Fedora Core 6
If we believe the schedule , Fedora Core 6 should be with us this Tuesday. In the past the Fedora team honored their own deadlines, so hopefully we …
UK: petrol tax higher than 70% at the pump!
An
article on BBC
, published in 2000, but still relevant today, shows, how automobile fuel is taxed in the United Kingdom. The current duty figures, …
Japan: is electronics industry dying?
A recent article on BBC cites an interview with the former Sony executive whines, that the Japanese industry is losing to competition, mainly from US. …
Fighting spam 3
It is really amazing - so far my spam filter has prevented more than 3,500 spam comments! See here for more info on the issue.
Free beer?
Open source is making its way into breweries! An OS beer recipy is available on freebeer.org , and beer based on it is being sold, mainly in …
Energy prices
Wholesale prices for oil and gas are going down, but it doesn’t look like British Gas is going to reduce the retail prices.
Black and white - tired of zapping annoyances!
What can be done in order to cause people not to use dark background and light font color on their web pages? Reading long text, which
looks like this …
Mortgage blogging
I saw a link in my favorite property whining blog to an article in New York Times, which talks about mortgage-backed financial securities in the US …
UK: major bank fraud prevented
BBC informs us, that a major fraud, targeting account information of private clients was prevented by a new government body, called …