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Archive for June 9th, 2005
Microsoft Offers the Indonesian Government an Amnesty
0 Comments Published June 9th, 2005Tagged: indonesia | uk
Microsoft has agreed to grant Indonesia a special license for every unlicensed copy of window running on it’s PC (thought to be 50,000) the settlement equates to 55p per copy of windows.
Microsoft has done this as part of an agreement with the government to crack down on piracy of its software.
The measures agreed will mean [...]
A 17-year old girl was attacked on Chesterton Road in the early hours of this morning as she walked home.
This act of violence follows the rape of a 15 year old girl earlier this week.
Burma’s Archaeological Blunders
0 Comments Published June 9th, 2005Tagged: asia | cambodia | self-babble | uk
A rather distressing story about the ecological and archaeological damage that is taking place in Burma.
But today some of the world’s leading experts have accused Burma’s military regime of waging “archaeological blitzkrieg” against the legendary Buddhist treasures of Pagan.
“They’re ruining it,” said Richard Engelhardt, regional advisor for the UN’s cultural arm, Unesco.
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I went to survey [...]
Weirdo Perv Stalks Cambridge Students
0 Comments Published June 9th, 2005Tagged: asia | cambridge | self-babble | uk
The following advice is being circulated to Cambridge students living in and around Grange Road. Some weirdo pervert guy is hassling female students… [resists the urge to implicate certain Girton students! ;)]
On Friday 3rd June in Selwyn College, at approx. 1635hrs a male suspect followed one of our Female students from college to the front [...]
US / China, Becoming Similar yet Growing Apart?
0 Comments Published June 9th, 2005Tagged: asia | china | uk
Chinese Whispers considers the possibility that China-style blog bans will be implemented in the US.
And the Asia Times considers the growing number of disagreements between the two counties. For example the dispute over textiles.
If relations between the world’s two remaining superpowers deteriorate, I wouldn’t be sure which side I would support!
Does anyone have £25? I want to register www.airFranceREALLYsucks.com after a blatantly unfair decision turned over www.airFranceSucks.com to the tetchy company [read full article]
Looks like I was too slow and I was beaten by www.airFranceSucks.net
Two conflicting articles caught my eye. One on pointless jobs in China and the other on falling number of labourers in South China’s cities.
The two don’t really seem to tally, and I don’t believe that China has exhausted it’s quite considerable workforce just yet. I’m not really convinced by the latter even if it is [...]
