So George Galloway’s involved himself in the deportation of one Khalid Rashid, a Pakistani national deported from South Africa in unusual circumstances. He was rousted and taken to an air force base, where he was placed aboard a plane chartered by the Ministry of Home Affairs which took him…well, we don’t know where it took…
Read More Khalid Rashid: A Strange CaseYou there! The fish! You’re speciating! I can tell by the electric pulses! The creationists will be furious!
Read More Stop it!Asked about last week’s fuckup, General Richards says NATO drivers will “accept more risk” in order to avoid accidents like the one that set off a riot, and that he aims to be “a very people focused and a very people-friendly force,” and “use military power not necessarily just to defeat the Taleban but just…
Read More Richards: “Accept more risk”Hugely detailed NYT report on the subversion of the Iraqi oil industry and the insurgent management of its production. Apparently, the supply of crude oil from the northern fields is permitted to reach precisely the capacity of the Baiji refinery, as any more would be exported. Exports are valuable to the government, and stolen crude…
Read More The black economy, yet againSir Ian Blair is far more like Tony Blair than Tony would want to admit, but not in the way Sir Ian would want to admit. In the beginning, and still up to a point, Sir Ian Blair was subject to a steady flow of vitriol from what might be described as the Richard Littlejohn…
Read More Birds of a featherI’ve expected a lot of good things from Nokia’s decision to open up to software developers. They’ve been putting more and more stuff in open source, up to and including chunks of the Series 60 OS itself, and have provided a lot of tools, APIs, etc, not to mention a version of Python for S60.…
Read More Mobile Web ServersJoshua Bloch, of Google Labs, reports on his chance discovery of a software bug that affects practically every binary search and mergesort function in the world. The problem came to light when a Java application failed, and the failure was traced to part of the Java kernel Bloch originally programmed. The bug was reported to…
Read More The world’s oldest bugThis post back in January dealt with Rudyard Kipling’s excursions into science fiction, As Easy as ABC and With the Night Mail, and a curious contemporary relevance. Strange, in the light of their vision of a future ruled by a globalised technocracy in nuclear-powered airships, to see this article, “A Conceptual Vision for Near-Space Operations”…
Read More Global Kipling, AgainWhat strikes me these days is that all the things that the crazy-far left menaced, every time I thought something was less than ideal but to be accepted as the bill of low unemployment, minimum wages and state responsbility, they’ve all been delivered. No, they would never lock people up for no reason. They wouldn’t…
Read More What could they do? They did it allOK, so our last fit seemed to have got results. The MOD had, it seemed, finally found the cash to give the RAF’s C130s the explosion suppressant foam in the fuel tanks that the Americans and Australians fitted 40 years ago, after the loss of XV179 on election day in Iraq and an unprecedented campaign…
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