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They put it right soon enough, but yet again someone has shown how security-conscious the guys at MWU are. (We all remember the last time.) Screenshot of hacked MWU page They’re back up now,...

I couldn’t help noticing, as I passed in and out of Stonebridge Park station (in north-west London, near which is my job agency) earlier today, how many police were waiting in the lobby of...

Umm Zaid has asked me five of her own questions, which she promised to do even before I saw LH’s set. So let’s see:

This blog belongs to a driver of small trucks and vans, blogger, aspiring web designer and software developer living under his generous parents’ roof in New Malden in South London. I’m a convert to...

My mother just got this in a forwarded email, and sent it on to me … so now your friends will be able to read it without it cluttering up their Inbox. Suddenly everything...

I just hate the way, when you go to the Apple Store in Regent Street, London, you can find people hogging the G5 PowerMac machines surfing the ‘net with Internet Explorer on Virtual PC....

Does anyone else hate going into cyber-cafés, when they have a TFT screen set on less than that screen’s resolution, and they’ve set up the Control Panel so that it doesn’t allow you to...

Leila (Scorpion) has filled in the latest survey that’s doing the rounds (she calls it “a mid-Muharram meme” although I’m not sure if it started in Muharram). Umm Zaid has filled in a shorter...

Ginny blogged an op-ed piece from one Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times, on a lady he met in Pakistan while in some way helping to find Osama bin Laden. The lady in...

In reaction to the murder of Nepalese workers by terrorists in Iraq, mobs attack the Muslim community and property, and Muslim foreign embassies, in Kathmandu until the army puts a stop to their spree....

The BBC just reported that the Tories have announced a policy to scrap university tuition fees when (or if!) they next get to power – and they intend to replace it with loans on...

The BBC reports that at least 200 people have died at the school in Russia which was occupied by suspected Chechen separatists earlier this week. This is, of course, the second time the Russian...

Note to Al-Muhajabah: the new trackback is because of the new blog. Al-Muhajabah, in her blog “veiled4allah” links to an article by anti-Bush blogger Juan Cole attacking Yusuf al-Qaradawi for endorsing attacks on Americans,...

The BBC reports that “up to a third of motorway capacity is being wasted by drivers’ poor lane discipline, according to research by the RAC Foundation” (the RAC is the Royal Automobile Club, a...

Not for the first time, the media in the west have been taken in by an anti-Muslim hoax perpetrated by a middle-eastern non-Muslim. First it was Jean Sasson, now it’s Norma Khoury, who put...

As anyone reading the UK news might be aware, Tony Blair, hot on the heels of a not-so-good report on his grounds for taking us into war in Iraq, has announced some new plans...

Yesterday I got an email from a sister in the USA who I am in regular contact with. Somebody has been posting anti-hadith propaganda to a sisters’ email forum she subscribes to, and she...

Time Magazine has published a feature on the US Homeland Security department’s “Highway Watch” scheme, in which professional drivers are being trained to inform the department of “suspicious” things they see on the highway...

On past evidence I was pretty sure we were not going to make it to the finals of the current European championships (Euro 2004), and last night, if you hadn’t heard already, the English...

As a truck driver I regularly have to experience the joys of using Britain’s motorway service stations, particularly of course those around London. Now the AA has said ours are Europe’s worst, and they...