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The final irony

The Guardian tries to hunt down one of the last few remaining words left out in the wild: ‘Isn’t it ironic?’ You hear it all the time – and, most of the time, actually no, it isn’t. Hypocritical, cynical, lazy, coincidental, more likely. But what is irony and why did pundits think it would die … Read moreThe final irony

Weapon of Mass Deception

Another article on “Depleted Uranium”:http://ko.offroadpakistan.com/world/2003_06/depleted_uranium.html. Slowly, very slowly, people are starting to talk about it. Once the law and order situation in Iraq starts improving and outsiders are let in, this issue is going to start snowballing. bq. But these grim forecasts were wrong. Despite the advance hype, Hussein’s dreaded arsenal was not the biggest … Read moreWeapon of Mass Deception

10 Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq

Here is another summation of what the world is writing about. It’s been covered in greater depth elsewhere, but this is a nice summation. Today, more than three months after Bush’s stirring declaration of war and nearly two months since he declared victory, no chemical, biological or nuclear weapons have been found, nor any documentation … Read more10 Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq

Sowing the Wind by John Keay

A history of western interventions in the Middle East. bq. As everybody knows, as soon as you start to talk to any citizen of any Middle Eastern country about any aspect of their current situation, the discussion quickly turns to historical declarations, long-gone secret negotiations between the agents of European powers and in general who-said-what-to-whom … Read moreSowing the Wind by John Keay

SharpReader

“SharpReader”:http://www.sharpreader.net/ is a rss feed reader. It’s the best one out off all the other free ones. The new release just added one of the best things a blogger can have: A “BlogThis” plugin. It makes blogging a lot easier when you just press a button on whatever you find interesting and blogit.

It’s missing a few essential features [make that just two], but it is under active development and getting better with each release. The keyboard shortcuts have also been finally implemented.

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Creating a Photoblog in Moveabletype

Earlier I had written about “free picture gallery scripts”:http://ko.offroadpakistan.com/computing/2003_06/free_picture_galleries.html. In the end I ended up making the “4×4 Offroaders Club Karachi Picture Gallery”:http://offroadpakistan.com/pictures in Moveabletype. I used “Quixotic Pixels”:http://quixoticpixels.com/ excellent “Tutorial for Creating a Photoblog”:http://quixoticpixels.com/?qp=photoblog. I modified it further, and added this “random photos sql code”:http://www.emptypages.org/more/mysql/random_photos.html from “Emptypages”:http://www.emptypages.org. Emptypages has a ton of excellent MT … Read moreCreating a Photoblog in Moveabletype

Google Information

Some good links on Google:

* “Webmaster World forum”:http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/ :: A forum with lots of google talk going on, along with other web related “forums”:http://www.webmasterworld.com/home.htm.

* “Google Watch”:http://www.google-watch.org/ :: A look at how Google’s monopoly, algorithms, and privacy policies are undermining the Web.

* “Google Guy Says”:http://www.markcarey.com/googleguy-says/ :: A collection of forum posts made by a Googly employee. Straight from the horses mouth.

* “Google Weblog”:http://google.blogspace.com/ :: another listing of news about Google.

* “Google Alert”:http://www.googlealert.com/ :: runs daily Google searches for you and emails you whenever new results appear.

* “Google NewsAlerts”:http://www.google.com/newsalerts are sent by email when news articles appear online that match the topics you specify.

* “Google Zeitgeist”:http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html – Search patterns, trends, and surprises according to Google

* “Advanced News Search”:http://news.google.com/advanced_news_search is a brilliant research tool.

* “Google Calculator”:http://ko.offroadpakistan.com/technology/2003_08/google_calculator.htm allows queries in plain english.

* “Add your URL to Google”:http://www.google.com/addurl.html

* “Google Groups”:http://groups.google.com/ :: Post and read comments in Usenet discussion forums.

* “Google Toolbar”:http://toolbar.google.com/ :: Take the power of Google with you anywhere on the web.

* “Labs.google.com”:http://labs.google.com/ :: Google’s technology playground.

* “TouchGraph GoogleBrowser”:http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html :: This is just amazing…

* “Slashdot: Google Blocks ‘Optimized’ Pages”:http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/26/1458203

* “Slashdot: Fortune Magazine On Google Growing Up”:http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/27/0425212&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=98&tid=99 :: Fortune Magazine runs a pretty long story on Google, but instead of the usual exultation over PageRank algorithm and Larry-and-Sergey biographies, we get a different message – is Google growing up, and is trouble brewing at Google?

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Monbiot: “I was Wrong about Trade”

“George Monbiot’s”:http://monbiot.com latest article makes for “interesting reading”:http://www.monbiot.com/dsp_article.cfm?article_id=588. The gist of the article is: “So let us campaign not to scrap the World Trade Organisation, but to transform it into a Fair Trade Organisation, whose purpose is to restrain the rich while emancipating the poor.” My conversion came on the day I heard a speaker … Read moreMonbiot: “I was Wrong about Trade”

4×4 Offroaders Club Karachi

August 17 2003: The 4×4 Offroaders Club Karachi “picture gallery”:http://offroadpakistan.com/pictures/ design has been changed. There are now over 134 comments and 200 pictures online. The articles site should be up by the end of August. The 4×4 Offroaders Club Karachi “picture gallery”:http://offroadpakistan.com/pictures/ is now finalized. There are already a hundred pictures online right now, with … Read more4×4 Offroaders Club Karachi