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I’ve had a blog on MSN Spaces for quite some time, though I really don’t use it. Today when I went there just to see if my blog was still there, I thought I had accidentally been re-directed to an Ubuntu website. What? Hmmm, yea, interesting.

If you look at the new logo for MSN Spaces, you’ll see it has a remarkable resemblance to the logo for Ubuntu. It’s so similar in fact, that I’m sure there is a case for copyright or trademark infringement here, the only questions being who was there first, or has it been trademarked?

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I don’t know that you could call me a voracious news reader; however, I do read a lot of news and today I stumbled on this gem from BBC News which talks about Saddam Hussein predicting terror attacks on America and Great Britian. The entire Iraq invasion has driven a wedge among the people of the United States. Nearly three years into the liberation/occupation, there are people either strongly for it, or strongly against it.

At one point in time I had played some devil’s advocate scenarios in my head. One of those ideas went something like this:
What if Saddam didn’t really know about the weapons programs allegedly taking place in Iraq? Maybe it was generals or others underneath him who were building these things up, keeping a buffer of safety between the programs and the dictator to keep him out of trouble. Perhaps he was totally unaware, perhaps he was telling the truth. Or at least maybe he was telling the truth about having dismantled everything, that there were no programs still in place, that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.

There are two things that come out of this article, the first that Hussein had clairvoyant knowledge of terror attacks that would happen in the US and Britain, and the second being that he knew about weapons programs and was actively hiding them. My postulations were rather incorrect, what was my first instinctual reactions were more true, that Hussein -was- up to something, and -was- a danger.

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