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Is Reuters going as The Onion this Halloween?

31 Oct 2003 by Jason Fried

Rumsfeld unsure of missing ‘mojo’

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said he does not know whether or not he has lost his mojo, as a leading news magazine suggested, largely because he doesn’t really know what mojo is…”And they asked me that, and I said, ‘I don’t know what it means.’ And they said, ‘In 1926 or something, it had to do with jazz music.”

Classic Rummy.

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31 Oct 2003 | Matthew Oliphant said...

Maybe a dingo ate your mojo.

31 Oct 2003 | Don Schenck said...

Got my mojo back when I got my Spyder back! Now, I'm listening to Loverboy's "The Kid Is Hot Tonight"!!

*LAUGH*

31 Oct 2003 | mcelroy said...

Ah, the state of journalism...

31 Oct 2003 | Kristen said...

Wow, Rummy's quote isn't half as cool as Trent Lott's latest, regarding Iraq: "If we have to, we just mow the whole place down, see what happens."

Now that's a classic.

03 Nov 2003 | Paperhead said...

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According to the congressional resolution authorising the use of military force in Iraq, the administration is required to submit to the Congress reports of postwar planning every 60 days. The report, bearing Bush's signature and dated April 14 - previously undisclosed but revealed here - declares: "We are especially concerned that the remnants of the Saddam Hussein regime will continue to use Iraqi civilian populations as a shield for its regular and irregular combat forces or may attack the Iraqi population in an effort to undermine Coalition goals." Moreover, the report goes on: "Coalition planners have prepared for these contingencies, and have designed the military campaign to minimise civilian casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure."

Yet, on August 25, as the violence in postwar Iraq flared, the secretary of defence, Donald Rumsfeld, claimed that this possibility was not foreseen: "Now was - did we - was it possible to anticipate that the battles would take place south of Baghdad and that then there would be a collapse up north, and there would be very little killing and capturing of those folks, because they blended into the countryside and they're still fighting their war?"

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Does this count as Classic Rummy as well?

17 Jan 2004 | Justinian said...

If an application is designed well, the reward for users is that they will learn it faster, accomplish their daily tasks more easily, and have fewer questions for the help desk. As a developer of a well-designed application, your returns on that investment are more upgrade revenue, reduced tech support, better reviews, less documentation, and higher customer satisfaction. The rewards of building a good-looking Aqua application are worth taking the extra time.

17 Jan 2004 | Ellois said...

For example, if you see an AIM window peeking out from behind your browser and you click on it, that window will come to the front, but the main application window will not. The Mail.app/Activity Viewer is another example. The Aqua system of layers works well in many instances, but not in all. Thank goodness that the Dock is always there to come to the rescue. I know that clicking on an application icon in the Dock will always result in not only the application coming to the front, but also any non-minimized windows associated with it. And if the application is active but no windows are open, clicking on the Dock icon should create a new window in that application.

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