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Okay technically this isn't the true smoking gun.. BUT this is still enough evidence to have this criminal dragged(by the legal system of course) from office and thrown in dark dank hole, or wherever else you throw war criminals?

Bush Trial Evidence Piece 1

Admittedly in the UK you just have a vote of no confidence, he (or she), is removed from office, and at the same time criminal proceedings can be brought. You guys need to impeach him, and any of his friends who are protecting him (Nancy Pelosi for example)

Now is your time America, give those soldiers who have been slaughtered, maimed and brutalised by this man's actions a sense of justice. Give the world a reason to believe you are a country of justice, of law, of idealism again.

(Found via Stupid Evil Bastard)

Its now approaching a day commemorated for peace.

I'm sure some worry, as usual the weapon builders because of reduced sales, and the right wing christians due to world peace is a harbinger of the apocalypse to them...oh well.

For the rest of you, even if you can't go to an event, it wouldn't hurt to meditate, muse, or even just think a bit extra about peace.

If you are more interested please check out the website for the group behind the idea.

Found via the http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/

For those of you who don't know about the situation of women in Saudi Arabia, shame on you for being ignorant. For those of you who do, congratulations on being a passable attempt of a world citizen. For those women in Saudi Arabia, don't take no for an answer, its time to take to the open road, they don't have enough police to stop all of you at once!

Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Be warned people may yarrr you all day!

To all those who know of Stephen Fry, you probably also have heard him described as a man with a brain the size of Kent, and it probably is at least that size.

Courtesy of Simon i read a rather interesting piece on his newly started blog. Once i began reading i was convinced this was the blog of someone called Stephen Fry who was a professional geek, however coming upon certain choice phrases, and a photo of Stephen posing with the iPhone.

Stephen Fry on why he wants an iPhone Killer (and what he loves about the iPhone)

It shouldn't be happening, Apple the great friend of the consumer, the idealist, the innovator has probably done more to hurt its image than Google making nice with the Chinese sensors.

Its all to do with the iPhone (although iPod games are another very valid point of contention).

I think everyone is in love with the idea of the mobile widget, that by a clear mile the iphone is closest to being. I have to say that the Nokia N95 8GB version is the next closest, and it has some very nice features which apple could think about implementing. However if i had to choose, i'd still go for the iPhone

The biggest trouble is that Apple has made some very questionable decisions on things that should not beyond the realms of a small software update.

• Visual Voicemail, which while has huge potential, has locked Apple into AT&T rather than being able to release to every network (although CDMA might take a few steps longer). Apple should not have included it, the benefits are small, the price was to high


• Not syncing tasks, I was under the impression that calendar on the iPhone, was as capable as iCal on the mac... this is unforgivably bad and until apple fixes it, the iPhone is useless to me.


• No bluetooth DUN or even better PAN profile. I always have my phone as a backup data device if there is no free wifi about, this should be implemented asap. I'm sure AT&T would complain, because they are trying to market their data card, but one of the reasons i like my current system, its one unified device and i don't want to pay for 2 contracts.


• No SDK, the variety and capability of iPhone 3rd party apps demand a SDK to easily put them onto the iPhone.

There are obviously other things wrong with the iPhone, but those are my major gripes, particually because they each on their own stop me from buying the iPhone.

Apple needs to smarten up its act, show regular development work on the iPhone (Given leopard release soon, some delays are understandable), ditch the dead weight (AT&T), and turn the iPhone from a good attempt, to a near perfect mobile device.

Apple is claiming that its going to crack down on people unlocking their iPhones.

Just who on earth do they think they are.

Because of their interfering the iPhone is not subsidised, and you get locked into a contract with AT&T for 2 years.

And now if you choose to take an iPhone to another network (say one that does what you need it to in your area), Big Steve now wants to drag your phone back to AT&T kicking and screaming whether you like it or not.

If you had been selling iPhones in the apple store without contracts, i quite possibly would have bought one by now, but since not only is it impossible to unlock (illegal under us and uk law), but if you do unlock it illegally, you will get slapped by the Mac Police i'm not giving Apple any more money until they smarten their act up.

Big update for halfapenguin today,

• Beta of the new theme, i'm going to do some more modifications before i consider it complete


• OpenID logging has been implemented


• Commenting has now been enabled


• Comments and openid logins tie into the alpha release of djwhitelist, a module for rating of individual comments to determine if a certain unique identifier (gathered by either openid or conventional)

Thats it for now, but hope to see people actually commenting from now on.

Not even a few bad puns have been mentioned for months about Microsoft's "revolutionary" (read pinched from Nokia) new mobile browser. In spite of a huge positive response, Microsoft has yet to expand the beta program (i'm still waiting for my beta e-mail months later).

Its entirely possible Microsoft gave up on the project as unworkable (not like anyone else has managed something similar ... aside from Nokia and Apple). I have to say if i could work out how to sync it reliably with my mac (and for those of you say missing sync, i ask if you've ever used it).

So i wait till the iPhone gets up to spec (no task functionality at the moment) or i can get a cheap Nokia e90.

Microsoft should really get off its high horse and create a conduit for syncing with macs, because as much as it burns to say this, they do make good pocket pc devices and i'd rather use my Pocket PC than my Nokia N80.

But my original point stands, that there needs to be a larger public beta of DeepFish, this is one microsoft technology we actually want.

Apparently new guidelines have been approved in the uk that allow Doctors to opt out three procedure areas. Abortions, Contraceptive Services and Withdrawing life sustaining treatment.

While initially i might have supported the later i have since changed my mind.

A Doctor is someone with inordinate levels of knowledge and ability trusted to help people in the comunity. It is unreasonable for them to force their backwards views on others.

Abortion may be viewed as wrong by some, but the vast majority have accepted it is a fundamental right of a woman to have control over her uterus.

Contraception should never be refused when asked for. There is no civilised justification for withholding contraception.

The ultimate duty of a doctor is to respect a patient's wishes and this includes ending treatment when asked by the patient.

Each of these functions are within the purview of a Doctor's profession. I'm not asking Doctors to perform euthanasia, but i expect them to treat religion as is accepted in the UK, you leave it outside your office and act professionally.

If a doctor does not wish to act like a doctor, then they should not be a doctor.

We should not adjust our practices because of backwards and unethical views promoted by zealots.