Here are some scary facts: the debts of 22 African countries could have been cancelled for just half the amount authorised by US congress for the war in Iraq. And for the cost of just two stealth bomber planes, 48 million children in Africa could go to school for a year. With this in mind, [...]
I’ve recently started using a new internet browser, Mozilla Firebird. I’d tried using other browsers before, as I wanted to get away from Internet Explorer, which people who know about these things tell me is full of security holes. However I’d never really got in the habit of using a different browser, and just kept [...]
A friend of mine who is currently living in Beijing has just started keeping an online diary. At the moment he is mostly writing about the impact SARS has had on his life, and it’s pretty interesting stuff. The diary adds a personal dimension to the bare statistics reported in the press and can be [...]