Month November 2005

The Water Barons

The explosive growth of three private water utility companies in the last 10 years raises fears that mankind may be losing control of its most vital resource to a handful of monopolistic corporations. In Europe and North America, analysts predict…

Day 11. Paris riots

The Paris riots continue. And they aren’t centrally controlled. Although the Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, has spoken darkly of " organisation" of the riots by drugs barons or Islamist radicals, police chiefs and social workers dismiss such claims. Police intelligence…

Portable Firefox and password programs

Now, you can run the Firefox web browser off a portable USB drive. JohnHaller.com has this and other portable apps, including calendering, web authoring, and OpenOffice. Most excellent! Now I can go anywhere and launch my customized version of Firefox…

French urban unrest hits new high

Ten nights in row, and last night was the most ferocious. This could bring down the government, who seem clueless as what to do. Not that there are any obvious soultions… Urban violence scaled new heights in France as gangs…