The U.N. Security Council have finally agreed to a resolution on Iraq [BBC News].

The chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, has said his team will go to Baghdad on 18 November to resume their work, backed by the new, tougher, rules which say they can check any site, including Saddam Hussein's palaces.

The decision was reached by unanimous decision. It seems like a good balance was achieved between France's desire to give Iraq one last chance at a peaceful resolution and George Bush's desire to attack. I'm glad that France held out and that Iraq is being given the opportunity to comply to weapon's inspections. However, call me a pessimist, but I don't think Iraq is going to make it easy and I fear that war will be the eventual outcome.
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Back on the topic of tablet PC's, there may be one very large market that will grasp onto them.

There's a strong expectation among Microsoft's troops that the Tablet will catch on quicker in Asian countries, since it's faster to input non-western alphabets by hand than by keyboard [Wired].

Ease of data input. That's the key that will make or break any input standard, be it keyboard, handwriting or voice based systems. Writing Chinese characters would undoubtedly be easier with a tablet. Does Microsoft have OCR for Chinese characters?
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