Archive For March 20th, 2002

Blood DiamondsI read National …

Blood DiamondsI read National Geopgraphic and they have an excellent article on diamonds which led me to do a Google search where I found Testimony of TONY P. HALL before the Trade Subcommittee of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee. “Mr. Speaker, many of us are gravely concerned about the role the trade in [...]

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Evolt.org have some excellent …

Evolt.org have some excellent articles linked from their front page right now.

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I went to see We Were Soldiers …

I went to see We Were Soldiers last night and was blown away by it. It’s done very well, maybe too well. I left the cinema shaken, shocked and thoughtful. Go see it, but you may not want to watch it again.

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Mysql and transactions: Part 1 …

Mysql and transactions: Part 1 Part 2 From PHP Everywhere

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More broadband promises – 5mb …

More broadband promises – 5mb to every house by 2005. Skeptical discussion on ILUG can be found in the ILUG archives. Great! But as far as I’m concerned this is like setting up a committee to implement an environmental improvement program and then filling it with representatives of an oil company. Guess that’s what they [...]

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