Geoff Jones

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Interesting story from a soldier in Iraq this with posts from the Iraqi bloggers bodes well for the future of Iraq. Amy Ridenour’s National Center Blog: A New E-Mail from the Front in Iraq: “I Ask That the American People Be Brave”

What is interesting is how my personal views on the war are been affected by reading the Iraqi blogs rather than the national press. Maybe the war was started on false reasons etc but surely it must be good to rid the world of a corrupt dictator and his family. I was very surprised that the FT this morning carried the picture of a beheading. When they never carried the pictures of Iranian (and probably) Iraqi people been hung from cranes etc.

Here are links to some Iraqi bloggers:-

http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/

http://hammorabi.blogspot.com/”>

http://hammorabi.blogspot.com/

http://iraqataglance.blogspot.com/

http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/”>

http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/

Apparently NTL are uping their broadband speeds NTL follows fatter pipe rival Telewest – silicon.com . Havent noticed any speed improvement at home yet!

Gmails spam filter not working as well in past 24 hours. Received 162 spams. gmail correctly got 133 of them but let through 29….

Very interesting article from a Californian VC here “Hubbert’s Peak” about when the oil will run out.

Dr. Hubbert (in response to remarks by David Nissen – Exxon): “… [T]here is a different and more fundamental cost that is independent of the monetary price. That is the energy cost of exploration and production. So long as oil is used as a source of energy, when the energy cost of recovering a barrel of oil becomes greater than the energy content of the oil, production will cease no matter what the monetary price may be.” [referenced by Ivanhoe, 1982]

I remember reading about nuclear power stations requiring several years of their energy output just to build them. Wonder if it takes into accounts efficiency