01.07.02
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at 8 pm
The recent situation with my Mac refusing to allow Internet Explorer to run has disrupted a number of my web habits. Chiefly, Greymatter’s entry page seem ‘further’ away, and I have been having to adjust to this in order to get these entries written. I’ve even taken the drastic step of adding additional links on my personal home page html file. (Huh?) I’ve got this HTML file on my Mac that has links to various sites and tools that are online. Because it’s local, it loads *really* fast, and gives me quick access to Google.
The only thing it’s really missing is a text entry box that feeds directly into GreyMatter. I’m trying to see if I can do this with this very entry. Hopefully having the Entry system at such close of hand will cause me to post on a more regular basis.
Slave Labor of the 21st Century: Having to click Again, but this time on the other side of the screen!
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01.06.02
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at 11 pm
Verdana is a great san-serif screen font that I encourage the use of. It was funded by Microsoft, but released for free and in fact has been part of Windows and Mac OS releases for some years now.
In summary:
Verdana came with Win98/IE 4, Since 1997
Verdana came with Mac OS 8.5/IE 5, Since 1998
The MS documentation came from here: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/default.asp
The original Knowledge Base article from Apple is in the Read More section.
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01.05.02
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at 7 pm
Researching a bit on 3 March 1924, I came across a yahoo groups mailing list. One of the posts is an Islamic Chain letter! I’ve gotten a good thousand of these from well meaning friends and relatives, but they’ve always been Christian in bent. I’ve never thought of Islamic chain letters… (I’ve included the full text in the Read More section.)
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at 7 pm
Your very own copy of the Al Qaeda Training Manual is available in PDF format.
http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/trainingmanual.htm
This is the manual that was found in a mosque in London. It’s been cut down to eliminate the parts that are supposed to be truly dangerous. I’m not sure why the Dept. of Justice decided to post this. It seems more inflammatory than anything. However, there is one section that’s really worth reading. Starting on Page 8 of the first section:
After the fall of our orthodox caliphates on March 3,1924 and after expelling the colonialists, our Islamic nation was afflicted with apostate rulers who took over in the Moslem nation. These rulers turned out to be more infidel and criminal than the colonialists themselves. Moslems have endured all kinds of harm, oppression, and torture at their hands.
It goes on for quite a bit longer providing the reason why these men have taken it upon themselves to cause such carnage, pain and death. I would like to identify which people are the colonizers, which are the “apostate rulers”. I’m sure they must be referring to mostly NATO countries, the US and their own puppet governments.
However what I truly find interesting is the the use of the “Islamic nation” as a phrase. I can almost see a single country stretching from Morocco to Pakistan, interrupted by a single patch of Judaism. But this isn’t how things have worked out in the real world. No ‘nation’ would allow an outside military to take down one of it’s own states. (Although if someone wanted California…) Yet the Islamic nations stood by while the US swooped in a took down Afghanistan’s government in less than 2 weeks.
I’m wondering if the author of the manual is disconnected from the world, or simply wishing hopefully. I wonder if having separate nations is better or if it would be better if they did become one nation (or community like the EU).
I’ve included some more excerpts from the manual in the Read More section.
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