Bryan Strawser

The Best Quotes From Margaret Thatcher’s ‘Statecraft’. The Best Quotes From Margaret Thatcher’s ‘Statecraft’: There have only been two European leaders in the last century that I… [Right Wing News]

Disk Memory Below a Buck a Gigabye, and What That Portends. Now that disk capacity costs less than a dollar per gigabyte, it’s again time to look at the most disruptive… [Dan Gillmor’s eJournal]

BTW, I’ve been getting all kinds of emails saying that the Google rep did say the deal with Blogger is about synergy. It’s also in today’s NY Times article. I’m a little too close to this to say that Google has to be really careful about tying their weblog hosting service with their search engine, but it’s true anyway. I’ve heaped praise on Google in the past for their integrity, for not selling placement in search engine results. Everyone is going to be watching to see if they tilt the search table to favor their weblogs. And even if they don’t we really do need a second search engine, in case there’s too much synergy. [Scripting News]

As Halley writes, some seriously nasty snow here…

I’m finally digging out from under the blanket drifts on my bed — I’ve been sleeping non-stop since yesterday because my flu came back, the nasty thing — and now that I dug my way out of the covers, it seems the snow is really beginning to hit us hard here — so I’ll dive back under. I’ve been reading and managed to make myself some lunch — macaroni and cheese — first thing I’ve eaten in days it seems like.

It’s one of these sideways storms, the snow doesn’t just fall down, but blows in sideways with such force it looks like they’re sandblasting the the side of the building. What a winter this has been. Get those spring dresses with the flirty skirts ready and slingback shoes — give me some warm April weather and a summery spring evening in a cafe, barelegs, pretty sandals, painted toes, enough of these wool socks and boots. [Halley’s Comment]

Subscribed I am…

News Update. Jon Johansen has a new blog called “So sue me”. I find this hilarious. Subscribed. (Best of all, itâs running… [Aaron Swartz: The Weblog]

Here’s something I’ve gotta try: RSS feeds from Outlook. Most of my life is in Outlook. I’d love to build an RSS feed that my boss can aggregate from Outlook. Thanks to Scott Hanselman for this.  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

I am trying to think through the reasons people are opposing this war.  This is not an indictment of those reasons, it is just me thinking them through.  Not everyone who opposes the US on this war will support all of these reasons (many would actually oppose many of the reasons listed).  The opposition is a diverse group.  Here is my list:

• Opposition to all war.
  
• Frustration with the US, as the sole superpower in the world, exercising its military power without considering the desires of the rest of the world.  This is tied to the hope, that global activism in combination with strict fealty to the UN, can contain US power.
  
• Opposition to the US across the board (anti everything the US does).  
  
• The US is the #1 source of global evil (this is a stronger version of the above).
  
• Belief that UN inspections and sanctions can work to prevent Iraq from ever becoming a threat -or- that Iraq has already been disarmed.
  
• Belief that war is more of a threat to the Iraqi people than living under Saddam for another couple of decades.

Any more add to this list? [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]