Comments on: Photos of Boris Johnson in Israel

By: DAN THE SAHIB

DAN THE SAHIB — Sat, 13 Nov 2004 22:38:24 +0000

I think it was deeply unfair that you were sacked from the front bench over gossip for your private life.

But shaking hands with that Arab-killing headbanger Netanyahu chould be made a criminal offence. What on earth possessed you to be associated with a thug like him? Even the most die-hard Zionists hate him!

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By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:04:43 +0000

Absolutely, Amy. Over two million downloads already. Get it here:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Here’s why:

http://browsehappy.com/

The Open Source philosophy is good, as you say. But there’s a lot of good software out there, open or closed source, that doesn’t break the bank. I’m running Win XP on this box and using:

Firefox:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Pegasus Mail:

http://www.pmail.com/

AVG 7 Antivirus:

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5

(Have to configure the mail scanning by hand:

http://www.grisoft.cz/us/us_ts_wizard.php )

And Zonealarm Firewall (4.5.594: the newer versions are a bit flaky.)

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp

I’m more secure that with IE/OE – and the built-in IC Firewall (which, unlike ZA, has no *outbound* control). And everything runs smoothly – and fast. I must have paid vast sums to Symantec for Norton AV products over the years – they slow the machine to a crawl.

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By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:16:10 +0000

Yes, GIMP is definitely worth getting. Photoshop ain’t cheap, and open source software is the future! (Speaking of which… Firefox 1.0 has been released – get the best browser in the world free at mozilla.org)

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By: Fig

Fig — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:26:24 +0000

Nutty has just reminded me of the episode of Father Ted where he is trying to explain to Dougal the concept of perspective. Not that I’m suggesting for a moment that Nutty isn’t very smart; I’m just happy to think of Father Ted episodes at any available opportunity.

“No Dougal. This one is small. THAT one is far away. Small. Far away. Small. Far away.”

I hope I don’t owe Channel 4 any royalties for that =(

Top photos by the way! And yes, good planning on meeting the lovely ladies in uniform, well done!

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By: Scaryduck

Scaryduck — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:08:22 +0000

Everyone in Israel does national service regardless of gender.

This results in a) hoardes of young ladies in army uniform whipped into shape by merciless drill sergeants, and b) plenty of photo ops for visiting British parliamentarians.

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By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:59:11 +0000

Well, Aaron’s beaten me to it. I was just going to say, Photoshop Elements is a bit dear: how about GIMP? It’s under a GNU licence and there are versions for many platforms.

And if it’s just for a little bit of image re-sizing you want, and you’re on Windows, I’d take your Telegraph colleague Rick Maybury’s advice and use Irfanview:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2004/09/29/ecrboot29.xml

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By: Nutty

Nutty — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:49:22 +0000

Is it just me or is the chap in the middle incredibly small? Either that or our friend Boris is freakishly outsized. Say it isn’t so!

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By: Lori

Lori — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:34:39 +0000

I can’t help noticing the Israeli soldiers are all cute girls. Excellent planning

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By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:10:49 +0000

Before spending on photoshop, why not download and try GIMP instead? Main site is http://www.gimp.org/ and if you use Microsoft Windows, downloadable installers are linked from http://www.gimp.org/windows/

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By: Hannah

Hannah — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:30:29 +0000

Thanks for posting them, Melissa (by the way, photoshop is well worth getting – it’s great)

I think Boris quite clearly has the best tie out of the three in the second picture. A very important observation, even if I do say so myself.

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