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Nine years

Sunday 4th January 2009

It is nine years today since I started work at SuSE Linux Ltd at Borehamwood.

Gaza (3)

Saturday 3rd January 2009

Some photos of today's London demonstration are here.

See also: BBC report with the usual disagreement about the numbers who took part.

Notice shoes that were thrown towards Downing Street.

Gaza (2)

Thursday 1st January 2009

This blog looks interesting:
http://ingaza.wordpress.com/.

Also this, which is run by Israeli human rights groups:
http://gazaeng.blogspot.com/.

John Bolton is hoping for a bigger war:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=80067&sectionid=3510203.

Meanwhile, this organised group is offering a Firefox extension and precooked "Talking Points" to spread pro-Israeli propaganda around the web.

There will be a demonstration in London against the continuing massacre in Gaza on Saturday 3rd January.

New Year

Wednesday 31st December 2008

Happy New Year to all, and particularly to my family members (some of whom are very far away right now) and to all colleagues, ex-SuSEans, HCL people and openSUSE users everywhere.

Have a lot of fun...

Gaza

Monday 29th December 2008

James: exactly.

Christmas photos

Saturday 27th December 2008

Christmas photos. Don't shoot the pianist.

Some recent writings

Tuesday 23rd December 2008

From the UKUUG newsletter:
Review of "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning" by Andy Hunt
Review of "Subject to Change" by Peter Merholz et al
Review of "Programming Collective Intelligence" by Toby Segaran
Report on Manchester UKUUG conference

Lana Vandenberghe

Tuesday 23rd December 2008

You can listen an interview with Lana Vandenberghe (who leaked details of the de Menezes case to the press) via the story on the BBC site.

See:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7795289.stm

openSUSE 11.1

Tuesday 23rd December 2008

I'm running 11.1 and everything is working very well.

In particular I'm very glad that the licence text has been rewritten and there is no longer any need to "agree" to it during the install.

See:
http://zonker.opensuse.org/2008/11/26/opensuse-sports-a-new-license-ding-dong-the-eulas-dead/.

Weekend photos

Sunday 30th November 2008

Some photos are here.

Liquid Bombs (6)

Wednesday 26th November 2008

Craig Murray comments:
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2008/11/rashid_rauf_mur.html.

Liquid Bombs (5)

Tuesday 25th November 2008

Further comments from Winter Patriot:
http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2008/11/rashid-raufs-family-says-reports-of-his.html.

Liquid Bombs (4)

Monday 24th November 2008

It's not yet clear whether Rashid Rauf is alive or dead, but it is beginning to look as if he is just "dead": we shall see. That would be very convenient, perhaps. Neither dead men nor "dead" men can tell tales.

British-Pakistani terror suspect Rashid Rauf is still alive, his lawyer told the BBC on Monday, saying reports that he had died in a US missile attack in Pakistan were "fake."

The alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind of a 2006 transatlantic jet bombing conspiracy was reportedly killed at the weekend in a US raid in a northwestern border district that is a known stronghold of Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.

"We don't believe that this story is true... It is a fake story," lawyer Hashmat Ali Habib told BBC radio, adding: "We still believe that my client, Rashid, is alive."

He noted that requests for Rauf's body to be returned to his family had not been answered. "This is a new technique of the government to dispose of the cases like Rashid or other missing people," he said.

AFP story.