Dawn

Dawn

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

A huge fire in one of Madrid’s tallest skyscrapers has given the Spanish newspapers the opportunity to bring us more of the superb graphics at which they excel. These are certainly an improvement on the front page pictures of victims of the car bomb in the Lebanon. If somewhat less colourful.

The justice authorities are seeking a sentence of 62,512 years in prison for the man accused of being the head of Al Quaeda in Spain. And more than 200,000 years for the entire terrorist cell. I’m intrigued as to how these numbers are reached but suspect it has to do with the Twin Towers body count.

The Law of Unintended Consequences appears to working very effectively in respect of Spam emails. Since ‘tighter’ new measures were recently introduced, not only has the volume leaped up but I am now having innocuous outgoing emails returned to me, undelivered - on the grounds that they are Spam. My email address ends in ‘terra.com’ and I am wondering whether some brilliant computer isn’t confusing this with ‘terror.com’

Quote of the Day

I have always thought a certain kind of opera singing produces the ugliest sounds that polite society has ever told itself are admirable.
Peter Phillips, Music Critic of The Spectator

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