The most interesting thing for me about Thursday was Bush's initial comment to the press, now, I know it's been quoted that he said "The war on terrorism goes on" (Ref), but I was listening, and sure sounded like he said "is on", like you might say "game on". There was excitement in his voice, this dragged things back onto his agenda.

And now, we can expect our civil liberties to be severely curtailed, top of the agenda will be ID cards, although I defy anyone to prove that the ID card scheme as currently proposed would have prevented Thursday's attacks, assuming they were genuine terrorism of course (Ref).

Got back last night about 23:00, second week of placement was good, although seriously overshadowed by Thursday's attacks. There's not a lot to say that hasn't already been said by many other people (although, as always, you should read Roger's blog), except a comment that was made in a letter published in yesterday's Independent, War on terror isn't the answer, if it was, Israel would be the safest nation on earth. The answer is to get people to the negotiating table, this is demonstrated by the experience of the ANC and the IRA.

GTK+ issues on SuSE 9.3, I suggest anyone having problems building GTK+ apps read this.

Photos from my placement will be in the gallery before I go to bed tonight.