Bob Morris @ Jan 26th 2003 11:37 - Category: Unfiled ;
Don’t read this if you don’t live in Southern California
Damn, it’s 80 today! Time to turn on the air conditioning!
However (sigh), the Super Bowl airs today from Southern California, so several zillion people will see our wonderful weather, and I can imagine the conversations. “Honey, it’s 80 in San Diego, remind me again why we are living in Connecticut where it is 2″.
I can almost hear them moving…
Bob Morris @ Jan 26th 2003 09:01 - Category: Unfiled ;
The SQL worm is still out there
Entries made on this weblog earlier today went into the void, rather than to the website.
Why? Because the SQL worm that crippled much of the Net yesterday is still out there, clogging things up. A traceroute can quickly pinpoint the areas of congestions, which are plentiful. Plus, on one of my ISP’s co-located servers, another user (not them) hadn’t patched their copy of SQL Server since the Pleistocene Era, thus adding to the fun.
Translation of above into English: The Net will continue to be slow and unpredictable today. Expect delays.
This was preventable. The most recent patches of SQL Server block the worm from working, and, obviously, thousands of sites had not yet installed it. Of course, pondering why Microsoft products have endless gaping security holes that must be patched constantly is another question indeed.
And the worm itself is preventing people from downloading the patch.
“But even as some Microsoft executives urged companies to download patches, others admitted that this was not as easy as it sounded. Microsoft spokesman Rick Miller was quoted in USA Today as confirming that Internet congestion was interfering with administrators trying to download the patch”.
Bob Morris @ Jan 26th 2003 00:24 - Category: Unfiled ;
The Senator from England speaks for Bush
Tony Blair: War can start without U.N. inspectors finding weapons.
How robust of him to say this! Now we can have a war without bothering with any of that tedious “proof” stuff.
From The Observer;
“Tony Blair has raised the temperature in the confrontation with Iraq by insisting there is no need for United Nations weapons inspectors to find a ’smoking gun’ for Saddam Hussein to be in breach of UN resolutions and face military action.
Downing Street sources made it clear last night that although there would be a ’short pause’ in preparations for war while the inspectors are given ‘a few more weeks’ to try to find Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, Saddam’s failure to co-operate pro-actively with the team will provide a pretext for attack. “
Let’s see. Iraq isn’t threatening us or any of our allies, is making no hostile moves towards any nation, and we can’t find any of those weapons they are supposed to have so - heck, let’s invade them and start a war.
Bob Morris @ Jan 26th 2003 00:20 - Category: Unfiled ;
George Clooney compares Bush to The Sopranos
“The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos,” he tells Charlie Rose tonight in a full-bore assault on Dubya’s foreign policy.
The “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” director says Bush has cut deals with France and Russia so the UN Security Council won’t complain when “we go into a war [with Iraq] and kill a lot of innocent people.”
Quips Clooney: “[Bush says,] ‘France, you’re getting the pipelines.’ “
Bob Morris @ Jan 26th 2003 00:19 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bizarre but true
US buys up Iraqi oil to stave off crisis
That’s right, we are buying oil from Iraq now…
“Facing its most chronic shortage in oil stocks for 27 years, the US has this month turned to an unlikely source of help - Iraq. …Essentially, US importers diverted 0.5m barrels of Iraqi oil per day heading for Europe and Asia to save the American oil infrastructure.
The trade, though bizarre given current Pentagon plans to launch around 300 cruise missiles a day on Iraq, is legal under the terms of UN’s oil for food programme.”
Bob Morris @ Jan 26th 2003 00:17 - Category: Unfiled ;
West Hollywood passes resolution opposing war in Iraq
On Tuesday night, West Hollywood joined 45 other cities, including Chicago, New Haven, Boulder, in passing an resolution opposing war in Iraq.
In California, similar resolutions have passed in San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, Santa Barbara, and elsewhere, with a campaign underway in Los Angeles to bring it to the city council.
Cities for Peace is helping organize this campaign. LA Indy Media reports on the vote.
Bob Morris @ Jan 26th 2003 00:14 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bob Morris @ Jan 26th 2003 00:13 - Category: Unfiled ;
Feb. 15, Los Angeles
If you are in L.A. on Sat. Feb 15, there are two major peace events planned so far on this day of peace actions across the globe.
Peace on the Beach
Santa Monica, 10 am - 6 pm Speakers, music, meditation, maybe the biggest human peace symbol ever made! (Yes, in L.A. we really can have a rally on a beach in Febuary!)
and
March & Rally
Start at Hollywood & Highland, 1 PM. March to Armed Forces Recruiting Center for a rally. Called by ANSWER.
So, on Feb 15 in L.A., whether you’re feeling meditative or militant, there’s a peace event for you!
Bob Morris @ Jan 26th 2003 00:07 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bush posts highest unfavorable rating yet
“Just posted to PollingReport.com is the Thursday-Friday Newsweek Poll just completed by Princeton Research yesterday. Bush logs in his highest unfavorable rating of his presidency, jumping five points in a week to 38%, and up eight points in the last two weeks.” [Daily Kos]
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