# Nervous, nervous, nervous. Down to the office in Sluff tomorrow, then into London to meet
Glenn Dakin.
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# Today
could be the day that the kitchen is declared finished. The cupboards and work surfaces are all fitted. The new cookers hooked up to gas and electric supplies. The plumbings done. The sockets and lights have power. There's just a few little fittings and things to be finished, and that's it. It all seems so long ago since
the work started.
We'll have a hob again. An oven! It'll be like learning to cook all over again. The Bean can have some new stuff to eat, instead of having a lump out of the big vats of babynosh we cooked up and froze at the start of June. We can have some new stuff, something that needs more than a microwave and an electric wok to cook.
Feel a bit giddy.
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# The corporate shenanighanizing continues - boss man Frazer resigned earlier this week. He was cheesed off that he was being cast as the villain in a recent screwing the employees over episode, and told the boss man in America so. American boss man warned Frazer he was on a slippery slope, so Frazer stepped off by resigning on the spot.
American boss said oh.
Of course, if the *cough*-*cough* with *hack-cough-hawwwk* comes off, he could be back in harness in no time while American boss man will be picking up his pink slip.
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# How do you conduct a "war" on terrorism? Congress has released vast sums of money. Country after country is lining up to pledge "assistance" to the US. Countries "harbouring or helping terrorists" are to be considered as targets.
Countries like the UK for instance, where a number of organization raise funds for questionable organizations? Countries like Israel for instance, which employ the same tactics of assassination and bombing as the terrorists they seek to stop? Countries like the US for instance, which have funded and trained various unpleasant organizations in Central American?
Or countries like Afghanistan, where a quarter of the population is in danger of starvation, such government that exists is in place through force, and which largely, it must be said, keeps itself to itself?
The UK is in no danger of "defeating" terrorism in Northern Ireland, despite 30 years of trying. Spain is unable to "defeat" ETA.
It won't matter how big the coalition assembled is, or the size of the military force the commit to action is, it will not be possible to "eliminate terrorism".
Matthew Parris put all this much better in last Saturday's Times.planetcutie said Well, George W Bush has to say things such as 'we will seek vengeance and eliminate terrorism in the world' or he hasn't a hope in hell of being re-elected in 2004.
[added 17th Sep 2001] stephen prestage said How do you conduct a "war" on terrorism?
Well, there's the hugely successful war on drugs for a template. [added 18th Sep 2001]
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#[Arabica] The MSXML wrapper is now largely complete. All the callback interfaces (ContentHandler, ErrorHandler, etc) are wrapped up, and all that's left to do is kicking off the parse.
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# Spent yesterday down in Slough, where I had a meeting with a man from *cough*-*cough*, to tell him what I've been doing and why it would a terrifically good idea all round to keep me on if *cough*-*cough* *COUGH*-*hack*! *splutter* *hack-cough*. Didn't try to brownnose, but couldn't have anyway, as my motherhen of a manager's proboscis was rammed firmly up the bloke's backside for the entire day.
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#[Arabica] Started on a SAX2 wrapper for the MSXML COM component. MSXML provides a SAX style COM interface, but this wrapper adapts it to a C++ interface, keeping you well away from the all the COM fiddliness.
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# Ooooooooh! Just been talking the comics-hero Glenn Dakin. I'm going to go and interview for the big zine,
Borderline, in a couple of weeks or so.
Excited!
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#Football! Uniting the nation in exceedingly tasteless jingoism.
According to no less than the Sunday Telegraph the nation is
dazed but delighted after the English football team's 5-1 victory over Germany on Saturday. What a load of bollocks. Football is popular, there's no denying that, but the idea that it unites the country as one big smiley happy family is rubbish.
On Saturday night the BBC screened They Think It's Uber Alles and the Sunday headlines included Blitzed and Don't Mention the Score. My aching sides! Earlier in the week The Daily Mail, to remind us just how dastardly the Hun is, ran a picture of Germany's 1935 squad doing Nazi salutes. I'm surprised none of the papers managed Owen gives Germans the ki-bosch! or Take that Fritz!.
stephen prestage said I must have been out with the only 2 other people in Nottingham as the pubs sloshed out at 8.30. We sat at a window table of a pub as everyone converged on the Market Square, to be rowdy in a larger group. One development over the previous decade is that there were quite a few women in the groups, something which 10 or 15 years ago would have been rare. Having been trapped in a pub during the world cup, this development seems to lower the level of aggression. Only slightly, but I'll take wjat I can get. There were also a few families. Give us another 10 or 15 years and we might be approaching a more European position.
[added 3rd Sep 2001]
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