Mr Mist’s Blog

When you put words that are spoken down on paper, does that make them more truthful? Or more important? Iraq Dossier points [news.bbc.co.uk]

• Iraq has “military plans” for the use of chemical and biological weapons, even against its own population
• Saddam is one or two years off building a nuclear weapon if he manages to obtain weapons-grade material from abroad
• Iraq has “tried covertly to acquire technology and materials which could be used in the production of nuclear weapons”

These things have all been said before. They’ve been neatly packaged up into a government dossier [news.bbc.co.uk] but how does this improve the credibility? No new facts are presented, the old arguments just reworded.

So, my question is, what was the point?

Iraq has dismissed the claims, and promises unlimited access to inspectors [news.bbc.co.uk] but I wonder if the idea of claims that Iraq is preparing to hide equipment are being used to prepare the way for suggestions that, even after inspectors go in, and they don’t find anything, it proves nothing as the weapons could be being hidden

Then they go to war anyway.

We shall see.

Following on from BT going overboard with broadband adverts, I’m not all that surprised to hear folk complaining [news.bbc.co.uk].

I’m still not dead. PS2, etc, etc. Iraq [news.bbc.co.uk]. Not much going on really. More tomorrow, with pictures of stuff.

The earth moved for me last night [news.bbc.co.uk]. Unfortunately it wasn’t because I was in bed with a sexual goddess, but more because a 4.8 magnitude earthquake rocked through the country. Lovely. Rumble Rumble Rumble it went, which was interesting considering I was half asleep.

On the other side of the news, I’ve found at least one mobile phone charger, which was bugging me by being hidden yesterday. Still no sign of the wallet, I guess that’s gone for good. Pesky thing.

Someone stole my wallet. This is incredibly annoying. I am not happy. I left all my study stuff at Nic’s house by mistake, I’m not happy about that either. She had to give me some cash just so I could get back home. I’m not happy about that. My mobile phone charger has disappeared. My *other* mobile phone charger has also disappeared. I’m not happy about that.

So, basically, I’m not happy right now.

I gave up and bought myself a PlayStation 2 [www.playstation.com]. I’ve not got any time to play it though as I’m off to London for a bit. The next blog entry will be late Sunday or early Monday.

FridayFive [fridayfive.org].

1. Would you say that you’re good at keeping in touch with people?

No I’m terrible at keeping in touch with people. I usually manage to keep in touch for a few days then I’m hopeless.

2. Which communication method do you usually prefer/use: e-mail, telephone, snail mail, blog comments, or meeting in person? Why?

All of the above, because I can.

3. Do you have an instant messenger program? How many? Why/why not? How often do you use it?

Yes. I use trillian so I have MSN and ICQ and all that nonsense in one tiny programme. I use it every day but I don’t always speak on it.

4. Do most of your close friends live nearby or far away?

Far away
5. Are you an “out of sight, out of mind” person, or do you believe that “distance makes the heart grow fonder”?

A bit of both really…