I haven’t written for a long time, the intertwined tendrils of life stopping me updating. I have many things to catch up on. First off, I missed writing about the retraction by The Guardian on the suggestion that Straw and Powell had a skeptical meeting over WMD evidence. The whole affair seems quite strange in that the retraction seems incomplete, and Straw’s denials were not related to the piece; as usual The Lincoln Plawg has much to say on the issue.
Secondly, an interesting poll by PIPA on US citizens perceptions after the war show that over a third of them thought the US had already found WMD!!! And 22% had believed that the Iraqis has used biological/chemical weapons during the war. Nice to see US citizens keeping well informed on the ‘true’ state of affairs (i.e. those dictated by official Government positions). The author of the poll “(see the questions here)”:http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Iraq/Iraqqaire_5_03.pdf suggests people ” desire to reduce cognitive dissonance “ over the whole contentious issue, and is is so nice to see citizens dumbing down to make the Governments hard work spinning wars so much easier.
I bet you’re playing on a PC. I just had a quick look at your weblog and various CSS examples, only to discover that most of your examples are not working under a Macintosh OS.
So Safari, Explorer, Camino (Mozilla ?) and the likes have problems with your design. Not allways, but often. Especially with the blog in fact.
Hope you’ll find a way to fix any of these problems for the rest of us ;)
Posted by Romain at July 28, 2003 04:27 AM