A Peculiar Blog

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Co-operative Bank starts out looking pretty much like a lot of banks that are into Internet banking. In addition to offering the usual online banking and credit card services this company also makes a point to say something [...]

Remember Brandon Mayfield? He’s a Portland Attorney that the FBI mistakenly thought was involved in the Madrid train bombing in 2004. Of course they did finally admit that they were wrong about him and let him go. However, before they arrested him, they had him under surveillance, tapped his phone and searched [...]

When it comes to archive tools I’ve decided that It’s time to ditch the Winzip and Winrar programs in favor of 7 Zip. It’s Freeware Open Source software that can stand with the best of the paid-for programs. It’s able to read most archive formats in use today and is capable of very [...]

Trust is something that’s harder to come by these days than it used to be. There’s an expression I’ve heard “My word is my bond”. You don’t hear it much anymore these days. Probably because most people want more than just your word about something. Instead they’d rather have a surety [...]

Next month in China there’s a big political event, the “Communist Party Congress” and in preparation for this event Chinese ISP’s and government censors are shutting down websites by the thousands. Basically they’re hitting just about any site that has any potential for people expressing their opinions… Especially when those opinions don’t agree with the [...]

I’ve decided to give the Lucia’s Linky Love plugin a try. This means that after three comments, the url associated with your name will automatically have nofollow removed and after four comments, links within your comments get the same treatment.
It’s not that I’ve got a whole lot of comment spam right now, but I’m [...]

Ahmadinejad Questions 9/11, Holocaust
NEW YORK (AP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended Holocaust revisionists and raised questions about who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks in a tense showdown Monday at Columbia University, where the school’s head introduced the hard-line leader by calling him a “petty and cruel dictator.”
…And it only gets worse [...]

Listasaurus is an online classified ad site that’s got a couple of extra edges.. Like video classifieds where you can include videos in your listings. Better than just posting a picture, you can use a video of the item you’re selling, include a walkaround or show it in action or maybe just show how [...]

In the middle of everything else that’s going on there’s a sudden revival in that most elusive of goals: Peace in the Middle East.
Bush to Focus on Reviving Mideast Talks
WASHINGTON (AP) - With his chances to advance Middle East peace dwindling, President Bush on Monday will push again for a democratic Palestinian homeland that can [...]

This site is more than “just another travel agency page”. It’s focus is more on the details of travel. Featuring travel blogs that contain first hand accounts of people’s experiences and their advice traveling to all sorts of places.
There’s a destination browser that lets you look at possible destinations. One of the [...]