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,...
Indigo Jo Blogs Blog
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...
America falls out of love with Sinn Fein
There’s a piece here at the BBC’s website about how the US’s (and especially Irish Americans’) love affair with Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein (the Irish political party associated with the IRA) is supposedly...
The new, improved Bloggies
The BBC reports that the results are in for this year’s Bloggies – and guess what? There are NO well-known hate blogs in the entire listing! This really is something for Muslims, and indeed...
Monster mice!
There’s a piece in today’s Guardian, Are you a man or a mouse?, about some scientists at Stanford University who have been attempting to cross human beings with … mice. They do this by...
Zionist Tesco’s insecure web service
Tesco is the biggest of the UK’s supermarket chains by a long way, and besides its big superstores both in town centres and outside, it also runs stores at Esso petrol stations and has...
Questions, questions …
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:
The Cantona kung-fu incident, 10 years on
The Croydon Advertiser today reported that, when all the Manchester United fans came to my old home town to see their team play Crystal Palace, they did so on the 10th anniversary of the...
Pakistani court suspends rape ruling
Given all the interest among the bloggers in the Mukhtar Mai/Bibi case, I thought you might all like to see this: Rape ruling in Pakistan suspended An Islamic court in Pakistan has suspended a...
Levantine’s interview
OK, the interview meme has finally caught up with me … Ahmed Weir has picked me at random to answer five questions of his choosing. So here’s my answers:
Dell fires 30 workers for … praying
Not often that I repost CAIR press releases, but since this covers both Muslim community issues and tech issues, I thought this would interest any Muslim interested in buying Dell’s overpriced, overrated computers with...
My letter’s in the Telegraph
Further to the recent couple of articles on special schools, my letter was printed in this morning’s Telegraph: We must get a grip on special school closures They’ve edited out bits of it, though....