Archive for April, 2007
This tale of Google Earth being used to monitor violence in Darfur, as well as this, raises an interesting point. In his memoirs, Richard Holbrooke tells of how the Bosnian War parties were hugely impressed by the mapping software running on computers the US State Department brought to the conference - they could pull [...]
So what did happen with the Ronald Reagan after all? Well, she just called in Pearl Harbour on her way back to the Coast. War Iran a with be will not there. New readers arriving from Making Light/Electrolite are advised to use the “Iran” tag and this AFOE post with real war plans an stuff!
Someone decides to rake through the Elf-Aquitaine embers, with the result that 42 persons are sent for by the judge. Including a whole slew of politicians - carrier-grade rightwing thug Charles Pasqua, crooked prefect for the Var Jean-Charles Marchiani, professional president’s son Jean-Christophe “Papa M’a Dit” Mitterand, and slightly surprisingly, Mitterand’s right hand man and [...]
OK. Remember a few months ago, the Sundays were briefed about one of Tony’s eye-catching initiatives - to launch a magnetic levitation high-speed rail link from London up to Scotland?
Well, if it ever had any substance, it’s now a dead parrot. And so are all maglev projects, which should bring a hearty cheer from everyone [...]
In a wonderfully-titled article, (”Former Miss Bolivia on Drugs Charges, Second Beauty Queen in Trouble”), the Associated Press reports that Sonia Falcone, cosmetics enterpreneur, Bush-Cheney’00 donor, and wife of Elf-Aquitaine/Arms to Africa fugitive Pierre Falcone, copped a plea to charges of illegally employing some immigrants (they were legal immigrants, but not allowed to work, so [...]
OK. Remember a few months ago, the Sundays were briefed about one of Tony’s eye-catching initiatives - to launch a magnetic levitation high-speed rail link from London up to Scotland?
Well, if it ever had any substance, it’s now a dead parrot. And so are all maglev projects, which should bring a hearty cheer from everyone [...]
In a wonderfully-titled article, (”Former Miss Bolivia on Drugs Charges, Second Beauty Queen in Trouble”), the Associated Press reports that Sonia Falcone, cosmetics enterpreneur, Bush-Cheney’00 donor, and wife of Elf-Aquitaine/Arms to Africa fugitive Pierre Falcone, copped a plea to charges of illegally employing some immigrants (they were legal immigrants, but not allowed to work, so [...]
It’s quite well-known that I don’t think very much of Niall Ferguson’s intellectual credibility. But this is special, in the sense of “I’m not different…I’m special.”
I’m not going to take issue with his bizarre contention that saying sorry for the slave trade is why the Iranians grabbed the boarding party from Cornwall. I am, however, [...]
OK, so we solved the last problem. But now I’ve got another. We’ve just created a window with a Tkinter frame within, and announced that a listbox will be there. Then, we have the following statement:
self.selector = Listbox(frame)..Listbox.pack(side=TOP)…for item in ["lots","of","data","in","here","that","takes","up","four","lines"]:….Listbox.insert(Tk.END,item)
Dots inserted to get the indenting right. Tk.END causes the interpreter to fart a syntax [...]
OK, the Enetation comments are getting too bad to use. There’s no spam protection, and no central moderation page, so it’s not practical to remove comments spam from each of 1,473 threads one by one. By clicking on the permalink at the bottom of each post, you can use the Blogger comments thread, which is [...]
