Via BruceSterling’s ViridianDesign:
Torrential rains around the Muslim holy city of Mecca left 12 people dead, including six children, and 50 injured, Saudi medical sources said. ¹
I am totally disconnected from daily news now that I am on holidays. No TV, no daily newspaper reading on the train. All I read is the weekly WOZ.
Bruce Sterling’s newsletter also prompted me to read about the bombings ². Riverbend also talks about constant fighting in Baghdad. If I believed in God, I would thank him now for letting me live here in Switzerland.
On the topic of Donations: *The Begging-letter Writer*, by Charles Dickens ³
After many weeks, I finally committed a change to Emacs again. It was a tiny one-character addition to a regular expression in timezone.el, but I feel better all the same. ;) At the same time, I committed a small change to Gnus. And suddenly the RSS feed produced by OddMuse can be read by Gnus in its full glory: Author and Date are correct. Yihaa!