Post-War Reconstruction
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U.S. Contractors Reap the Windfalls of
Post-war Reconstruction
U.S. Contractors Reap the Windfalls of
Post-war Reconstruction
10/30/2003 11:31 PMfantastic returns being paid on campaign donations .. Center for
Public Integrity study
publicintegrity.org/wow
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Web Page Reconstruction with CSS
Web Page Reconstruction with CSS
07/11/2002 01:06 PMContemporary CSS methods do win a victory in a head-to-head match
based on file sizes. But more importantly, using CSS for pure
presentation allows the removal of all spacer GIFs, HTML tables, and a
total of 31 images! The benefits of dropping those methods are sizable
savings by themselves. Couple these savings with the added bonus of
valid markup that will work in standards compliant Web devices, and
it's very clear that CSS is the way to go.
-- By Christopher Schmitt
A few days ago, we had Top Ten
Web Performance Tuning Tips where Patrick Killelea said that one
of the things slowing down the web is style sheets. Who's right?
"zeldman.cico"
Outsourcing the reconstruction
Outsourcing the reconstruction
07/01/2004 02:17 PM
Outsourcing comes to Iraq. Interesting article from the WP
(login req'd, get one
here) about workers from countries such as India and South
Korea, subcontracted by American companies, notably the ever-infamous
Halliburtun. Effectively turned into indentured servants, these
workers not only endure work conditions that American workers would
never tolerate, but they do it in a war zone.
"Rep. Janice D.
Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said contractors' use of multiple layers of
subcontracts makes it difficult for the U.S. government to ensure the
fair treatment of the workers it effectively employs." Fables of the Iraqi reconstruction
Fables of the Iraqi reconstruction
04/21/2004 11:27 AMRice: U.S. to Aid in Gaza Reconstruction
(AP)
Rice: U.S. to Aid in Gaza Reconstruction
(AP)
04/06/2005 05:28 AMAP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the Bush administration
will be helpful in the reconstruction of Gaza after Israel withdraws,
but she is not ready to commit the United States to specifics in a
project Israel estimates will cost it $1 billion.
Iraqi Reconstruction Contracts
Iraqi Reconstruction Contracts
12/09/2003 09:44 PM Iraq Reconstruction Contracts Limited To Coalition
Countries In a
Determination &
Findings[pdf] document dated Dec. 5, the
Administration outlines why it is "essential" to national
security to limit New-Texas reconstruction contracts to companies
based in pro-iraq-war countries. As expected, the terrorist-led
corporations of Canada, Germany, France, Russian and China are not
allowed to bid. (Despite years of previous work in Iraq for many of
these companies). Hello Halliburton, goodbye Schlumberger. Mr
Bush,
is
this uniting or dividing?
"Here's the link to the computer
reconstruction."
"Here's the link to the computer
reconstruction."
12/03/2003 04:08 AMBut you sure as hell ain't getting no
reconstruction contracts
But you sure as hell ain't getting no
reconstruction contracts
12/10/2003 08:02 AMU.S. Bars Iraq Contracts for Nations That Opposed War .. bar France,
Germany and Russia from contracts .. new world orders .. best
decisions .. GOOD IDEA .. Up
yours
nytimes.com/2003/12/09/international/middleeast/09CND-DIPL.htm
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Reports pan Iraq reconstruction
(USATODAY.com)
Reports pan Iraq reconstruction
(USATODAY.com)
09/09/2004 09:08 AMUSATODAY.com - Detailed new reports by two independent groups offer a
devastating portrait of the 16-month-old U.S. reconstruction effort in
Iraq, blaming ongoing violence there in large part on misplaced U.S.
priorities, bureaucratic bungling and poor planning.
AFH launches Sumatra reconstruction fund
AFH launches Sumatra reconstruction fund
12/27/2004 03:36 PM
Xeni Jardin:
Cameron Sinclair from
Architecture for
Humanity says, "We've set up a reconstruction fund specifically to
deal with rebuilding issues. As with all our disaster relief
operations we are commited to zero overhead/admin. costs. All
services are being donated pro-bono and we are partnering with locally
based NGO's that will use locals in the rebuilding process."
Link
Previous BB posts related to blog coverage of the Asian quake and
tsunami:
Link 1,
Link 2,
Link 3, Lin
k 4,
Link 5,
Link 6.
U.S. Pledges $400 Mln for Cyprus
Reconstruction (Reuters)
U.S. Pledges $400 Mln for Cyprus
Reconstruction (Reuters)
04/15/2004 03:48 AMReuters - The United States pledged $400 million
on Thursday to help rebuild a reunited Cyprus if both
communities on the divided east Mediterranean island vote next
week to approve a U.N. peace plan.
