Month May 2003

The 99 Bottles of Beer…

The 99 Bottles of Beer project Finally, someone has done what sorely needed to be done, and has translated the song, 99 Bottles of Beer, into 515 programming languages. Earning them a hearty THANK YOU from a grateful programming community. From the elegant…

Welcome Mr. Secretary

Welcome Mr. Secretary Bombs Shake Westerners’ Compounds in Riyadh “Numerous people were wounded when up to four bombs exploded on Monday at Westerners’ compounds in Riyadh — hours before Secretary of State Colin Powell was due to arrive in the…

Politics Texas-style: hardball

Politics Texas-style: hardball Democrats in GOP-dominated Texas House stage mass absence to break quorum. “Almost all of the Democratic members of the state House failed to show up Monday morning, preventing the GOP-dominated body from convening because of a lack…

Leo Strauss and the neocons

Leo Strauss and the neocons “Odd as this may sound, we live in a world increasingly shaped by Leo Strauss, a controversial philosopher who died in 1973. Although generally unknown to the wider population, Strauss has been one of the…

Hmmm

Hmmm Russia funding resurgent Taliban. Pakistan too, no doubt, as their intelligence operations, virually a government within a government and considered to be world class in what they do, was one of the original backers of the Taliban.