I’ve been wondering recently about the abrupt turn around that Colin Powell has displayed over the war in Iraq. It’s refreshing to see that I’m not the only one who noticed that something changed and that what is presented isn’t always what is real. It’s nice to know that my memory isn’t faulty and things Read More …
Month: March 2003
Sex must be part of the Axis of Evil
While I admit to being annoyed at the overt nature porn on the internet has taken, I hardly think it’s damaging, dangerous or needs legislation of any type let alone of this magnitude. The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Thursday on a proposal that would criminalize using misleading domain names to lure Read More …
Hind sight is 20/20 but….
I think that phrase gets used entirely too often to cover up overtly bad planning and stupid ungrounded assumptions. Our current military planers seem to be running off the deep end when it comes to planning this war on Iraq. I’d love to know why Powell is being so queit about it as well. Many Read More …
More Internet War Coverage
Since we seem to have taken Iraqi TV off the air I thought I’d try and find a web feed of al-Jazeera. Along the way I learned some interesting things about al-Jazeera in this article, In defense of al-Jazeera. Also interesting is that the al-Jazeera web site has shut down from spam and DoS attacks Read More …
Transformational Warfare
Since before Operation Iraqi Freedom started, something bothered me about the assumptions apparent in the planning as revealed by what we were told. The major thing that bothered me was the notion that this war would be a fast one, that we’d show the Iraqi people the futility of fighting us and they’d be so Read More …
Another perspective
I found a great article the other day on Slate. It described how to watch the Iraqi Satellite TV station. Unfortunately, that same day we bombed the Iraqi TV infrastructure so the only thing that has been on has been a still image. However, the web site DSL TV has some other interesting feeds as Read More …
Blog moved to Moveable Type
At long last I was won over by the flexability of Moveable Type. I have migrated my blog to this format. It really wasn’t that difficult to do either. Next up will be figuring out how to add some graphics to the layout of the site as well as add more interesting things.
Air Travel II
Some people are simply amazing. They live in their own little world quite apart from the one the rest of us inhabit. On our flight out to Houston three mid 30 something children were sitting behind us. Apparently they never realized that they were on an airplane filled with other people. Nor did they realize Read More …
Air Travel
What fun air travel has become. Once upon a time I really enjoyed flying. I looked forward to it. It was fun. Now I dread it. I’ll do almost anything to avoid it. This has nothing to do with danger or risk or even the airlines treating people badly, that’s been going on for years Read More …
Lincoln LS
Hertz is a great rental company. The gold club is free yet not everyone uses it, and I’m not sure why. Just find your name on the plaque and go to the number’d spot and there is your car, trunk open and keys in the ignition. No fussing about with signing papers and waiting in Read More …