Every blog you make....

Gretchen has a topic that I think most bloggers need to consider before posting tons of personal information on their blogs.
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Nuclear over nukular

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who goes NUCLEAR when Bush mangles the word.
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Template not updating

For some reason updates to my template from w.bloggar and on blogger.com are not getting pushed to the servers.
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Dubya's Press Conference

Between work and life, its taken me all day to be able to post about the President's "News Conference".

I'm not sure how many Presidential press conference I have watched, buty I know its been quite a few. This is the first one by George W. Bush that I've watched. All that said, this press conference was a bit bizzare. Not seeing Helen Thomas asking questions was afirst. As far as I could tell she wasn't even in the room. Not a huge surprise, considering Helen's opinion of the President.

I don't remember ever seeing a President having a list of reporters to call on and the order in which they would be called. From my what I remember reporters raise their hands and then get called on, in a seemingly random order. This "scripted" (Bush's word, not mine) format looks like a stage show. It begs the question, was the entire conference scripted?

As for content, I was extreamly disapointed. After all the rumors flying around about Osama's possible capture, I was hoping for an announcement. When that didn't come within the first few minutes, I figured, ok that was just rumormongering from the press. The problem was that Bush said absolutely nothing new. He wants to avoid war, but he will go to war if needed. He wants Saddam gone, and considers him a threat to our country. It is his job to protect this country. And he wants to avoid war. Remember 9/11. And he wants to avoid war. Remember 9/11. Nothing we hadn't heard before. No line in the sand, no deadline, no rallying call to the country, nothing. Not even some cool satellite pictures. And no evidence to link Saddam with 9/11. Same old rhetoric we've been listening to for the last six months.

As for Bush's delivery, it was as lifeless and dull as I've come to expect from him. Some columnists had serious concerns about why the delivery was as distracted and poor as it was.

Over all a very dissapointing speech to a country on the brink of war.
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Whistle blows again

An open letter to FBI Director Robert Muller from Special Agent Coleen Rowley , the agent who blew the whistle on the FBI's failures pre 9/11.

She makes some really good points in the letter, including the difficulty that FBI agents in Europe will face if diplomatic relationships go down the tubes. She also calls into question the value of heightened terrorist alerts andof the round up of imigrants post 9/11.

As a self described "conservative on legal and policy issues regarding law enforcement", her opinions should carry some weight with those that dismiss any concerns about the potential fallout, usefullness and validity of a war with Iraq.
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Office 2003 Beta released Monday

Microsoft's Office 2003 will be released Monday. I am actually looking forward to seeing the new XML features and OneNote. Since I am one of the few people who thought Office XP was half way decent upgrade that's not a big surprise. But two updates in as many years is a bit much for wallets to handle. It would be nice if Microsoft offered some of the XML functionality the've been promising in this version as add ins to XP. But if they did that, they wouldn't be Microsoft, would they?
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Big Brother's Big Brother

The Nation reports on new legislation proposal that was leaked out of the White House. The Domestic Security Enhancement Act would go even further than the Patriot Act in reducing civil rights in this country. Under this proposal, even citizens would be punished for associating with groups who's activities, even if lawful are deemed as "terrorist" by Ashcroft and company.
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Trekkie Personality

Gretchen Pirillo has a link to a Star Trek personality quiz.
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