Of course, this report only adds additional detail to that which most people already know. Or at least those who keep track of sources of information aside from the mainstream media. I will not debate the extent of neutrality of this report. Nonetheless, it serves as an authoritative (meaning reliable, not authoritarian!) external reminder of [...]

This is sort of a follow up to the previous post on the movie Australia, discussing the changes, or lack thereof, that have occurred since 13th February 2008, colloquially known as “Sorry Day” after Australian PM Kevin Rudd made a symbolic public apology to the indigenous people of Australia for the years of indignity and [...]

Early this week a small Czech ISP, SuproNet (AS 47868) started announcing its prefix via a backup transit provider with an extraordinarily large number of AS (autonomous system) prepends, 252 to be exact.
Aside from sounding alarms all over the world with routers logging errors related to maximum AS-path limits, it also ended up triggering a [...]

MOSCOW (Associated Press)
A jury in Moscow voted unanimously Thursday to acquit three men in the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, dimming hopes for justice in a case that has mocked Russia’s claims to be a modern democratic nation.
The brazen 2006 slaying of the crusading investigative reporter sent a grim signal to other dissenters in Russia, [...]

Did Mediacorp just make a major leak? Look at the title of the page in this screenshot.

In memory of His Excellency, the Late President Ong Teng Cheong
A man who believed in a Government of the People, By the People, and For the People.
以纪念人民的总统，王鼎昌先生 – 政府的监督者，法律的维护者，永垂不朽的爱国者

I’ve been in China for awhile. The past 12 days to be exact.
I’m still pondering on what to write about next, as well as greater questions of where do I go from here.
Meanwhile, I just upgraded to Wordpress 2.7.1 with the automated upgrade tool. It works surprisingly well! Simply enter the FTP parameters (hostname, username, [...]