Rather: White House Request Not Its Best. Disappointed that I had missed the Saddam Hussein interview earlier this week, I was happy to find the content on the CBS site the following day. I would recommend reading the summary instead of the transcripts. I found it amusing that the White House offered up Ari Fleischer … …
Bush Faces Increasingly Poor Image Overseas. The messages from U.S. embassies around the globe have become urgent and disturbing: Many people in the world increasingly think President Bush is a greater threat to world peace than Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Inspectors Call U.S. Tips ‘Garbage’. Not too surprisingly, U.S. claims about Iraqi weapons are so far proving to be a load of crap. It occurred to me that without an actual war, the Bush administration will be hard-pressed to justify the existence of the PATRIOT Act and other legislation which threaten our civil liberties.
Is there any way the pending war cannot end badly? In addition to the handful of American casualties (more likely to occur as a result of friendly fire and accidents than enemy combat IMO), thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians will lose their lives or homes. With our economy already hobbled, the government will spend billions … …
I was just recalling the Gibson book signing last week. The reading from Pattern Recognition was not particularly inspiring, but the Q&A session which followed was quite entertaining. At one point, a member of the audience asked the writer’s opinion regarding the extent to which terrorism might affect the Internet. Gibson said he was not … …
Walked knee-deep into snow almost as soon as I set foot outside the apartment today. Wahoo! Don’t forget extra socks if you’re out in it… Office is a bit of a ghost town today. Locks and Full Disclosure. In this month’s Crypto-Gram, Schneier discusses security through obscurity with regard to physical locks, software security vulnerabilities, … …
White House Patriotism Comes With a Price Tag. The Executive Office of the President blew $23k of taxpayer money on flag pins to boost national resolve. Warnings trigger a run on disaster supplies. Y2K-style panic is trendy again. Anti-War Leader Launches Campaign to Impeach Bush. Small chance that the local axis of evil (Bush, Rumsfeld, … …
Britain Admits That Much of Its Report on Iraq Came From Magazines. Dunno how I missed this in the weekend paper, but I just noticed this on cryptome. Utterly disturbing considering how badly these clowns are trying to drag us into war.
William Gibson is scheduled to make an appearance at the Barnes & Noble at Union Square this Thursday. Sweet. Converted my sports news pager from C to Perl today. My bizarre idea of fun… I came up with a better way of dealing with the parser, which makes me very happy. The GnuCash conversion may … …
Tax Program Develops An Insulting Approach. The product activation introduced in TurboTax 2002 ticked me off as well, but maybe not as much as the need to upgrade to Quicken 2001 to import my data. Looks like Intuit is borrowing a page from the Microsoft playbook. This could be the year I switch to GnuCash … …