Just bought my first PDA
Well, my Nan gave me £150 as Christmas money, and I decided to buy myself a Palm PDA (a Tungsten E). I got a penny change.
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University departments closing due to lack of funding
A number of major British universities are closing important departments including chemistry, physics, architecture and music, the BBC reports. This is leading to a number of their luminaries returning honorary degrees in disgust: Two...
Using Islam to suppress Islam
Here’s a report from Reuters about what sounds like an attempt by a secular government to use “Shari’ah” in order to suppress Islam (linked off Ginny’s blog): On 6 November, Tajik President Emomali Rahmonov...
Ordering over Amazon
I just ordered a book on computer programming, Practical Qt, from Amazon. The thing is, I had to order it from Amazon in Germany (amazon.de), making as best use I could of my very...
Latest BBC scare story …
The BBC has been much criticised in recent months for airing a series of scare stories about “what might happen” in a number of given situations. There was a gridlock story, I think, and...
Back to Ecto
I’ve finally registered my copy of Ecto, a desktop blogging package from Japan. It only cost me about 12 quid, so it’s cheap, although it only lets you submit and manage entries – the...
The Ecologist’s boycott advice
The Ecologist is probably the best environmental magazine here in the UK – it’s got hard-hitting and relevant news about the environmental situation without too much of the quasi-spiritual stuff you find in certain...
First Ahlus-Sunnah tafseer book published in UK
A brother on BewleyUpdates has posted details of what he says is the first Ahlus-Sunnah tafseer book published in the UK, in English and Urdu, written by Shaikh Muhammad Imdad Hussain Pirzada, the principal...
Muslim woman attacked (with picture)
The BBC has published a report about a Muslim woman of Iraqi origin who was attacked in the street in Kilburn, London, on Sunday (5th Dec). They also have a picture of a man...
Why spammers hit blogs
This piece appeared in the Independent today, explaining why spammers post their ads on blogs – merely to push their ratings up on Google and other search engines which list sites according to people...
A Dutch Muslim on Dutch Muslims
The topic of the recent events in Holland has recently come up on a New Muslims’ group I belong to, and this piece was posted to the forum by Rahma Bavelaar (you can read...
Who’s trying to ban humour?
I’m sure a lot of you have heard that the UK may be about to pass a law intended to ban “incitement to religious hatred”, which plugs a loophole in the existing law on...
Finally found a use for my Sun
No, I’m not talking about the newspaper mentioned below … I’m talking about the computer I blogged about finally getting running the other day. (There isn’t much use for the newspaper.)
Muslima joins the Sun
There is a story just posted to BewleyUpdates, from Asians in Media (space it differently and it could say Asian Sin Media!) about the Sun newspaper’s newest columnist – one Anila Baig, a hijab-wearing...
Racism and the fractured Ummah
Saraji recently made two posts (here and here) about two issues which are actually related: first, the racism by which Muslims of “eastern” origin look down on Afro-American Muslims, and on people who attempt...
ASBOs and London trams
I’m not a big fan of the ASBO system (Anti-Social Behaviour Order, one of our infamous Home Secretary’s many schemes) but, given the one they have imposed on Camden Town by which they allow...
Quick blog before bedtime …
Just watching a programme called Someone to Watch Over Me, which is about social workers in Bristol, which features a 14-year-old girl called Nadia, who was out of control at home, put in care...
Got my Sun machine working
Last month I bought (through eBay) a Sun workstation – an Ultra 5, which is a late 1990s machine. I really bought it for the nostalgia of using a “real” Unix machine like those...
Tartars and Arabs in Poland
I found a translation of an article in the Polish magazine Rzeczpospolita (meaning Republic) on a blog belonging to a Norwegian called Bjorn Staerk. The article is about a conflict between two groups of...
Stupid American lefties
Every so often I come across something that reminds me of exactly why the left in certain countries don’t quite get enough support to get enough votes to actually win an election, rather than...