Now that Hamas has won the Palestinian elections, they’re trying to rehabilitate their image in the western media. American-educated Mousa Abu Marzook has a piece in the Washington Post entitled, What Hamas is Seeking. Khalid Mish’al, another Hamas political operative, has a piece in The Guardian explaining that Palestinians knew good and well what electing [...]
Entries from January 2006
Hamas takes to the papers
January 31st, 2006 · 1 Comment
I love renting
January 31st, 2006 · 7 Comments
For the past 15 months or so, I’ve been a renter, after being a homeowner for about four years. When my wife and I owned a home, we spent many thousands of dollars on repairs and upgrades, used about half of the available space, and often felt angst about the housing market and stress about [...]
What does Google know?
January 31st, 2006 · 1 Comment
If you ever wondered whether Google keeps track of everything you ever searched for, the answer is yes. In other news, Google has launched a bookmarking feature. You can save pages from your Search History as bookmarks and apply tags to them.
Planning and execution
January 30th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Today you can read an article in the New York Times about how a group of conservative attorneys decided they wanted to take over the Supreme Court, formulated a plan, and have seen that plan come to fruition this year with the nominations of John Roberts and Sam Alito to the Supreme Court.
For an example [...]
Never mind
January 29th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Here’s the story behind the Firefly season 2 Web site I mentioned the other day. Never mind.
Google and China
January 28th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Google has been catching lots of flack this week for creating a version of their search engine for the Chinese market (at google.cn), and capitulating to the censorship demands of the Chinese government. They’ve explained their reasons for doing so at the Official Google Blog. I’ve been giving this matter a lot of thought this [...]
XML schemas are fun
January 27th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Like just about all software developers these days, I’ve done my fair share of XML wrangling. What I hadn’t done until this week is create DTDs or schemas to describe the XML I was generating. Then I ventured into the realm of XML schemas, and I have to say that I come away impressed. The [...]
Latest torture outrage
January 25th, 2006 · No Comments
Just read it for yourself.
Personal note to Rick Santorum
January 25th, 2006 · No Comments
Here’s a personal note to Rick Santorum, courtesy of John Prine: Your flag decal won’t get you into heaven any more.
How HTML is really used
January 24th, 2006 · No Comments
Google sampled over one billion documents on the Web to see how HTML is really used, and came up with a number of interesting statistics, including the most popular classes assigned to elements (”footer” is number one) and the average number of different elements used on a Web page (19).
The report is also interesting in [...]