OPL for the Series 60

Finally I can tell people! Symbian have taken the decision to release the OPL Computer Langauge to the community as an Open Source Project. This means that OPL (which was popular on the Psion machines) is now freely available for the Nokia Communicators, and the Series 60 phones (such as the 7650 and 3650). Woo!

Older and Wiser Potter’ings

I’ve just realised that the impending release of the fifth Harry Potter book by J K Rowling isn’t really that high up on my list of priorites. I’m more on tenterhooks about what’s going to happen in the other Harry Potter series by Lori Summers. You’ve never heard of “The Paradigim of Uncertainty?” You’re missing out on something special – an adult Harry Potter series that rivals Rowling’s world

George Bush Sr:

While we hoped that popular revolt would topple Saddam, we did not wish to see the breakup of the Iraqi state. Extending the war into Iraq would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Unilaterally exceeding the U.N.’s mandate would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could still be an occupying power in a