Author: andy

MSDN Universal subscriptions will now ship with a life-size cardboard cutout of Chris Sells.

Scary NY Times article: Evangelical Christian generals and residential prayer breakfasts. Makes me glad I’m a European. More here.

NY Times: Faith Fades Where It Once Burned Strong. Some welcome news one the decline of religious belief in Europe. Quote: “The parishes tell me that there are children who don’t know how to make the sign of the cross.” Well gosh… I’m shocked. #

Not-so-welcome NY Times article on the rise of religion in third-world counties. #

The same edition of the NY times has a report of a tragic, multiple-fatality accident involving a bus full of religious believers. God was obviously looking the other way. #

Two articles (here and here) about the computerised voting machines now being used in the US, and the potential for their misuse. Its spelt c-o-u-p.

Another great article from Joel Spolsky. This time its on Unicode and text encoding.

Scot Johnson (Mr. Feedster) has an interesting conspiracy theory regarding Microsoft and the Eolas patent decision.

David Galbraith links to a video (quicktime) of Colim Powell admitting that Iraq had no WMDs before the war.

Always On Network: What Sun needs to do to survive.

NY Times: Dogged Engineer’s Effort to Assess Shuttle Damage. A sad story, and an outcome that is fairly inevitable once administrators start overruling engineers.

Dare Obasanjo on revamping the RSS Bandit news aggregator. I’ve been using RSS Bandit for a few months now, and find it pretty good. I like the fact that its free, and the source is available for me look at if I want.

I tried NewsGator a couple of months ago and, although I really liked it, I had to drop it because I don’t use Outlook at work. From what I’ve read recently, its even better now.

Guardian: “Bleak statistics show that Russia’s population could halve in size within 50 years” Scary. Maybe the Chinese will make them an offer for some of the spare land?