One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Wednesday, 4 February 2004

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The Globe and Mail: Conduct quite becoming
Nézet-Séguin had other reasons to be smiling, too. Just the evening before, the Conseil Québécois de la musique gave out its Opus awards -- prizes for classical recordings as well as live performances. Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitain took the prize for best classical recording for their fall release of Nino Rota's La Strada on the Atma label. Not only that, Johanne Goyette, who runs Atma and is its chief studio producer, took top honours for the technical quality of the recording.

Nice! Félicitations Johanne! Johanne was a student of mine at McGill.

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I remember seeing a request either here or on slashdot.org about a quick way to rip a lot of CDs without user interaction. It turns out Apple was one step ahead of us. I guess they figured people are going to have a lot of cd... [macosxhints]

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I've come to love the ability to add plug-ins to AddressBook. It gives the program a lot of power and makes it easy to add new functionality in an elegant manner. The following script will place a to-do to call a person direc... [macosxhints]

Sweet!

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Former MOD scientist says intelligence officials overruled on Iraq dossier. [Guardian Unlimited] 'Dr Jones laid out his claims in the Independent newspaper, which said he suggested that not a single defence intelligence expert backed Tony Blair's most contentious claims on WMD, although there is no unequivocal proof of this.'

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The British critic Norman Lebrecht has predicted that 2004 will be the last year of the classical record industry. Should music lovers be worried? [New York Times: Arts] 'Should classical music lovers take this seriously? His analysis is interesting, but his conclusion preposterous.'

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'Absence of stockpile changes the answer'. [Guardian Unlimited]

The whole charade is tumbling down. Get these clowns out of office.

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Politicians excluded from scrutiny over decision to go to war in Iraq. [Guardian Unlimited] 'Tony Blair risked a further loss of trust on Iraq yesterday when he ordered a wide ranging inquiry into intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq but debarred the inquiry from examining the political and diplomatic decision to wage war, and the legal basis for doing so.'

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The spies got it wrong, admits former CIA analyst Kenneth Pollack, but the politicians also moulded the evidence to fit the case for war. [Guardian Unlimited] 'As Seymour Hersh, among others, has reported, Bush administration officials also took some actions that arguably crossed the line between rigorous oversight of the intelligence community and an attempt to manipulate intelligence. They set up their own shop in the Pentagon, called the Office of Special Plans, to sift through the information themselves. To a great extent OSP personnel "cherry-picked" the intelligence they passed on, selecting reports that supported the administration's pre-existing position and ignoring all the rest.

Most problematic of all, the OSP often chose to believe reports that trained intelligence officers considered unreliable or downright false.'

An extremely thorough article written by an insider. As we have said all along, the Bush hawks were in a rush to war, they were wrong, we were right.

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