Archive for April, 2008
The Islamist
This book was Ed Husain’s own story. He was brought up in an apolitical Muslim family in London. He did not carry along very well with his shoolmates and was interested in the ideas of some radical Islamic groups. Husain joined the groups and preached their thought. The first haft of the book vividly depicted […]
A Thought on this Blog
The great Chinese chess grandmaster Yang Guan-lin passed away. I paid tribute to him by posting his early games in a Chinese chess forum. The posts received thousands hits. Naturally my time spent on this blog has reduced. I did not even know Wordpress 2.5 was out for a month, or Ubuntu 8.10 was on […]