iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

The pundits are saying that now that the 1994 co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Yasser Arafat, is dead the peace process can start up again.

Yitzhack Rabin , former Prime Minister of Israel and one of the 1994 co-winners was shot by one of his own people at a peace rally. Now if someone would kill-off Yasser’s last living co-winner, Shimon Peres, former Foreign Minister of Israel, we could finally get some peace over there.

I went to Brock’s Remembrance Day ceremony today. It was a powerful tribute.

Last post was played, there where readings from the Bible and the Koran. ‘Our Vet’ for the ceremonies made the observation that it’s getting harder to find a vet from WWII: ‘There’s not many of us left, so you get to people like me who cleaned boiler rooms, and swabbed the deck’. The yearly fair on 11/11 11:00.

The decision was made to move the ceremonies in doors because of the wind, which made the culmination of the event so much the better. Brock’s native drumming circle preformed a song about remembering war. It was amazing! Their chanting, the boom of that huge drum, both echoing and reverberating throughout the hallways of the campus. It was captivating and a fitting tribute to those who fought for our freedom. To use the jingoism of the moment, let freedom ring.

We all know my feelings about the current war, but what simpler definition of a hero is there than someone willing to die for their nation? Today I thought a lot about my Grand Dad, I thought about everyone my age during WWII, but also thought about Fallujah and people there willing to give their lives on behalf of others. Ultimatly, will what they where asked to die for have a greater value then their young lives?

I’m sure you all know about Firefox, the web browser that puts all others to shame. It’s now at 1.0 and ready to go.

More cool stuff, the new start page is a Google co-branded page (Hitn’ IE where it hurts – the MSNopoly start page). Plus no pop-ups, more security, etc….. BUT, Have you followed the link (in the top right) to get a version of Firefox compiled to take advantage of the portable Macs? Have you installed the Google Preview extension, the Bug Me Not, or the bookmark syncing (from machine to machine) extensions??

I’m sure you know all about that, but have you seen this: Saw it here first piercedotzler.com/mozilla/hubble-fox.jpg

The imputes for my blog was all the blogsforbush.com posts I was reading in the run up to the US election. I can’t understand that xenophobic far right found in the states, and how foreigners and gay people make the average American feeling icky.

So I read some of the blogs for George Bush, and it seemed to be as much about the horse race as anything else, and I don’t think I was really reading the thoughts of those who left us in the Bush. But man, are these people angrily excited about it.

Here’s the interesting ones:

• blogsforbush.com
• raast.blogspot.com He’s right, he thinks Europe is stupid, and he knows what’s He-brewn’
• Right Another Mac user…. And that’s all we share. Each post has Regan’s mug on it and he accused the ‘libs’ of dividing the nation. If the ‘libs’ are dividing America, don’t you think they’d take the bigger half?
• RobertPhillips.ca Brock’s own rightie who doesn’t know why he was kicked off student council for posting an animated picture of a hammer smashing the word Islam. One thing he does know: Jesus loves*, Philips hates. * Jesus loves both men and women, but not men in that way.
• Lastly, here’s Matt Clare, the conservative, at Tottenham ConservativesI Google my own name while on the phone at work a lot.

I’m starting to get things together, but I think the technical side is
going better than the content side. My thought is those one liners I
keep rattling around in my head (which, at some point, Lindsay is
forced to hear) and cool web phenomenon can be posted here. We shall
see, we shall see.