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If, as has been asserted in many places recently, the real reasons for our invasion of Iraq were obscured by the bogus “WMD” argument because disclosing the real reasons would doom the mission to failure, then the real reasons were the worst kept secret in the history of the world. My vote still goes for [...]

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My vote for the best Tour de France wrap-up is the Daily Peloton’s Jambon Report.

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There’s a new mozdev project that will hopefully enable people to write Java applications that use Mozilla (and XUL) for their interface. I assume this will be something like the hooks that let people write native GUI applications for Mac OS X in Java, and it seems like a good idea to me, particularly since [...]

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I only just now got around to reading A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy, a collection of astute observations carefully documented by Clay Shirky. It’s not hard to arrive at the reason why there isn’t a comment facility on this site by reading it. I have no trouble with the technical issues, but I [...]

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Matt Haughey pointed out the best 3k download I’ve ever seen: the Flash Click to View extension for Firebird and Mozilla. Instead of your browser showing Flash movies automatically, it replaces them with an empty box. To see them, just click on them.

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It seems to me that whenever law enforcement begins using some new technology, I always have a negative reaction. All too often, technology makes it easier to invade people’s privacy or deprive them of liberties that they may have once cherished. So it’s good to see an information technology project in the UK that I [...]

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Fred Kaplan has a list of recent questions that Democrats in Congress have proposed that we ask the administration. All of the useful ones were voted down (by Republicans, of course). I understand the need for secrecy in war, but none of these questions would provide information that should be hidden from us or [...]

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I just found out about the MyEclipse IDE for J2EE development today. It’s not a bad little package and it’s darned affordable.

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I’ve paid a lot of attention here to the deceptions that were employed to goad this country into war, and not enough to the negligence on the part of the civilian leadership in preparing for the aftermath. Phil Carter published an item that discusses the poor planning and why we should have known better. Unfortunately, [...]

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The Houston Chronicle has an article about the ethics of bicycle racing, inspired by the widespread interest in the code that cyclists follow after the leaders waited for Lance Armstrong when he fell on Monday. I’ve followed the Tour de France since Lance Armstrong became ascendent, but this is the first year that I’ve really [...]

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