As I feared, things are going poorly in Afghanistan, and it seems like we’re in real danger of just ignoring it. The idea that Afghanistan will stabilize without outside powers keeping the peace is a fantasy. I’m glad that the US is working with the Afghan government to develop a proper military, but [...]
Entries from March 2002
March 28th, 2002 · Comments Off
March 28th, 2002 · Comments Off
The New York Times assesses the lack of progress toward defusing the conflict in the Middle East by the Bush administration today. These paragraphs get to the heart of the matter:
“The Bush administration finally has to get real,” said Henry Siegman, a Middle East expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. “It has avoided [...]
March 27th, 2002 · Comments Off
Anyone watch The West Wing tonight? It looks like Aaron Sorkin is eager to run Bartlet versus Bush in an imaginary election.
March 27th, 2002 · Comments Off
The development tree for Mozilla 1.0 is closed. The long awaited release is imminent. Has it really been four years?
March 27th, 2002 · Comments Off
I’ve come up with a new software development methodology called buzzword-oriented programming. The idea is that the development team writes code that implement all of the buzzwords associated with a particular project and then the only work is to integrate the various buzzword components together to complete the project. Discounting the time it takes to [...]
March 27th, 2002 · Comments Off
Salon has an article on GnuPG, a relatively new open source version of the venerable PGP public key encryption package. I’ve entertained a longstanding fascination with PGP, having used it since not long after it came out. Unfortunately, I’ve lost all of the public keys that I’ve generated, and I’ve never been religious [...]
March 27th, 2002 · Comments Off
Tapestry is yet another Web application framework for Java.
March 27th, 2002 · Comments Off
It doesn’t seem like there were many surprises in the Energy Department documents obtained by a FOIA request on Monday. This pretty much sums it up:
A first review of the 11,000 pages of documents bolsters the contention of Democratic lawmakers and environmental groups that the Bush administration relied almost exclusively on the advice of [...]
March 26th, 2002 · Comments Off
Apple is soliciting feedback from PC users.
March 26th, 2002 · Comments Off
It’s impossible to keep up. I’ve been working with Struts for the past month, and now there’s WebWork, which is supposed to be an improvement on Struts.