February 6, 2004

FT.com / World / Arab-Israel “The Bush administration is trying to enlist European support for a grand plan to reform the Arab and Islamic world and integrate it within a western security umbrella. American and European Union officials held a meeting in Washington last week on the so-called “greater Middle East” initiative, an evolving project…

Discovered a new and interesting webthing! It is called Delicious and it is a device for keeping one’s internet bookmarks – with the key feature that you give them search tags, so the whole thing becomes a searchable database of whatever its users find useful or interesting. Whatever you search out of it – for…

Just reviewing the site statistics, and what do I find among the googlers? Someone has searched for “arrogant american blog uk” and hit the Ranter. Strange, because it doesn’t appear in the first ten pages of results. Other amusing search strings include “Turkeyish money” and “Lord Brocket & the book he wrote in prison”. I…