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TextField vs TextArea .. spot the difference
07.22.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

In the flash site I’m working on, I have a TextField in one section and a TextArea (Flash) component in another. I am using the Verdana font. The TextField works perfectly. The TextArea on the other hand, for some reason, renders the font in a weird ugly way.
I suspected it might be something to do [...]
International
protestors “anti-china”?
04.28.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Reading an article just now in the Observer, I read: “His comments came after yet another leg of the Olympic torch relay was disrupted by anti-China protesters yesterday”.
So people using the occasion of the Olympics to protest against the repression of the Tibetan people are “anti-China”? I have not protested (unfortunately the torch passes through [...]
International
clinton: endless war part ii
04.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I do try to refrain from adding to the vast swathes of the blogosphere devoted to the US elections but this:
“I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the president, we will attack Iran … In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be [...]
International
healthcare in america
02.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I have refrained from comment on the American primaries, because there’s quite enough out there. But the healthcare talk in the recent debate between Clinton and Obama leaves me mystified.
Why is the health of a nation’s people considered an individual’s problem - requiring them to have personal health insurance or, if they need an expensive [...]
International
the politics of fuel
02.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Yuval Rotem, Israeli ambassador to Australia, writes in his op-ed piece in today’s Sydney Morning Herald:
It is imperative to remember that the Israeli Government aids those Gazans who are suffering under Hamas, even though Hamas appears to be doing everything in its power to prevent the passage.
Is this naive, or just disingenous? Israeli Prime Minister [...]
International
bhutto jr drafted to p.p.p
01.01.08 | Permalink | Comment?

So much for an end to dynastic leadership for the Pakistan’s People Party.
Bilawal, nineteen-year-old son of the late Benazir, has been appointed head of the PPP, although the role will be only nominal until he graduates from Oxford. It is Asif Ali Zardari, Benazir’s widower with a murky and corrupt past, who will actually be [...]
International
bhutto assassinated
12.28.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Shocking news.
Tariq Ali’s commentary is essential reading: his personal reflections are illuminating. A point he raises is that though in the short term the murder is likely to precipitate yet another crisis in Pakistan, in the long run it may provide a space for an authentic people’s movement to emerge without a dynastic leader who [...]
Australian, International
bali: the power of many
12.19.07 | Permalink | Comment?

The Bali accord is the latest episode in the long running saga of the United States government’s shaky grasp on reality and consequent conflict with the main stream of global opinion. Apologists for America-appeasement should take note: it took the experience of isolation, facing the rest of the world community alone in its intransigence, for [...]

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