Another story from the Guardian. It’s a year to the day that US troops helped pull down a statue of Saddam in Bagdad. Whatever you think of the war, whether US/UK should have invaded or not, you have to admit that the war is far from over. You’d think that the experience of the US [...]
News from the Guardian, and also covered in a number of other sites, “pornography and spam continue to flood email inboxes despite government attempts to stem the tide”. “New laws passed last December made it a criminal offence, punishable by a fine, to send spam to private email addresses”. They could have asked me and [...]
“It has long been thought that ancient Egyptians were the first to domesticate cats, breeding wild felines to create a distinct new species around 4,000 years ago … But the new evidence pushes the human-cat relationship back another 5,000 years” Apparently French reseachers discovered a grave of a human with their cat which was about [...]
Feel a bit ripped of today. Our basement was broken into and a bicycle stolen…2 weeks ago! The cops were around but never informed us or asked if anything was stolen. It’s only today when we went to the basement that we saw what had happened. The bike is replaceable but I am majour league [...]
If you’re into the aul mobile internet jazz here’s a few links. 1. Breaking News.ie – latest Irish & international news & sports to your mobile: http://wap.tcm.ie/ 2. The BBC have put together an excellent mobile for all the latest sport, including top stories, live match summaries, scores etc http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/sport 3. Live GAA scores by [...]
Cousin Kofi has revealed a series of anti-genocide measures [update: better link here] to prevent genocide from ever happening. Bit late now Kofi but better late than never I reckon. From the second link above, the “Special advisor” will “collect information on potential or existing situations or threats of genocide and make recommendations to the [...]
The Allies have had a bad 4 days in Iraq during which approximatly 200 Iraqis were killed as well as many Allied soldiers killed and quite a number injured. Yesterday alone 12 marines were killed, quite a loss in a single day, for the Allies. The Allies are on operation “Vigilant Resolve” which today involved [...]
The only person convicted for involvement in the September 11 attacks has been released today in Germany! His release is pending the outcome of his retrial on charges of aiding the Hamburg al-Qaida. That’ll make the US administration happy no doubt.
More information about Google’s GMail with a good explanation of the service comparisons with Yahoo & Hotmail and the concerns about privacy… [update 8Apr 08:35GMT ] even more information about the service
The Mars explorer has completed it’s primary mission. It is now set to retire to a nice villa out by Opportunity Ledge. Or is it? More work to be done. Meanwhile, some people are asking are there bunnies on Mars?