The LA Times (reg. required–use bselig for both userid and password) has the most comprehensive story I’ve yet seen on Administration post-war planning. The final paragraphs offer this chilling remark: “We’re going to get better over time,” promised Lawrence Di Rita, a special assistant to Rumsfeld. “We’ve always thought of post-hostilities as a phase” distinct …

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The dark side of having your fridge connected to the web: “and we’re going to need something like 100 IP addresses for each human being.” I’ve been getting timeout errors when pinging Weblogs; my MT activity log is growing exponentially. I had no idea why, but this explains all. In essence, Weblogs gets pinged and …

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