I should have known that as soon as I broke down and went back to boots the sun would come back out. And so it has.
A day of getting bits and pieces done: booked my train and plane tickets to go to Ireland; checked out The Postmodern Condition and Readings In Natural Language Processing from the library to help me get a bit further with my dissertation; worked on some possible designs for julielee.org; added some more press releases to greenbelt’s site; and that kinda thing.
Only managed to catch bits of Blair’s speech to the TUC on the news but I’m rather surprised (disappointed) that he seems to have had rather an easy ride. I suppose the indication that parliament will be recalled was a positive sign, but (poor late-night analogy alert) finding an oasis won’t take you across a desert without a lot more thought and work. It increasingly seems that there is little difference between the United Nations and the 1930s League of Nations. Just like the League of Nations couldn’t prevent Mussolini’s barbaric invasion of Abyssinia, there is little the UN can do to prevent a US invasion of Iraq. And despite all Bush and Blair’s protesting, Iraq is far from the only country in contravention of UN resolutions.
For those within reach of London don’t forget 28 September.
And on another note, David has started posting at anthropiccollective.org. Check it out.