Iraqi sovereignty handover completed this morning, two days early

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"CNN.com - Iraq handover of sovereignty
completed - Jun 28, 2004"

"CNN.com - Iraq handover of sovereignty
completed - Jun 28, 2004" 06/28/2004 08:27 AM

Handover Completed Early to Thwart
Attacks, Officials Say

Handover Completed Early to Thwart
Attacks, Officials Say 06/28/2004 03:39 AM
Sovereignty was handed to an Iraqi interim government in Baghdad this morning, two days earlier than expected.

"the so-called handover of sovereignty "

"the so-called handover of sovereignty " 06/21/2004 04:14 AM

Iraq Sovereignty Handover Seen as
Largely Symbolic

Iraq Sovereignty Handover Seen as
Largely Symbolic 04/14/2004 09:23 PM
Reuters via Wired News Apr 15 2004 1:15AM GMT

Iraq Sovereignty Handover Seen as
Largely Symbolic (Reuters)

Iraq Sovereignty Handover Seen as
Largely Symbolic (Reuters) 04/14/2004 05:07 PM
Reuters - Iraq will have no control over its foreign policy nor over its troops when the United States hands over sovereignty on June 30 and will therefore have little say about its own future, analysts said.

Oak Ridge tank cleanup completed early,
under budget

Oak Ridge tank cleanup completed early,
under budget 03/26/2005 05:36 AM
Oak Ridge tank cleanup completed early, under budget

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Violence Breaks Out Days Before Shift of
Sovereignty to Iraqis

Violence Breaks Out Days Before Shift of
Sovereignty to Iraqis 06/24/2004 09:34 AM
The attacks, which killed at least 66 people, were an indication that the insurgency was intensifying to try to derail or disrupt the handover on June 30.

Iraqi Sovereignty Won't Extend to the
Web

Iraqi Sovereignty Won't Extend to the
Web 06/26/2004 10:18 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Jun 27 2004 2:05AM GMT

U.S. Transfers Sovereignty to Iraqi
Govt. (AP)

U.S. Transfers Sovereignty to Iraqi
Govt. (AP) 06/28/2004 03:38 AM
AP - The U.S.-led coalition transferred sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government Monday, speeding up the move by two days in an apparent bid to surprise insurgents who may have tried to sabotage the step toward self rule.

UN Council, U.S. Try to Define Iraqi
Sovereignty

UN Council, U.S. Try to Define Iraqi
Sovereignty 05/21/2004 09:54 PM
Reuters via Wired News May 22 2004 2:02AM GMT

Iraqi Sovereignty Won't Extend Online
(AP)

Iraqi Sovereignty Won't Extend Online
(AP) 06/25/2004 10:06 AM
AP - When an interim government takes over from the U.S.-led occupation next week, Iraq will regain its place among the world's sovereign nations — except on the Internet.

Iraqi sovereignty, meet Vietnamization

Iraqi sovereignty, meet Vietnamization 06/30/2004 01:32 AM
Today's news accounts of the surprise and clandestine handover of sovereignty in Iraq yesterday -- in particular, David Sanger's excellent New York Times analysis, which dispassionately laid out how tenuous the whole affair was -- left me with a depressing sense of deja vu. Sanger quoted Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's comparison of the Iraqi insurgents' attacks with the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive. Rumsfeld was arguing that the Iraqis, like the North Vietnamese, are aiming their attacks as much or more at American resolve as at targets in their homeland.

But the Vietnam comparison that is more apt today is the sorry saga of "Vietnamization." Cast your mind back to the Nixon administration's desperate efforts, even as its timbers were beginning to splinter on the Watergate iceberg, to extricate American troops from their no-win deployment in Southeast Asia. The "peace with honor" policy involved handing power over to a hand-picked government friendly to U.S. interests but unloved by its own people, and replacing American military forces with native troops, regardless of their combat-readiness or willingness to fight.

Does this movie sound familiar? The echoes of "Vietnamization" in the Bush administration's Iraq strategy are eerie -- and terrifying, because Vietnamization was an utter and total failure, one that everyone involved pretty much knew was inevitable, but that proceeded because it was the only fig leaf handy to cover an embarrassing strategic defeat for the United States. As in Vietnam, so in Iraq: The U.S. military can "win the battle" (as we "won" the Tet offensive), but if the leaders in Washington haven't identified clear, realistic goals, there is no way to win the war. (Hint: just as "terror" is not an enemy you can target, "freedom" is not a government you can support.)

The Vietnam adventure was cursed because the South Vietnamese government it sought to preserve was corrupt and unpopular. It didn't matter that the North Vietnamese were Communist despots if enough people in Vietnam perceived them to be nationalists taking on the imperialist U.S. Similarly, in Iraq, it won't matter that the insurgents are actually murderous Baathist thugs or suicidal Islamic fanatics if enough Iraqis think that they're nationalists taking on the imperialist U.S.

Handing power over to a weak and compromised interim government seems less a promising strategy than an election-year desperation move. With Americans still dying every day in Iraq, we have no choice -- Bush supporters and opponents alike -- but to hope and pray that it works. Unfortunately, it seems much more likely that Bush and Rumsfeld and Cheney (the latter two of whom had ringside Beltway seats for Vietnamization the first time around) have marched themselves straight into Santayana hell, where they are doomed to repeat the United States' worst mistakes.

Iraqi sovereignty won't extend online

Iraqi sovereignty won't extend online 06/24/2004 06:12 PM
SiliconValley.com Jun 24 2004 9:08PM GMT

News of early Iraq Power handover broken
by a bl0g

News of early Iraq Power handover broken
by a bl0g 06/28/2004 11:35 AM
Biggest story ever broken by a blog? It appears that blogger/BBC News correspondent/ landmine survivor Stuart Hughes was first to break news of the early handover of authority in Iraq today, on his weblog. Link. Hughes was in Istanbul at the Bush/Blair press conference after that, and filed live text and audblog coverage here: Link

"sovereignty of Iraq has been
transferred to the Iraqi people"

"sovereignty of Iraq has been
transferred to the Iraqi people" 06/28/2004 02:58 PM

UN Council, U.S. Try to Define Iraqi
Sovereignty (Reuters)

UN Council, U.S. Try to Define Iraqi
Sovereignty (Reuters) 05/21/2004 06:51 PM
Reuters - The United States and Britain want a new U.N. resolution to call for full sovereignty in Iraq but have not agreed to a firm date for foreign forces to leave the country, diplomats said on Friday.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Off to UN, Seeks
Sovereignty

Iraqi Foreign Minister Off to UN, Seeks
Sovereignty 06/01/2004 01:05 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jun 1 2004 4:57AM GMT

"Early morning RSS rants"

"Early morning RSS rants" 12/15/2003 10:29 PM

Early morning RSS rants

Early morning RSS rants 12/09/2003 10:57 AM

RSS clearly is about to go through another growth spurt. And as with each other time its eclipsed its former self there are people who seem to want to take control, redefine it in some bizarre and undignified way. If people would first study the history of RSS and see how much it has suffered from this kind of greed, perhaps they'd back off and just be grateful that there's new technology that makes the Internet much more useful, and leave it at that. (They usually say their ignorance is their strength, btw.)

The name RSS is every bit as good as any other name you can come up with, and it has the advantage that it's the name everyone uses. Read a marketing text book. It doesn't matter what it's called, rather that it means something in lots of brains. Trying to make a new name stick will only make the whole thing weaker.

For example, imagine falling in love with someone. "You're the perfect person for me," you say. "But your name doesn't communicate who you are. Let's have a contest to come up with a new name for you." Now, how clueless would that be?

One more thing. There's a myth going around that there is a way to do publish-subscribe without polling. Not true. At some level, every apparently non-polling technology is built on, you guessed it, polling. It's all just an illusion. Computers don't really do interrupts. At some level it's polling.

