Happy birthday to Saddam Hussein, 67, and he doesn’t look a day over 70. At least I think it’s today anyway … note to self, send Saddam a birthday card and a box of those strawberry Jelly babies he loves so much.

One of the very few things I respect about China is the fact that it stands up to the US and UK and says what it likes. It’s recent decision, ruling out full democracy for HK is wrong, plain and simple, but China has stood up to the UK and US by telling them to [...]

As a follow-up to my last post Iraq Body Count‘s figures show a reported minimum of 8930 civilians killed as a result of the ‘intervention’ in Iraq. Lunaville.org has a list of Coalition deaths.

While battles rage in Iraq and all the talk is of how many of the “nasty bunch” are getting wiped out it pisses me off how civilians are constantly being forgotten. The article linked to here has a good photo of a small child (looks like 3-4 yrs old) clutching a doll. As a parent [...]

Been offline for the past week … just in case you were wondering. Lots has happened, in Iraq, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and at home, no point giving you a summary. Only thing from last week I will mention is a short from Saturday on the status in the EU of the Irish language.

Godammit! It looks like i’m out of business for a short while. The Californian porn industry is on temporary shut-down as one of it’s actors tested positive for HIV. These guys produce about 3-4 films per day so this a serious knock for the industry. Mind you, it’s not a subject to be joking about, [...]

Anyone familiar with XFN™ or the XHTML Friends Network?? The XFN™ is “a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a ‘rel’ attribute to their link tags”. For example: a href=”http://friendsdomain.con” rel=”friend met” Bit too lovey-dovey is [...]

The biggest soccer news story here for quite a while [not that I pay close attention to be honest] is that Jari “Litti” Litmanen is to return to FC Lahti. [Tervetuloa takaisin Jari!] Of course Lahti it Jari’s hometown and FC Lahti is where Jari made his professional debut. He returns after Ajak released Jari [...]

Back to the Lindows saga, following the name change Lindows is now Linspire! The website is also changing from www.lindows.com to www.linspire.com.

Well the web has been on the go for quite a while now, and Tim Berners-Lee has long since been given recognition for inventing “the first server, browser, and protocols central to the operation of the web” while at CERN but now wee Tim is the proud recipient of the first Millennium Technology Prize. Fair [...]