19. november 2004

Wheelchairs and assault rifles US Marines have found a large weapons and equipment cache in Fallujah, believed to be an al-Zarqawi's headquarters. The find includes CD-ROMs, videos and computers, hopefully giving good intelligence on the remaining terrorist network in Iraq. 9:51:09 PM    comment []  trackback []

Kofi Annan faces UN employee no-confidence UN workers are preparing to issue a historical no-confidence vote against Secretary General Kofi Annan. Mr Annan has been in the line of fire over a high-profile series of scandals including a UN aid program that investigators said allowed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to embezzle billions of dollars. But staffers said the trigger for the no-confidence measure was an announcement this week that Mr Annan had pardoned the UN's top oversight official, who was facing allegations of favouritism and sexual harassment.  Like taking Al Capone on tax charges. Update: The no-confidence vote, which has no legal power but is deeply emberrassing for Kofi Annan and the rest of the UN top leaders, passed. In fact, Kofi Annan himself was leader UN employees had the most confidence in, which I guess says a hell of a lot about the UN system. 9:42:20 PM    comment []  trackback []

Driving Miss Rice A good idea from Lileks: Oh, there’s news; the cabinet shakeup is interesting. Yay Condi Rice. I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her first words upon getting off the plane to be “I’ll drive.” As you probably know already, everything Likeks writes is a good read, and this is no exception. Via VodkaPundit. 1:55:47 PM    comment []  trackback []

Most spammed person in the world You think you suffer from spam? According to Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates is probably the most spammed person in the world. He receives around four million emails a day, most of it junk, to his widely publicised email address. He needs almost an entire department and sophisticated technology to weed it out. Only about 10 of these emails a day makes it through to his real inbox. And what isn't spam is probably hate-mail and "linux rules" messages. PS: Yes, PopFile keeps my spam at check still. A brilliant piece of software I'll recommend to everybody. And, no, they don't pay me, and you don't have to pay them. Accuracy is now over 96%, and since I have added "magnets" on the known contacts, I run little risk of real mail ever being filtered out. Around 78% of all my incoming emails are spam, more than 1,800 since I installed PopFile on Oct 22. All but 66 of them were eaten by PopFile with no further action (and that includes the early ones before I trained it). 12:09:19 AM    comment []  trackback []

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