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Time
A memorable year of flip-flopping, swift-boating and president-electing complemented by boob-showing, dean-screaming, exotic human-pyramid-building, unknown-known-unknowing and penny-pinching.
And it’s that time of the year again:
- Thanks Iraq is moving in the right direction! (daily casualties rising)
- Thanks the insurgents have been driven from Fullujah! (now Mosul)
- Thanks Afghanistan has joined the world in free trade. (opium)
- Thanks Porter Goss is CIA chief. (the purge has begun. Tenet got honored while most of his sub-ordinates got fired?! The buck apparently stopped somwhere.)
And my favorite picture of the year:
My favourite quote of the year (and probably the most breathtaking admission from the President):
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” —Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
Goodbye 2004
Posted on December 31, 2004 09:20 PM | Comments (0)
MSN Spaces
M$ MSN Spaces has arrived. You may wish to try it out but as typical of M$, users do not have much flexibility in setting up a personal layout - it will be full of MSN stuff both in the header and the footer and there is no editing allowed for the given templates. However, MSN Spaces does offer trackback, photo album and commenting functions.
With the number of choices that are available to would-be bloggers, even for those without a host server, I am not sure MSN Spaces will be amongst the top favorites.
Well, it’s only a beta and hopefully, the competition in free blogware will force it to make some improvments.
Posted on December 3, 2004 01:13 AM | Comments (0)
Microsoft Firefox
Microsoft may be contemplating shipping Firefox® as its standard browser in Windows®. It does make sense as Firefox® fully complies W3C while the bulky Internet Explorer® doesn’t.
Microsoft® doesn’t only use Firefox® to demonstrate MSN® Search on the Seattle Post Intelligence accoring to NRG but also rated Firefox® as top download in MSN® Tech and Gadgets. 
Posted on November 26, 2004 09:25 AM | Comments (0)
Tweedle-dee Dum and Tweedle-dee Dee
Tweedle-dee Dum and Tweedle-dee Dee
They’re throwing knives into the tree
Two big bags of dead man’s bones
Got their noses to the grindstones
Living in the Land of Nod
Trustin’ their fate to the Hands of God
They pass by so silently
Tweedle-dee Dum and Tweedle-dee Dee
Well, they’re going to the country, they’re gonna retire
They’re taking a streetcar named Desire
Looking in the window at the pecan pie
Lot of things they’d like they would never buy
Neither one gonna turn and run
They’re making a voyage to the sun
“His Master’s voice is calling me,”
Says Tweedle-dee Dum to Tweedle-dee Dee
Tweedle-dee Dee and Tweedle-dee Dum
All that and more and then some
They walk among the stately trees
They know the secrets of the breeze
Tweedle-dee Dum said to Tweedle-dee Dee
“Your presence is obnoxious to me.”
They’re like babies sittin’ on a woman’s knee
Tweedle-dee Dum and Tweedle-dee Dee
Well, the rain beating down on my windowpane
I got love for you and it’s all in vain
Brains in the pot, they’re beginning to boil
They’re dripping with garlic and olive oil
Tweedle-dee Dee - he’s on his hands and his knees
Saying, “Throw me somethin’, Mister, please.”
“What’s good for you is good for me,”
Says Tweedle-dee Dum to Tweedle-dee Dee
Well, they’re living in a happy harmony
Tweedle-dee Dum and Tweedle-dee Dee
They’re one day older and a dollar short
They’ve got a parade permit and a police escort
They’re lying low and they’re makin’ hay
They seem determined to go all the way
They run a brick and tile company
Tweedle-dee Dum and Tweedle-dee Dee
Well a childish dream is a deathless need
And a noble truth is a sacred creed
My pretty baby, she’s lookin’ around
She’s wearin’ a multi-thousand dollar gown
Tweedle-dee Dee is a lowdown, sorry old man
Tweedle-dee Dum, he’ll stab you where you stand
“I’ve had too much of your company,”
Says, Tweedle-dee Dum to Tweedle-dee Dee
Posted on November 4, 2004 12:48 PM | Comments (0)
Distressing Time
My girl Kathleen has been learning show jumping for some time and she was really excited when Cian O’Connor brought home the first gold medal from the Olympic for Ireland.
Let’s hope that the B-sample is alright.
We support Play Fair.
Posted on October 12, 2004 11:05 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Online Virus Scan
One of our laptops was badly infected with pop-ups. I came across some very useful online virus scanners while doing the clean up yesterday. Here is a list of those which I have tested, in order of my preference:
1. CA Web Scanner
2. Trend Micro (Panda)
3. Symantic
4. Rav Antivirus
5. McAfee
Posted on September 11, 2004 05:41 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Idiots or Geniuses?
“We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise,” said the Canadian Member of Parliament Carolyn Parrish in discussing the planned U.S. missile defense system on Wednesday.
She ran into trouble when she said she hated “damned Americans” and called them bastards in the run-up to the Iraq war but this time she was showing no sign of backing down - “The last one was a really stupid thing to say,” she told Reuters. “Bastards is an inappropriate word. Idiots is a term people use in everyday conversation,” she told Reuters.
“They tortured people in Iraq, they (the Iraqis) have no weapons of mass destruction. Could somebody explain to me whether you think they’re idiots or geniuses?” - Carolyn Parrish.
Posted on August 27, 2004 10:39 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Deng Xiaoping
Today is Deng’s birthday. A great leader who has rendered outstanding service to the Chinese people. A political miracle who fell in disgrace 3 times and yet managed to rise to new height after each fall.
Posted on August 22, 2004 09:40 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Perfect Rip-off
Hearing damages resulted from gun-fire from a soldier?
Well, this has cost the Irish Government 276.8 million euro so far. One-third of this sum, however, went to lawyers as reported by the Irish Independent.
“The King of Torts” is not John Grisham’s best book but it should give us some ideas how the game is played by these greedy lawyers.
Posted on August 21, 2004 09:52 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Olympics Opening Ceremony
What touched me most in watching 202 delegations, waving and cheering their flags in Athens was not the fact that Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan received the loudest applause - it was the moment when the US team arrived and the stadium suddenly became muted.
I do not know how Bush as head of this great nation with the largest number of gold medallists would feel about it. I hope the American people would come to their senses and vote this bad boy out this November. The world is not blind. They know what is right and what is wrong no matter how hard one tries to distort it with politics.
Gaining an Iraq but losing Europe?
Posted on August 13, 2004 10:49 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack