Hell no

A friend asked me today if I thought that the anti-war protests will cause any sort of change. I replied that I don't think they'll directly result in any policy change, but I believe they do work in subtle ways... despite the fact that subtlety is the last thing on the protesters' minds. Now that I see this, I think it's kind of neat.

Meanwhile, I do not think that the line between visible activism and DUH DUH LOOKIT MEEEEE-style protest is actually very fine. I am glad that the protesters on my own coast have so far kept to the former variety. The other sort pisses me off, really, just to read about it.

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As I enter deeper into media addiction, I have found a page containing regularly updated war report summaries from the AP.

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I have started to post things to my O'Reilly weblog again. I have a whole backlog of little things I'd like to put there, but thought I'd start off with a link to Salam Pax, to whom James Lileks, William Gibson, jadelennox and queue all pointed recently. But no other O'Reilly-bloggers have, so I say scoop, scoop, neener neener And now I see that Pax hasn't updated in about half a day and already I mind myself a little worried.

If you have a syndication point to spare, you can follow all the ORA-bloggers' posts at once via oreillyweblog. If you really want to, I suppose you can set up a syndication channel just for my feed, but I'm not gonna do that.

My first thought, too

UK concerned about American flag-raising

Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon promised to discuss the issue with US officials after a lawmaker complained that a reported flag-raising by US marines in southern Iraq "sends out an unfortunate signal about the nature of the operation."

"I think it would be singularly unfortunate if the Stars and Stripes, for example, was to be planted over the parliament building in Baghdad at a future stage of these operations," said opposition Conservative lawmaker Crispin Blunt, a retired army officer.

A personal journey of discovery

I think at one time I was hesitant to go downstairs to the Friday afternoon "happy hour" every week for only so long as it took to pick up a beer, open it, and return to my cube.

But I guess I'm not anymore.

Egoboo

My link to Pax's blog is oreillynet's weblog OTD, so now everyone gets to see my (circa 1998) photo on the front page again.

Yum yum egoboo. I will stop posting about these in the future, assuming I can manage to blog more than one thing a year.

Update For certain values of "D"; it's some other guy now.