Red Hat

It's nice that Red Hat gave us subscriber folks early access to the ISO files of Red Hat 9, but given that it's going to take me about a week to download the thing at the current rate (8K/sec, when I can get a connection) I don't think it's much more than a nice thought.

lovely quote

And the expectation that the Iraqis would give liberating US troops a rapturous welcome has been downgraded from "a disappointment" to "an embarrassment" to "a slot in the world history register of manifest follies."

(via Ed Gaillard's journal)

but it's their native tongue!

The British are still encircling Basra on three sides.

Caroline Wyatt, BBC reporter. I thought these people knew how to speak English.

more choice quotery

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