number of successful hardware and communications technology businesses.
During this time he used the global go-to-market activity of Embedded Science as a lever to establish new relationships and bases for WSP in Hong Kong and Singapore.
After ten years of self-financed growth CDC is now a leading supplier of integrated I.T. and high-tech security management with prestige clients including the Bank of England and Harrods.
www.patrick.bossert.com   (402 words)

  
 Paintbox - Relics
Ultimately, this well-meaning disc was utterly pointless and futile, as within a couple of years the only albums that would have been needed to convince youngsters that LSD was a bad idea were the legions of dull progressive rock albums clogging up record shop shelves.
Bossert became the bane of many an early 1980s schoolchild's life, his proud visage beaming from the cover being an incessant reminder that he could indeed solve the Rubik's Cube whereas they, naturally, could not.
And the book continued to haunt their lives, as there are always inevitably at least five copies in every second hand bookshop ever visited.
www.bluejam20.freeserve.co.uk /threerelics.htm   (438 words)

  
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Introductions Nadia Diakun-Thibault, Jeff Bossert, Chris Hawley and Andre Vellino sent their regrets at not being able to attend the meeting.
Approval of the minutes of the 16 July, 1996 meeting Moved A. Patrick, seconded J. Elder PASSED without change.
MOTION: That the proposed mandate be adopted for the executive committee.
www.ncf.carleton.ca /ip/freenet/board/minutes/min96/aug/minutes96-8   (423 words)

  
 1907 Daily Star..Deaths Queens
He was a graduate of "Old 16" (Wilson street school) and afterwards attended and was graduated from a commercial college.
While only a young man he became thoroughly acquainted with the lumber trade and was considered expert in his line.
Funeral from her late residence, No. 639 Sixth avenue, Long Island City, on Friday morning at half past 9 o'clock, thence to the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, where a solemn requiem mass will be celebrated.
www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Newspaper/1907.DailyStar.Death.html   (2735 words)

  
 Toys,Games,Crazes
1981: 13 year old Patrick Bossert of England is still unable to obtain a cube early in the year, and orders one from abroad.
Patrick's book - 'You can do the cube' (June 1981), is reprinted 14 times that year.
Sources: Official Website, 'You Can do The Cube', Patrick Bossert (1981), 20th Century Words (Oxford 1999).
www.investorideas.com /Companies/WildHeart/News/Toys,Games,Crazes.asp   (1156 words)

  
 TES Newsday 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
How breaking his hand helped Patrick Bossert write a best selling book about solving the Rubik's Cube....
The IRA itself has conducted an investigation into the killing, and has admitted that some of its members may have been involved in it.
The McCartney sisters have been invited to the White House to mark St. Patrick's Day next week.
www.whatnext.com   (322 words)

  
 BT faces stiff challenge on wireless services - Mobile & Wireless - Breaking Business and Technology News at ...
However, KPMG analyst Patrick Bossert said: "I think people are prepared to pay quite a lot of money for wireless internet access.
In fact, Bossert believes that the biggest threat to BT's WLAN business could come from private individuals who allow the public to share their broadband internet connections through open wireless access points.
However, most of the broadband connections that wireless networks depend on are supplied by BT itself - and it's not likely to encourage the growth of widespread public WLANs if they start to undercut its own business.
networks.silicon.com /mobile/0,39024665,11034639,00.htm   (917 words)

  
 The Birmingham Post (England): After Rubik Cube, Patrick sorts the millennium bug.(News)@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
After Rubik Cube, Patrick sorts the millennium bug.(News)
The millennium bug has caused panic and disruption to businesses all over the world - but a way of testing for faulty systems has been developed by the 80s game genius.
Mr Patrick Bossert was just 12 when, in 1981, he...
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:60548045&refid=ink_tptd_np   (164 words)

  
 FT.com - Special Reports / FTIT April 4 2001
Meanwhile, Inside.com, the website effusing confidence about its news edge, joined forces with The Industry Standard, the Silicon Valley-based bible for internet entrepreneurs, in a curious reversal of publishing's evolutionary process.
"The magazine publishing model does not, and cannot, stack up with a single web publication," says Patrick Bossert, head of e-strategy at KPMG Consulting.
In the early days of the internet, magazine publishers were not deterred by their inability to replicate online one of their unique selling points: that glossy feel.
specials.ft.com /ftit/april2001/FT3PJW4W0LC.html   (1037 words)

  
 millennium bug test-kit Delta-T Probe
As a result, it means we are able to focus our efforts on continuing to provide our usual first class service to our customers."
The DELTA-T PROBE was invented by Patrick Bossert, an embedded systems design specialist.
He is currently Technical Director of WSP Business Technology, part of the WSP Group who are managing and promoting the device.
www.eemee.com /ESL/pressreleases/28011999.html   (688 words)

