Estd. 2002. Politics, tech, startups, media, law, history, philosophy
I am reading Rubicon by Tom Holland to prepare for an essay question for Roman History.
He gives a quote that I put in the blog last year from Caesar’s account of his campaigns in Gaul.
Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude.
Of course the Gallic Wars was also a work of propaganda. Whether humans innately desire liberty is an interesting question in light of the time Caesar lived in. It is also a very relevant quote these days.
Sabah al-khayr = good morning.
I’m tempted to do some testing to distract me from studying…so I’ve decided to install Ubuntu, Windows Vista build 5432, and Windows XP Home. Partitioning the drives..
A very interesting picture.
New York Times site redesigned…I like it.
Update: The people at El Paso say its an April Fool’s day joke. They posted it on March 30th?>. Anyways that aside, the most important thing coming up is McDowell’s defamation bill.
Now that is serious.
Dearbhail McDonald contacted me about that John Gray saga I went through a couple of years back. She wrote an article in today’s Sunday Times about a case being taken against the El Paso Times blog up in Dundalk. This is important stuff, especially since McDowell will shortly be publishing the new defamation bill.
Curious that Gardai were apparently ‘monitoring’ the blog. In other words the boys in blue read it.
Gardai have been monitoring the site, which is hosted on the Blogger network owned by Google, since it attacked local TD Dermot Ahern, and plain-clothes detectives will attend a public forum due to be hosted by members of El Paso today at a local hotel. The site gives no indication of who is behind it and the only means of contact is an e-mail address. It is not clear to what extent, if any, it is connected to the domain Dundealgan.com, which is registered to an entity calling itself dundealgan information, based in Willowdale, part of the Bay Estate on the outskirts of Dundalk.
“We have been keeping an eye on the site for some time,” said a senior officer in Dundalk. “But nobody has a clue who is behind it, and defamation is a civil matter, so there is little we can do to help.”
Will Google give up the details of login IP addresses? How much would it cost to take these guys to court in Ireland and the US?
Definately one to watch.
Yes I am still on hiatus.
