The Age: “Another stage in Microsoft’s five-year plan to control our PCs and the Internet will kick off early next year with the launch of Advanced Micro Devices’ latest chip, Opteron, aimed at business uses.”

The story about Australian Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock’s daughter leaving the country “partly as a result of her father’s hardline stance on asylum” has made it to the BBC.

“Oil price tumbles in wake of Iraq backdown” – “Iraq’s decision to accept the unconditional return of United Nations weapons inspectors today sent the oil price tumbling about four per cent.” [The Age]
No wonder Bush isn’t happy with Iraq even though they’ve done exactly what he asked and unconditionally agreed to let UN weapons inspectors in.
I wonder what excuse he’ll find to go to war now. They’re already whinging that it’s a “a cynical ploy”, something they’d obviously have no first-hand experience of.

From the Age: “Microsoft declines to fix security issue in Word”. Never mind that 30% of their business customers still use it, they claim it’s obsolete and they don’t support it.

NTK provide proof of Bush and Blair‘s “special relationship”.
Also, the Sunday Times reported on 8.9.2002, “Each of us knows that when the other gets in a bind there will always be a friend on the other end of the phone”. Maybe they’re getting back together?

Awwwww

BBC: Canada PM criticises ‘arrogant’ West

Onion: Bush won’t stop asking Cheney if we can invade yet.
WASHINGTON, DC

Intellectual property rights ‘harm poor’

This picture is doing the rounds with the question “Why does Bush want to go to war with Iraq?”