Certainly not good news leading up to the Olympics [or under any circumstances], Athens has been rocked by 3 bombs in a Southern suburb. “The three blasts occurred within 45 minutes in a parking lot near the police station in the southern Athens suburb of Kallithea”. Thankfully there were no injuries!

I never even knew something like this existed, it’s an biodegradable emulsion which is used as a “stabilizer and dust control agent”. It’s being used by the US in Iraq to keep down the sand on helipads etc. Damn clever…

Red Hat have released a new version of Linux, Red Hat Desktop. It’s designed for corporate use “and will be a companion product to the company’s current desktop offering”. They are hoping to take a bite of the corporate market although I don’t fancy their chances. I read somewhere recently [i'll try to find the [...]

Anyone who thinks the Taliban are a spent force are sorely mistaken. About 700 people have been killed since last August, most of the attacks blamed on the Taliban and yesterday another 14 were killed in a Taliban ambush. Resiliant buggers, aren’t they? Interesting poll on the Al Jazeera website: Do you suspect the abuse [...]

It’s looking worse for the US regarding the ‘tortured prisoners’. The US has admitted that it knew months ago of the torturing which was going on in the Iraqi prisons. So why is it only now that they choose to reprimand those guilty? A bit late isn’t it?? Whatever credibility the US forces had before [...]