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Pishing for credit

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

This is what Pishing looks like to a text based email reader, that doesn’t render HTML, blatently you can see that the link doesn’t go to PayPal but in fact looks on the surface as if it will log you into PayPal, when infact it takes you off to a fake site known here as www.login-user1692.info

Peak Oil : Forecourts closing

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

Just had a thought, I have seen four Petrol stations close on my route into work in 3 months of driving. Now is this a sign of peak oil (this being where demand for oil outstrips supply) or is it simply a case of market forces and competion. Whatever is going on some experts are […]

Specter of Drought Hangs Over Europe

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

We need like weeks of rain in the UK alone to stave off water supply fears, reminds me of the summers of the mid 1990’s.

“Persistent hot weather following months of low rainfall Wednesday raised the specter of serious drought in many parts of Europe. Authorities urged consumers to cut back on water usage and in […]

Spanish in war over water

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

Natural resources such as clean water and food crops could soon spark wars and it doesn’t seem that silly that tight supplies of things like that could spark the worst side of humanity. Spain is rationing water amid its worst drought for 60 years, draining public swimming pools. Portugal’s crops are so badly hit it has applied for EU food assistance. Severe droughts are hitting countries from Cuba to Cambodia to Australia.

Climate change from the Sun?

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005

One thing that Mark Shuttleworth said at LugRadio 2005 was that he had seen our veil for himself and he thought it was amazing that something that is relitavly very thin is the reason why we are here. Yet something so very fragile can easily be upset, and rather than pointing a finger at global warming for our current spell of freak weather, I think we should take a closer look at our very own physical god as a cause of freak weather …. and coming full circle that’s what the book is about …. Solar Rain.