Year: 2005

Inter’s England trip back on after all. Pressure by the British Sports Minister might have had something to do with it.

Inter Milan goes chicken, cancels English trip. If Inter is going to see its fans throw fuses and other objects at opposing players, it’s going to be at their own stadium.

Apparently Yahoo has no policy preventing the disclosure of information to repressive governments for use in political crimes trials. There’s another firm that’ll go to no length to protect its users against persecution and possibly death. More background on the case here. Fuck Yahoo. I will no longer use their services, and would urge anyone else sick of seeing duplicity in the PRC’s political persecutions not to use Yahoo services either.

Alberta Premier Ralph Klein calls same-sex marriage legalization ‘a sad day’. That’s quite all right. A number of others have, for a while, take to referring to Mr. Klein as ‘a drunk’, based on his long-standing history of alcohol abuse and erratic behaviour while on the sauce.

US Drug Czar ‘obsessed with marijuana’. John Walters’ irrational obsession leads to less resources to fight drugs which are actually dangerous, like metamphetamine and cocaine.

L’Impact blanchit les Lynx 1-0 pour rester invaincu en 2005! Bien que le Lynx ne fasse pas vraiment fière allure cette année, c’est toujours quelque chose d’exceptionnel.

Gilbert Rozon nous montre qu’il n’est pas immun à la bêtise en simulant un appel à la bombe ‘juste pour rire’. Il a bien beau dire qu’il ne savait pas ce qui s’était passé plus tôt dans la journée de jeudi, mais ça reste surtout les attentats du 7 juillet qui font de cette “farce” une niaiserie de première ordre.

Iraq: plunging into Islamic fundamentalism? You have to admit that some of these items sound fairly ominous.

I’m very happy to announce that I just passed the MySQL Professional certification earlier today. This is the “maximum” current level of certification for the popular open-source RDBMS, and according to the MySQL web site I am only the 49th person to have obtained it — although to be fair their cert program is only a year old. So, hurray for me!

North Carolina wants a Dell plant so bad they’re paying the computer giant almost $300m to set up shop there. How much PC equipment would Dell have to sell to pay enough taxes to make NC’s investment profitable?