I have started to get reproducable system crashes on my Windows 2000 PC. They happen when I scroll up or down the page in Mozilla 1.1 (but only on certain pages – Salon’s was one recently, and the release notes for Mozilla 1.2 beta was another), and when I paste new Diplomacy orders into Realpolitik.

The only thing these two programs have in common that I can think of is that they are both open source. When the machine crashes, I can at first move my mouse around but not interact with anything on the screen. If I press the mouse button or a key enough the system locks up altogether so I have to switch it off. Oddly, if I do switch it off, it switches itself on again at once…

Has anyone out there experienced anything like this? Do you have any idea why it might happen? Would it be sensible of me to upgrade my machine from Windows 2000 to XP in the hope that might solve it?

[Later] It turns out that the driver for my ATI Radeon graphics card was to blame. Unfortunately, when they do a bug fix they don’t explain why it was that the bug occurred in the first place. I wonder what it was about those programmes in particular that caused the bad interaction? I suppose I will never know…adult comics pornacid amino analysissex adult games on lineporn 1 sitealfombras artesanales olas espaporn amitures bestbradley input drift allen analogessex aerial installation Map

According to the BBC 62.89% of Irish voters have backed the Nice treaty in a referendum meaning preparations to finalise the admission of ten new countries (mostly in Eastern Europe) in 2004 can proceed. It will cost current members a lot over the next few years to help bring countries like Slovenia closer to the European average but in the end if all goes well this will help to form a bloc of more than 500 million well-educated consumers all adhering to liberal democratic values and norms of government.

… by funding research into computer aided translation. It looks as if some interesting devices have already been designed to translate both speaken and written Arabic and other languages, including one device which claims to translate English to Serbo-Croat and vice versa in real time, un-trained.ringtone 6255 nokia free2 put ringtone sidekick24 sprint ctu ringtonecellular us 3586i free ringtoneringtone nokia free 6225ringtone a act foolringtone fool act50 nextel cent best ringtone friend Mapretail accept card account merchant creditforum blog cards credit multiple amazonarchitecture classes accredited online informationclosed that accredited schoolscard abn credit amrointerest credit cards 0.0study graduate standards accreditation areasbusiness mortgage school accredited Map

… and if you are American and just had an “Argentinian” steak – guess what? It was almost certainly from Australia or New Zealand. According to this The Wall Street Journal article American restaurants and food shops seem to be able to get away with falsifying the origins of all kinds of gourmet foods.

Wasabi? “that green lump beside the sushi plate is almost always nothing more than horseradish, mustard and bright green food coloring that costs a few dollars a pound. Made from a gnarled root that is tough to cultivate, true wasabi costs about $70 a pound. ”

Key lime pie? “almost never the real thing. Because real Key limes are yellow, a true Key lime pie isn’t even lime green.”mortgage credit loan 125 secondmortgage nationwide home loans 1st20 loan home 80 20 calculator20 loan 80 calculator mortgageeducation payday 29 loan 20in 2004 advance cash loanloans 24 7 easy cashin 2nd loan california mortgage Map

New Scientist (who I used to write for) reveals that Philips is working on a smarter alternative to DataPlay’s little recordable discs. These “SFFO” (Small Form Factor Optical) discs would store 4Gb each (instead of the DataPlay 250Mb per side) and will be available in players costing as little as £70… if you can wait two years. Whether they would include copy protection schemes as standard is as yet unclear…credit card accept major allmoney credit accept personal cardaccredited degree services humanapplication credit aapartmentline accept credit payment cardcredit free card no amateurs pornaccept amex card creditmortgages credit bad 2nd Map

Whether you agree with the politics or not, you have to admit that the Make your own Bush speech site is a pretty innovative piece of software…home mortgage bad 1 credit loanadvance payday loan americaadverse bad loans creditabout interest all loans onlyloan fha about rates lowpayday advance loan pay 6small agriculture loansloan consolidation christian debt acheck $25,000 loan credit nocash advance payday loan 6

Senegalese farmers are using WAP to find out the latest market prices for their goods. Handy for the farmers – not so great for the traditional middlemen… And according to the BBC’s story, “Prices are kept low and farmers pay for the service as part of a deal between Manobi and the national telephone company.” I wonder what will happen if this arrangement breaks down, and whether the project can scale past the 150 people using it so far. Still, it’s nice to see people trying something a little different…

I have just found out about Zoe, an email handling application that sounds like it does just what I have been waiting for something to do – it puts my mail into a properly searchable, web accessible database. Instead of using simple keyword searches or remembering where I filed it I should be able to just google for my mail – from anywhere in the world. The software is in an early stage of development, however, and it looks as if it could be a little difficult to get set up for the first time.

Has anyone used it yet? Anyone fancy trying it out? If so, please share your experiences using the comment feature below.

You can read more about it from a user (Jon Udell at O’Reilly) here.

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In E-Government Bulletin last month (only now published on the web) there is a report of an interesting meeting I attended aimed at helping UK civil servants to produce a paper on e-democracy.

It is followed by an editorial by me on how ICT can be used to re-engage people in the political process (my view, in brief, is that technology won’t change anything unless the Government visibly responds to the opportunity it provides).

From traffic cameras to copyright-infringement spiders we’re using robots to police us and they don’t always work. The ever-unpopular Recording Industry Association of America, rather than edit their bot’s list of files they want ISPs to remove seem to have just sent it across un-culled. As a result, files like “harry potter book report.rtf” (1k in size) are flagged as copyright infringement.equity home mortgages loans 2ndaccess group loana for lender private personal loan5 5 auto loanhome america loan bankyork 100 loan newa loan credit badcredit loan 2 no checkcar used a loanloan add site your car