Archive for March, 2003
Monday, March 31st, 2003
Peter Arnett clearly had a lapse in journalistic judgement. After giving an impromptu interview with Iraqi TV in which he questioned the US battle strategy, his employers NBC, MSNBC and National Geographic issued a joint statement that said, in part:
His impromptu interview with Iraqi television was done as a ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2003
This made me laugh out loud:
U.S. Forms Own U.N.
The new organization will be based in Houston, where a $400 million U.S.U.N. Building is currently under construction. The U.S.U.N. Charter, ratified unanimously by delegates in a four-minute vote Monday, sets forth the mission of the organization as "the proliferation of peace ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2003
The dark months are over, folks. I'm sitting in front of the TV with regular season baseball on ESPN. I couldn't be happier.
The Cardinals open at home tomorrow afternoon. I'd love to take the day off work, hop on the bike and make the 4-hour drive to St. Louis. I ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2003
It seems like I've been at a dead sprint all week. We've been pushing to meet a milestone at work. The completion of that milestone is pictured at left. I've also been coding PHP like a madman, trying to get a new company site online. It'll focus on the optics ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2003
Unfortunately, Ben's lament on Sunday and the follow-up events of Monday in Iraq prove that technology doesn't necessarily make victors. I'll skip right past my initial reponse to his comments, though I'll say I thought it was a bit knee-jerk. Sadly, it seems that the Americans are not the only ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2003
Aaron Brown of CNN is working through one of the more thoughtless exercises I've yet seen from this war. After showing a brief clip of one of the POWs in Iraq, he's interviewing a former soldier, Bob Wetzel, who was held captive by the Iraqis during the '91 Gulf War. ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2003
Wil's veteran friend has the distinction right:
I could say a lot more about this, but to my mind, you can protest the war, and at the same time, hang a yellow ribbon in the hope that the troops come home safely. Hoping for our folks to come home safe ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2003
I'm already starting to feel a bit of war-weariness, what with the wall-to-wall coverage on the TV, NPR, 'Net, and newspapers. I'm compelled to keep the coverage on, but it's at a cost. I didn't sleep well last night and, as you can see, am late again this evening. Yesterday ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2003
Clive nails it with his post comparing the intelligence of chat bots to real human chat. In fact, you really should read through the comments to the original post, centered on an online Michael Jackson game. THUL MAK U LAFF.
Interestingly, the posts seem to get more incoherent as time goes ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2003
I'm feeling that excitement again. I just checked the Dell site, and the new Inspiron 1000 shipped today. I should have it in my hands on Thursday. With built-in wireless, I'll have four machines on the network at home - two of which are completely untethered.
Now, the real decision ...
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