Monthly Archive: September 2002

It was always a dodgy idea for the unilateralists in the Bush Gang: ask the UN to come down heavy on Iraq. I get the sense they were relying on Saddam to be as...

Checked the logs this morning and last night someone found my site by entering this weird phrase into Google: jesus can’t give cleanup child abuse. Your guess is as good as mine…

God I am so tired from packing for the big move this weekend. Why are all my books still paper? WHy haven’t they been Napsterized yet. On the plus side, I did finish digitising...

So some conservative website linked directly to my Chelsea Clinton Goes Goth thingy. This kind of deep linking really bugs me, especially when there are thousands of hits with no possibility of follow on...

Went to see Baraka last night with some friends and it was so lush: a new 70mm transfer print. So much detail it’s overwhelming. Digital projection really does suck slightly compared with 35mm, and...

I just found out Earth has a second moon, called Cruithne. There may be a third, but most people think it’s space junk. And according to this paper, there are two more asteroids in...

So Mandela is not as naive as it seems in other reports. In this Newsweek interview he speaks pretty plainly. Bush et al don’t like the UN because they perceive it to be run...

So I found this wonderful little page that will trawl through all the awful teenie blatherings on Diaryland, select a few keywords you specify, then generate its own customized blather. Try it and see.

When I was coming up, with what was a dangerous world, we knew exactly who the they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who the them were. Today we’re not...

Interesting story here about a dissident Taliban politician who apparently, hearing about the imminent September 11th attacks, conveyed a warning to the US consul general in Pakistan. Apparently, he was disregarded because of “warning...