Here’s some more Iran sense. I especially like the bit where the Content is Free comments pit tries to explain to the Iranian all about Mohammed Mossadegh and all. that. jazz. Of course, he’s essentially reiterating the former head of the IRGC’s line. I’ve said before that the practicalities of this depend largely on what…
Read More who hid a radio under the stairs?Before moving on to more serious issues, does anyone know what, exactly, the Young Britons’ Foundation is? I mean, if you were to sign a cheque to it, what kind of a legal entity is it that cashes it? (I’m tempted to cut them a £10 cheque, just to see what comes up on my…
Read More a donation of minus £25It may be of interest that Donal Blaney is the only blogger I’ve ever heard of whose blog set a robots.txt file to stop the Internet Archive Foundation from indexing it. Google’s Web-in-RAM systems are rather less fastidious than Brewster Kahle’s outfit (which invented quite a bit of the technology behind Google and other big…
Read More blogging ethics panel around me, please!The version of Nokia’s Share Online application that shipped with my E71 has a problem. I was trying to upload photos from Berlin over O2 Germany’s data network to my Flickr account, and it unexpectedly returned an authentication error; I looked at “your recent photos and videos”, and got photos belonging to Flickr user mrspin,…
Read More These are not my photos. I don’t know where you got themOK, so the Dubai assassination team made regular phone calls on GSM devices during the operation. What numbers did they call? From which ones? Well, it looks like they both used prepaid SIM cards acquired in Austria and they called Austrian telephone numbers. Obviously, that’s partly explained by the fact that they probably talked among…
Read More Abu Asterisk strikes again…Well, this is unusual; Londonstani confirms that the Pakistanis just arrested 50% of the Taliban high command, in so far as such a thing matters. Not only that, they’re willing to extradite one of them to Afghanistan. First of all, Pakistan and Afghanistan even talking is rare. Secondly, extradite? What is this, Germany? Don’t they…
Read More this diplomacy stuff seems to work…for someSo, what does an Iranian dissident need from outside the country? One of those integrated lawful-intercept management systems from a major European vendor (nice, aren’t they)? A barrage of cruise missiles? A lot of hot air from the President? Why not ask one? Here’s the exiled co-founder of the Revolutionary Guard. I hope that the…
Read More Sense: IranOK, so the Guardian spent last week having a great fit of very seriousness* about the UEA Climate Research Unit e-mail leak. Things that weren’t Serious enough to get into the paper included the decisive refutation of the whole idea that the urban heat island effect explains warming and the exoneration of Michael Mann. Here…
Read More very serious indeedSo, here goes with the first in my series of posts on the strategic defence review as a blog. Here are what the MoD thinks are the major forces that will determine the political environment: The National Security Strategy sets out the key threats to the UK’s security and the underlying drivers of those threats.…
Read More Sunday Strategic Defence Review Blogging: Chapter 1“We can’t go on like this” was all about style and look-and-feel; the tombstone seems to be a reaction against it and a reversion to a fairly crude, tabloid approach. Perhaps it reflects discord among the people who commissioned it? It would be easy to identify the first with Steve Hilton and the second with…
Read More Camera On. Camera Off. We’re still on CCTV