“Ashcroft, Mineta Miss State of the Union”. “Ashcroft, Mineta Miss State of the Union”: The Associated Press reports here that “President Bush designated Attorney General John Ashcroft to stay away from his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, making Ashcroft the successor to head the government should catastrophe strike at the Capitol. [How Appealing]
Old people are cursed by memories. So much bullshit begins with “I remember when.”
We can’t help it, so forgive us. We do think there are common themes of life that we all go through.
Think about it this way. We don’t all have the same experience in puberty, but then again, we do. At the end, you’re ready to have sex and make babies. There’s lots of stuff ahead of you like that. Really. [Scripting News]
’60 Minutes’ Creator to Step Down in 2004. CBS News announced today that Don Hewitt would leave his post as executive producer of “60 Minutes.” By Jim Rutenberg. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
Ideas.. ideas..
Activity Log. About a week ago I started keeping an activity log on the Web. It details what Iâve done and plan· [Aaron Swartz: The Weblog]
I haven’t yet read his testimony, and will do later tonight, but this reads and looks impressive.
And I thought everything was all hunky-dory over there?
Blix Tells Security Council That Iraq’s Cooperation Is Limited. Hans Blix delineated a long list of problems relating to his ability to adequately ascertain the state of Iraq’s arms program. By Timothy L. O’brien. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
This is why I’m glad I did my own upgrades.. I can upgrade when I want…
Upgrade my servers? Yeah, right.. In software engineering, laziness is a positive attribute. If one can accomplish the same task in 3 lines of code instead of 30, a good engineer opts for the 3-line version. That’s why libraries of code are so popular. Engineers… [Michael J. Radwin’s blog]
I hope the President can make the case that needs to be made – the way that he did ten days after September 11th…