Iraq on the Record: The Bush Administration’s Public Statements on Iraq. 237 misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq that were made by President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary Rumsfeld, Secretary Powell, and National Security Advisor Rice. These statements were made in 125 separate appearances, consisting of 40 speeches, 26 press conferences and briefings,… Continue reading Iraq on the Record: The Bush Administration’s Public Statements on Iraq
Author: Vince Kimball
Backup/Restore Failures – The Real Numbers!
Backup/Restore Failures – The Real Numbers!. How confident are you that you can restore from your backups? Check out this issue of W2Knews for some startling statistics about the reliability of tape media. A Yankee Group and Sunbelt Software survey of 362 IT executives in March 2004 found 42 percent of respondents had been unable… Continue reading Backup/Restore Failures – The Real Numbers!
Summer 2004 Tour Coming to a User Group Near You
Summer 2004 Tour Coming to a User Group Near You. Flash, Flex, ColdFusion “Blackstone”, … lots to talk about, and thus time for a user group tour. I love talking to user groups, and do so regularly, but it has been a long time since I did a full blown tour. And so we're putting… Continue reading Summer 2004 Tour Coming to a User Group Near You
Columns: Defending our privacy, except when they abuse it
St. Petersburg Times – St. Petersburg,FL,USA – Columns: Defending our privacy, except when they abuse it. Forget the claim of the Republican Party to be “conservative.” Just like Democrats, Republicans seek to use the power of government to ram their agenda down the throats of the citizens. A true conservative should love the first of… Continue reading Columns: Defending our privacy, except when they abuse it
rip peter ustinov
rip peter ustinov. Sir Peter Ustinov, dead at 82 [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
Weblogs and customer service
Weblogs and customer service. My earlier post about using Feedster to get status updates about Dreamhost's (my personal web hosting provider) outage resulted in an honest, timely, and personal direct e-mail response from the folks over at Dreamhost: This is Jeff with DreamHost Quality Control. I ran into your weblog posting and thought I'd take… Continue reading Weblogs and customer service
An example of helpful guidance
An example of helpful guidance. A reader took me to task for suggesting, in this week's column, that we need to do a better job of spelling out the user-interface implications of Internet standards. Robb Beal agreed with me, though, and today I found another example of the kind of guidance that his functional annotations… Continue reading An example of helpful guidance
Gateway stores are put out to pasture
Gateway stores are put out to pasture. Gateway closes stores and announces layoffs. Will look to product placements in third-party retailers. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
Downtown businesses scramble to make plans
Downtown businesses scramble to make plans. Businesses in downtown Boston are bracing for commuting chaos when the Democratic National Convention comes to town in July, with some planning to close for the week and others asking their employees to take time off, rather than endure interminable trips to and from work. [Boston Globe — Front… Continue reading Downtown businesses scramble to make plans
The “Blog or Website” Question
The “Blog or Website” Question. Jeff Beard on the choice of blog or website as your first step on the web. Both our answers start with a “b” and Jeff does a nice job of listing the reasons. [DennisKennedy.blog]