Doug's Dynamic Drivel

If you haven’t installed or played with Winows Vista RC1 yet here is a link to a 100 slide walkthrough of its features. I’m holding out for late January maybe a bit later until they’ve ironed out any initial release bugs before I install it – besides I may want to boost this laptop to [...]

Google has made available a new service – search 200 years of news online.

Web giant Google is further expanding its online empire with the launch of the Google News Archive Search.
The web-based tool allows users to explore existing digitised newspaper articles spanning the last 200 years and more recent online content.
People using the search are [...]

You would have thought the US military had learned this lesson in Vietnam, or by seeing what happened to the Soviets (and now the multinational force) in Afghanistan, but appatantly not. A large modern militarized force can not overcome a sufficiently motivated and well armed guerilla insurgency. Rumsfield and Bush are entirely to blame for [...]