Salam Pax – The Baghdad Blogger
The BBC has this 12-minute real video stream about Salam‘s life in Baghdad after the fall of Saddam: http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/39554000/rm/_39554103_blogger_salampax_10nov_vi.ram Before the war, […]
Year: 2003
Beren Minyatur – My Elvish Name
What’s yours? http://www.chriswetherell.com/elf/ Beren Minyatur sounds so much cooler than my Hobbit name of Grigory Frumblefoot of Bywater. Now if only someone […]
Guy Fawkes Anniversary
Yesterday, 5th November, was “Guy Fawkes Day” in England. Here is an article about how these people calculated the actual amount of […]
IPCop
Trying out IPCop as a firewall/proxy distribution on Junaid’s recommendation. It was only about 22MB to download and will run on virtually […]
BlueJacking
From the people that brought you Highlander and war driving, here’s a way to freak someone out by sending them an anonymous […]
RedHat Support Discontinuation
Received an email from Red Hat about how they will be discontinuing support for all 7.x and 8 distro versions on 31st […]
1st Ramazan
First day of the fasting month of Ramazan (or “Ramadan” if you prefer) here in Pakistan. And the first time in 5 […]
Spam in Blog Comments
I haven’t seen any *yet*, but looking at Spam’s history, this can only get worse: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/27/1739206 Would be a good time to […]
Black Hawk Down II
Looks like they’ve done it again. This time in Iraq: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3213981.stm This reminds me so much of the SouthPark episode “Red Sleigh […]
DSL Again
A couple of days ago there was an announcement in the newspaper about how the government will now allow ISPs to offer […]