The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse

article from 2006 but might be quite up-to-date taking into consideration recent news about the region. http://www.energybulletin.net/node/12125 related wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_oil_bourse

journalist on the frontier

robert fisk – journalist on the frontier ; semantic chaos in the way situation in the middle east is described. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay1klyYcNe8#t=04m30s other lectures by him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLJBZ_dpiFQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-py0hlRY7k

ilo

i take care of one HP server with ILO remote access card. but recently i started having problems with using web applet to connect to it.

kiev

i’ve spent 3 days in kiev…

How juries are fooled by statistics

Peter Donnelly: How juries are fooled by statistics few statistical paradoxes + their grave implications: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLmzxmRcUTo as a bonus – birthday paradox – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

The War You Don’t See

how the mainstream media reports recent military conflicts. worth watching. really. the war you dont see

kindle 3g

few months ago i bought kindle 3g. below what’s good and what’s bad about it.

mysql 5.1 – turning on/off query logging on the fly

i dont run query logging – more to avoid running out of the disk space on /var/log than for the performance reasons. but from time to time it’s good to be able to turn logging on to see what’s going on. in 5.1 and later versions it’s possible without restarting the mysqld.