Month: August 2008
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Pray for rain?
Remember this guy? He wanted it to rain for Obama’s open air speech on Thursday. It didn’t happen, in fact it was a gorgeous evening. He later claimed it was only meant in jest. But the GOP must now change plans for their convention, not because of rain, but because of a hurricane of biblical…
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Wordle in print
I convinced the powers that be in the Irish Examiner that a wordle cloud would make a good graphic to go along with Barack Obama’s speech. It will feature in tomorrow’s paper. I’ve not seen Wordle used in an Irish paper yet, but since I don’t look at print newspapers that much (I read them…
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Who started it?
Kirsty Wark is still using the line that Saakashvili himself started the war. At the very least, we do not know who started the conflict on August 7/8, and for the BBC to assume that they do is unprofessional. There are various accounts of who started the conflict, most recently from Michael Totten in Georgia,…
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Travel plans
I’ve been working hard to prepare for a significant amount of traveling in the coming months. I have pretty much finalised my timelines, with all flights booked and accommodation sorted. Blogging, in a variety of forms, will be as regular as circumstances allow. I should warn everyone that I will be playing with and testing…
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Clinton speech in Wordle
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Vice President Joe Biden
It’s looking like an Obama/Biden ticket. Steve has called it. I was impressed with Joe Biden’s speech back in 2005 at a conference I attended in Washington. I blogged a little about the conference here. You can watch videos from the conference here. You can also watch Biden’s speech here. I guess we can expect…
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Cat update
I don’t know what our Polish neighbours call their cat, so he is just referred to as the Polish cat. He is, shall we say, not ‘friends’ with my own cat, Mr Puds. I have never seen them fight, but I have heard them. And Puds has limped home a few times. So I wondered…
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Obama back in the day
Cian points to a video of Obama dug up from 1995. In 2004 this wouldn’t have happened in the same way, YouTube has changed the dynamic. Part I Part II Part III
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Bill Hicks movie
Finally. But who will play the lead role? Comedycentral makes a stab at it. Punchline are saying Russell Crowe is up for it. Here is my humble Bill Hicks transcript that I put up in 2002. It still gets regular visits and referrals. The red bits were cut out of the video release, I transcribed…
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Russia revises Ossetia death toll
Surprise surprise. I, along with many others, indicated recently that the alleged death tolls as high as 2,500 put forward by Russia were entirely without a basis in fact. Now, according to the BBC: Russia has issued new, reduced casualty figures for the Georgian conflict, with 133 civilians now listed as dead in the disputed…