1st July 2005

Comment system

I got rid of Haloscan. This has some ups, some downs. I installed instead a hack by this guy named Ebenezer Orthodoxy called Metempsychosis, which lets you post comments without having to sign in. Looks okay, except it sends you to an ugly, ugly Blogger “comments post-mortem” page, reminding us that Blogger continues to suck. Why, Google, why? Why do you shit on us in this way when everything else you do is so good? Also, all your brilliant, brilliant Haloscan comments are gone, until such time as I can figure out how to convert them over.

On the other hand, Haloscan is pretty irritating, and unlike Blogger it will kill your comments after about four months. Which is no fun.

Not sure which is better…

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1st July 2005

Oh god

Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.

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1st July 2005

Where has all the money gone?

This article in the London Review of Books, on the misappropriation/mishandling/theft of funds in Iraq by American contractors and government agents, is neither a review, London-centric, nor bibliophilic in any way whatsoever. However, if people are going to stray from their mandate, this is a good way to do it. Excellent and thoroughly shocking article, with lots of dirt on the company everyone loves to hate, Halliburton.*

* I remember a time not long back when the company everyone loved to hate was Monsanto (now a subsidiary of Pharmacia). Ah, those were the days…

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