Now, should an aggregator be polling every 30 minutes? The convention early on was no more than once an hour. But newer aggregators either never heard of the convention or chose to ignore it. Some aggregators let the users scan whenever they want. Please don't do that. Once an hour is enough. Otherwise bandwidth bills won't scale. Further, there are good ways to optimize this stuff, but that would require cooperation among members of the community. And this community is well-known for not cooperating with each other. We let a small number of people fillibuster the mail lists, people who don't produce software on either end of the RSS equation, and thereby progress happens in very small steps if it ever happens at all.

Net-net, it's good that users are taking an interest in RSS. But it's bad that they're behaving just as the geeks did, selfishly, in a controlling way, fighting over things that were decided a long time ago. Human nature comes along for the ride with us on our journey to more effective communication tools. Can people see the big picture and let good stuff like RSS rise to the top without pulling it down? I've become a pessimist over the years, I think they can't help themselves. So it's a miracle something new happened. Enjoy it while you can.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Off to UN, Seeks
Sovereignty (Reuters)

Iraqi Foreign Minister Off to UN, Seeks
Sovereignty (Reuters) 06/01/2004 01:01 AM
Reuters - Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari will head to New York on Tuesday to press for his country to be granted "full sovereignty" in a new United Nations resolution, a senior ministry official told Reuters.

Roogle Early Morning Update

Roogle Early Morning Update 03/11/2003 09:43 AM

Roogle Early Morning Update

I woke early with sugarplums dancing in my head ... Wait?  I missed Christmas?  Oh that's right I woke up with visions of Roogle metadata (# of queries, top ten queries, etc) in my head.  This is a great suggestion from Brent at Net News Wire and will be done later this morning.  Hm... Since I have my iBook again, I'm thinking I should download it and give it a try.  Everyone seems to love it.

What's new right is self service adding of your own blog!  Just go here and fill out the form and you're in.  Don't worry about whether or not you're in there already -- each RSS url is validated to only exist ONCE in the database and the blog url and RSS url are validated to actually exist on the net as readable URLs before they are accepted.

Note: If you emailed me about being added, no need to fill out the form again, I'll take care of it.

Winer's Early Morning RSS Rants

Winer's Early Morning RSS Rants 12/30/2003 12:07 AM

Dave Winer ra nts about RSS.

Iraqi handover 'brought forward'

Iraqi handover 'brought forward' 06/28/2004 01:58 AM
The handover of power in Iraq is being brought forward from 30 June to Monday, the foreign minister says.

Tele2 increases prices for early morning
calls

Tele2 increases prices for early morning
calls 03/31/2005 09:37 AM
Why pay more?

Bush: Iraqi Handover Fixed, Willing to
Add Troops (Reuters)

Bush: Iraqi Handover Fixed, Willing to
Add Troops (Reuters) 04/13/2004 09:04 PM
Reuters - President Bush on Tuesday ruled out delaying a handover of Iraqi sovereignty and said he was willing to grant a Pentagon request for more troops to defend Iraq against what he called a "power grab by extremists."

Bremer: U.S. Awaiting U.N. Plan for
Iraqi Handover (Reuters)

Bremer: U.S. Awaiting U.N. Plan for
Iraqi Handover (Reuters) 02/15/2004 09:23 AM
Reuters - The U.S. administrator in Iraq said on Sunday the United States was awaiting a U.N. recommendation for the handover of sovereignty, still insisting it take place by June 30 as President Bush has demanded.

Iraqi Governing Council Debates Handover
Options (Reuters)

Iraqi Governing Council Debates Handover
Options (Reuters) 02/16/2004 04:46 AM
Reuters - With early elections looking increasingly unlikely, members of Iraq's U.S.-appointed Governing Council began a debate on Monday on other ways of securing the handover of power from the Americans.

The Early Days of Hearing

The Early Days of Hearing 06/21/2004 08:23 PM
For those who study human evolution, the thinking is that the sensitivity range of human ears is related to the rise of spoken language.

Eclipse RCP: The Early Days

Eclipse RCP: The Early Days 07/05/2004 09:01 PM

I played with Eclipse 3.0's new RCP (Rich Client Platform) support which allows you to build client software using the same engine that drives Eclipse 3.0 IDE.  While one could have build a client using just SWT, RCP allows you to reuse many of the Eclipse plugins in your application.

