At Drupal Camp Toronto 07, I saw Emma Hogbin knitting Drupal socks for James Walker.Emma with the socks in progress. Closeup of the socks.

Below is a list of recent modules that duplicate/overlap other existing modules.Can you guess which module(s) each one of these duplicate/overlap?In order to make it easy I included links to the project page for each.

• Referral Links
• Abuse
• Click2Bookmark
• Person node

This is a funny ad. A teenage boy in jeans, baseball cap and teen attire is against the wall screaming, while four groomed men in formal tuxedos are playing the violins.Another ad shows a punkish looking youth with spiked hair put in a guillotine that is made of the pan flute. This is probably alludes to the Francisco de Goya's famous painting

There has been recent surge in money laundering schemes advertising themselves as legitimate business via spam.The scam represents electronic payment services, and normally interface with countries where prosecution is hard or impossible.For example, INTERAC Email transfer, the Canadian direct debit and email transfer service, has a FAQ entry for email money transfer agent job, and another about

Recent media coverage of three terror attacks all point to the same repeating pattern: authorities getting notice that they will happen, but not doing something to stop them.First, you have George Tenet, the ex-CIA director, authoring a book where he says that the U.S.A. ignored clear warnings before the September 11 attacks.

NASA's Virtual Earth has many interesting images.One of them is a composite night time earth lights. Some interesting observations on this image:

• Look at the Nile as it traverses Egypt. See how dense the population is along its shores.
• The same density is on the southern coast of France, and east coast of Italy, but not to the same continuity on the West coast.

Since late November 2006, I had Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 running on my Toshiba Satellite A100-TA6. I wrote a full report on that here.

So, I decided to take the plunge and upgrade to Feisty 7.04, and so the adventure begins.

Intel High Definition Audio (HDA) Sound Problems

My laptop has an Intel HDA sound card.

Graham Fuller is an ex-CIA spy, and a Rand Corp. researcher who lived and worked in Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, North Yemen and Afghanistan. He now lives in Squamish north of Vancouver.He is the author of six books and many articles on Islam. His writing focused on Asian Islamic politics, religion and ethnicity. His articles have appeared in scholarly journals and everything from The New York Times to the Christian Science Monitor.

A recent survey by WorldPublicOpinion.org in Egypt, Pakistan, Morocco and Indonesia found that a majority thinks that the USA's goal is to weaken and divide Islam.

The survey also contains responses on things like: