A Peculiar Blog

I haven’t got a url for it handy right now, but I just saw a New York Times article quoted on alt.privacy that states Google is going to hand over 50,000 urls instead of [...]

Since it’s discovery in mainland China was revealed, The avian flu has been the subject of an ever increasing ammount of talk. It’s been compared to the flu outbreak of 1918. Tens of thousands of birds have been destroyed in an effort to contain it.
This strain of flu is apparently resistant to most, if [...]

Woman Gets Beer From Her Kitchen Faucet
Woman in Norway Gets Beer From Her Kitchen Faucet While Nearby Bar Gets Only Water on Tap
When I first read this headline, the first thing that came to mind was [...]

I’m still working the bugs out of a couple of little things.
First up is the comment system. Test postings showed that it’s working exactly as it’s supposed to but there’s the little detail that the link you click on to get to the comment form is not the whole “Blogkom” ents: business. It’s just [...]

I’ve successfully managed to get the Blogkomm comments system installed, making reader comments possible. Along the way I had to change all of the .html files to .php, so if you’ve got anything bookmarked [...]

Yesterday (2/8/06) Microsoft launched a new search engine and www.live.com. The first thing I did was crank up a fresh instance of Opera 8.5, enable plugins, java and javascript temporarily, bypass proxomitron and then I’m off to http://www.live.com. the first thing I [...]

There’s a few things to talk about this time. First up, The NSA Spying beast is still around. Four senators have proposed a bill that’s supposed to provide oversight for the President’s domestic spying [...]

House panel votes to block ports deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives committee on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to block an Arab-owned company from managing American ports, defying President George W. Bush who has vigorously supported the deal.
Excellent so far. Now this has to be made to stick and [...]

Ok, who else thinks this is getting rediculous?
Cellphones are, in my opinion, getting out of hand. I may be silly or old fashioned, but I always thought that the purpose of a phone was voice communication. Anymore, the blasted things are internet ready, camera equipped, music downloading monstrosities that have more crap in them [...]

I cannot help but wonder how good are the “safeguards” that the Senate, and now the House approved? How carefully are civil liberties protected? How much attention is paid to people’s right to privacy? [...]