Mike Browne’s Blog

I’ve had this site up before, but the archives have grown. Check out Cat-Scan.Com. Thanks to Elliot for the link.

Yahoo! News – Canada Passes Motion to Indict Saddam

Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War

Take special note of articles 13 and 14… it’s not okay to execute POWs or treat them badly as the US and UK assert has happened in Iraq. Perhaps someone should send an Arabic version to Saddam.

Yahoo! News – Hack Attack Closes Al-Jazeera Web Site André Z sent this link with this quote “Funny how the US Government is now calling themselves hackers???”

Ain’t that the truth.

MORE here

I’ve been listening to Virgin Radio: better music, more of it – listen online in broadband here at work. I’m getting it through a SHOUTcast MP3 stream using WinAmp v2.xx (none of that version 3 crap), not from the Virgin website where they only offer Real Audio or Windows media streams.

The Saddam Show – How to watch Iraqi TV on the Web. By Paul Boutin You can get more streaming ewar news and webcams here. Some are really busy, but they’re there.

Thanks to Rick P here at work for the links.

I kind of like the MÅNEN computer table from IKEA.

CBC News: Report clears pilots in Swissair crash

I remember the Swissair crash very well. It happened in Peggy’s Cove on September 2, 1998 exactly 2 days after Carol and I had been there on the first leg of our honeymoon as we had been married in Bridgewater, NS on August 29th 1998.

It was a horrible crash and I remember even the Nova Scotia coroner being traumatized by the mass of 229 bodies torn to bits. Even some of my mother’s friends heard the crash as far away as Mahone Bay. They still talk about it. (Real Audio runs 3:31)

As Carol and I were leaving Halifax a few days later we were stuck in the middle of an Air Canada pilots’ strike and all the coverage of the disaster. We saw CNN and other world news oraganizations at the airport. As well, from the gate we were leaving by, the Premier of Nova Scotia at the time awaiting the arrival of the families of the air crash victims along with ministers of various faiths. It was kind of disturbing seeing families clearly distraught at the loss of loved ones exiting a Swissair jet at the gate we were just about to leave by. I really didn’t want to fly that day.

We have since returned and found that residents of the Peggy’s Cove area have built monuments to the victims of the tragedy. The most moving of which was a solemn mass grave with a granite wall memorializing the people who died.

Finally the investigation is complete recommendations have been made and people can truly put this horrific event behind them.

Even Saddam has a Blog. Check out Iraq kicks ass. Especially of interest is his live journal bio. I didn’t know he liked Avril Lavigne. Or maybe it’s a hoax and this is really his blog.

Korea’s Kim Jong Ill has a blog too…