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| Sunday, October 7, 2001 |
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Keeping up 
| | I'm heading out. Keep up at any of the links on the right, including Saltire, which seems highly current. |
What's China up to?
| | While news of the war proceeds as planned through the mainstream channels, DEBKA has this headline: China Moves Muslim Troops into Afghanistan to Support Taliban and Bin Laden Against US Assault. You have to scroll waaay down before you get to the story, which is in the right column. The suggested reason? To counteract a dreaded U.S.-Russian alliance. |
| | DEBKA is based in Israel and the work of some highly energetic and connected journalists there. I have no way of checking their facts or their interpretations. Troop movement seems credible, since China borders Afghanistan on the Tibetan frontier. |
| | It does seem that China has been relatively absent from all the news talk about alliance-building. But I can't see any upside to a Chinese alliance with the Taliban. |
| | Anybody know more about this? |
| | And can somebody please help DEBKA bring some kind of useful design sense to their site? It's hideous. To make getting to today's stories a little easier, here's a link to the frame that matters. |
Penultimania
| | While Dave's the #2 Dave at Google, guess who's the #2 Doc? And guess what else? Our parents named us both David. |
Cox at Lunch
| | Cox@Home isn't working again. This time when I call tech support, the outgoing message says "the CoxAtHome system is experienceing problems." Not just this town or that one. The message also says CoxAtHome has no idea when things will be fixed. |
| | This really sucks. I really need to get on the Net at faster than dial-up speeds. I'm researching all kinds of stuff, and dial-up doesn't cut it. |
| | In the three years I had DSL back in Woodside, I don't think the link itself ever went down. There were other problems (mostly due to unerelated power outages at our house), but not with the link. Cox@Home has amazing speed when it works. I've experienced none of the slowdown that some of the DSL sellers have been FUDding about. Zero. The speed is always amazingly high. But man, it does crap out a lot. |
| | Enough. I'm going to bed. |
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