Some more on the Chinese blog/MSN censorship story. It seems that Chinese bloggers are not too pleased, understandably.
“Internet users know what’s evil and what’s not evil, and MSN Spaces is an evil thing to Chinese bloggers.”
Month: June 2005
Newsnight joke
A wife walks in the kitchen and sees her husband holding a fly swatter.
She asks him, “Why are you holding the fly swatter?”
The husband says, “I’m killin’ flys.”
She asks, “Well, have you killed any yet?”
He says, “Yep, three males and two females.”
The wife, puzzled, says, “How can you tell what sex they are?”
The husband replies “Well, three were on a beer can, and two were on the phone.”
Ships docked in Cork
A lovely day for some photos, here is the HMS Grafton docked in Cork:
And the Australian ship HMAS Anzac, on a courtesy call to Cork.
I do love blogging
A blogger, either Georgian or of Georgian descent, living in Germany, so impressed with my coverage of Georgian politics was kind enough to leave a comment on my blog.
In turn I had a browse around, despite my lack of German. I find some lovely photos of Georgia, and this fascinating study into the just completed BTC pipeline.
Isn’t the blogosphere wonderful?
Deepthroat
Interesting, and indeed disturbing, that I’m ranked fourth on Google for ‘deepthroat’.
MSN Spaces workaround
MSN recently decided to go along with the Chinese authorities and block certain profane words like “human rights,” “democracy,” and “freedom of speech”.
The fascinating blogosphere reaction is detailed here.
Thankfully with technology there is always a workaround.
Google Wallet
Interesting news from the Wall Street Journal:
Google Inc. this year plans to offer an electronic-payment service that could help the Internet-search company diversify its revenue and may heighten competition with eBay Inc.’s PayPal unit, according to people familiar with the matter.
Exact details of the search company’s planned service are not known. But the knowledgeable people say it could have similarities with PayPal, which allows consumers to pay for purchases on Web sites by funding electronic-payment accounts from their credit cards or checking accounts. Some consumers like PayPal for the security it offers, since it allows them to share their banking or credit-card numbers only with PayPal without having to divulge the information to merchants.
It seems like a natural progession, especially given their existing payments system for adsense. When will they start an ebay rival?
Irishcorruption.com
I will be tweaking and adding things for quite a while, I must say it is interesting to start a new weblog after running this one for so long! I expect it to take a good few weeks before the weblog resembles what I want it to look like. I have moved the domain to simply www.irishcorruption.com
This is while I figure out how to install Drupal, it’s definately not as easy as WordPress.
Bill Hicks DVD
I finally got the Bill Hicks DVD, ‘Bill Hicks Live‘. A very reasonable price, and shipped promptly to Ireland. I highly recommend it, it includes One Night Stand, Relentless, and the classic Revelations.
Official confirms Chechen horror
A top human rights official in the Russian-backed administration in Chechnya says there are more than 50 mass graves in the troubled republic.
Nurdi Nukhazhiyev told the BBC that tens of thousands of civilians had “disappeared” since 1999.
Whither the international outcry?