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Wednesday, April 14, 2004 |
 William Lind is in fine form (BTW, I met William Lind back years ago -- very smart guy): Read it all.
In the twelve-course meal that is the war in Iraq, America has just been served the first entree. The fight with Iraq’s state armed forces was merely the amuse-bouche. The subsequent guerilla war with the Baath, as distasteful as we found it, was still just the appetizer. Over the past two weeks, we have been presented with the first of the main courses, Fourth Generation war waged for religion. If, as is traditional, this is the fish course, our reaction suggests it is flounder...
Unlike traditional twelve-course dinners, this one does not finish with a dessert or a savoury. It ends, to borrow one of John Boyd’s favorite phrases, with the “coalition” getting the whole enchilada right up the p--- chute. You cannot get anything you want at Mohammed’s restaurant.
4:41:36 PM 
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Digital Dashboards. Larry Staton pointed me to MIT's Haystack. Looks interesting, but it needs RSS support.
11:45:08 AM
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Big question right now. Does the US need an MI-5? The FBI/Justice department opposes it. It has substantial support in Congress.
11:22:12 AM
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Robert Fisk: At least 80 foreign mercenaries - security guards recruited from the United States, Europe and South Africa and working for American companies - have been killed in the past eight days in Iraq.
10:34:10 AM
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Eliot Spitzer, who is always on the ball (he single handedly took on the financial industry over the excesses of the 90's), points out that new wireless technologies (and an increasing popularity of old ones) have created a "tap-free" zone.
The FCC is deciding whether a new generation of digital communications devices fall under the 1994 CALEA statute. They include wireless phones with features such as "push to talk" and devices that offer picture and video messaging, as well as "voice over Internet" services, Spitzer said.
10:23:30 AM
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Terrorist Deathmarch. Traditional terrorism faces a downward spiral of diminishing returns from attacks. Here's what terrorists are currently doing to counter this situation and what it means in the long-run.
10:18:30 AM
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I have to admit that I really liked The Apprentice (that's a reversal off my initial impression). Unfortunately, it really fell short recently when it used interviews as a filter. In short, the interview process clearly selected the wrong people (the two of the four that underperformed throughout the show). I thought the whole point of the show was to put candidates through difficult "real-world" tests to demonstrate their performance. The people that did well in these tests wouldn't have made it through the first round interviews, which demonstrates how flawed the typical process used in job selection is.
8:11:19 AM
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Wow. All-in-one TV and PC. Nice. The resolution is a little low though. Double the resolution and we have a winner.
7:57:57 AM
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© Copyright 2004 John Robb.
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