Wow! We just got back from a tricky problem with the server… Gentoo (of which I’m still somewhat of a fan) decided to do some, er, interesting changes to config in the last emerge. Thanks to Pete at Bytemark for some great help to get back online.
I just watched the BBC’s video highlights (see main page) of George Galloway on Capitol Hill. I know, as most sane people know, that much of what constitutes American politics (don’t even mention “justice”) isn’t built on intelligent reasoning, but if that is the best Senator-lawyer combination they can come up with, it’s quite a […]
I’ve just got a new flat sorted out in Barcelona, so I’M BACK! I have to say, it’s nice to be in BCN again. Big shout out and ’nuff respeck to Lio for the use of his fun bouncy sofa bed while I was looking for a flat. The new flat, which I’ll be sharing with […]
From my limited experience of Fox News (it’s hard to stand for too long), this seems like a great idea, if it was technically likely to work. FOX Blocker filters out FOX News when you put it inline on your cable input. It’s just a notch filter for a certain frequency, so it’s only going […]
It’s bloody snowing! In Tarragona! Last time this happened, they had a book about it. (Photo clichés to come…)
Russ suggested his readers post this comic on their blogs, to counter its banning by various papers. So I did. [Important: it’s cropped to fit - original is available.]
Dahr Jamal again, on how the Americans not only don’t have any regard for life; they don’t care about world cultural heritage, either: Destroying Babylon
I’ve been reading Dahr Jamail’s Iraq Dispatches via the RSS feed. It’s interesting from the natural tone of it - just someone who’s there telling what he sees. The latest installment is more gruesome than usual - a new photo gallery from Falluja. I’ll let Dahr explain it, where you’ll also find a link to […]
The Digital Journalist:
http://home.earthlink.net/~houval/gopconstrm.mov Via Tom