I have a need to break things

Nov 10, 2007 14:43

I am much vexed. It looks like in order to get this new podcast of mine properly fed so that people can subscribe to it, we're gonna have to move it to libsyn or some for-pay service. The geniuses at blog.com have a helpful little craplet that goes back and "corrects" your HTML such that you can't manually put in the code that makes it do the Right Thing. Combine this with the fact that my email and The Exchange's Web page are both down again and you are makin' for a bird that will begin spouting some of Jules's more apropos speeches from Pulp Fiction any time now.

On the plus side, I did get some audio at the Claim Democracy conference yesterday and am heading down to get some actual interviews today. And I had lunch at some upscale chain called Zi Pani on Wilkens Avenue just off the Beltway in Bawlamer, and it was really good.

I mentioned something called ABLE ARCHER back here and told people to remember that. Remember? 'Course not. Anyway, either on the 8th or 9th of November in 1983 - yesterday or the day before, 24 years ago - the Soviet Union interpreted ABLE ARCHER 83 as an impending nuclear first strike by the U.S. and its allies, and went on heightened alert. Granted, we only have Oleg Gordievsky's word on it, but that's some fair backup. Coincidentally, 9 November 1979, NORAD detected a full-scale Soviet missile launch with a member of Congress in the room at Cheyenne Mountain. The problem there was that a test tape had been loaded and the system hadn't been switched to "test". Wow, it was great growing up during the Cold War.

Incidentally, Kid-2 just came upstairs with the complaint, "Mommy just gave me a condescending sigh."

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