Everything in your past has succeeded in bringing you here today
Over here I read an interesting piece on America's involvement in Iraq. There were a number of comments which sounded great, but inspired me to write the following as a comment to their post: You ignore the facts that Iraq … Read more …
Ever since I got into RSS feeds last week, or whenever it was, I've been using Bloglines for my web-based RSS viewing of favourite websites. You can see the sites I keep up to date with this way by looking … Read more …
I came down with the flu on Thursday night, waking up yesterday feeling like crap. It only got worse during the day, so I came home early and went straight to bed. Achey bones and muscles, runny nose, and a … Read more …
Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable. The US Senate voted on a bid to establish an independent, bipartisan panel whose purpose was to investigate where failures occurred across the Federal, state and local governments, in regards to Hurricane Katrina. All the Democrats voted … Read more …
Over here I talked about the holiday plans Deidre and I were making, to travel to Australia. It's been a relatively painful thing to do! We've had to work out the dates that we were going to go there and … Read more …
It was a beautiful weekend we just had here in glorious Wellington, and I've got some more photos for you to enjoy. This was on Saturday at Petone beach, on the other side of Wellington Harbour. You can see Wellington … Read more …
From now on, instead of making up timelines based on the incomplete timelines of other websites, I'm going to do my own. Every time something major occurs, I'm going to keep my own notes of events around that disaster and … Read more …
Wht saddens me about the whole thing is the lack of official care and concern for the people of New Orleans. These people are victims of a disaster and they have been ignored or treated like criminals, or – worse … Read more …
I've created a new section called 'Blogs I like' and added a couple of new links to it. These are blogs that I find which I like enough to link to. They aren't blogs I love, but if they become … Read more …
You've probably heard about this but don't know much about it. I was exactly the same, until today. I knew it was important to allow people to access RSS feeds of blogs and news sites, but I didn't know how … Read more …
I believe that within the next 2 years, and probably within the next 12 months, we are going to see the introduction of a global network-based operating system (OS) that will allow the provision of all services – and more … Read more …
I've heard that President George Bush is proud of the fact that he never watches tv or reads the papers, and all his news and information is given to him by his advisors. I've also heard that there were at … Read more …
I'm supplying here a comparison of two disasters. First the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, followed by the New Orleans Hurricane Katrina, 2005. The New Orleans timeline has been gathered by me from multiple sources on the internet. San Francisco … Read more …