Clare Short is a former UK official. She has made plain her belief that the United Nations should have been the sole decision-maker with regard to any action in Iraq. She has been strangely silent about the UN’s role in the “Oil-For-Food” scam that directed millions of relief dollars away from the people that needed [...]
I mentioned in my earlier post about the Vatican’s newspaper story regarding aid Israel was offering to Sri Lanka that I’d write again if anything new arose. It has. Catholic World News puts up a story correcting their earlier work saying that previous piece was based on a “crucial error in translation”. :::::::: Vatican, Dec. [...]
I took note last night of the link at Amazon.com collecting donations for the Red Cross. When I read about it, the total figure collected was somewhere around $200,000. By the time I wrote about it in my earlier post, it was up over $500,000. I just checked again: $1,686,997.62. It says 30,790 of us [...]
Amid the news of the past few days, I almost missed this note. Jerry Orbach was likely best known as the actor playing Lenny Briscoe on NBC’s Law & Order. He died Tuesday night from prostate cancer. “Law & Order” is one of my favorite shows and Orbach’s character my hands-down favorite on the series. [...]
For the 2nd time in less than a month, the leadership of my Church has managed to piss me off. This time, they’ve shot their collective mouth off about disaster aid being sent into the area devestated by the tsunamis, in particular to Sri Lanka. The Vatican newspaper editorial accused Israel of declining the request [...]
The recount requested by Greens and Libertarians for the Ohio election results has confirmed that President Bush won the State of Ohio by over 118,000 votes. The State’s Electoral College votes have already been cast earlier this month with all 20 casting for Bush. With Ohio now confirmed, the election is over. :::::::: TOLEDO, Ohio [...]
Like most of the people on the planet, I have watched in rather helpless sadness the reports of the tsnamis hitting the shores of 10 or so Southeast Asian countries. I have friends here with family in India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. My sympathies have gone to them all as they strive to find out [...]
Most of the techie community is aware of and reads regularly the entries posted on Slashdot. Good stuff over there, specifically related to the technology front. They have a humongous readership and something interesting happens when someone gets a mention in one of their posts. It’s called The Slashdot Effect. :::::::: Slashdot consists of submitted [...]
Ahhhhhhh, the relief. The laptop completes bootup and establishes the link to the household wireless, reporting a good link at 36 Mb. Interesting, but the real statistic is the speed report of the link that router is sitting on: 512K up/ 720K down. Blogs appear in their entirety within seconds of the request. The e-mail [...]
Today was my father’s birthday. He’d have been 70 today, quite the milestone. I called Mom today, as my siblings did, just to let her know I was thinking of her… and of him. It was a long drive back from the Ohio valley to northern Virginia and that kind of thing leaves you lots [...]
