Category Archives: General

Mozilla, Gecko, Netscape, and the future in AOL.

Linux to power most Motorola phones.

Formulating Formatted Fractions with PHP

Inspiration Through Inebriation – don’t look if you have a weak stomach!

Annick Cojean

We all now know what Americans think of the French. Here a leading Paris journalist bites back.

Another via IRC. If you’re in favour of the coming war get online on irc.linux.ie and join #linux and argue your opinion.

Via IRC.
North Korea is wondering what it has to do to attract American military attention.

“What does it take to get a few F-16s or naval warships deployed to the Yellow Sea?” North Korean president Kim Jong Il asked Monday. “In the past month and a half, we’ve expelled U.N. nuclear inspectors, withdrawn from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty..”

RTÉ News: N Korea warns it is capable of US strikes

Defence analysts have suggested that North Korea has long-range Taepodong-2 missiles which could be capable of reaching parts of the US.

I’ll be seeing you at the anti-war march on Saturday

You – yes, you – who’ve never even said the word “placard”, let alone held one, can see yourself walking in line with some rather frightening women carrying hundreds of the things saying “Mums Not Bombs For the Sake of Palestine”.

An Obsession with Food

When I first started this blog, it was because I had just been laid off, and wanted my savings to last as long as possible. So I undertook this project, trying to stretch leftovers in creative new ways. Just reheating was a cop-out. But now I’m re-employed, so it’ll have to be a bit different. The cheap meals will more likely be lunches from now on, but I still intend to keep up my old habits. More money for the expensive dinner parties we like to throw!

Woo! The latest beta of Safari now displays this weblog! Thanks for checking Mark.

Whidbey EA-6B Prowler Rolls Off End Of Flight Deck Of USS Stennis – $52 million plane rolls into the ocean during training, crew rescued!

Slashdot: NCR Patents the Internet.

Jeremy Zawodny’s blog: DBD::google oh wow!

I’ve been wanting an SQL interface to Google for so long. 🙂

mod_gzip has moved. I should have noticed, I’m on the mailing list, but then, it’s worked flawlessly for years so..

Going to war without the United Nations – it’s strange, when people whose blogs I read and like, post articles I find offensive and utterly disagreeable. The first comment on this article says it better than I can. I do think the United States will go to war, American planes will carpet bomb Bagdad, a few brave American/British/Australian soldiers will die but soldiers from the member states of the UN will be sent in afterwards on peace keeping missions risking their lives patrolling streets full of vengfull Arabs.
Robert Fisk: You wanted to believe him – but it was like something out of Beckett
More from the Independent on the Middle East.