Archive for March, 2003
Two sides to every story
I was about to flame someone on usenet but decided not to, it would have fallen on deaf ears anyway. Almost every newsgroup or mailing list I’m on seems to have someone who is reporting the war only from their viewpoint. On and on they post, reporting only the news items that support their point of view, as if no-one else ever reads the news and so will agree and say “you were right all along, well done”.
war
Last night, as I was putting the small person to bed, I couldn’t help but think of the Iraqi parents who were preparing for the worst … what do you tell your kids when you are expecting bombing to start?
I oppose this war, as do many people both in the Uk and USA and across the world, but I don’t want to rant about that here. What I want to do is remind everyone who is upset about the start of this war and is concerned for the ordinary Iraqi people, that there are a variety of aid agencies who are directly working in Iraq and who rely on donations to do their work.
I have spent some time on the Cafod web site, reading about their ongoing work in Iraq and their preparations to help in the event of war. Whether you see this war as right or wrong, the people of Iraq are going to need so much help during and after the conflict, so please think about donating to Cafod or one of the other Aid organisations if you can.
and a door closes
My publisher Glasshaus has shut down, the parent company (which also owns Wrox UK and Friends of Ed) has gone into liquidation. Financially I imagine this leaves us authors at the back of a long line of creditors, but more than that, I’m really going to miss the team at Glasshaus, all of whom are now out of work.
I’d just like to say a massive thank you to everyone I worked with at Glasshaus, we were doing some good stuff, it’s a shame it had to come to an end. Take care.
allinthehead.com
Drew has just launched a new blog – somewhere he doesn’t just have to write about Dreamweaver.
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