[Redacted]

(while reading Engineering News)

a spokesperson, who asked not to be named, stated [...]

(my emphasis)
Talk about letting the cat out of the bag (and onto the Matt)! If the source is supposed to be anonymous, then don't give away any clues to the person's identity.

Alternately, if he/she specied that identification (i.e. that of a spokesdroid), then perhaps it's a call for help? A wry, dry, sly jab at the coporate edifice? Armscorborg ahoy!

Google Alerts vs RSS

Why oh why doesn't Google make RSS feeds available for Google Alerts?

Simple importation into the customized homepage or the Google Reader would be very useful and so convenient.

Best ... NANOG ... post ... ever!

(from the NANOG archives)

• From: Randy Bush
• Date: Sat Nov 04 22:48:52 2006

Chris L. Morrow wrote:
> "Could you be any less descriptive of the problem you are seeing?"

the internet is broken. anyone know why?

Checkmate

The USA has a policy of separation of powers, to act as a set of checks and balances against usurpation of power and dominance by any one branch.

Except that sometimes the Executive and Legislative branches get a little intertwined...

"To my knowledge, there are only three current Members of Congress who work with the CIA"

South African nukes redux

(this from Green Clippings)
(cf. prior post South Africa leads the way)

The pendulum starts the long swing back...

[Professor] Christie warned of possible future wars in Africa, and suggested that that South Africa needed to quickly be able to revert to a nuclear weapons state if it became vital to the country's interests.

and, interestingly

The professor noted that South Africa still retained a stockpile of weapons grade highly enriched uranium derived from the country's former nuclear weapons programme. He also reminded everyone that technical knowledge of South Africa's former atomic bombs was still contained on CD's held by the current government.

Vaalputs [possibly] I could understand, but CDs? Heh.