Mitsubishi blues?

Kansas City Star | 11/29/2004 | MIDDAY BUSINESS REPORT: Fed looking for signs: "Mitsubishi Motors Credit of America Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Motors North America Inc.
Mitsubishi Motors has been plagued by a series of defect-coverup scandals in Japan that have badly tarnished its image and sent sales plunging here.
But its sales and profits have also suffered in the United States, partly because it had sold too many cars to people with bad credit.
Mitsubishi Motors has previously said it would scrap the risky financing deals, cut jobs, trim production and reduce sales to rental and other fleets to make its U.S. business profitable."

Safari 1.2 now supports XMLHttpRequest!

Foisted by MS in IE 5, a variant picked up by Mozilla 1.0, and now finanlly I find its supported Safari 1.2!
Dynamic HTML and XML: The XMLHttpRequest Object

I notice that Google is also using it in their auto-complete/Google Request beta.

We'll make some good use of this, knowing it's supported widely now.

"the 'how-the-hell-do-I-roll-back-the-changes-i've-made-to-the-db' problem" vs. mock objects.

I changed my mind - Mock objects are wrong for database unit testing

Heh...we went lazy too and ended up putting together a nice ADO transaction layer around our DAO...turns out to be also useful in the large.

Terrorism & Security: why do they hate us?

"They hate our policies, not our freedom"

Pentagon report contains major criticisms of administration. Actually not quite the Pentagon's opinion, just an independant Defense Science Board. Pentagon must have been obligated to publish it...slipped it out quietly Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

I do wish we were hearing more clearly though the western media what the victory criteria were for the insurgents/terrorists. I'm too cynical to believe it's simple bloodlust. Did we ever wonder what the Black Panthers wanted, or the Palestinians, or the IRA?

Crap...I gues it doesnt matter anymore...it's their Red Dawn...Wolverines!