Articles posted on February 25th, 2003

Problems with Radio UserLand (so far)

Tuesday, February 25th, 2003 • 11:48 pm

*1* Can’t handle quotation marks in item titles. If you use a quotation mark, it truncates the rest of the title (the quotation mark and everything that comes after). *2* Can’t handle accented characters in item titles. If you use an accented character on the Mac in the item title field and publish, the character […]

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Slate and their “print-ready” format

Tuesday, February 25th, 2003 • 9:11 pm

Trying to read an article on Slate this morning… As usual, whenever it’s available, I click on the option to display the article in “print-ready” format, so that I can easily save it as a PDF file if needed (and also to reduce screen clutter). What do I get from Slate when I click on […]

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Truth Be Told

Tuesday, February 25th, 2003 • 8:39 pm

Paul Krugman’s “Threat, Promises and Lies” pretty much sums up my own sentiment as well as the sentiment of the vast majority of people with whom I have discussed the issue of the current US administration. We are all used to politicians lying. But, once again, in typical fashion, the US has managed to do […]

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America & Iraq: Anti-French Sentiment

Tuesday, February 25th, 2003 • 1:18 am

Apparently, some prominent people and media outlets in the US are busy dissing the French because of France’s reluctance to endorse a US-led war on Iraq. I wouldn’t know, since I never watch mainstream US TV networks or read US tabloids. But it sounds like it’s getting pretty bad in places. There is a bit […]

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