In essence, RCP allows you to easily repackage Eclipse 3.0 IDE such that it only has the features you want presented in the way you want.  Dependencies between plugins will complicate and bloat your RCP application, but I am expecting many RCP-ready plugins to be available soon so this is not a big problem.

The big problem, for now, is the lack of RCP tools and documentations.  Eclipse 3.0 has very little built-in tools to help you create RCP applications.  For example, Export Plugins feature to export a test RCP app but it didn't automatically include the necessary plugins.  So I had to write an Ant script to do that.  But then my sighs of annoyance turned to urghs of disgust when Eclipse deleted the Ant file when I ran the Export Plugins again.

I had a lot of trouble running and debugging the RCP app too.  I followed the instructions in the RCP tutorial exactly, but the startup code kept complaining that it couldn't find the application.  Looks like I'll have to dig into the plugin startup code and understand it more throughly.

In conclusion, I think RCP is wonderful but it's still a bit early.  Wait a few more months before diving in unless you can't afford to wait.

Sovreign Iraq, two days early

Sovreign Iraq, two days early 06/28/2004 03:26 AM
It' s all yours, boys. The US just announced the handover of sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government, two days early. Paul Bremer has said that he'll be leaving the country soon. Is this truly the beginning of an independent Iraq, or is it simply making way for John Negroponte to be in charge?

The heady days of early Comdex

The heady days of early Comdex 07/05/2004 04:32 AM
Seattle Times Jul 5 2004 8:37AM GMT

Panel: Still Early Days for Local Search

Panel: Still Early Days for Local Search 07/30/2004 01:40 PM
Source: DMNews.com - One problem of local search is that nearly two-thirds of U.S. small businesses have no Web site. While Overture hopes to entice them to advertise anyway through its business locator page, some see hope in new innovations...

Early Days Of a Data-Sharing Revolution

Early Days Of a Data-Sharing Revolution 12/11/2003 07:16 PM
Later this month, the maker of Grokker search software plans to release a Google plug-in granting access to Google's Web index through Grokker, so people can ...

U.S. Hands Power to Iraqis Two Days
Early (AP)

U.S. Hands Power to Iraqis Two Days
Early (AP) 06/28/2004 07:45 PM
AP - Iraq's new leaders reclaimed their nation two days early, accepting limited power Monday from U.S. occupiers, who wished them prosperity and handed them a staggering slate of problems — including a lethal insurgency the Americans admit they underestimated.

President of Iraqi Governing Council
assassinated, six weeks before scheduled
handover of power to new government

President of Iraqi Governing Council
assassinated, six weeks before scheduled
handover of power to new government 05/18/2004 02:54 AM
IZZEDINE SALIM .. efforts

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Iraq Formally Returned to Self-Rule Two
Days Early

Iraq Formally Returned to Self-Rule Two
Days Early 06/28/2004 03:29 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jun 28 2004 7:34AM GMT

Yahoo co-founder Filo muses on the early
days

Yahoo co-founder Filo muses on the early
days 12/03/2003 04:53 PM
A handful of the portal's top executives, including David Filo, make a rare appearance to lend insight about how Yahoo built a trusted, known-the-world-over brand within the last 9 years.

U.S. Hands Authority To Iraq Two Days
Early (washingtonpost.com)

U.S. Hands Authority To Iraq Two Days
Early (washingtonpost.com) 06/28/2004 11:10 PM
washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, June 28 -- The United States transferred political authority to an interim Iraqi government in a five-minute surprise ceremony Monday morning, accelerating the planned handover by two days in an effort to avoid attacks by insurgents thought to be plotting to mar the event.

U.S. Formally Hands Iraq Self-Rule Two
Days Early (Reuters)

U.S. Formally Hands Iraq Self-Rule Two
Days Early (Reuters) 06/28/2004 09:44 PM
Reuters - An Arabic television station broadcast a video tape showing what militants said was the execution of a U.S. soldier, hours after the United States formally handed sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government.
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