Month June 2004

Google GMail I now have a Google GMail account, this being the new, free web-based email from Google that offers a whopping 1 gigabyte (1000 megabytes) of free storage. It’s still in beta. You can sign up for it at…

Why L.A. is the safest large city to hold a demonstration in. No one had been killed or beaten in demonstrations by police in L.A. for over 4 years now. This stands in marked contrast to many other big cities. The primary…

“It has begun.” Several of us are sitting in the hotel room <in Baghdad> having lunch, watching the news trying to keep up with the violence daily engulfing Iraq. Let me give you a quick rundown from the last 24…

Retired diplomats, military leaders say Bush must go “A group of 26 former senior diplomats and military officials, several appointed to key positions by Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, plans to issue a joint statement this week…

Mandela carries Olympic torch outside his former cell “The torch arrived in Cape Town on Saturday and was flown by helicopter to Robben Island where Mr Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years in jail. Standing in front of his…