Category Archives: The News

News items that catch my interest or I just generally want to complain about.

DoS attack yesterday aimed at one single blogger-Chaos Reigns

By Kirk M | Published August 7, 2009

All this social chaos that occurred yesterday because of a massive cyber-attack against one solitary blogger.
A "massively co-ordinated" attack on websites including Google, Facebook and Twitter was directed at one individual, it has been confirmed.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Web attack ‘aimed at one blogger’

Now how do you like that one? An attack against [...]

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Russian Subs Off East Coast a Surprise?

By Kirk M | Published August 5, 2009

In case anyone missed the big headline today, the US (Navy, most likely) has “discovered” that two Russian Akula class fast attack subs have been patrolling approximately 200 miles off the east coast of the United States.
Oh, really? What a surprise.

Russian officials responded vehemently to accusations that they were dabbling in Cold War-style cat-and-mouse manoeuvring [...]

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People living longer | Thursday ponderings

By Kirk M | Published July 9, 2009

I read an article in the New York Times today that stated that researchers have discovered an antibiotic that appears to prolong life in mice:
Rapamycin treatment had the remarkable effect of extending life even though it was not started in the right dose until the mice had lived 600 days — equivalent to a person [...]

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What Was the Point, Russia?

By Kirk M | Published August 19, 2008

To the ones who give the orders,
I read today that Russia is beginning it’s withdrawal from Georgia after beating a violent path to the city of Gori. But what destruction came at the hands of the Russians was nothing compared to the destruction caused by the Ossetia, Russia, and, in one case, Chechnya looters [...]

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Google’s AdSense for Feeds-Not!

By Kirk M | Published August 17, 2008

I saw a headline on the news about Google’s new AdSense for Feeds service finally being made available to the general public, something which I’ve been waiting on for some time now. So I read up on this new offering on Google’s AdSense blog and then headed into my long standing AdSense account figuring this [...]

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Dear Julia, We Never Knew

By Kirk M | Published August 14, 2008

There’s not much that happens these days that actually makes me waggle my hairy eyebrows but yesterday’s news about Julia Child made me not only waggle them, I actually read two full articles and today, the just released CIA report about her work in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during WWII; the forerunner [...]

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The Most Important Voter Issue For 2008 is…

By Kirk M | Published August 9, 2008

Finally! Truth in the media. Hope you enjoy this bit of commentary from The Onion as much as I did.
 

Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters

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I Got a Discount on my House Also, So What?

By Kirk M | Published July 3, 2008

I may not be the world’s biggest Obama fan but the latest news stories about him getting a “discount” on a new home is absolutely ridiculous. Can’t they do any better than this?
Obama Got Discount on Home Loan – washingtonpost.com
The freshman Democratic senator received a discount. He locked in an interest rate of 5.625 percent [...]

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