From The Independent, by Harold Pinter who yesterday won the Nobel Prize for Literature The great poet Wilfred Owen articulated the tragedy, the horror – and indeed the pity – of war in a way no other poet has. Yet…

From the always excellent WindowsSecrets newsletter (free version available.) Our team of Windows experts predicts that a serious worm attack will blaze across the Internet soon. This is due to a security hole that Microsoft announced on Oct. 11. The…

Google introduces a RSS reader. It’s easy to use, powerful, with a well thought out interface. You can import subscriptions lists via OPML too, I imported my 88 subscriptions from Radio (the software this blog runs on) into Google in…

Quote of the Day. “I can think of a recent disaster that shows what happens when a country neglects its duties of state towards its people. My post as chancellor, which I still hold, does not allow me to name…

Part 1. O’Reilly: ‘If Rove gets indicted, that could bring down the Bush administration.’ You know things are getting bad when Bill O’Reilly is predicting the downfall of the Bush administration: O’Reilly: And then you have Libby, vice president’s chief…

WifiFreespot.com lists airports, stores, inns, resorts, parks and campgrounds, etc. with free wifi. Panera Bread, where I blogged from last week, is way bigger than I originally thought with nearly 700 stores nationwide with free wifi.

Then there’s the most obvious evidence of global warming in B.C.; a catastrophe visible from space, or by a drive along virtually any highway through the Interior. The epidemic of mountain pine beetles – which can only be stopped by…