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Armed assailant robs HRC’s Dupont Circle store Gay
An unidentified gunman on Jan. 18 bound and blind-folded an employee at the Human Rights Campaign’s Action Center and Store near Dupont Circle after hitting him repeatedly in the head with a pistol and forcing him to turn over money from a cash register and safe, according to a D.C. police report. Sgt. Tania Bell, supervisor of the police department’s Gay & Lesbian Liaison Unit (GLLU), which is investigating the incident, said the crime appears to be a random holdup and no evidence exists to indicate the gunman targeted the store because it is a gay business. "There’s no evidence to suggest this was a hate crime," Bell said. No other employees or customers were present at the HRC store at 1633 Connecticut Ave., N.W., at the time the gunman entered about 7 p.m., on Friday, Jan.
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Bill Gates' keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show 2008 revealed a rather startling statistic with regards to the sales and acceptance performance of Windows Vista. Gates told the audience that Windows Vista has sold more than 100 million copies since the operating system's launch in January 2007. When comparing pure numbers against Windows XP, which sold only 89 million copies in its first year, Windows Vista appears to be a hit – but looking at the big picture sheds a different sort of light on the matter. With the PC market at nearly twice the size today as it was in 2001, InformationWeek surmises that Windows Vista captured around 39 percent of the new PC market in its first year, while Windows XP managed to grab 67 percent of the new PC market during its initial period.
Callison: Book fills gap for cancer patients
Louis Whitehead's goal for 2008 is to have no goal.
OK, that's not totally accurate.
Whitehead has many goals in his life. Primary among them is finding fulfillment in whatever he does. But in a life that was rocked by change in its third decade, Whitehead knows he won't find purpose in life by remaining static and letting it come to him.
Instead, he seeks it out by frequent travel. "At this point, I don't know if there is an end in sight," Whitehead says of his personal journey of discovery.
A freelance writer, photographer and Web designer who also works part time at South Dakota State University, Whitehead has recorded one life-altering event in a book, "Living Through Leukemia: A Journey to Health."
That journey led him to several rounds of chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant that has changed his blood type and renewed his life.
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