There’s that old saying: If you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door. The point is that people keep trying to make that "better mousetrap", and often it’s the making of the thing itself that says more about humans and people in general than what they’re supposedly trying to achieve.

We’re getting closer and closer to the war on Iraq (which is something of a misnomer, given that to call it a ‘war’ means you have to have <i>two</i> armies in place) and the grab for oil under the guise of keeping the world safe is imminent.

Well, war is looming on the horizon and the mad swines of the Bush Administration are drooling over the potential oil that is shortly to be theirs. (I call them mad swine instead of just swine — because of a report that Bush is considering nuclear weapons as an option.

One of the joys about the Internet is the ability it provides to educate you and teach you things on a variety of levels. Which is why governments are using every boogeyman they can find to institute harsher and more restrictive laws to block the ‘Net and send you back to passively watching TV.

I’m always wary and dismayed when running into people who don’t read. Although from what I recall of my schooling, the joys of reading were low on the "things to inspire in the pupils" scale. Let me say this now. Science fiction rocks.

I’m surprised that Africa is so surprised that Darth Vader Jnr has failed to take action against the lethal chaos of Liberia, in spite of the (somewhat ill-considered) pleas of many of the people of that country that he should.

The power of the MBA ultimately lies in how it is used and its value to the individual who obtains it.