Article on spam
Very witty article at scotsman.com (found whilst looking for information on the Dynamic Earth exhibition in Edinburgh). Related Links: Lazy Guide to Net Culture
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First KMi News Digest sent
After a wait of months for sufficient stories to build up, the KMi News Digest has finally been sent. The most recent story, of Enrico's Professorship, posted late yesterday, tipped the scale and the scheduled script triggered, sending the summaries of seven stories to a list of well over a hundred subscribers. This is the…
‘Comical Ali’ rediscovered
The Iraqi information minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, justly famous thanks to his numerous and somewhat comical protestations at press conferences, has resurfaced in Baghdad. An Iraqi Kurdish official told a London-based Arabic newspaper that Mr Sahhaf was staying at his aunt's house in Baghdad, and was under surveillance by US forces. Captured then released by…
‘Comical Ali’ rediscovered
The Iraqi information minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, justly famous thanks to his numerous and somewhat comical protestations at press conferences, has resurfaced in Baghdad. An Iraqi Kurdish official told a London-based Arabic newspaper that Mr Sahhaf was staying at his aunt's house in Baghdad, and was under surveillance by US forces. Captured then released by…
Comments added
I've now added the ability to make comments on postings. The comments are unthreaded but do record who posted them and when.
GIF patent expires
On the 20th of June the patent relating to the GIF file format expired. Up until now software companies such as Adobe, have had to pay to use the format in their software e.g. in Photoshop. The expiry of the patent may therefore lead to a fall in some software prices. Also, people who use…
Saddam’s son has ‘Licence To Kill’
Not just one, but two copies of Bond film 'Licence To Kill' are reported to have been found in amongst the horde of Saddam Hussein's son Uday. Coalition troops recently uncovered a collection of Uday's personal belongings during searching exercises. The 1989 film which starred Timmy Dalton as 007 must have struct a chord with…
Some other blogging tools
Some of these are pretty dire! Related Links: http://www.blogdot.org/http://www.blogeasy.com/http://www.bloggingnetwork.com/http://m-blog.com/http://www.blogspot.com/
Demos says “Get with 3G, UK”
The Guardian reports Monday (link below): “Britain's passionate but paradoxical love affair with the mobile phone is laid bare this week by the thinktank Demos as it calls for the next generation of mobile technologies to be harnessed to transform our relationships with each other and with the state.” The Demos recommendation is itself paradoxical…
30 Years
…since the OU's first graduation. BBC article posted yesterday – see the link. Related Links: BBC news article
