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Friday, January 17, 2003
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The United States of America has gone mad by John le Carré is a fine piece (many have noticed this): "Those who are not with Mr Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall - just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy."
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On Thursday the first issue in 2003 of the MikroPC magazine appeared here in Finland. This issue contained my column, titled Posterior forecasting ("Ennusteita takautuvasti"). Also, the magazine contained my vision article titled Meeting of the open and closed worlds: War of Co-operation? ("Avoimen ja suljetun maailman kohtaaminen: Sotaa vai yhteistyötä?"). It was nice to see that I could still agree with the text I wrote before Christmas. I have written columns regularly for the MikroPC magazine for over two years now (about 20 columns). This has been an interesting experience. It seems that I have also become quite active in writing net columns for the magazine. Last year I wrote five net columns, this year I have written two net columns already. Writing for the net is a bit different. There is a bit more space available on the printed magazine. Somehow I feel that you have to be more direct and forceful when writing for the net. I feel that the attention span of the reader is shorter on the net than when reading a printed magazine.
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