Novak and Luttwak

Robert Novak, the conservative bloke who outed Valerie Plame as a CIA operative, wrote a column in the Chicago Sun-Times predicting a quick exit from Iraq during the (very likely) second term of George W. Bush. Since Novak is a partisan hack with Republican sympathies, this initially got me confused.
Until I remembered a recent article by notable strategist Edward Luttwak, who suggested that the USA should feign withdrawal in order to scare the Iraqi Shi'a into cooperation.
I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

22:15

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New love

There are worse things than owning an Acer laptop, but none of those exist in this space-time continuum.
Fortunately, their complaints department is a whole lot more efficient than their products, and they decided to give me my money back, after nearly one year of having to send back my laptop continuously.
I bought an IBM Thinkpad T42 instead, which arrived two days ago.
In case you were looking for an explanation for the intermittent blogging, this is it.

22:05

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Anybody want to meet a really pissed off cat with foam coming out of his mouth?

Visit me somewhere in the wee early morning hours. At that time, my recently neutered cat gets his antibiotics. I think he would prefer the electric chair, but unfortunately, this being the Netherlands, the government won't allow me to have one of those. (Also, lots of current probably won't rid him of his bacteria, since microbes seem to fester in cadavers.)

I really should get out more.

21:16

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We do not break away from combat

Although perhaps I should have, considering the bruises covering both my arms and both my hands. (Nah, it's fine. Really.) We got some decent exercise yesterday night, with sifu Martijn giving us a very hard time during the warming-up exercises. This of course had nothing do with the fact that, due to a nearly fatal car crash, he is majorly pissed off that he can't do proper workouts like the rest of us. Remember: if you notice my T-shirt is starting to fit a bit too snugly, it's muscles, not beer.

21:13

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