From the daily archives:

Monday, August 18, 2008

Is Shirin Ebadi’s daughter a member of the Bahá’í Faith? This was the claim made by IRNA, the Iranian news agency, recently, But the claim is completely untrue.
According to Africasia.com (which has published a story from AFP), Iranian Nobel peace laureate has lodged a complaint with the court about IRNA’s false claim:
Ebadi accused the state [...]

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The Power of Words – an unfinished story

by Barney on 18 August 2008

I was rooting around in my diary files the other day and found this unfinished story. I wrote it at the time Conrad Black, former owner of the Daily Telegraph, was on trial in the US for fraud. Conrad Black was someone who knew how to use the power of words to get people to [...]

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BQ is now on (in?) its cloud

by Barney on 18 August 2008

It took all day yesterday, but BQ is now safely sitting on (in?) its cloud. It took time to download files from the old server and to upload them to the new one, but it was done. And the DNS changes propagated more quickly than I had feared they might.
To quote the great Christian mystic, [...]

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