February 17, 2004

Google Achieves Search Milestone with Immediate Access to More Than 6 Billion Items "4.28 billion web pages, 880 million images, 845 million Usenet messages, and a growing collection of book-related information pages" 10:07:16 PM

Dr. Osama Al-Ghazali Harb, the editor in chief of the Egyptian quarterly Al-Siyassa Al-Dawliya magazine: 'We Should Feel Humiliated that Saddam's Fall Came at the Hands of the U.S. and Britain... The Arabs Should Have Been the Ones to Bring Him Down'  9:50:23 PM

Music firms seek names in Internet piracy battle The Globe and Mail, Canada - Canada's recording industry has launched a legal hunt for at least 29 consumers it says illicitly share music files over the Web, but it must first win an opening skirmish against Internet service providers who are refusing to hand over customer information. I only wish the recording industry would look at the Copyright Board of Canada's Decision on Private Copying.  Basically it legalized copying of sound recordings of musical works onto audio recording media for the private use of the person who makes the copy.  It does not say anything about the source.  Of course it just might be that they will target the source, that is those who make the songs available.   3:11:32 PM

Saddam's Bribery ring, unwinding: Iraq oil cash funded (British) MPs' campaigns Suspect (French) Oil Deals Were Norm Under Saddam Basically people who were supporting Saddam had millions of good reasons to do so.   Do you think that UN inspectors would have uncovered this?   2:21:37 PM