Saturday, October 04, 2003

[Colin Glassey] Saddam DID have Weapons of Mass Destruction This is from Andrew Sullivan's blog The administration claimed that Saddam had used WMDs in the past, had hidden materials from the United Nations, was hiding a continued program for weapons of mass destruction, and that we should act before the threat was imminent. The argument was that it was impossible to restrain Saddam Hussein unless he were removed from power and disarmed. The war was legally based on the premise that Saddam had clearly violated U.N. resolutions, was in open breach of such resolutions and was continuing to conceal his programs with the intent of restarting them in earnest once sanctions were lifted. Having read the report carefully, I'd say that the administration is vindicated in every single respect of that argument. This war wasn't just moral; it wasn't just prudent; it was justified on the very terms the administration laid out. And we don't know the half of it yet. Absolutely right. The interum report proves it. Sullivan has a lot more on his site right now. 1:44:38 PM     [Colin Glassey] Steven Den Beste on the Tragedy of the Commons Here is another brilliant essay by Den Beste on the Tragedy of the Commons. Really nice read, lots of good examples. I already knew them but it was still fun to read. 1:03:10 PM     [Colin Glassey] An Idea of Mine Becomes Real I just found a web site that tries to create a database of the world's population. It can be found at One Great Family.com. Back in 1997 when I was working at Broderbund on the Family Tree Maker product I had this same idea, one giant hypertext database for all human family data. I tried to convince the vice presidents of this idea but they were not willing to move in that direction. Since I knew what the ideal solution to the problem of vast isolated geneological work looked like, it was hard to keep working on the inferior PC-based product. So I quit. But I am very pleased to see that a former Novell engineer had the same idea and actually implemented it. Every geneological software product is now obsolete. Welcome to the 21st century! 12:51:51 PM

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