Stereo Reconstruction from Image Pairs
Stereo Reconstruction from Image Pairs
04/30/2004 11:58 AMMars Rover Stereo Reconstruction
Advocates of War Now Profit From Iraq's
Reconstruction 7/15
Advocates of War Now Profit From Iraq's
Reconstruction 7/15
07/15/2004 05:09 AMBLOOD MONEY: War can make you rich .. must-read
piece
latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-advocates14jul14,1,2
78590.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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Security Big Chunk of Reconstruction
Cash (AP)
Security Big Chunk of Reconstruction
Cash (AP)
04/25/2004 01:48 PMAP - Because of the surging violence, U.S.-financed contractors
rebuilding Iraq are spending a quarter of their money to protect
workers and insure their projects, according to American officials
monitoring the work.
Iraqis Protest Slow Reconstruction Pace
(AP)
Iraqis Protest Slow Reconstruction Pace
(AP)
01/11/2004 10:27 PMAP - Impatience with Iraq's occupying forces boiled over Sunday as
unemployed Iraqis pelted British troops with stones and a top Shiite
Muslim cleric demanded the country's next parliament be elected —
a position at odds with American plans.
World Bank warns on Iraq reconstruction
World Bank warns on Iraq reconstruction
05/18/2004 07:35 PMThe World Bank warns that the recent violence in Iraq is jeopardising
the chances of rebuilding the country.
U.S. May Shift Iraq Reconstruction Funds
to Security (Reuters)
U.S. May Shift Iraq Reconstruction Funds
to Security (Reuters)
08/30/2004 03:19 PMReuters - The U.S. envoy to Iraq wants to
shift $3.3 billion set aside for Iraqi water, sewer, power and
other reconstruction projects to improve security, boost oil
output and create jobs, a U.S. official said on Monday.
New Low Price Microtek Scanner Offers
Photo Reconstruction
New Low Price Microtek Scanner Offers
Photo Reconstruction
05/31/2004 02:00 PMThe Microtek ScanMaker i320 scanner incorporates both Kodak's DIGITAL
ICE technology Microtek's ColoRescue photo reconstruction systems
states Craig Crossman host of The Computer America Radio Show and
syndicated newspaper columnist. [PRWEB May 30, 2004]
Blowback: The Cost And Consequences of
American Empire plus War And Conflict In
The Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era
Blowback: The Cost And Consequences of
American Empire plus War And Conflict In
The Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era
03/13/2003 10:25 AM Chalmers
Johnson is an provocative proponent of the
American Empire
theory, indeed. Here are excerpts from his
Blow Back: The Cost
And Consequences of American EmpireI heard Johnson
interviewed on Episode II,
War And Conflict In The Post-Cold War,
Post-9/11 Era of
The Whole Wide World
The Cold War and its central conflict - the physical and
ideological battles between the United States, the Soviet Union and
their proxy states - imposed a certain logic and consistency on the
world. Take that away and add the bloody wars in the Balkans, Africa
and the Middle East in the ‘90s as well as the terror attacks and
warnings of more recent times and you get a very confused picture of a
world at war. Is this breaking storm in Iraq about oil, democracy,
freedom, empire, culture, water, diamonds, modernizing Islam or nation
building in the Middle East? Some, one or all of these
things?It was an excellent program and well worth your
listen, either by RA now or mp3 later.
(From listening to the
radio) Belarus post to install public internet
access terminals in village post offices
Belarus post to install public internet
access terminals in village post offices
04/09/2005 05:19 AMDMeurope.com Apr 9 2005 9:28AM GMT
failing to do anything to unite the
Iraqi people behind the American plans
for reconstruction
failing to do anything to unite the
Iraqi people behind the American plans
for reconstruction
11/10/2003 11:36 PMAlternatives to Iraqi Council
Eyed
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17199-2003Nov8.html
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The Village Voice: Features: Fables of
the Reconstruction by Jason Vest
The Village Voice: Features: Fables of
the Reconstruction by Jason Vest
04/20/2004 10:01 PM“Fables of Reconstruction” .. by Jason Vest .. going
poorly .. anymore
villagevoice.com/issues/0416/vest.php
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By accessing, browsing and/or using this
post, you acknowledge that you
understand and agree not to complain
about the content of this post or the
character of its author and his
intellect.
By accessing, browsing and/or using this
post, you acknowledge that you
understand and agree not to complain
about the content of this post or the
character of its author and his
intellect.
09/01/2004 11:08 PM
Fruity "Fables of the Reconstruction - Bush
isn't really favoring Halliburton and
Bechtel. By Daniel Drezner "
"Fables of the Reconstruction - Bush
isn't really favoring Halliburton and
Bechtel. By Daniel Drezner "
11/05/2003 04:10 AMFables of the Reconstruction - Bush
isn't really favoring Halliburton and
Bechtel. By Daniel Drezner
Fables of the Reconstruction - Bush
isn't really favoring Halliburton and
Bechtel. By Daniel Drezner
11/04/2003 08:44 AMLies, Damned Lies and Statistics .. Fables of the Reconstruction ..
