Excellent piece at kottke.org on the no-longer-looming war with Iraq: “The war” Summing up, Bush bad, war bad, this war not so bad even though bad Bush reasons also bad. Couldn’t agree more… except that nobody can be sure about the “war not so bad” yet. In theory, this war is “not so bad”, since […]
We almost made it… Thierry Henry’s brilliant goal would have been enough, had it not been for Sylvain Wiltord’s error that led to the second Valencia goal by Carew. But in truth it should never have been such a tight race. We should have won the last game and be home safe and dry. Instead, […]
Les occasions de se laisser porter par la musique en toute insouciance sont rares, ces temps-ci… Mais Murat a de nouveau réussi à me prendre à la gorge, ce matin, avec la poignée de morceaux de Murat en plein air (deuxième disque du double album Live In Dolores/Murat en plein air). D’abord l’instrumental du début, […]
Good analysis by Marc Zeedar at macopinion.com of the badly designed Print Center toolbars in Mac OS X: “Designing Bad Software” These “Start Jobs” and “Stop Jobs” buttons are utterly confusing. They badly need to be fixed. And the fix is amazingly easy. The interesting aspect in all this is that you can’t help but […]
Interesting article in The Guardian about the current lack of balance in the UK media: “We’re not all peaceniks – but you wouldn’t know it” […] It is one thing (and far from dishonourable) to refuse to support the war because it has not been given the official seal of approval by the UN. It […]
Textism: “This occurred to me“ Of the many stains left across the internet by the current crop of neoconservative idiotarians […] surely one of the greasiest is the constant grousing about the scourge of ‘political correctness’.
Great blog item by idleword: “Two school lunch menus“ Note that not only do the French students eat more interesting meals than the American kids, but they get a different message from mealtime, too. You get the sense that a French school lunch is considered part of the child’s education. […] Contrast this with the […]
More meaty reading material: “War Inc.” by Farhad Manjoo, Salon American corporations with close ties to the White House are poised to cash in on Saddam’s defeat. French companies need not apply.
Good article in this week’s TidBITS on troubleshooting in Mac OS X: “Wanted: Conflict Catcher for Mac OS X” I am not convinced there is a need for a “Conflict Catcher” for Mac OS X, however. In fact, while I did purchase Conflict Catcher for Mac OS 9 a while back, I never did actually […]
So I am working on a Word document created by someone else, which features that person’s attempts at using Word’s automatic numbered list functions properly. Of course, this person failed, because he/she was trying to create a numbered list with space between each item. Since that person didn’t know about “Space After” or “Space Before”, […]
The following interview with former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter is exactly one year old — but it’s very much relevant to the present situation: “Salon Interview – Scott Ritter” by Asla Aydintasbas, Salon [premium access required] I am highlighting the following two excerpts in particular: I am a proponent of qualitative disarmament, not quantitative. […]
While I don’t really want to get involved in domestic US politics, the following column by Dan Gillmor strikes me as indispensable reading: “Domestic policies give cause for fear ” by Dan Gillmor, SiliconValley.com If we’re going to have a nation at home that lives up to ideals of fairness and justice, we’re going to […]
I cannot believe that this kind of drivel gets actually published these days, and that the author’s “credentials” are in the full view at the bottom of the page: “What France really wants” by Dan Goure, MSNBC More specifically:
“The war of misinformation has begun” by Robert Fisk, The Independent Bunkers allegedly containing chemical weapons will be cordoned off — too dangerous for any journalist to approach, of course. Perhaps they actually do contain VX or anthrax. But for the moment, the all-important thing for Washington and London is to convince the world that […]
I constantly type file names (in various applications, in various contexts) that contain the date of the day in reverse format (yyyy-mm-dd), so that they get sorted properly. For example, my blog entries for today are typed in a BBEdit file named “Betalogue 2003-03-17”. Now, with Spell Catcher X, I never have to type that […]