Imagination Defines the Limit of Genius
It didn’t surprise me to read here that over 300 individual memory leaks have been fixed in Firefox. Soon after leaving Microsoft, I decided to switch over to Firefox, mostly due to the huge range of add-ins. The swap however didn’t last long as the crashing simply didn’t stop: Firefox and memory consumption.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to it…
More good news from Australia’s new Prime Minister, another fresh look at an old problem which will do wonders for our international reputation.
First the wicked Prius, and now this, I’m gonna buy a Toyota….
BetaNews | Toyota president: Robotics will be a core business
Hard to believe this actually happened, its almost like it was scripted in Hollywood. What I would have given to see something like this unfold in front of me when I was in Kruger.
Cool approach to educating people about the global menace of land mines.
On this site you can watch a Free Runner (very cool sport indeed, would have loved to do this in my younger days…) attempts to navigate around London’s Southbank without ever touching the ground.
Watch the videos:
I’m one day late posting this, but yesterday was the 27th anniversary of the death of John Lennon. Sadly I was too young to witness his impact on the world first hand, but that hasn’t stopped me growing up admiring his approach to political expression, and indeed many of the expressions he made.
OF all the good that have died young, it is him that I wish were still here, and his view on the world today I would most appreciate.
Finally, we have signed up. This is an example of another fresh new look at an issue that has been haunting Australian politics. This leaves the US out on their own as the only country not to sign on.
There are very few things that embarrass me as an Australian, but our treatment of the Aboriginal people and our failure to sign Kyoto certainly did. Within just days of coming to power Kevin Rudd has impacted on both these issues, giving me just a little more pride.
Love her or hate her Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an incredibly brave women and her freedom to speak should be protected, unconditionally.
While I’m not as familiar with her story as it relates to Dutch politics as perhaps I should be, in conversations with people here it’s clear she was as controversial nationally as she has become internationally. Regardless of your view of her politics, she is a Dutch citizen, she was a Dutch politician, and she deserves all the protection that her country can offer her, regardless of where she lives.
As an aside, it is likely that she would still be a Dutch politician, and living in Holland, if she were not driven from parliament in what appears to be a politically motivated witch-hunt.
The danger she faces is very real, certainly as real as that faced by Rushdie, to whom the British Government provided security. For anyone still in doubt, spend just a minute investigating the horrific circumstances of the death of Theo Van Gogh (yes a relative of THAT Van Gogh), who was killed because of the 10 minute film he made with Ayaan Hirsi Ali reflecting on the treatment of women in the Koran titled “Submission“.
At the very least Holland should reflect on the damage this is doing to their well deserved reputation for individual freedoms (overseas friends have discussed this with me on more than one occasion). They should also reflect on how they would feel, and what the impact on free speech would be, should anything to happen to her.
For more details on her story:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: My life under a fatwa
To help with her security, security she now has to pay for herself:
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