b2search has been revised, with some minor changes: no alterations of the database or the any existing concordance data is required. The changes only affect the processing of search requests.
This version addresses the following:
Added hyperlink to posts that have no title
Fixed problem where the search string consists entirely of common words
Fixed some HTML generation [...]
Here’s an interesting book review by Stephen Holmes critiquing liberal interventions. His primary focus is Samantha Power’s A Problem From Hell, about the world’s reaction to genocide. Power highlight’s America and the world’s failure to act on humanitarian impulses to stop genocide, and argues that multilateral institutions and legalisms have only gotten in [...]
I seem to be putting down notes for the books I’ve read in reverse of the order I read them. I finished Berman’s Terror and Liberalism most recently. The book before that was Pollack’s Threatening Storm, which is strangely a history book despite being published last year in anticipation of future events. [...]
Eizan-ryu jujitsu in New York is having a spate of springtime advancement tests. Monday night, we had a yellow belt test, a second brown belt test and a third brown belt test.
I’ve only been to class a couple of times between my test and this test. I feel I’m out of shape, haven’t [...]
Here’s a piece of (recent) military history, discussing the battle of Jenin and the IDF’s tactics there. Fundamentally, the IDF showed stunning restraint in using their superior firepower to dislodge Palestinian fighters from the town and refugee camp. Risk to IDF soldiers was subordinate to sparing civilians, even though many of these civilians [...]
Here’s an article on SQL Server dynamic sql. Stored procs and such.
Slashdot has a review of this book. I want to keep this in mind when I get around to revamping the company’s intranet to be more useful. Maybe something like http://www.php.net
Slate has a wacky series of articles about a trio of Americans riding around on Segways in Paris. How do you get such an assignment?
My brother got his MBA from Georgetown on Friday. We got there a bit late for the general graduate school ceremony — rain and traffic — but most of the business school students didn’t show up for that one, anyway. It looked like it was meant more for Arts & Sciences, as well [...]
This is a wonderful book. Berman clarifies some of the issues we face today, and elaborates what should be the “liberal” argument for what we should do in the Middle East, even though the principal proponents are neo-conservative/neo-Straussians of the Bush Administration.
Berman argues — and it has been argued elsewhere, primarily on the pages [...]