Friday, August 29, 2003

CNN says that the FBI is going to be arresting somebody for writing the "Blaster" worm. Here's their story. The bit that I find most curious is this paragraph:
A witness reportedly saw the teen testing the infection and called authorities, the official said.


I'll just let you sit and think about what that must mean for the two people involved. Doesn't the informant necessarily have to be part of the accused's circle? I mean it's not as if you can watch somebody typing away in another cubicle and figure out what they're doing with any real accuracy. They'd pretty much have to be giving you a demonstration, wouldn't they?

Sunday, August 24, 2003

Mark Steyn has a few things to say about the California recall election, most of them quite funny and right on the mark:
I had a brief conversation with Bustamante at the 2000 Democratic Convention and he didn’t seem entirely there. A few months later, he was giving a speech in honour of Black History Month to the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and carelessly referred to the Negro Labor Council as the ‘Nigger Labor Council’. He carried on speaking, apparently oblivious, until it occurred to him rather a lot of people seemed to be walking out. I’d love to see a Republican use the N-word at a Black History Month dinner and live to tell the tale. But what’s relevant here is the delay between the unfortunate error and realising he’d made it.