Month May 2006

See ya ZoneAlarm, Goodbye Norton…

And hello Panda Platinum Internet Security Suite. This intelligent, unintrusive security suite does it all easily and quickly, and without popping up endless, pointless alerts or being a resource hog. What a pleasant change. Full details on my tech blog.

Haditha massacre haunts Marine

Lance Cpl. Roel Ryan Briones says he is tormented by two memories of Nov. 19, 2005, in Haditha, Iraq. The first is of the body of his best friend and fellow Marine blown apart just after dawn by a roadside…

Kabul riot: more Pentagon evasion

Witnesses said American soldiers fired on Afghans throwing stones at them after the crash, though the United States military said only that warning shots had been fired in the air. … It became clear the American military and the Afghan…

Why privatizing water is a bad idea

When cities hire firms to run utilities, they seek quality at lower cost. They may get ethics scandals, violations and irate consumers. In some places, private-sector management helped trim bureaucracies and replace decaying infrastructure, local officials say. But in Indianapolis,…

It didn’t start with Haditha

U.S. policy was to shoot Korean refugees More than a half-century after hostilities ended in Korea, a document from the war’s chaotic early days has come to light â┚¬â€ a letter from the U.S. ambassador to Seoul, informing the State…