Monthly Archive: September 2005
Pictures at Guidance Media
Via Deenport, there are some new pictures at Guidance Media taken during the visit of Habib Ali al-Jifri and some of his students to Malaysia recently. They include some scholars who are students of...
Spams for other people’s blogs
A bizarre new spam trend has emerged over the last few days – spamming people’s blogs with links to other people’s blogs. I’ve had a large number of trackback pings over the past few...
Dumb trojan assumes you’re a pervert
Both the press and the blogosphere lately have been buzzing with news of a new “trojan” program known as “Yusufali-A“. This program, when the user types a number of words commonly used in porn,...
Reasons to hate Yahoo
No, not just that they rat on their users to the Chinese government. Their site is one of the most frustratingly badly organised out there. I use Yahoo mail and groups. I use secure...
Crying wolf
If any proof were needed that some Jews will cry “anti-semitism” at the slightest nuance of hostility to their organisations or to Israel, however well-grounded, it comes in Melanie Phillips’ latest “diary” (posh word...
Victims and relatives
I was preparing a post on the recent proposal to introduce American-style “victim impact” statements in British murder and manslaughter trials, which I think is a really foolish idea. You can guess that it’s...
I see Biloxi, you say Biluxi …
Joni Mitchell famously sung that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone, and this is surely the case with quite a few places along the US Gulf Coast which are suddenly world...
Looting: it’s not a race issue
While in no position of great authority on US race relations, I find it sad, but by no means surprising, to hear people already rushing to make a race issue out of the looting...