The Palestinian Persuasion

With the recent elections in Palestine, the general mood of the Palestinian people has been finally uncovered, as if most of the world didn't know it already. Hamas is now the majority party in parliment. Hamas, whose stated goal is the destruction of Israel. Hamas the terrorist organization. Both the United States and Israeli governments have already said they will not work with a Palestinian government controlled by Hamas. And nor should they. If Hamas can prove that they can function like a normal, civilized govenment and assume the functions of such a governement--diplomacy, co-existence with neighbors, trade, etc.--then at that point we should explore normal relations with them. Until then however, they (Palestine) should continue to be viewed as nothing more than a terrorist group/state. The people have spoken and have basically said, "We're terrorists."

Put a gun to my head please

The absolute worst part of my job is serving as a subject matter expert for technical documentation. I'm currently sitting in a technical review meeting. I would rather stick needles under my fingernails than be forced to take part in these meetings. Non-technical people writing about extremely technical aspects of the system sucks. Some of the questions posed to me indicate such a fundamental lack of understanding about how the system works, it's amazing that these people are even able to write about it. That's obviously why documentation for our product is crap.

If you haven't seen Underworld 2, go see it. Kate Beckinsale gets two hands in the air.