WTF Is It Now?!?

We're havin' a heat wave, a tropical heat wave...it's 25 degrees and sunny. Woohoo!
Fun Weather Fact: Today, 25 January, is St Paul's Day (the day Saul was zapped by the Lord), once a compulsory holiday. It was thought the weather today determines the character of the coming year: fair weather betided a prosperous year; snow or rain, an unfruitful one; clouds, high livestock mortality; and wind meant war.
So what's the weather like in DC today?


Is it too early to start drinking?
And here I was getting all set to blame the department of Homeland Security.
CNN is reporting that a computer worm is slowing down Internet access today. Symantec, the antivirus vendor, estimated that at least 22,000 systems were affected worldwide.

"Traffic itself seems to have leveled off a little bit," said Oliver Friedrichs, senior manager with Symantec Security Response. The attacking software, technically known as a worm, was overwhelming Internet traffic-directing devices known as routers.

"The Internet is still usable, but we're definitely receiving reports from some of our customers who have had it affect their routers specifically," Friedrichs said.

Puh. Just barely usable. It's moving slower than Duh-bya through a first-grade primer.


What the misAdministration knew about the North Korean nuclear program - and when.
Last June, four months before the current crisis over North Korea became public, the CIA delivered a comprehensive analysis of North Korea's nuclear ambitions to Bush and his top advisers. The document made the case that North Korea had been violating international law - and agreements with South Korea and the United States - by secretly obtaining the means to produce weapons-grade uranium.

But the C.I.A. report remained unpublicized throughout the summer and early fall, as the Administration concentrated on laying the groundwork for a war with Iraq. Many officials in the Administration's own arms-control offices were unaware of the report. "It was held very tightly," an official said. "Compartmentalization is used to protect sensitive sources who can get killed if their information is made known, but it's also used for controlling sensitive information for political reasons." - Seymour Hersh.


Heart-ons
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