Bob Morris @ Aug 21st 2006 11:13 - Category: Unfiled ;
Blair ‘feels betrayed by Bush on Lebanon’
A senior Downing Street source said that, privately, Mr Blair broadly agrees with John Prescott, who said Mr Bush’s record on the issue was ‘crap’.
The source said: “We all feel badly let down by Bush. We thought we had persuaded him to take the Israel-Palestine situation seriously, but we were wrong. How can anyone have faith in a man of such low intellect?”
Bob Morris @ Aug 21st 2006 06:45 - Category: Unfiled ;
“Snakes on a Plane” just slithered into the culture at large this weekend. The buzz for this movie is bigger than an anaconda that just swallowed a water buffalo. A meme is born, and a cult classic as well.
Chris Pirillo gets the snakes onto the web for you, complete with Samuel Jackson’s now-memorable line, “get those motherfucking snakes off the motherfucking plane.”
PS Sue says snakes on a plane and yesterday’s post on zombies in San Francisco does not “toast her biscuits”, not even slightly. Or pehaps it does, depending on whether having one’s biscuits toasted is a good or bad thing. She hopes this clarification muddies the waters further.
PPS This could make a great mash-up. Zombie snakes invade San Francisco airport
Bob Morris @ Aug 21st 2006 00:21 - Category: Unfiled ;
Two people on a plane to Britain, apparently Asian or Middle Eastern, were taken off the plane because other passengers, racist to the core, thought they were acting “suspiciously.” The two weren’t, and even the Brit version of Homeland Security thought the other passengers to be insane.
The Conservative homeland security spokesman, Patrick Mercer, described the incident as “a victory for terrorists”.
“These people on the flight have been terrorised into behaving irrationally,” he told the Mail on Sunday.
“For those unfortunate two men to be victimised because of the colour of their skin is just nonsense.”
Had this happened here in the States, Homeland Security no doubt would have made it a flashing red terror alert and Cheney would have used it as an excuse to attack Democrats.
My question: Were the hysterical racists who delayed the flight questioned? And maybe arrested? If not, why not?
Having vigilante passengers take over planes is a really bad idea. That they were clueless racists scared silly by all the phony terror alerts just makes it even worse. Flying is enough of a pain now with all the security checks, Will we now have to worry about our fellow passengers going berserk with fear too?
Terrorist attacks happen. But we don’t have to live in fear. Nor buy into the diseased crap spread by politicians wanting to exploit terrorism for their own manipulative ends. Could an attack happen here in Los Angeles where I live? Sure. However, what’s the point in living in fear about it? That’s what the racists on the plane were doing. Living in fear. Fear clouds your judgment and then you do stupid things, just like they did. If you stay out of the fear, then your ability to cope and deal with situations increases dramatically.
“Paranoia strikes deep/ into your life it will creep/ it starts when you’re always afraid…”
Bob Morris @ Aug 21st 2006 00:15 - Category: Blogging ;
Polizeros is hosted at BlueHost, and they’ve had some problems the past few months. Most everything that could have gone wrong did. To their huge credit, they worked quickly to solve the problems and indeed, Polizeros is loading quicker now.
BlueHost CEO Matt Heaton recently blogged about this, detailing the Linux, power, firewall, and router malfunctions that resulted in a bouncy past couple of months. More importantly he 1) apologized and didn’t blame anyone else, only himself and 2) detailed precisely how they are fixing the problems. Indeed, most of the fixes have already been completed.
The fixes were, in approximate ascending order of importance, a) replacing a flaky version of Linux, b) installing backup power generators for all servers (they got clobbered twice by lengthy blackouts during the heat wave and the UPS didn’t last long enough), 3) replacing a malfunctioning firewall, and 4) adding a powerful new router.
Heaton’s post is not only an excellent example of how blogging can help a business communicate, it also shows BlueHost gets it. No evasion, rather they simply admitted things got screwed up then explained how they’ve fixed them.
[tags]Bluehost[/tags]
Bob Morris @ Aug 21st 2006 00:06 - Category: Unfiled ;
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