Me and my Mac
I’ve had my Mac nearly a week now (since Tuesday) and I have to say I’m generally pleased with it. We had it sitting on the dining table until Friday, but of course it...
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The Rally Yesterday …
Well I went to the rally yesterday, it was not as big as the huge anti-war rallies last year but it was big enough that people were still leaving the start (Hyde Park) as...
No More Lies, Mr Blair!
Saturday’s Stop the War march is intended to reinforce calls for political accountability and a withdrawal from Iraq, writes Andrew Burgin
A bizarre 419 invitation
I just got forwarded an exceptionally dumb 419 invitation through a mailing list I’m on, in which someone claiming to be Dr Mitchell Obi of some Nigerian financial organisation appeals for someone to do...
Muslims police their own? How?
It’s very common to hear, whenever a terrorist incident happens that bears the hallmarks of Al-Qa’ida, calls for the Muslims to control extremist elements in their own community. I read an article on a...
Thank God some people saw sense
It seems the Spanish – who, it must be remembered, did not want to get involved in Iraq to begin with – have had their fears confirmed by last week’s bombings in Madrid, and...
Mac vs PC comparison
I ordered a Mac on Friday – a G4 eMac which is all I could reasonably afford, but I did order some extra memory for it – and I also bought a copy of...
Guantanamo: the truth is coming out
Jamal al-Harith, one of the five British detainees released from Guantanamo, has told (not to mention sold) his story to the Daily Mirror, a British tabloid. You can read the full story by clicking...
Shukr Clothing Australian launch
An Australian website for the Syrian-based Islamic clothing company Shukr has been launched. The company is run by an American convert and the clothing is all made by religious Muslims. (I’d call it special...
Mandrake Linux v10.0
A funny thing to put just above the post on the Madrid disaster, but this is a tech blog as well as a war blog – it’s a general personal blog. So here goes....
About the Madrid bombings
At the moment it is not certain that the bombings in Madrid, which has killed nearly 200 people at the time of this writing, was the work of Al-Qa’ida. It has been said that...
Guantanamo Brits innocent after all
Al-Hamdu lillah, the five British detainees who were flown home from Guantanamo Bay yesterday have been released without charge. They have been held for two years and now it appears that not only have...
Vote Nazi, read the Mail
Searchlight Magazine, a British anti-fascist and anti-racist monthly, has picked up on the anti-immigrant vendetta in the tabloid press. It seems the BNP appreciate the support, as one of their goons held up a...
LGF’s latest horror story
Little Green Footballs, for reasons (ahem) best known to themselves as this has nothing to do with the Middle East or with anything political, have posted an article about a five-year-old girl who was...
The Morons Have Landed
An individual calling himself “Flanstein”, who has been pestering at least one other Muslim blogger by posting inhumanity-of-Islam ravings on her comments page, has started on my blog too. I think he found my...
QT Learning blues
A few weeks ago (with birthday money from my mum & dad) I bought Matthias Kalle Dalheimer’s book, “Programming with Qt” (published by O’Reilly) – Qt is a graphical user interface toolkit mostly used...
Daily Express puts its foot in it again
The flow of garbage from the Daily Express continues unabated. Last Thursday it published yet another multi-page feature on immigration, claiming that just as we are getting loads of immigrants coming in, Brits are...
More bigotry from the LGF donkeys
The morons over at Little Green Footballs are getting hot under the collar over the decision in the state of Alabama to permit people to wear religiously-mandated head scarves and turbans in their driving...
Bush Buddy Watch
Here’s a piece from British IT site The Register about how a California judge has given the green light to Diebold – the company that’s committed to delivering Ohio’s votes to the President! http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/35664.html...
BSD developments …
I’ve decided to take BSD off my machine. The CD downloads are basically a demo, to get the full OS you’re supposed to get the 4-CD pack from FreeBSD Mall or some other company....