Strangely Perfect

Man with Black Hat Blames Everyone Else! Ahmad Khatami, a member of the Assembly of Experts in Iran who has a black hat, has said that the fingertips of the West are definitely on the ghastly bombing in the south-east Iranian city of Zahedan on Thursday.  So it’s all my fault then…? Interestingly, within two [...]

Daisaku Says: “It has been one of history’s great tragedies that people, failing to recognise the enormous power they possess, have often been subjugated, or divided and set against one another. In contrast, the mentor-disciple relationship of the Soka Gakkai is dedicated to inspiring, uniting, and guiding people in a positive direction. There is no [...]

The Triumph of Wishful Thinking over Common Sense The recent previews of the Microsoft Vista replacement with it’s unreliable “hands on” dragging experience (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7695933.stm) are another reminder that desires aren’t always satisfied and that designers don’t always design what people actually want for their daily work. PCPro Magazine have duplicated the recently banned Apple iPhone [...]

This is not a rant comparing the US military against others for effectiveness.  It’s purely my observation of events and appearances surrounding the current (10 years!) piracy problem on the high seas. This is the homepage of the US 5th Fleet above. All clean and big and modern and powerful and heroic (Take My Breath [...]

Introduction I’ve nabbed the content of this from Ted Penfold.  My wife, has told me that she heard this lecture of Dick’s and found it and him some of the most inspiring things in her life.  I came across this wonderful piece by chance, looking for some background information on Nikko, the second guy after [...]

Google Security Spotlight: July Virus Attacks My last few posts discussing the recent viral and trojan email spam that I’ve been receiving co-inside neatly with the latest post on the Google Enterprise Blog. email-spam-trojans-hiding-on-websites-as-msnbc-breaking-news-items/ two-examples-of-a-moving-trend-in-wordpress-comment-spam/ However, my experience of warnings and security alerts from Secunia and ESET shows how fluid the virus maker’s “selling” activity [...]

A laughable bit of summer news arrived yesterday in the form of a 70 year old Ohio man, who reportedly paid for his car with coinage. Here’s $8,000 in coins – ‘I want that Chevy truck’ tootled the Cincinnati Enquirer.  Er… not quite.  He paid for half of it because he “doesn’t trust paper money” [...]

Fear and loathing of music and sounds made me clear out all Crawling Chaos memories from my house – and life.

Introduction This is taken from today’s CTC newsletter. I never thought it’d work! Especially in PARIS…  what do I know? !! Parisians embrace ‘freedom’ bike scheme Taxi drivers and other critics said that it would never work, but three weeks after Paris was sprinkled with 10,000 self-service bicycles, the ‘Velib’ scheme is proving a triumph [...]