Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Returned
I have returned to the blogosphere, more soon.
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Blog Party
Hope to see you all there – I should get there for about 5pm… Market Bar Fade Street Dublin
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On grieving
A fellow blogger has lost a friend – nothing I can add.
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Posting hiatus
Posts will be light over the coming days…and should return to normal after the blog do on Saturday!
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Irish Bloggers Party…
I am not sure how well publicised this event is, but following the comments received it seems best to go for the 15th. Unfortunately this means that Mick, Barry and Treasa will not be there – but I hope blog get togethers like this become more frequent than bi-annual. As for venue I suggest the…
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MT 3.14
I spent the evening having a good look round a test installation of Movable Type 3.14. It is a much cleaner version than 2.661, and seems to have much better features. WordPress meanwhile is on its way from 1.2.2 to 1.5.
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Vintage Wolfowitz
Kevin Drum points to some statements Paul Wolfowitz made in the lead up to the war in Iraq. Among them: Mr. Wolfowitz…opened a two-front war of words on Capitol Hill, calling the recent estimate by Gen. Eric K. Shinseki of the Army that several hundred thousand troops would be needed in postwar Iraq, “wildly off…
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Fighting the Wrong War
Fred Kagan in the Weekly Standard on why Rumsfeld must go: With more troops in Iraq during and immediately after the war, we would have been able to do the following things that we did not do: * Capture or kill thousands of Iraqi soldiers who were at that time still concentrated in combat units…
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So you want to influence public opinion…
Dan Drezner has a break down of the publications that influence opinion…Foreign Affairs tops the poll. I always enjoy reading it, though the cover price is a bit steep. The top 10 are: Foreign Affairs CQ Weekly The New York Times The Wall Street Journal The Economist Harvard Business Review The Washington Post The New…
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Friedman on Iraq
[via Insta} Tom Friedman answers my questions about Iraqis getting plain tired of terrorism. It needs to be clear that these so-called insurgents are not fighting to liberate Iraq from America, but rather to reassert the tyranny of a Sunni-Baathist minority over the majority there. The insurgents are clearly desperate that they not be cast…
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