It's Alive...sort of.
Presently I feel like Dr. Frankenstein at a moment just after the final tightening of all visible bolts screws and sutures, and just prior to the lightning storm which will give the necessary electrical energy to make his creature sit up and allow him to exclaim: " It's Alive." My new MacBook has arrived. I have transferred the files from the iBook to it. It reboots without crashing, the Wifi card works, the (external) modem works. The G4 now takes its place in my to-be-repaired queue. I rejoin the ranks of internet enabled Americans. The previous post mostly completed on Friday would even have been posted last night or Saturday except for Radio Userland's aversion to being transferred from one hard drive to another. Being what it is; a compiled script controlling a handful of large database tables and a host of cascading macros. All of which seem to use absolute file paths. The fine print says migrating will work as long as your hard drives have the exact same name. If not, you are going to have to do back up your web log files and do a clean reinstall from userland.com. Because it crashes otherwise. I retransferred it and used find and replace to change all instances of iBookG4 HD to Macintosh HD (thousands), we'll see if that calms the beast within.
[Update 24Oct06: no that didn't do it. And reinstalling Radio from the Userland site while seeming to fix that problem, has done many other bad bad things.]
That post (excess of evil) had gotten too long to have much added to it, but it is worth noting that over the weekend Bush seemed to admit of parallels
globeandmail.com: For first time, Bush compares Iraq to Vietnam with the Vietnam war
Bush Aide Sees a Parallel Between Vietnam and Iraq - New York Times specifically with the Tet offensive. The point often held to be the turning point of that war. Tet also bears the weight of the myth of the battle 'won' military, but lost politically. A willful denial of the essential unity of these elements of war, and I suspect a not rigorous enough examination of what was accomplished, not accomplished and lost in beating the NVA offensive back. This comment by the President lead to much commentary
Major Change Expected In Strategy for Iraq War - washingtonpost.com and counter commentary
Bush: No Iraq Pull Out Until 'Mission is Complete' - washingtonpost.com that course changes were at hand
Change Course in Iraq - washingtonpost.com. The probable reality is that they are considering changes; of rhetoric prior to the election, smoothing abrasive edges of their line that may be causing their own constituency to fall away. There will be more involved changes down the line, of tactics which can now affect little, of strategy and intent only as the debate forces their hand. All this with the recommendations by the Baker commission released after the election providing political cover. This occurring amidst political and policy tensions that something, some new direction happen now as people - American soldiers - die in a war that is quickly becoming untenable for any positive outcome. The Baker commission is likely to lay out withdrawal perhaps after a brief period of significantly raised troop levels designed to "stabilize" the situation
Bush to Iraqis: you take over - Sunday Times - Times Online. Senator Biden is rehearsing the feasibility of partition. My guess is that the next year will see Kurdistan essentially break away. Local or home rule for regions which are largely of either predominately Shiite or Sunni population, and a carefully balanced federalization of the remaining areas - such as metropolitan Baghdad. Our allies will have wait for the memo:
BBC NEWS | Politics | Re-defining Iraq ambitions. None of the groups in Iraq's plurality are unaware of Iraq's mineral wealth, and are probably aware that in the end a bargain for the division of that wealth will be easier than a division of the ground it lies under. This is a thing only they can decide for themselves.
10:10:59 PM  ;;
|
