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Because it’s not like they ever took hostages at an Olympic games. (Via Schneier on Security.)

At Apparently Bloggers Aren’t Journalists, Coding Horror notes a situation in which a blogger makes an erroneous statement, which is then repeated by two other bloggers. The real problem is that this erroneous information was echoed by blogger B, and then echoed again by blogger C. At no point did anyone stop to actually verify [...]

When I got to thinking about the different Wikis that I either edit or visit on a regular basis, I came up with the following: Wikipedia CISV USA Wiki CVREG Trac Household Wiki Ubuntu Linux Work That’s a lot of interactivity. And yet I still am working on coming up with a good explanation for [...]

Articles by Jonathan Rauch: Ike, a Realist for Our Times DWIGHT EISENHOWER, for all his rambling amiability, was capable of vehemence. He showed it memorably at a news conference on August 11, 1954. Ray L. Scherer of NBC asked him about “increasing suggestions that we should embark on a preventive war with the Communist world, [...]

I’ve tried other Desktop posting clients in the past. I have a feeling that this might be the first one that sticks. This is a test post to see whether I’ve managed to hook everything up correctly. It’s cool that I can also edit these posts in TextMate.

So, I am still alive, and I’ll prove it by posting. I’ll use the first post about any particular topic to post any catchup material. I missed quite a bit of work this week with bronchitis. My tip: try to avoid getting bronchitis. Not fun.