2005

Renewable sources generated more of Germany’s energy than nuclear power for the first time in the first half of this year.

There is quite a lot of confusing (or confused) reporting going on regarding the planned spring deployment of the British-led NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) HQ and 16 Air Assault Brigade to Afghanistan. There, it has been repeatedly announced since mid-2004, they will take over command of the NATO operation in Afghanistan and reinforce…

I checked my personal (i.e. blog-related) email this morning on my phone – a small first. A comment had been forwarded by Enetation to me (they all are) which goes as follows: Comment: Al Gore Says Global Warming is Causing Solar Outbursts Washington DC – An ongoing series of seven major solar flares, including two…

Storing rather than producing, this time – link.

Renesys have an interesting report on how the internet backbone did just what Vint Cerf designed it to do when the hurricane hit. That is, keep working.

I’ve been asked to route some Katrina-related traffc to the following posts at Kathryn Cramer’s: FEMA Needs to Tell People What It Intends For Their Homes, and Black Water. You will probably not be disappointed.

Fascinating report from the Torygraph‘s Oliver Poole. Apparently the Iraqi government is trying to get rid of the rash of hired guns all over the country, or at least to set some limits to their activities. Iraq to bring private armies under controlBy Oliver Poole in Baghdad(Filed: 09/09/2005) Thousands of heavily armed private security contractors…

A few weeks ago, if you can cast your mind back that far, the big story was apparently something to do with a country called Iraq that was trying to agree among itself on its future constitution. After multiple deadlines were breached, two of the factions in the country decided to impose the constitution on…

There’s a lot of blogospheric fuss about the “ZDF tape”, the German TV report that describes relief equipment and personnel rolling up to Biloxi immediately before George W. Bush was due to visit and rolling right away again once he left. Everyone’s being terribly careful, Tim Ireland went so far as to ring up ZDF…