Martin Amis:
“Doesn’t Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions?”
Category Archives: Misc
Happy birthday, WWW
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web:
“Anyone who slaps a ‘This page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.”
Democracy
Winston Churchill:
“One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.”
openSUSE/KDE desktop
Windows never looked this good on a netbook computer.
openSUSE KDE desktop
Southampton
Former UK defence minister Geoff Hoon:
“Umm Qasr is a city similar to Southampton.”
British squaddie patrolling Umm Qasr:
“He’s either never been to Southampton, or he’s never been to Umm Qasr. There’s no beer, no prostitutes and people are shooting at us. It’s more like Portsmouth.”