Pre-emptive strike policy.

by Miguel de Icaza

Anyone who considers a pre-emptive strike policy, should be pre-emptively be put in a mental institution.

For some interesting history, look at Pilgers's new article. Pay special attention to the politician's speeches. This was scary.

Posted on 01 Oct 2002


Washington: October 26th

by Miguel de Icaza

This weekend, am going to Washington DC for the `Stop the War on Iraq Before it Starts' demostration.

End the War and End the Sanctions

Pictures from Iraq from the Voices in the Wilderness gallery: First, second, thid and children drawings

Iraq Peace Team

Today I found the Iraq Peace Team web site.

Posted on 23 Sep 2002


Mono Survey

by Miguel de Icaza

If you use Mono, or are interested in Mono, please fill the following Survey to help us plot its future.

Evolution

Evolution got a great review on PC Magazine.

Posted on 19 Sep 2002


Pilger Documentary on Palestine.

by Miguel de Icaza

Pilger's Documentary available as a web page. It was broadcast yesterday in the UK on ITV.

Wish this got some coverage outside the UK though.

Some are more equal than others.

Salon is running an article on the War on Drugs and Jeb Bush regarding the different treatments that his daughter gets, and what other ten thousand drug offenders get.

Posted on 17 Sep 2002


The Video

by Miguel de Icaza

See the movie trailer for Occupation 101.

Remember

New Fisk:

So a few thoughts for the coming weeks: remember the days when Saddam was America's friend; remember that Arabs committed the crimes against humanity of 11 September last year and that they came from a place called the Middle East, a place of injustice and occupation and torture; remember "Palestine"; remember that, a year ago, no one spoke of Iraq, only of al-Qa'ida and Osama bin Laden. And, I suppose, remember that "evil" is a good crowd-puller but a mighty hard enemy to shoot down with a missile.

Posted on 16 Sep 2002


Understanding the problem in Iraq

by Miguel de Icaza

I found this history of the Iran-Iraq war very enlightening about the real reasons behind a war against Iraq. I will summarize it for you: US control over the oil in the Middle East.

The control is not required because a need on the Middle East oil, but because Japan and Europe are highly dependent on it. You want *your* companies profiting from that oil, and not someone else.

It also explains why Britain wants to get some piece of the action. In fact, they have always wanted to get a piece of the action.

Posted on 15 Sep 2002


UNAM

by Miguel de Icaza

My University acquired the rights to the photographies from the 1968 student movement in Mexico and released the digitized pictures to the government. They will be making the material available on line.

Palestinian Ethnic Cleansing by Israel.

Edward Herman does --of course-- a much better job than I do at showing all the international laws violated by Israel on his Israel Approved Ethnic Cleansing article.

Reports from Palestine

Direct from Indymedia. More civilians being shot.

Posted on 13 Sep 2002


NY Times

by Miguel de Icaza

The New York Times is running an article piece on Mono.

Posted on 12 Sep 2002


Camera

by Miguel de Icaza

So all my pictures for the best part of the day turned greenish. A phenomenon that can only be explained by the multitude of settings that the camera has, compounded with my random knob moving.

By the end of the day, I had figured a few things, but now everything is turning out red. The automatic mode in the D60 is not as simple as the one in the S40, not to mention that there is no way to get flash-less automatic.

World

Nelson Mandela warned Bush and Blair about war against Iraq.

Chomsky's Drain the Swap and there will be no more mosquitos.

Posted on 11 Sep 2002


Das Experiment

by Miguel de Icaza

Today the Boston Film Festival showed Das Experiment. The movie was very intense and disturbing. Intense as very few movies I have seen in my life, indeed, it is hard to tell when was the last time I got so scared.

Anyways, we learned while leaving the movie (from a German girl that had seen the movie before) that they had removed from the end the subtitles that said `The events of this movie aren based on the Stanford Prison Experiment.'

It is even more scary that this actually took place.

I feel uneasy reading the experiment description from the professor, because to him it was only an experiment. The only place where he redeems himself a bit is where he ponders a number of questions at the end about the prison system.

From this site, I ran into the Peace Psychology papers, I have not checked them all yet, but there are some interesting bits.

Anyways, the movie stresses one interesting part based on the research from the Stanford Experiment: people in a position of power are bound to break the rules, and seem to enjoyed it.

This makes the need for strong rules where human rights can be violated not only extremely important, but they have to be carefully monitored.

Just found a reviewat FilmCritic.

New Camera

Today I met a very nice photographer called Rick Friedman who was carrying a Canon D60. I was shocked to see someone carrying that camera, as it is just about impossible to get your hands on that, I have tried, and I have looked every web site on the Internet, and that camera is just unavailable.

Well, Rick was nice enough to actually call a friend of his in the area that actually carries the camera and was able to give us one. So today after work, Peter and I went to check out Zeff Photo this store, which was about 20 minutes away from the office.

I got back with the camera and all sorts of extra toys for it, now its time to take some pictures and see if I can match those from Juantomas with his mighty Canon Ixus.

Now the next step is to get either a compact flash with 512 megs of ram and 24x access speed, or to get the IBM 1gig Microdrive, decisions, decisions.

DSL

I just got DSL at home, but it seems to be slower than the public Newbury Open Wireless network that I was using before. Although with the DSL I can actually use irc and https POST (I have no idea why https POST did not work with the open network)

Mono

Quick status report: Martin is working on a C + CIL Debugger that we should be able to use very soon; Paolo and Dietmar are fixing our existing bugs in the runtime, and working on new optimizations for the JIT engine; Dick and Duncan are fixing bugs on the underlying class libraries and finally Gonzalo is working on the ASP.NET code.

Posted on 10 Sep 2002


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