http://teekay.blogsome.com Bad code and random thoughts Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:08:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As of today, I will continue my blog over at tkvogel.com/blog. Please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds. I will keep this location open since I haven’t yet managed to move the comments over (any tips are appreciated!) but will no longer update here. http://teekay.blogsome.com/2006/12/10/moving-my-blog-please-update-your-bookmarks-and-rss-feeds/ According to a piece in Monday’s Süddeutsche Zeitung, the English-language service of Al Jazeera aims “to offer a counterweight to the worldview of the Anglo-Saxon programs.” Whatever this may mean, they seem to be succeeding. I turned on twice last Thursday (or was it Friday?), the first time to find ... http://teekay.blogsome.com/2006/11/21/fair-and-balanced/ Last night on BBC World, a reporter said that some people considered the new UN Secretary General to be “colorless.” http://teekay.blogsome.com/2006/10/10/unfortunate-epithet-of-the-day/ Putting Dayton to Bed by Mirna Skrbic and T.K. Vogel 29 September 2006 TRANSITIONS ONLINE SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina | A few impatient Bosnian youths could not wait until the general election of 1 October to express their feelings about the country’s institutions. Just days before the vote, they splashed the presidency building ... http://teekay.blogsome.com/2006/09/29/bosnia-goes-to-the-polls-ii/ In Bosnia, War by Other Means By T. K. VOGEL September 29, 2006 WALL STREET JOURNAL SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — “I’m not anti-Serb,” Slobodan Popovic said. “I’m just trying to be a normal Serb.” The difference is important to Mr. Popovic. He’s a senior lawmaker in the parliament of the Serb Republic, one of Bosnia’s two ... http://teekay.blogsome.com/2006/09/29/bosnia-goes-to-the-polls/ The Necropolis at Palmyra (Syria) Originally uploaded by teekay. I recently chanced upon prints of these pictures (more to follow) that I took in Syria during a trip in August/September 1990. Since the negatives were destroyed in a flood last year and ... http://teekay.blogsome.com/2006/09/10/the-necropolis-at-palmyra-syria/ I have expressed my skepticism about the “new” UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) before, here and here. France’s behavior in particular has been disgraceful though at some level understandable; I suspect what happened was that the Foreign Ministry drafted the relevant parts of Security Council Resolution 1701 and handed ... http://teekay.blogsome.com/2006/09/08/robuts-mandate-2006-edition/ The UN population agency’s report State of World Population 2006 focuses on an issue that is often missing in the debate on ‘brain drain,’ namely the enormous contribution of remittances from migrants to development back home. (The overall theme of the report is the far sexier “women and international migration,” ... http://teekay.blogsome.com/2006/09/07/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go/ In an article in today’s TCSDaily I talk about the way in which the new war-crimes tapes coming out of Bosnia have provided yet another opportunity for Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks to roll out their stereotypes and prejudices. In light of the generic, if awful, nature of the pictures, it ... http://teekay.blogsome.com/2006/09/06/stereotapes/ From a report by the Czech news agency CTK: Czech premier hopes to find common language with Slovak premier Try English? http://teekay.blogsome.com/2006/09/05/hed-of-the-day-central-europe-edition/ It may be Sunday but AP managed a brilliant hed nonetheless: Stone-throwing Swiss celebrate bicentenary of cultural festival Source: International Herald Tribune, 9/3 The piece itself is worth reading, too — we Swiss are very much in touch with our inner beast. http://teekay.blogsome.com/2006/09/03/great-heds/ Following our own success, Cyprus offers to solve Lebanese crisis Source: Cyprus Mail Okay, the hed was tongue in cheek, but the offer is for real, apparently. http://teekay.blogsome.com/2006/07/30/hey-thanks-but-can-i-say-no/ From today’s Observer: Somalia inches towards war http://teekay.blogsome.com/2006/07/23/some-things-never-change/ It’s just two bloody hot, I’m racing to finish up my book on “ethnic cleansing,” and I have a whole bunch of other things to take care of. I did manage to write a quick update on the worrying situation in Bosnia over on East Ethnia, however. http://teekay.blogsome.com/2006/07/22/light-posting-2/ (Warning: unwarranted generalizations ahead) Went to a lecture by John Searle tonight. The guy’s amazing: he’s ancient but more agile than half of the folks in the room. (Not difficult since they were mostly Germans.) He spoke for an entire hour without notes, walking around all the time with one of ... http://teekay.blogsome.com/2006/07/10/yanks-and-euros/ Italy-Germany 2:0 Originally uploaded by teekay. My boys celebrating after Italy win over Germany last night http://teekay.blogsome.com/2006/07/05/italy-germany-20/ It’s unlikely many folks come to my blog to get news on the World Cup — though the Swiss rock! — but in case any of you out there are sick and tired of it (or as an unfortunate BCS interpreter recently put it on live TV, “bolestan i umoran”), ... http://teekay.blogsome.com/2006/06/25/nil-nil-nihilism/ No sooner had I posted a little item over at East Ethnia talking about the curious fact that both Peter Handke and Noam Chomsky, people who professionally deal with words, manage to tie themselves in knots every time they actually use same, than Diana Johnstone rushed to Handke’s defense since ... http://teekay.blogsome.com/2006/06/19/dealing-with-the-past-johnstone-enters-the-fray/ Just because you don’t see it, it doesn’t mean nothing’s happening… NATO commander in Bosnia Gen. Louis Weber responding to accusations by Carla Del Ponte, the UN’s war crimes prosecutor for former Yugoslavia, that the alliance wasn’t doing enough to capture Bosnian Serb wartime president Radovan Karadzic, according to Reuters. http://teekay.blogsome.com/2006/06/16/quote-of-the-day-2/ That’s what I tell people when I’m having them over for dinner. It’s usually fairly inexpensive, fairly decent stuff. But would you bring along 12-dollar bottles when visiting the President of the United States, as a certain dignitary from the Caucasus has done, according to a listing in the Federal ... http://teekay.blogsome.com/2006/06/16/just-bring-a-bottle-of-wine/