turnaround

Wow. Mere days after Rumsfeld suggested contrary opinion, Dubya says there's no Saddam/9-11 link. Unequivocally. And I don't agree with the comment in that article that he was pretty much forced into it, either. There's evidence for all sorts of things contrary to the official line, why should this one item force a statement from the POTUS?

I'm impressed.

update: actually, I misread - Rummy's comments a few days ago also followed this line, mostly. They're both adhering to the "obvious links" stuff, but also both denying that Hussein had direct involvement in the WTC attacks.

technology gone wrong

Why complain so much about your phone? Do US providers really lock you to a single model? Here, in the less-enlightened lands (we use that nasty GSM stuff instead of CDMA), all that ties you to your provider is a little inch by half-inch card with a chip on it. If you want to put that into a five- or six-year old Ericsson GA628, you can go right ahead and do so.