Wednesday, 21 July, 2004

I blame it on the University, they blame it on the Dell server It takes me until Tuesday to post the fairly inconsequential piece on trial lawyers (I know, but my aim is to have fun) It never seemed quite done - it was though. Makes it seem like I don't care about this web Log , but I do. And then I got caught up trying to make make sense of the Sandy Berger story, which is really the 9-11 commision story. Berger certaintly has written himself off the map with this. There is a lot of Hyperbole going on about this story, much of it not supported by the facts and extending beyond libel by those saying it. I have tried to figure out what his motavation was for removing higly classified documents (albiet copies only) from the National Archives. My own feelings on this is that when I worked in Naval Intelligence I had to follow strict formal document-handling protocols, and I respected it. Berger sure as hell can too! What was he trying to accompish though? I suspect that the answer lies in handwritten comments in the margin of one of those copies, his or someone elses. Short pithy arch and dismissive comments in the margins of such documents is a Washington art form from way back. Something perhaps that would not play in Peroria. Who knows I'll let this one play out a little more addendum: Then all day Wednesday the server hosting all the UMd Homespaces and student e-mail goes belly up. OIT our campus network technology dept. didn't get around to admitting things weren't really up and running until around 5 pm. They fixed it and today I was able to test out my new airport card around campus. cool! Nearly the whole campus indoors and out is a wifi zone 9:28:19 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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