  
 Jill Bossert ; Children s Book Illustration: Step by Step Techniques, Jill C Wheeler Abdo Daughters - Mark Twain [Young ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Jill Bossert ; Children s Book Illustration: Step by Step Techniques, Jill C Wheeler Abdo Daughters - Mark Twain [Young at Heart],
Children s Book Illustration: Step by Step Techniques; Bossert, Jill
Colonial fare : in which we learn of the amazing fortune and fate of pioneering women who ventured from their kitchens at home to embark upon a new life in the unknown territory of New Zealand
www.romancebooksstore.com /118746_jill-bossert.html   (217 words)

  
 Wired News: Rubik's Cube and Y2K
At the age of 12, Patrick Bossert shot to fame when he worked out his own solution to the mystifying cube and wrote a book about it that sold 1.5 million copies.
Now, he and a team of software experts at London-based WSP Business Technology have developed Delta-T Probe, a program that electronically scans hardware to identify microchips embedded that process date and time.
It can determine which electronic equipment is likely to malfunction when 1999 becomes 2000.
wired-vig.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,18075,00.html   (433 words)

  
 Index to Comic Art Collection: "Bos" to "Bossert"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
-- Letters to the editor from Derek Bossert, R. Holmberg, Paul Glick, David Ingle, Nathan Garmon, Jamie Hill, Jim Arnold, Richard Reskey, Gary Kimber, Ron Ford, and Sharon Spencer.
Includes an item by W. Dubay on creating his story "Futurization Computation" in issue 47.
Humor 2 / written and edited by Jill Bossert ; conceived and designed by Lou Brooks.
www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/brri/bos.htm   (4590 words)

  
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Subject: Re: Most beautiful voices On 05 Jun 2003 15:50:40 +1000, Andrew Fries wrote: >On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 15:38, Greg Bossert wrote: >> and thanks.
Subject: Re: most beautiful voices I agree with what everyone else says, and would like to add Roy Orbison to the list.
Subject: Re: most beautiful voices (and Soul Journey) On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 06:55 PM, Bill Adler wrote: > Here's another for the most beautiful voices list: Pamela Morgan > (singer/songwriter, who used to be with Newfoundland Celtic/folk band > Figgy Duff.
www.smoe.org /lists/ecto/v09.n158   (4606 words)

  
 CNN - English supermarket fishes for bad Y2K chips - July 9, 1999
CNN's Ann Kellan looks at a British device to test Y2K compliance in embedded chips
LUTEN, England (CNN) -- When he was 12, Patrick Bossert published the answer to the Rubiks Cube.
Now the inventor has tackled a larger puzzle, creating a device that detects embedded computer chips that could fail when the year 2000 arrives.
www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9907/09/t_t/y2k.probe   (177 words)

  
 Telecommunications International: Location, location, location: location-based services, if marketed correctly and with ...
Operators need only know roughly where you are to provide a compelling and usable service, which makes cell ID perfectly adequate.
Patrick Bossert, principal media strategist, Atos KPMG Consulting
If this subject interests you, visit us online at www.telecommagazine.com
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0IUL/is_10_36/ai_93209700   (1410 words)

  
 Rubik's Cube - You Can Do the Cube by Patrick Bossert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Rubik's Cube - You Can Do the Cube by Patrick Bossert
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A new invention to detect computer systems at risk from the Millennium bug is being launched Monday by Patrick Bossert, whose previous claim to fame was a best-selling 1981 book about the Rubik Cube written when he was 13.
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------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 00:37:10 -0700 From: Greg Bossert
The leaflet also has a quote from Liam Gallagher: "She's Real!
I have waited soooooo long but finally tonight I will see Vienna in concert.
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Farrell, Patrick A. (Pvt US Army WW I) 28 Apr 1888 - 23 Jan 1937
Healey, Gertrude B. 13 Mar 1911 - 18 Aug 1988
Healey, Patrick J. 7 Oct 1910 - 9 May 1975
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