So, there’s going to be a Mini Mac
Or rather, a Mac mini. I’d have used Mini Mac myself, because then you can write it miniMac and it sort of fits into Apple’s usual scheme – iMac, eMac, iBook (Mac laptop), iLife,...
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Mama’s little help-desk
The BBC’s got this amusing feature on how parents so often rely on their children for support with the computers they presume their children know so much about (IT Support for your Parents). I’ve...
Neo-Muslims and Rand Robots
Al-Jazeera’s English site has published an article, Beware of Neo-Muslims and Rand Robots, warning Muslims to beware of people within the community who follow the Rand Corporation’s agenda: Their assignment is to trigger multiple...
Amazing pictures of Aceh mosques
There is a website of amazing pictures of mosques in Aceh which survived the recent tsunami disaster in Aceh. Aceh was the nearest land (except for the small islands off the west Sumatra coast)...
$50,000 PCs?!!
The Register reports that a company called Truvia in San Francisco (which specialises in luxury furniture) is offering “designer” PCs starting at “only” $50,000: Truvia will design the furniture you want around a high...
CIA man: Keep OBL out there
The Times reports that AB Krongard, until recently the executive director of the CIA, has stated that the world might be better off with OBL (or Bin Hidin’ as we call him) left uncaptured,...
Another driving fiasco
I was going to call this a disaster, until I realised that disaster implies a lot more than the minor inconvenience I suffered today. You can call your wedding party a disaster if a...
Naked streets? Bad idea …
They were discussing on Vanessa Feltz’s afternoon show the news that the Dutch “naked street” experiment is to be copied in London, appropriately enough in Exhibition Road, in west London. A naked street is...
Vera Drake: serial killer
There is a film being released this week, Vera Drake, about the career of a back-street abortionist in the slums of London in the 1930s. The film has won awards from film critics in...
News from Indonesia … and Blogistan
News from Indonesia today … that the government there turned down the British government’s offer to send a group of 120 Gurkha troops from Brunei to help with the Aceh rescue / clean-up operation....
Islamic chain-letters: an oxymoron?
Yet again I’ve received what amounts to an “Islamic” chain letter, this time asking people to add their names onto a list of people objecting to a forthcoming offensive film about Nabi ‘Isa (‘alaihi...
Banks dump pro-Palestinian groups’ accounts
Two British-based pro-Palestinian groups, the Friends of al-Aqsa and the Palestine Solidary Campaign, have had their bank accounts withdrawn by the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Alliance & Leicester bank respectively. This is...
Kevin Myers on Susan Sontag
I’d like to start off by saying I have no familiarity with the life and works of the recently departed Susan Sontag (apart from having merely heard of her), but I couldn’t help noticing...
Hindu bigots shoot themselves in the foot
Some time in 2003 I took part in a rally in north-west London against an appearance by Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat, where an organised “riot” in 2002 resulted in a huge...
Fasaad watch: Aceh, Divine retribution and charity
Spencer’s two blogs also have something to say about Muslim responses to the recent Aceh tsunami disaster. The biggest-hit area was the Aceh province in Sumatra, with casualties in six figures, followed by Thailand,...
Fasaad watch: Spencer on Texas deacon murder
Yet again, a mentally-ill Muslim with a criminal background has murdered someone. It’s not, of course, all that uncommon that somebody with a disturbed mind may imagine that they are doing the “Lord’s work”...
The Brass Crescent awards
Aziz Poonawalla has opened nominations for the alt.muslim Brass Crescent awards (nominations here), for the best Muslim blogs and blogs about Islam. I’ve put in my nominations (and no, I’m not expecting nominations in...
Charles Arthur’s new predictions (updated 31st Dec)
Charles Arthur has just published a new article outlining his predictions for the tech scene in 2005. One thing I noticed was the prediction that “Comment spam” on blogs will threaten to strangle discussion...
Indonesia: ruminations on ruminations
I’m not sure if the sort of ruminations which have appeared since the past weekend’s earthquake / tsunami disaster appear after every such disaster. But the whole idea of “how God can allow such...
The loophole in the “Freedom of Information” act
George Monbiot has a piece in today’s Guardian (which may shortly appear at his website) regarding the Great Skye Toll Bridge Rip-off in which a bridge was built linking mainland Scotland with the Isle...