Back in the Blogger days I used a wonderful tool called w.bloggar to post to my blog. When I moved over to WordPress I tried a number of other tools, the closest I got was Quamana but this morning, to my delight, I noticed that w.Bloggar posts to WordPress blogs – no contest – welcome back w.Bloggar.
This week we are off on holiday for two weeks, I cannot wait and need this time really really badly. I often hear friends and colleagues boast about the number of years since their last holiday but I’m afraid I am not made of such stern stuff – I have a beach-ometer that slowly ticks down between holidays and a Grumpy-ometer that slowly ticks up. Both these wonderful internal devices are very much in the red at the moment and are in dire need of a reset.
In excellent news, Microsoft has denied that it will put back-doors into its new Vista OS. Governments have been asking for a way around the authentication and encryption to allow law enforcement agencies ways to get access to peoples data on seized computers.
Carbon nanotubules are back in the news, not for space elevators this time, but for super-flexible screens. Carbon nanotubules are made from rolled sheets of tightly bound carbon which are very light, incredibly strong and have excellent conductive properties. It seems that carbon nanotubules are going to revolutionise materials in the coming decades, much the same way the advent of plastic did years ago.
In other strange news, on 25 July 2001 blood red rain fell over the Kerala district of Southern India. Initial explanations implied that the cloudy red substance was atmospheric dust. Recent analysis of samples of this liquid show that it is not dust at all and researchers are puzzled as to what exactly it is. There is speculation that the rain was made up of bacteria-like organisms but it is unlike anything we know about. Hours before the first red rain, a loud sonic boom shook Kerala and it is believed to have been caused by an incoming meteorite that broke apart shedding these molecules as it went. If this is true then the red rain may have contained the first traces of extraterrestrial life ever discovered.
Bush officials are readying an intelligence briefing for the U.N. security council on Tehran’s weapons program but get this:
It will rely mainly on circumstantial evidence, much of it from documents found on a laptop purportedly purloined from an Iranian nuclear engineer and obtained by the CIA in 2004. U.S. officials insist the material is strong but concede they have no smoking gun.
You really would have thought America had learned it’s humiliating lesson from Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction!
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