Ingolfson, good luck with Russian.  I found it much harder to learn than German, French or Hebrew.  I was planning to start learning Japanese at one point, but then got busy using my German and French instead, and never went back to it.  Now I need refresher courses in just about everything except Pig Latin.

When will I learn to be patient and click ‘preview’ first?

Neodromos, you’re right, it means mirror. A real good magazine. They also have a very good website which has become my favorite online news source.

They have an

They now have an English digest version on their weEnglish digeston their web site too, though obviously you won’t learn German by reading that

As for learning new languages – right on. I have made the resolution to learn one language fluently every ten years. I’m working on French right now, after that, either Russian or Spanish.

Ingolfson, I’ll have to look into that. The buttons on the entry submission page can be added to, but I think the ones here are hard coded as it’s a plugin. I’ll check the plugin though and see if I can’t hack it enough to add it in.

Der Spiegel? Isn’t that mirror? My german is extremely poor as I’m teaching myself, but I’ve always thought it wise to learn an extra language or two or three….

Of course he dives right in. When I read an article on the website of ‘Der Spiegel’, the largest German newsweekly, which was entitled ‘Hoping for a tamer Bush II’ I simply gagged. What fools.

This from yahoo news:

President Bush (news – web sites) ran forthrightly on a clear agenda for this nation’s future, and the nation responded by giving him a mandate,” Vice President Dick Cheney (news – web sites) said as he introduced Bush at the victory celebration.

“This is going to be a more creative and more controversial term than the first term,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said.”

MORE controversial? Geez. I was just getting used to his smooth touch, and now this!

Hey Les, any possibility of including the blockquote option in the row of format buttons above the entry window?

Wow what a genius way of balancing your finances, I am going to have to run this one by my bank.

Me: Yes I know I am up to my overdraft limit, but I’d like to borrow another £1500

Bank: Ah certainly lets just increase your overdraft limit by £3000 and you write us a cheque for £1500 that should do it!

The only flaw in my plan being, my bank seems to work on some mad theory of ability to repay when offering credit, unlike the US economy.

To the Americans who didn’t vote for the Bushtard, you have my sincere sympathy, to those who did vote for him well words fail me…..

Ya right, but 2009.  When the next president is in office so that if it doesn’t work or it’s another broken promise it can be all the fault of the new president who botched it up in one year after four years of some progression toward cutting the budget in half.  Oh please… Do I look like I wear a toilet seat as a hat?

Isn’t it great that he is landing on his feet and running fast after the elections? Ya gotta love’em!

So what do you all think the debt will get to by the end of his second term? I’m guessing almost 15 trillion. I wonder what the dollar will be worth come that day…

A friend at work predicts a draft by 2007. Such fun!