ARTICLE IN SLATE .. Daniel Drenzer .. investigates ..
Slate
slate.msn.com/id/2090636
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Kristol and Kagan against the Pentagon's
limiting reconstruction contracts to
countries that supported the war
Kristol and Kagan against the Pentagon's
limiting reconstruction contracts to
countries that supported the war
12/12/2003 07:58 AM(†) .. reversed ..
writes
weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/481yjx
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Timing gets out of whack when Pentagon
excludes France, Germany, and Russia
from Iraqi reconstruction bids, then
White House asks the same countries to
forgive Iraq debts
Timing gets out of whack when Pentagon
excludes France, Germany, and Russia
from Iraqi reconstruction bids, then
White House asks the same countries to
forgive Iraq debts
12/12/2003 06:52 AMBush Seeks Help of Allies Barred From Iraq Deals 12/12 .. the New York
Times
nytimes.com/2003/12/11/international/middleeast/11PREX.html
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this post at Command Post
this post at Command Post
12/14/2003 01:41 PMexcellent news roundup .. Saddam ..
CP
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This post has been ignored
This post has been ignored
06/05/2005 11:10 PMWith her new Aggregator 2.0, Jeneane is able to ignore up to 1,500
blog posts an hour......
"this post"
"this post"
02/10/2004 09:26 PMCan't add? Can't post.
Can't add? Can't post.
12/17/2004 06:28 PM
I've been taking a few pokes at attempting to fend off some of the
comment spam on my blog.
The first is obviously to turn off comments altogether, but I very
much enjoy the conversation some of my posts garner and find making
the channel one-way unacceptable.
The second is to go through occasionally and clean things up. I must
say that this option is getting rather tiresome rather quickly.
I know there are typekeys, logins, email confirmations, image
recognition, and other such methods, but I'm not overly fond of any of
them.
So, here I am noodling.
And I couldn't help coming back to something I've always been fond of:
maths. What if I were to raise the barrier to posting just ever so
slightly to ward off at least the dumber of the bots using a simple
addition problem? If you you're on the individual page for this post
or click the permalink (that's the
# if you're reading
this on my site proper), you'll notice I've added a simple
x + y
= to the bottom of my writeback form. The numbers are chosen at
random between 0 and 9 and "hidden" in variables x and y. Get the
addition problem wrong, and your post is rejected. The logic (such as
it is) is handled by a minor adjustment to my
Blosxom
writeback plugin.
I know this probably isn't some new idea (people have been talking
about this with respect to sending email, adding a calculation tax to
the sender's client and computer). But I put it out there as a first
prod and look forward to any feedback you might have.
Of course there are a couple of known issues right off the bat:
- This doesn't extend to trackbacks and thus I'm still wide open to
trackback spam. The only solution, should something useful be found
for comments, would be to build this into a trackback spec, but I
leave this as an exercise for further down the road.
- If this were to be baked into every Blosxom site or, indeed, every
blog, spammers would soon figure it out (it's not hard and they're not
as stupid as you'd hope they'd be), and the bots would learn a little
math. A couple of thoughts popped into my head around this:
- Use hashed variable names for x and y, the hash generated based
upon a site-/blog-specific key and some other bit of algorithmic
sugar, limited time use, and so forth.
- Employ a one-off to embed the two numbers in your page, post, or
URL. If in the post itself, call it out somehow that's obvious to
human readers.
But, as I said, this was more a pop than a proper noodle.
Again, this might have been thought of before, might simply be a
stupid idea, or might be sheer brilliance ;-) ... we shall see.
the one where i post about E3
the one where i post about E3
06/05/2005 10:54 PMThat sinus thing I had last week is trying very hard to move into my
chest. Im exhausted after being...
Post #4,000
Post #4,000
06/22/2005 01:56 AMWell, here we are at #4,000. This puts us just 1,000 posts away
from our stated goal of 5,000. Along with the 4,000 posts, we have
6,050 comments as of this writing, and that's very cool. We
appreciate all the interaction everyone has with the site.
Interestingly, we hit 2,500 posts exactly one year
ago today. That means our daily post count is about 4.1 (almost 6
without weekends). This means we'll hit 5,000 posts early next
spring, which is always what I figured. We'll have some contest or
something when that happens and hopefully give some stuff away.
So as long as we're celebrating a blog posting, here's a list of
some of the best and more interesting posts of the last 4,000:
Most Commented Posts
Both posts have had their comments shut down since. The Bill Gates
post was the first post I ever did this on — in fact, I had to
go look up the exact template tags to do it.
