I’m back
I got back from the Lakes today, and have been sitting here reading the blogs and catching up on the news since, oh, Sunday when I last got access to a computer. Insha Allah...
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I’m on holiday
As-Salaamu ‘alaikum everyone, I’m writing this from a public terminal in Keswick, which is in the English Lake District where I’m on holiday for a couple of days with my mum & dad. I...
And now some news from the UK …
I couldn’t resist posting a screenshot of the Times’ website, which has a news story which nobody else seems to have reported on: a Pope “nearing death” in Britain. I wonder which Pope that...
I hate neds
I was on the way back from work this after a day working at a tiling company in Croydon. I took the number 131 bus, which left Wimbledon about 7.47pm towards Kingston. The bus...
Hijab and academic freedom
BBC2 has just shown a programme in its This World series about the efforts of the French to deny properly-dressed girls the education their parents have paid for in their taxes. The programme also...
Postal vote concern
Via Nick Barlow’s blog, the Guardian is reporting about the recent up-surge in applications for postal votes, up by a third in some areas, which the Metropolitan police suspect may be a vehicle for...
Saudi publishers work for BNP!
An investigation by the Sunday Telegraph (free registration may be required) reveals that the notoriously anti-Islamic British National Party (commonly called British Nazi Party, or as Amir Brooks memorably called them, Bigots with No...
Anti-EU party lunacy
A short letter in today’s Sunday Telegraph wonders why Kilroy gave his party (of which we haven’t heard much since it was founded; wonder why?) a Latin name, Veritas (meaning Truth in English or...
Security concerns? What security concerns?
Following the great news that the butcher of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, was denied a visa to enter the USA because of his record as governor of Gujarat, the BBC now reports that he’s called...
Why am I getting referrals from the IAEA?
I just happened to look at my statistics (my host uses the MatrixStats system) and noticed that a staggering 48% of my referred sessions were referred by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Like, why...
A great thing about the Mac
Recently there’s been a whole batch of minor upgrades to Mozilla’s internet applications, and a minor upgrade to my favoured browser, Camino, is promised for next week. My main annoyance with Camino is that,...
Arson attack on Worthing mosque
The mosque in Worthing, a town on the English south coast, has been hit by an arson attack: The fire-bombers, according to members of the Worthing Islamic Society, broke in through the mosque’s back...
Interview no-show
It’s not often that I post personal stuff here, but I’m getting the impression that I’ve been discriminated against, although I don’t think I’ll find out until at least tomorrow (insha Allah). Yesterday, out...
Howard – a Nazi?
It seems there’s been yet another spurious anti-Semitism row in the UK after Gypsy leaders accused Michael Howard (the right-wing opposition leader who, along with the Murdoch gutter rag The Sun – AKA The...
MWU cracked yet again
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,...
Immigration lunacy watch: Canadian blogger strip searched
Via Tzuredzuregusa, it’s reported that a Canadian blogger who was seeking to offer his blogging services to a US company was strip searched at the US border by immigration officials who apparently don’t realise...
Gun paranoia on the rise again?
Michael Howard looks like he’s in trouble, because he told the parents of a toddler who died after being shot with an air gun that he opposes banning them. Now, I really do want...
A first taste of the new KDE
The new version of KDE, one of two major “desktop environments” for Unix-type operating systems like Linux, was released on Wednesday, and like a lot of users, I eagerly awaited packages I could download...
Stonebridge cops
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...
A trip to Ipswich
Yesterday I got the call from my agency that I was to take a truck from a certain truck hire firm with a base in north-west London up to Ipswich. My boarding school, of...