Dave Kellam

I started tinkering with this layout before I left for Moosonee. It’s the first time I’ve used just CSS for the layout. There are probably a few hacks around and i bet it won’t be perfectly valid CSS and XHTML but it’s close. The point of the exercise? To start familiarizing myself with CSS. In theory, I can do a redesign just by editing the style sheet.

The transition isn’t quite complete but this gets me moving and forces me to complete a few of the pages in the near future. I will organize the box and add more to the writing section.

Now I can get back to some regular posting as well. A few things are probably fucked right now, mostly with the comments. The quicklink comments will be completely broken, and the quicklink archives will probably be messed up. The comments work for the main weblog posts, but previewing will probably screw up, so don’t bother.

American relations with Iraq weren’t so frosty twenty years ago. It looks like Rumsfeld and Hussein were friends back then; I bet Ol’ Rummy wouldn’t even invite Saddam to his birthday party now. Photograph is courtesy of the National Security Archive. It appears the Americans knew Iraq was using chemical weapons on the Iranian’s and Kurds but didn’t do anything about it (article):

While condemning Iraq’s chemical weapons use . . . The United States finds the present Iranian regime’s intransigent refusal to deviate from its avowed objective of eliminating the legitimate government of neighboring Iraq to be inconsistent with the accepted norms of behavior among nations and the moral and religious basis which it claims

Rumsfeld wasn’t working for the American government at the time, but rather pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle & Co. He was sent as a Presidential envoy and personal friend of Reagan. He had served posts in the Nixon and Ford administrations.

They also have a videoclip of the handshake available.

I figured it’s about time to weigh in on the Canadian election that is currently gearing up. Here’s my favourite quote so far (article):

There’s still a long way to go, but Paul Martin is still Paul Martin and not Batman.

I haven’t read much about the election yet though; the week up north and away from the internet put me into a bit of a news void. I also need to figure out how to go about voting. I don’t have any postal mail yet and thus no real proof that I live here.