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?

While Google are facing allegations of privacy invasion concerning their new GMail service, Spymac releases their new free POP3 accounts equalling Googles whopping 1GB storage! It sounds too good to be true especially as it’s POP3 and users can just use an email client to read their mails. Usually these services earn their revenue through [...]

“Men who have sex — LOTS of sex — have a lower risk of getting prostate cancer“ That’s good enough for me…

It appears that software company Lindows Inc will change the international name of their Lindows web presence and products. The question I have is why you would want to use the name Lindows anyway as it just sounds like a pi**-take of Windows? FYI other pi**-takes I know of [and use] include: “Micro$oft” – Microsoft [...]

I was watching this on the telly last night and imagined how pi**ed off i’d be. Beijing has decided to assert more control over Hong Kong politics, which according to some locals takes away their autonomy and democracy. That may be overstating the issue but it must be troubling for Hong Kong’ers none the less.

You’d wonder, despite all their talk about wiping out the Taliban and Al Queda, why the US won’t send troops to support the Pakistani Army. They said they’d “deal with terrorists hiding in the region if Pakistan fails to act”. Well Pakistan is acting, all credit to them, but I am sure a little help [...]

As you probably know it’s the 10th anniversary [yesterday] of the start of the genocide in Rwanda. “Rwanda’s genocide began on the night of April 6, 1994, after the shooting down of a plane carrying the Rwandan and Burundian presidents, who both died in the crash near Kigali.” “Nearly one million Tutsis and Hutu moderates [...]