When this site was deanebarker.net, there was actually a post about
politics that got over 300 comments. (Although that's cool, about
every post at Rosie O'Donnell's
site gets over 300 comments — this one got
almost 2,000 comments, in fact. You see, that's the trick to getting
a lot of comments — become a famous lesbian.)
Longest Posts
- The Josh Clark interview, at over 5,000 words, is the longest. But
that doesn't really count, since I didn't write most of it.
- This article on Web usability that I wrote back in 2000 (and
published in 2003) is the next longest (read it with a grain of salt,
remembering it was written five years ago, which is 100 years ago in
Net time).
- Third place is the The Building of Basecamp Review.
Shortest Posts
Posts With the Most Prominent Links
Any one of those links mentioned is worth 5,000 page views,
easily.
My Favorite Posts
Most Glaring Example That The World Is Ending
Some of the comments on this post, easily. I mean, come on people — do I have to
spoon feed the sarcasm?
The Post Most Likely To Get Me Sued
I've been watching the comments on the Geek Squad
post pretty carefully. Nothing has gotten out of hand, and there's
a lot of good discussion going on, so I'm keeping my hands off for
now. However, it still makes me a little nervous.
Only Post I've Ever Been Threatened About
There were some comments on this post
about Convea that I was asked to take down under threat of "legal
action." I'm still bitter about it, but I wussed out and folded.
(Some long-time readers will remember that this site came down for
six weeks in early 2003 when I was threatened over another post, but
it was a completely different site back then, so that doesn't really
count. And I deserved that one.)
Posts That Bummed Me Out The Most
Two of them, actually — both pretty recent.
- The comments of th
is one about the new design
- The comments on thi
s one that accused me of tricking people into clicking on AdSense
links.
Both sucked, but they are what they are. People have every right
to express their opinions.
Most Pissed Off I've Been While Writing A Post
This one, about the comment spammer. That's also the
closest we've come to getting taken offline.
Post Containing the Most Hyperlinks
This one. There's 40 of them in here. Markdown
rules.
So, what's next? Some ideas for the future:
Ask Gadgetopia
I'd like to provide a place for readers to ask questions of the
community that's built-up around this site. Not specific "debug my
code" questions, but general questions about the best way to do
something. There's a lot of knowledge out there I know some people
would like to tap.
Reader Survey
We did a survey a long time ago. I'd like to do another one to find
out who's reading. Total vanity, but still.
Let's Give Stuff Away...
I'm getting an increasing number of people offering me review copies
of stuff (software, games, books...) in exchange for some publicity.
I've started asking for two copies: one for me to review, and one for
me to give away to someone. However, I can't figure out a good way to
give the stuff away.
Let's Go Somewhere...
I'd like to send Dave or Rob to MacWorld, or me or Joe on this PHP cruise. I'd need
to know, however, that we can provide some unique value. A lot of
sites send people to these things — can we provide something
different enough to make it worthwhile?
So, that's it. I'm sure I'll forget about post #4,500, so I'll see
you number 5,000. I'll be here — I hope you will too.
First Post!
First Post!
12/29/2003 11:55 PM"We’re just getting started here and we’ve got a few
things happening:
What the heck is this?
WiFiCharlottetown.org (this website) is all setup and should provide a
central resource for WiFiCharlottetown info and discussion.
Hardware is on the way! We have ordered a few Sputnik..." (100 words -
posted by steven) 7 replies
I first post, therefore I am
I first post, therefore I am
01/16/2004 11:05 AMePhilosopher. Slashdot got drunk with Sartre, and this is what
happened. I have a cold. I am not happy today....
First XML-RPC Post
First XML-RPC Post
12/01/2002 11:58 AMThis is my first post using my XML-RPC server. I hope it works because
if it does it'll be quite good for expansion.
"the post"
"the post"
05/12/2004 04:03 AMPost It!
Post It!
08/28/2004 04:25 AMSitting up late, chatting with Sifry about his DNC stories and
conventions and how to cover them and wondering if the real RNC story
might be
outside
the building, and reading the latest on war videography from a
moonlight
ing Salam Pax. My personal bet is that New York will be noisy but
nonviolent, both the demonstrators and the cops have too much to lose
by being scary on TV. Still, I bet there’s some first-rate theater
in the streets. So, here’s an idea. Go to Manhattan. Get yourself
a high-end PowerBook laptop with a bunch of batteries and a FireWire
and USB ports and enough WiFi service provider accounts that you’re
always online... then, print up a sandwich board that says
Your
Pictures And Movies... On The Web Now! and walk around, and then,
if something happens, it won’t be film at eleven, it’ll be right
now.
"Washington Post "
"Washington Post "
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